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Podcast 093: RECOVERY 7—Renewing Your Polluted Mind
Podcast 93: RECOVERY 7—Renewing your Polluted Mind—What, Where, When & How Can your thought-life be cleaned up? Get help renewing your polluted mind and regain the purity and innocence in your...
Parenting: Are you the primary influence in your child’s life?
INDELIBLE IMPRINT—Getting Straight A’s on your Parenting Report Card and Becoming the Primary Influence in Your Child’s Life. Are you the primary influence in your children’s life? Indelible. Not as common...
Podcast 092: RECOVERY 6 — Neurological Effects of Pornography Addiction
Podcast 92: RECOVERY—Your Brain on Porn—Understanding the Powerful Neurological Effects of Pornography Addiction What do hours online watching porn really do to your brain? How does addiction work? Why is porn...
eZine #42: Protecting your kids from Predators
I remember when I was a kid, I could tell my Mom I was going outside to play and it was as simple as that. She may want to know how...
Podcast 091: Marriage FUSION 5—Sexual Intimacy in Marriage
FUSION 5—Sexual Intimacy in Marriage Learn about growing the sexual intimacy in your marriage. We will help you discover what keeps you from loving and being loved freely and fully. Are...
Podcast 090: Family Missions—Serving Together
Podcast 90: Family Missions—The Power of Transformation through Serving Together Taking your kids to a foreign country? Are you serious? Could we really make a difference? What will it do for...
eZine #41: Health and Fitness in Marriage
eZine #41: Health and Fitness in Marriage Melissa and I do a fair bit of premarital counselling, we cover every topic you can imagine, all intended to be sure that at...
Parenting: Putting Your Marriage First
4 Unexpected Ways to Put Your Children First (By Putting Your Marriage First) The second highest demographic for divorce is people who are married 25–30 years! Does this shock you? We have couples...
Parenting: Online Nudity—Protect Your Kids
“Naked Pictures”—Helping Children Face the Inevitable and Premature Exposure to Online Nudity I am concerned about our little ones. I’m talking about our 4–7 year old children getting online exposure to explicit sexual...
Podcast 089: Emotional Abuse in Marriage
Podcast 89: Crushing the Spirit—Understanding the Damaging Effects of Emotional Abuse in Marriage Cut downs. Criticism. Rude comments. Belittling. How do you face the negative cycles of emotional and verbal abuse...
Podcast 088: Marriage FUSION 4—The Drag of Friction
FUSION 4—The Drag of Friction Your mate is not the bull’s eye. But if you are newer to marital conflict, you are only in your beginning stages of learning the “blame...
Parenting: Rebellion in Children—How Parenting Rules Are Related
The Heart of Discipline: The Principle of New Covenant Parenting—How Rules Relate to Rebellion in Children One of my goals as a parent is to see my children be well-behaved and...
eZine #40: Hope for Your Marriage
eZine #40: Hope for Your Marriage Comebacks in Sports are all always exciting! In those moments we sometimes root for the team that is losing, just because they are the current...
Podcast 087: RECOVERY 5—Pornography’s Impact on the Spiritual Life
Podcast 87: RECOVERY 5—Pornography’s Impact on the Spiritual Life It’s hard to really measure the spiritual distance and deterioration of the soul through viewing and acting out with porn. We’ll help...
Podcast 086: RECOVERY 4—Sexual Addiction Triggers, Relapses & Facing Temptation
Podcast 86: RECOVERY 4—Sexual Addiction Triggers, Relapses & Facing Temptation You will need to master the art of “Thought Stopping” in your recovery efforts for sexual addiction. How do you stop...