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Podcast 085: RECOVERY 3—Sexual Addiction Recovery Requires Community and Connection
Podcast 85: RECOVERY 3—Sexual Addiction Recovery is a Team Sport Too many people trying to break free from sexual addiction fail to value the place of community. They try to go...
Podcast 084: Marriage FUSION 3—The Acceleration of Connection
FUSION 3—The Acceleration of Connection The goal is to value each other’s perspective in order to find a deepening understanding. We’ll help couples understand the ways to better connect on every...
eZine #39: Nurturing Your Child’s Faith
eZine #39: Nurturing Your Child's Faith My greatest longing as a parent is to see my kids love Jesus with all of their hearts. It's natural for us to want to...
Podcast 083: RECOVERY 2—Overcoming Porn’s Stigma Within the Church
Podcast 83: RECOVERY 2—Overcoming Porn’s Stigma Within the Church Are we in denial of the extent that pornography is impacting the church? What are the implications of a person admitting they...
Podcast 082: Avoiding Marital Break-Up
Podcast 82: Avoiding Marital Break-Up—The 7 C’s of Relationship Recovery Your marriage may be on a slippery slope toward ending. We’ll seek to assist the reluctant partner who doesn’t want the...
eZine #38: Cell Phone Sanity
eZine #38: Cell Phone Sanity Cell phones are incredible – and terrible, all at once. I love the convenience, but despise the amount of my time and life it takes from me, especially if I’m not careful. Even worse yet, is what...
Podcast 081: RECOVERY 1—The Scope and Impact of Pornography
Podcast 81: RECOVERY 1—The Porn Phenomenon—It’s Scope and Impact This is the first in our series on Pornography Recovery. We explore the breadth and depth of this growing cultural and societal...
Podcast 080: Women and Pornography in the Digital Age
Podcast 80: Women and Pornography in the Digital Age The days of porn being just a guy’s problem are long over. The accessibility and anonymity of porn have made it open...
Podcast 079: Marriage FUSION 2—The Gravity of Baggage
FUSION 2—The Gravity of Baggage—Resolving Your Hurt Allows You to Love Freely What you bring into your marriage really impacts who you are and how you relate. These effects can be...
Marriage: The Challenge of Rebuilding Trust in Marriage
Betrayal in Marriage—The Challenge of Re-building Trust Betrayal in marriage rolls through my office like semi-trucks into a weigh station. On the freeway of life, people experience incredible emotional wreckage when...
eZine #37: The Blending of Two Families
eZine #37: The Blending of Two Families This month’s topic is the Blending of two families. The Brady bunch made it look easy! But realistically bringing two families with their own...
Podcast 078: Mental Illness—Understanding the Emotional Turmoil
Headspace: Understanding the Emotional Turmoil of the Brokenhearted What if someone in your family is facing mental health issues? There is so much we don’t understand about how the mind works...
Parenting: Part 2—Redefining Boredom
Boredom Creates Opportunities for Us and Our Children In my pursuit to change our response to the word “boredom” in our home, I continually find more benefits of unscheduled time, particularly in...
Parenting: Part 1—Redefining Boredom
Surprising Tools for Raising Successful Children by David McVety I can’t count the number of times that my wife, Melissa, and I have been so caught up in our hectic lives...
Podcast 077: Marriage FUSION 1—The Laws of Attraction
FUSION 1—The Laws of Attraction If you stop having fun commitment alone won’t keep your love alive. Why doesn’t the honeymoon feeling last forever? With the definition of Love = Commitment...