John Ortberg is the senior pastor of Menlo Church in the San Francisco Bay Area. He has authored numerous books on Christian living including The Life You’ve Always Wanted, Who is This Man? and Know Doubt. John holds a Master of Divinity and a doctorate in clinical psychology from Fuller Seminary. He and his wife, Nancy, have three grown children. Learn more about John by visiting his website, www.johnortberg.com.
“An affair is the murder of a marriage.” Pastor Gary Thomas explains how extra-marital affairs develop and how to avoid them. He also offers hope and healing for spouses who want to restore their relationship.
Kenn Kington was given a shocking diagnosis — he needed immediate open-heart surgery and only had a 60-percent chance of survival. Along the way, Kenn discovered 3 powerful gifts – people who loved and cared for him, a new intimacy with God through prayer, and godly truth that gave him hope for the future.
Marriage is about learning to love your spouse in the way they best understand love—their unique love language. Marriage experts Dr. Gary Chapman and Drs. Les and Leslie Parrott join forces to help you identify your spouse’s love language and become fluent in expressing love in meaningful, personalized ways. Together, they explore the subtle “dialects” within each love language and encourage you to be more intentional and authentic in how you love your spouse.
In a discussion based on his book Christians in the Age of Outrage, Ed Stetzer discusses the importance of Christ-followers engaging others in a loving, kind and respectful manner, especially when there’s sharp disagreement on divisive cultural issues.
Best-selling author Josh McDowell discusses his devastating childhood in which his alcoholic father abused his mother, and how his emotional pain led to his conviction that God had abandoned him. Josh recounts how he eventually came to faith in Christ and found healing from his father wounds through a relationship with his Heavenly Father. (Part 2 of 2)
In this classic recorded message, Pastor Adrian Rogers (deceased) explains how the human desire for significance, sufficiency and security is met through a relationship with Jesus Christ.
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