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Setting Goals to Fulfill Your God-Given Purpose

Setting Goals to Fulfill Your God-Given Purpose

Because goals are the map that will guide you toward your God-given purpose, without setting them you will also wander in circles without getting where you need to go.

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Supporting Your Spouse’s Goals Is Good for Your Marriage

God has placed passions in your heart—and also in your spouse’s. Encourage each other in following dreams, even if you have to step out of your comfort zone to do it. You’ll enjoy a richer marriage.

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Transracial Adoption

While attending a pro-life conference earlier this year, I listened to a lecture on adopting children from a different race. The two presenters were talking about a term they called “transracial adoption.” To my surprise, much of the presentation consisted of the two white women explaining, to a predominantly white audience, why it was concerning …

Focus on Parenting Podcast

Encouraging Your Child’s Strengths

Your child has special gifts and talents. A big key to being a good parent is recognizing and encouraging those abilities in your son or daughter. John and Danny discuss what it looks like to draw out the gifts in your child. Featuring Rhonda Stoppe.

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Encouraging Your Kids’ Goals When Your Family is Feeling Stuck

These five ways of shifting the momentum in your home can help your family to stop feeling stuck and bring your kids’ goals back into focus.

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Setting Goals Together for the New Year

Do you want to draw closer as a couple in the new year? Try sharing and then setting your goals for the next 12 months together.

Raising Dream Chasers

You can help your kids develop the fundamental character qualities they need to be successful.

6 Steps to Begin Changing the World

Chris Marlow once felt paralyzed in the face of global problems. But after meeting a starving young orphan living in an abandoned gas station in Zimbabwe, Chris realized he had a choice: lose heart and quit, or simplify the process.

Chasing Dreams for the Right Reasons

Help your children identify God-given dreams by focusing on the why rather than the what in their lives.

Making a Marriage Purpose Statement

A Marriage Purpose Statement is your conscious creation of who you want to become. It outlines your goals as a wife — the things you can do to become the wife you want to be.

The New and Improved Spouse

Are you trying to change your spouse, or are you helping your spouse discover and fulfill God’s plans for his or her life?

The Super Power of Real Heroes

Encourage your super-hero-loving kids in pointing to real-life individuals who have made an impact in history and today. 

Kid-Business Brainstorming

Guide your child toward home business success

A newlywed couple embraces closely, symbolizing marriage expectations of love, connection, and mutual happiness.

Are My Expectations Realistic?

Physical intimacy and romantic love are not what keep couples together. It’s the emotional and spiritual aspects that make a marriage sweet.

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Family Financial Fitness

If your money situation has reached the point where you find yourself sweating the arrival of each new batch of bills — if you’re habitually operating in the red and lying awake nights wondering how you’re going to make ends meet — there’s no time like the present to take things firmly in hand.

Encourage Your Teen to Try Different Things

Saying ‘yes’ to the things your teen wants to pursue is a switch that turns on lightbulbs inside them. It fires the imagination, stimulates creativity and opens the door to a world of opportunities.