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In this eye-opening episode of the FamilyLife Today Podcast, guest Brant Hansen gives a "graduation speech" unlike any other. He uses an AI-generated speech to expose how chasing worldly freedom can lead to loneliness and exhaustion. Instead, he shares a profound message: true freedom and purpose are found by binding yourself to relationships, especially with God and in marriage. Through a moving story about two dogs, Gypsy and Snowball, and a look at Psalm 23, Brant shows why trusting God's character brings a life of "poetry" and joy.

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Connecting with old friends, plus “Duck Dynasty’s” Mia Robertson, and wanting invites from families at church without being awkward. 

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Roundtable: Friends From the Past

Childhood friends, high school friends, college friends — even friends from places you’ve lived in other parts of the country or world. You have shared memories, but is there value in actually reconnecting with pals from the past? Our guests talk about their successful and unsuccessful attempts to reach out to old friends, plus what they gained from doing so, and what they learned.

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Culture: Mia Robertson From “Duck Dynasty”

Daughter of “Duck Dynasty” stars Jase and Missy, Mia Robertson grew up in the Hollywood spotlight. Born with a cleft palate and the subject of public scrutiny, her personal journey hasn’t been easy. Now in her 20s and with multiple surgeries behind her, Mia is focusing on her college studies, fronting a busy charity, and living out her faith in the ups and downs. You’ll make a new friend in Mia as you hear her inspiring story.  

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Inbox: Can I Hang With Your Family?

You want to be invited into the lives of families at your church, but is there a way to indicate interest without being awkward or invasive? Counselor Kari A weighs in.  

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Unrealistic expectations are nothing more than the temptation to be perfect and to expect it from others. Rather than looking at what isn’t done perfectly, focus instead on what has been accomplished.

Join Pastor Chuck Swindoll in a message on Romans 6. Embrace your freedom in Christ. Refuse to yield to sin and, instead, offer yourself to God as an instrument for righteousness.

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Emotional health plays a significant role in how we connect and communicate with those around us. Today, Eliza Huie shares how you can intentionally guide your kids towards emotional strength and resilience. She offers insight on what an emotionally healthy child looks like, along with advice for every parent seeking to raise grounded, emotionally secure children.

I had the opportunity to spend 24 hours of my life in the city of Athens in Greece. I was on my way home from a teaching mission, and if I only had 24 hours, well, I knew what I wanted to see. I wanted to see the Acropolis, and there it was on a hill that just dominates the entire city. That's where the ancient Greeks built a temple to their goddess, Athena, after whom, obviously, the city was named.

Even after 21 centuries, I've got to tell you it is still an impressive, imposing, dominating structure up there on the mountain. Maybe you can even see a picture of it in your mind, if you've ever seen one before. It was the most sacred, most protected, most honored place in all of Athens. In fact, it was actually a crime to violate that temple. Of course it was that way in many cultures. The temple always got first-class treatment because your gods live there. Well, those ancient people had the wrong god, but they knew what to do with a temple.

I'm Ron Hutchcraft and I want to have A Word With You today about "The Temple In The Mirror."

Now, our word for today from the Word of God comes from 1 Corinthians 6:19-20. It's not about the Acropolis, it's not about the ancient Jewish temple, but it's about temples. Listen to where the temple is. "Do you not know that your body is the temple of the Holy Spirit, who is in you, whom you have received from God? You are not your own; you were bought at a price. Therefore honor God with your body." This is one of Christianity's most revolutionary ideas - you are the building God lives in.

You can go in the bathroom, look in the mirror and see His temple. Even pagan people knew that the way you take care of your god's dwelling place tells a lot about how you feel about your god. Now, if you know Christ, you are God's two-legged temple. He's come to live in you by the presence of His Holy Spirit. That puts a whole new significance on your body - what happens with your mouth, your mind, your eyes, your ears, your hands, your feet, and every part of your body. Because in a sense, what you do with that body - everything you do with it - God is a part of. He lives in that temple. Everything you do to that body, you do to God.

Now, even people without God in ancient days recognized that you guard, and you protect, and you keep special, and you honor the place where God lives. Let me ask you, "Have you been treating your body like the temple treasure that it is?" See, if you really care about your God much, you won't let His temple get run down. You won't let it have to carry the extra weight it's been carrying. You won't let it be too out-of-shape. You won't poison it with things that should never go into it; things that will degrade your body. It's a temple you're talking about, not just your body. That's a whole new reason to take care of it.

See, that temple advertises what your god is like, and God deserves the best! Maybe you've devalued that temple with some junk you've been putting into it. Maybe you have defamed the temple of God by playing around sexually with His temple, dragging the name of God and the presence of God into things He is so much against, using His temple to satisfy your glands.

Your body isn't yours. See, it was bought with the price of Jesus' blood. Your God lives there! Keep it special.

Years ago, a lumpy package arrived in my mailbox. I noticed my best friend’s return address on it and smiled. Joe sometimes sends me unexpected things. This package qualified: Inside was a dark brown shark’s tooth—five inches long.

Joe’s letter explained: It was a fossilized tooth from a prehistoric shark, a megalodon many times bigger than a great white shark. I tried to fathom how big a fish’s jaw would have to be to contain rows of such teeth. Scientists offer a speculative answer: nine by eleven feet. What a sight these creatures must have been!

Scripture doesn’t mention megalodons. But in the book of Job, God describes a sea beast called Leviathan. Job 41 details its impressive frame. “I will not fail to speak of Leviathan’s limbs, its strength and its graceful form,” God tells Job (v. 12). “Who dares open the doors of its mouth, ringed about with fearsome teeth?” (v. 14).

The answer? Only Leviathan’s creator. And here, God reminds Job that as great as this beast might be, it’s nothing compared to its Creator: “Everything under heaven belongs to me” (v. 11).

That meg tooth sits on my desk, a visual token of our Creator’s majesty and creativity. And that unlikely reminder of God’s character comforts me when it feels like the world might eat me up and spit me out.

1 Chronicles 29:11 begins, "Yours, Lord, is the greatness and the power and the glory and the majesty and the splendor, for everything in heaven and earth is yours." If God owns it all, what does that mean for the way we manage money? On the next Faith & Finance Live, Brian Holtz and Rob West unpack the Five Pillars of Financial Discipleship—principles that, when embraced by families, bring freedom and joy. Then, it’s your financial questions. That’s Faith & Finance Live, where biblical wisdom meets today’s finances—weekdays at 4pm Eastern/3pm Central on Moody Radio.

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