It’s no secret that the last couple years have been a challenge. Through the turbulence of a pandemic, so many people have been left asking themselves, “How do I lead myself, my family, my church, my business, my life well?”

Today on Conversations, we are joined by our friend, Pastor Craig Groeschel for part one of a conversation on church, life, and leadership. As a pastor, leadership expert, podcast host, and father of six, Craig shares powerful insights on the current church climate and how to navigate leadership in a crisis.

We’re so excited to dive into part one of this two-part conversation with you. We hope this episode empowers you to live and lead well!

P.S. To hear more of Pastor Craig’s leadership insights, subscribe to his leadership podcast here: https://apple.co/3g8lrMM. You can find his latest book, “Winning the War in Your Mind” (https://amzn.to/3IGL0Rk) anywhere books are sold.

Recently, we polled our social media audiences to ask what kinds of questions people had about family and parenting. We were blown away by the sheer volume of questions that came in. We sat down to start answering the questions on the podcast and knew it needed to be more than one episode long.

This week on the podcast, we’re diving back into these questions! We’re answering questions like:

“How can I best handle my anger when I get mad at my young kids?”

“How do you teach your kids to be grateful rather than entitled?”

“How do you help guide your adult children?”

“What do you do when your teens don’t want to go to church?”

We’re excited to dive into the second half of this conversation with you!

We hope this episode equips you to win at home in 2022!

P.S. On January 25-26 we are hosting an online event called Ways to Win at Home. It’s a two-night online event to help you build a healthy, holy, & fun family! Register today with your gift of ANY amount and make 2022 the year you win at home!

Nearly everywhere we go we hear so many of the same questions:

“How do you parent strong-willed kids?”

“How and when do you talk to your kids about dating, sex, drugs, and all the other hard stuff?”

“Looking back, what do you wish you had known when you were a young parent?”

Today, we’re answering all these and more on the Conversations with John and Lisa podcast.

We hope this episode equips you to win at home in 2022!

P.S. On January 25-26 we are hosting an online event called Ways to Win at Home. It’s a two-night online event to help you build a healthy, holy, & fun family! Register today (messengerinternational.org/win) and make 2022 the year you win at home!

With traditions, family fun, and celebrations of the birth of Jesus, Christmas is many people’s favorite time of year.

But what do you do when your Christmas isn’t so merry?

Maybe you’re experiencing heartbreak this holiday season. For those who have lost loved ones or are spending the holidays apart from family and friends, this season can be tough.

How do you handle the holidays when it feels like your heart is breaking? How do you care for those in your life walking through a hard time during the holiday season? This is what we’re tackling on this week’s episode of Conversations with John and Lisa.

We hope this episode ministers to you, and we’re wishing you a very Merry Christmas!

Also, you can find more free teaching from John and Lisa on the MessengerX app — download the app today (here: http://onelink.to/3mvb9f) at no cost to you!

Are you prepared to finish strong?

It could be your year, it could be your season, it could be your life — no matter what you are finishing, you want to finish the best you possibly can.

The Apostle Paul said it best when he said, “I have fought the good fight, I have finished the race, I have kept the faith,” (2 Timothy 4:7).

As followers of Christ, we all want to finish well — but how? That’s what we’re unpacking on this week’s episode of Conversations. Tune in and get equipped to finish this season, and every season, well.

Don’t let the end of this year just pass you by. Choose to finish strong!

Also, you can find more free teaching from John and Lisa on the MessengerX app — download the app today (here: http://onelink.to/3mvb9f) at no cost to you!

On a week when it’s so easy to become distracted by family, food, and fun, don’t forget what this week really is — an invitation to enter God’s presence with gratitude.

Gratitude changes everything.

You may be facing some unique challenges this holiday season. Maybe you find yourself needing a recalibration in the presence of God. Gratitude is the key that unlocks the floodgates of God’s presence in our lives. It takes our eyes off the challenges of our circumstances, and it places our focus on the goodness of our God.

So how does one cultivate a heart that is truly grateful? That’s what we’re unpacking on this week’s episode of Conversations. Tune in and learn how gratitude changes the game in our lives.

In the busyness of this holiday season, don’t miss God’s invitation to enter His presence with gratitude!

Also, you can find more free teaching from John and Lisa on the MessengerX app — download the app today (here: http://onelink.to/3mvb9f) at no cost to you!

So many of us have prayed this prayer:

“God, break my heart for what breaks yours.”

As children of God, we want His heart. We want to be passionate about the things God is passionate about. But here’s a question — are we truly consumed with a passion for reaching the lost?

Time and time again throughout Scripture, we see that God makes the lost His number one priority. If the lost are God’s priority, it’s crucial that they are our priority.

So how does one cultivate a passion for the lost? That’s what we’re unpacking on this week’s episode of Conversations. Tune in and learn how to cultivate a passion for the lost people in your life.

If we are going to be people after God’s heart, we must be passionate about seeing the lost come back to God.

We hope this episode helps cultivate a passion in your heart for the people God is passionate about and equips you to reach the lost people in your life!

Want to learn more about how to cultivate a passion for the lost? Tune in to the podcast today!

Also, you can find more free teaching from John and Lisa on the MessengerX app — download the app today (here: http://onelink.to/3mvb9f) at no cost to you!

All of us want to do amazing things for God, but many people want the promotion before they’ve gone through the preparation process. Without making it through this process successfully, it is impossible to have character strong enough to sustain your calling.

So how does God actually develop character within you? We’re unpacking this question on this week’s episode of the Conversations podcast.

While seasons of character development aren’t always fun, they are directly connected to your future. How you allow God to refine you determines how successfully you walk into seasons of promise in your life.

We hope this episode encourages you as you go through your own refinement process so that God can work in you character that can sustain your calling!

Also, you can find more teaching on how God develops your character in The Wilderness Course in the MessengerX app — go through the course (here: https://bit.ly/3nvDpvQ) at no cost to you!

Nearly everywhere we go, people ask us how we have managed to make our marriage work through four decades, raising children, the stress of ministry and travel, and the inevitable obstacles that have come our way. While the going hasn’t always been easy, it’s been so worth it as we’ve learned to love each other in each season.

In honor of celebrating our 39th wedding anniversary last week, we sat down to share five lessons from our 39 years of marriage on the podcast.

Some of these lessons we learned the easy way, and some we learned the hard way, but we hope each of these helps you build a marriage that will stand the test of time.

We hope this episode equips you to build a healthy, fun, and thriving marriage!

Also, you can find more of our marriage content in the Story of Marriage course in the MessengerX app — go through the course (here: https://bit.ly/3Bo7HXi) at no cost to you!

As parents, we all want our kids to grow up with a solid grasp on faith and an understanding of who they are created to be in Christ. But how do we truly impart this revelation from one generation to the next?

Today on the Conversations podcast, we’re unpacking this question with our oldest and youngest sons, Addison and Arden.

In this episode, we’re sitting down to discuss how one generation can truly instill faith and identity into the next. We’re sharing stories from our own experiences, and while we haven’t done this whole thing perfectly, we hope you’re able to take some lessons from the things we’ve done well (and not so well!), and build a legacy of faith for your family!

We hope this episode equips you to embrace the adventure of life with God as you discover who He created you to be!

Also, you can dive deeper into the I AM message today — get the book in the Messenger Store or anywhere books are sold!