Welcome back to Family Shield Ministries listeners. It is a privilege and a delight to have a little bit of your time today. My name is Mark Femmel, Pastor here in St Louis and with Family Shield Ministries. I came across a book by somebody that I'm very excited to share with you today–Sheri Mueller. She is an incredible blessing because she put a book that addresses the pain that 30% of wives are silently struggling with. 30% of wives are critically unhappy in their relationship in their marriage because of the one thing we're going to talk about. Now that doesn't just mean the wives are upset; there are a lot of guys I don't have this decision for that; Sheri might. But a lot of guys are also unhappy with this. So this is an opportunity for guys, for gals, husbands and wives, to be able to figure out how to itch the itch they cannot seem to reach, and it’s so easy. Sheri makes it so easy. She gives us an action plan. So by the end of this conversation which is only 27 minutes right now, you’re going to have the ability to balance your life better, and have the ability to bring words into the lives of those around you and do life better. And I gotta say, this is one of those adult conversations.

Welcome back Family Shield Ministries folks with this Part 2 conversation with a precious part of the church, Julianna Schults. She is part of the Lutheran Church Missouri Synod Youth Ministry Department, and she is sharing her time with us about a book that she has just put together with a coworker of hers, Doctor Mark Kiesling. The reason why we're doing this is most congregations have a problem and that problem is your kids don't wanna come back. Your kids don't wanna come back because it's irrelevant, it's disconnected. And so we are excited to share this book with you, Seven Practices of Healthy Youth Ministry. And we brought on one of the authors, Julianna Schults, as I mentioned and if you missed Part 1 of the conversation, she shared her absolute favorite out of the seven practices and it was a great conversation. Now you might be wondering, why did I come back? We already got the best one out of the way! Because there are six more so welcome back Julianna.

Welcome back lovely listeners to Family Shield Ministries podcast and radio show. This is Mark Femmel, the pastor in St Louis and cohost. I'm excited to have this conversation because almost every church I have ever met has a problem-a youth problem, and that is, when we just kind of do business as normal, our kids grow up and graduate from the faith. Sometimes that's right there at confirmation. Sometimes that's when they graduate high school and go off to college and we never see them again. And today we have a person who is a specialist-well trained, well educated, and well experienced. Juliana Schultz from Lutheran Church Missouri Synod Youth Ministry. There's a whole department to help us figure out how to do this better, and she has got the skillz, and that's with a z at the end as the kids say.

Welcome back to Family Shield Ministries folks. I’m Mark Femmel, pastor in St Louis, and with Family Feud Ministries. I got an exciting opportunity. I got an opportunity to get my hands on a book by Dennis Allen called The Disciple Dilemma, and it is the answer to prayers and all the things that the church can do better; it's something that I've been struggling with. Can Christians thrive just showing up for church on Sunday morning; just an hour on Sunday morning? We’ve been doing it a long time, and we’re still here. So it must not be broke, so let’s not fix it. Today the reason why I’m excited about this is Dennis Allen is going to talk to us about what if it were more than just one hour on Sunday? What would the church be, and more importantly, what would your family be if they had more than just an hour on Sunday morning, together or separate, however your church is doing it. It’s that and more. I’d hate for your family, I’d hate for you, or the people depending on you to miss out on more when it’s actually better.

My name is Mark Femmel in St. Louis and I am blessed to have a conversation with somebody who has written the book that I wish I could give to myself as a kid. This is from Concordia publishing house and it is a journey through church history. Christa Petzold has written this book and is a tremendous gift of just short bedtime stories, or reading it in the car stories. It really showcases the people who have come before us that have handed down the faith to us telling us and raising us in the faith to say, that Bible, the word that it says, it changes everything. And she also even goes into sort of the history of our our worship service. So if you've ever wondered why we are the way we are, where we got it, and how it got here, Christa’s  book is just the answer to all that. Plus, it's fun to read. And it's designed for little kiddos, so if you are a five year old or a 50 year old, this book is gonna keep you engaged and make you a lot hungrier for um, just the treasures that people have laid down before.

Welcome to all of our listeners to Family Shield Ministries. My name is Mark Femmel and I'm a pastor and I'm co-host of Family Shield Ministries. The big question we have today is how can you have the right words to help people, not hurt more? Sometimes at funerals and terrible tragedies or events or something that's bad news has just happened, and we say the worst things. So today with us is Faith Doerr, and she is here to be an incredible blessing, to help us say what we really wanna say, because as Christians, we have not just gold, we have platinum to lay before people, and honestly, we often settle for the copper and the tin of the world of these cliches that just make our pain worse. And so we say the worst things, and it sucks any sort of help that we can be out of a person. And so faith is gonna help us fix all of that. Faith, welcome to Family Shield Ministries.

Hello Family Shield Ministries folks. This is Mark Femmel coming to you with a very unique book, The Men We Need. it's a very unique book because often times the church is for women, and women feel at home in the church, and women often times have a major struggle to bring their guys to church, and if you’ve got a guy like that in your life, or maybe your guy who doesn't see the joy of walking With Jesus, and the power and the triumph of walking with Jesus, or maybe you don’t feel like the kind of man that everybody can look up to, oh my goodness, the church is for you. This book is for you. And the person that we are going to have a conversation with today, Brant Hansen, is the guy that you need to listen to.

Thanks for listening to Family Shield. This is Rev. Brandon Larson of Concordia Lutheran Church in Kirkwood, Missouri. I am guest host for today's Family Shield program. In Kirkwood there, suburb of St Louis, I serve as Pastor for Student Ministries at Concordia Lutheran. I and my wife Amy have two little ones–Mark who has just started kindergarten, and Ella who has just started second grade, and they are loving their first few weeks of school now as they enter into week three. Our guest today is accomplished speaker, advocate, author, Jill Garner who has written a tremendous new book called StrongHeart: Cultivating Humility, Respect & Resiliency in Your Child.

As parents it's very easy to get caught in the rut of trying to do everything–getting the kids everywhere they need to be, trying to help every kid with every homework assignment, trying to iron out every little wrinkle that your little special nugget of joy has in any chaos that they have with any parents, boyfriend, girlfriend, teacher, or even just their own body image. It is so easy to fall into the rut of doing everything all by yourself, because after all, if you loved your kids you’d do that, right? Today we have a really awesome contribution to that conversation from the world of business and leadership; and the guy who is personally responsible for my health insurance as a part of Concordia Planned Services. So I'm excited to share the microphone today with Dr James Sanft.

Welcome to Family Shield. Today we'll learn about Concordia Center for the Family and how they equip congregations and their members to disciple children and families for Christ. We’ll also learn about relationships from Dr Todd Biermann’s book Handing Out Life: The Simple Way to Rewarding Relationships in All of Life. This includes relationship with God, our family, friends, work associates, and yes, even our enemies. My guest today is Dr Todd Biermann. He's the new executive director of Concordia Center for the Family,