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,

At the moment of Jesus' death the curtain in the temple was torn in two from top to bottom. The earth shook and the rocks split. What does the tearing of the temple mean? How many days did Jesus appear to people after the resurrection? How many people saw him at one time after the resurrection? We often spend a lot of time during Lent and Easter learning about the suffering and death of Christ but how much do we know about what he did after he rose bodily from the dead? Today we’ll talk about resurrection encounters with Jesus. My guest is Rev. Brandon Larson with Concordia Lutheran Church in Kirkwood, Missouri.

Why do parents of prodigals experience heartache and pain when their child either stops attending church or leaves the faith? How can a church begin a small group for parents of prodigals? What do you do as you begin your group? What topics do you cover? Today my guest on Family Shield are Dawn and Scott Mueller. They began a small group after one of their children informed them she was no longer interested in attending church or having faith in Christ. This is Kay Meyer, president of Family Shield Ministries and your host for today's program.

Hello and welcome to Family Shield Ministries. We are on mission to help families walk together and with each other, and of course to walk with God. I’m Pastor Mark Femmel, part of the Family Shield Ministries crew, and I am blessed to share the microphone, usually blessed by Kay Meyer. Today we have once again, a special guest David Brickner, who is the Executive Director of a pretty wonderful ministry, especially if you were listening last time, of all the wonderful doors that God is opening through the Old Testament. Executive Director of Jews for Jesus, which is an International Ministry out of San Francisco. So this episode is a promise kept, last time we were with David Brickner, and he and I were talking about all the overlap, all the distinctions, and also just how to share the Faith with your Jewish neighbor, doctor, lawyer, cousin, friend, teacher, student, and it was a great conversation in my opinion. We talked about the cultural uniqueness and layers and history of Judaism. We also talked about what that word in your New Testament, Christ, and that Old Testament word, Messiah, what that actually means.

Hello and welcome to Family Shield Ministries. We are on mission to help families walk together with each other and with God. I am Pastor Mark Femmel, part of the Family Shield Ministries crew and I'm blessed to share the microphone, usually blessed, by Kay Meyer. Today we have a very special guest, David Brickner, who is the Executive Director of a very unique ministry, Jews For Jesus. Jews For Jesus is an international Christian missionary organization headquartered in San Francisco, California.

Hello Family Shield Ministries Network. We have a very precious opportunity to have a conversation once again with the incredible Rev. Dr. Gary Chapman. That's one of those names that if you're a minister, you know exactly who it is. If you're not in ministry, if you're not a major churchgoer or book reader, I guarantee you people have been using his stuff on you since 1992 with The Five Love Languages. And this has been a legendary book, and it's early in your ministry, early in your career, Dr. Chapman. But that is not the only pony that you have put on the field. You have just come out with an incredibly awesome book that is just even more practical in my opinion, than The Five Love Languages. Called Five Traits of a Healthy Family:  Steps You Can Take to Grow Closer, Communicate Better, and Change the World Together. So this is another conversation, and I'm excited about where this is going to go. We're going to review the book, not as a replacement of the book, but just to showcase how awesome this book is. And then I've got a couple of questions that I really wanted to share with you that in my opinion, nobody else is asking you. So I want to make this as practical as possible because there's a lot of theoretical books and I appreciate how you write. My goal today is to help people avoid a shipwreck. I'm not a sailor, but I've seen a lot of movies about sailing and I talked to a lot of people in the Navy. There are a few ways to sail a ship right. And there are a lot of ways to sail a ship wrong. So Rev. Dr. Gary Chapman, thank you for being on our show today.