FINISHING WELL

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Randy Marshall and Hal Habecker discuss the importance of friendship, particularly in the aging years. They emphasize humility, adversity, and empathy as key traits of true friendship. Randy shares an analogy about finding one's life's purpose through the support of five close friends and the realization that life is brief, with an average of 30,000 days. They highlight the role of encouragement and the need for older people to stay active and engaged. Randy's ministry at Watermark Church, focused on intergenerational mentoring, has seen 20 people sign up to mentor younger generations. They also touch on the spiritual aspects of friendship, including honesty, accountability, and forgiveness.

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"Finishing Well Ministries aims to encourage and inspire aging Christians to understand and embrace God’s calling in their later years, equipping them to actively pursue and fulfill His calling. FWM provides materials, events, and other on-line resources that provide shared insights focused on finishing our lives well. We also recruit and train volunteers who lead and encourage small groups around the world to fulfill God’s mission for them in these critically important years." - Hal Habecker

Website: www.finishingwellministries.org

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Dr. Hal Habecker and Ken Wilgus discuss the importance of planned emancipation in parenting and grandparenting. They emphasize respecting adult children and grandchildren, avoiding overbearing advice, and fostering independent adulthood. Wilgus highlights the need for churches to involve older teenagers in mentoring and to support families with technology and discipline. He advises grandparents to communicate respectfully and not side with grandchildren against parents. They also stress the importance of understanding and engaging with younger generations' beliefs, rather than imposing one's own views. The conversation underscores the role of the church in guiding multi-generational interactions.

Grandchildren play a huge role in our lives as grandparents. Dr. Wilgus will help us
understand the extent with which we can impact and encourage our grandchildren as they age. These truths can be impactful in the developing multigenerational relationship in the church as well.

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Dr. Wilgus has been a practicing psychologist for over thirty years. He received a Ph.D. from the University of Texas at Austin, an M.A. from Trinity University and a B.A. from Baylor University. He completed his internship at the Michael Reese Medical Center in Chicago, Illinois. Dr. Wilgus served as Director of Child and Adolescent Services at the Minirth-Meier Clinic in Dallas, Texas. He maintains a private practice in Dallas Texas. Although he is no longer accepting new adolescent patients, Dr. Wilgus consults with parents as well as providing marriage and individual, adult therapy.

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"Finishing Well Ministries aims to encourage and inspire aging Christians to understand and embrace God’s calling in their later years, equipping them to actively pursue and fulfill His calling. FWM provides materials, events, and other on-line resources that provide shared insights focused on finishing our lives well. We also recruit and train volunteers who lead and encourage small groups around the world to fulfill God’s mission for them in these critically important years." - Hal Habecker

Website: www.finishingwellministries.org

Email us: [email protected]
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Are there biblical principles to help us understand how to finish well?
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As we age, living with and influencing our adult children is a huge theme in life. In this podcast, listen to Hal as he interviews well-known psychologist, Dr. Ken Wilgus about life with adult children. Ken has written an exceptional book entitled, Feeding the Mouth That Bites You, and while Ken’s book focuses on the adolescent years, the principles he shares are timeless and critically important in the years we share with our adult children.

Dr. Hal Habecker and Ken Wilgus discuss the challenges of parenting adult children and the concept of planned emancipation. Ken emphasizes the cultural shift in how children transition to adulthood, noting the lack of a universally agreed-upon method. He highlights the importance of signaling to children that they are seen as adults and respecting their choices. They also touch on the impact of cultural changes, such as expressive individualism, on identity and the isolation it creates. Dr. Habecker stresses the need for Christians to live strong adult lives and encourage their children spiritually, using personal stories and experiences rather than lectures.

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Dr. Wilgus has been a practicing psychologist for over thirty years. He received a Ph.D. from the University of Texas at Austin, an M.A. from Trinity University and a B.A. from Baylor University. He completed his internship at the Michael Reese Medical Center in Chicago, Illinois. Dr. Wilgus served as Director of Child and Adolescent Services at the Minirth-Meier Clinic in Dallas, Texas. He maintains a private practice in Dallas Texas. Although he is no longer accepting new adolescent patients, Dr. Wilgus consults with parents as well as providing marriage and individual, adult therapy.

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"Finishing Well Ministries aims to encourage and inspire aging Christians to understand and embrace God’s calling in their later years, equipping them to actively pursue and fulfill His calling. FWM provides materials, events, and other on-line resources that provide shared insights focused on finishing our lives well. We also recruit and train volunteers who lead and encourage small groups around the world to fulfill God’s mission for them in these critically important years." - Hal Habecker

Website: www.finishingwellministries.org

Email us: [email protected]
Follow us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/finishingwellministries
Support Our Ministry: https://www.finishingwellministries.org/donate

Are there biblical principles to help us understand how to finish well?
Explore the Seven Essentials for Finishing Well. Learn more.

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How does being a Finalist sound to you? Would this role involve significant change for you? If so, are you willing to try it? It may seem challenging, but the ‘win,’ the true success in life – will bring incalculable rewards beyond any of our imaginations. Remember that these podcasts are transcribed should you wish to read the details.

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"Finishing Well Ministries aims to encourage and inspire aging Christians to understand and embrace God’s calling in their later years, equipping them to actively pursue and fulfill His calling. FWM provides materials, events, and other on-line resources that provide shared insights focused on finishing our lives well. We also recruit and train volunteers who lead and encourage small groups around the world to fulfill God’s mission for them in these critically important years." - Hal Habecker

Website: www.finishingwellministries.org

Email us: [email protected]
Follow us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/finishingwellministries
Support Our Ministry: https://www.finishingwellministries.org/donate

Are there biblical principles to help us understand how to finish well?
Explore the Seven Essentials for Finishing Well. Learn more.

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Aging is a gift. Yet, many of us may not think that way. Typically, our culture speaks of aging in a negative way, and too often we ourselves think of aging in the same negative ways. God disagrees. Scripture speaks of aging positive ways. Listen to Randy thinking about aging as “A way journey to purpose, peace, and joy.”

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"Finishing Well Ministries aims to encourage and inspire aging Christians to understand and embrace God’s calling in their later years, equipping them to actively pursue and fulfill His calling. FWM provides materials, events, and other on-line resources that provide shared insights focused on finishing our lives well. We also recruit and train volunteers who lead and encourage small groups around the world to fulfill God’s mission for them in these critically important years." - Hal Habecker

Website: www.finishingwellministries.org

Email us: [email protected]
Follow us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/finishingwellministries
Support Our Ministry: https://www.finishingwellministries.org/donate

Are there biblical principles to help us understand how to finish well?
Explore the Seven Essentials for Finishing Well. Learn more.

Thanks for listening as we all strive to live and finish life well!

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Vicki Habecker tells her story about how God is working in her life in a completely unexpected way a new friend, Anna.

Listen to her story and let’s listen to God for the new ways He might be calling us to follow Him.

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"Finishing Well Ministries aims to encourage and inspire aging Christians to understand and embrace God’s calling in their later years, equipping them to actively pursue and fulfill His calling. FWM provides materials, events, and other on-line resources that provide shared insights focused on finishing our lives well. We also recruit and train volunteers who lead and encourage small groups around the world to fulfill God’s mission for them in these critically important years." - Hal Habecker

Website: www.finishingwellministries.org

Email us: [email protected]
Follow us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/finishingwellministries
Support Our Ministry: https://www.finishingwellministries.org/donate

Are there biblical principles to help us understand how to finish well?
Explore the Seven Essentials for Finishing Well. Learn more.

Thanks for listening as we all strive to live and finish life well!

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Rewarding friendships in our aging years are wonderful gifts from God. In this podcast we’ll explore this truth. I hope you will find it rewarding. Pass it on to others. Randy and I will follow with more friendship insights in future podcasts. When I think of rich friendships, my mind runs to a great quote from C.S. Lewis. Enjoy it.

In friendship, we think we have chosen our peers. In reality, a few years' difference in the dates of our births, a few more miles between certain houses, the choice of one university instead of another, the accident of a topic being raised or not raised at a first meeting---any of these chances might have kept us apart. But, for a Christian, there are, strictly speaking, no chances. A secret Master of Ceremonies and Divine Connector has been at work. Christ, who said to the disciples, "you have not chosen me, but I have chosen you". Jesus can truly say to every group of Christian friends, "you have not chosen one another but I have chosen you for one another."

Friendship is not a reward for our discrimination and good taste in finding one another out. It is the instrument by which God reveals to each of us the beauties of all the others.                                  C. S. Lewis. "Four Loves"

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"Finishing Well Ministries aims to encourage and inspire aging Christians to understand and embrace God’s calling in their later years, equipping them to actively pursue and fulfill His calling. FWM provides materials, events, and other on-line resources that provide shared insights focused on finishing our lives well. We also recruit and train volunteers who lead and encourage small groups around the world to fulfill God’s mission for them in these critically important years." - Hal Habecker

Website: www.finishingwellministries.org

Email us: [email protected]
Follow us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/finishingwellministries
Support Our Ministry: https://www.finishingwellministries.org/donate

Are there biblical principles to help us understand how to finish well?
Explore the Seven Essentials for Finishing Well. Learn more.

Thanks for listening as we all strive to live and finish life well!

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Is the 7 Essentials Curriculum Making a Difference?"

Join Hal as he interviews David Windley about the impact the 7 Essentials is
making in David's life and ministry  as he leads a 4th Quarter ministry with
EastWest Ministries in Dallas.

I believe God wants to make an impact through the 7 Essentials in every
place. David illustrates this in his life.

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"Finishing Well Ministries aims to encourage and inspire aging Christians to understand and embrace God’s calling in their later years, equipping them to actively pursue and fulfill His calling. FWM provides materials, events, and other on-line resources that provide shared insights focused on finishing our lives well. We also recruit and train volunteers who lead and encourage small groups around the world to fulfill God’s mission for them in these critically important years." - Hal Habecker

Website: www.finishingwellministries.org

Email us: [email protected]
Follow us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/finishingwellministries
Support Our Ministry: https://www.finishingwellministries.org/donate

Are there biblical principles to help us understand how to finish well?
Explore the Seven Essentials for Finishing Well. Learn more.

Thanks for listening as we all strive to live and finish life well!

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In this podcast, Hal and his wife, Vicki, talk about the importance of FINDING

SIGNIFICANCE AS WE AGE

They address these four questions:
1. What happens when you’re no longer a big deal?
2. What happens when you’re no longer the king pin?
3. What happens when you’re no longer the big kahuna?
4. What happens if the world is not waiting with bated breath to know what I’m
doing or what I once did?
In our aging years, do I feel unimportant or even worse, am I even seen, am I just
invisible? How do we see our new significance in our new aging seasons of life?

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"Finishing Well Ministries aims to encourage and inspire aging Christians to understand and embrace God’s calling in their later years, equipping them to actively pursue and fulfill His calling. FWM provides materials, events, and other on-line resources that provide shared insights focused on finishing our lives well. We also recruit and train volunteers who lead and encourage small groups around the world to fulfill God’s mission for them in these critically important years." - Hal Habecker

Website: www.finishingwellministries.org

Email us: [email protected]
Follow us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/finishingwellministries
Support Our Ministry: https://www.finishingwellministries.org/donate

Are there biblical principles to help us understand how to finish well?
Explore the Seven Essentials for Finishing Well. Learn more.

Thanks for listening as we all strive to live and finish life well!

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In this episode, Hal interviews Jerry Wiles on the topic of remarkable book just
published entitled, Simple Relational Disciple Making: Ancient Ways for Modern Times. It is a fascinating book that relates to sharing the Gospel and disciple-making, and how that mission should be part of our lives more and more as we age. This conversation has relevance to everything we do, and it related especially to sharing the stories of God’s work as we invest our lives into generations following us. Listen to the podcast and then order the book.

Order it at Simple, Relational Disciple Making | Jerry Wiles, and you can read more of Jerry’s story there.

This article is also very helpful in knowing Jerry and his mission.” https://lausanne.org/global-analysis/orality-in-the-academy-and-beyond 

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"Finishing Well Ministries aims to encourage and inspire aging Christians to understand and embrace God’s calling in their later years, equipping them to actively pursue and fulfill His calling. FWM provides materials, events, and other on-line resources that provide shared insights focused on finishing our lives well. We also recruit and train volunteers who lead and encourage small groups around the world to fulfill God’s mission for them in these critically important years." - Hal Habecker

Website: www.finishingwellministries.org

Email us: [email protected]
Follow us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/finishingwellministries
Support Our Ministry: https://www.finishingwellministries.org/donate

Are there biblical principles to help us understand how to finish well?
Explore the Seven Essentials for Finishing Well. Learn more.

Thanks for listening as we all strive to live and finish life well!