The holidays can be the most wonderful time of the year but they can also bring about stress – unresolved family conflict; past wounds; unmet expectations and overeating. How do we learn to navigate the joys of the season with the stress they can sometimes bring? Join us to learn how to really enjoy Christmas!

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Here we are on the cusp of one more glorious, fabulous, exciting, and joyful holiday season. How can we do this without going into debt? Predetermine. That’s it! Decide or establish in advance what you will do, how much you will spend, where you will go, what you will do. Join us this hour to learn how to control your spending over the holidays while still making them merry and memorable.

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Instances of expressing gratitude to God and to others are found throughout the Bible. What can we learn from them about thankfulness this holiday season? Join us as we travel to Israel to visit with an expert on biblical culture and language to discover why gratitude and celebrations were so crucial in biblical times and why both are so necessary now.

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Each week millions of Christians around the world use hymns composed by believers from every era and branch of Christianity to join voices in praise—singing psalms and hymns and making melody in their hearts to praise the Lord. Our guest today will reacquaint us with some beloved hymns of the faithful. He will share stories that show the emotion and drama behind the hymns of faith that have changed many lives throughout history—from the people whose faith led them to write these wonderful hymns to the people whose faith was affected by reading, hearing, and singing them.

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Can we know if Jesus actually lived? Have Jesus's followers been a force for good or evil in history? Our guest set out to find the answers—not from opinion but from artifacts. The evidence led him to an unexpected conclusion: Jesus really existed and launched the greatest movement for social good in human history. Join us to hear convincing physical evidence that will enlighten seekers, skeptics, and longtime Christians alike. In a generation that wants to make the world a better place, we can discover what humanity's greatest champions had in common: a Christian faith.

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Our guest, a popular speaker, and licensed clinical psychologist will join us to offer sound biblical advice for dealing with discouragement and depression. The eight "life principles" he identified will help shine a light on your sadness and assist you in reacquainting yourself with God, the One who will give you great hope, even in the most painful of times.

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After more than two decades of missionary work in Turkey, our guest was arrested in October 2016 and accused of espionage. Join us as he describes ministering to marginalized people in a Muslim land; the attention, suspicion, and risks he and his wife, Norine, felt but accepted; and his story of imprisonment, brokenness, and eventual freedom. Don’t miss this fascinating story of what it means to say, “Yes, Lord.”

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What is the real story of Thanksgiving? To whom were the Pilgrims offering their thanks? What role did religious liberty and the spreading of the Gospel have to play in their perilous and sacrificial journey to a new world? Join us as we separate fact from fiction surrounding that first Thanksgiving.

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Suffering is a part of life, but it’s never easy. Our lives get turned upside down, and we wonder how God could allow these things to happen. Yet, we are told to believe that He is still good, and that He still loves us. If only it was that easy. Tune in for a conversation with two guests who have suffered greatly themselves, but have a theology of suffering that we can all learn from.

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Anita Dittman was just a little girl when the winds of Hitler and Nazism began to blow through Germany. By the time she was twelve, the war had begun. Abandoned by her father when he realized the price of being associated with a Jewish wife and family, Anita and her mother were ultimately left to fend for themselves. Anita’s teenage years are spent desperately fighting for survival yet learning to trust in the One she discovered would not leave her.

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