A straight forward look at your future and a reality check regarding the decisions you are making today and how they will affect your future, your family someday and your eternity forever! You may not believe it but today you will simply hear the truth about your future!

45% of teens surveyed recently say they have seriously been depressed this past year and have felt hopeless! My friend you are NOT hopeless---God loves you---Jesus died for you and He is your hope! The young lady who shares in this podcast started down the wrong road at 11 years of age---but she found THE answer for her life and you can too!

Many have said to me over the years, "It's my life and I can do with it what I want!" No, 10,000 times no it's NOT your life---your life belongs to God and you may not believe that but someday you will find out but it will be too late. You, nor I, had anything to do with being born and we have no right to decide to end our life. Today we talk very openly about suicide!

After 49 years and thousands and thousands of teens there still is one and only one way I have seen "hopeless" situations turn around. The young lady sharing on today's program grew up in a "hopeless" situation and she became in her own mind a "hopeless" situation BUT Jesus had a better plan!

Thursday is Thanksgiving Day. Are you thankful for your parents? Were they there for you? I hear from many who never had a good home and I hear from those who did but really didn't appreciate the home they had! As we celebrate Thanksgiving Day we all have so much to be thankful for---give thanks!

In a world were everyone seems to have an answer when it's all said and done---why do I hear from so many teens who feel empty, miserable and yet they have tried every thing the world has thrown at them promising joy! My friend, the only real joy and peace is in the person of Jesus! Read Psalm 16:11

No longer a threat to his family this once gun toting gang member is today a preacher, husband and father and living proof God can change any life and set them free!

In a world that is lying about many things to you kids there is one person---Jesus Christ---who will always tell you the truth AND is the one and only hope for a troubled life. God loves you teenager and the story you will hear today is about a young lady who searched and searched to find happiness and finally found it!

The lies just keep coming teenager and kids keep dying! The liars will tell you there is no hereafter---no heaven, no hell---no consequences for your actions! No bail. no jail. that baby is not real, they won't say what a woman is and you can change your gender if you want and it will all be fine. But it's a lie!

Every date is a possible mate! If you don't hang around the wrong crowd chances are you won't date the wrong crowd nor marry the wrong crowd. This story will thrill your heart. Here are two young people from horrible backgrounds who met Christ and married right! This is a great story of what God alone can do!