The Well

If you feel like you’re losing connection with your teen, you’re not alone and you’re not without hope. In this episode, Mark and Wayne unpack one of the most critical needs in adolescence: relationship. Mark shares why disconnection is often the root of rebellion and how small shifts in your parenting can make a lasting impact. You’ll learn three essential changes every parent must make during the teen years, plus practical ways to build deeper connection through time, intentional listening and pursuing your teen — even when they pull away. Because what your teen needs most right now is something only you can give: your presence, your wisdom and your relationship. 

Find out what makes sharing your perspective so powerful and how you can offer it in ways your teen will actually hear: parentingtodaysteens.org/articles/the-power-of-perspective-2

Parenting Today's Teens is a part of the Christian Parenting Podcast Network. To find practical and spiritual advice to help you grow into the parent you want to be, visit parentingtodayteens.org.

Some people treat prayer like it’s a game of chance. Like Bingo. They bring their petition to the Lord and then wait to see if they “get lucky.” “You win some, you lose some.” Today on A NEW BEGINNING, Pastor Greg Laurie points out how to pray with more confidence. It’s not up to luck, it’s up to the Lord . . . the Lord who loves us, and cares for us, and told us to keep asking, keep seeking and keep knocking. Practical prayer instruction is just ahead.

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You didn’t sign up for this version of a military marriage: the moves, the silence, the stalled dreams. But what if the chaos isn’t wrecking your life, but reshaping it? This episode gets the grind—deployments, resentment, starting over—and speaks straight to the questions you’re too tired to ask. Beth Runkle, author of Another Move, God? 30 Encouragements to Embrace Your Life as a Military Wife, offers hard-won perspective that meets you where you live.

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Rich Griffth shares the different leadership styles parents should use to disciple their kids as they grow. Hear about discipling kids with intentionality at different stages of their development, from birth until adulthood. 

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God's grace is very difficult to accept. Some of us feel we're too unworthy and others feel they have a good shot on their own. In this message, Pastor Lutzer speaks to both groups, applying God's grace. Whether we tend towards despair or pride, no one earns God's favor based on their merit. 

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Erwin W. Lutzer is Pastor Emeritus of The Moody Church in Chicago, where he served as Senior Pastor for 36 years. He is a prolific author of over seventy books. A clear expositor of the Bible, he is the featured speaker on "Running To Win" and "Songs In The Night," with programs broadcasting on over a thousand outlets in the U.S. and across more than fifty countries in seven languages. He and his wife, Rebecca, live in the Chicago area. They have three grown children and eight grandchildren.