The Well

Today, Mark Gregston shares a devotional from Psalm 86:15, exploring how children can grow up believing love must be earned through performance. When parents unknowingly reinforce this, kids begin to fear that failure will cost them acceptance, tying their value to behavior and achievement. Mark reminds parents to model God’s compassion, grace, patience and abounding love so children understand love is unconditional. When kids know they are loved in both their successes and failures, they are freed from fear and able to grow with hope and resilience.

If your teen is struggling, Mark's residential counseling center, Heartlight Ministries, may be the answer. Visit heartlightministries.org to learn more!

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. 

It’s about time to pay the credit card bills from this past Christmas. Sadly, often those bills last longer than the gifts did. Ouch. But that’s how it is, right? The things of this world promise a lot of joy, but the joy expires before the cost. Today on A NEW BEGINNING, Pastor Greg Laurie helps us reevaluate our priorities, and set our focus on the eternal. A life lived for eternity experiences joy that never fades, and the price has been paid.

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Parenting can feel like a spotlight on everything you wish you did better. Authors Adam and Chelsea Griffin of the Family Discipleship Podcast get it—and they bring gospel oxygen to shame-soaked moms and dads. With honesty, humor, and hard-won hope, they unpack why comparison crushes us, confession frees us, and remembering you’re God’s beloved child changes everything. If you’re craving relief, this conversation feels like a deep breath.

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Chip continues this series with a message he calls, “How to Overcome Feelings of Futility.” If you need a God-sized shot in the arm, today's message is for you.

Introduction: “Empty Buckets”

• Futility – Webster’s – lit. “that which easily pours out,” hence untrustworthy; that which fails completely of the desired end, or incapable of producing any result; trifling, unimportant. Syn: vain, fruitless, ineffective, useless
• Fruitful – Webster’s – Latin “fructus” – enjoyment, means of enjoyment, profitable, productive, producing results and/or desired ends.

How can we avoid futility in our lives?

• Refuse to Confuse Success With SIGNIFICANCE! -Luke 9:25-26

How can we move from success to significance?

1. Clarify your MISSION! Why are you here?

• Two things last forever: God’s Word & people’s souls
• Matthew 28:19-20
• To know CHRIST and make Him KNOWN!

2. Embrace your MISSION FIELD! Where are your greatest spheres of influence?

• Your home -Deut 6:4-9
• Your work -Col 3:22-25
• Your network -Col 4:5-6

3. Engage in the Harvesting Process

• Network
• Befriend
• Identify
• Share
• Invite
• Harvest

4. Sharpen your tools for impact!”

• Learn spiritual “door openers”
• Learn your evangelistic style
• Not Beyond Reach by Aaron Pierce

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Additional Resource Mentions

• I Choose Love Book
• Daily Discipleship - Psalms of Hope
• BOOK: "Halftime" by Bob Buford
• BOOK: "The Paradox of Success" by John R. O'Neil
• CHART: "The High Impact Church" by Linus Morris

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That wall in front of you seems impossible to overcome.  Today on BOLD STEPS, Mark Jobe takes us to the famous battle of Jericho.  Joshua chapter 6 shows how God prepares us for pivotal battles by asking us to bypass our natural strength and establish a perimeter of praise before victory comes. Listen to Bold Steps with Mark Jobe.

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Every vice has a corresponding virtue, one that can help you overcome the sins that drag you down. Today Ron takes us once again to the deadly sin of envy, a vice that can lead to all sorts of larger problems, including murder, adultery and idolatry. What virtue we can use to defeat the deadly sin of envy?  Find out next, as Ron continues his teaching series, “Undefeated: Overcoming the Deadly Sins That Drag You Down.”