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  • Crazy Little Thing Called Marriage - Sparking the Marriage Fires, Pt. 2

    Get ready for Part Two of how to spark the fire in your marriage! Want to make your spouse feel special? Todd and Carolyn Petka share the "rocket fuel” for thriving marriages, and describe obstacles like unrealistic expectations, busy lives without margin, conflict styles, and family-of-origin wounds, that naturally leak energy and require intentional refueling. We'll look at the animal kingdom to help you understand your personality, and we have a listener Q & A about how to manage a family when your health is struggling.

     

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    58 min
  • Focus on the Family with Jim Daly - How to Represent Christ in Today's Culture

    Pastor J. D. Greear shares practical insights and real-life stories to help believers reach our broken culture with the love of Christ. Hear his encouragement to meet people where they are, live as authentic examples of Jesus in everyday life, and make a lasting impact for the gospel.

     

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    27 min
  • Insight for Living Daily Broadcast - The Cross We Proclaim, Part 1
    1 Corinthians 1:18–2:5
    The world has little patience for what it considers foolish or weak—and by that standard, a crucified Savior ranks near the bottom. The temptation to polish the gospel, soften its edges, and make it more culturally respectable is as strong today as it was in Paul’s day.
    From 1 Corinthians 1:18–2:5, Pastor Chuck Swindoll explores Paul’s resolute commitment to preach Christ crucified—not with worldly wisdom or rhetorical brilliance, but with straightforward confidence in the power of the cross to save.
    Refuse to be ashamed of the cross. What the world calls foolishness is the power of God—and that is more than enough.
    30 min
  • Greg Laurie: A New Beginning - Hope for America | Sunday Message

    Some things seem impossible. But with God, nothing is. Even our nation, which seems so filled with darkness, can change with the Lord.

    Yes, there is hope for America. And it starts with Christians.

    Christians are salt and light. Salt preserves. Salt stimulates thirst. Light exposes darkness and shows the way out. And as salt and light, Christians must infiltrate culture, not isolate. Christians are not called to evade, but invade.

    And who knows? You may be the only representative of Jesus some people will ever see! They may never read the Bible, but they’ll read your life.

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    Some things just seem impossible. But with God, nothing is impossible.
     
    Our country is in a state of moral and spiritual crisis.
     
    We have two options before us as a nation: judgment or revival.
     
    Read Matthew 5:13–16 (NKJV)
     
    The world needs salt because it is corrupt and light because it is dark.
      
    This world will get worse before it gets better.
    2 Timothy 3:13
     
    Sometimes Christians try to isolate.
     
    Jesus has not called us to isolate, but to infiltrate. Not to evade but to invade.
     
    Jesus is sending us into the world.
      
    Before the American Revolution, there was spiritual revelation.
     
    The American Revolution worked because it was rooted in spiritual and biblical principles.
     
    “To the distinguished character of Patriot, it should be our highest glory
    to add the more distinguished character of Christian”.  —George Washington
     
    “The Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate for the government of any other.”  —John Adams
     
    We must stand for truth, whether it is popular or not.
     
    To reach our culture, we must use a language people understand.
     
    1 Corinthians 9:22–23
     
    We need to bring them the message of the gospel.
     
    2 Corinthians 2:14–15
     
    But before we can effectively tell them, we must first live it.
     
    Salt Preserves
    The main function of salt in Jesus’ day was preservation.
     
    Christians, like salt, are also here to preserve.
     
    Salt Stimulates Thirst
    As we live godly lives, we make other people thirsty for God.
     
    We cannot stimulate spiritual thirst in others if we have lost our own.
     
    We cannot be used by God to stop the corruption of sin in others if sin has corrupted us.
    Matthew 5:13
     
    Jesus first says we are to be salt, then He says we are to be light.
     
    Salt is hidden, whereas light is obvious.
    Salt works secretly while light works openly.
    Salt works from within, but light works from without.
     
    Salt works primarily through our living, while light works through what we say to others.
     
    Light exposes the darkness.
     
    You are the only representative of Jesus Christ that many nonbelievers will ever see.
     
    We need to infiltrate, not isolate, being both salt and light.
      
    We need to pray.
    2 Chronicles 7:14
     
    We need to preach the gospel message.
     
    There is hope for America, and there is hope for you.
     
    Hebrews 4:7(b)
    If you can hear His voice, harden not your heart.

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    48 min
  • Carter Conlon | A Call to the Nation - A Billion Reasons Not to Give Up

    Introduction: The Call Not to Faint

    I want to bring to you a message I've entitled "A Billion Reasons Not to Give Up."
    Galatians 6:9 — just one verse, where the Apostle Paul says, And let us not grow weary while doing good, for in due season we shall reap if we do not lose heart.
    The original King James says "if we don't faint." It carries the connotation of somebody running a race — perhaps they get halfway, two-thirds of the way through this long-distance race, and then they just quit. They just stop. Maybe it's pressing through the exhaustion or the pain. There are times that we feel pain and we're exhausted, and we have a tendency to want to draw back from the work that God has entrusted into our hands.
    But there's an incredible promise given to us. First of all, there's an admonition: don't grow weary in doing good. For in due season — in the proper time, in God's timing — we will reap if we don't lose heart.

    Why Do People Lose Heart?

    So the question arises: why do people lose heart? Why do they faint? Why do they quit? People who knew the redemption of Christ. People who have been given the Spirit of God. People who know the truth of God's Word. People who have at least a sense of what our commission is on the earth.
    We're not here to live for ourselves any longer. As we teach here in our Bible school, the purest expression of the Christian life is found in living for the benefit of others. That's what our Savior did for us, and we've been commissioned to do that for the sake of others. And while we are on that journey, Jesus Christ promises that he will give us all that we need. He'll give us comfort in times of sorrow. He'll give us his strength in times of weakness. He'll give us his encouragement in times of discouragement. He'll keep us going. He'll keep us running for a divine reason — reaching those that are lost, because that is the mission of Jesus Christ on the earth.

    Reason 1: No Vision for the Future

    People lose heart because they have no vision for life in the future. Proverbs 29:18 says, Where there is no vision, the people perish. The King James says they cast off restraint. They turn to self-focus, or they become disillusioned. Where there's no vision — what is my life? What is the purpose of my life? What is the purpose of God? Help me to understand why I'm here. When we lose the vision of God for the future of our own lives, it is inevitable that we are going to lose heart.

    Reason 2: Constant Complaining

    People lose heart when they fall into constant complaining about the present. Psalm 77:3 — the psalmist says, I complained and my spirit was overwhelmed.
    If you want to sink your own boat — if you want to drill a hole in the bottom of your own boat in the middle of the ocean — start complaining, and your boat's going to fill and you're going to go down. We have to learn not to complain.
    Listen, it might be tough, but you're not going to hell. I'm talking to the Christians. It might be tough. I used to say to the choir in New York City: if you're going through hell, just be thankful you're not staying there. You're going through. You're going to come out the other side, and heaven is your eternal home.
    There is no guarantee in the Word of God that everything is going to be easy. You're going to be opposed. You have an enemy in this world. There are going to be things said, things done. There's going to be exhaustion, all kinds of things coming your way. But don't fall into complaining. A complainer not only sinks his or her own boat, but they sink everybody else's boat around them.
    To me, complaint is the opposite of faith. Complaint is the absence of seeing God. I would rather be an optimist. I would rather live on the side of "it's going to work out," because that's what God says is going to happen.
    The Bible does say all things work together for good to those who love God and are called according to his purpose. Not so
    25 min
  • Truth For Life Daily Program - This Dark World’s Light
    When something bad happens, do you assume it’s always punishment for a specific sin? Find out how God sometimes uses these trials to display His work and glory. We’re continuing a series titled A Light in the Darkness on Truth For Life with Alistair Begg.


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    25 min
  • Greg Laurie: A New Beginning - Do Harvest Crusades Still Work in 2026?

    Are Harvest Crusades still relevant in today's culture, or are they a thing of the past? In this episode, Greg Laurie explains why these large-scale evangelistic events remain as effective as ever—whether people attend in person or online—and why Christians play a vital role in helping others hear the gospel through them.

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    21 min
  • Focus on the Family Weekend - Focus on the Family Weekend: July. 4. - July 5. 2026

    George Washington and other American leaders during the Revolutionary War displayed extraordinary faith in God. They attributed success on the battlefield to God, called the American people to days of fasting and prayer for the Revolution, and wrote Christian principles into America’s Founding documents. Rod Gragg recounts fascinating stories of our nation’s history and how Christians can learn from the faith of America’s past leaders. He shares about the first Independence Day celebration, and how churches today can flourish in the midst of cultural shift away from a Biblical worldview. Then, in this Adventures in Odyssey drama, Irwin Springer, a middle schooler interested in history, takes a wild journey back to the American Revolution, where he meets the men who shaped the United States.

     

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    All Created Equal: Celebrating Freedom on Independence Day

     

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    55 min

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