All Articles for Empty Nest and Midlife

Does God have instructions for grandparents? Mary Larmoyeux, Nancy Downing, Josh Mulvihill, and Anne Dierks share scriptural examples and practical tips for being godly, intentional grandparents.

Author Jill Savage talks frankly about the challenges she's faced in the empty nest, including finding out that her son is gay. While they disagree with his current lifestyle, they continue to love him.

How's your marriage since the kids left home? Jill Savage knows that a couple's failure to connect can lead to isolation. Savage shares some valleys she and her husband faced as empty nesters and tells what's kept them together.

Author Jill Savage talks about the freedom, and the challenges, of the empty nest. Savage remembers being surprised at how hard it really was to adjust to a quiet house. Hear some sound advice from a mom who's been there.

Does God have instructions for grandparents? Mary Larmoyeux, Nancy Downing, Josh Mulvihill and Anne Dierks share scriptural examples, and practical tips for being godly, intentional grandparents.

All of us will have to deal with aging parents. Jim Stroud gives some wise tips for rightly assessing an aging parent's need for assisted living.

Jim Stroud tells how he looked at elder care options for his father, and realized that available facilities wouldn't meet his father's level of need. Stroud set out to change that for his father and others.

Barbara Rainey's favorite holiday is Thanksgiving Day. Find out how she impressed gratitude on her children growing up. She'll also give a glimpse into how how she's processing transitions in her own life.

How should a Christian approach the stage of life that follows the working years? Kay Marshall Strom, Dennis Rainey, Howard Hendricks, and Steve Sanford offer perspectives based on Scripture.

Barbara Rainey and Susan Yates give some helpful suggestions for embracing the empty nest stage of life.

Barbara Rainey and Susan Yates recall how they felt when they first entered this confusing, liberating, and emotion-packed stage of life called the empty nest.

When the kids leave home you become a new kind of parent.

Marriages, like tides, ebb and flow.

As you look back on your parenting, do you often feel a twinge of regret?

Barbara Rainey and Susan Yates share their personal experiences about entering the empty nest.

You’ve longed for the day when the house would be peaceful again and the kids would finally be grown and on their own.

Looking for something to do after your retire?

God can use you, no matter what your age.

Granny Camp, Granny Camp ... Rah, Rah, Rah!

How are you building into your grandkids?

Retirement: go ahead, go back, or go away?

His mid-40’s brought unrest for Bob Buford—until he radically changed his life’s direction.

There's an old saying that goes, "Where there's a will, there's a way", but sometimes, finding that Last Will and Testament can be a huge challenge for surviving family members--and at the worst possible time!

Sooner or later, many of the deceased are going to leave loved ones with big questions ... questions like "Where's the will?" or "What would they have wanted us to do?"

Today on the broadcast, walk with us down the hall of heroes as Dennis and Barbara Rainey and author Susan Yates profile just some of the women making a difference in the season of life we call the empty nest.

It’s not too late for you to make a difference in the world.

The kids are gone. The house is empty.

Are you dazed by the changes thrust on you by the empty nest?

Have your kids all left home?

Do you have an inner longing to impact your world?

Do you desire to do more now that your kids are grown?

What is your purpose in life?

Dennis shares his perspective about the new era of their lives without children at home.

Barbara Rainey talks about the emotions she faced as she adjusted to an empty nest.

Dennis and Barbara Rainey talk about planning for a future after the kids are gone.

Dennis and Barbara Rainey talk about their transition from a household full of teenagers to empty nest made for two.

What is retirement supposed to be for the Christian?