Archived Podcast Episodes

Featuring a playful spark between hosts Dave and Ann Wilson, Real FamilyLife® packs all the hard-earned discoveries, joys, and hardships of a 40-year marriage into 60 seconds. Timeless wisdom for everyday families, every day.

Can deconstructing faith be healthy? Authors Sean McDowell and John Marriott explore the realities of deconstruction—and the need for each of us to wrestle with doubts, questions, and incongruities toward robust faith. Can I prove to you 100 percent that Jesus rose from the dead? Nope. I can’t and neither can anybody else. Do I think that there is good reason to think that He rose from the dead? I do. Do I think that there are counterarguments? I think that there are, but I find the reasons more persuasive than the counter arguments, and so I choose, based on…

Can deconstructing faith be healthy? Authors Sean McDowell and John Marriott explore the realities of deconstruction—and the need for each of us to wrestle with doubts, questions, and incongruities toward robust faith. Can I prove to you 100 percent tha…

Featuring a playful spark between hosts Dave and Ann Wilson, Real FamilyLife® packs all the hard-earned discoveries, joys, and hardships of a 40-year marriage into 60 seconds. Timeless wisdom for everyday families, every day.

Identity, belonging: They’re burning questions in any teen. How can you feed these in your teen, so their transitions between vastly different stepfamily homes mean they grow stronger, more resilient, and grounded in Jesus Christ? Author Kara Powell discusses the needs of teens in stepfamilies with Gayla Grace and Ron Deal. There’s 50 different answers, at least, that we could glean from Scripture about who God says we are. But one that we think is really important for young people to know today is that Jesus makes them enough. In the midst of trying to satisfy all these expectations and…

Identity, belonging: They’re burning questions in any teen. How can you feed these in your teen, so their transitions between vastly different stepfamily homes mean they grow stronger, more resilient, and grounded in Jesus Christ? Author Kara Powell discu…

Children want to be heard and seen. Ron Deal had a conversation with Dr Mark Mayfield about how parents can help teens with loneliness. They offer wisdom and practical help for sensitive, serious topics such as suicide and address the role parents have as children navigate their overwhelming feelings and confusing thoughts.

Featuring a playful spark between hosts Dave and Ann Wilson, Real FamilyLife® packs all the hard-earned discoveries, joys, and hardships of a 40-year marriage into 60 seconds. Timeless wisdom for everyday families, every day.

A Multiple Sclerosis diagnosis stunned Crossfit competitor Ben Fallon. But through fierce diligence and relentless joy, MS has become his vehicle for tenacious faith and personal metamorphosis.

Why are people leaving church? And with what we know—what could parents do differently? Jim Davis, author of The Great Dechurching, and church planter Michael Aitcheson offer ideas for shaping kids who want to stay. If you’re between the ages of, I th…

Featuring a playful spark between hosts Dave and Ann Wilson, Real FamilyLife® packs all the hard-earned discoveries, joys, and hardships of a 40-year marriage into 60 seconds. Timeless wisdom for everyday families, every day.

Why do people leave church? And what can parents know and do so their kids aren’t casualties to a mass church exodus? Church planter Michael Aitcheson and author Jim Davis, author of The Great Dechurching: Who’s Leaving, Why Are They Going, and What Will It Take to Bring Them Back? as the two explore what’s happening in the church—and how parents can actively, intentionally shape kids who stay.

Featuring a playful spark between hosts Dave and Ann Wilson, Real FamilyLife® packs all the hard-earned discoveries, joys, and hardships of a 40-year marriage into 60 seconds. Timeless wisdom for everyday families, every day.

The statistics on the exodus from the church are reason for all of us to be concerned. What do we need to know? Jim Davis, author of The Great Dechurching, and church planter Michael Aitcheson talk about who’s leaving, why, and what needs to happen. About…

Featuring a playful spark between hosts Dave and Ann Wilson, Real FamilyLife® packs all the hard-earned discoveries, joys, and hardships of a 40-year marriage into 60 seconds. Timeless wisdom for everyday families, every day.