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So many people need help in their lives but refuse it for a variety of reasons. Identifying these reasons and then seeking the help, no matter if it's medical, spiritual, or emotional, can set you up for great success in your life. 

Learning to set priorities in a godly way will help bring purpose to your life and keep you from straying away from the important things.  Once you decide what's important, you must stay with it and not get distracted by life's ups and downs.

Want to be happy and at peace? This show covers ten biblical tips to have a healthy soul. Your soul is the foundation of every part of your life. Each person has a choice to ignore it and suffer the negative consequences or feed and nourish it and watch the blessings flow!

People love to manipulate others to get what they want. This is very common in every type of human relationship including marriage. Having the wisdom to recognize this destructive behavior, the fortitude to set boundaries, and the courage to break fellowship when they refuse to stop is critically important for the Christian. 

There are ways to strengthen your mental and emotional health. When we do these six things, you will be amazed how things in your life can turn around and you can serve the Lord in truth and spirit and discover true peace and joy that transcends all understanding. 

Everybody must learn to set healthy boundaries in their lives or their lives will be controlled by others who do not necessarily want the best for them. Without healthy boundaries, you will find yourself overextended, exhausted, and not functioning well for the Kingdom of God. 

While it may seem impossible during the early stages of a significant loss in your life, learning to love again is not only possible, it's a sure bet if you learn to grieve properly, and allow God to bring healing and hope back into your life. 

Conquering the storms of life is very possible when you use wisdom and faith. The big three storms in life are hopelessness, fear, and worry. When all three hit us at once, you must be intentional in your plan to get back up off the saddle and run the race of life. 

God is a God of second chances. Does this mean Christians should always give people who hurt them second chances. When trust is broken, there are ways to move forward to try and save the relationship. Don't think God wants all relationships to be saved through. Forgiveness must always be extended, but fellowship is not always wise. 

What is the difference between confidence and pride? Confidence is a great attribute that can help you be successful in your life while pride is dangerous and can destroy your life. Understanding the difference is critical if you are going to walk with God and make a difference in this dark world. 

Learning to agree to disagree with grace, love, and a gentle heart is paramount if you want to have healthy, vibrant, and long-lasting relationships. For the Christian, the closer that you walk with the Lord in humility, the easier this will happen and the more blessed you will be. 

Nobody has kids and says, "I don't care if I'm a good parent". We all want to be good parents because we love our kids and want the best for them. In this podcast, we go through ten tips to be a great parent that will give our children the best opportunity to succeed. 

When a relationship goes south, there are specific things you can do to fix things. Using these principles can give you the best chance to salvage a relationship. God made people to be social and his heart is for you to have relationships with people that are healthy and good for you.

So many people go into marriage without the proper tools. In this show, we cover some of the tools necessary from a biblical perspective to help your new marriage thrive. 

So many people hold onto the negative things in their lives. Many refuse to forgive others, some are mad at God because of something that happened to them, while others are just disappointed with life and can't let go of it. Learning to let go is so important to living a life of freedom, joy, and peace. 

Discouragement is a spiritual poison and cancer that would love to take over your life and bring anxiety and depression into the picture. You can overcome discouragement when you know God is in control, that He has your back, and that He wants the best for you. 

Great mental health is really important to regulate your emotions so you don't lose control and create unwanted drama in your life and relationships. Once you identify the weaknesses, lies, or distortions in the way you think and process life, you can begin the hard work to right the ship. 

There are specific steps you can take to right the wrongs in your life that have negatively affected your walk with the Lord and damaged relationships. Not dealing with them only leads to darker roads ahead. Dealing with them brings healing and life back to your heart and to your relationships. 

Making things right in any situation is the key to living a life of peace, joy, and influence. Learning how to face your faults head on, admit them, repent of them, and ask for forgiveness is critical if you want to walk humbly and rightly before the Creator of the universe. 

The future of our country, the future of the nuclear family, and the future of your kid's well-being is tied to good, strong fathers. With the woke movement mutating and blurring the lines of traditional, biblical roles of people, it's more important than ever to see fathers stand up and be the men God created them to be. 

The art of compromise is a biblical principle that promotes peace and good will. While the Christian should never compromise biblical truth, learning to compromise other things with people shows we love them, it shows our grace toward them, and it shows them we don't have to demand our own way. 

Here are eight tips to get rid of the darkness of anxiety and worry in your life

The world is one chaotic place! Way too many people live in complete chaos. One of the primary reasons we live in chaos is because of our lack of identity, not understanding who we are. If you are a Christian, you are the child of the King of the Universe. Believing that changes everything!

In this fifteen- minute podcast, we list seven ways to fight fear in your life and win the battle that is raging in your soul. Demons and darkness live in fear, so ridding yourself of this spiritual cancer can bring the peace and joy you have always longed for.

In this 15 minute podcast, we discuss fear and how it can destroy your life. We show you how the Devil uses fear to slow you down and take you out. We discuss how Jesus Christ can take the jail cell of fear and provide you the keys to freedom. 

There's a huge difference between striving for excellence and demanding perfection in your life. Living a perfect life is impossible and those who think it's possible will soon fall victim to discouragement and depression. Understanding the reasons someone may think this way is a great start to being healed. 

Life is about change. Change is never easy, but God allows seasons of life to occur to teach us to rely on Him no matter what's happening. Through good and bad, rich and poor, life or death, God uses these seasons of life to grow us spiritually and make us more like him. 

In this podcast, we list ten tips to live a happy, stable, and healthy life, all from a Christian perspective. Too many people are adrift in life, allowing circumstances to control them instead of using those circumstances to take control of their destinies and futures. 

In our final series on narcissism, we show the traits of the dark generation during the end times have all the traits of a narcissist. Could it be that the spirit of narcissism is a sign of the end times? If you are suffering from this, you can be healed but must take your situation very seriously!

We go through an additional list of traits of a narcissist. You will notice that each trait is the exact opposite of the fruits of the Spirit that identify people as sheep of the Lord Jesus Christ. 

In this second podcast about narcissism, we go through five more traits of a narcissist. Remember, the very definition of narcissism means they do not believe they are one. They are not the enemy! The enemy is the darkness that is controlling them. Breaking free to the truth is a very difficult road but nothing is impossible with God!

Narcissism is growing rampant across America today. It destroys marriages and relationships and can destroy churches and businesses. What are the traits of a narcissist? We list ten of them in this series of shows. Can a person be a narcissist and a real born again Christian? It is doubtful as these traits are the opposite of the fruits of the spirit. 

There are specific things to look for when depressed. Spouses should be on the lookout for these so they can understand how to best help their helpmate. One of the key things you must do is show empathy when your spouse is going through this mental disease. If you don't, things will rapidly spin out of control. 

Many marriages go through difficult times when a spouse is depressed and the other spouse feels helpless to know what to do. Understanding the nature of depression and having a game plan and outside help will be keys to saving the marriage from imploding. 

There are five specific steps you can take when looking for the truth in a matter to help you find healing. Once you go through these steps, you can find the peace and joy you hopefully long for to help you live a productive Christian life. 

Everybody has heard the phrase, "The Truth Hurts."  To find healing in life's many struggles, having the humility to seek the truth even when it hurts is the first step you must take to bring healing and wholeness back to your life. 

Change is a part of life. You can't run or hide from it. Dealing with change in a healthy way is critical to keeping your sanity and not give the devil a foothold in your life. Some changes you can plan on and some are sudden. Trusting the Lord through it all is a great start!

The story of Elijah has some great examples on how mental health issues can send us down dark roads, yet if we turn to the Lord in spirit and truth, we can find the healing and wholeness that the Lord so wants for our lives.

Gaining wisdom from God may be one of the best ways to deal with mental health issues. As you begin to see things through God's eyes, you can begin to see the answers to the questions that may have been alluding you. Wisdom can literally reprogram how you think, feel, and act.

Fear is the number one reason people enable others to continue into self-destructive behaviors. "What if" this person does this or that or God forbid--takes their own lives can be very powerful motivators to continue to enable somebody. Teaching somebody to stand on their own two feet is the most powerful form of love.

The definition of love as presented in the Bible does not include enabling people. When you do something for somebody else that they can do for themselves but chose not to, you are going down a dangerous road for them that can lead to long-term damage. 

We answer eight common questions into our hotline. 1. Communication issues with spouses. 2. Teen depression. 3. Anxiety issues. 4. Parent/Young Adult issues when still living at home. 5. Feeling alone and lost. 6. Break ups. 7. Alcohol issues. 8. When to date again after divorce.

When you have issues trusting people who are trustworthy, you must examine your spiritual, mental, emotional, and physical reasons for allowing this problem to affect your relationships. Starting with the spiritual is the key to fixing the rest of the mis-thinking and mis-feeling.

So many people have issues trusting other people that are truth worthy. This stems from issues in their past including being abused, having a loved one hurt or betray you, having dysfunctional parental relationships, or experiencing a traumatic event. You can't have great relationships until this issue is fixed!

Cheating in a marriage covenant relationship is one of the worst things that can happen to anybody. While scripture clearly teachers that divorce can be pursued, that is not always the will of God. Finding healing and learning to trust again is possible when a miracle working God is on your side. 

If you are in a relationship that is not a marriage, there are specific questions that you will need to ask if your partner cheats on you. Answering these questions will determine if you should seek to find healing in the relationship or let it go to find somebody more trustworthy. 

In this three-part series, we cover the tools necessary to bring healing in a broken relationship damaged by cheating. If you have been cheated on, there are times when you need to walk away and there are times when you want to give them a second chance. How to know the difference? Take a listen. 

How to you find healing when you didn't have a mother or had one who was a negative influence in your life? It all starts with examining your life and understanding what negative traits you have that relate to the issue and then finding the right people to help bring the healing. 

The lack of a mother in the house or a mother that is not emotionally healthy can cause long-lasting and even lifelong negative impacts on the emotional health of a person. This can include relationship trouble, fear of attachment, personality disorders, substance abuse and a loss of hope.

Mothers are the most important person in a young child's life. Children naturally flock to their mothers for emotional support. God has created this instinctive relationship bond between mothers and their children. When a mother is absent, emotional damage is sure to follow.