Parenting Struggles And What They Teach

From Costa Rica to China, Ireland to Australia....the needs of families are universally the same. Hear how God’s love, grace and intervention are poured out to families world-wide, through the lives of Focus on the Family International Directors.

Ice storms, Christmas with grandparents, and shooting ornaments with a B-B gun. A dozen of your favourite Christian authors share a yuletide memory from their childhood. Laugh along with their mishaps – and rejoice in how God revealed Himself in some hard seasons of adulthood.

Ice storms, Christmas with grandparents, and shooting ornaments with a B-B gun. A dozen of your favourite Christian authors share a yuletide memory from their childhood. Laugh along with their mishaps – and rejoice in how God revealed Himself in some hard seasons of adulthood.

An athletic, young mom undergoes a routine C-section, and six weeks later, she’s diagnosed with heart failure. Julie and John Manning share how their lives were turned upside-down by Julie’s medical condition, and how God has graciously shown them the importance of living every day as their last.

A strong family tree displays solid branches reaching through the generations, but what do you do when those branches are broken by dysfunction? Elizabeth Oates discusses her childhood, including a family riddled by divorce, neglect, and addiction, and offers encouragement for becoming the spouse and/or parent God wants you to…