Practical Family Living Categories

Women and Money

Brenda Spina, M.S., LMFT, LPC

More and more women are coming into their own sense of money, what it means to them and how to manage their funds. This transition means looking at three basic principles of relationship that impact how we as women think, feel and behave around the issue of money. Brenda writes from her own experience and from countless hours of listening to women who have worked hard to face the underlying concerns they carry about managing money.

Women and Money, #1 of 2, #3282

Brenda Spina, M.S., LMFT, LPC

More and more women are coming into their own sense of money, what it means to them and how to manage their funds. This transition means looking at three basic principles of relationship that impact how we as women think, feel and behave around the issue of money. Brenda writes from her own experience and from countless hours of listening to women who have worked hard to face the underlying concerns they carry about managing money.

Women and Money, #2 of 2, #3283

Brenda Spina, M.S., LMFT, LPC

More and more women are coming into their own sense of money, what it means to them and how to manage their funds. This transition means looking at three basic principles of relationship that impact how we as women think, feel and behave around the issue of money. Brenda writes from her own experience and from countless hours of listening to women who have worked hard to face the underlying concerns they carry about managing money.

Avoiding A Judgmental Attitude, #1 of 4, #3298

Brenda Spina, M.S., LMFT, LPC

Foundational to any successful relationship is our ability to see another in light of how the Lord sees that person. Avoiding a judgmental attitude sounds good but, as anything valuable, involves a committed desire to be confronted with our own lack of fairness and intentional choices to assume the best of another. This series of radio programs outlines the basis of this principle in Scripture as well as encourages all of us to be made more in the likeness of Christ.

Avoiding A Judgmental Attitude, #2 of 4, #3299

Brenda Spina, M.S., LMFT, LPC

Foundational to any successful relationship is our ability to see another in light of how the Lord sees that person. Avoiding a judgmental attitude sounds good but, as anything valuable, involves a committed desire to be confronted with our own lack of fairness and intentional choices to assume the best of another. This series of radio programs outlines the basis of this principle in Scripture as well as encourages all of us to be made more in the likeness of Christ.

Avoiding A Judgmental Attitude, #3 of 4, #3300

Brenda Spina, M.S., LMFT, LPC

Foundational to any successful relationship is our ability to see another in light of how the Lord sees that person. Avoiding a judgmental attitude sounds good but, as anything valuable, involves a committed desire to be confronted with our own lack of fairness and intentional choices to assume the best of another. This series of radio programs outlines the basis of this principle in Scripture as well as encourages all of us to be made more in the likeness of Christ.

Avoiding A Judgmental Attitude, #4 of 4, #3301

Brenda Spina, M.S., LMFT, LPC

Foundational to any successful relationship is our ability to see another in light of how the Lord sees that person. Avoiding a judgmental attitude sounds good but, as anything valuable, involves a committed desire to be confronted with our own lack of fairness and intentional choices to assume the best of another. This series of radio programs outlines the basis of this principle in Scripture as well as encourages all of us to be made more in the likeness of Christ.

God's Fearless Love For Challenging Relationships, #1 of 9, #3305

Mary Lambrecht, M.S. LMFT

Fears around the loss of a personal dream can influence our relationships. This program will explore how unspoken inner hopes and dreams can cause conflict in relationships, and how Christ can help us verbalize dreams to self and others.

God's Fearless Love For Challenging Relationships, #2 of 9, #3306

Mary Lambrecht, M.S. LMFT

Conflict and challenges in relationships were part of Jesus’ walk on earth, just as they are part of our earthly walk. This program will explore how Jesus, Lazarus, and Mary and Martha effectively walked through conflict with one another to a place of love and understanding.

God's Fearless Love For Challenging Relationships, #3 of 9, #3307

Mary Lambrecht, M.S. LMFT

This program further explores, through study of the story of Jesus raising Lazarus from the dead (John 11), healthy principles of relating to others in challenging times.

God's Fearless Love For Challenging Relationships, #5 of 9, #3309

Mary Lambrecht, M.S. LMFT

Challenges in relationships can include others failing us or disappointing us, even in times of our greatest need. This program gives examples of how Christ drew upon God the Father’s love and sovereignty, and His sovereignty in the terrorist attack on the United States, September 11, 2001.

God's Fearless Love For Challenging Relationships, #6 of 9, #3310

Mary Lambrecht, M.S. LMFT

This program explores the concept of Godly boundaries in conflictual relationships, and touches on the topic of abuse.

God's Fearless Love For Challenging Relationships, #7 of 9, #3311

Mary Lambrecht, M.S. LMFT

Program explores forgiveness: what it is and what it isn’t. The story of Corrie Ten Boom forgiving one of her captors from a Nazi concentration camp further illustrates key principles around forgiveness.

God's Fearless Love For Challenging Relationships, #8 of 9, #3312

Mary Lambrecht, M.S. LMFT

Program looks at the benefits of forgiveness, including spiritual freedom and hope for the future. Mary Lambrecht shares a personal story of forgiveness and a short testimony of her brother’s salvation in Christ, shortly before he died of AIDS in 1991.

God's Fearless Love For Challenging Relationships, #9 of 9, #3313

Mary Lambrecht, M.S. LMFT

This program is a conversational wrap-up between Lynda Savage and Mary Lambrecht of the series: God’s Fearless Love for Challenging Relationships. It reviews main concepts around challenging relationships: unspoken dreams, communication with challenging individuals, abiding in Christ, Biblical relational models for challenging relationships, and how forgiveness is important.

Healthy Detachment, #1 of 4, #3328

Brenda Spina, M.S., LMFT, LPC

This particular series of 4 programs outlines what it means for us as followers of Christ to be detached in a healthy manner. Defining what detachment is begins our series. Outlining the steps in our relationship with God that help us maintain a sense of who is responsible for what, follows in the three remaining programs. This is a difficult concept to grasp but I believe it to be necessary if we are to effectively minister the truth of the gospel.

Healthy Detachment, #2 of 4, #3329

Brenda Spina, M.S., LMFT, LPC

his particular series of 4 programs outlines what it means for us as followers of Christ to be detached in a healthy manner. Defining what detachment is begins our series. Outlining the steps in our relationship with God that help us maintain a sense of who is responsible for what, follows in the three remaining programs. This is a difficult concept to grasp but I believe it to be necessary if we are to effectively minister the truth of the gospel.

Healthy Detachment, #4 of 4, #3331

Brenda Spina, M.S., LMFT, LPC

This particular series of 4 programs outlines what it means for us as followers of Christ to be detached in a healthy manner. Defining what detachment is begins our series. Outlining the steps in our relationship with God that help us maintain a sense of who is responsible for what, follows in the three remaining programs. This is a difficult concept to grasp but I believe it to be necessary if we are to effectively minister the truth of the gospel.

Healthy Detachment, #3 of 4, #3330

Brenda Spina, M.S., LMFT, LPC

This particular series of 4 programs outlines what it means for us as followers of Christ to be detached in a healthy manner. Defining what detachment is begins our series. Outlining the steps in our relationship with God that help us maintain a sense of who is responsible for what, follows in the three remaining programs. This is a difficult concept to grasp but I believe it to be necessary if we are to effectively minister the truth of the gospel.

The Good, the Bad and the Ugly, #1 of 5, #3339

Brenda Spina, M.S., LMFT, LPC

Various authors have discussed and creatively labeled the roles each individual may play in the overall functioning of the family. No author has defined or discussed these roles as thoroughly as Sharon Wegscheider-Cruse. Based on her research of the alcoholic family, these roles provide tremendous helpfulness and hurtfulness to family relationships. These programs integrate Scripture and it's focus on unity and diversity in the family of God with each of these roles. Join Brenda Spina and Lynda Savage as they discover the uniqueness of what each of these roles has to offer.

The Good, the Bad and the Ugly, #2 of 5, #3340

Brenda Spina, M.S., LMFT, LPC

Various authors have discussed and creatively labeled the roles each individual may play in the overall functioning of the family. No author has defined or discussed these roles as thoroughly as Sharon Wegscheider-Cruse. Based on her research of the alcoholic family, these roles provide tremendous helpfulness and hurtfulness to family relationships. These programs integrate Scripture and it's focus on unity and diversity in the family of God with each of these roles. Join Brenda Spina and Lynda Savage as they discover the uniqueness of what each of these roles has to offer.

The Good, the Bad and the Ugly, #3 of 5, #3341

Brenda Spina, M.S., LMFT, LPC

Various authors have discussed and creatively labeled the roles each individual may play in the overall functioning of the family. No author has defined or discussed these roles as thoroughly as Sharon Wegscheider-Cruse. Based on her research of the alcoholic family, these roles provide tremendous helpfulness and hurtfulness to family relationships. These programs integrate Scripture and it's focus on unity and diversity in the family of God with each of these roles. Join Brenda Spina and Lynda Savage as they discover the uniqueness of what each of these roles has to offer.

The Good, the Bad and the Ugly, #4 of 5, #3342

Brenda Spina, M.S., LMFT, LPC

Various authors have discussed and creatively labeled the roles each individual may play in the overall functioning of the family. No author has defined or discussed these roles as thoroughly as Sharon Wegscheider-Cruse. Based on her research of the alcoholic family, these roles provide tremendous helpfulness and hurtfulness to family relationships. These programs integrate Scripture and it's focus on unity and diversity in the family of God with each of these roles. Join Brenda Spina and Lynda Savage as they discover the uniqueness of what each of these roles has to offer.

The Good, the Bad and the Ugly, #5 of 5, #3343

Brenda Spina, M.S., LMFT, LPC

Various authors have discussed and creatively labeled the roles each individual may play in the overall functioning of the family. No author has defined or discussed these roles as thoroughly as Sharon Wegscheider-Cruse. Based on her research of the alcoholic family, these roles provide tremendous helpfulness and hurtfulness to family relationships. These programs integrate Scripture and it's focus on unity and diversity in the family of God with each of these roles. Join Brenda Spina and Lynda Savage as they discover the uniqueness of what each of these roles has to offer.