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Parenting Teens: Getting Ready for the Release

What are some of the practical life skills parents can help their teens develop as they anticipate leaving home for the first time? Dennis and Barbara Rainey answer th...

#1 - How Empty is Your Nest? (Part 1) - Mixed Feelings Stirred Up by the Empty Nest

My dear friend Susan Yates and I wrote a book in 2008 about the experience of your last child leaving the nest. This transition from living at home to living in the bi...

#1 - How Empty is Your Nest? (Part 2) - Changing Relationships

My dear friend Susan Yates and I wrote a book in 2008 about the experience of your last child leaving the nest. This transition from living at home to living in the bi...

#2 - Three Essentials For Every Married Woman (Part 1) - Priorities of a Christian Woman

Over the years I’ve spoken to many groups of women of all ages. And over those years I began to see commonalities to all married women regardless of age, number of chi...

#2 - Three Essentials For Every Married Woman (Part 2) - Being a World-Changer

Over the years I’ve spoken to many groups of women of all ages. And over those years I began to see commonalities to all married women regardless of age, number of chi...

#3 - The Art of Being a Wife (Part 1)

One of the advantages of being married for over 40 years is learning the essence of what God designed in me as a woman who is also a wife. Being a married woman is not...

#3 - The Art of Being a Wife (Part 2) - Building Up Your Man

One of the advantages of being married for over 40 years is learning the essence of what God designed in me as a woman who is also a wife. Being a married woman is not...

#3 - The Art of Being a Wife (Part 3) - Praising the Positive

One of the advantages of being married for over 40 years is learning the essence of what God designed in me as a woman who is also a wife. Being a married woman is not...

#3 - The Art of Being a Wife (Part 4) - Embracing the Differences

One of the advantages of being married for over 40 years is learning the essence of what God designed in me as a woman who is also a wife. Being a married woman is not...

#3 - The Art of Being a Wife (Part 5) - Leaning on God

One of the advantages of being married for over 40 years is learning the essence of what God designed in me as a woman who is also a wife. Being a married woman is not...

#3 - The Art of Being a Wife (Part 6) - Being His Helper

One of the advantages of being married for over 40 years is learning the essence of what God designed in me as a woman who is also a wife. Being a married woman is not...

#3 - The Art of Being a Wife (Part 7) - Facing the Storms

One of the advantages of being married for over 40 years is learning the essence of what God designed in me as a woman who is also a wife. Being a married woman is not...

#4 - He is the Stability of Our Times (Part 1) - Keeping Your Focus

Stability is always a need in our souls. It seems though at times of crisis in our lives and in our world to rise to the level of urgency. The psalmist wrote of feelin...

#4 - He is the Stability of Our Times (Part 2) - Teaching Your Kids to Handle Loss

Stability is always a need in our souls. It seems though at times of crisis in our lives and in our world to rise to the level of urgency. The psalmist wrote of feelin...

#4 - He is the Stability of Our Times (Part 3) - The Unchanging Christ

Stability is always a need in our souls. It seems though at times of crisis in our lives and in our world to rise to the level of urgency. The psalmist wrote of feelin...

#5 - Celebrating Advent with Laura Rainey Dries (Part 1) - A Call to Advent

In this podcast I had the privilege of talking with my daughter Laura about memories of Christmases in our home when she was growing up. We also talked about our faile...

#5 - Celebrating Advent with Laura Rainey Dries (Part 2) - Being Still

In this podcast I had the privilege of talking with my daughter Laura about memories of Christmases in our home when she was growing up. We also talked about our faile...

#5 - Celebrating Advent with Laura Rainey Dries (Part 3) - Introducing Your Kids to the Savior

In this podcast I had the privilege of talking with my daughter Laura about memories of Christmases in our home when she was growing up. We also talked about our faile...

#5 - Celebrating Advent with Laura Rainey Dries (Part 4) - His Savior Names

In this podcast I had the privilege of talking with my daughter Laura about memories of Christmases in our home when she was growing up. We also talked about our faile...

#5 - Celebrating Advent with Laura Rainey Dries (Part 5) - Remembering Christ at Christmas

In this podcast I had the privilege of talking with my daughter Laura about memories of Christmases in our home when she was growing up. We also talked about our faile...

#6 - Rebooting Christmas (Part 1) - A Christ-Focused Christmas

In this conversation I talk the dawning realization that the celebration of Christmas in the last few decades has become about everything other than Jesus. The majorit...

#6 - Rebooting Christmas (Part 2) - Jesus, The Reason We Celebrate

In this conversation I talk the dawning realization that the celebration of Christmas in the last few decades has become about everything other than Jesus. The majorit...

#7 - How Pinterest Stole Christmas (Part 1) - Putting Christ First

The celebration of Christmas has become for many women the most stressful season of the year. Pressure mounts to create a magical and memorable never-to-be-forgotten h...

#7 - How Pinterest Stole Christmas (Part 2) - Making Jesus Our Focus

The celebration of Christmas has become for many women the most stressful season of the year. Pressure mounts to create a magical and memorable never-to-be-forgotten h...

#8 - The Season of Gratitude (Part 1) - Forget Not His Benefits

It’s odd how we can be complacent about gratitude and thanksgiving as a way of life but when a chill is in the air and Thanksgiving is around the corner it suddenly is...

#8 - The Season of Gratitude (Part 2) - Cultivating Gratitude in the Heart of a Child

It’s odd how we can be complacent about gratitude and thanksgiving as a way of life but when a chill is in the air and Thanksgiving is around the corner it suddenly is...

#9 - Exalting Easter (Part 1) - Making the Most of Easter

Lent is to Easter what Advent is to Christmas. Listen in to this series to hear more about the meaning and importance of Lent and the supreme importance of Easter. And...

#9 - Exalting Easter (Part 2) - Remembering the Resurrection

Lent is to Easter what Advent is to Christmas. Listen in to this series to hear more about the meaning and importance of Lent and the supreme importance of Easter. And...

#10 - Reclaiming Easter (Part 1) - The Miracle of Easter

In the whole of human experience Easter towers above all other feasts, celebrations, holidays because the cross alone offers forgiveness, restoration and resurrection ...

#10 - Reclaiming Easter (Part 2) - Regaining the High Ground

In the whole of human experience Easter towers above all other feasts, celebrations, holidays because the cross alone offers forgiveness, restoration and resurrection ...

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