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The Way Home: Bob Lepine on marriage

Bob Lepine joins me on The Way Home podcast to talk about his latest book “Love Like You Mean It: The Heart of a Marriage that Honors God.” Bob has been married for 41 years, and in this conversation we talk about what it takes to have a lasting marriage and the sanctifying work that God does in people through both marriages and singleness. 

This episode of The Way Home Podcast is sponsored by Faithful Counseling. At Faithful Counseling, you’ll find professional mental health counseling from a Biblical perspective. Visit faithfulcounseling.com/wayhome for a 10% discount off your first month.Show Notes

Guest Biography: Bob Lepine is the co-host of FamilyLife Today®, FamilyLife’s nationally syndicated radio program. He is the author of Love Like You Mean It: The Heart of a Marriage That Honors God (2020) and The Christian Husband (1999). Bob is also the on air announcer for “Truth for Life” with Alistair Begg. Bob also serves on the Board of Directors for National Religious Broadcasters. Since 2008 Bob has served as an elder and teaching pastor at Redeemer Community Church in Little Rock, Arkansas. Bob and his wife, Mary Ann have five children and nine grandchildren.

Facebook: @FLTBob
Twitter: @FLTBob
Podcast:  Family Life Today
Book: Love Like You Mean It: The Heart of a Marriage that Honors God

This episode of The Way Home podcast is sponsored by Faithful Counseling. Visit faithfulcounseling.com/wayhome for a 10% discount on your first month’s membership. 

Resisting the Pharisee Temptation on Social Media

From COVID to racial unrest to a divisive political election, there was no shortage of ways in 2020 to trust in ourselves and look down on everyone else. Brands are quick to remind us they’re on the side of science, against racism, and want us to vote. And our social platforms are like modern-day temples where, like the Pharisee, we can clarify multiple times a day that we are not like those grifting public servants. Even at home, we are not immune to displaying our creeds on lawn signs.

For Christians, there is value in letting the world know where we stand, declaring the truth, and being ready to “give a defense to anyone” (1 Pet. 3:15). We shouldn’t hesitate to use our voices to stand up for the vulnerable and against injustice. And yet our words can so easily morph from prophetic witness to Pharisaical tribal signaling. In an era where it has become a cultural rite to declare that we’re on the right side of history on every issue, Christians are not immune to this. We are tempted to broadcast our own righteousness by letting everyone know—on social media, in articles and blogs, even in published books—that we are not like those other kinds of Christians.

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The Way Home: Lysa TerKeurst on forgiveness

Lysa TerKeurst joins me on The Way Home podcast to talk about her own vulnerability about some of the trials and sufferings she has endured. We talk about her latest book “Forgiving What You Can’t Forget: Discover How to Move On, Make Peace with Painful Memories, and Create a Life That’s Beautiful Again” and the forgiveness God put in her heart towards her husband.

This episode of The Way Home Podcast is sponsored by Faithful Counseling. At Faithful Counseling, you’ll find professional mental health counseling from a Biblical perspective. Visit faithfulcounseling.com/wayhome for a 10% discount off your first month.


Show Notes

Guest Biography: Lysa TerKeurst is president of Proverbs 31 Ministries and the New York Times best-selling author of Uninvited, The Best Yes, Unglued, Made to Crave, and 18 other books. Lysa was recently awarded the Champions of Faith Author Award and has been published in multiple publications such as Fox News and CNN online. Additionally, she has appeared on the Today Show as one of the leading voices in the Christian community.

Facebook:  Lysa TerKeurst

Twitter: @LysaTerKeurst

Instagram:  @lysaterkeurst

Website: lysaterkeurst.com

Book: Forgiving What You Can’t Forget

This episode of The Way Home podcast is sponsored by Faithful Counseling. Visit faithfulcounseling.com/wayhome for a 10% discount on your first month’s membership. 

The Way Home: Tara-Leigh Cobble on reading the Bible and myths about our quiet time

Tara-Leigh Cobble joins me on The Way Home podcast to talk about why it’s important to read the Bible, how she struggled (like all of us) to keep on track, what to do if you get off track on your Bible reading program, and some of the myths we have about our quiet time with the Lord. This is a fun conversation with Tara-Leigh Cobble, and I think you’ll enjoy it!

This episode of The Way Home Podcast is sponsored by Faithful Counseling. At Faithful Counseling, you’ll find professional mental health counseling from a Biblical perspective. Visit faithfulcounseling.com/wayhome for a 10% discount off your first month.


Show Notes

Guest Biography: Tara-Leigh Cobble’s zeal for Biblical literacy led her to create and develop an international network of Bible studies called D-Group (Discipleship Group). Every week, over 250 men’s and women’s D-Groups meet weekly in homes and churches around the world to study Scripture. She also writes and hosts a daily radio show called “The God Shot” and a daily podcast called “The Bible Recap” designed to help listeners read and understand the Bible in a year. In just over a year, the podcast has been downloaded nearly 20 million times, and more than 20,000 churches around the world have joined their reading plan to know and love God better.

Facebook: @taraleighcobble

Twitter: @TaraLeighCobble

Instagram: @taraleighcobble

Website: taraleighcobble.com

Podcast: The Bible Recap

This episode of The Way Home podcast is sponsored by Faithful Counseling. Visit faithfulcounseling.com/wayhome for a 10% discount on your first month’s membership. 

The Way Home: Brant Hansen on radio, words, and Asperger’s

Brant Hansen joins me on The Way Home podcast to talk about his journey into radio, his life-long obsession with words, and his experiences with Asperger syndrome and how that interacts with his faith and what has made him an advocate for those who are on the autism spectrum.

This episode of The Way Home Podcast is sponsored by Faithful Counseling. At Faithful Counseling, you’ll find professional mental health counseling from a Biblical perspective. Visit faithfulcounseling.com/wayhome for a 10% discount off your first month.


Show Notes

Guest Biography: Brant Hansen is an author, nationally syndicated radio host, and advocate for healing children with correctible disabilities through CURE International. He’s won multiple “personality of the year” awards for his work on his offbeat and quirky radio show which airs on more than 200 stations. His podcast with his friend and radio producer Sherri Lynn, called “The Brant and Sherri Oddcast,” has been downloaded millions of times. Brant has authored two books, Unoffendable and Blessed are the Misfits, and written for numerous major media outlets on topics as varied as public policy, culture, sports, Asperger’s Syndrome and faith. He and his wife, Carolyn, have two grown children.

Facebook: Brant Hansen Page

Twitter: @branthansen

Instagram: @branthansen

Website: branthansen.com

Book:  The Truth about Us: The Very Good News about How Very Bad We Are

This episode of The Way Home podcast is sponsored by Faithful Counseling. Visit faithfulcounseling.com/wayhome for a 10% discount on your first month’s membership. 

BONUS EPISODE: Jesus the Greatest Character of All

This special episode is a sneak peak of a podcast series I recorded in conjunction with LifeAudio to accompany my book “The Characters of Christmas.” I hope it will serve as a helpful resource for you and your family this Christmas season.

This is a podcast all about the unlikely people caught up in the story of Jesus. But before we get to them, we have to talk about the main character of Christmas: Christ himself.

You can find the whole series at LifeAudio, Apple, Spotify, Google, or your favorite podcasting app. Just search “The Characters of Christmas.”

You can also find my book, “The Characters of Christmas,” here: https://www.danieldarling.com/books/characters-of-christmas/

Christmas During COVID: What the Incarnation Speaks to Our Troubled World

As 2020 careens to a close and we limp into Christmas season, most of us aren’t feeling very jolly. It may be the most wonderful time of the year, but we’re just hoping to make it through December. Preferably with a vaccine.

Few us thought last year when we celebrated the season, that in a year this strange word called COVID would upend so much of our lives. And even as the virus began to spread, none of us thought pandemic Easter would turn into a Corona Christmas. And yet here we are.

It’s been a rough year. Natural disasters. A global pandemic. Racial tension. A divisive election. And probably a dozen other things that would grab headlines in a normal year. Most of us aren’t really feeling. Some of us are mourning deep losses. Every one of the 250,000 plus who have died from COVID has a name and a family and a face. There will be empty spaces at too many tables this year.

“Christmas is just what God ordered for a broken world.”

And the economic pain has been shattering. Lost businesses. Lost jobs. Lost retirement. Kids who assumed a year of school and friends and summer camps and graduation have been forced to spend so much time, in their formative years, staring at a piece of glass, forging community through their cameras.

This Christmas, more than any in recent memory, will mean loneliness, hardship, and pain. For many, Zoom will replace the warmth and hugs and handshakes of the holiday. And yet we Christians might lament, but not despair, for it is precisely in this season that we most need Advent. Christmas is just what God ordered for a broken world.

Here are three timely takeaways from the incarnation of the Son of God for 2020. Read more here:

The Way Home: Jared Moore on kids and culture

Jared Moore joins me on The Way Home podcast to talk about teaching our kids how to think about and embrace pop culture—movies, music, social media, and cultural artifacts. He helps parents walk through and navigate some of these challenges beyond just what is right and what is not right but how we consume cultural artifacts and look in them for themes that relate to biblical truths. 

This episode of The Way Home Podcast is sponsored by Faithful Counseling. At Faithful Counseling, you’ll find professional mental health counseling from a Biblical perspective. Visit faithfulcounseling.com/wayhome for a 10% discount off your first month.


Show Notes

Guest Biography: Jared is the co-author of The Pop Culture Parent: Helping Kids Engage Their World for Christ. He also co-hosts The Pop Culture Coram Deo Podcast (available everywhere). Jared has a Ph.D. in Systematic Theology from The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, and has served in pastoral ministry since 2000. He and his wife Amber have four children. Jared enjoys spending time with his wife, playing games with his children, Batman, the NFL and NBA, and playing the guitar.

Facebook: @AllTruthIsGodsTruth

Twitter: @jaredhmoore

Podcast: All Truth is God’s Truth

Website: jaredmoore.exaltchrist.com

Book: The Pop Culture Parent: Helping Kids Engage Their World for Christ

This episode of The Way Home podcast is sponsored by Faithful Counseling. Visit faithfulcounseling.com/wayhome for a 10% discount on your first month’s membership. 

The Way Home: Gene Getz on ministry and teaching the Bible

Gene Getz joins me on The Way Home podcast to talk about his long years in ministry and what he’s learned from when he started ministry to what ministry is like today. He gives advice for teaching and preaching the Bible, and we talk about his brand new resource with B&H publishers, the CSB Life Essentials Study Bible.

This episode of The Way Home Podcast is sponsored by Faithful Counseling. At Faithful Counseling, you’ll find professional mental health counseling from a Biblical perspective. Visit faithfulcounseling.com/wayhome for a 10% discount off your first month.



Show Notes

Guest Biography: Dr. Gene Getz, Host and teacher of Renewal Radio, is the Chairman Emeritus for CCBT and has been a Senior Pastor, Professor and author of more than 60 books. He has been a church-planting pastor in the Dallas Metroplex since 1972 and has served as an adjunct professor at Dallas Theological Seminary. Gene is President of the Center for Church Renewal and serves as Pastor Emeritus of Chase Oaks Church (formerly Fellowship Bible Church North) in Plano, Texas.

Facebook: @GeneAGetz

Twitter: @GeneAGetz

Instagram: @geneagetz

Website: bibleprinciples.org

New Resource: CSB Life Essentials Study Bible

This episode of The Way Home podcast is sponsored by Faithful Counseling. Visit faithfulcounseling.com/wayhome for a 10% discount on your first month’s membership. 

The Way Home: Alisa Childers on wrestling with your faith and finding answers

Alisa Childers joins me on The Way Home podcast to talk about her book, Another Gospel, and her story of wrestling with doubts about the central claims of Christianity and how she found answers that solidified her faith. She is courageous in taking on false teaching that some Christians are tempted to believe.

This episode of The Way Home Podcast is sponsored by Faithful Counseling. At Faithful Counseling, you’ll find professional mental health counseling from a Biblical perspective. Visit faithfulcounseling.com/wayhome for a 10% discount off your first month.



Show Notes

Guest Biography: Alisa Childers is a wife, a mom, an author, a blogger, a speaker, and a worship leader. She was a member of the award-winning CCM recording group ZOEgirl. She is a popular speaker at apologetics and Christian worldview conferences, including reThink. She has been published at The Gospel Coalition, Crosswalk, the Stream, For Every Mom, Decision magazine, and The Christian Post. Her blog post “Girl, Wash Your Face? What Rachel Hollis Gets Right . . . and Wrong” received more than one million views. You can connect with Alisa online at .

Facebook: @alisachilders

Twitter: @alisachilders

Instagram: @alisachilders

Website: alisachilders.com

Book: “Another Gospel?: A Lifelong Christian Seeks Truth in Response to Progressive Christianity”