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LYH118: How to Discern God’s Presence

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How to Discern God's Presence

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  • Featured Presentation: How to Discern God’s Presence
  • Transformational Resources:

    In this episode, I discuss the following important topics:

    • When I most feel God’s presence
    • What does God’s voice sound like?
    • How to see the everyday signs of God’s leading
    • Why you can’t hear from God alone?
    • and, much much more.

Faith in Focus: “Pray Up, Pay Up”

(Ecclesiastes 5:5, MSG)
“When you tell God you’ll do something, do it—now. God takes no pleasure in foolish gabble. Vow it, then do it. Far better not to vow in the first place than to vow and not pay up.”
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LYH107: How to Create a Porn-Free Home

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Faith in Focus: A Higher Standard (Matthew 5:27)

“You have heard that it was said, ‘You shall not commit adultery.’ But I say to you that everyone who looks at a woman with lustful intent has already committed adultery with her in his heart. If your right eye causes you to sin, tear it out and throw it away. For it is better that you lose one of your members than that your whole body be thrown into hell.”

Featured Presentation: How to Create a Porn-Free Home

Special Guest: Matt Dobschuetz

In this episode, I discuss the following important topics and much more with my special guest:
  • How a porn addiction starts and its dangerous journey
  • The impact of pornography on your home and family relationships
  • How to recover from a porn addiction
  • Protecting your family in a porn-filled culture
  • The spiritual impact of pornography
  • and, much much more.

Some Vital Statistics about pornography among Christians:

The statistics for Christian men between 18 and 30 years old are particularly striking:

  • 77 percent look at pornography at least monthly.
  • 36 percent view pornography on a daily basis.
  • 32 percent admit being addicted to pornography (and another 12 percent think they may be).

The statistics for middle-aged Christian men (ages 31 to 49) are no less disturbing:

  • 77 percent looked at pornography while at work in the past three months.
  • 64 percent view pornography at least monthly.
  • 18 percent admit being addicted to pornography (and another 8 percent think they may be).

Even married Christian men are falling prey to pornography and extramarital sexual affairs at alarming rates:

  • 55 percent look at pornography at least monthly.
  • 35 percent had an extramarital sexual affair while married.

Source: The 2014 survey was commissioned by a nonprofit organization called Proven Men Ministries and conducted by Barna Group among a nationally representative sample of 388 self-identified Christian adult men.

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LYH104: How Our Kids Got Full Tuition Scholarships for College and Yours Can Too

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  • Featured Presentation: How Our Kids Got Full Tuition Scholarships for College and Yours Can Too

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Faith in Focus: Abandon Anxiety

(Joshua 1:9)
“…Have I not commanded you? Be strong and courageous. Do not be frightened, and do not be dismayed, for the Lord your God is with you wherever you go.”.

Featured Presentation: How Our Kids Got Full Tuition Scholarships for College and Yours Can Too

You can position your kids for full tuition scholarships like I did if you make it a priority

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Top 20 Things to do to Get Your Kid’s Their Full Tuition Scholarship

  1. Put them in the most reputable school system that you can reasonably afford
  2. Identify community organizations that offer scholarship programs and/or that have an affiliation with a university scholarship
  3. Set Expectations Early – Academics are your job — Do your job before you do anything else.
  4. Constantly Monitor Academic Status
  5. Teach great study habits
  6. Make sure they do their own work
  7. Get help in core subjects immediately when struggling
  8. Make sure they do their best on the state exams because that drives much of where they are placed as early as elementary school
  9. Challenge the teacher / school system if they are not placed in the top courses for which they qualify
  10. Select the most advanced (Honors and Advanced Placement) courses that your child can handle
  11. Watch their class rank – strive to be as close to the top 10% of the class as possible
  12. Enroll in an SAT/ACT Prep Course / Hire a Private Tutor, if possible and take the SAT 2-3 times
  13. Proactively engage the high school’s guidance counselor to make sure that all forms are submitted well in advance of university deadlines
  14. Obtain stellar recommendations from teachers and community organizations/mentors
  15. Research and identify 5-10 universities with merit scholarship programs
  16. Place and apply to colleges on three tiers (Stretch school, Likely schools, Shoo-in schools)
  17. Apply to the universities early in the application cycle — do not wait until the deadline
  18. Submit FAFSA (Federal Application for Student Aid) ASAP — Don’t wait until the deadline
  19. Pray about it constantly
  20. Monitor and manage friends with whom they spend their time

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LYH103: Top 10 Things Every Parent Needs to Know About Teens and Sex

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  • Featured Presentation: Top 10 Things Parents Need to Know about their Teens and Sex with Special Guest, Jackie Brewton

Faith in Focus: “Let them Come”

“Jesus said, “Let the little children come to me and do not hinder them, for to such belongs the kingdom of heaven.”
(Matthew 19:14)

 

Featured Presentation: Top 10 Things Parents Need to Know about Their Teens and Sex

Special Guest: Jackie Brewton

In this episode I discuss the following important topics and much more with my special guest:

  • The impact of fatherlessness on teen sex
  • How to connect emotionally with you your child
  • Why boys need to learn sex refusal skills
  • What parents need to focus more on than teen pregnancy and, much much more!
Top 10 Things Parents Need to Know 
  1. Build a positive emotional connection with your children
  2. Set clear boundaries
  3. Avoid the gender double standard
  4. Teach your sons refusal skills
  5. Stress the rewards more than the consequences
  6. Educate yourselves on sexually transmitted diseases and how they spread
  7. Help your children set positive goals and aspirations
  8. Be honest with them about your own experiences
  9. Recognize how important fathers are in the lives of their children
  10. Practice unconditional love

If you have any questions, just leave it in the comments for this episode or leave a voicemail on my website

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LYH102: Five Daily Prayers to Say Over Your Children

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  • Featured Presentation: Five Daily Prayers to Say Over Your Children
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Faith in Focus: Abandon Anxiety

(Philippians 4:6)
“Do not be anxious about anything, but in every situation, by prayer and petition, with thanksgiving, present your requests to God”.

 

Featured Presentation: Five Daily Prayers to Say Over Your Children

Payer #1: Pray for Wisdom

(pray that your children have knowledge of what is true or right coupled with just judgment as to action)

  • Proverbs 9:10 “The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom, and the knowledge of the Holy One is insight.”
  • James 3:15 tells us that the Fear of the Lord (is the beginning of wisdom) but it continues…
    • Pure
    • Peaceable
    • Gentle
    • Open to reason
    • Full of mercy
    • Full of good fruits
    • Impartial
    • Sincere
Prayer #2: Pray for Discernment
(pray that your children possess acute of judgment and biblical understanding about all areas of life)
  • (1 Thes 5:21-22) “But examine everything carefully; hold fast to that which is good; abstain from every form of evil.”

Prayer #3: Pray for Favor

(pray that your children receive favor from God and from people in authority)

  • Favor entails acceptance, approval, pleasure (and GRACE)
  •  (Psalm 5:12)  “Surely, LORD, you bless the righteous; you surround them with your favor as with a shield.”
Prayer #4: Pray for Health
(pray that your children be in excellent physical and mental health)
  • (Proverbs 3:24-26) “When you lie down, you will not be afraid; when you lie down, your sleep will be sweet. Have no fear of sudden disaster or of the ruin that overtakes the wicked, for the LORD will be at your side and will keep your foot from being snared.”
Prayer #5:  Pray that they Lead
(pray that your children are leaders in their generation)

 

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