Raising kids is the most honorable thing a person can do, and for many including us, it’s one of the most challenging. We started as foster parents and the training provided was and still is, invaluable. We learned so much from those courses and even more bumping through life...

No matter how much you love your spouse, marriage is challenging. If you don’t pay attention when small problems pop up, they often turn into big problems. For the past eighteen years, and especially the past five, we have employed a far more effective approach to maintaining our marriage,...

Sixth Degree Black Belt, Master Renato Tavares has amassed 9 world championships and 14 Pan Am championships among countless others throughout his over half a century of competing and perfecting his sport of Brazilian Jiu Jitsu. But his greatest success is measured by the lives he has shaped in...

This episode Ana and Terry talk about their transition from training to be competitive athletes to training to be healthier and enjoy a much better quality of life. Now it’s about being fit, capable of doing more, having more energy, more flexibility, and able to keep up with our...

The world is changing rapidly and violence directed at churches, church leaders and congregations has increased over ten times what it was five years ago. Statistically, churches that are protected by visible armed security are far less likely to experience violence compared to those that are not. While we...

I’m really excited to kick off this new podcast Ana is doing with me. We are calling it the Faith-Home-Love Podcast. It’s about being patriotic Christian parents raising our family of four kids in a way we feel is best preparing them for adult life. We already enjoy a...

This show is about men. Men that provide for their families, men that protect others, men that step up and take on the jobs that require far more than showing up and punching the clock. Guys that push themselves well beyond their limits because the situation requires it. Shawn...

Bryan Thomas was a statistic, and then God performed a miracle. He was raised in a violent and dysfunctional home where alcohol and drug use began early and was a family affair. It started when he was a little boy and by the age of 16 he was a...

Sixty years ago when I was a little boy, my grandparents grew most of their food in the garden on their farm. Manure was the fertilizer, and they couldn’t afford pesticides and herbicides, but they had old-fashioned ways of keeping the bugs away. And there were enough kids and...

If I were to tell you a story about a kid who was raised in an abusive home and who was involved in a highly restrictive religion that only served to turn him away from God, and that kid then embraced drugs and alcohol and all the trappings of...