How to Help a Friend Who Wants an Abortion
What can you do to help guide your friend away from abortion and toward choosing life for her baby? More than you might think. If you have a ...
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All Life is Valuable II
When it comes to the subject of pre-born babies there is great debate and great emotion. Part of Focus’ role is to better inform and equip our ...
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Saturday, 25th Nov 2023
Find Your Hot-Button Issues to Improve Your Marriage
Couples often unknowingly push each other’s hot-button issues and cause frustrating arguments. Learn how you can stop this reactive cycle. Jenni ...
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When Adult Children Move Back Home
Just when you thought it was safe to enjoy your newly empty nest, your adult child decides to move back in. Here’s how parents and grown children ...
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How boundaries with your extended family can improve your marriage
Recently my daughter got engaged. As the wedding plans started to proceed, confusion escalated over how to meet the expectations and accommodate the ...
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How to set marriage-strengthening boundaries with your spouse
Boundaries are an expression of values. They define what I will do and won’t do; what I allow and don’t allow; what is okay and not okay for me. ...
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When a Loved One Is Addicted
All people have the potential to be mastered by a life-controlling problem. Unexpectedly, a person can be pulled into the downward spiral of an ...
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Saturday, 23rd Sep 2023
Pastors Must Advocate for Their Mental Health
Mental Health Awareness Month is a good reminder that you, pastor, need to advocate for your mental health in a community that will be supportive as ...
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Hope and Help for Anxious Pastors
Suffering puts Christ on display in ways that comfortable living cannot. Enduring pain in ministry makes Jesus shine brighter, which brings more ...
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Living as Sons of Issachar
“The man who is content to sit ignorantly by his own fireside, wrapped up in his own private affairs, and has no public eye for what is going on ...
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Motherhood Sorrows and the Pastor’s Family
Even a faithful, experienced pastor can struggle to know what to say or do when suffering touches his family. For the pastor seeking to lead his ...
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Dear Pastor: Require Premarital Counselling
Many couples enter marriage ill-prepared for the challenges that might come. Premarital counseling allows you to walk alongside couples before they ...
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