Episodes

Oct. 5, 2024

Focus on the Family Weekend: Oct. 5-6 2024

Dr. Kevin Leman helps you to navigate difficult circumstances with your children, encouraging you to respond, rather than react, when they’re hurting. To prepare them for adulthood, it is not helpful to over-protect your chil...
Sept. 28, 2024

Focus on the Family Weekend: Sep. 28-29 2024

Dr. Erwin Lutzer brings his wealth of knowledge to inform you about the culture’s rejection of God, and how the church should respond. He gives a summary of the philosophies that have overtaken the secular world and are even ...
Sept. 21, 2024

Focus on the Family Weekend: Sep. 21-22 2024

Susan Yates is a grandmother who has a gift for creating fun, faith-filled family events. She'll provide practical advice to help you build intentional gatherings with your family. Then comedian John Branyan provides a look a...
Sept. 14, 2024

Focus on the Family Weekend: Sep. 14-15 2024

Are you living life on empty? Licensed counselor Debra Fileta highlights ways to “fill up” physically, emotionally, and spiritually. In a 6-part process that Debra calls “Soul Care,” she goes through the life and rhythms of J...
Sept. 7, 2024

Focus on the Family Weekend: Sep. 7-8 2024

Ron and Opal Erickson discuss the marital struggles they experienced as the result of an affair, and describe how God repaired their marriage. They also talk about their music ministry and their efforts to help heal troubled ...
Aug. 31, 2024

Focus on the Family Weekend: Aug. 31-Sep 1 2024

Matt and Lisa Jacobson believe small, everyday decisions to love your spouse can transform your marriage. They discussed the importance of listening, warmly greeting your spouse, planning quality time together, and refraining...
Aug. 26, 2024

Focus on the Family Weekend: Aug. 24-25 2024

Every marriage goes through some predictable and unavoidable transitions like “baby makes three” and then the “the empty nest”. Other transitions also come along that will significantly impact your time, energy, and your rela...
Aug. 18, 2024

Focus on the Family Weekend: Aug. 17-18 2024

Educational expert Cynthia Tobias explains the three main ways that children learn: auditory, visual and kinesthetic, and the strengths and weaknesses of each style. She also addresses the two main ways that children process ...
Aug. 12, 2024

Focus on the Family Weekend: Aug. 10-11 2024

Based on RVL Discipleship: The Study, Ray Vander Laan shares lessons and personal stories to help listeners develop a passion for evangelism and discipleship. Then Monica Swanson describes how she was reluctant at first, but ...
Aug. 4, 2024

Focus on the Family Weekend: Aug. 3-4 2024

Dr. Bob Paul and Tara Lalonde share their marriage counseling expertise to help couples communicate in a healthy way and build a marriage that is emotionally safe for both people. They offer some of the powerful tools taught ...
Aug. 4, 2024

Focus on the Family Weekend: Jul. 27-28 2024

Based on their book Triggers, Amber Lia and Wendy Speake discuss common external and internal triggers that can make mothers angry. They share their journeys overcoming their own triggers, like when their children disobey and...
Aug. 4, 2024

Focus on the Family Weekend: Jul. 20-21 2024

Based on her book, Encountering Our Wild God, Kim Meeder shares a variety of stories to help listeners get a glimpse of how God’s hand can be seen in the midst of everyday situations. Receive the book Encountering Our Wild Go...
July 14, 2024

Focus on the Family Weekend: Jul. 13-14 2024

Ron and Jody Zappia describe the turbulent early years of their marriage and how God’s grace helped restore their relationship. They share the valuable lessons they learned through that process. Then Greta Eskridge inspires p...
July 6, 2024

Focus on the Family Weekend: Jul. 6-7 2024

In an upbeat and fascinating presentation, Dr. Steve Farrar explains the meaning of Psalm 23 in the context of our roles as sheep who are led by the Good Shepherd, Jesus Christ. Receive the book Gettin’ There for your donatio...
June 22, 2024

Focus on the Family Weekend: Jun 22-23 2024

Often, children act out because they are used to getting attention through bad behavior. Dr. Kevin Leman offers advice to help parents transform their child’s behavior. He discusses the benefits of allowing your kids to learn...
June 15, 2024

Focus on the Family Weekend: Jun 15-16 2024

Often, children act out because they are used to getting attention through bad behavior. Dr. Kevin Leman offers advice to help parents transform their child’s behavior. He discusses the benefits of allowing your kids to learn...
June 8, 2024

Focus on the Family Weekend: Jun 8-9 2024

Young men seem to be floundering quite a bit in today’s culture. Author Brant Hansen has some great ideas to help you take responsibility, find the right kind of ambition, and cast a bigger vision for your life. Then British ...
June 2, 2024

Focus on the Family Weekend: Jun 1-2 2024

Jim Daly welcomes Darryl Strawberry and his wife, Tracy. Darryl recounts his successful days as a major league baseball player and his subsequent problems with substance abuse and bad habits. He had two failed marriages, as w...
May 28, 2024

Focus on the Family Weekend: May 25-26 2024

Dr. Kevin Leman helps you understand how birth order plays a role in the way you interact as a married couple and shares advice on how to manage challenges in your relationship that often stem from your placement in your fami...
May 18, 2024

Focus on the Family Weekend: May 18-19 2024

Curtis Chang dealt with anxiety for a long time before the pressure became too much and he experienced a mental breakdown that led him to change his mentality. He learned that anxiety is not just a problem to solve. Although ...
May 11, 2024

Focus on the Family Weekend: May 11-12 2024

Dr. Randy Schroeder describes practical habits to help couples navigate expectations in marriage, build emotional closeness, and resolve disagreements. Then Jerry Jenkins shares about his creative writing career and the impac...
May 5, 2024

Focus on the Family Weekend: May 4-5 2024

When it comes to instilling character in our kids, the most essential aspect we can teach and model for them is resilience. Dr. Kathy Koch explores the importance of resilience in our lives and how we can nurture that trait i...
April 27, 2024

Focus on the Family Weekend: Apr. 27-28 2024

Jeff and Shaunti Feldhahn urge married couples to talk about their money on a regular basis in order to establish common values, overcome “money fears,” avoid knee-jerk reactions, and build unity in their relationship. Then D...
April 21, 2024

Focus on the Family Weekend: Apr. 20-21 2024

Explaining your beliefs can sometimes be a challenge, especially when opponents say God and science don’t mix. On this two-day Focus on the Family broadcast, Lee Strobel demonstrates how many scholars and academics now say sc...