Lisa is the director of young adults for Focus on the Family and manages Boundless, Focus’ ministry for young adults. She talks about a number of things related to celebrating Christmas such as ideas about managing spending on Christmas gifts, alternatives to buying gifts, including singles in your family’s celebrations and keeping our focus.

Pastor Chris Swain started a book about discipling our kids that he wasn’t able to finish when he passed away very unexpectedly last summer. His wife Melissa completed the book called, “Write It On Their Hearts,” and talks about how parents can help their children grow to know Jesus.

Tim Sanford is the Clinical Director of Counseling for Focus on the Family and has some great insights into control and the dynamics around it.

Bill High co-authored the book, “A Generous Life — 10 steps to living a life money can’t buy” with the founder and CEO of Hobby Lobby, David Green, several years ago. We’re revisiting a conversation with Bill about living generously.

Kelley Mast is the Compass Director of Family Services and talks about how God is at work through Compass to impact families…and ways every-day families can be involved.

Gina, a singer and songwriter who lives in Nebraska, wrote a book – “Hope Deserves an Anthem: One Creative’s Quest to Bring Light to Life’s Dark Places.” Each chapter highlights one of her songs and gives great encouragement for tough times where you need hope.

Josh, a pastor in Lincoln, shares insights about reprioritizing the lost and about God at work in his life.

Dr. Jeff Myers, president of Summit Ministries, is known as one of America’s most respected authorities on youth leadership development. His latest book is called “Truth Changes Everything: How People of Faith Can Transform the World in Time of Crisis” and talks about that topic.

Austin French, a singer and songwriter, wrote a book about the story of his life in which he shared about leaning into Jesus and how Jesus enabled him to move from heartache to hope. We revisit that conversation this morning.

Wendy wrote “The 40-Day Social Media Fast: Exchange Your Online Distractions for Real-Life Devotion” and talked with us last year about things like social media, the news and other media, and about the challenges and impact of fasting from social media.