Encouragement for You

Rodney Love and Shelley Komoszewski are gifted encouragers who have been through adversity themselves and know how to face it successfully. They join join Encouragement for You host Don Hawkins to unpack three biblical strategies for facing and overcoming adversity.   Discover more Christian podcasts at lifeaudio.com and inquire about advertising opportunities at lifeaudio.com/contact-us.

Dr. Michael Smalley is the founder and CEO of the Smalley Institute of Ft Worth Texas.  Mike is a relationship authority, the son of world-renowned marriage guru the late Dr. Gary Smalley, and he joins Encouragement for You host Don Hawkins to discuss the difference between how modern culture views men and the Biblical perspective on manhood. Discover more Christian podcasts at lifeaudio.com and inquire about advertising opportunities at lifeaudio.com/contact-us.

Bill Hendricks is the Executive Director of the Hendricks Center for Christian leadership at Dallas Theological Seminary. He is also the co-founder and president of the Global Center for Giftedness. In today’s Encouragement for You Podcast, Bill and host Don Hawkins discuss Bill’s book, The Person Called YOU: Why You're Here, Why You Matter & What You Should Do with Your Life..  Discover more Christian podcasts at lifeaudio.com and inquire about advertising opportunities at lifeaudio.com/contact-us.

For many couples, adoption may be the only way to grow their family, for others it represents another option. From their own experience adopting their daughter, Dr. Greg and Erin Smalley discuss adoption with host Don Hawkins Has anyone ever told you that you’re too busy? According to Host Don Hawkins, he hears that criticism from time to time, and that’s the topic he discusses with Dr. Greg and Erin Smalley. Discover more Christian podcasts at lifeaudio.com and inquire about advertising opportunities at lifeaudio.com/contact-us.

Most of us are finding life to be complex these days with all the electronic gadgets and methods of communication. Dr. Greg Smalley is the vice president for families of Focus on the Family and his wife Erin is a christian therapist. You’ll find their recommendations for simplifying your life to be helpful. Without question all of us are growing older and many of us have questions about aging. In this segment the late christian psychiatrist Dr. Frank Minirth answers listener questions on this important subject.  Discover more Christian podcasts at lifeaudio.com and inquire about advertising opportunities at lifeaudio.com/contact-us.

For almost two weeks, people across Iran have taken to the streets to express their profound anger about the continued daily suffering experienced by so many in the country.Becky Lucas of SAT-7, a ministry using Satellite television and interactive internet to reach the people of the Middle East and North Africa with the Gospel’s message, joins Don Hawkins with the remarkable ‘rest of the story’—involving people coming to Christ!  Discover more Christian podcasts at lifeaudio.com and inquire about advertising opportunities at lifeaudio.com/contact-us.

John Coleman is a pastor, life coach, and psychologist.  He joins host Don Hawkins to discuss dealing with depression. Have you found yourself exhausted recently? Todd Nevins is a christian life coach and pastor and he offers encouragement for those who feel exhausted.   Discover more Christian podcasts at lifeaudio.com and inquire about advertising opportunities at lifeaudio.com/contact-us.

Most of us have overspent on Christmas gifts and entertaining at the holidays at times. For many years Bettye Banks served as vice president of consumer credit counseling service, and she and host Don Hawkins provide answers for those post-holiday financial stresses.  Often times, it doesn’t take very long to find ourselves breaking those New Year’s resolutions. Christian life coach Rodney Love provides some practical suggestions in the upcoming conversation with host Don Hawkins. Discover more Christian podcasts at lifeaudio.com and inquire about advertising opportunities at lifeaudio.com/contact-us.

The Christmas season is an incredibly busy time, and when you add in financial pressure and potential conflicts with relatives there’s a potential for holiday stress to lead to burnout.  John Coleman specializes in helping people as a pastor, certified life coach and therapist.  He joins host Don Hawkins with help for overcoming holiday stressing burnout.  The theme of holiday stress continues in part two of the episode as Don responds to listeners who have called in.  Discover more Christian podcasts at lifeaudio.com and inquire about advertising opportunities at lifeaudio.com/contact-us.

SAT-7 is a ministry devoted to sharing the gospel of Christ and Biblical teaching in 27 countries in the Middle East and North Africa through satellite television and interactive internet. In this episode of our podcast, veteran missionary Dennis Wiens joins host Don Hawkins to talk about SAT-7’s 30 year legacy  Discover more Christian podcasts at lifeaudio.com and inquire about advertising opportunities at lifeaudio.com/contact-us.

Dr. Gene Getz has written a number of timely Christian books but if you ask him, he would say his greatest contribution to the Christian community is the Life Essentials Study Bible.  In this episode of our podcast Gene and host Don Hawkins explore the importance of following the instructions in Ephesians 5 to put on love and appropriately deal with anger. Discover more Christian podcasts at lifeaudio.com and inquire about advertising opportunities at lifeaudio.com/contact-us.

For many years people have identified longtime Chick-fil-A CEO Dan Cathy with business and leadership. Dan is also an accomplished musician, and on our first segment of today’s podcast, Dan joins host Don Hawkins to talk about the value of music. In part two, Toni Branyon of Lifeshape, an organization founded by Chick-fil-A, joins host Don Hawkins with words of encouragement and help for breaking the cycle of spiritual poverty. Discover more Christian podcasts at lifeaudio.com and inquire about advertising opportunities at lifeaudio.com/contact-us.

For years, Christian psychiatrist Dr. Frank Minirth answered listener questions on live call-in radio on subjects like clinical depression. That’s what we’ll listen to with host Don Hawkins in segment one of today’s podcast. Missions authority Steve Saint grew up on the mission field, and devoted his life to motivating people to fulfilling the great commission. Steve and host Don Hawkins discuss putting the ‘go’ into gospel. Discover more Christian podcasts at lifeaudio.com and inquire about advertising opportunities at lifeaudio.com/contact-us.

People all over the world, including children, need to hear about the love of Jesus and how they can come to know and trust him as Savior. Becky Lucas works with SAT-7, a satellite television ministry to the Middle East and North Africa. She joins Encouragement for You host Don Hawkins to talk about how their ministry is reaching out to children in the Middle East and North Africa with the gospel.  Discover more Christian podcasts at lifeaudio.com and inquire about advertising opportunities at lifeaudio.com/contact-us.

According to Shelley Komoszewski, everybody talks about culture these days, but few people know how to define it. Shelley and host Don Hawkins discuss what culture is and how we should respond to it.   Discover more Christian podcasts at lifeaudio.com and inquire about advertising opportunities at lifeaudio.com/contact-us.

Many people today, even Christians, are living lives in the negative case. But according to Christian life coach John Redd of the Hope Speaks clinic, it is not only possible but important for Christians to experience joy and hope in their lives. John talks about experiencing hope and joy with  host Don Hawkins Discover more Christian podcasts at lifeaudio.com and inquire about advertising opportunities at lifeaudio.com/contact-us.

The late Dr. Frank Minirth co-authored the best selling book on depression titled Happiness is a Choice. In our first segment he an host Don Hawkins Unpack the important subject of dealing with depression.  Depression and anxiety both cause great difficulty for any people today. Christian psychologist Dr. Gary Oliver has authored a number of books on the subject. He and host Down Hawkins Discuss the subject of overcoming anxiety and worry.  Discover more Christian podcasts at lifeaudio.com and inquire about advertising opportunities at lifeaudio.com/contact-us.

Dallas Theological Seminary takes the position that Israel has a future in God’s Prophetic Program. Seminary president Dr. Mark Yarbrough recently joined Encouragement for You Host Don Hawkins to talk about Israel’s place in prophecy.  Discover more Christian podcasts at lifeaudio.com and inquire about advertising opportunities at lifeaudio.com/contact-us.

Many books have been written on the subject of leadership but few people have applied leadership principals the way Dan Cathy did during the years he served as CEO of Chick-fil-a.  In our first segment Dan and host Don Hawkins discuss lessons in leadership.  Most of would agree that life today is stressful and certified Christian life coach Rodney Love has helped many stressed out individuals. Rodney and host Don Hawkins offer solutions for dealing with stress.  Discover more Christian podcasts at lifeaudio.com and inquire about advertising opportunities at lifeaudio.com/contact-us.

These days it seems we all live at a fast pace, which tends to produce its share of worry and fear. Brian Nelson of SAT-7 recently joined Encouragement for You host Don Hawkins to talk about an alternative approach to living, based on what Jesus taught in the sermon on the Mount. Discover more Christian podcasts at lifeaudio.com and inquire about advertising opportunities at lifeaudio.com/contact-us.