Are you feeling anxious and frustrated by the chaos of your family life? Would you like to bring more order and peace to your busy family life? Conor Gallagher has developed a system that helps families bring order, clarity, and freedom into their homes. The Well-Ordered Family is the focus of our discussion with a dad of sixteen, Conor Gallagher, who shares tools that will help in building a family of faith and purpose.

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You can make a positive impact in the life of a child by opening your home to a foster child! On Wednesday's show, Andrea McClean, Licensing Worker and Foster Parent Recruiter at Lutheran Social Services of Illinois, will be with us to talk about the urgent need for foster homes in our community. Andrea will share about the need for loving homes and the many other ways to be a support and help to foster children and their families.

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Every week we invite a community Pastor or Ministry Leader to stop by and share a devotional teaching for our week. Join us this week as Pastor Bryan Savage from Heritage Church in Rock Island guides us through the story of Mary and Martha in the Bible and challenges us with a call to unplug from our busy schedules and sit at the feet of Jesus. If your life is consumed by the urgent things of this world, take a timeout and be reminded of who offers the peace we are seeking.

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How is living by grace similar to a gymnast performing on a balance beam? Bible teacher McKay Caston answers that question and many more with answers from the book of Galatians. McKay takes us through a few of the ten lessons from this letter to the church in Galatia that help to recalibrate and restore our understanding and living out of the gospel. If you believe Christianity to be a rule-keeping religion, you'll be encouraged by this message of freedom and joy!

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When Dr. Paul White started visiting workplaces to teach The 5 Languages of Appreciation in the Workplace, he discovered an interesting pattern regarding negative feedback. That led Paul to do some additional research and begin keeping track of the types of workplaces most frequently referred to as toxic. Paul will join Seth and Deb to reveal the five categories that rose to the top of the list, pointing out the commonalities that add up to a toxic environment and sharing actions to make a positive difference at work.

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How did the ancients test wisdom? One of the ways people in ancient times tested wisdom was the ability to solve riddles. This ability was not only useful for revealing wisdom but also provided entertainment. Dr. Jim Coakley will take us to some of the riddles in Scripture while encouraging us to search out the hidden treasures in God's Word.

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Where is real sexual freedom found? Is culture truthful in its messages on sex, sexuality, and sexual freedom? Cynthia Garrett shares her own story of looking to the culture for her view on sex and sexuality, and how in Jesus she found the true source of sexual freedom and purity. Cynthia longs for parents and grandparents to have those hard conversations with the young people in their lives, helping them to navigate the world of sex and sexuality in a world that grooms them against God's truth as being best for their lives.

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Do you have friends or family that know very little of the Bible and you've been searching for a good overview of the message and themes of Scripture? Pastor and Bible teacher Colin Smith has written Fly Through the Bible which leads readers on a journey of discovery as they take in a big-picture landscape of God's story. Colin joins Seth and Deb to tell us about this new project and how this overview opens the Word of God to those who've never heard or read it.

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