This week on Family Policy Matters host Traci DeVette Griggs welcomes Adam Holz Director at Plugged In and co-author of Becoming a Screen-Savvy Family How to Navigate a Media-Saturated World--And Why We Should to discuss how parents can create healthy media habits for themselves and their children [... more]

Adam Holz and Paul Asay from Focus on the Family's Plugged In team equips you to guide your family to make healthy media choices They explain what the Bible says about entertainment and how to engage with and teach your kids discernment when it comes to what they are watching and playing It's a great conversation you won't want to miss Receive the book Becoming a Screen-Savvy Family and the audio download of the broadcast Becoming Screen Savvy As a Family for your donation of any amount Plus receive member-exclusive benefits when you make a recurring gift today Your monthly [... more]

Ever drive away from home and had that nagging feeling you might have left the stove on Or you forgot to lock a door Or you left a curling iron plugged in If you don't go back and check you start thinking of how things could go horribly wrong We want to be sure about certain things don't we Well today on A NEW BEGINNING Pastor Greg Laurie helps us check ourselves when it comes to the sincerity of our faith in Christ When it comes to matters of eternity close enough isn't close enough Listen on harvest org --- [... more]

My mother rsquo s shiny red cross should have been hanging next to her bed at the cancer care center And I should have been preparing for holiday visits between her scheduled treatments All I wanted for Christmas was another day with my mom Instead I was home hanging her cross on a fake tree When my son Xavier plugged in the lights I whispered ldquo Thank You rdquo He said ldquo You rsquo re welcome rdquo My son didn rsquo t know I was thanking God for using the flickering bulbs to turn my eyes toward the ever-enduring Light [... more]

Dr Robert Epsteinm joins Pastor Greg to discuss the manipulation and indoctrination evidence that his team has compiled AmericasDigitalShield com Also a brand new project never before unveiled to the public MyMorals org introduces the most comprehensive analysis of the state of marality in America and uses the resuklts of moral leaders from acrtoss the nation [... more]

Episode Adriel Sanchez and Bill Maier answer caller questions Show Notes CoreChristianity com Questions in this Episode If Adam and Eve sinned by eating the fruit of the Tree of Knowledge and Good and Evil is it a sin to pray about knowledge to gain knowledge I know there is a difference between knowledge and wisdom The church I grew up in was extremely aggressive in the way it talked about judgment and the truth of the Bible as opposed to the ways of the world I left the church for a time mainly because of this but am plugged [... more]

Ever drive away from home and had that nagging feeling you might have left the stove on Or you forgot to lock a door Or you left a curling iron plugged in If you don't go back and check you start thinking of how things could go horribly wrong We want to be sure about certain things don't we Well today on A NEW BEGINNING Pastor Greg Laurie helps us check ourselves when it comes to the sincerity of our faith in Christ When it comes to matters of eternity close enough isn't close enough Listen on harvest org --- [... more]

The gospel is the power for the Christian life And like a lamp you can't shine for Jesus unless you're plugged in But what does that plugging in look like on a practical level [... more]

Do your kids have an addiction to social media Author Jonathan McKee addresses the dangers and how to engage your kids Show Notes and Resources Find resources from this podcast at shop familylife com Find more content and resources on the FamilyLife's app Help others find Familylife Leave a review on Apple Podcast or Spotify Check out all the Familylife's on the FamilyLife Podcast Network [... more]

Episode Adriel Sanchez and Bill Maier answer caller questions Show Notes CoreChristianity com Questions in this Episode What do you think about the Azusa St Revivals and how those events impacted the modern church today I was formerly brought up in the Prosperity Gospel and the Word of Faith movement In these movements they claimed that God never wants us to be sick and that we have the power to rebuke sickness Now that I am out of that movement I am wondering do I pray for healing from sickness in a biblical way I am a backslidden Christian and [... more]

Episode Adriel Sanchez and Bill Maier answer caller questions Show Notes CoreChristianity com Questions in this Episode If Adam and Eve sinned by eating the fruit of the Tree of Knowledge and Good and Evil is it a sin to pray about knowledge to gain knowledge I know there is a difference between knowledge and wisdom The church I grew up in was extremely aggressive in the way it talked about judgment and the truth of the Bible as opposed to the ways of the world I left the church for a time mainly because of this but am plugged [... more]

Plugged In media analyst Jonathan McKee provides research-based insights on the impact of the digital world on children and offers parents guidance for setting safe healthy boundaries for their kids' screen time Get Jonathan's book Parenting Generation Screen for your donation of any amount https donate focusonthefamily com don-daily-broadcast-product- - - refcd Get more episode resources https www focusonthefamily com episodes broadcast understanding-your-teens-digital-world featured-resource-cta If you've listened to any of our podcasts please give us your feedback https focusonthefamily com podcastsurvey [... more]

Episode Adriel Sanchez and Bill Maier answer caller questions Show Notes CoreChristianity com What do you think about the Azusa St Revivals and how those events impacted the modern church today I was formerly brought up in the Prosperity Gospel and the Word of Faith movement In these movements they claimed that God never wants us to be sick and that we have the power to rebuke sickness Now that I am out of that movement I am wondering do I pray for healing from sickness in a biblical way I am a backslidden Christian and want to get plugged [... more]

Offering hope to those struggling with depression Plugged In's Paul Asay discusses his own battle with this affliction and the healing he's experienced through his relationship with Jesus Christ Get Paul's book Beauty in the Browns Walking With Christ in the Darkness of Depression for your donation of any amount https store focusonthefamily com singleitem checkout donation item don-daily-broadcast-product- - - Get more episode resources https www focusonthefamily com episodes broadcast walking-through-depression featured-resource-cta If you've listened to any of our podcasts please give us your feedback https focusonthefamily com podcastsurvey [... more]

In men drilling for coal in central Indiana thought they had found the gates of hell Historian John Barlow Martin reports that at six hundred feet ldquo foul fumes issued forth amid awesome noises rdquo Afraid they had ldquo bitten into the roof of the devil rsquo s cave rdquo the miners plugged the well and scurried back to their homes The miners of course were mistaken mdash and some years later they would drill again and be rich in natural gas Even though they were mistaken I find myself a little jealous of them These miners lived with an [... more]

Kevin Keatts joined The Drive with Josh Graham to talk some NC State basketball the proposed ACC-HBCU games to be played on MLK day and more nbsp [... more]

This week on Family Policy Matters NC Family President John L Rustin speaks with Paul Asay an award-winning journalist who currently serves as senior associate editor at Plugged In They discuss his new book When Parenting Isn't Perfect which he co-wrote with Focus on the Family president Jim Daly to encourage parents to embrace the messiness of parenthood and to show grace to children [... more]

NC Family president John Rustin talks with Bob Waliszewski director of Focus on the Family's Media and Culture Department and PluggedIn com about some of the new movies being released this summer and how we can determine whether they are truly family-friendly [... more]