Encouragement for You
Encouragement for You
Encouragement for You is a weekly podcast designed to give you Christ-centered encouragement to help you face life’s most challenging problems. Each episode features Don Hawkins talking with individuals who can address the specific encouragement needed for relationship challenges, mental health issues like depression and anxiety, achieving financial stability, and much more.Social links:
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What is Biblical Manhood?
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…
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What's Your Giftedness?
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 …
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Are You too Busy?
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 Haw…
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Simplifying your Life
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…
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The Remarkable 'Rest of the Story' in Iran
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 a…
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Recovering from Exhaustion
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.
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Keeping New Year's Resolutions
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 …
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Beating Holiday Burnout
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 H…
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SAT-7's 30 Year Legacy
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 3…
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Love and Anger
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 Ep…
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