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God designed the family to be the fundamental building block for our churches and our society. We live in a time when the words of the Psalmist are appropriate, "If the foundations are being destroyed, what shall the righteous do”? I believe God is calling us to rebuild these foundations. For “unless the LORD builds the house, those who build it labor in vain.” Psalms 127:1. These podcasts teach how to build a Christian home on the principles of God’s word, with Christ as the cornerstone.
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Help & Hope

MARKINC Ministries

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The Help & Hope Podcast guests address life's darkest circumstances that are often difficult to discuss, yet need to be faced as we help one another walk by faith. These are the real-life testimonies of people who have walked through these experiences and have found their strength in Christ.
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Join Israel and Brook Wayne every month, topics include life, theology, Christian Apologetics, education, family and cultural issues from a Biblical worldview. Israel is an author and conference speaker who often speaks at homeschooling conferences.
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“The Holy Spirit prays for us with groanings that cannot be expressed in words. And the Father who knows all hearts knows what the Spirit is saying, for the Spirit pleads for us believers in harmony with God’s Own will.” (Romans 8:26-27) » Download the Transcript » Subscribe on iTunes The post Podcast 409: The Spirit Helps Us Pray appeared first on…
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Send us a Text Message. Marriage can be difficult under any circumstances, but adding a child with special needs adds a whole new level of challenges. In this wide-ranging conversation Steve Demme, shares his passion for helping build strong marriages, but in particular wants to offer help and hope to fathers, and even more specifically to fathers …
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Send us a Text Message. Paul and Jill Miller welcomed their sixth child, daughter Kim, into their home in 1982. It became apparent at a young age that Kim was behind in her developmental milestones. Kim was also non verbal. Kim was diagnosed as having autism, a diagnosis that was just beginning to be recognized by doctors. Kim’s diagnosis not only …
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“How much more will the blood of Christ, Who through the eternal Spirit offered Himself without blemish to God, purify our conscience from dead works to serve the living God.” (Hebrews 9:14) » Download the Transcript » Subscribe on iTunes The post Podcast 408: Through the Eternal Spirit appeared first on Building Faith and Family.…
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John 6:63, “It is the Spirit Who gives life. The flesh is no help at all. The words that I have spoken to you are spirit and life.” » Download the Transcript » Subscribe on iTunes The post Episode 407: Jesus’ Teaching about the Spirit appeared first on Building Faith and Family.By Podcasts Archives - Building Faith and Family
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Send us a Text Message. Neglect. Rejection. Sin. Conflict. Change. It’s difficult to attend church when you’ve suffered some of your deepest hurts. Megan Hill understands that church can be hard. In this conversation, Sharon Betters and Megan talk about why church hurt can be so devastating, the root of church hurt, people in the scriptures who exp…
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Send us a Text Message. Children raised in the same family sometimes grow up with very different responses to life. Such is the story of Julie Malone and her beautiful daughter, Allie. Julie and her husband, Tim loved their lives as parents and Tim’s ministry to teens. But their idyllic life would take a turn into a foreign land of broken places. J…
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Send us a Text Message. Many people have experienced betrayal, someone violating your trust perhaps by lying, cheating, some kind of abuse, putting their own interests ahead of yours when they promised otherwise. Betrayal affects every part of our hearts, often in ways we don’t understand at first. Some hurts we carry with us to the day we die, the…
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“In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth. The earth was without form and void, and darkness was over the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God was hovering over the face of the waters.” (Genesis 1:1-2) » Download the Transcript » Subscribe on iTunes The post Podcast 405: The Spirit from Genesis to Malachi appeared first on Buildin…
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Send us a Text Message. Did you know 40 million adults suffer from depression, and 4 in 10 US adults have developed high levels of stress and anxiety since the start of the pandemic? 58% of those are young adults. Clearly, we have a mental health crisis in America. In this conversation, Christopher Cook, author of Healing What You Can’t Erase and h…
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Send us a Text Message. Due to generations of hurt in his family, country music singer Ben Fuller turned to cocaine and alcohol at a young age. He got involved in a devastating drug-fueled relationship which led him to understand better, the other side of addiction. And then, he abruptly lost his best friend to a heroin overdose, and his entire out…
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Send us a Text Message. One in four adults are estranged from their parents, so says one 2022 study. According to another study 11% of mothers ages 65 – 75 with two or more grown children were estranged from at least one of them. Most of the time, the seeds for these conflicts were planted during the growing up years of the young adults. Gaye Clark…
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Send us a Text Message. Do these words haunt you: "Mom, Dad, I don't want your rules and morals. I don't want to act like a Christian anymore! And I'm not going to," Barbara Juliani (then Barbara Miller) made this declaration at the age 18. As her father desperately attempted to reason with her, Barbara grew more resentful, choosing a path of immor…
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Send us a Text Message. “So who am I now that there’s only one place at the table….one pillow with a head dent, one towel damp after a shower? There’s only one toothbrush in the holder. The seat is never left up anymore. I can still write Mrs. in front of my name, but I’m no longer in a marriage relationship. You need two people for a marriage, and…
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“We have confidence to enter the holy places by the blood of Jesus, by the new and living way that He opened for us through the curtain that is, through His flesh, since we have a great priest over the house of God, let us draw near with a true heart in full assurance of faith, with our hearts sprinkled.” » Download the Transcript » Subscribe on iT…
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Send us a Text Message. In this wide-ranging interview between two mothers who have experienced the grief of the deaths of their children, Nancy Guthrie transparently answers questions asked by Sharon Betters. From how to push the question “why” through the grid of God’s love and sovereignty to practical counsel for protecting marriages assaulted b…
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Send us a Text Message. Someone has said there are only two sure things in life – death and taxes. While this is meant to be funny, the part about death is true. Each one of us will die, yet not many of us intentionally prepare for that unique part of our journey. In this conversation, Elizabeth Turnage, author of Preparing for Glory, talks to Shar…
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“The life of the flesh is in the blood, and I have given it to you on the altar to make atonement for your souls; for it is the blood by reason of the life that makes atonement.” (Leviticus 17:11) » Download the Transcript » Subscribe on iTunes The post Podcast 398: Passover and the Blood of Jesus appeared first on Building Faith and Family.…
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Send us a Text Message. After trying everything she could to stop her slide into a dark depression, young mother Christine Chappell tearfully told her husband she needed help and admitted herself to a facility. In her book, Midnight Mercies, Walking with God through Depression in Motherhood, Christine describes this heartbreaking season but does no…
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“If anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation. The old has passed away; behold, the new has come.” (2 Corinthians 5:17) » Download the Transcript » Subscribe on iTunes The post Podcast 396: The Account of how Steve was Born from Above appeared first on Building Faith and Family.By Podcasts Archives - Building Faith and Family
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Send us a Text Message. In this moving and sometimes emotional conversation, Sharon Betters talks to Susanna Musser and her friend and counselor, Heidi Scott, about the sudden, accidental death of Susanna’s adopted son, Tommy. Susanna and husband Joe and their entire family welcomed Tommy into their home even though he had severe disabilities. No s…
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Send us a Text Message. Do you have questions about same-sex attraction? Is it wrong? Is it ok? Are you struggling with same-sex attraction personally? Is your child? Chuck and I recently had the privilege of asking these questions and many more of Dr. Rosaria Butterfield, nationally known speaker and author of Secret Thoughts of an Unlikely Conver…
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Send us a Text Message. Pam Benton started noticing small changes in her pastor husband. Though Wilson had retired, he had agreed to serve as interim pastor in another church for eighteen months. Eighteen months turned into five years. Pam’s concerns grew when Wilson started using notes for his sermons. Since both of their mothers had Alzheimers, P…
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Send us a Text Message. Relationships can be so hard and sometimes painful. Are they worth it? What are some of the pitfalls of relationships? How can our expectations of others sabotage our relationships? When someone we care about disappoints us, and they will, what questions should we be willing to ask ourselves to determine how to proceed?How c…
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Send us a Text Message. The week the Covid sheltering in place began, Barbara Thompson and her husband, Mark, moved from Louisiana, where they had lived for most of their lives, to Mississippi. Barbara and Mark desire is to finish and age with grace. They now live near their son and his family. Caregiving for Barbara’s parents was a ministry priori…
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Hebrews 4:12, “The Word of God is living and active, sharper than any two‑edged sword piercing to the division of soul and of spirit, of joints and of marrow, and discerning the thoughts and intentions of the heart.” » Download the Transcript » Subscribe on iTunes The post Podcast 394: Discerning the Heart, and How I Discovered God’s Will for My Wi…
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Send us a Text Message. We all want to be beautiful and successful. Often this desire pushes us off a cliff into concluding we are never enough. And sometimes these feelings lead us into addictions in our pursuit of beauty and success. At least 30 million people of all ages and genders suffer from an eating disorder in the United States. Perhaps yo…
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Send us a Text Message. We live in an anti-aging culture – subtle and not so subtle messages convince us aging is bad – do everything you can to hang on to youth. But no matter how hard we try, our bodies continue to age. Susan Hunt and Sharon Betters co-authored a book, Aging with Grace, Flourishing in an Anti-Aging Culture because we believe our …
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Send us a Text Message. Infertility, ministry conflict, chronic pain – experiencing just one of these life crises can be all consuming. But all of them at the same time – and more? How does a woman not just survive, but thrive? Glenna Marshall, author of The Promise is His Presence, Why God is Always Enough, joins Sharon Betters to share her journe…
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“I will give you a new heart, and a new spirit I will put within you.” (Ezekiel 36:26) » Download the Transcript » Subscribe on iTunes The post Podcast 391: By Every Word #5 Nuggets from Ezekiel & Leviticus appeared first on Building Faith and Family.By Podcasts Archives - Building Faith and Family
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Raising Spiritual Champions – George Barna Raising Spiritual Champions is a long-awaited new book from renowned researcher and bestselling author Dr. George Barna. It is set to release on Sept. 5, and it’s specifically geared to help parents disciple and build the biblical worldview of their children. “I want to wake people up—especially the parent…
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Send us a Text Message. Imagine taking on the responsibility as CEO of a failing business – not just any business but a corporation that was inches from being closed forever. In this conversation, Pastor Chuck L. Betters talks with Skip Schoenhals, the man who led WSFS Financial Corporation from the brink of failure to being the leading independent…
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Send us a Text Message. When Clarissa Moll’s young husband Rob she soon realized she was a crossroads. Would she walk toward hope or slide into hopelessness? In this conversation with Sharon Betters Clarissa answers such questions as: Is there any way to prepare for such a tragedy? Are there stages for grief? What kind of work can grief do in our h…
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Embracing Motherhood – Marilyn Boyer This is an interview with veteran homeschooling mother of 14, author and conference speaker, Marilyn Boyer. Host, Brook Wayne, discusses with Marilyn how Christian mothers can truly embrace motherhood. Beginning in 1980, Marilyn has taught all of her 14 children from kindergarten through high school. Her passion…
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Send us a Text Message. Andrea Herzer, a woman well acquainted with long-term debilitating health issues, having spent the last twenty years with multiple illnesses, including regional pain syndrome and non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma, joins Sharon Betters for this Help & Hope podcast. Numerous times Andrea experienced moments of hope only to have it dashed…
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Send us a Text Message. Abuse, deep loss, broken relationships, grief, self-inflicted pain – is it possible to experience healing from a painful past? Lauren Whitman, author of A Painful Past – Healing and Moving Forward, answers this question and much more. For instance, why would anyone want to dig up their past? Isn’t it better to “let sleeping …
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“From childhood you have been acquainted with the sacred writings, which are able to make you wise for salvation through faith in Christ Jesus.” (2 Timothy 3:15) » Download the Transcript » Subscribe on iTunes The post Podcast 388: By Every Word, #2 appeared first on Building Faith and Family.By Podcasts Archives - Building Faith and Family
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Send us a Text Message. “A silver wave is coming,” says author and speaker Elizabeth Turnage. Baby boomers are facing the hardest challenge of their lives – how to die well. In this conversation with Sharon Betters, Elizabeth challenges listeners to take steps now to make it easier for loved ones after they die. Elizabeth shares how her dad died wi…
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