Family Shield

If the roof is leaking or the car won’t start, you would get it fixed. How much more important are those nagging problems in your relationships and life? Are those less important even though they impact everything in your life? Here to help us take a breath and to find that peace we miss so much is a professional counselor, Julie Williamson. Listen for yourself AND for the people depending on you.

So many holidays are coming up and so many families are so very divided. Should we see each other? Should we avoid each other? Is there another way? Is there a way forward together? Today, we get to share the blessing of a chat with a professional counselor, Dr. Jeremy Ruckstaetter, to bridge those canyons before Thanksgiving. Listen for yourself AND for the people depending on you.

My Mind Won’t Stop Thinking about That! Trauma keeps our mind busy, especially in the quiet times and when we are just trying to sleep. To help you taste and experience freedom from the rumination from trauma, we are sharing this chat with professional counselor, Chrissy Stergos. If you are freed from your trauma, you are a greater blessing to the shield wall we are called to hold for those around us. Listen for yourself AND for the people depending on you.

Help! My Check Engine Light Is On! After being a US Navy Drummer, God led Dr. Jeremy Ruckstaetter into full-time ministry to do full-time counseling. From his vast experience as both a counselor and as a professor, we are delighted to share this conversation to help you hold your spot on the shield wall. Here is a call to no longer ignore those little signs that something is wrong… and how to get out of those ruts.

Uh oh… you have found yourself teaching ADULTS… AT CHURCH! Those adults and their children and grandchildren depend on YOU getting it right! How do you not drop the ball? How do you hold your spot on the shield wall? We are delighted to share this chat with Laura Langhoff Arndt, a Director of Christian Education and a lifetime learner, here to help us be a blessing to our listeners and to those who depend on them. Enjoy this chat and check out her website, www.carpentersministrytoolbox.com, for you and for the people we are called to protect and inspire.

Congregations and individuals can easily get off the rails and spiritually trainwreck, but we don't have to! This is a chat that we were able to have with Rev. Dr. Pres. Lee Hagan, President of the Missouri District of the LCMS, to help us see the ways that our faiths and our congregations can thrive because it is no mystery, but it is so easy and so simple. Check out his book, Faithful, Hopeful, and Bold: Encouragement for the Church, and click to listen below for you and for the people we are called to protect and inspire.

Life constantly changes! That alone can cause anxiety and stress, even if we knew the changes were coming, let alone those changes that we did not expect. To build you up and bless the people depending on you, here is our chat with Chrissy Stergos, a professional therapist and counselor, so we can keep trucking on, but with joy, hope, and certainty.

How can we get those kids to listen!? What if learning could be fun? Could it be fun for both the teacher and parent as well as for the children? To help us inspire and reach the next generation, we have BOTH world-famous family psychologist and author Dr. Kevin Leman AND Kristin Leman O’Reilly to inspire and reach us with their new book, Be A Great Teacher By Friday! Click to listen to part two of our interview - for you and for the people we are called to protect and inspire.

How can we get those kids to listen!? What if learning could be fun? Could it be fun for both the teacher and parent as well as for the children? To help us inspire and reach the next generation, we have BOTH world-famous family psychologist and author Dr. Kevin Leman AND Kristin Leman O’Reilly to inspire and reach us with their new book, Be A Great Teacher By Friday! Click to listen for you and for the people we are called to protect and inspire.

Anxiety… we all feel it, we struggle with it, we know people who struggle with it… here is our chat with Julie Williamson, a professional therapist and counselor, who specializes in helping people recognize it, work through it, and help others feel AND ENJOY the freedom of a heart at peace. Click to listen for you and for the people we are called to protect and inspire.

We are celebrating 249 years of the United States of America because so many have risked, given, and offered so much to keep us safe and moving forward. This week, in honor of all our brothers and sisters in the US Military, we are sharing a chat with Lt. Ross Engel, a Chaplain in the US Navy. As a weightlifter and a pastor, he’s not afraid of serving our toughest. Click to listen for you and for the people we are called to protect and inspire.

Your little buddy grew up and is now, somehow, a high schooler! Are they done with you? Do your words make any difference anymore? To help you still have hope and meaningful impact, we asked Laura Arndt to join us again to help us help those who are probably more vulnerable than they have ever been. Click and listen for you and for the people we are called to protect and inspire.

Middle schoolers are so easily hijacked by the craving to fit in and to not stand out, so it is a hard time for them and for their parents. To make sure they have the ability to recognize good influences AND bad influences, we asked Laura Arndt to join us again to give us tips, strategies, and tactics to share the “words of eternal life” with our kiddos so that God’s Word can be a treasure for them as well. Because children are so important and at so much risk, now more than ever, come, listen in for you and for the people we are called to protect and inspire.

Families are either growing closer to God and each other or they are growing farther apart... there is no coast or pause button. For this chat, Pastor Brandon Larson of Faith Community Church in Las Vegas, Nevada, returns to the mic. As a Discipleship Pastor, he shares practices and habits that help families prosper, grow together, and grow closer to God, forever! These ideas are fun, easy, and powerful. Come, listen, and help us hold the shield wall, together.

Families can easily fall apart, but we can avoid that catastrophe! This time, we chat Pastor Brandon Larson of Faith Community Church in Las Vegas, Nevada. His role as the Discipleship Pastor allows him to see what works for families to stay together... and what does not. It really is simple and not even all that hard. Come, hear how to keep the ones you love most, together.

Based on over 1,500 interviews of people who have had Near Death Experiences, Rev. John Burke has joined us for a conversation about what God is like by those who have met Him before they were bought back to life. Many of these individuals were not Christian, and yet they describe the same God to Whom the Bible introduces us. What is at His heart is so simple and exciting! Come, enjoy hearing more about Who is watching over us now and is waiting for us when our time comes.

Our young adults are the most vulnerable Christians because the world has so much access to them but they do not yet have enough experience to recognize harmful influences. To help them walk well with God, Rev. Dr. Mark Kiessling joins us for this conversation and how we can lead or be part of effective ministry to the Youth under our care, in our congregations and in our own families. Come, join the chat for you and for the people we are called to protect and inspire.

Because our children are so precious to us, we want to tell them everything we know, but that can easily overwhelm them. We asked Laura Arndt to join us again to help us share the “words of eternal life” with our littles so that God’s Word can be treasure for them as well. This is all about enjoying God together with elementary age children for parents, grandparents, teachers, Sunday School teachers, and all who serve our younger sisters and brothers in Christ. Come, join the chat for you and for the people we are called to protect and inspire.

Our bodies are temples of the Holy Spirit, so taking care of these temples is part of our worship of God, especially as the people around us are better off if we are healthy, energized, and engaged. We also need to model healthy behaviors for the little people entrusted to our care. With this conversation, Dr. Robert Lufkin shares healthy nutritional strategies and a dozen diseases we can avoid or make much less likely for us to suffer. Come, join the chat for you and for the people we are called to protect and inspire.

How do you talk to people that are much younger than you, that are facing a world much different than you, but take eternal truths and put it on their level? It's so easy to talk over the heads of our smallest of brothers and sisters, the smallest of people live and are entrusted to our care. So by the end of this short conversation you are going to have a lot more ability to take the phenomenal truths that God has breathed into you, to breathe that into the smallest of people entrusted to our care. Welcome to Family Shield Ministries. I’m Mark Femmel, a pastor in St. Louis. And today we get to chat with childhood education expert extraordinaire, Laura Langhoff Arndt.