While most do not experience motherhood as a crisis, every mother has experienced periods of weariness, frustration, regrets – and shame because we just don’t feel like we’re enough for the tasks at hand. In this conversation with Sharon Betters and Melissa Weisenfels, Christina Fox, a mother herself, encourages us that there is minute by minute help and hope for mothers, no matter what season of life. Christina has a special love for mothers struggling to find hope in those especially hard days and shares her love in her book Sufficient Hope, Gospel Meditations and Prayers for Moms.

Parenting, EmotionsMARKINC MinistriesJanuary 7, 20202020, 4th 30Comment

Motherhood and Its Idols

How can good parenting motives turn into idols? What should we do when we discover that our motives for doing good things for our kids just might be wrong? In this conversation, Christina Fox addresses these parenting concerns and much more.

ParentingMARKINC MinistriesApril 18, 20192019, 3rd 30Comment

Miscarriage: Deeply Traumatic, Tragically Common

In this conversation,Jessalyn Hutto brings hope to women who grieve the loss of their children through miscarriage. She offers a priceless gift to those women coming behind her who have experienced such deep loss. Jessalyn reminds listeners that Jesus cares very deeply about every child who is lost to miscarriage and He cares very deeply about every mother who is deprived of that life.

Grief, ParentingMARKINC MinistriesMarch 1, 20192019, 3rd 30Comment

The Gift Of Tim, Parenting Our Adult Son With Down Syndrome

In this free flowing conversation Stephanie Hubach’s joy in parenting son, twenty-five year old Tim, who has Down Syndrome shines through. Steph admits to a chronic grief that can pop up even in the middle of joyful fun with Tim. Steph speaks directly to those parents struggling to see any joy in their own parenting of a child with special needs and encourages them to freely determine the best way for them to function as a family.

Parenting, Special NeedsMARKINC MinistriesJuly 6, 20183rd 30, 2018Comment

My Son with Down Syndrome & Brain Injury: Parenting Joseph

For over twenty plus years Sue and her husband have parented three sons, one of whom was born with Down Syndrome and a brain injury. Joseph will never care for himself in any way. He is totally dependent on his parents for his well being. In this conversation, you will hear the story of a mother who is filled with the hope and leans into her Lord for wisdom and strength.

Parenting, Special Needs, CaregivingMARKINC MinistriesJune 14, 20182018, 3rd 30Comment

Surviving A Tsunami of Grief: A Conversation with Andrea Maher

Her oldest son’s battle with drug addiction ended when drug induced hypothermia took his life. Several years later, her youngest son made a decision that would forever change his life and resulted in imprisonment. How does a mother not just survive but find hope and joy when a tsunami of grief repeatedly slams her deeper into an abyss of sorrow?

Addiction, Grief, Parenting, Addressing SinsMARKINC MinistriesApril 19, 20182018, 3rd 30Comment

Finding Freedom In The Rough Pathways Of Life

Renee Dixon compares her life as a widow, single mom, and small business owner with mounting bills to climbing a hard, rocky pathway filled with gnarled roots. She describes how she learned to grasp those roots as a means to pull herself along the hard road of life that sometimes felt impossible to travel. Those gnarled roots along the pathway helped shape Renee into a woman whose own determination, endurance and grit encourages the very people she is called to serve.

Parenting, Special Needs, Warrior WomanMARKINC MinistriesOctober 6, 20172017, 2nd 30Comment

Helping Your Teens With Same-Sex Attraction

How does a parent help a child navigate sexuality when so many forces come against a biblical worldview? This interview offers practical help so that parents can respond with confidence and wisdom as they help their children understand sexual integrity in a sexually broken world.

Parenting, Addressing SinsMARKINC MinistriesMay 5, 20172017, 2nd 30Comment

The Thorn of Autism

Nearly aborted, graciously adopted and later abandoned, Lori Sealy has traveled the road of atheism and lived a life of autism. Lori was diagnosed with Autism as an adult and not long after that diagnosis learned her son had autism as well. In this interview, parents of a young man who has autism ask Lori the questions burning in the hearts of other parents with high functioning children that struggle every day with the "thorn of autism."

Special Needs, ParentingMARKINC MinistriesApril 21, 20172017, popular, 2nd 30 Comment

Raising Victoria – A Daughter With Down Syndrome And Life Threatening Cancer

Within hours after Victoria’s birth, Karen and her husband learned that their third daughter had Down Syndrome. Though initially frightened by this news, Karen and her family’s love for Victoria grew deeper as they recognized the awesome privilege of raising such a precious daughter.

Special Needs, Warrior Woman, Parenting, IllnessMARKINC MinistriesMarch 17, 20172017, popular, 2nd 30Comment

Raising Sexually Healthy Kids

The world’s culture is continually pushing an anything goes sexuality on our children. What’s a parent to do in order to help their children navigate their sexuality, social media, the ever present temptation of pornography, the continuous bombardment of our sexually explicit culture. In this Help and Hope resource, Dr. Betters and Sharon interview Dan and Heather Wilson.

ParentingMARKINC MinistriesMarch 3, 20172017, 2nd 30

Adoption: Acknowledging the Primal Wound

This resource will help adoptive families enjoy the blessings and struggles of adoption. This compelling interview is designed to equip adoptive parents and adopted children to better understand the “primal wound” that some adopted children experience.

ParentingMARKINC MinistriesFebruary 6, 2014Adoption, Children, Library Block, Teens, 1st 30Comment

Stillbirth: From Empty Arms to Hope and Healing

Days away from the joy of holding their first child, Bill and Michelle feel their world crumbling as the doctor’s words settle in to their souls, “There is no heartbeat.” Justin and Carrie look forward to welcoming their second child into their home when their doctor gives them the same horrific news. Two couples, two responses to loss that seems almost impossible to bear.

Grief, ParentingMARKINC MinistriesSeptember 24, 2013Library Block, 1st 30Comment

Autistic Spectrum Disorder: Speaking Hope

In this one hour long interview two sets of parents share how they learned their children had a form of autism. The vulnerability of these families will help equip other parents as they navigate the foreign land of autism. They discuss how having an autistic child affected their marriage, other siblings and much more.

Special Needs, ParentingMARKINC MinistriesSeptember 1, 2008Autism, Special Needs, Children, Library Block, Teens, 1st 30Comment