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Real Answers – Money, Love, and Marriage – 02/01/23

Real Answers – Money, Love, and Marriage – 02/01/23

Finances are often cited as the number-one stressor in marriages. How can money decisions instead become a source of strength for couples?

Christian counselor Christopher Anderson offers Biblical advice on how to keep the “love of money” from interfering with the love in marriage. Rather than trusting one’s own knowledge and viewpoints which feed into our spiritual battles, there are better perspectives through which spouses can honor God, honor each other, and put their household on a more-helpful financial footing.

Hometown Heroes – Julie Chapus – 01/31/23

Hometown Heroes – Julie Chapus – 01/31/23

When Julie Chapus answered her phone, she was unaware that the distraught young woman on the other end would be her first contact with a pervasive human rights issue happening in Rochester — human trafficking.

“Miss Julie’s School of Beauty” is a new outreach for victims of human trafficking. The innovative program provides cosmetology training to empower survivors. The training helps those in the Rochester area and also draws survivors from many other areas.

Meet Julie Chapus, this week’s Family Life Hometown Hero. The founder says Miss Julie’s School of Beauty is an outreach of Christ for Kids Ministries of Rush, New York.

​When a trafficking victim has spent time on the street, they will likely be arrested for the very situation they have been forced into. Even if escape becomes possible, afterward – left with a criminal record – they experience extreme difficulty finding a job that pays a living wage. The school helps one’s past not prevent a beautiful future. Acting on that conviction, we provide survivors and those at risk with an opportunity to earn a cosmetology license and enter into a rewarding career, at no cost to them. Because an state-granted cosmetology license removes the necessity of a background check, graduates are free to pursue an independent living without the necessity of explaining a traumatic history.

Family Life Hometowns – Johnstown, NY – 01/30/23

Family Life Hometowns – Johnstown, NY – 01/30/23

Once was the capital of American steel-making and a major source the barbed wire that shaped the westward expansion, Johnstown, New York, has a hardy history and current population. Soon after its founding by Swiss-German settlers, Johnstown developed as an canal and then railroad hub. The community is famed for floods, rebuilding after the water damage, Clara Barton and the Red Cross.

Mark Webster brings you his conversation with Executive Director Richard Burkert of the Johnstown Area Heritage Association, who shares some Johnstown’s unique story.

 

Capital Connection – Equality Amendment, Legalizing another drug – 01/27/23

Capital Connection – Equality Amendment, Legalizing another drug – 01/27/23

  • What’s not to like about the “Equality Amendment”?
  • A prominent Pro-Lifer on trial in Philadelphia.
  • More key public issues in Pennsylvania and New York.

Christian watchdogs Jason McGuire and Michael Geer discuss the weighty issues in the news from Albany and Harrisburg.  Let’s take a 10-minute, “deep dive” into state politics.

Faith Under Fire – A Case regarding Physician-Assisted Suicide – 01/26/23

Faith Under Fire – A Case regarding Physician-Assisted Suicide – 01/26/23

A pro-life legal battle is underway — this one at the end of lives.

A new state law in New Mexico not only permits physician-assisted suicide, it requires all doctors to share information about physician-assisted suicide. If they do not, doctors opposed to promoting ending lives early can face civil and criminal penalties and risk the loss of their medical licenses. This interferes with their professional judgment for the doctor-patient relationship. The law provides no exceptions for ethical, medical or religious reasons.

The Alliance Defending Freedom brought a First-Amendment lawsuit on behalf of a Christian physicians association and a Christian dentists group. Lathan Watts, vice president for public affairs at A.D.F., tells us how this case addresses sanctity of life, freedom of religion, and freedom of speech.

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