Most people who divorce remarry at some point in time and one of the results is frequently a blended family of step and biological siblings (sometimes described as “yours, mine and ours”).   Divorce and the challenges of living in blended families are one of the most significant and common problems of the world today.  And, the divorce rate among Christian families equals the divorce rate in non-christian homes.  While we may lament this fact, it remains a fact and all blended families struggle with these blended relationships. 

Wise People will focus on blended family challenges and solutions for the next two weeks.  This week my guest is Rebecca Snell, who with her husband ministers to blended families to help them thrive.   The following week my guest will be Dan Snell, Rebecca’s husband.

Have you ever struggled with serious depression?  I’m talking about the kind of depression that just paralyzes you and presents feelings that life is not worth living.  The kind of depression that leaves you without joy and without hope.  My guest today is an 84 year old man who suffered this kind of depression for the first 50 years of his life.  It was caused by an abusive father and some horrifying experiences he lived through in World War 2.  Lawrence “Corky” Smith joins us on Wise People this Saturday to talk about his life and how his two sons led him to Christ when he was 50 years old.

There is a crisis of truth in the modern American church characterized by doctrinal disunity.  The cause may be tracked back to Satan’s ancient deception whereby he moves to confuse God’s people and the world about the truth of what God has said.  His strategy is revealed at the very fall of man when he engaged Eve with the question: “(Gen 3:1) Now the serpent was more subtil than any beast of the field which the LORD God had made. And he said unto the woman, Yea, hath God said, Ye shall not eat of every tree of the garden?”

God had not said what Satan suggested and that caused Eve to start thinking and opened the door to doubt and disobedience.  Satan continues to use this same strategy today.  My guest on Wise People for the next two weeks: July  July 31st and August 7th is Dr. Elizabeth K. Best.  You won’t want to miss her critical analyis of the modern challenge to God’s word.

I am always amazed at the changing power of faith.  My guest on Wise People this week is a perfect example of how God is able to reach out and touch troubled people and radically transform their lives.  James was a hardened herion addict from his teen years who would up in jail with no hope.  Then, he heard a transforming message about the forgiveness of sin and God’s redemptive work in Christ.  It changed his heart, his life and his entire existence.  Tune in to hear this great story this Saturday morning.

I hope you listened to the program last week and caught Dan Edelen talking about why the Church in America is losing the culture wars.  This week we continue our conversation with Dan and explore what he calls “Real Evangelism”  What does it take to win someone to Christ?  How can all of us be evangelists as we walk through life. 

 See you this Saturday for more on Wise People.

Why do Christians seem to be losing the culture wars in the United States?  Where is the church failing in its reponsibility to make disciples of Jesus Christ? My guest this week is a fascinating man named Dan Edelen.  Dan is a layman who is not only a compentent Bible student but also a very critical thinker.  He’s going to be with me for the next two weeks exploring the state of the church and offering what he believes we all need to be doing to reestablish a vibrant, faithful church in America.

In 1967 a young girl was at school when she and her brothers and sisters were called to the school office.  They were all driven from school back to their home where they learned that their father had murdered their mother and then taken his own life.  For many years Val Henderson struggled with hate and anger toward the father she vowed never to forgive.  But, the Lord intervened in her live and she ultimately forgave him.  Tune in this Saturday to here Val’s touching and tragic story.

My guest this Saturday is Jon Couch.  Jon is an evangelist with This Day Ministries and is a frequent guest on Wise People.  This week we will be discussing the state of the American Church and the adversity many believers are experiencing in the current economy.

My guest this Saturday is Fara Caudle.  Fara authors a blog called the Berean Wife.

One of the major issues in the church today is the biblical knowledge of it’s lay members as well as the tendency for people to rely more on personal experience and feelings than the scriptures.  Fara discusses why it is so important that we all become more like the Bereans mentioned in the book of acts, who “searched the scriptures to see if it was so”.