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November 14, 2024
Hour 1: Celebrating When You Don't Feel Like It - with Dr. Michelle Bengtson
How do we handle celebrations when depression weighs heavy in our hearts? When participating in celebrations while depressed, it’s easy to turn inward. On Thursday's Mornings with Eric and Brigitte, Dr. Michelle Bengtson, shares 5 ways we can show up for life's special moments, even while coping with depression. Scripture encourages us to weep with those who weep and rejoice with those who rejoice. During these times of celebration, keep your focus on others rather than on your own pain. Consider it a gift for them, knowing that if the tables were turned you’d want them to do the same for you.
5 Tips for Celebrating with Depression
Hour 2: Secrets to a Secure Marriage - with Paul Batura
How can your marriage thrive through those speed-bump moments? What principles, when put into practice, increase happiness and respect in every marriage? Focus on the Family's Vice President of Communications Paul Batura joins us on Thursday's Mornings with Eric and Brigitte to share six key methods you can use to build long-term health and happiness in your marriage. So, if you want to grow deeper in your relationship with your spouse, let's walk through these 6 key principles that can grow a healthy marriage and see what happens in our lives!
Hour 3: The Grumbler's Guide to Giving Thanks - with Dustin Crowe
Trade grumbling for gratitude and experience the joy of the Lord! On Thursday's Mornings with Eric and Brigitte, Pastor Dustin Crowe identifies the biblical foundations of thankfulness and traces how it can reshape everyday Christian living. In The Grumbler's Guide to Giving Thanks, you'll discover how gratitude is pivotal to experiencing the beauty, goodness, and hope of God, and you will find your outlook on life realigned so that you can see the hand of God in everything and want to continue giving thanks to Him.
The Grumbler's Guide to Giving Thanks - Mornings with Eric & Brigitte Book Club/November, 2024
IN THIS EPISODE
Michelle Bengtson
Dr. Michelle Bengtson lives to break the grip of anxiety and fear, foster regeneration, and renew life in her readers and listeners. She frequently speaks from John 10:10:“The thief only comes to steal and kill and destroy; I have come that they might have life, and have it to the full.” From her own personal experience and professional expertise as a clinical Neuropsychologist, she unpacks these words, recognizing in her life and others’ the brokenness that attends life, but also the concrete steps we can take as we walk with Christ through the thin places of life.
Paul Batura
Paul Batura is vice president of communications for Focus on the Family. In his role, Batura is responsible for media and guest relations. With more than two decades of diverse experience in the news media, broadcast journalism, publishing, and non-profit administration, Batura has been with Focus on the Family since 1998. Batura and his wife, Julie, had the privilege of adopting their three young boys, Riley, Will and Alex. They join countless other families in celebrating the courageous decision of birthmothers and birthfathers who choose life.
Dustin Crowe
Dustin Crowe (B.A. Moody Bible Institute; M.A. Trinity Evangelical Divinity School) serves as the pastor of discipleship at College Park Church Fishers, just outside Indianapolis, Ind. He has written for websites such as The Gospel Coalition, Gospel-Centered Discipleship, Fighter Verses, and contributed a chapter to Make, Mature, Multiply. Dustin and his wife have a two-year-old daughter.
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