Before We Go

David and Karen Mains provide updates on several items related to this very important year.

David and Joel Mains continue to take an insightful look back at David’s life and ministry. What has David learned about preaching and how ministers can improve the effectiveness of their communications?

David and Joel Mains continue to take an insightful look back at David’s life and ministry. As we reach the end of our lives, what does the prospect of death motivate us to do, as we prepare to meet the God who loves us with His everlasting love?

David and Joel Mains continue to take an insightful look back at David’s life and ministry. What role does the life and death of a dear ministry friend play in one’s own ministry?

David and Joel Mains continue to take an insightful look back at David’s life and ministry. What role does a dear ministry friend play in one’s own ministry?

David and Joel Mains continue to take an insightful look back at David’s life and ministry. What role does work play in ministry?

David and Joel Mains continue to take an insightful look back at David’s life and ministry. What role does money play in ministry?

David and Joel Mains continue to take an insightful look back at David’s life and ministry.

David and Joel Mains continue to take an insightful look back at David’s early life.

David and Joel Mains take a look back at David’s early life.

Sometimes, as we live our lives, it feels very much as if we’re caught in a holding pattern. David and Karen Mains offer some suggestions as to how God uses such times to positively affect our existence and what we can do to respond to such events

Humor can play a significant role in helping us control our tongues. David and Karen Mains discuss that: “A rather overlooked cure for mouth disease is humor, and especially the ability to laugh at yourself.”

David and Karen Mains discuss the problem that arises when we do not carefully guard what we say: “One of the miracle cures of mouth disease—or control of the tongue—is developing the discipline of silence.”

David and Karen Mains discuss the way in which what we say can illustrate how we sometimes speak falsely and that God has given us Medicine for Mouth Disease: “The exciting truth is that medicine is available that heals all manner of mouth disease.”

If someone asks you to speak to a group of people about your faith in the Lord Jesus Christ, do you know how to begin preparing such a talk? In Part 3 of this three-part Podcast series, David and Karen Mains offer some very concrete steps on how to begin this task: When asked to give a spiritual talk of some kind, begin your preparation by asking yourself three questions: 1. What is my subject? 2....

If someone asks you to speak to a group of people about your faith in the Lord Jesus Christ, do you know how to begin preparing such a talk? In Part 2 of this three-part Podcast series, David and Karen Mains offer some very concrete steps on how to begin this task: When asked to give a spiritual talk of some kind, begin your preparation by asking yourself three questions: 1. What is my subject? 2....

If someone asks you to speak to a group of people about your faith in the Lord Jesus Christ, do you know how to begin preparing such a talk? David and Karen Mains offer some very concrete steps on how to begin this task: When asked to give a spiritual talk of some kind, begin your preparation by asking yourself three questions: 1. What is my subject? 2. What’s the response for which I'm callin...

Does your day fill up with way too many activities? Do you lament that you are not accomplishing the really important tasks you desire to complete? If so, you are not alone. David and Karen Mains discuss the setting of priorities based on this key sentence: “Setting priorities is an important Christian discipline to practice—especially as one ages.”

Grace—unmerited favor—has the power to soothe the disagreements or strident conflicts that seem to have overtaken our society here in the United States, and even around the world. David and Karen Mains discuss the merits of grace, based on the concept that: “Christians would do well to be known as people of grace.”

To followers of Jesus, the word “worship” means “attributing worth to God.” Said another way, when we worship God, we are paying Him a compliment that He so well deserves. David and Karen Mains discuss the value of worship based on the idea that: “Becoming proficient at complimenting God will prove to be a powerful spiritual practice.”

David and Karen Mains discuss a critically important strategy, summarized by this statement: “The time has come for the people of God to put their minds and hearts into helping solve the massive refugee/immigration problem on our southern border.”

David and Karen Mains discuss the gift God gives to some of His dearly loved children of aging well and how to take advantage of this great gift.

As we face the beginning of another new year, David and Karen Mains reflect on the content of a radio broadcast from The Chapel of the Air recorded 45 years ago that shares pertinent suggestions for moving forward into the future. The key sentence: “Before entering into new opportunities, God’s people are wise to purify themselves.”

The Season of Advent celebrates the coming of Jesus as a baby born in Bethlehem. This Season also celebrates, with great anticipation, the return of our Lord Jesus Christ at the time of His Second Coming. David and Karen Mains discuss this second part of the Season of Advent, emphasizing: “Contemporary Christians would do well to frequently remind ourselves that our King’s return—His Second Advent...

David and Karen Mains share ways that they continue to celebrate the Season of Advent based on this idea: “A deeply meaningful Christmas or Advent Season requires intentionality on behalf of the participants.”