Encouragement for You

Rebecca Carrell is the director of apprenticeship and special projects for the media arts and worship department at Dallas Theological Seminary.  She is an award winning broadcaster and is currently working towards her Doctorate of education.  Rebecca spent over twenty years hosting radio programs in the DFW area and she joins host Dow Hawkins to talk about the challenges facing mothers....

Dr. Paul Pettit is the director of career services and adjunct professor of the pastoral ministries at Dallas Theological Seminary.  He is also the President and founder of Dynamic Dads, an organization offering encouragement to fathers.  Paul joins encouragement for you host Don Hawkins to talk about the qualities of a good father.   Discover more Christian podcasts at lifeaudio.co...

Hal Habecker is the founder and president of Finishing Well Ministries and prior to that, served over 20 years as a senior pastor and also the executive director of the Christian Medical and Dental Societies.  He joins Encouragement for You host Don Hawkins to talk about the important subject of finishing well.  Discover more Christian podcasts at lifeaudio.com and inquire about advertis...

Pastor Chad Roberts was actively involved in serving the Lord, including on foreign mission trips, when he was affected by total blindness.  He joins host Don Hawkins to talk about his new book Blind Faith.  Discover more Christian podcasts at lifeaudio.com and inquire about advertising opportunities at lifeaudio.com/contact-us .

Don Sapaugh is the CEO of Restoration Senior Living and the author of The Search for Peace  and Enriching Faith.  He and Marc Kirchhoff the CEO of Marco Real Estate Services join host Don Hawkins to talk about Surviving fear.  Discover more Christian podcasts at lifeaudio.com and inquire about advertising opportunities at lifeaudio.com/contact-us .

Bill Hendricks is the executive director of The Hendricks Center for Giftedness at Dallas Theological Seminary and the founder and president of the Global Center for Giftedness.  He joins host Don Hawkins to talk about how each of us as a believer have been gifted by God.  Discover more Christian podcasts at lifeaudio.com and inquire about advertising opportunities at lifeaudio.com/conta...

For many of us today, handling our personal finances constitutes a major challenge.  Charlie Germany has invested many years in the field of money management with Ronald Blue and Company.  In today’s first segment Charlie and host Don Hawkins explore how to handle your money. The late Dr. Frank Minirth was board certified in psychiatry and neurology, which means he was doubly exper...

John Redd is a Christian life coach and the founder and president of Renewell Ministries, a ministry committed to supporting pastors and pastors' wives. He and his wife Lisa recently joined host Don Hawkins to talk about love and communication in marriage.  Discover more Christian podcasts at lifeaudio.com and inquire about advertising opportunities at lifeaudio.com/contact-us .

Dr. Robert Duckworth is the head of the counseling department at Dallas Theological Seminary, and he has decades of clinical experience in counseling those who struggle with depression and anxiety. The topic on this episode of Encouragement for You, dealing with depression or seasonal affective disorder.   Discover more Christian podcasts at lifeaudio.com and inquire about advertising op...

For over 20 years, Encouragement for You’s host Don Hawkins hosted a live radio program titled Life Perspectives.  On this episode of our podcast, Don talks about the power of perspective with christian psychologist Dr. Gary Oliver.  In our second segment host Don Hawkins talks with callers from across the country on how life is tough but God is good. Discover more Christian podcas...

Dr. Lee Colan is an organizational psychologist and an advisor to CEOs. He applies an in-depth understanding of business, science, people, and organizations to help leaders and organizations grow. Lee and his wife Julie co-authored the book Healthy Leadership , and Lee joins host Don Hawkins to discuss that subject. Discover more Christian podcasts at lifeaudio.com and inquire about advertising op...

Erin Smalley is a licensed Christian counselor and her husband, Greg is the vice president for families at Focus on the Family. In our first segment, Greg and Erin join host Don Hawkins to talk about parenting and marriage.  In virtually every relationship, there comes a time when the need for forgiveness is present. Sometimes forgiveness can be difficult, though.  From his years of expe...

Joining us for this episode of Encouragement for You is Dr. Josh Wynn the Vice President for Communication and Community at Dallas Theological Seminary. Dr. Wynn teaches a class on the nature of The Church. And with all that's been happening in Iran with the recent attacks from the United States and Israel, it may be surprising to learn that there are close to one million underground Christians in...

Rodney Love and Shelley Komoszewski are gifted encouragers who have been through adversity themselves and know how to face it successfully. They join join Encouragement for You host Don Hawkins to unpack three biblical strategies for facing and overcoming adversity.   Discover more Christian podcasts at lifeaudio.com and inquire about advertising opportunities at lifeaudio.com/contact-us .

Dr. Michael Smalley is the founder and CEO of the Smalley Institute of Ft Worth Texas.  Mike is a relationship authority, the son of world-renowned marriage guru the late Dr. Gary Smalley, and he joins Encouragement for You host Don Hawkins to discuss the difference between how modern culture views men and the Biblical perspective on manhood. Discover more Christian podcasts at lifeaudio.com...

Bill Hendricks is the Executive Director of the Hendricks Center for Christian leadership at Dallas Theological Seminary. He is also the co-founder and president of the Global Center for Giftedness. In today’s Encouragement for You Podcast, Bill and host Don Hawkins discuss Bill’s book, The Person Called YOU: Why You're Here, Why You Matter & What You Should Do with Your Life..&nbs...

For many couples, adoption may be the only way to grow their family, for others it represents another option. From their own experience adopting their daughter, Dr. Greg and Erin Smalley discuss adoption with host Don Hawkins Has anyone ever told you that you’re too busy? According to Host Don Hawkins, he hears that criticism from time to time, and that’s the topic he discusses with Dr...

Most of us are finding life to be complex these days with all the electronic gadgets and methods of communication. Dr. Greg Smalley is the vice president for families of Focus on the Family and his wife Erin is a christian therapist. You’ll find their recommendations for simplifying your life to be helpful. Without question all of us are growing older and many of us have questions about agin...

For almost two weeks, people across Iran have taken to the streets to express their profound anger about the continued daily suffering experienced by so many in the country. Becky Lucas of SAT-7, a ministry using Satellite television and interactive internet to reach the people of the Middle East and North Africa with the Gospel’s message, joins Don Hawkins with the remarkable ‘rest of...

John Coleman is a pastor, life coach, and psychologist.  He joins host Don Hawkins to discuss dealing with depression. Have you found yourself exhausted recently? Todd Nevins is a christian life coach and pastor and he offers encouragement for those who feel exhausted.   Discover more Christian podcasts at lifeaudio.com and inquire about advertising opportunities at lifeaudio.com/contact...

Most of us have overspent on Christmas gifts and entertaining at the holidays at times. For many years Bettye Banks served as vice president of consumer credit counseling service, and she and host Don Hawkins provide answers for those post-holiday financial stresses.  Often times, it doesn’t take very long to find ourselves breaking those New Year’s resolutions. Christian life coa...

The Christmas season is an incredibly busy time, and when you add in financial pressure and potential conflicts with relatives there’s a potential for holiday stress to lead to burnout.  John Coleman specializes in helping people as a pastor, certified life coach and therapist.  He joins host Don Hawkins with help for overcoming holiday stressing burnout.  The theme of holiday...

SAT-7 is a ministry devoted to sharing the gospel of Christ and Biblical teaching in 27 countries in the Middle East and North Africa through satellite television and interactive internet. In this episode of our podcast, veteran missionary Dennis Wiens joins host Don Hawkins to talk about SAT-7’s 30 year legacy  Discover more Christian podcasts at lifeaudio.com and inquire about adverti...

Dr. Gene Getz has written a number of timely Christian books but if you ask him, he would say his greatest contribution to the Christian community is the Life Essentials Study Bible .  In this episode of our podcast Gene and host Don Hawkins explore the importance of following the instructions in Ephesians 5 to put on love and appropriately deal with anger. Discover more Christian podcasts at...

For many years people have identified longtime Chick-fil-A CEO Dan Cathy with business and leadership. Dan is also an accomplished musician, and on our first segment of today’s podcast, Dan joins host Don Hawkins to talk about the value of music. In part two, Toni Branyon of Lifeshape, an organization founded by Chick-fil-A, joins host Don Hawkins with words of encouragement and help for bre...