Today's Key to Confident Living

Three simple questions individuals and couples need to ask before getting themselves caught up in out-of-controlled debt.  Listen to Dr. Hossler's advice at https://www.keyministries.net/podcast/episode/3ecacf8d/marriage-and-money

Ten things dads can do to help in developing their children. https://www.keyministries.net/podcast/episode/f586f1af/tips-for-dad

Listen as Dr. Hossler describes why warning our children about where they go, who they are with and what they watch and read, is so important in their development.  Outside influences play a major role in who and what we become.  https://www.keyministries.net/podcast/episode/204c69b7/garbage-in-garbage-out

Have you ever worked in a church, club or community agency and nearly every time you asked for volunteers people suggested "someone else"?  Are you still trying to find that "someone else?"  Listen to the humorous story when a pastor announced that "someone else" had died.  Listen at https://www.keyministries.net/podcast/episode/35bf176e/ask-someone-else

You don't need to wait for tomorrow to salvage the day; it can still blossom into a thing of beauty.  But how?  Listen to suggestion by Dr. Bill Hossler at https://www.keyministries.net/podcast/episode/21b08bc4/save-the-day

Lack of communication in marriage or at least poor communication is one of the greatest problems faced in marriage.  Men and women communicate differently so how can they improve their skills and their marriages?  Listen to Dr. Hossler's advice for coupes... https://www.keyministries.net/podcast/episode/fb012258/communication-in-marriage

Have you recently lost a loved one or suffered a disappointing loss of a friendship?  Is there hope of recovery?  Listen to what one friend experience in her journey through grief.  https://www.keyministries.net/podcast/episode/2d55597a/metamorphis

The bishop laughed when the university president suggested there were still things to discover, in a late 1800's conversation.  A few years later the bishop had to change his tune in an astonishing way.  Learn about it by listening to https://www.keyministries.net/podcast/episode/f4174f60/things-to-discover

Spiritually Passionate Pacesetting Leaders (SPPLs) will, sometime during their career, be tested to take as stand against the immorality of their day. God will ask them to speak out against injustice, immorality, politically correct wisdom and behavior which is contrary to the will and word of God. When those times come, Ezekiel 2 is a great chapter to consider. The best take away from this passag...

We are living in times when civility has gone out the window in many circles.  Mean and hateful things are said to and about people which have no bearing on who they are inwardly or outwardly. In times like these God asks us to have courage and be brave in spite of the accusations which may come against us. One of my prayers is that negative behavior directed at me would not change me. I pray...

Is there a difference between aging and getting old?  How do you look at life?  Old is a state of mind.  People can be old at twenty and young at eighty.  Listen to https://www.keyministries.net/podcast/episode/32cdbddf/age-verses-old

Listen to how the painter turned the ugly stained wall into a thing of beauty.  God also wants to take our stained and tarnished lives and make them into masterpieces.  https://www.keyministries.net/podcast/episode/f29487f5/no-need-to-repaint

A man wanted to get away from everything.  He joined a monastery where silence was law and two words were all that could be spoken every five years.  When our sole pursuit is finding happiness, we are usually disappointed.  True happiness is a result of pursuing God.  Listen to how the monastery experience went... https://www.keyministries.net/podcast/episode/341ca2c2/vow-...

We tend to want to live up to another person's image of us.  Listen how Leo Tolstoy did something unusual for a beggar - https://www.keyministries.net/podcast/episode/3c6b2400/brother

Most of us have at least one time been in a situation at an office, church or cub and observed undisciplined children who were making life miserable for everyone.  What is the value of discipline?  Listen to Dr. Hossler at https://www.keyministries.net/podcast/episode/1b832f19/child-behavior

"Like father like son" is more than a cute little phrase that someone thought up:  It is true many more times than not.  Listen to... https://www.keyministries.net/podcast/episode/38e9ae36/a-parents-language

Helping our children transition into adulthood is an important part of our training for them.  Too many handouts often make it difficult for children to transition into adult life.  Listen to https://www.keyministries.net/podcast/episode/c9560c04/paying-for-college

Learn how University President Charles Eliot mother helped him to cope with a sizable birthmark on his face.  https://www.keyministries.net/podcast/episode/2a594705/grow-a-big-soul

Do you desire to do something significant: something that would make a big difference?  Consider the words of Mother Teresa who worked among the poor and sick of Calcutta, India.  https://www.keyministries.net/podcast/episode/22f816a9/doing-small-things

There are enough things to be gloomy about, but why not try being happier?  It is possible in spite of your circumstance or circumstances in the nation.  Listen to these steps for living happier in this coming year.  https://www.keyministries.net/podcast/episode/2f4e190f/living-happier

The power of a tornado to change its environment is incredible: it can do it minutes what man cannot do at all.  The same is true of God's power at work in the life of a believer.  Rather than think in terms of what we can do, we need to anticipate what God can do.  Listen to Bill's daily PODCAST at https://www.keyministries.net/podcast/episode/1fce61c1/unbelievable-power

The first term missionary passed his car off to the new recruit and was explaining about always keeping the car on a hill so you could get it started.  But the new missionary did not have any problem at all starting the car.  Find out what made the difference at https://www.keyministries.net/podcast/episode/57d1aebb/not-properly-connected

Huge power plants don't store electricity, but generate it as needed.  Listen to the story of the huge power plant in east TX, how it works to supply the needed electricity and how it helps to model how God works with us.  https://www.keyministries.net/podcast/episode/1bb033d4/power-as-needed

Have you known people who started out strong but finished up losing out?  Listen to the story of the man painting lines on the highway.  https://www.keyministries.net/podcast/episode/3273210e/finish-strong.  We can become enamored with ourselves and forget where true strength and moral insight come from.  

William Arthur Ward said, "Adversity causes some men to break and others to break records."  Adversity can be a blessing in disguise.  Learn how some individuals achieved great success during times of severe testing.  https://www.keyministries.net/podcast/episode/1aeb2ca6/adversity