307. Friendship - A Slow Process

This week we have a special episode of Hope Cast for you all!Richard and Marsha have been a part of Living Hope for years, and they are leaders in the DFW Friends and Family group.In this episode they speak on how to understand our friends and family who are struggling, as well as how to maintain healthy relationships with them and stay active and involved in their lives.

We all want the new year to kick off to a great start and the year itself to be healthy and beneficial. This week, Ricky and Bonnie discuss ways to practice healthy habits that can benefit anyone spiritually as well as emotionally and physically.

This week, Ricky and Bonnie talk about how to respond and move forward as parents, friends or family members when an individual gives an ultimatum like "Accept this about me [Call me___ from now on] or I won't see you anymore."

This week, Ricky and Bonnie discuss the new efforts of courts in the United States to protect children from being pressured into getting the life-altering sex change surgeries before their brains are fully developed. Ricky and Bonnie discuss the struggle of gender dysmorphia and ways to combat that struggle with the truth in God's Word.

How do you respond to finding out your teen has watched or has been consistently viewing gay pornography? Ricky and Bonnie give some cautionary advice and some helpful tips to parents who might face this difficulty in their journey with their child. Learn more about the research-proven harmful effects of pornography: https://fightthenewdrug.org/Recommended internet accountability tools: https://www.covenanteyes.com/ and https://accountable2you.com/

In this episode, Ricky and Bonnie tackle the intricacies of building deep, intimate (but not codependent!) friendships with people of the same sex, as God intended for all of us to have.

This week, Ricky and Bonnie dive into what it means to steward your God-given sexuality well, especially outside of the context of marriage between a man and a woman.

Ricky and Bonnie spend this episode talking about the importance of fathers intentionally connecting with their sons, and how fathers can communicate their affection better through attention and affirmation, and how the Lord can even redeem the imperfect parental experience in children's lives.

This week, Ricky and Bonnie talk about singleness, and what God intends for single people, as well as the great ways He can and often chooses to use people who are living out their singleness well. Whether singleness may be a season, or your whole life experience, there are ways to follow God well in the midst of it and use your singleness for His glory.

Most people - men and women - struggle with body image at some point in their lives. This week, Ricky and Bonnie discuss this sensitive topic and how to fight the lies that we often believe about our own bodies.