Adelaide Heward-Mills

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Practical Christian counsel for home and heart.

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Adelaide Heward-Mills brings Bible-based counsel to intimate questions about marriage, household pressure, prayer, money, temperament, and sexual responsibility. The tone is direct and pastoral, mixing scripture, personal examples, audience questions, and closing prayer.

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About Adelaide Heward-Mills

Adelaide Heward-Mills is a Christian teaching series shaped by scripture, pastoral counsel, and candid conversation about ordinary life. Its recent episodes spend significant time with marriage. The questions are not abstract. They concern spouses who stop praying, husbands who withhold household money, partners who refuse requested meals, in-laws who strain the home, and couples struggling with intimacy or resentment. Adelaide answers from a firmly Christian frame, often moving between Bible passages, personal anecdotes, and direct advice. The result is practical rather than ornamental. Marriage is treated as covenant, but also as daily conduct: communication, responsibility, forgiveness, sexual care, financial provision, and emotional self-control. The show’s question-and-answer format gives it a lived-in quality. Audience members bring awkward domestic realities into the room, and the answers tend to be specific enough to feel usable. Adelaide’s tone can be warm, humorous, corrective, and blunt within the same stretch of teaching. She speaks about temperament as a source of conflict and complement, using familiar categories such as phlegmatic and sanguine to explain why people react differently under pressure. She also makes room for deeper wounds. Some marital pain, in her view, needs prayer, counsel, and outside help from a pastor or counselor. The show is not only about couples. Episodes on self-control and salvation place marriage inside a broader call to Christian maturity. Listeners hear repeated appeals to renewed minds, disciplined behavior, prayer, Bible reading, and life in a Bible-based church. The pacing feels like a church gathering: applause, questions, teaching, prayer, and a closing invitation to seek counsel or spiritual growth. It is best understood as pastoral instruction for believers who want faith to govern home life. The distinguishing note is its willingness to put private marital questions beside scripture without softening either one.

Made for: For Christians seeking direct, Bible-based guidance on marriage, household life, prayer, self-control, and spiritual maturity. It especially suits listeners comfortable with pastoral teaching and live church question-and-answer sessions.

What sets it apart: The show stands out for pairing scripture teaching with live domestic questions about money, anger, sex, prayer, and responsibility. Its counsel is pastoral, specific, and grounded in everyday marital pressure rather than broad inspirational themes.

In their own words

Lady Rev. (Mrs.) Adelaide Heward Mills is the first lady of The United Denominations Originating From The Lighthouse Group Of Churches. The wife of Bishop Dag Heward-Mills the founder. She is a lawyer by profession and blessed with four children.

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A leaking tap becomes a temperament lesson, and suddenly your six-week wait makes sense.

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  • faith-rooted marriage counsel that helps you name resentment before it piles up
  • candid answers when prayer, marriage, and personal calling stop fitting together neatly
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Questions And Answers - Healing Hearts, Renewing VowsApr 15, 2026

Adelaide Heward-Mills answers marriage questions with practical advice, stories from her own marriage and a closing prayer.

Marriage questions shape this session: why people change, how a young man might prepare to marry, and what to do when a husband declines food he asked for. Adelaide Heward-Mills keeps the meal question simple. Ask him why he is not eating, she says, rather than trying to guess.

Questions and Answers - More Than RosesFeb 18, 2026

Adelaide Heward-Mills takes questions on apologies, sexual needs and encouragement, and warns against comparing a wife with another woman.

Adelaide Heward-Mills takes questions about apologies and sex in marriage. One husband wonders why his wife insists on an apology when he tends to let offenses pass without one.

Self- ControlJan 23, 2026

A declaration of faith meets a Friday night party.

Adelaide Heward-Mills tells a story from her university days about a man who seemed ready to become a Christian. She visited him with a Christian friend, prayed with him after he said he wanted to give his life to Christ, and watched him look for the Bible his mother had given…

Questions and Answers - How To Be A Strong Christian [English & Français]Oct 23, 2025

Adelaide Heward-Mills recalls evangelism and discusses learning to recognize God's voice.

Adelaide Heward-Mills traces the start of her pastoral journey to her conversion and the people who taught her to be a Christian. She remembers going out to witness and follow up with people alongside the man she would later marry.

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Episodes

  1. 1

    Questions And Answers - Healing Hearts, Renewing Vows

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    ["Adelaide Heward-Mills answers a live marriage Q&A framed by Psalm 107:20 and her role at Lighthouse Chapel International under Bishop Dan Heward-Mills.", "She says people change in marriage because \"the changing scenes of life\" expose pressure, fear, and disappointment, and she warns that saying \"I will divorce you\" changes a spouse's posture.", "The questions move through remarriage after divorce, healing from hate, helping parents in conflict, quiet time as a couple, finding a spouse in church, and five checks for a wife.", "Later answers get sharper on tribal background, narcissistic spouses, broken homes, and why Christian marriages break when believers live for pleasure instead of crucifying the flesh."]

    Apr 15, 2026·1h 3m·4 clips
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    Healing Hearts, Renewing Vows

    Adelaide Heward-Mills delivers a Christian teaching on healing and renewing marriage vows.

    Apr 1, 2026·1h 5m·2 clips
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    Rekindling The Love In The Marriage, Now And In The Future

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    A Christian sermon on rekindling love in marriage, delivered by Adelaide Heward-Mills on Valentine's Day.

    Mar 26, 2026·51m·2 clips
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    Questions And Answers - Rekindling The Love In The Marriage, Now And In The Future

    Adelaide Heward Mills answers a question about handling a spouse more dedicated to their parents than the marriage, using biblical scripture.

    Mar 26, 2026·25m
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    Questions And Answers - Through The Changing Seasons of Life And Marriage

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    A Christian pastor answers a wife's question about how to encourage her husband to pray again in their marriage.

    Mar 13, 2026·1h 4m·2 clips
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    Through The Changing Seasons of Life And Marriage

    Mar 2, 2026·2h 6m
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    More Than Roses

    Feb 18, 2026·39m
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    Questions and Answers - More Than Roses

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    Adelaide Heward-Mills answers audience questions about marriage, including Isaac Badey's struggle with repeated apologies and angry words.

    Feb 18, 2026·1h 19m·5 clips
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    Valentine's Day Message for 2026

    Feb 14, 2026·9m
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    Self- Control

    Hidden gem

    Adelaide Heward-Mills builds her message around Proverbs 25:28, where "he that hath no rule over his own spirit" is compared to "a city that is broken down and without walls." She ties that verse to Galatians 5:22, where the English Standard Version names "self-control" as fruit of the Spirit and the Amplified version lists "even temper" and forbearance.

    Jan 23, 2026·1h 16m·2 clips
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    Faith Secrets [English & Français]

    Adelaide Heward-Mills teaches that “obedience is faith and faith is obedience,” using Deuteronomy 9 and Numbers 13–14 to connect faith with acting on God’s commands.

    Jan 9, 2026·1h 34m·5 clips
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    Merry Christmas !

    Dec 25, 2025·4m
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    Can't You Do Just A Little Bit More

    Dec 12, 2025·1h 5m
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    Questions and Answers - The Woman And Her Lover

    Nov 30, 2025·25m
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    The Woman And Her Lover

    Nov 24, 2025·1h 36m
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    Can't You Do Just A Little Bit More

    Nov 18, 2025·1h 32m
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    Questions and Answers - Mastering Emotional Intelligence in Marriage

    Nov 4, 2025·22m
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    Questions and Answers - How To Be A Strong Christian [English & Français]

    Hidden gem

    Adelaide Heward-Mills answers questions about beginning pastoral ministry, describing service in small responsibilities, preaching at age nine, and continued hospitality work at Lighthouse Chapel International.

    Oct 23, 2025·54m·5 clips
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    Mastering Emotional Intelligence in Marriage

    Oct 15, 2025·1h 35m
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    Making Quality Life Choices - The Christian Youth and Relationships

    Oct 11, 2025·1h 26m
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    Better A Child Than A King

    Oct 2, 2025·2h 43m
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    A Little One Shall Become A Thousand

    Sep 24, 2025·41m
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    A Better Country

    Sep 19, 2025·1h 3m
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    Why Should We Fear God ?

    Sep 5, 2025·40m
  25. 25

    Looking Unto His Word

    Aug 26, 2025·1h 39m
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    How To Be A Strong Christian [English & Français]

    A religious teaching by Adelaide Heward-Mills on becoming a strong Christian, introduced with a Bible verse and praise.

    Aug 19, 2025·1h 15m
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    Looking Unto Jesus

    Aug 10, 2025·1h 22m
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    Don't Destroy God's Creation [English & Français]

    Jul 29, 2025·59m
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    Wise As Serpents [English & Français]

    Jul 11, 2025·1h
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    Better Not To Vow

    Jul 5, 2025·1h 19m
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    Questions and Answers - How To Be An Unmovable Christian

    A Christian teaching by Adelaide Heward-Mills on how to become an unmovable Christian, based on biblical principles.

    Jun 20, 2025·46m
  32. 32

    The Faith Side of a Woman Redefined

    Jun 6, 2025·49m
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    How To Be An Unmovable Christian - Questions and Answers

    May 28, 2025·47m
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    How To Be An Unmovable Christian

    Adelaide Heward-Mills teaches Christians to remain steadfast in their faith and calling, not being moved by offenses or afflictions, but led by the Spirit of God.

    May 21, 2025·1h 22m
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    The Woman Who Pleases God - Part Two : Questions and Answers

    May 13, 2025·14m
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    The Woman Who Pleases God - Part Two

    Apr 26, 2025·1h 23m
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    Special Easter Message

    Apr 20, 2025·11m
  38. 38

    The Woman Who Pleases God - Part One

    Apr 11, 2025·1h 9m
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    The Woman Who Pleases God - Part One : Questions and Answers

    Apr 11, 2025·33m
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    Questions And Answers - I Love You But Why Are We So Different ?

    Apr 3, 2025·48m
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    I Love You But Why Are We So Different

    Mar 27, 2025·1h 30m
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    Communication And Problem Solving In Marriage - Questions And Answers

    Mar 20, 2025·1h 8m
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    Surviving Your Wilderness

    Mar 14, 2025·1h 12m
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    Communication And Problem Solving In Marriage

    Mar 6, 2025·53m
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    Being Steadfast

    Feb 26, 2025·1h 21m
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    Birth Your Dream

    Feb 21, 2025·1h 15m
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    The Greatest Commandment

    Feb 20, 2025·1h 15m
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    Happy Valentine's Day !

    Feb 14, 2025·10m
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    The Human Heart

    Feb 5, 2025·31m
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    The Human Heart - Questions and Answers

    Feb 5, 2025·29m