Biblical counsel for complicated family life.
FamilyLife Today® pairs warm studio conversation with biblical counsel for families facing ordinary strain and major loss. Recent episodes move from divorce and perfectionism to step-grandparenting, neighborhood care, and military marriage.
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FamilyLife Today® is a Christian interview program about family life when faith has to become more than a slogan. The format is simple and familiar. Dave Wilson and Ann Wilson speak with guests about marriage, parenting, grief, divorce, neighborhood care, blended families, military life, and the pressure to keep performing. The show rarely stays abstract for long. A personal story opens the door, then the conversation moves toward Scripture, repentance, endurance, or a concrete change at home. Recent episodes with Vaneetha Risner are some of the heaviest, centering on divorce, judgment, remarriage, suffering, and joy that is rooted in Jesus rather than a repaired circumstance. Those conversations make space for tears without making pain feel decorative. Portia Collins brings a more energetic register, using Galatians to talk about freedom, performance, perfectionism, and the difference between doctrine and lived practice. Her episodes connect spiritual striving to marriage and daily obedience. Ron Deal’s step-grandparenting conversation is quieter but pointed, with attention to jealousy, boundaries, patience, and the need to build trust over time in blended families. Don Everts widens the family lens into the neighborhood. That episode turns hospitality into practical scenes: sitting out front, greeting passersby, creating reasons for neighbors to gather, and treating ordinary streets as places for Christian presence. Beth Runkle’s military-wife episodes fit the show’s military faith-and-family lane most directly. They cover repeated moves, deployment, burnout, resentment, fear, and the discipline of remembering God’s faithfulness when duty keeps disrupting home life. The show’s rhythm includes sponsor reads, resource mentions, prayer, and donor-supported ministry language, so it can feel more like radio ministry than a stripped-down podcast. That is part of its identity. It is not built for detached analysis or culture-war heat. It is built for Christian families who want candid stories, biblical framing, and usable counsel for the relationships closest to them.
Made for: Best suited to Christian adults, couples, parents, grandparents, and military families looking for faith-centered guidance through relational strain. It especially serves listeners who prefer testimony and practical application over debate.
What sets it apart: The show blends ministry warmth with frank accounts of divorce, grief, perfectionism, blended-family complexity, neighborhood hospitality, and military-life disruption. Its interviews keep returning to how Christian belief changes conduct inside the home.
FamilyLife Today® is a weekday podcast featuring fun, engaging conversations that help families grow together with Jesus while pursuing the relationships that matter most.
Based on 6 episodes we listened to · September 2026
FamilyLife Today connects biblical teaching to candid, practical conversations about marriage, divorce, blended families, grief, and everyday relationships.
Ann Wilson and Dave Wilson turn Christian teaching into candid guest conversations about the pressures families face at home. Scripture supplies the frame, while their questions keep returning to lived choices: sustaining faith through divorce, loosening perfectionism in…
A front-yard trampoline is one way Dave and Ann Wilson get your neighborly intentions off the couch.
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Short reviews from the PlayNext desk, based on the episodes we processed.
A hard conversation about divorce, faith, and the way children notice joy.
This conversation turns on divorce and the way hardship can break an original plan open. Its clearest line is the warning not to make remarriage the goal, along with the insistence that joy can come from Jesus alone.
Divorce is framed less as blame than as pain, then the conversation turns to suffering and God's goodness.
This episode treats divorce less as a verdict than as the habit of asking what the divorced person did wrong. Ann Wilson and Dave Wilson press into that stigma with a guest who speaks plainly about anger, hurt, and the harder task of holding onto God's goodness after painful…
Portia connects marital grace with freedom from religious pressure and faith worked out in daily life.
Performance can quietly turn a marriage into a ledger, but this Family Life Today conversation keeps pressing toward a harder question: whether Portia can stay gracious regardless of what her husband does.
A personal turn from behavior-measured faith toward freedom found in Galatians.
Portia Collins gives Family Life Today a clear, emotionally grounded account of faith strained by spiritual performance. She describes a life spent measuring salvation by behavior, where good days made heaven feel close and bad days made her fear she was lost.
Step-grandparenting is framed through blended-family tensions, uneven bonds, and the risk of forcing access.
FamilyLife Today talks with Ron Deal about step-grandparenting, and it starts from a plain truth: family life shifts once a son or daughter-in-law enters the picture.
Front porches, small acts of welcome, and a practical way to think about drifting marriages.
Don Everts frames neighborhood life as something larger than a backdrop, and the examples do the work: Roman and Helen, a front-yard trampoline, a hot dog for passersby, holiday invites, block parties, and a fire pit out front all point toward the same practical habit.
Its clearest counsel asks grandparents to loosen control while keeping hard relationships open.
Grandparenting becomes harder when faith sits at the center of family strain, and this FamilyLife Today conversation does not rush past that ache. Dr.
Servant leadership feels concrete here, where strength and softness are both part of marriage.
Dave Wilson uses this FamilyLife Today conversation to press into a stubborn marriage question: what does servant leadership look like for a husband when submission already carries so much weight?
Pastoral sermons for healing, faith, and release.
Faithful steps for God-shaped dreams.
Christian marriage counsel with prayerful accountability.
Christian steadiness for unsettled news and cultural life.
This episode features Faith Womack discussing how to make Bible study engaging and accurate for families, focusing on teaching scripture correctly to children.
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Hosts Dave and Ann Wilson interview husbands Rechab Gray and Ike Todd about biblical husbandhood.
Yana Conner tells Dave and Ann Wilson that Matthew 5's 'turn the other cheek' refers to a backhanded slap in a high honor-shame culture, and that offering the other cheek invited the offender to treat her as an equal.
Yana Jenay Conner says forgiveness took 11 years, not a Father’s Day card or Christmas call.
The guest sits with Dave Wilson and Ann Wilson.
Ann Wilson and Dave Wilson open with how divorce changes the way people hear suffering.
Family Life Today hosts Dave and Ann Wilson interview author Portia Collins about her eight-week Bible study 'Finding Freedom in Christ,' based on Galatians.
Portia Collins says Galatians changed her life after years of thinking good behavior got her to heaven and bad behavior sent her to hell.
Ann Wilson and Dave Wilson open with the simple fact that family life shifts when a son or daughter-in-law enters the picture.
Psalm 119:105 opens the conversation.
Beth Runkle, a military wife and author, discusses how to maintain personal identity and faith while navigating the challenges of military marriage, using her devotional book 'Another Move God' as a guide.
This episode features an interview with Beth Runkle, a military wife discussing her experiences with burnout and bitterness, and how faith provides a better way to embrace life through her book 'Another Move God?'.
This episode explores how Christians can find passion and purpose in their work, with personal reflections on marriage, parenting, and faith-based vocation.
This episode explores how Christians can view their everyday work as sacred rather than secular, challenging misconceptions about faith and professional life.
This episode explores how co-parents and step-parents in blended families can transform conflict into cooperation through better communication and alignment.
This episode features Dr.
Faith Womack discusses how to make Bible study engaging and accurate for families, focusing on teaching scripture correctly to children.
Matt and Sarah Hammitt discuss how trauma affects marriages, focusing on different grieving processes and maintaining connection without drifting apart.
Dave and Ashley Willis discuss how to approach marital conflict by shifting from a win-lose mindset to a team-oriented approach where both partners can win together.