Christian counsel for real-life rupture and repair.
New Life LIVE is a Christian counseling call-in show built around real listener problems, from grief and betrayal to marriage strain and family estrangement. Brian Perez keeps the pace moving while counselors, psychologists, and ministry voices translate faith, therapy, and everyday repair into next steps.
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New Life LIVE is a Christian counseling call-in show where personal crisis, family tension, and spiritual formation meet on live audio. The format is direct. Brian Perez opens the phone lines, introduces the counselors or guests in the studio, and keeps the conversation moving across a two-hour broadcast rhythm. The heart of the show is caller triage. Someone brings grief, betrayal, depression, addiction, sexual integrity, estrangement, or conflict with an adult child, and the panel works to slow the fear down enough to see the next faithful step. The advice is usually practical rather than abstract. A parent is encouraged to listen longer before correcting. A spouse is urged to seek transparency, therapy, and support rather than rely on proximity alone. A caller facing political or spiritual conflict with a son is coached toward curiosity instead of escalation. The show often translates a painful emotional pattern into both psychological and biblical language. That combination gives it a distinctive texture. It can quote scripture, discuss radical acceptance, mention DBT, recommend workshops, and still return to the plain question of what a listener should do after the call ends. Some episodes begin with short teachings on themes like blind spots, betrayal, adult children, or the prodigal son. Others bring in named guests to connect trauma, grief, and changed thinking. The panelists are warm, but they are not vague. They often ask follow-up questions, challenge reactive instincts, and separate good intentions from relationally damaging behavior. The program is especially attentive to repair. It returns often to humility, boundaries, curiosity, confession, forgiveness, and the long work of staying connected without controlling another person. The tone can become grave when callers describe family rupture, shame, or fear. It also leaves room for small studio humor and radio housekeeping. That contrast keeps the show human. New Life LIVE is best for listeners who want Christian counsel that feels immediate, relational, and usable, especially when ordinary reassurance would not be enough.
Made for: The show suits Christian listeners facing relationship strain, grief, addiction concerns, family conflict, or questions about faith and mental health. It is especially useful for people who prefer live counseling exchanges over scripted devotional teaching.
What sets it apart: Its strength is the call-in format: urgent personal stories are met by rotating counselors and ministry voices who combine scripture, clinical framing, and concrete next steps. The result feels less like a sermon series and more like guided triage for complicated lives.
New Life LIVE is America’s #1 Christian counseling call-in podcast. As a radio program that started in 1988, many people have received help. The hosts are counselors and psychologists answering callers questions about all areas of relationships, addiction and mental health, and how faith is impacted. Visit our website at newlife.com, or call us at 800-639-5433.
Based on 5 episodes we listened to · September 2026
New Life LIVE pairs Christian counseling with careful questions and practical next steps for callers facing painful relationship and mental health problems.
New Life LIVE turns difficult personal situations into direct, practical call-in conversations. Brian Perez guides a rotating group of counselors and psychologists through questions about marriage, divorce, addiction, grief, depression, family conflict, and damaged trust,…
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A steady faith-forward counseling hour on comfort, offense, and repair.
The hour opens in heavy territory, moving through grief, depression, betrayal, and sexual integrity before Chris Williams says comfort has been a lifelong addiction. Brian Perez keeps the pace steady, and Dr.
A faith-forward conversation about grief, perspective, and changing yourself first.
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A careful pastoral conversation about criticism, fear, and the patience needed to keep family connection open.
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A faith-informed counseling hour on divorce threats, caregiving resentment, family tension, and emotional eating.
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A candid counseling conversation about blind spots, trust, separation, and the work of changing course.
New Life Live turns defensiveness into a grounded conversation about blind spots, feedback, and pressure inside close relationships. Mark Cameron starts with the simple problem of people acting certain when they may be missing what others can see.
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A Christian counseling podcast episode where co-host Chris Williams confesses to struggling with vindictive anger triggered by an incident involving his son, sparking a discussion on emotional management and personal growth.
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Host Brian Perez and counselors Dr.
Host Brian Perez, with counselors Mark Cameron and Dr.
New Life Live opens with Brian Perez framing the hour around help and hope through God's word, counselors, and psychologists.
New Life Live opens with Brian Perez, Becky Brown, and Dr.
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New Life LIVE: July 1, 2026 features host Brian Perez with clinical psychologist Dr.
Hosts Brian Perez, Dr.
Host Brian Perez opens New Life LIVE on June 29, 2026 with Dr.
This episode of New Life Live introduces the concept of radical acceptance, discussing its roots in DBT and 12-step programs to help listeners cope with uncontrollable situations and emotions like anger and resentment.
This episode features Christian counselors discussing how to maintain connection and discipline when adult children stray from family values or faith, transitioning from parental authority to mentorship.
This episode of New Life Live explores the biblical story of the prodigal son through a therapeutic lens, discussing how both brothers in the parable represent different struggles with family dynamics and forgiveness.