Our own Mike Powers caught up with Mike Weaver about their tour and their new song, “Love Come to Life!”

For more than a decade, Big Daddy Weave has been one of Christian music’s most successful and musically compelling groups. Their songs, including hits like “In Christ,” “Audience of One,” “What Life Would Be Like,” “Every Time I Breathe,” “You Found Me” and “You’re Worthy Of My Praise,” have been among the genre’s most treasured.

Formed at the University of Mobile, the quintet—Mike Weaver, Jay Weaver, Joe Shirk, Jeremy Redmon and Jeff Jones—has earned a reputation both for the musical conviction that has carried their songs to the top of the charts and for the joy and passion that have made their live performances such moving and memorable experiences.

Big Daddy Weave has also compiled a stellar list of milestones: “One And Only” debuted in SoundScan’s Christian Top 5 and stayed in the Top 20 for six weeks; “In Christ” peaked at #2, stayed for 24 weeks on R&R’s AC chart, and became one of ASCAP’s 25 most performed songs of 2002; the group was nominated for a Dove Award as New Artist of the Year in 2002, honored at ASCAP’s Christian Music Awards in 2003 and 2004, chosen for the WOW Hits compilations in 2006, 2007, 2008, 2010 and 2011, and won a Dove Award for Christmas Album of the Year in 2010.

“The Ultimate Collection” summarizes the group’s career to this point and, with their new single “Love Come To Life,” points the way to one of music’s most promising futures.

Welcome back to the Transformed podcast. We are honored to have Alan Hirsch with us on the podcast today!

Alan is the founding Director of Forge Mission Training Network. He is the co-founder of shapevine.com an international forum for engaging with world transforming ideas. He leads Future Travelers, a learning journey applying missional-incarnational approaches to established churches and is an active participant in The Tribe of LA, a Jesus community among artists and creatives in Los Angeles.

His experience in leadership includes leading a local church movement among the marginalized as well as heading up the Mission and Revitalization work of his denomination. Alan is and adjunct professor at Fuller Seminary and lectures frequently throughout Australia, Europe, and the U.S.
Known for his innovative approach to mission, Alan is a teacher and key mission strategist for churches across the western world. His popular book The Shaping of Things to Come (with Michael Frost) is widely considered to be a seminal text on mission. Alan’s recent book The Forgotten Ways, has quickly become a key reference for missional thinking, particularly as it relates to movements. His book ReJesus is a radical restatement about the role that Jesus plays in defining missional movements.  Untamed, his latest book (with his wife Debra) is about missional discipleship for a missional church.

We are aware there are some audio imperfections in this interview – Alan’s connection wasn’t the best. However, we know you will learn a lot if you turn up the volume and stay focused to this great discussion.

We are giving away TWO copies of Alan and Deb’s book, Untamed as well! Check out these simple rules and tell your friends.

To be eligible for a FREE copy …

1.     Just sign up for the Eagles In Leadership blog notifications (Right side of this web page) if you are not already signed up.

2.     Make a comment below this post on the web page indicating your desire for the book and how you would envision using it.

3.     Deadline for the free copies will be October 15^th.

Winners will be notified after the contest concludes.

Thank you for tuning in again to the Transformed podcast! Today we welcome Matt Bell back to the program. Matt is a personal finance writer and speaker.

He is the author of three books: Money, Purpose, Joy (September 2008), Money and Marriage: A Complete Guide for Engaged and Newly Married Couples which was published in March of 2011 and Money Strategies for Tough Times, which we will talk about today.

Matt has been quoted in U.S. News and World Report, the Chicago Tribune, and Kiplinger’s Personal Finance magazine, has written for ChristianityToday.com, writes the Matt About Money blog, and has been a guest on several nationally syndicated radio talk shows.

Matt is a return guest to Transformed! His first interview about Money, Purpose, Joy can be found here.

In today’s episode, we explore how you can successfully navigate the challenging times we live in and how to get to a better place with your personal finances.

We know this episode will be a great help as Matt talks with Matt about …

• How to get past the financial crisis
• Find some breathing space
• Ditch the debt, and
• Position yourself for lasting success

Many of these topics are from Matt’s book, Money Strategies for Tough Times.

In these tough times, Matt encourages you to pick up a copy of Matt Bell’s book, Money Strategies for Tough Times. We know this resource will help you take charge of your financial life.

Matt talks about home mortgage help from the government. Click here for that website.

We are giving away TWO copies of Matt’s book, Money Strategies for Tough Times as well! Check out these simple rules and tell your friends.

To be eligible for a FREE copy …

1.     Just sign up for the Eagles In Leadership blog notifications (Right side of this web page)

2.     Make a comment below this post on the web page indicating your desire for the book and how you would envision using it.

3.     Deadline for the free copies will be September 15^th.

Winners will be notified after the contest concludes.

We are so pleased you have returned to the Transformed podcast!

In today’s episode, we welcome back Tom Cocklereece, author of Simple Discipleship, which we talked about recently (here’s the link to that interview).

Today we talk about a companion to the book, and it’s called Simple Discipleship: The Disciple-Maker’s Toolkit. You can purchase the toolkit in Kindle here.

This toolkit is filled with all sorts of ideas, advice and practical tools. We know you will enjoy this interview.

You can learn more about Tom’s ministry by clicking this link.

Simple Discipleship is on Facebook as well!

Matt encourages you to pick up a copy of Tom’s book, Simple Discipleship and it’s companion Simple Discipleship: The Disciple-Maker’s Toolkit. These resources will help you reach your community in your generation.

We are so pleased you have returned to the Transformed podcast.

In today’s episode, we explore how we can recover the message and mission of Jesus, and thus, Change the World.

Matt’s guest today is Mike Slaughter, lead pastor at Ginghamsburg Church, is the three-decade dreamer of Ginghamsburg and the spiritual entrepreneur of ministry marketplace innovations.

When Mike arrived at Ginghamsburg Church in 1979, worship attendance hovered at 90 with 118 members and an annual budget of $27,000. Now, 4000 attendees on average worship weekly at Ginghamsburg and the multi-million dollar budget helps resource a faith community committed to serving the poor, lost and disenfranchised.

Today Matt and Mike talk about the church becoming a mission outpost, living out Christ’s ideals in today’s world. As they do, they will explore Mike’s book, Change the World.

You can also learn more about Mike by clicking this link.

You can also learn more about Mike’s ministry by clicking this link.

Matt wants you to pick up a copy of Mike’s book, Change the World. This resource will rock your world and help you rethink the message and mission of Jesus as it related to reaching your community in your generation.

Steve and Matt

Photo Credit: Melodee Smith

In today’s episode, we return to the world of the 1^st century and try to discover how the early church exploded upon the Roman Empire so quickly.

Matt’s guest today is Steve Gladen, who is currently the Pastor of Small Groups at Saddleback Church in Lake Forest, California, where he oversees over the development and expansion of over 3,500 small groups.

Gladen, a quick, energetic, and passionate personality, loves working with people in small groups and teaching individuals and churches the foundations of growing relationships within those same groups.

Today Matt and Steve talk about how to create healthy small group communities in your church and launch people into vibrant, balanced ministry. They will explore Steve’s new book, Small Groups with Purpose.

We know you are going to enjoy today’s interview.

You can also learn more about Steve’s ministry by clicking this link.

We are giving away TWO copies of Steve’s book. Here’s how you can get your copy:

1. Tweet or Post on Facebook the following:

Win a free copy of “Small Groups On Purpose.” Details: http://EaglesInLeadership.org

2.Sign up for the Eagles In Leadership blog (so you can be notified of winning) at http://EaglesInLeadership.org.

3. Comment at http://EaglesInLeadership.org, expressing your desire to have the book.

That’s it! Winners will be selected on July 20 and will be notified via EaglesInLeadership’s blog – on July 21st.

Matt encourages you to pick up a copy of Steve’s book, Small Groups with Purpose. This is a great resource from a great man of God. You can find more about the book and how to purchase a copy here.

Erick David Townsend of Moody Bible Institute’s radio ministry Urban Praise, interviewed Matt about his passion of Reaching Your Community in Your Generation in late May. They also talked about Matt’s involvement in the Moody Pastors Conference.

Urban Praise reaches out to anyone who enjoys the urban flava’ and doesn’t mind hearing a biblical perspective on world events.

They feature artists like Israel Houghton, Salvador, Kirk Franklin, Natalie Grant, Lecrae and more. We not only bring great music, but they have candid interviews with authors, financial experts, doctors and music artists. Whether it’s a simple contest with great prizes or odd stories with big laughs, our format is designed to edify. Urban Praise feels called to take the gospel to every “ethnos” (ethic group).

You can learn more about Urban Praise by clicking here.

In today’s episode, we explore the amazing world of social media for the Kingdom of God.

Matt’s guest today is Brandon Cox, who is currently a Pastor at Saddleback Church in Lake Forest, California, where he oversees the content and online community of Pastors.com. Brandon helps shape the social communication structure of the church and the Purpose Driven network. He also oversees the team that receives and handles correspondence for Pastor Rick Warren.

Today Matt and Brandon talk about the opportunities the Internet afford the church that wants to reach its world in its generation. This is an exciting discussion

Toward the end of the interview, they will talk about church planting and how God is moving in Brandon’s life at this time. Beginning in July of 2011, Brandon and his wife Angie will be planting Grace Hills Church in Bentonville, Arkansas, a Saddleback Network church.

You can learn more about Brandon’s ministry by clicking this link.

You can also become a prayer partner for Brandon and Angie’s new adventure by using this link.

Matt encourages you to pick up a copy of Brandon’s book, Twitter for Ministry – A Guide to Expanding Your Ministry’s Influence on Twitter, and start working through this great resource. You can order a copy here.

We know you are going to greatly appreciate today’s interview.

Mike Powers, Dr. H. Norman Wright, Jeanne Tropp (Mike’s Fiancee)

Our own Mike Powers caught up with Dr. H. Norman Wright recently and spoke to him about grief, trauma and loss and how it applies to our present situation as a nation and as God’s people.

H. Norman Wright is a licensed Marriage, Family and Child Therapist and he has taught in the Grad. Department of Biola University. He was former director of the Graduate Department of Marriage, Family and Child Counseling at Biola University, as well as an Associate Professor of Psychology. He was also Associate Professor of Christian Education and Director of the Graduate Department of Christian Education at the Talbot School of Theology. At the present time he is Research Professor of Christian Education at this same institution. He was in private practice for over thirty years.

Dr. Wright is a graduate of Westmont College, Fuller Theological Seminary (M.R.E.), Pepperdine University (M.A.). He has received two honorary doctorates, D.D. and D.LIT, from the Western Conservative Baptist Seminary and Biola University respectively.

He is the author of over seventy books including Experiencing Grief, The New Guide to Crisis and Trauma Counseling, Recovering From the Losses of Life, Quiet Times for Couples, and Before You Say I Do. Dr. Wright has pioneered Premarital Counseling programs throughout the country. He conducts seminars on Parenting, Recovering from the Losses of Life, Trauma and Crisis Counseling, and Marriage Enrichment.

His current focus is in grief and trauma counseling and critical incident debriefings. Part of his work is developing curriculum in loss, crisis and trauma as well as community wide Grief Recovery seminars. He is a Certified Trauma Specialist and a Certified Traumatologist. He is an ICISF trainer for the course, Trauma After Grief.

He belongs to the following professional organizations:

Academy of Bereavement
Critical Incident Stress Foundation, Inc.
Association of Traumatic Stress Specialists
Clinical Member of American Association of Christian Counselors
Clinical Member of California Association of Marriage and Family Therapist
Victim Chaplain Association of America

He has conducted workshops and training for various Health Departments, The Victim Chaplain and Counselor Association of America, Child Abuse Social Work Departments, Hospitals and Nurses organizations. Sudden death debriefings have been conducted at various facilities as well as Police and Fire Departments. He is the clinical coordinator for the debriefing teams for the Bakersfield Fire Department. He has traveled to New York five times since 9/11 conducting area wide Grief Recovery seminars as well as debriefings. Part of his specialty is working with parents of children or teenagers who have died or have been killed. He has also assisted in training seminars for Critical Incident Debriefings for the American Association of Christian Counselors.

He is a chaplain and counselor for The Victim Chaplain Association and has worked in the aftermath of Katrina in Louisiana.

He and his wife Joyce were married for forty-eight years and he lives in Bakersfield, California. His hobbies include bass fishing, gardening and training his Golden Retrievers, Shadow and Aspen, as therapy response dogs.

In today’s episode of the Transformed podcast, we explore the treacherous world of pastoral leadership.

Matt’s guest today is Larry Osborne, lead pastor at North Coast Church in northern San Diego County. 

As they discuss Larry’s new book, Sticky Teams, Larry will expose the hidden roadblocks, structures, and goofy thinking that sabotage even the best-intentioned teams.

Then, as the interview progresses, he explains to us what it takes to get (and keep) a board, staff, and congregation on the same page, sticking together as a unified, healthy, and dynamic team.

We know you are going to greatly appreciate today’s interview.

Matt wants to make sure you pick up a copy of Sticky Teams for everyone on your leadership board and start working through this great resource. You can do that here.

How good is it? As Pastor Geoff Surratt says: “This is the stuff we thought they’d teach us in seminary.”

About Larry Osborne

Larry Osborne has served as a Senior Pastor and Teaching Pastor at North Coast Church since 1980. He has helped oversee the growth of the church from a fledgling group of 128 meeting in a rented school, to a multi-site ministry that reaches nearly 7,000 in weekend attendance.

Larry is also an author and a nationally recognized trainer of pastors. His books include STICKY CHURCH: Slamming the Back Door Shut, 10 DUMB THINGS SMART CHRISTIANS BELIEVE, SPIRITUALITY FOR THE REST OF US and THE UNITY FACTOR: Developing A Healthy Leadership Team. He travels extensively speaking at conferences and mentoring pastors and church planters across the country. His latest book, STICKY TEAMS, was released by Zondervan in April 2010.

In addition to his work as a pastor and writer, Larry also serves as an adjunct professor in the doctoral program at Trinity Evangelical Seminary and as president of the North Coast Training Network – an arm of North Coast Church dedicated to helping pastors across the country maximize their ministry.

North Coast Church has been recognized as one of the ten most influential churches in America as well as one of the most innovative. Pioneers in the use of Video Worship Venues, North Coast launched the first ever Video Venue in 1998, starting what is now known in ministry circles as the “Multi-Site Movement.” Each weekend, North Coast offers over 20 different worship options on multiple campuses – each targeted at a specific demographic or geographic audience.

Transformed’s Mike Powers caught up with Sheila Walsh this week and spoke about her walk with God, her new book The Shelter of God’s Promises and her ministry.

Walsh began her career as a contemporary Christian singer after finishing college with studies in theology from London Bible College (now London School of Theology) in 1979 and music from the London Academy of Operatic Art. Sheila worked as an evangelist with the British chapter of Youth For Christ and sang with a group known as “The Oasis” until going solo in 1981. She also worked closely at this time with keyboard player Chris Rolinson, who contributed extensively to the unique sound on her first “new wave” style album, Future Eyes. He also toured with her on her first United States tour, where she opened for Phil Keaggy. As Sheila enjoyed some success both in the United Kingdom and America as a CCM musician, she was asked by the conservative minister Pat Robertson to serve as a co-host of his television talk-show, The 700 Club in 1987. Sheila served in this capacity into 1992 and also hosted her own talk-show, Heart to Heart with Sheila Walsh.

Ideological differences with Pat Robertson and general feelings of depression brought Sheila to re-examine her life’s direction. After leaving Pat Robertson’s enterprises in 1992 she sought therapy for her depression, eventually returning to college at Fuller Theological Seminary in California to take on doctoral studies in theology. Pat Robertson explained her departure from CBN as the result of a “nervous breakdown” brought on by the tremendous demands of her work with CBN. He asked his viewers to keep her in their prayers and ask God to give her the strength to continue doing His work.

She went on to write a book exploring her struggle with depression and her experiences with her faith as a Christian, entitled Honestly. While Walsh had written several books on theology before, this autobiography would become the wellspring of her later work on personal aspects of faith and would set the tone for her introspective, personal, but evangelical approach to affairs of modern theology.

Over the course of the latter 1990s, Sheila’s work has concerned women’s issues within the church and the unique relationship of the contemporary woman with God. Sheila has written over seventeen books including Honestly, Living Fearlessly, and Life is Tough, but God is Faithful. She has also written several books for children recently. She also has continued her musical career as a songwriter and singer and has recorded several albums of new Christian music and traditional hymns arranged to a Celtic sound.

In 2005, Sheila partnered with Tommy Nelson publishers to create a line of children’s books and DVDs called Gigi, God’s Little Princess^TM. The brand has become the #1 Christian Girl’s brand and continues to be popular and release new products today.

Sheila, with her family, is now an active attendee of Prestonwood Baptist Church, in Plano, Texas.

We are thrilled to welcome Jud Wilhite to the Transformed podcast today. Jud serves as Senior Pastor of Central Christian Church. Thousands attend Central’s campuses along with a global community who attend online. Jud is the author of several books including Throw It Down, Eyes Wide Open and Uncensored Grace. Under Jud’s leadership, Central is dedicated to helping people find their way to God. He is known for his conversational approach to teaching the Bible and his passion to help others know God and love him more. Jud and his wife, Lori, reside in the Las Vegas area with their two children and a slobbery Bulldog named Roxy.

You can learn more about Jud’s ministry here.

Throw It Down
A new book by Jud Wilhite

Whatever negative behaviors or dependencies are holding you captive-whatever is keeping you from being all that God created you to be-you can break free with the step-by-step help and gutsy examples presented in this book. Throw It Down is for those whose destructive habits are keeping them from the lifelong freedom they long for. In other words, it’s for just about all of us! All proceeds from the sales of Throw It Down go to support the ministries of Central Christian Church.

You can purchase Jud’s book here.

We are thrilled to bring you this special interview with our own Mike Powers and LeRoy Butler, as we think of the Super Bowl this Sunday!

LeRoy Butler, III (born July 19, 1968) is a former American football strong safety who played his entire career with the Green Bay Packers (1990–2001). He spent his childhood in Jacksonville, Florida, challenged by physical problems that forced him to wear leg braces and use a wheelchair at times while undergoing therapy. In 2007, he was named to the Florida High School Association All-Century Team, which selected the “Top 33″ players in the 100-year history of Florida high school football.

Sit back and relax, and enjoy Mike’s interview with LeRoy Butler!

You can learn more about LeRoy at his website here.

Today we welcome Dr. Tom Cocklereece who serves as pastor of Shady Grove Baptist Church in Marietta, GA and as CEO of RENOVA Coaching and Consulting LLC providing values-based transformational ministry, leadership, executive, marriage, and life coaching.

Tom is a leadership and church organizational development specialist having served as pastor of three churches in 20 years as well as in various leadership positions. His doctorate focused on church health and doctrinal integrity, developing a tool for measuring the doctrinal health of churches.

He is the creator of Simple Discipleship and author of Simple Discipleship: A Process for Making Disciples published by Church Smart Resources in 2009. Tom works with churches to implement this new paradigm for disciple-making churches.

You can learn more about Tom and his ministry here.

You can purchase Simple Discipleship here.

Mike Powers caught up with Daren Streblow exclusively for Eagles In Leadership this past week as they talked about Daren’s ministry, life and Christmas.

Daren Streblow appeals to wide audiences and has been described many ways: clean comedian, Christian comedian, corporate comedian, business comedian, college comedian, church comedian, youth group comedian, club comedian, school-assembly comedian, outreach comedian, and cruise ship comedian.

However, one description says it all – hilarious. If you are looking to book a comedian that appeals to a wide range of audiences, or you are just searching for some good clean fun, you need go no further than DarenStreblow.com!

Eagles In Leadership caught up with Scott Hammond recently and talked about his book, Every Day Dad: The Guide to Becoming a Better Father.

Hammond mentors fathers on how to attain their personal best in parenting while creating a legacy of love and support with their families.

Filled with real life stories and personal anecdotes, Hammond’s Every Day Dad seeks to offer hundreds of quick relief, motivational tips to inspire change and growth to make fathering a more positive experience.

Addressing all the challenges and stresses of parenthood, Hammond uses his business consulting acumen to teach readers skills to better connect with family,
friends and oneself.

Hammond lays out steps to help dads transform good intentions into positive actions. Besides learning how to listen more effectively, he shows fathers how to manage their time and resources to ensure that kids get the bonding they need. Designed to be hands-on and easy to use, Every Day Dad treats fathering as an applied science, which can be learned.

Says Jim Tunney, author, educator and former NFL referee, “Now comes along Scott Hammond’s book with lessons that, with effort (yes, it requires EFFORT) puts fatherhood in excellent perspective for your success.”

Every Day Dad: The Guide to Becoming a Better Father is available for sale online at Amazon.com and at Borders Books in Eureka, and other channels.

About the Author

Scott Hammond is professional speaker and the father of nine children.

Recognized as a parenting expert, he is the creator of Becomeabetterfather.com. After earning his bachelor of art’s degree in recreation administration and liberal arts at Humboldt State University, he worked in radio, newspaper and advertising sales for over 28 years. He is a
graduate of Pro-Track, the National Speakers Association of Northern California’s professional speaking school.

You can learn more about Scott and Every Day Dad here!

For more information on how to become a better dad, look here!

After a three-year departure, Audio Adrenaline lead singer Mark Stuart and bassist Will McGinniss return with some of their favorite emerging voices of worship as the Know Hope Collective, a ground-breaking initiative that combines worship music with stories of hope and inspiration.

According to Stuart and McGinniss, the Know Hope Collective will be an ever-changing group of musicians from a variety of backgrounds who come together to create worship music and share their unique experiences and testimonies.

“The Know Hope Collective is driven from an emerging style of worship and a place of vulnerability,” explains Stuart. “We go on a journey together through the good, bad and ugly to the redemptive side.”

Stuart says the Know Hope Collective grew out their own cathartic experience of sharing life stories with friends and church members. “We’d meet at Will’s horse farm around a campfire and talk vulnerably with each other about our successes as well as hardships. It was a time of healing and redemption as we discovered the evidence of God’s hand in our lives like never before and the importance of telling one’s story.”

So the duo’s pastor urged them to take their story-telling on the road, creating an intimate and hope-filled night of music, testimony and worship with friends. And the Know Hope Collective was born.

The Know Hope Collective Tour launches today, June 3, as the group appears with the Newsboys in Kingston, Ontario. It continues through the year with dates across the country including stops in California, Washington, Texas, Pennsylvania, Kentucky, etc. (Additional information and an updated tour schedule is available at http://knowhopecollective.com/.)

The Collective’s first album, Know Hope, is slated to release this fall. It is an intimate pairing of songs and spoken word that plumbs the depths of McGinniss and Stuart’s chart-topping heyday and post-band revelations.

“This first project was birthed out of the failure I went through being a singer who lost his voice,” Stuart says. “But the next one might be on missional living, orphan care or clean water, whatever God is leading us to.”

For Know Hope, Stuart speaks far more than he sings now, and shares the microphone with Julia Ross (of popular Disney group Everlife), David Leonard (former Jackson Waters vocalist and current touring member of NEEDTOBREATHE), and 2010 BMI Christian Music Award-winning Songwriter of the Year Jason Walker. The group introduces new cuts, including “Attention” and “Jealous God,” and reworks some Audio A hits like “Ocean Floor,” “The Good Life,” and “Hands and Feet” into fresh meditative expressions of worship.

“All of the spoken portions also have background music, and one story itself is over 14 minutes long,” says McGinniss. “So, it’s a very unique, content-rich experience.”

“Music and testimony have always been an integral part of how the Church worships,” adds John Coleman, Integrity Music’s vice president/general manager. “So, we are excited to partner with Will and Mark to develop Know Hope, which we believe will change lives and help people connect to God in a new and fresh way.”

Our own Mike Powers caught up with Amy Grant as she shared that she will once again bring fans some musical holiday cheer this Christmas season. The festive couple (Vince Gill and Amy) are planning a 12 Days of Christmas tour, hitting 11 cities this December.

Vince and Amy launched their first holiday tour together back in 2001, when they were newlyweds. It’s become a tradition Vince looks forward to each year.

“The job of spreading Christmas cheer has simply gotten too big for Santa and Rudolph to do alone. So Amy and I are pitching in,” he joked before their 2008 holiday shows. “Besides, these holiday tours have become our favorites.”

The tour’s set-list is certain to be robust, as Vince and Amy have recorded ten holiday albums between the two of them.

As they prep for their Christmas trek, both husband and wife have a lot on their plates during this second half of the year. Vince is sitting in the producer’s chair for LeAnn Rimes’ new CD of love songs popularized by male singers, while Amy spends some time on the road this fall as part of her Pieces Of Our Lives acoustic tour.

We are excited to have Bob Moeller share with us today on marriage and the recession. As Mike Powers caught up with Bob, they discussed the current stresses and strains a marriage undergoes in times like these.

Bob Moeller is a pastor who cares deeply about marriages and helping couples connect their hearts, for a lifetime. Bob and Cheryl are the Co-founders of For Better For Worse For Keeps Ministries.  Bob is currently the syndicated television host of the weekly call-in program, “Marriage: For Better, For Worse” on the Total Living Network. The TV show is in it’s sixth year.  He has authored ten books, two of those books were nominated for Gold Medallion Awards.  Three of those books are on marriage, written with Cheryl, including The Marriage Miracle, Keep Courting:  100 Ways to Keep Courting After Marriage, and For Better For Worse For Keeps.

Bob is an in-demand conference and weekend retreat speaker, author, television host, radio personality, and someone who works with couples to help them connect their hearts in marriage. Bob and Cheryl publish Marriage Minutes E-Devotionals, FREE to your email inbox, 5 days a week.  You can sign up for Marriage Minutes E-Devotionals, by writing to office@bobandcherylmoeller.com. He is not a licensed or professional counselor, but rather a pastor to couples. He earned his Doctor of Ministry degree from Trinity Evangelical Divinity School.  Write Bob: forkeepsministries@gmail.com

Want to keep up to date with TV and radio topics, notes, events, conferences, and news?  Join For Better For Worse For Keeps Ministries Fanpage on Facebook.

Bob and Cheryl, have been married 31 years and are the parents of six amazing children (ages 11 to 27), one awesome son-in-law, one grandbaby-to-be, and three lively dogs with large appetites.