An 81-year-old widower on grief after losing his wife of 57 years, being angry at God, and the Christian marriage advice he gives younger husbands. Charles Richardson also talks about reading struggles, losing his daughter to ALS, and the verse from 2 Timothy his wife wrote out for him over 40 years ago.

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Brian and Ivy Scoggin never planned to adopt. Then a verse in James led them into foster care, an adoption fell through on its final day, and a month later a friend at the hospital called about a two-day-old, five-pound baby girl.

Brian, former drummer for Casting Crowns and now pastor of Mount Gilead, and Ivy, a pediatric speech therapist, also share the frightening ultrasound that led their church to fast and pray for six weeks, the moment Ivy's stepdad gave his life to Christ, and what more than 22 years of marriage has taught them about sacrifice.

A conversation for anyone waiting on a prayer, a child, or a change of heart.

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He never proposed, and they've been married 33 years. Vonda Kay Blount grew up in Zebulon, Georgia, the oldest child of parents who divorced when she was nine. She tells Levi Steele how she became the "little mother" to her brothers, how a Sunday school lesson on the Romans Road changed her life at 11, and why divorce is "a process that continues forever."

Plus: the kindergarten classmate she reconnected with at a Pike County football game, the jealous non-proposal that ended in a ring, and what Pike County looked like when there was one stoplight on the square.

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