The DRIVE

Stories, principles, and practical help for the road ahead

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The Drive is a growing resource library of stories, principles, and practical ideas designed to help parents, teens, and families navigate real-life challenges. Browse by topic, explore featured episodes, and find help for the road ahead.

Browse by Topic

Parenting & Teens
Practical help for raising, teaching, and connecting with teens.

Personal Worth & Identity
Help for building confidence, understanding your worth, and seeing yourself more clearly.

Gratitude & Happiness
Resources for developing gratitude, perspective, contentment, and greater happiness.

Adversity & Resilience
Stories and principles for getting back up, enduring hard things, and moving forward.

Relationships & Divorce
Guidance for navigating relationships, family change, heartbreak, and rebuilding.

Money, Work & Responsibility
Principles for finances, work ethic, responsibility, stewardship, and preparing for adulthood.

Faith & Spiritual Growth
Resources for strengthening faith, trusting God, and finding perspective.

Technology & Social Media
Practical ideas for helping families use technology with wisdom and purpose.

Goals, Growth & Purpose
Help for setting direction, making changes, building better habits, and becoming who you want to be.

Find Help for What You’re Facing

Start with the question or challenge that feels closest to what you’re dealing with right now.

How do I help my teenager through a hard time?

What do I do when life doesn’t go the way I planned?

How do I rebuild after divorce or major family change?

How can I help my kids use technology wisely?

How do I become more resilient when life gets hard?

How can I find more gratitude and happiness?

Featured Resources

Start with some of the most helpful and enduring stories and principles from The Drive.

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How to Raise Responsible, Independent Kids Without Enabling Them
Help kids develop responsibility, confidence, life skills, and greater independence without doing everything for them. Explore Resource

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How to Help Your Kids Build Healthy Technology Habits Practical help for navigating phones, screens, gaming, social media, boundaries, and healthier technology habits at home.
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A pair of vintage boxing gloves hanging on a gray concrete wall.

Getting Back Up When Life Knocks You Down Find practical perspective for building resilience and moving forward after failure, heartbreak, disappointment, or loss.
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Three loaves of bread sprinkled with flour and topped with sunflower seeds, crushed nuts, and white sugar crystals, garnished with wheat stalks, on a dark wooden surface.

When God Gives You Enough for Today
Discover what daily bread can teach about prayer, patience, God’s timing, and trusting Him one step at a time.
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You Are Not Your Mistake
Learn how to take responsibility for mistakes without allowing shame, regret, or failure to define who you are.
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Silhouettes of man and woman riding bicycles and holding hands against a colorful sunset sky with clouds.

When a Relationship Ends: Let Go and Keep Growing
Find perspective for navigating heartbreak, separation, and change while continuing to heal, grow, and move forward.
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Featured Collections

Raising Resilient Kids

Practical stories and principles for helping children and teens develop courage, responsibility, confidence, and the strength to keep going when life gets hard.

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Helping Teens Know Their Worth

Resources for helping teens build confidence, understand their identity, overcome comparison, and recognize their individual worth.

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Getting Back Up

Encouragement and practical help for facing failure, disappointment, adversity, and the difficult seasons that require us to rise again.

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Technology & the Family

Practical guidance for navigating phones, social media, screens, boundaries, and healthier technology habits at home.

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Explore the Full Resource Library

Browse the complete collection of stories, principles, and practical resources from The Drive. Find help by topic, life challenge, or the question you’re trying to answer.

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About the DRIVE

The Drive began as a podcast built around faith, family, personal growth, and the lessons we learn along the way. This Resource Library brings together the strongest stories, ideas, and principles from the archive so you can quickly find something useful for what you’re facing right now.

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