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Choose from 17 courses in marriage, parenting, and personal life relationships from Dr. Jim Burns to use at your convenience. Each course includes a downloadable PDF to help you follow along. Browse the library below and get started!

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6 Sessions

A Student's Guide to Sexual Integrity: Online Course

Everybody’s talking about sex these days, but it’s hard to figure out who to listen to. There are a lot of disagreements and many harmful messages going around. So as you grow and mature, it’s important that you’re getting loving, biblically grounded answers to some of life’s most embarrassing and confusing questions.

Dr. Jim Burns

7 Sessions

Finding Joy in the Empty Nest: Seminar Course

When the kids are gone, you can discover a richer, deeper, and more fulfilling life than you ever imagined! Whether you’ve been looking forward to it or dreading it, the experience of coming home to an empty nest brings with it a well of emotions, realizations and one gigantic, all-consuming thought: Now what?

Dr. Jim Burns

7 Sessions

Doing Life With Your Adult Children: Interactive Digital Course

For parents with adult children, parenting doesn’t stop when a child reaches the age of eighteen. In many ways, it gets more complicated. Parenting expert Dr. Jim Burns helps them navigate the toughest and the most rewarding parts of parenting grown kids.

Dr. Jim Burns

3 Sessions

Doing Life With Your Adult Children: Seminar Course

In this course, Burns covers nine principles in three sessions with 10-15 minutes of content each. These are positive principles on bringing kids back to faith, ideas on how to leave a legacy as a grandparent, and encouragement for every changing season.

Dr. Jim Burns

4 Sessions

Teaching Your Children Healthy Sexuality: Seminar Course

All studies show that the more positive, healthy, sex education taught from home, the less promiscuous kids will be. This fast-paced, practical course gives parents confidence to help their kids face the ever-changing culture with a healthy, Biblical view of their sexuality.

Dr. Jim Burns

6 Sessions

Creating a Media Safe Home: Seminar Course

Media is one of the strongest influencers on kids and many parents feel ill-equipped, especially when it comes to Snapchat, TikTok, gaming and sexting. This course is filled with practical help, inspiring media, and a Biblical perspective to help kids make wise decisions.

Dr. Jim Burns

6 Lessons

Confident Parenting: Seminar Course

Many parent their kids by circumstance and chance. This course offers a comprehensive approach for developing a healthy God-honoring parenting philosophy as well as a strategy to create a healthy atmosphere. Using this plan, parents will become more confident.

Dr. Jim Burns

5 Lessons

Generation to Generation: Seminar Course

Raising children and teens to know and love God is a parent’s duty, privilege, and perhaps the most rewarding achievement in life! One of the deepest desires of parents is to provide a legacy of faith for their family. This course will give you the practical tools to make that happen.

Dr. Jim Burns

5 Sessions

Building Healthy Morals and Values: Seminar Course

Popular culture continues to change and provide challenges with authority and influence over kids. This course will help develop a strategy for guiding kids towards healthy choices in areas of entertainment, sexuality and substances. It will also help parents navigate the constantly changing culture.

Dr. Jim Burns

4 Sessions

Understanding Your Teen: Seminar Course


Teenagers are growing up in a very different world than even the previous generation. They are in transition between childhood and adulthood. This course won’t give you all the answers but does provide a road map to help successfully guide kids through the rough waters of adolescence.

Dr. Jim Burns

6 Sessions

Understanding Your Teen: Interactive Digital Course

Family expert Dr. Jim Burns provides a handy guide for parenting teens as he takes questions from a live audience. He tackles the realities of our day, including cyberbullying, self-injury, depression, and more. There are six sessions in this course along with videos and discussion questions.

Dr. Jim Burns

7 Sessions

Creating an Intimate Marriage: Seminar Course

For most couples, developing intimacy and drawing closer together doesn’t come easy. In this inspirational course, couples will learn to set the mood, tone, and atmosphere in their relationship and to rekindle romance as well as work on the issues that can keep a marriage from thriving.

Dr. Jim Burns

6 Sessions

First Few Years of Marriage: Interactive Digital Course

Every marriage needs to be built on a strong foundation if it’s going to last a lifetime. Marriage experts Dr. Jim Burns and Doug Fields provide practical help and take questions from a live audience. There are six sessions in this course accompanied by videos and discussion questions.

Dr. Jim Burns and Doug Fields

5 Sessions

Positive Adaptability in Your Marriage and Relationships: Seminar Course

When the emotional climate of a marriage changes through improved communication and intimacy, the relationship is better in every way. Although there are no secret formulas to create a successful relationship, three traits shine above the rest. Burns will share these life-changing principles.

Dr. Jim Burns

6 Sessions

The Virtual "Refreshing Your Marriage" Conference

This incredible conference is now available as an online experience! It includes six full-length sessions from speakers Dr. Jim Burns, Doug Fields, and Megan Hutchinson. Access this valuable, relevant and helpful content on your own timeline, and learn how to prioritize a marriage in a busy world.

Dr. Jim Burns and Doug Fields

7 Sessions

Have Serious Fun And 12 Other Principles to Make Your Life Count: Seminar Course

C.S. Lewis once said, “You can’t go back and change the beginning, but you can start where you are and change the ending.” This course provides key principles to thrive with family, relationships, and in leadership. It is all done in an interactive way, introducing life-changing lessons on relevant topics.

Dr. Jim Burns

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