Neal Black

As Associate Director, Neal is helping to shape the direction of FamilyLife Canada. With over 25 years of leadership and speaking experience, his involvement includes content development, speaking, training, Website director, online mentoring, graphic design with his primary focus being Partnerships with other like-minded ministries seeking to help families. June not only speaks with Neal locally and internationally but also handles the video development areas with content for the conferences and website.
Neal gets a rush from mountain biking and loves to read, and June loves spending time with family and friends – especially if it involves specialty coffees and playing games. Most of all, they love spending time together with their two daughters and son-in-law.

Articles by Neal Black

A Pet Owner’s Greatest Fear

It hurt today as I said goodbye to Max. Our little dog would have turned 13 in a few days but he never made it. He was getting weaker and on Monday he was so sick that I stayed home from work with him and held him most of the day. I had to carry [...] Read More >

Are You Still Interested In Each Other?

When you were dating you where head over heels interested in each other. You knew when your partner got up in the morning, what they had at Starbucks, who they called each day and who they hated from your favorite TV show.  Being interested in each other was one of the strengths of your relationship. [...] Read More >

Fear At the Top of the Hill

I looked down the 15 foot rock face that the other guys had just ridden down on their mountain bikes and the sight of it froze me in place.  But hey, the other five guys did it so I backed up, approached the steep decline and … froze again, jamming on the brakes.  My buddies [...] Read More >

Go for Gold in Your Sex Life

You be the Olympic judge of your sex life: Gold, Silver, Bronze or nowhere near the podium! With sex being such a hot topic and the Olympics coming to Vancouver it made me wonder if couples really put effort into improving their sex life and how do you go about pursuing the “gold” in your [...] Read More >

Help! My Wife Doesn’t Want Sex

You might feel like you’re alone in this, but you’re not. Free email mentoring is available today. Request a mentor. I agree with Dan Allendar when he says that, “Sex is volatile and it was meant to be.” For guys, when we are getting regular sex the world is as it should be and we [...] Read More >

How Much Sex Do You Get?

Michele Weiner Davis in this video clip mentioned the average couple has sex 1.5 times a week. I know, what is the .5? Was it when they were interrupted by a kid knocking at the door? But really, how accurate are these stats? How many times did you have sex with your spouse last week? And [...] Read More >

I’m a Married Man Struggling with Porn

It’s one thing to read all the stats about porn addiction and how many struggle with it but the bottom line is, how do we deal with it? Then there’s that lingering question: am I addicted or just struggling? If you wonder where you are at with porn check out the assessments at: http://www.sexhelp.com/sast.cfm. You [...] Read More >

Influence Check Up

Tom and Susan have a strong marriage – full of love and laughter, vibrant, intimate, satisfying.  And they know it will last a lifetime.  But that’s not how they would have described their relationship even a few years ago.   There was a lot missing in those days.  They were drifting and distant and felt more [...] Read More >

Keeping December 1st Sacred

In our family December 1st is one of the most sacred days of the year. Come rain, snow, sleet or hail nothing can stop this day so sacred (Ya, I know, it doesn’t rhyme but you try rhyming with ‘sacred’). On this day of days I enter the crawl space and haul plastic tote after [...] Read More >

Marriage Advice for a Season of Sports

“Hockey season? Oh no, I just lost him again.” “Football every Sunday, and Monday?!” Wives across the country who are not as passionate about sports are probably thinking similar thoughts as they watch their husband (or boyfriend) take his place on the couch where he plans to live until Christmas. This difference of opinion can [...] Read More >


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