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On-The-Air with the ConwaysThe Harvest Show air date to be announced for Jim's interview about the re-release of his book, Your Husband's Midlife Crisis.
Please pray the Lord will be glorified through the interviews and that the Holy Spirit will touch the lives of people watching the shows and help them as individually needed. Jim Conway and his book, Your Husband's Midlife Crisis Jan Conway and her book, The Finisher |
Annual Chat Room Retreat November 5-7, 2010 Yorba Linda, California Retreat Description
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Orange County Airport Code: SNA Where has Jim been?
As one of the original pastors of the Village Bible Church, Jim Conway was invited to speak at the 50th Anniversary Celebration on July 25th, 2010.
Jim and Jan traveled to Carol Stream, Illinois, to attend the 50th anniversary and Jim was the special guest speaker at the church service on Sunday.
Jim and Jan are asking you to join them in praying for this church to continue glorifying the Lord and serving Christ another 50 years.
You can listen to the July 25, 2010, sermon by clicking on the icon above. We're counting down to our30th anniversary!![]() |
| Our Culture Makes Midlife More Difficult |
by Jim Conway, Ph.D. ©2000 Many cultural factors intensify the midlife transition and help cause it to become a crisis.
The midlife man sees a guy in the paper aged 42 has died, he calls out to his wife, "Hey, Honey, did you see this in the paper? This guy was only 42, and he died of a heart attack!"
Too many things are keeping him from accomplishing what he wants to do. He feels worse than ever before in his life. At this point, he is entering his midlife crisis. 6. The knowledge explosion is intense. Two forces are at work in opposite directions. One is the explosion of knowledge, and the other is the expanding responsibility at work--both demand more time and energy. Both of these factors work in opposition to his aging body that doesn’t have the bounce and spring it had at 25. 7. The body is aging. One morning as he shaves, he looks at his face and sees a really old man, with wrinkles around his mouth and eyes, graying hair on the temples, a receding hairline, and the growing bald spot on top. Then, horror of horrors, he looks at his waist. So, that’s where his chest went!He mumbles to himself, "I’m not keeping up at work, I’m repeatedly told that youth is the only good age. My marriage is in trouble. My kids think they don’t need me. My parents are needing my attention. I’m getting nearer to death. What does it all mean, anyway?". He begins to feel he has too many problems. There is a circuit overload. Too many things are keeping him from accomplishing what he wants to do. He has spent all these years, all of the vigor of his youth, and what has it done for him? He feels worse than ever before in his life. At this point, he is entering his midlife crisis.
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2. We live in a throw-away society. When I was at a men’s retreat with men who worked for electronic companies, they said their competitive industry has a systematic evaluation program to wash men out. When they started with the company as young men, they were given lots of affirmation and positive strokes, but when they turned 40, the company started evaluating them more often.
about his marriage. However, the midlife marriage is marked with the husband’s midlife crisis, when he is feeling a combination of guilt because he has neglected his marriage, and hopelessness because he feels the marriage is dull and dead--plus the wife has had her own midlife crisis and now wants to go back to school to become a lawyer. Why should he even try to revive this stressed-out marriage?
7. The body is aging. One morning as he shaves, he looks at his face and sees a really old man, with wrinkles around his mouth and eyes, graying hair on the temples, a receding hairline, and the growing bald spot on top. Then, horror of horrors, he looks at his waist. So, that’s where his chest went!