The Intentional Parents Podcast
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Episodes: 194
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Do you long to be intentional about raising your kids to be passionate Jesus followers? Do you wish for a thriving marriage? A thriving life? Each week Phil and Diane Comer, along with Brook and Elizabeth Mosser, bring biblical hope and practical help in the how of life, marriage, and parenting. We invite you to join the conversation!
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Daily Habits, Formation, Why Did God Create My Kids, and Authority
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Nov 13, 2024 |
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Care Before Criticism, The Little Foxes, Encouragement, Unhappy Cycles, Helping Heal + 4 Ways to Move Forward (Marriage Episode)
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Nov 06, 2024 |
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Mountains, Entitlement, Relinquishment, Waiting, Letting Dreams Die + Acceptance
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Oct 30, 2024 |
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Analog Christians, Slowing, Ignatian Practices, + The Digital Examen (Interview with Jay Kim)
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Oct 23, 2024 |
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Fostering Connection, The Anxious Generation + The Digital Fast (Interview with Darren Whitehead)
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Oct 16, 2024 |
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Criticism, Child Loss, Envy, Resentment + A Culture of Encouragement (Live Q+R from MHR 24)
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Oct 09, 2024 |
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Anxiety, Collapse, Bed Time liturgy, Rhythms are NOT Rules, Habits, and Rule of Life (Interview with Justin Whitmel Early)
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Oct 02, 2024 |
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Technology, Guilt, Aligning with your Spouse and Core Memories (Interview with Joey Odom)
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Sep 25, 2024 |
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Big emotions, Naming Feelings, 6000 Thoughts a Day, Moralism, and Parenting Neuro Divergent Kids (Q+R)
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Sep 11, 2024 |
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Why Church? Navigating Mixture and Selfishness in Spiritual Communities (Interview with Josh White)
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Sep 04, 2024 |
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Over-Stimulated, Over Worked, The Gift of Limitations, The Greater Good we DO NOT Know, and 5 Questions to Discover your True Motivations
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Aug 21, 2024 |
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Blended Families, Divorce, Remarriage + Slowing Down (Interview with Jerry & Pat Sittser)
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Aug 14, 2024 |
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The Process of Jesus Changing You, Having Fun with God and The Tension of Parenting Teens (Q+R)
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Aug 07, 2024 |
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How to Talk to Your Kids about Porn, Being your kids Google, Sextortion, Mental Health and Pornography (Interview with Greta Eskridge)
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Jul 31, 2024 |
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No Accidental Saints, De-Formation, a Joy Deficit with Exhaustion, and Spiritual Realism (Interview with John Mark Comer)
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Jul 24, 2024 |
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Grief, Anger, Loss, Single Parenting, and Relaxed (Interview with Megan Fate Marshman)
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Jul 17, 2024 |
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The Jauregui Story: Long-suffering, Catastrophic Loss, + The Way of Jesus
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Jul 10, 2024 |
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Six Ways Comparison Kills, Not Good Enough, and The Mental Committee
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Jun 26, 2024 |
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The Art of Grandparenting & Relationships with Your Parents as an Adult
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Jun 19, 2024 |
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What if it's a Lie? "I'm a bad parent" and other half-truths we believe
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Jun 12, 2024 |
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Abuse, Disintegration, Tech, and The Life We Need (Interview With Andy Crouch)
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Jun 05, 2024 |
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Complaining, Negative Development, and Shame or Fear?
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May 29, 2024 |
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The Highly Sensitive Person, Delighting in Your Child When it’s Not Easy and Living in a Season of Obscurity (Q+R)
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May 22, 2024 |
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Alcohol & Food Addiction in a Culture of Normalization (Q+R)
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May 15, 2024 |
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The Process of Formation to Jesus in our Families
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May 08, 2024 |
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Individualism, Tithing, and Living Beyond Our Families
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Apr 24, 2024 |
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Forgiveness in Marriage, When sorry isn’t Enough, and Five ways to Apologize that bring Healing
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Apr 17, 2024 |
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Parental Gaslighting, The Greatest Enemy to our Children, and Parenting in Team (Interview with A.J Swoboda)
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Apr 10, 2024 |
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Church Hurt, Parental Repentance, and Emotions lived out in our Bodies (Q+R)
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Apr 03, 2024 |
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Parenting Through Emotions, Navigating the "I Feel, Therefore I Am Culture" and The Power of Emotions as God-Given Tools
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Mar 27, 2024 |
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Honoring Your Capacity, Insecurities, Complaining in Parenting and Four Key Questions to Embrace Your Calling and Capacity
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Mar 20, 2024 |
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Breaking Generational Patterns, Safety in Parenthood, Transforming Parenting Trauma + Raising Secure Children (Interview with Michael Handler)
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Mar 13, 2024 |
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Marriage, lessons learned over the long haul, and beyond “I do”
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Mar 06, 2024 |
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The Intentional Motherhood Retreat 2024
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Mar 05, 2024 |
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From Fury to Peace: How to Navigate Conflict with Curiosity & Compassion
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Feb 28, 2024 |
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Influencers, Accidental Mentorship, and How We Shape Our Families
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Feb 21, 2024 |
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Marriage, is therapy biblical, discipline, and what if you have already messed up badly as a parent? (Q+R live from San Diego)
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Feb 14, 2024 |
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Anger, triggers and being at your wit’s end (Replay)
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Jan 31, 2024 |
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The Gift of NO! How kindness + firmness bring flourishing
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Jan 24, 2024 |
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Parenting in the Digital Age
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Jan 17, 2024 |
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Creating a Culture of Connection, Expectations, and the Phonetic Pace at Christmas
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Dec 20, 2023 |
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Parenting opposite personalities, repentance from anger, and having kids outside of marriage (Q+R)
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Dec 13, 2023 |
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Overcapacity, navigating death, and fathering from a deficit (Q+R)
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Dec 06, 2023 |
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Striving, Distractions, and Living from a Still Place (Interview with Katharine Hill)
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Nov 29, 2023 |
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Anger, rage, and what it is trying to tell you (with guest Sally Lemos, MS, LPC)
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Nov 15, 2023 |
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What to do with fear, anxiety, and shame in our parenting?
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Nov 08, 2023 |
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A vision for your home, the daily mundane and the miraculous (Interview with Matt Markins)
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Oct 25, 2023 |
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Transparency, Fear of Failure and How the Church Can Respond to Trauma (Interview with Elizabeth Smith)
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Oct 18, 2023 |
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Motherhood Q+R (With Diane Comer, Elizabeth Mosser, Sally Lemos, and Greta Eskridge)
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Oct 11, 2023 |
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Resentment of duty and a joylessness boarding on anger + the pleasure principle
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Oct 04, 2023 |
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The problem with men in our world, the five shifts and beautiful terrible things (Interview with Jon Tyson)
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Sep 27, 2023 |
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Cancel culture, judgment, and why mercy matters
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Sep 20, 2023 |
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Essentials for Parenthood: Consecration
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Sep 06, 2023 |
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Bullies, mean girls, and creating an environment of safety, not judgment
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Aug 23, 2023 |
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Testing boundaries, catastrophic fear, and homeschooling
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Aug 16, 2023 |
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Chronic illness, helping your kids through trauma, and special needs
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Aug 09, 2023 |
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Miscarriage, loss, and the aftermath (Interview with Ryan and Annie Miller)
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Aug 02, 2023 |
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Depression, anxiety, praying over our children, and the transition from kids to teens (Q+R)
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Jul 26, 2023 |
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Intentional Grand-parenting and what adult children are needing from their parents
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Jul 19, 2023 |
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Fatherlessness (Interview with Josh White)
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Jun 30, 2023 |
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Emotional neglect, being reparented and how to get what we need most
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Jun 21, 2023 |
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Measuring up, our mental committee, I should’s, the impossible mother, and shepherding our homes
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Jun 14, 2023 |
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Regrets, Big Emotions, and Knowing Yourself so You Can Control Yourself
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Jun 07, 2023 |
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Parenting Children with Disabilities, God's Grace for Today and the Gift of the Un-know (Interview with Laura Wifler)
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May 17, 2023 |
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How to Discern God’s Will and The False Self
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May 10, 2023 |
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The Bible Project, teaching the skill of discernment and chasing desires (Interview with Tim Mackie)
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May 03, 2023 |
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Suffering, Prayer, and How to teach your kids to Talk to God (Interview with Strahan Coleman)
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Apr 26, 2023 |
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Being oblivious, closed family culture, idols, absorbing without resentment, and why extended family is often the hardest
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Apr 19, 2023 |
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Why we over-respond, self-regulation, neuroception, and good enough parenting (Interview with Sally Lemos MS, LPC)
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Apr 12, 2023 |
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The Intentional Motherhood Retreat
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Apr 06, 2023 |
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Essentials: Bottom-up vs. Top-down
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Apr 05, 2023 |
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Non-anxious curiosity, and the three words that change everything (Interview with Mark Batterson)
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Mar 29, 2023 |
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Wounding, Suffering, Trauma and how God Heals (Interview with Matthias J. Barker)
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Mar 22, 2023 |
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Optimal Deprivation
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Mar 15, 2023 |
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Essentials: Kindness and Firmness
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Mar 08, 2023 |
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How to teach your children to understand who they are, attunement, emotional dysregulation, and five things your kids need (Part 2)
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Mar 01, 2023 |
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How to teach your children to understand who they are, attunement, emotional dysregulation, and five things your kids need (Part 1)
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Feb 22, 2023 |
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Unusual children, exceptional children, and SEEING who your child is
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Feb 01, 2023 |
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Cherishing your wife, date nights, being emotionally unavailable, unspoken expectations, and tithing. Marriage Q+R
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Jan 25, 2023 |
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The Practice of these Nothings
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Jan 18, 2023 |
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Be angry, but don’t sin, but how? 6 ways to control your anger
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Jan 11, 2023 |
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A Year of Examinie: New Years Episode (Part 2)
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Jan 04, 2023 |
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A Year of Examinie: New Years Episode (Part 1)
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Dec 31, 2022 |
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Over touched, overstimulated, quieting our lives, the importance of non-sexual touch, how to not parents out of shame, and parenting through deep grief (Q+R)
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Dec 21, 2022 |
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Christmas Episode! Santa Clause, Healing Prayer, Trust, and Favorite Christmas Traditions
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Dec 14, 2022 |
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So Why Go to Church?
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Nov 30, 2022 |
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Dysfunctional families, shame, the side effects of divorce, grief, and being married to someone with trauma. (Interview with Dr. Barry Gridley)
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Nov 23, 2022 |
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When to give your child a phone, video games, mom burnout, and how to be an intentional grandparent. (Q+R) Part 2
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Oct 26, 2022 |
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When to give your child a phone, video games, mom burnout, and how to be an intentional grandparent. (Q+R) Part 1
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Oct 19, 2022 |
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Bonus Episode: Building Your Child's Emotional Wellbeing in a Post-Pandemic World (Interview with Katharine Hill)
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Oct 12, 2022 |
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Left to Their Own Devices?: Confident Parenting in a World of Screens (Interview with Katharine Hill)
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Oct 05, 2022 |
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Sibling Rivalry
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Sep 28, 2022 |
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The sustaining power of rituals
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Sep 21, 2022 |
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Redeeming time, dreams, overachieving recovering perfectionist, and waiting with fire in your bones (Interview with Ruth Chou Simons)
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Sep 14, 2022 |
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Neurodiverse children, chronic illness, and conflict in marriage. (Q+R)
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Sep 07, 2022 |
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Subversive Sabbath as a gift to your marriage, family, and formation (Interview with Dr. A.J. Swoboda)
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Aug 31, 2022 |
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Bonus Episode: Unschooling, regrets, and educating our children in these unique times
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Aug 26, 2022 |
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Anger, triggers, and being at your wit's end
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Aug 24, 2022 |
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Trauma, Catastrophic Loss, and A Grace Disguised (Interview with Jerry Sittser) Part 2
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Aug 17, 2022 |
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Trauma, Catastrophic Loss, and A Grace Disguised (Interview with Jerry Sittser) Part 1
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Aug 10, 2022 |
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Are the various gender roles in marriage just cultural constructs? What is the purpose of the different roles in a marriage, and what does the Bible say about it? Part 4 (Wives)
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Jul 20, 2022 |
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Are the various gender roles in marriage just cultural constructs? What is the purpose of the different roles in a marriage, and what does the Bible say about it? Part 3 (Wives)
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Jul 13, 2022 |
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Are the various gender roles in marriage just cultural constructs? What is the purpose of the different roles in a marriage, and what does the Bible say about it? Part 2 (Husbands)
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Jun 29, 2022 |
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Are the various gender roles in marriage just cultural constructs? What is the purpose of the different roles in a marriage, and what does the Bible say about it? Part 1
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Jun 22, 2022 |
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Five ways to make big life decisions, living led, and being the skin of God to others
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Jun 15, 2022 |
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Perfectionism and Idealism in your marriage, what does Jesus mean by being perfect and hoping for miracles when we are called to manage
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Jun 01, 2022 |
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Passivity, Big T trauma, healing, the rhythms our children need + servant leaders (Interview with author C.S. Fritz)
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May 18, 2022 |
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Struggling with self-worth as a parent, how to be a better man, letting God parent you, overexposing our kids and Kevin McCallister. (Live Q+R)
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May 11, 2022 |
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Attention is the rarest and purest form of generosity: The four questions your children are asking you
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May 04, 2022 |
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Post-traumatic growth, your superpower, and what God does with our trauma
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Apr 27, 2022 |
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The Origin Story: The Intentional Film Series
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Apr 20, 2022 |
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Your children will become who you tell them you see them becoming: The Blessing part 2
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Apr 13, 2022 |
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Your children will become who you tell them you see them becoming: The Blessing part 1
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Apr 06, 2022 |
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Intentional marriage, the upward spiral “relational right sizing” and designed to last: (Interview with Dino and Ashley Petrone)
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Mar 30, 2022 |
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How to enjoy your teenagers, delayed gratification of the early years, and 100 days of adventure: Interview with Greta Eskridge
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Mar 23, 2022 |
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Marriage, In-Laws, Shared Responsibilities, Over Reactivity, Fatigue, Brain Science and Emotional Regulation. (Live Q+R)
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Mar 09, 2022 |
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Husbands: 5 ways to support your wife in the early years
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Mar 02, 2022 |
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The Constant Little Deaths of Dreams
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Feb 23, 2022 |
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How to Thrive While Being Overwhelmed?
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Feb 16, 2022 |
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Parenting Despite your Trauma and Wounds
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Feb 09, 2022 |
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Mom Guilt: What do I do with my feelings of inadequacy as a mom?
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Feb 02, 2022 |
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To vaccinate or not to vaccinate, is that the only question?
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Jan 26, 2022 |
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Christmas Episode! How to keep your family close at Christmas, how to create memory hooks, a culture to be launched from and return to, and keeping traditions centered around Jesus.
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Dec 15, 2021 |
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Spiritual formation in motherhood, impatience, how to find time for Jesus, and the need to be redeemed, but how?
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Dec 08, 2021 |
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Digital addiction, screen time, boredom and the abundance of the ordinary
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Dec 01, 2021 |
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The holiday’s, family conflict, grandparents Involvement, and becoming peacemakers not just peacekeepers
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Nov 24, 2021 |
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An Occasional Series: Words Matter (words heal) Part 2
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Nov 03, 2021 |
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LGBTQ, how to talk about the hard stuff, and Q&A (part 2)
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Oct 20, 2021 |
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LGBTQ, how to talk about the hard stuff, and Q&A (part 1)
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Oct 13, 2021 |
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Try Softer (Interview with Aundi Kolber)
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Oct 06, 2021 |
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An Occasional Series: Words Matter (words hurt) Part 1
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Sep 29, 2021 |
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Agreed upon expectations, stop should-ing yourself and the power of winsome speech. Q+A part 2
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Sep 22, 2021 |
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Intentional marriage, winning over your husband, little practices that change the world and wives as helpers? Q+A part 1
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Sep 15, 2021 |
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An Effective Vision for Fatherhood
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Jun 16, 2021 |
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I’m a mess and I know it, when white knuckling doesn’t work, and God‘s presence with you
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Jun 02, 2021 |
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Satisfied (interview with Alyssa Bethke)
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May 26, 2021 |
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Flourishing
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May 12, 2021 |
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Mother’s Day Special
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May 07, 2021 |
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Anxiety, Mental Health, and Parenting (Our Story)
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Apr 28, 2021 |
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Parenting in the Age of Pornography Part 2 (Interview with Greta Eskridge)
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Apr 21, 2021 |
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Parenting in the Age of Pornography (Interview with Greta Eskridge)
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Apr 14, 2021 |
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The Teenage Years (Part 2)
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Apr 07, 2021 |
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Teenagers, 3 secrets, and what if you don’t like your kids?
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Mar 31, 2021 |
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How to become aware of your responsibility as a father
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Mar 03, 2021 |
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Personal, Practical and Powerful Prayer
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Feb 24, 2021 |
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Hesed! (what it is, why it’s important and how it will transform your marriage)
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Feb 17, 2021 |
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Stability in the Midst of Chaos
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Feb 10, 2021 |
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Creating self motivated learners, choosing curriculum, and why it’s ok to disappoint people sometimes (Homeschool Q & A Part 2)
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Nov 18, 2020 |
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Homeschooling with toddlers, getting creative with the small moments and knowing when it’s time to stop homeschooling (Homeschool Q + A Part 1)
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Nov 11, 2020 |
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Less Than Ideal Homeschooling, The Burden of Being Human and the Gift of Accepting What’s Happening Right Now
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Nov 04, 2020 |
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Conflict resolution in the family, grandparents, and how to prepare for children (Q+A Part 2)
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Oct 28, 2020 |
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What to do when you don’t feel love for your spouse, how to parent out of gentleness instead of anger and what to do with big emotions? (Q+A )
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Oct 21, 2020 |
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Portals of possibility, the importance of monotonous moments & how marriage and raising children is a catalyst for spiritual formation
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Oct 14, 2020 |
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The Importance of Family in our Cultural Moment (Interview with Derrick and Jamie Foxworth)
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Sep 09, 2020 |
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Intentional Fatherhood (Interview with Scott Harrison of Charity Water)
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Aug 12, 2020 |
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How to talk to your kids about racism, the third option and what the Bible says our response should be (Interview with Dr. Mark Strong)
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Aug 05, 2020 |
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Learning to Accept the Life I Actually Have- An Interview with Tammy Comer
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Jun 03, 2020 |
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Grieving honestly, what happens when we stop suppressing emotions, and how honest can we actually be with God?
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May 27, 2020 |
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Diane’s story: Unexpected gifts in suffering, hearing God’s voice in a world void of sound and teaching our kid’s a theology of suffering.
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May 20, 2020 |
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Kids who are wired differently, sensory processing and viewing our children as fearfully and wonderfully made (Interview with Michelle Colquhoun Occupational Therapist)
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Apr 29, 2020 |
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Intentional Living (Interview with Dino and Ashley Petrone)
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Apr 22, 2020 |
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5 Ways to Flourish While Homeschooling During Covid-19
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Apr 15, 2020 |
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The Box
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Apr 08, 2020 |
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The Kingdom at Home
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Apr 01, 2020 |
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Emotionally Healthy Family (Interview with Pete Scazzero)
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Mar 25, 2020 |
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How to respond to COVID-19 as a family
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Mar 19, 2020 |
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The Primal Path (Interview with Jon Tyson)
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Mar 18, 2020 |
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Church, Silence and Solitude, & Quiet Times: part 2
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Mar 11, 2020 |
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Church, Silence and Solitude, & Quiet Times: part 1
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Mar 04, 2020 |
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Homosexuality, Gender, & Faith (Interview with Preston Sprinkle)
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Feb 26, 2020 |
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Education
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Feb 19, 2020 |
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Q+A (answering your questions on all things life and parenting)
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Feb 12, 2020 |
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Bonus Episode 3: What to do when you are not enough? (Interview with Elizabeth and Diane)
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Dec 18, 2019 |
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Bonus Episode 2: Success, unhealthy striving, and embracing the unique season God has you in
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Dec 11, 2019 |
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Bonus Episode 1: Blessing and cursing, the frustration formula, and 4 things you will need to stay close as a family
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Dec 04, 2019 |
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Wide spread divorce, partial attention, and the ruthless elimination of hurry (Interview with John Mark Comer)
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Nov 27, 2019 |
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Raising an Original, Capacity, and flexible intentionality (interview with Julie Lyles Carr)
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Nov 19, 2019 |
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Manic tension, leaving a legacy, and sibling rivalry
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Oct 23, 2019 |
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The power of sexual intimacy, being friendly, the attention economy, and better together
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Oct 16, 2019 |
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The weak-willed, parents lying to you, & 5 indispensable principles
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Oct 09, 2019 |
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Earning the right to be heard, micro moments, & sowing into your limitations
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Oct 02, 2019 |
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The sex talk
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Sep 25, 2019 |
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Tragedy, the most beautiful women in the world, and children with special needs: The Story of Birdie James
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Sep 18, 2019 |
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Single Parenting, pre-frontal cortex, and the rational brain: Q&A
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Sep 11, 2019 |
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Sibling rivalry, father wounds, and the respect effect: Interview with Dr. Emerson Eggerichs of Love and Respect
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Jul 03, 2019 |
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Marriage, warrior mode, and sex: Interview with Dr. Emerson Eggerichs of Love and Respect
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Jun 26, 2019 |
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18 hugs a day, the fatherless generation and speaking identity over your children. The BOX: part 4
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Jun 19, 2019 |
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Nutrition, business vs hurry and is the problem really the problem? The BOX: part 3
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Jun 12, 2019 |
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Sinful anger, strategic disappointment, and to spank or not to spank? The BOX: part 2
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Jun 05, 2019 |
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How to discipline your child without harm, patterns that prevent freedom, and empowered to be who you really are. The BOX: part 1
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May 29, 2019 |
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In-laws, conflict, and marriage to a difficult man
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May 22, 2019 |
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Goals and Values
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May 15, 2019 |
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Childhood wounds
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May 08, 2019 |
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Trailer
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May 01, 2019 |