Let's Parent on Purpose: Christian Marriage, Parenting, and Discipleship
385 episodes - English - Latest episode: 23 days ago - ★★★★★ - 136 ratingsA weekly podcast designed to strengthen your marriage, parenting, and personal relationship with Jesus. Let's Parent on Purpose is a part of the Christian Parenting Podcast Network. To find practical and spiritual advice to help you grow into the parent you want to be visit www.ChristianParenting.org
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LPOP 36 What if it’s a Category 5 crisis?
September 18, 2017 04:59 - 18 minutes - 16.8 MBSometimes the worst of storms do actually happen in life. What do we do then?
LPOP 35 Communicating with a teenager
September 04, 2017 11:04 - 18 minutes - 16.5 MBIn the absence of a mind reading device, here are some tips to help understand and be understood with your teen.
LPOP 34 I wish I was a better parent
August 28, 2017 04:49 - 19 minutes - 17.7 MBComplications at home and comparisons with other families can really tank one’s confidence in their parenting skills. But there’s hope!
LPOP 33 No Mo FOMO
August 21, 2017 04:59 - 13 minutes - 12.6 MBFear of Missing Out is a disease that’s stealing the joy out of happy times.
LPOP 32 Backpacks, Boulders, and Boundaries
August 14, 2017 20:34 - 17 minutes - 16.3 MBWarning: the next 600 words might have severe impact on your parenting and relationships. This is the week kids dread and parents dream about all summer-at least in my house. The first day of school has arrived. Moms and dads (OK, mostly just moms) across the country are scouring the school supply list to see all the items that need to fit into each little tyke’s backpack. It’s fun to watch children shop for backpacks, find that special one, and then fill it with all of the treasures ne...
LPOP 31 Chemo is done and I’m afraid
August 07, 2017 04:59 - 21 minutes - 20.1 MBAs of today, we are done with all chemo treatment. I can’t believe I’m actually writing this. On April 14, 2014, our family’s world was turned upside down when we were told our little 5 year old boy had Leukemia. I remember the first night in the Pediatric Intensive Care Unit, watching the nurse come into our room over and over again, switching out bags of blood and other medicines. I didn’t know much about leukemia at the time, I’m not even sure I was positive it was cancer before Eli...
LPOP 30 Consequences Don’t Have to Be Immediate
July 31, 2017 04:49 - 15 minutes - 13.8 MBSometimes delaying the consequences for a while – while you collect your thoughts and make a great plan – can be much more effective than shooting form the hip. Here’s why.
LPOP 29 An Interview with Dr. Samuel Thomas
July 24, 2017 04:49 - 18 minutes - 16.8 MBThis was a special and rare opportunity to interview one of my dear friends and spiritual heroes, Dr. Samuel Thomas of Hopegivers International. Hopegivers rescues orphaned and at risk children throughout India and plant churches throughout South Asia.
LPOP 28 When Mom is managing alone
July 17, 2017 04:59 - 22 minutes - 20.9 MBSo many moms are carrying double the spiritual load for the family. Here’s some encouragement on what to do if you find yourself in that spot.
LPOP 27 When Dad is a Spiritual Dud
July 09, 2017 04:59 - 20 minutes - 18.3 MBWhat happens when dad falls through on spiritually leading the family?
LPOP 26 Want to Be a Better Parent? Be a Better Spouse.
July 03, 2017 10:45 - 21 minutes - 19.7 MBToo often a marriage becomes child focused. Not only is this bad for the husband and wife, it’s terrible for the kids!
LPOP 25 Get to know Gen Z Part 2
June 19, 2017 20:30 - 32 minutes - 30 MBhttps://www.letsparentonpurpose.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/LPOP-25-Get-to-Know-Gen-Z-Part-2.mp3
LPOP 24 Get to Know Gen Z Part 1
June 05, 2017 04:59 - 20 minutes - 19 MBA gang or real live experts on Generation Z from our student ministry joins me for a discussion on the differences between Millennials and Generation Z With Davis Price, Chloe Reddick, John Klein, and Brock Olsen
LPOP 22 3 Ways to Stop Being a Church Consumer
May 22, 2017 04:59 - 23 minutes - 21.2 MBHas culture conditioned you and your family into looking at the church as just one more commodity to be consumed?
LPOP 21 Mother’s Day Thoughts: Rebel and Repeat
May 14, 2017 04:59 - 17 minutes - 15.9 MBOn this Mother’s Day weekend, here are some thoughts on how my childhood, as well as that of my parents, has drastically affected my own parenting.
LPOP 20 An Interview With A Smart Teenager
May 08, 2017 04:49 - 20 minutes - 18.8 MBDavis Price is one of my favorite people in the world, and is graduating high school this year after 7 years in our youth ministry. In this interview, I ask him about life, understanding adulthood, and the influence that a healthy church has made on his life.
LPOP 19 13 Reasons Why You Should Pay Attention To This Show
May 01, 2017 04:59 - 20 minutes - 18.8 MB13 Reasons Why is a Netflix series that is sweeping the nation. Especially if you have children over 10 years old you need to pay attention to some very scary things in this show.
LPOP 18 Training for Disobedience
April 24, 2017 04:59 - 21 minutes - 19.6 MBA great question about when to baptize your kids leads to the thought: Are we training our kids for disobedience?
LPOP 17 3 Ways to Encourage Gratitude
April 17, 2017 04:59 - 20 minutes - 18.5 MBGratitude is hard work! Here are 3 ways to make it habitual.
LPOP 16 The Valley of the Shadow and Easter
April 10, 2017 04:59 - 11 minutes - 10.3 MBI wrote these thoughts while sitting in my son’s room on Easter Morning in 2014, seven days after he began treatment for Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia.
LPOP 15 Responding Vs. Reacting
April 03, 2017 04:59 - 14 minutes - 13.5 MBIn every tense situation there are two lessons happening. 1) What you say, 2) How you say it.
LPOP 14 Big Picture Praying
March 27, 2017 04:59 - 18 minutes - 17.2 MBDon’t let the immediate worries of life keep you from praying big picture prayers for your children!
LPOP 13 Relax Your Grip
March 20, 2017 04:59 - 17 minutes - 16.5 MBSometimes we shoot ourselves in the foot when we try to control to much in our kid’s lives…
LPOP 12 A Dad’s Thoughts on Dating Part 2
March 13, 2017 04:59 - 12 minutes - 11.3 MBSo your kids are ready to start dating? Gulp! Here are some helpful, practical thoughts to coach them towards right goals and wise boundaries.
LPOP 11 A Dad’s Thoughts on Dating Part 1
March 06, 2017 04:59 - 17 minutes - 16.1 MBCritiques of modern dating practices and coaching tips for your kids as they walk toward helpful relationships!
LPOP 10 When Your Child Suffers
February 27, 2017 04:59 - 19 minutes - 17.9 MBOne of the hardest things to walk through as a parent is the suffering of your child. How do you make the most of a terrible situation?
LPOP 9 What’s Your Parenting Style
February 20, 2017 04:59 - 22 minutes - 20.3 MBDrill Sergents, Helicopters, and Consultants, Oh My! Here’s an overview of three different types of parenting styles with three different consequences.
LPOP 8 Why Purity?
February 13, 2017 04:59 - 19 minutes - 18 MBHere’s the best explanation I’ve ever encountered on why pursuing a path of purity is so important.
LPOP 6 Backpacks and Boulders
January 30, 2017 04:59 - 18 minutes - 17.2 MBThis podcast is on one of the most helpful teachings I’ve ever come across. How can you be helpful without enabling?
LPOP 5 Enabling in a Good Way
January 23, 2017 04:59 - 17 minutes - 15.6 MBWhat if we’re complimenting the wrong things in our kids? Here’s a great way to enable your kids to go over, around, or through the brick walls in their life.
LPOP 4 Womanhood
January 16, 2017 05:00 - 18 minutes - 16.6 MBHere’s my best effort at a “simple” definition of Womanhood. Which is hard because I’m not a woman and I don’t find women to be simple.
LPOP 3 Manhood
January 09, 2017 15:52 - 14 minutes - 13 MBHere’s a podcast on a great, simple definition to teach your kids about what it means to be a man.
LPOP 2 Hardwiring Habits
January 01, 2017 06:00 - 18 minutes - 17 MBA relatively quick overview of how to create and replace habits. This could really change your life, it changed mine!
LPOP 1 It’s a Marathon
December 30, 2016 18:17 - 18 minutes - 17.3 MBhttps://www.letsparentonpurpose.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/Its-a-Marathon-Lets-Parent-on-Purpose-1-.mp3 This is Episode 1 of the Let’s Parent on Purpose Podcast! It’s a little rough as I’m learning the technical side of things as well as how to stare at a microphone and pretend it’s a person, but hopefully you can be encouraged that God is going to use you over the long haul! Have the calamities of any particular day of parenting ever made you feel like a total failure? Be encourag...