Adopting Special Needs Alice Candace Ep 213
Don't Mom Alone Podcast
08/20/18
•60m
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Often the hardest assignments in our lives bring us the greatest good. I’ve seen it to be true in my own life. And have walked this Truth with friends on their journeys.
In this episode I’ve invited my friends Alice and Candace to share their stories of adoption. And the process of discovering their adopted children have special needs. We also discuss how God has led them each into new ministries because of the children He’s brought into their families.
I love seeing God’s purpose for Alice & Candace unfold alongside their leaning on Him for strength and guidance. Not to mention how they follow Him obediently with humor and grace!
I don’t know if God made Millie have autism or if that is a result of living in a fallen world. That’s something that I question every day. But I do know that the struggles that she has had more than anything else have shaped our family in a way that I think brings glory to God, more than the easy and fun and good things.–Alice
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Opportunity vs Disruption Paul David Tripp Ep 212
August 13, 2018
•66m
In the thick of parenting it is easy to get our perspective skewed or react to our children from a place of emotion or our own sin. My guest Dr. Paul David Tripp gives a course-correcting pep talk reminding parents of their deep calling from God and how to look at discipline as an opportunity to connect our kids with God’s goodness.
“You’re never just dealing with behavior. You’re always dealing with what controls the child’s behavior and that’s his heart. And if God consciousness doesn’t rule my heart, self orientation will. That’s what has to change. No I can’t create that change, but I can I can give God’s Spirit an opportunity again and again to work in the heart of my child”
Tripp is a pastor, international event speaker, and best-selling author. As a father of four grown children, he shares candidly from his own experience. This encouraging episode is packed with a lot of truth! Share with your spouse and friends!
What we chat about:- The deeper calling of on our lives as parents
- We cannot rely on our kids to give us hope for parenting them.
- How opening our children’s eyes to see God everywhere pulls them away from a self centered existence.
- God created the world so that it’s very physical nature reveals him.
- Root the rules that you have for your children in God’s goodness and his love and His grace.
- Every opportunity we have to discipline or correct is not an opportunity first to threaten with punishment but to talk about how good God is.
- Ask the question, “What is God wanting to do in the heart of this child?”
- Behavior is really about a child’s heart orientation
- God way of parenting isn’t efficient, but it is transformational .
- The values of the world push against our calling as parents. We have to consider where we are placing our treasure and hope.
- A God perspective for how to respond when your children sin
- God is exposing something in my child so I can be part of his help and rescue.
- Parenting is about planting seeds. We aren’t going to see them bloom overnight.
- Dealing with rebellion and authority issues with grace and consequences
- Parenting adopted children and helping them with identity
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Gay Girl, Good God Jackie Hill Perry Ep 214
August 27, 2018
•62m
It’s an uncomfortable and often controversial subject, especially in the church, but homosexuality and same sex attraction is something we all need to understand from a Biblical perspective. This week’s guest Jackie Hill Perry shares how the power of the gospel in her life rescued her from the sin she was living in as a woman with same sex attractions.
She not only brings us into her amazing story, but absolutely preaches the word of God and brings a lot of clarity to what can feel like a gray area for many Christians.
My conscience would not allow me to shake the truth that Jesus died for sin and that he is not pleased with sin at all. So I tried my best to shake him and I couldn’t...And I felt God speak to my heart and say that my girlfriend or my sin would be the death of me. That the wages of sin equals death. Because I saw it wasn’t my girlfriend or my lesbianism alone. It was that my entire life would be the death of me.
Jackie shares stories and insights from her new book Gay Girl, Good God. She also answers listener questions about how to share God’s love with LGBTQ friends and family by treating them as a whole person and keeping the gospel centered on God’s truth and not culture’s.
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