Opportunity vs Disruption Paul David Tripp Ep 212
Don't Mom Alone Podcast
08/13/18
•66m
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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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Help To Read Truth Every Day Raechel Myers Ep 211
August 6, 2018
•53m
In a time when biblical truth is often narrowed down to a greeting card slogan or a small subset of feel-good encouragements, the She Reads Truth community takes a different approach. The bible studies and reading plans from She Reads Truth take a deep dive into scripture with the goal to understand the big picture of who God is throughout history and our need for his grace.
SRT co-founder and CEO Raechel Myers shares the community’s origin and her personal story of encountering God’s goodness amidst the loss of her daughter. Jump in to hear Raechel share her heart for studying scripture and relying on the Holy Spirit in the difficult places of parenting.
I can base my understanding of God on the 36 years that I’ve experienced with him, but that is a mistake. God’s story is so far back before I ever existed. And so one of the important reasons that we read the Bible is to understand the broader story of who God is and how I fit into his story, not how he fits into mine.
What we chat about:- Raechel’s writing background and the purpose behind her first blog
- How God trained and equipped Raechel through various experiences before She Reads Truth began
- The origin of the She Reads Truth community
- Taking God’s word for what it is and not relying too heavily on devotionals or feel-good scriptures alone
- She Reads Truth has options for everything from free reading plans to beautiful, bound books
- A new children’s story book they’ve produced called This Is the Gospel
- Addressing faith and trusting that God is who he says he is with your older kids
- Why scripture plays such a key role in our understanding of who God is beyond our own experience with him
- The importance of modeling Christian life for our children’s spiritual formation
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Adopting Special Needs Alice Candace Ep 213
August 20, 2018
•60m
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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