If you’ve ever wondered (worried) about what it takes to bring a child into this modern world we’re living in, then this newsletter is for you. As parents of 11 children, 12 and under, we have learned a lot about what it takes to raise strong, confident and secure children: mentally, emotionally and spiritually and we’re happy to share our learnings with you right here.
New PODCAST is Finally Here!
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Friends, It only took us a couple months (sorry for the radio silence!) but our parenting with grit and grace podcast is finally here. If you haven’t already checked it out (through our various social channels), we encourage you to do so here: Please feel free to comment there on YouTube with your questions and even topics you’d like us to cover! For audio-only check these out: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/parenting-with-grit-grace/id1806438127?i=1000702108020
While Ep 1 is really just a bit more about our personal journey (to include the question: ‘how do we know how many kids is enough?’), the rest of season 1 will look like this: Ep 2: how the church and family MUST work together Ep 3: conflict and communication in the home Ep 4: life-giving rhythms & routines (think morning, bedtime, meal time… hair-pulling!) Ep 5: sex ed (for kids and couples!) Please, and we ask this humbly, but if you would rate and review, subscribe on these various channels it will not just “grow the channel” it will be hugely determinative of whether we care called to all this media engagement in this season or not! Thanks, as always, for joining the journey! -Ben & Rylee |
Parenting with Grit & Grace
If you’ve ever wondered (worried) about what it takes to bring a child into this modern world we’re living in, then this newsletter is for you. As parents of 11 children, 12 and under, we have learned a lot about what it takes to raise strong, confident and secure children: mentally, emotionally and spiritually and we’re happy to share our learnings with you right here.
In this series of posts we’re talking about passing the baton of faith to our children. Two posts ago we talked about “discipleship in the home;” last post we covered the vital relationship between the “church & the home;“ today we’re talking about “how to impart a biblical worldview” to the next generation. Everyday we wake up in “Babylon”… the “formation machine” (Dallas Willard)… the “idol factory” (John Calvin) that is the world and if we think that our kids are gonna catch faith like...
In this series of posts we are talking about passing the baton of faith to our children. Last week we talked about “discipleship in the home;” this week we are covering the vital relationship between the “church & the home;“ and next week we’ll be talking about “how to impart a biblical worldview” to the next generation. And we have to remember that each of these are impossibly hard to do… every family will face the incredible gale force winds of the cultural “formation machine” (Dallas...
Growing up as a Christin college kid, eventually you’re gonna be asked to “share your testimony” and when that moment comes, you better hope you have something dramatic to report! Like how you had an addiction or negligent parents or were suicidally depressed and God came along and radically saved you… I don’t know call it our fixation with the Hollywood story “arc” (good guy>bad guy>conflict>resolution), but for some reason when its your turn to share and you pipe up saying how you were,...