In the third installment of our 3-part series on how we view children, Katherine Smith and Randi Wideman share some deep thoughts on how we can elevate or tear down God’s gift of parenting by the way we talk about our kids to one another within the church.

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Episode Overview

00:00 – Intro

2:50 – Why This Conversation Matters

7:23 – Reality: Parenting Is Hard

10:26 – There’s Power in the Tongue

16:00 – What Do We Do When We Only See the Hard?

22:46 – Our Sin Doesn’t Define Us or Our Kids

27:52 – Hard & Holy: How Do We Speak About Our Kids to Others?

30:45 – Hard & Hope: How Do I Help Others When Parenting is Hard?

CityBridge members Jordan and Kyla Bryan sit with Morgan and Andre to talk about why the way we talk to our family within the walls of our own home really matters. This is the second in our 3-part series on living out a Biblical perspective of parenting.

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Episode Overview

00.00 - Intro

2.46 - Why does the tone of your home matter?

5:49 - Where do we start?

9:10 - Where have you found success?

13:40 - Where have you struggled?

17:58 - Remember the purpose

19:15 - Preparing your heart before getting home

23:40 - Anchors of truth in scripture

27:15 - How do tone and discipline overlap?

30:23 - Grace for yourself

Andre and Morgan chat with Family Director Daniel Smith on the Biblical perspective of parenting. The Bible says children are a blessing, but in between tantrums, bedtime struggles, teenage emotions, and bad attitudes, can we really trust that? This is the first in a 3-part series on a Biblical parenting perspective.

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Episode Overview

0:00-2:00 Where are we going with the podcast.

2:00- 3:00 Introductions

3:00- 4:00 Why start with the heart

4:00-9:00 Shifting the target of parenting

9:00- 15:00 Reframe the "burden" of kids

15:00- 18:00 Cultivate conversations and wonder

18:00- 25:00 Investing in my relationship with God first

25:00- 29:10 How do you slow down and shift your perspective

29:10- 33:15 Next faithful step

What's in a name? CityBridge elder Matt Wideman launches the Aiming Arrows podcast with an introduction that will get you FIRED UP about what Psalm 127 has to say about children: “Like arrows in the hands of a warrior are the children of one’s youth.”

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