Guests: Jillian Bryant, Plano US Dean of Students, and Erin Williams, Plano US Counselor

If you’d like to watch this podcast, check out the PCA YouTube page.

Dress code

• Greater emphasis on enforcement and understanding

Modesty

• Five Lies book by Rosaria Butterfield:
  • A godly woman is a modest woman.
  • A modest woman does not bring attention to herself but instead gives glory to God.
  • In Modesty: More than a Change of Clothes, Martha Peace and Kent Keller define modesty as “an inner beauty of the heart motivated by a love for God that seeks His glory through purity and humility; it often reveals itself in words, actions, expressions, and clothes.”

Special shout out to Jared Wood for allowing us to use his music - check him out at JaredWoodMusic!

Guests: Julie West, Senior Food Services Director, and Vinny Tellini, Executive Chef, with Sage Dining Services

If you’d like to watch this podcast, check out the PCA YouTube page.

Both Chef Julie West and Chef Vinny Tellini are “seasoned” veterans making the dining experience for PCA students something wonderful! Sage desires to be part of the PCA community - a meal is a chance to connect with others and Sage does a great job of making the food service at PCA special, unique, healthy, and delicious!

Sage takes into account the variety of allergies that students might be sensitive to as well as what are the favorites for the students. The menus are planned with great care taking into consideration what is best for the students and what the students will enjoy. As a parent, you can see what is available for your students on the Touch of Sage app - you can see the weekly menu, you can rate specific menu items, you can filter based on allergies, and you can contact Chef Julie or Chef Vinny to share your thoughts, compliments, or concerns.

If you would like to email Chef Julie West directly, her email address is JWest@sagedining.com. Parents, you are also always welcome to purchase a lunch pass and go eat with your child. Please see Susan at the LS front desk or Sarah at the MS/US front desk for more information.

Remember when your child says that they “don’t like” something - make sure you encourage them to try it first before they decide that they don’t like it!

At this time, the Sage dining experience is only available at the Plano campus, but consideration is being given to adding Sage dining to the North campus when time and space permit.

Special shout out to Jared Wood for allowing us to use his music - check him out at JaredWoodMusic!

Guests: Anna May, Sharayah Colter, Marchelle Michel

If you’d like to watch this podcast, check out the PCA YouTube page.

Parents, we are creating a RESOURCE PAGE to help direct you to outstanding resources - and I’d love to get your favorite resources listed on there as well. Please email me at dpanetti@prestonwoodchristian.org to share your favorite books, videos, CDs, podcasts, etc…stayed tuned for more information.

While we mentioned dozens of resources in this podcast, here are a few highlights:

The Secret of the Hidden Scrolls by MJ Thomas

Adventures in Odyssey Audio

Chronicles of Naria by CS Lewis book set

The Little Pilgrim’s Progress by Helen Taylor

The Priest with Dirty Clothes by RC Sproul

Special shout out to Jared Wood for allowing us to use his music - check him out at JaredWoodMusic!

Guest: Russ Crosson, chief mission officer and senior partner of Blue Trust (Ron Blue Institute), and author of Your Life…Well Spent: The Eternal Rewards of Investing Yourself and Your Money in Your Family

If you’d like to watch this podcast, check out the PCA YouTube page.

Russ - I manage my money to have more LIFE, not just more money!

Russ - you need to know the difference between PROSPERITY (wealth/money/material possessions) and POSTERITY (children/legacy/generations to come).

The Principle of Time Replacement: How to Add Posterity Time to Our Schedules

• “Time-saving” devices - we spend more time working in pursuit of more money or to buy more possessions that require time to use and maintain. As a result, the typical full-time employee’s work week has expanded from forty to nearly fifty-seven hours.

• When you make spending decisions, ask, “How will this expense affect our entire family?”

• Principle of Replacement - the addition of new time commitments to my schedule usually involves a trade-off between work and posterity time
  • Only say yes if the activity can replace something else that’s already in your schedule that doesn’t detract from your posterity time

A New Understanding of Work

#5 - Only change vocations to better fulfill your purpose and maximize your time flexibility - not to make more money

#7 - If you’re in a career that is currently generating sufficient income, carefully evaluate additional time spent to earn more income, especially if your children are young.

• Remember, your children’s first ten years are the most critical

A Good Name is Better Than Riches: Building Our Posterity’s Social Capital

• Must take the time to train our children
• More money doesn’t mean better lives…or better children

Special shout out to Jared Wood for allowing us to use his music - check him out at JaredWoodMusic!

Guests: Jane Matthews, Julie Hildebrand, and Gabe Boyd

For video of this podcast, check out PCA’s YouTube page.

In this episode, we look at the latest Inside Out 2 movie which adds additional emotions to young Riley as she turns 13 and enters puberty. In addition to Joy, Sadness, Fear, Anger, and Disgust, Riley now gets Anxiety, Envy, Ennui (Boredom in French), and Embarrassment.

As with the first Inside Out movie, this film is filled with excellent content for meaningful conversations with your children. The situations are powerful and the changes and challenges that Riley faces are moving.

We hope that our discussion helps you, as a Christian parent, engage with mediums like mainstream movies in a significant way with your family. Our discussions of Inside Out 1 and 2 are not an endorsement of the movies, their content or message, but a realization of the powerful influence of movies in our culture and an opportunity to present you with insights about how to utilize these resources to equip your family from a Biblical worldview.

Special shout out to Jared Wood for allowing us to use his music - check him out at JaredWoodMusic!

Guests: Jane Matthews, Julie Hildebrand, and Gabe Boyd

For video of this podcast, check out PCA’s YouTube page.

We started our discussion with the first Inside Out, which was released in 2015. This movie from Pixar looks at the various emotions that make up our personality - for the movie, they chose Joy, Sadness, Fear, Anger, and Disgust.

From a parenting perspective, the movie is filled with excellent content for meaningful conversations with your children. The situations are powerful and the changes and challenges that Riley faces are moving.

We hope that our discussion helps you, as a Christian parent, engage with mediums like mainstream movies in a significant way with your family. Our discussion of Inside Out is not an endorsement of the movie, its content or message, but a realization of the powerful influence of movies in our culture and an opportunity to present you with insights about how to utilize these resources to equip your family from a Biblical worldview.

Special shout out to Jared Wood for allowing us to use his music - check him out at JaredWoodMusic!

Guests: Holly Hamilton, Sandy Leydig, and Joel Gordon

For video of this podcast, check out PCA’s YouTube page.

Raising Spiritual Champions: Nurturing Your Child’s Heart, Mind, and Soul

By George Barna

Section ONE - The Importance of Children

Section TWO - The Four Principles of a Disciple

Section THREE - Families and Churches in Partnership

Section Three - Families and Churches in Partnership

Working together, parents and their faith community can be a dynamic and potent force for the kingdom of God, leading to transformed lives among the young people in the church’s families.

Chapter 8 - Parents Must Manage Media Exposure

• Exposure to media is the MOST significant shaper of a person’s worldview

• Parents consciously fill the role of media gatekeeper

• Large doses of media consumption change the configuration and capacity of the brain - for the worse
  • Acceptance of parental authority drops

• Four M’s of Media Management
  • Monitor media use
  • Minimize media use
  • Moralize media content
  • Model media standards

Chapter 9 - Where is the Local Church?

• Churches, like most service-based organizations, are responsive to the expressed needs and desires of their user base. Face it, parents do not clamor for real discipleship experiences for their children, and churches have not done much to push back on that blind spot.

• The most effective churches provide:
  • Teach parents to understand and own the role of spiritual mentor to their child
  • Offer support and assistance needed for parents to fight the spiritual war that surrounds their children

• Good churches look to PARTNER with parents…

• A WORD about Christian schools…
  • Public schools are no friend to Christ
  • A Bible-based Christian school can be an enormous help to a parent who is striving to raise a spiritual champion and partnering with parents in seeking to defeat the prevailing culture that dismisses biblical truths and lifestyles

Chapter 10 - Fight for Your Children

• You must MODEL for them the life of a spiritual warrior…

Special shout out to Jared Wood for allowing us to use his music - check him out at JaredWoodMusic!