With five kids of my own and countless conversations with parents everywhere, two things have become clear to me as a dad seeking to raise kids in a digitally-connected, porn-saturated culture: First, no one has a perfect road map or a 3-step method, for parenting in our day. Not even the Bible—as absolutely central and essential as it is—offers a one-size fit all list of instructions for how to...
Podcast: Comparison is a killer
Join Josh and Kit as they discuss the question, What would I tell my younger self? From senior pictures to comparison, anxiety, and lies we all believe. Am I accepted, am I lovable, do I measure up? Where do we go for answers to these questions? Click for Full Podcast Transcription Josh 0:07So one of my one of my least favorite pictures of myself is my senior picture. I don’t know if they...
One Woman’s Journey from Emotional Dependency
I grew up with a mom who served her family tirelessly. She was devoted to my dad despite his growing problem with alcohol. Emotional dependency. When she had fallen in love with him, he was a young man full of life, but over the years, a dark cloud of depression overtook him. She met him when she was 16, married him when she was 19, had her first child at 20, and she didn’t know what else to do...
Podcast: The Dangers of Idolizing Our Kids.
Do you expect something out of your kids that they shouldn’t or even can’t give you? We try all kinds of things at the expense of our children to get what we need. Is your image or value related to how your kids behave? Join Josh and Kit as they unravel what love looks like in giving our children the freedom to be who they are, and taking them down from the pedestal we have put them...
Breaking the Hell of Regret
What’s an area of your life where you have regret? I spoke with Dan this morning. He’d binged on gay porn this week, which he has a pattern of doing about once every six months or so. “I’m just so tired of winding up here again and again,” he said. Samantha has her own regret. “I promised myself I’d stop seeing this guy four months ago. He treats me great when we’re together, but I know he’s...
Podcast: Sex and Self-Worth
We are wired for intimacy and long to know our true identity because we are wired this way. God created us in His image so there is something innate in us that aches for that intimacy, that connection, that other. Join Josh and Kit as they discuss the entanglement of Sex and Self-Worth. Click for Full Podcast Transcription Josh 0:07So I’m here today with Kit Elmer, and we’re going to...