COURAGEOUS PARENTING

Latest Episodes:

Erika Kirk’s Forgiveness & Teaching It To Your Kids Oct 07, 2025

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Erika Kirk offering forgiveness during her husband's ceremony speech was powerful, but also a useful example to use in teaching your children about the gospel and forgiveness. This episode goes deep into biblical forgiveness with practical insights and scriptures you can use with your children. It also gives you an example with scriptures to share the gospel with your children as well. When you use a real world example of someone exemplifying biblical truth with your children, it’s impactful. So don’t miss this opportunity and get the encouragement and practical wisdom in how to have these conversations with your family.

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Launching a Daughter into Marriage: Lessons, Wisdom, & In Laws Sep 30, 2025

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Just days ago Isaac and Angie’s daughter Megan just said “I WILL!” Join them for this candid behind the scenes episode where they discuss what they have learned in parenting kids to grow up and leave and cleave, as well as sharing some special thoughts about what life will be like with another girl launched. They share stories, tears, joy, and what they have learned about parenting olders in a way that both intends to lead and protect while also not overstepping control and letting them lean into Christ rather than being co-dependent on us! HINT: It’s all about discipleship when they are younger and their relationship they have cultivated when they were younger. Angie also shares the topic titles that she had been teaching their daughter leading up to her wedding day, as well as wisdom regarding “rules of engagement” for purposefully protecting family relationships within family and with new family.

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Short Engagement & Preparing for Marriage w/ Megan & Shawn Sep 23, 2025

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Is it possible to pursue marriage in a biblical way today? ABSOLUTELY and we are overjoyed by Megan and Shawn honoring their parents and the Lord as they approach their wedding day. You will hear their engagement story, their convictions on purity and why, and the wisdom they share for why it’s so worth it to do it God’s way. If you don’t have a strong conviction for how Christian dating should work for your children, neither will they as it’s extremely counter-cultural. This episode will encourage you and give you ideas you can incorporate into your own parenting.

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A Turning Point in Parenting: Charlie Kirk’s Assassination Sep 16, 2025

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Part of equipping your children is giving biblical perspectives on the important events and issues of our time. So how do you talk about the Charlie Kirk assassination and what are the lessons that can come from this? Isaac and Angie Tolpin give you some key scriptures, powerful insights, and warnings that will encourage you but also help you navigate these important parenting conversations. Normal Christian parenting is largely failing so it’s vital to be introspective, to take a fresh look at your parenting approach, and to realize that if society has changed, we need to level up our intentionality in our homes.

Develop the art of giving biblical perspectives on hard things happening in the world. There’s no time to spare to truly disciple our children in the Bible, Spiritual warfare, and how to glorify God with our lives without fear in the world. Let’s be like Charlie and equip our children to be as well!

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Our Story of Dating for the Purpose of Marriage w/ Megan & Shawn Sep 09, 2025

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What does it actually look like for young people to honor God in dating for the purpose of marriage? Megan Tolpin and her fiancee Shawn come on the show with Isaac and Angie giving a behind the scenes look and perspectives as they’ve been living it out biblically. While they both were wondering if they were going to be able to find the right person, God had them both turn to trusting the Lord in a stronger way and serving Him with their lives instead of finding a spouse in their own strength. It was only then that the Lord brought them together, but they didn’t even date for three months while being friends first. Here about the meetings Shawn had with Tolpin’s as his relationship with Megan was strengthening and get the wisdom you need as you prepare to navigate leading your children when the time comes. Be ready to be encouraged by their Godly example driven by their own deep personal convictions of obeying God as they approach marriage together.

Scriptures

Proverbs 3:4-6

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Gentle Parenting is Legalistic & Lies Moms Believe w/ Abbie Halberstadt Sep 02, 2025

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Motherhood isn’t easy, but it is worthy, valuable, and important. Moms today are inundated with lies stemming from a secular worldview and many might even describe their journey in motherhood as drowning in unmet expectations and failures. Not only are Moms tempted to fall into the trap of these cultural strongholds but they are also being led astray into wayward parenting philosophies of the day, finding they had “traded one yolk for another” and are realizing that the pendulum swing is not a fun ride but rather leaving them bound to a new form of legalism called gentle parenting, conscious parenting, or the like which put a pressure on parents to fulfill a whole new set of expectations to attain the title of “perfect parent.” Join Angie Tolpin (mom of 9) and Abbie Halberstadt (mom of 10) for a lively AND HONEST conversation about motherhood, discussing many topics covered in Abbie’s newly released book, “You Bet Your Stretch Marks.”

THIS EPISODE WILL SURELY BE AN ENCOURAGEMENT TO EVERY MOM IN ANY STAGE OR SEASON OF MOTHERING.

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Christian Parenting Perspectives on "DATING" Aug 26, 2025

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If you don’t have a conviction for how you are going to guide your children to handle dating, they won’t either, and where there’s no conviction the wayward culture will win. Isaac and AngieTolpin don’t take the high control route, but instead equip their children in biblical truth on this subject to where their children have developed their own deep convictions to do this season of their lives well. THIS EPISODE WILL HELP YOU FIGURE OUT YOUR PLAN on this extremely important area.

Get the five myths parents often have that are harmful, what the Tolpins have been doing and seeing the fruit on, and practical insights to help you navigate this. Regardless of your parenting season you’ve got to know what your plan is as it alters your communication on this even in the early years.

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6 Questions to Be Ready For When He Wants to Date Your Daughter Aug 19, 2025

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It's still a good idea to have a meeting with the young man who wants to take your daughter on a date. It's not old-fashioned at all, in fact it's extremely helpful to your daughter, but only if she wants that. Do, or will your daughters have this conviction? If they don't you won't get the chance to meet with him anyways. In the age of rampant pornography addiction it's even more important! Isaac and Angie discuss the six questions every father should ask when he meets with the young man who wants to date his daughter. This will be helpful regardless of your parenting season as so much of it depends also on how you raise them, which is also mentioned in this episode.

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Parent with relational discipleship or fall to pharisaical christianity Aug 12, 2025

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If relational discipleship isn’t strong in your home, you are likely moving towards pharisaical Christianity which will hurt your legacy. What happens in the home is the largest difference maker on experiencing a faith-filled legacy or not. Unfortunately too many Christian parents believe their being effective when God has actually called us to a deeper level of relational discipleship with their children. This episode will help you see if there are any areas you have a pharisaical home, or if it’s truly one of cultivating deep relationships with you, their siblings, and with Jesus. It’s also vital that discipleship is woven through the fabric of your everyday parenting. Here’s a warning: If you don’t reach their hearts early, it will only be harder as they get older when it matters most. You need their hearts to be able to continue discipling them well into the teenage years too. While it’s never too late, there’s also no time to spare as so many children from christian homes are getting lured into following the patterns of the world.

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Going Against The Grain, Hard Conversations, & Thriving Aug 05, 2025

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If you want a thriving family in the future you will need to go against the grain even in Christian circles as you raise your children. Sometimes what’s best for your family is in a different direction than what people in your community are doing. For over twenty years the Tolpin’s have gone against the grain in numerous ways that they are contributing to the fruit they see today in their family of nine children. They discuss how to have the hard conversations and encouragement to do so. The reality of the pressures on parents to go along to get along, but the warning that we should always do what is likely to have the most fruitful outcomes in raising our children even if there’s relational cost with others. But also encouragement that there doesn’t have to be a relational cost and to move forward in love without fear as you make your intentional parenting decisions.

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