The Intentional Parents Podcast

Latest Episodes:

Five ways to make big life decisions, living led, and being the skin of God to others Jun 15, 2022

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Today we have a BIG family update, but that’s not all! The team discusses how to discern God’s will for you and your family and the five ways to live led. The five ways are...1. Surrender 2. Reading Scripture 3. Counsel 4. Open Doors 5. Prayer. We also cover how to be the skin of God to our friends and family and how to be with your people during times of great suffering. Enjoy!

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Books Mentioned:

A Grace Disguised (Jerry Sittser)

https://www.amazon.com/Grace-Disguised-Revised-Expanded-through/dp/0310363594/ref=tmm_hrd_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=1655222253&sr=8-1

Perfectionism and Idealism in your marriage, what does Jesus mean by being perfect and hoping for miracles when we are called to manage Jun 01, 2022

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Today we talk about Perfectionism and its cousin Idealism. How does that play out in our lives and marriage? Is Idealism that big of a deal? What about being a perfectionist? Can that hurt me or those I love? Carl Jung said, "Every form of addiction is bad, whether the narcotic is alcohol or morphine or idealism." So how are we to live differently and undo some of the cycles of pain that perfectionism and idealism cause? We cover three ways to begin healing your marriage and home with Jesus at the center and what happens to children that grow up in a perfectionist home. Enjoy!

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Passivity, Big T trauma, healing, the rhythms our children need + servant leaders (Interview with author C.S. Fritz) May 18, 2022

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Today we have C.S. Fritz on the show! Casey is an author, pastor, illustrator, and a phenomenal human! How do we give our greatest dreams over to God? How do we recover from intense trauma to not pass on our pain to our children? We talk through the importance of church for your family, how passivity destroy, and how God can heal and redeem your life even in spite of your pain and trauma. Enjoy!

Grab a copy of our book: Raising Passionate Jesus Followers (Now available in audiobook!)

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Check out C.S. Fritz

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Check out Albatross Book Co

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Struggling with self-worth as a parent, how to be a better man, letting God parent you, overexposing our kids and Kevin McCallister. (Live Q+R) May 11, 2022

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Today we respond to YOUR questions! We cover what if you're struggling with self-worth as a parent? How to become a better man for your wife and children? How does God parent us? What is overexposing our kids in our current time and culture? We cover these questions and more. Enjoy!

Grab a copy of our book: Raising Passionate Jesus Followers (Now available in audiobook!)

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Attention is the rarest and purest form of generosity: The four questions your children are asking you May 04, 2022

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We are living in an attention crisis! What does this mean for us, our families, and our culture? How does our distraction impact our marriage and our children? Does your child know that you care for them more than your phone? Today we cover the four questions your children are asking, even if you know it or not. We cover how we can undo the cycle of distraction and how we can answer the deep questions your child's soul that need to be answered. The questions they are asking are 1. Do you see me? 2. Do you care that I'm here? 3. Am I enough for you, or do you need me to be better in some way? 4. Can I tell that I'm special to you by how you look at me?

Grab a copy of our book: Raising Passionate Jesus Followers (Now available in audiobook!)

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The Blessing Episodes:

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https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-intentional-parents-podcast/id1462206659?i=1000557445138

Post-traumatic growth, your superpower, and what God does with our trauma Apr 27, 2022

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Make no doubt: trauma shakes up our world and forces us to take another look at our cherished goals and dreams. We tend to rely on a particular set of beliefs and assumptions about the benevolence and controllability of the world and God, and traumatic events typically shatter that worldview as we become shaken from our ordinary perceptions. Today we walk through seven areas of growth that spring from adversity and how God uses our suffering and trauma to give us what we need most. The seven areas are: 1 Greater appreciation of life, 2 Greater appreciation, and strengthening of close relationships, 3 Increased compassion, 4 The identification of new possibilities or a purpose in life, 5 Greater awareness of personal strengths, 6 Creative growth, 7 Enhanced spiritual development. Enjoy!

Grab a copy of our book: Raising Passionate Jesus Followers (Now available in audiobook!)

https://www.amazon.com/Raising-Passionate-Jesus-Followers-Intentional/dp/0310347777

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The Origin Story: The Intentional Film Series Apr 20, 2022

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It’s out!!!! The Intentional Film Series launches today! For quite some time it has been the dream of the Intentional to be able to invite anyone and everyone to learn how to raise the next generation of passionate Jesus followers. Though none of us claim to know it all— not even close!— this message has been the heartbeat of our calling for over four decades. Starting with very little understanding of how to pass a vibrant, compelling faith on to our children, we have now spent the better part of our lives listening, learning, researching, studying, and practicing what we teach in “The Intentional Film Series”. Will you join the generations of Jesus followers who have taken God’s words seriously— to intentionally make disciples of your own children, who in turn will make disciples of the next generation? Will you teach your sons and daughters to know Jesus intimately and follow Him faithfully? We hope The Intentional Film Series, Raising Passionate Jesus Followers, will help in what is your greatest calling. Enjoy!

Grab a copy of our book: Raising Passionate Jesus Followers (Now available in audiobook!)

https://www.amazon.com/Raising-Passionate-Jesus-Followers-Intentional/dp/0310347777

Website: intentionalparents.org

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Your children will become who you tell them you see them becoming: The Blessing part 2 Apr 13, 2022

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Of all the episodes we have done, this one potentially has the most significant impact on you and your family. Today we discuss the Biblical Blessing. What it is, why it matters and how it can change the course of your and your family's life. We cover five ways to give a Biblical blessing and what happens when you do. We walk through setting up an atmosphere of blessing in your home and how silence communicates confusion. The truth is your children will become who you tell them you see them becoming, so we need to know how to bless them in a way that profoundly impacts the future of their lives and God's kingdom. Enjoy!

Grab a copy of our book: Raising Passionate Jesus Followers (Now available in audiobook!)

https://www.amazon.com/Raising-Passionate-Jesus-Followers-Intentional/dp/0310347777

Website: intentionalparents.org

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Books Mentioned

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Your children will become who you tell them you see them becoming: The Blessing part 1 Apr 06, 2022

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Grab a copy of our book: Raising Passionate Jesus Followers (Now available in audiobook!)

https://www.amazon.com/Raising-Passionate-Jesus-Followers-Intentional/dp/0310347777

Website: intentionalparents.org

Donate: https://www.intentionalparents.org/donate

Blog: https://www.intentionalparents./blog

Books Mentioned

Intentional marriage, the upward spiral “relational right sizing” and designed to last: (Interview with Dino and Ashley Petrone) Mar 30, 2022

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They're back! Some of our favorite people on the planet are sitting down with us again today on the show. Dino and Ashley Petrone are making the world better through their marriage, their design, and their intentionality with Jesus. Their new book is entitled Designed to Last: Our Journey of building an Intentional home, growing in faith, and finding joy in the in-between. This is more then just a book on marriage book it is a design guide! We cover design, fathers serving their families, discipline, and when do you need to relational right sizing. Enjoy!

Grab a copy of our book: Raising Passionate Jesus Followers (Now available in audiobook!)

https://www.amazon.com/Raising-Passionate-Jesus-Followers-Intentional/dp/0310347777

Website: intentionalparents.org

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Ashley + Dino’s book

https://www.amazon.com › Designe...Designed to Last: Our Journey of Building an Intentional Home ...