COURAGEOUS PARENTING Isaac & Angie Tolpin - CourageousParenting.com, Isaac & Angie Tolpin

Loss, suffering, and earthly death are an inevitable reality for everyone, but faith in Jesus Christ changes the experience for the believer! In this very special episode, Angie shares some intimate realities of walking through grief and mourning at the recent passing of her Dad! If you have ever experienced loss, are walking through loss, or even if you haven’t yet, this episode will certainly equip you with a Biblical perspective on death, mourning, the comfort we have in Jesus, and the promise of eternal life! And in traditional Courageous Parenting style we will share scriptures that are essential for equipping your children in how to grieve in a godly way! All show notes, scripture references, and resources mentioned are found at courageousparenting.com.

Marriage strength largely determines the strength of your family and your ability to influence and lead your children. Isaac and Angie give four things you can do today and onward to tend to the heart of your marriage. If you do these four tips for the next thirty days you will dramatically improve the strength of your relationship and ability to work as a team too. Don’t let communication breakdown slowly over time in your marriage. If it’s not proactively worked on that’s exactly what happens. We are living in unprecedented times and it’s more important than ever to be proactive in strengthening your team. The world won’t get easier, but your marriage team can always get better. Take on this as a marriage challenge for the next thirty days, perhaps listen with your spouse too and do it together. All show notes, scripture references, and resources mentioned are found at courageousparenting.com.

If you want a more peaceful home don’t take the normal parenting short-term approach. Correcting your children’s behavior is important and it’s vital to be consistent, but if you don’t tend to their hearts while doing so, it will lead to frustration over time. It also misses an important opportunity for getting to the heart level of the issue with your children that should end by pointing them to Jesus. A biblically based approach to correcting your children. Remember, if you don’t have their heart in this season, you will likely lose it in the next. Just think about it, most Christian parents don’t have their children’s hearts in a strong enough way in today’s society, but it’s essential. All show notes, scripture references, and resources mentioned are found at courageousparenting.com.

We all must ask this question and be willing to be honest about it. With about 80% of the children raised in Christian homes leaving the church by age 18, we must do things differently than most Christian parents. So who is spiritually leading your family? As parents, I hope we all would want to say “We are”, but the truth is most aren’t. Not with the intentionality and frequency the bible talks about in Deuteronomy 6:6-9. While a church's influence is good and needed, if that’s where they get most of their Spiritual nourishment, then parents are failing in this area.

Isaac and Angie Tolpin dive into what the Bible says about gender roles in the family and the importance of both mom and dad having influence while respecting God’s plan for the family. They even go into what if your husband isn’t a Christian, and direction for single moms and dads too.

We give four tips to helping Christian parents with this universal challenge of having to handle disrespect. Whether it’s a rolling of the eyes, not following through, leaving messes, or blatant defiance it’s probably safe to say all parents have experienced these things. The good news is you have massive influence and so does your spouse towards influencing change in this area. One of the biggest challenges though is when spouses disrespect each other in front of their children, and sometimes even sarcasm can confuse children in how to relate with you. Get four practical things you can do to make a difference. All show notes, scripture references, and resources mentioned are found at courageousparenting.com.

If your marriage isn’t unified on parenting, your family will struggle or worse. Unfortunately, most houses fall in one way or another. Sometimes it’s a big tragedy, but often it's a small slow division that grows over a long period of time amongst good people who are married. Isaac and Angie Tolpin give biblically sound advice in four areas that most Christian marriages have some level of struggle with. Tune in to see where your marriage is at with these four areas and get the encouragement you need. Your marriage team makes a profound impact on generations to come. Use this episode to identify where work needs to be done and do the hard work it takes to be a stronger unified team in marriage. All show notes, scripture references, and resources mentioned are found at courageousparenting.com.