TLP 599: What’s Coming in Season 33!

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Introduction

Alright, welcome back. This is our 599th episode; that means that next week we’ll hit our 600th episode at the start of our 33rd season and our 9th year of equipping dads and moms to glorify God with their parenting.

Quite often we’ll dedicate a whole season to mining a single theme. We’ll do a series on a topic and really take the time to understand it. And sometimes we’ll hit a bunch of topics. Well, like this last season, we’re going to cover a lot of ground this upcoming season.

So, let’s get excited about the lessons God is going to teach us.

Topic

We’re going to talk about emotional blackmail, what it is, and how to respond to it biblically.

We’re going to discuss the reality that what our kids do and say and feel really is a much bigger deal than we realize. So many people make excuses for their kids’ behavior or shrug it off because of their age, but the fruit of our lives is so important, and I think we need to be reminded of that.

We’re going to learn how to teach our kids to flee. We’re going to unpack the doctrine of fleeing in order to teach our kids when its appropriate and how to do it. But we’re also going to talk about when it’s not appropriate to flee.

Then we’re going to consider the first-world trend of how your kids get their answers. When they have questions, to whom do they go? How can we teach our kids to seek out the right source? Einstein made the observation that intelligence isn’t necessarily having the answers, but knowing where to find them, and—I fear—too many people in the church aren’t acting very intelligently when they seek out answers.

I also want to touch on the phenomenon that “How You Describe Your Kids Determines How You Parent Them.” We all like to think that how we parent our kids leads to them becoming who they are and—subsequently—how we describe them to others. But that is quite often not the actual progression of things. 

Have you ever had your kids try to pit your spouse against you or vice versa? Well, we’re going to have an episode called “Stop Your Kids from Pitting You against Your Spouse.”

After that we’re going to deal with the fact that we can too often be superficial in our parenting. There’s an issue, we address it, and though the process of addressing the main issue reveals so many more—and sometimes reveals far weightier and more important issues—we’re content with addressing the superficial one and leave it there. This is bad parenting. We need to learn to see the deeper issues that get dredged up as we biblically parent our kids.

Then we’re going to do a thought experiment concerning your home. We’re going to change one thing about your family and then talk about how that one change will affect the entire home.

On our next episode we’re going to revisit a comment I made long ago that “change demands death,” and we’re going to consider the biblical truths and implications of that necessity in our families.

Many of our episodes have had the theme of how to be a bad parent. We’ve talked about parenting like Jonah, teaching our kids to rebel, taking God’s jobs, and parenting like Satan . . . and this season we’re going to discuss “Equipping Our Children to Shame Us.” Of course, no one wants that, and we all think we’re parenting in a way that will have a very different result, but that doesn’t mean we’re right. Nearly every person who was ashamed of their kids never thought their parenting had anything to do with it, and though the child is ultimately responsible for their actions, that doesn’t change the fact that many of our unbiblical parenting techniques actually equip them to shame us better than they would have on their own.

Then we’ll talk about how good parents eat the Bible. We’ll consider that biblical metaphor and apply it to our lives and parenting.

And our last episode is going to be “How to Biblically Help Your Children Find a Spouse.” Whether your kids are older or younger, there are things we really need to be doing now if we want our kids to find a husband or wife who is going to glorify the Lord.

Conclusion

I know I will need every one of these lessons, and I’m looking forward to not only studying them for myself, but sharing with you what God’s Word says on the subject.

Please share this episode so your friends and family can get excited about season 33, and please email us at [email protected] or leave a voicemail at (828) 423-0894 if we can serve your family with biblical counseling.

And I’ll see you on our next episode where we discuss emotional blackmail.