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The Challenges of Christian Parenting Today

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The following resources expand on AMBrewster's 8/21/20 interview concerning "The Challenges of Christian Parenting Today."

Consequences

Consequences

Mistakes Parents Make When they Spank (feat. Stuart Scott)

Favoritism

Favoritism versus Love

Favoritism versus Love

Favoritism versus Love

Favoritism versus Love

Favoritism versus Love

Favoritism versus Love

What is it appropriate to give or take away from our kids?

What is it appropriate to give or take away from our kids?

What is it appropriate to give or take away from our kids?

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The Biggest Parenting Challenges Today

The Bible says that our three greatest enemies of our families are Satan, the World, and the Flesh. Overcoming them is our greatest parenting challenge. Scroll down to learn how we can fight those enemies and overcome those challenges in our parenting.

The Biggest Parenting Challenges You Will Ever Face

• This series steps through 9 of the biggest parenting challenges all parents will face and was inspired by Aaron's interview with Chris.
• Click here to access the episodes.

Demonic Forces

• The Spiritual War in Your Home, Part 2 | the false enemy
• The Spiritual War in Your Home, Part 9 | how your family is to engage demonic forces in general
• The Spiritual War in Your Home, Part 10 | how your family is to engage demonic forces in possession
• The Nature of Sin

The World

• The Spiritual War in Your Home, Part 4 | the infiltrator enemy
• The Spiritual War in Your Home, Part 11 | how your family is to engage the world
• How the World Trains Your Kids to Fail
• Your Kids Need an Interpreter | helping your children navigate the world’s delusion​
• Specific Parenting Challenges
  • Safety: Prepare Your Kids. Don’t Protect Them. | fighting the urge to shelter your kids
  • Technology: Click here for our episodes concerning technology.
  • Autonomy: Dependence Day: A New Way to View Your Family
  • Authority: Teach Your Children to Obey series, Training Your Children to Rebel, The Reality of Rebellion
  • Morality: The Sufficiency of Scripture in Parenting
  • Sexuality: Click here for our episodes concerning sexuality.
  • Family: What’s a Family Anyway?
  • Addictions: How to Know if Your Child is Addicted, How to Tell if Your Child is Cutting | Mark Shaw Interview

The Flesh

• The Spiritual War in Your Home, Part 5 | the double-agent enemy
• The Spiritual War in Your Home, Part 12 | how your family is to engage the flesh
• What Are You Sowing? | don’t expect to harvest joy if you’re planting flesh
• The Nature of Sin
• Combatting Emotionalism: ​Click here for our episodes concerning emotions.
• Combatting Secularism: ​
  • Talking with Your Kids about God | Natasha Crain Interview
  • ​Talking with Your Kids about Jesus | Natasha Crain Interview
  • Mama & Papa Bear Apologetics | Hillary Morgan Ferrer Interview

Overcoming the Challenges

• The 5th Way to Parent | the only parenting style that glorifies God
• The Sufficiency of Scripture in Parenting
• Your Family Needs to Go to Church series
• The All-Bible Family
• A Parent’s 5 Jobs series
• Can You Defend Your Parenting?
• Defensible Parenting
• The 5 Types of Parents | Dr. Joe Martin interview
• Parenting Like the Rich Young Ruler
  

Additional Resources

Foundational Parenting Concepts

• Christian Parenting 101
• What Is Successful Parenting?
• The Choice All Parents Have to Make 
• 5 Types of Parents
• Destructive Parenting Styles
• ​The Only Parenting Style that Glorifies God 
• What's the Parent’s Role in their Children’s Education?
• Parenting 100 Miles An Hour! 
• Train Your Child to Stay with God 
• Why Your Children Do What They Do 
• Why We Give Our Kids Things 
• There is No Formula for Parenting 
• Your Child is Addicted 
• The Four Family Loves 
• Teach Your Children to Obey 
• Help Your Children Discover God’s Will for Their Lives 
• Friends  
• The Sufficiency of Scripture in Parenting 
• Your Family Needs to Go to Church

• A Parent’s 5 Jobs 
• 10 Things All Parents Should Hate 
• Family Worship 
• The Nature of Sin and Parenting 
• Parenting a Zombie 
• Teach Your Children to Learn 
• Parenting in Christ 
• Children and Shame 
• Change Starts with Me 
• Parenting Angry Children 
• Every Lesson You Need to Teach Your Kids 
• Parenting Fearful Children 
• The Most Beautiful Part of Parenting 
• Parenting Suffering Children 
• The Spiritual War in Your Home 
• Overwhelmed Parent, You’re Not Alone
• No Better Parent for the Job
• What You Need forJoy in Your Parenting
• Peaceful Parenting​

Christ-Honoring Family Talk

• TLP 66: Keeping Your Kids on God’s Side: Natasha Crain Interview
• TLP 93: Tackling Tattling | Jessica Mair Interview
• TLP 105: Talking with Your Kids about God | Natasha Crain Interview
• ​115: Speed Parenting | how to be an Ambassador Parent when there’s no time, Part 1 
• TLP 116: Speed Parenting | how to be an Ambassador Parent when there’s no time, Part 2 
• TLP 144: Why "Why" Is More Important Than “What" | asking the right questions to reveal the wrong heart 
• TLP 148: The War of Words | winning the war in family talk 
• TLP 150: Repetitive Parenting | how to enjoy repeating yourself
• TLP 152: Family Jokes | is God pleased when we make fun of each other? 
• TLP 153: Is It Okay to Get Mad? 
• TLP 155: How to Handle "I don't know.” 
• TLP 156: Concrete Family Talk | avoiding misunderstanding; encouraging true understanding
• TLP 181: The All-Bible Family 

• ​TLP 183: Revolving Priorities | A Biblical Example 
• TLP 238: Teach Your Children to Apologize, Part 1
• TLP 239: Teach Your Children to Apologize, Part 2 
• TLP 240: Forgiving Your Children 
• TLP 255: Have Forgettable Conversations with Your Kids 
• TLP 308: The Point of (nearly) Every Conversation
• TLP 309: Parenting Complainers, Part 1 | the fruit 
• TLP 310: Parenting Complainers, Part 2 | the root 
• TLP 311: Parenting Complainers, Part 3 | the truth 
• TLP 331: Why Does My Family Argue? | and how do we stop 
• TLP 336: Parenting Strategies You Need in Your Home 
• TLP 337: How to Integrate Parables into Your Parenting | Parabolic Parenting 
• TLP 349: Talking with Your Kids about Jesus | Natasha Crain interview 
• TLP 351: Linguistic Theft | Hillary Morgan Ferrer Interview 
• TLP 352: Watch Your Language! | don’t confuse your children’s thinking 
• TLP 353: Speak Like God | Al Mohler, Humpty Dumpty, Aliens, & Your Family

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