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Episode Summary. This episode identifies many common destructive narratives our rising young women are hearing about their feminine identity that will squeeze them into its mold if we do nothing. Then the episode takes a brief glimpse at God’s design of the magnificent creature called, WOMAN.
For Further Prayerful Thought:

1. What are the unbiblical statements that you hear about gender differences and gender roles?
2. How would you prove to a young Christian that the biblical view of womanhood is that she is equal to a man in worth and dignity, despite being called to different roles?
3. What aspect of true femininity as described in Genesis 2 do you think is being lost today?

Resource Used in Podcast: Gary's book: Anchoring Your Child to God's Truth in a Gender-Confused Culture: Helping Our Children Embrace Their Calling to Godly Manhood or Womanhood. Click for more info. Available in print and Kindle at Amazon.

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Past Episode Highlight: In another podcast, Season 2 Episode #25, I answer the question: What do you say to your daughter who says, “Wives being told they must submit to their husbands feels like girls are inferior to boys?” I identify nine things to say. That’s Season 2, Episode 25 “Help Your Loved Ones Celebrate God’s Design of Male & Female" 4/25/21.

Episode Summary: This June 19th episode, being both Juneteenth and Father’s Day gives us an opportunity first to consider the pain in the hearts of so many African Americans who live in our cities because of the increasing violence there and perhaps ponder what we can do to help decrease the fatherlessness that is at the root of the problems in our cities. It is also an opportunity to continue our June series, Loving Our Kids with the Fatherly Love of God, but examining the way God models teaching his children the way they should go.
For Further Prayerful Thought

1. What thoughts come to your mind as you think about the four biblical ways that God has ordained to restrain human evil mentioned, and the current crime wave in our cities?
2. When you think about the biblical responsibility that Christian fathers have to teach our children the way they should go following the example of Joshua, David, and Solomon, what thoughts come into your mind? Our podcast wants to give a correct (big enough) vision of masculinity; but does this responsibility seem overwhelming?
3. As you considered various starting places the podcast mentioned for where a father or grandfather might think through the content (curriculum) he needs to pass on, what thoughts came to mind?

Resources in Today's Podcast

• Link to Character Development Training Plan PDF on My Website
• Link to Children's Shorter Catechism.

Feedback to the Host: Pease feel free to contact me at [email protected] with push back, questions about resources, other resources or additional ideas about how to help Christ’s men better be equipped for their mission.

This Week’s Past Episode Highlight:

Responding to the Argument that the Bible Teaches Patriarchy S1 E #33 6/21/20

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Episode Summary. The opportunities to influence our kids’ lives go by in a flash and after they are launched are rarer still. So, dads and granddads need to know how to maximize the influence we do have. This episode examines God’s two-part design of the influence we wield as spiritual leaders of our home, positional influence and relational influence. In both cases, we must overcome false worldviews that deny the way God wants us to lead our homes.

For Further Prayerful Thought:

1. How would you argue with a Christian brother who said, “My wife is better with the kids, so I leave their discipline to her?”
2. How does the discipline approach, “Your behavior is making mommy and daddy feel angry with you” violate the principles of biblical parenting?
3. Why do you think God makes such harsh statements about the failure to bring painful consequences for wrong behavior—you hate your child, you bring death to your child?
4. Why is biblical leadership more about winning the hearts of followers by serving them, than it is having responsibility for making decisions?
5. Which component of Jesus’ leadership practices with the twelve do you most need to put into practice in your leadership role?

Recommended Resource Used in this Episode:
Boundaries With Kids: When to Say YES, When to Say NO to Help Your Children Gain Control of their Lives, by Henry Cloud and John Townsend

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Summary: No man walks down the wedding aisle or holds his newborn child for the first time, planning to fail his family. We want to lead our homes well. This episode is the second in a 3-part series, Lessons for Men from the Arrival of the Messiah examines the man God chose to lead the home where his son, Jesus, was to grow up—Joseph of Nazareth—and what lessons we can learn from him about godly manhood.

 Resource Used for This Podcast:

 Boundaries With Kids, Henry Cloud and John Townsend

Leadership is Male, David Pawson

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Episode Summary: Both Solomon, and later the author of the book of Hebrews appeal to the obvious creation principle that they assume everyone knew in their era, loving fathers don’t allow their children to persist in selfish, wrong behavior; they discipline their children out of love for them. In our own day, a weird time in history when cultural voices are denying what every other culture in history has affirmed—that there are differences between fathers and mothers—it seems necessary examine this creation principle of fatherhood. It is also important because, today, so much child-rearing advice is rooted in a fear of stifling a child or harming his self-esteem instead of recognizing that by nature a child wants to be the center of the universe--dad giving him what he wants when he wants it, and the rest of the world catering to his wants and demands. This episode examines how fathers must protect their child from the child’s worst enemy, the main person who can ruin his life—HIMSELF, because he comes into this world with self-centered, sinful nature

For Further Prayerful Thought

1. How would you answer a husband who said, “My wife is so much better with the kids, I leave the discipline of the children to her?”
2. How would you explain to someone that loving a child requires disciplining them but that letting them go their own ways is a form of hatred for them?
3. Which of the 6 reasons parents don’t discipline their kids as well as they should stands out to you?
4. Which of the 6 principles from Hebrews 12 for administering discipline that is like God’s discipline of us stood out most to you? Why do you think that is important?

Feedback to the Host: Pease feel free to contact me at [email protected] with push back, questions about resources, other resources or additional ideas about how to help Christ’s men better be equipped for their mission.

This Week’s Past Episode Highlight: Becoming Great Dads Who Discipline Their Kids Well

• Fatherhood Is Irreplaceable in God’s Design of Humans S1 E #32 6/14/20
• Responding to the Argument that the Bible Teaches Patriarchy S1 E #33 6/21/20
• The Right Use of Authority to Punish Evil S1 E #34 6/28/20
• Kids Don’t Have It In them to Grow THEMSELVES Up S1 E #35 7/5/20
• Raising Kids Up in the Way They Should Go S1 E #36 7/12/20

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