Welcome to Crages Parenting Podcast, a weekly show to quit parents with biblical truth on raising

confident Christian kids in an uncertain world. Hi, I'm Angie from Crages Mom. And I'm Isaac from

Resolute Man. We've been married for 21 years and have seen the fruit from raising our 8 kids

biblically based on the raw truth found in the Bible. We can no longer let the culture win the

hearts of children. Too many children from Christian families are walking away from their faith

by age 18 and it doesn't have to be this way. It shouldn't be this way. Join us as we start an

important conversation about effective parenting. Hi everyone, welcome to the podcast. We're talking

of five areas you must reject your passivity. By the way, thank you so much for your prayers for

Angie and baby. We are feeling them. Angie is doing well, so we really appreciate that. But we're

giving her some rest, so I'm here today speaking to everyone about these areas of passivity. And you

know what, in the title, it assumes that you are passive in certain areas. And some of you are like,

I'm not sure if I'm passive or maybe you're like, I am passive or you know, let's see. Let's see

if I'm passive in these areas. And it's a little bit of a challenge in your mind. I know that it

periods of time in my life, especially as a man, I believe I would have really challenged

somebody saying, Isaac, you're passive in some areas of your life. That would not have felt good

until I really realized, and I'm older now, and I understand the Bible better, that we are all

passive at times. Passivity seeps in. And it shows up in places. Just ask yourself, have you ever

been in a situation where you're talking to someone or you're around and you're listening,

and later you're like, wow, I really should have said this or wow, I really should have taken

this action or that action. And a lot of times the reason we didn't is because of inner

passivity. We're concerned of what somebody thinks, and we don't do what's best because of fear

of what someone else thinks, people pleasing and things like that. We all have elements of that,

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