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#72: Having Conversations With Your Kids About Difficult Cultural Issues with Phillip Bethancourt

Famous at Home

Josh + Christi Straub

Parenting, Relationships, Christianity, Religion & Spirituality, Society & Culture, Kids & Family

4.9653 Ratings

🗓️ 29 August 2018

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Summary

Have you been faced with getting difficult questions from your kids, and perhaps at a younger age than you had wished? Or feeling the need to have conversations with your kids but not sure how to have them?

Welcome to parenting in the 21st century.

We live in a very different political and cultural climate than in decades past. In this episode, we talk with Dr. Phillip Bethancourt, executive vice president of the Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission, on how he equips parents and church leaders to have these conversations. A very practical episode, you will be encouraged and equipped, especially if you lack confidence with some of the topics.

Phillip, who has four boys, also provides super helpful illustrations to matter the age of our kids.

In addition, this episode kicks off an online Bible study that Phillip co-wrote and that we're hosting on our blog called Christ-Centered Parenting: Gospel Conversations on Complex Cultural Issues. It's a free online study and we'd love to have you join us! Click here for details and to sign up. 

These 6 sessions will give you more confidence as a parent, help you instill a biblical worldview into your children, and equip you to talk to your kids about today’s tough cultural issues, including:

* Gender issues
* Suicide, depression, and anxiety
* Pornography
* Addiction and coping mechanisms
* Technology
* Singleness, dating, marriage, and divorce

Show Notes

Sign up for the Christ-Centered Parenting Free Online Bible Study. Click here.

To sign up and learn more about the ERLC National Conference, The Cross-Shaped Family, click here.

To sign up for The Weekly, and learn more about today's cultural issues with the Ethics & Religious Liberty Commission, click here. 

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0:00.0

We all have family picture frames.

0:11.8

Who are the people in yours?

0:13.4

I'm Josh.

0:14.4

And I'm Christy.

0:15.8

In This Together is a podcast where we discuss topics related to today's family.

0:23.4

We also go behind the scenes to share stories from our own crooked picture frame. And we interview guests to discover how their

0:28.5

stories can give us insight on becoming families who live, love, and lead well. Because you're

0:34.3

not alone. We're In This Together.

0:40.4

This episode of the In This Together podcast is brought to you by Lifeway Women.

0:45.9

For more information about all the events Lifeway Women has to offer, visit lifeway.com

0:51.3

slash women's events.

0:53.8

Welcome back to the In This Together podcast. We have a great

0:57.5

interview today and around very important topics as we raise our families in a ever-changing

1:04.5

culture that has topics and issues that our kids are listening to being exposed to at ever younger ages.

1:14.2

I know for me, you know, having the quote unquote sex talk with my parents was not, you know,

1:21.5

back in the day it was about the talk. Today, as you hear us talk about these things, we talk

1:26.7

about conversations.

1:27.6

These need to be ongoing conversations.

1:30.5

And unfortunately, or fortunately, they're starting earlier.

1:34.3

And that's really important, I think, for us as parents, as we raise kids to have an identity in Jesus himself and to not allow the ways of the world, to not allow the world to

1:46.0

disciple our kids, but to have ourselves as parents to disciple our kids.

1:50.8

And so we're hosting an online Bible study, starts August 28th, actually started August

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