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Risen Motherhood

Answering The Question: How Many Children Should We Have? | Ep. 59

Risen Motherhood

Risen Motherhood

Religion & Spirituality, Christianity, Parenting, Kids & Family

4.96.8K Ratings

🗓️ 12 April 2017

⏱️ 22 minutes

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Summary

Even before walking down the aisle, questions start coming your way, "So when are you going to have children and how many do you guys want to have?!" As a couple who just wants to settle into married life first, it's natural to take the path-of-least resistance, neglecting to intentionally consider the hard questions about family planning. In this episode, Emily and Laura share the unexpected ways that God has shaped their ideas about children -- including family size, caring for orphans, and being unified with their husbands. There is no formula for a perfect Christian family plan, but we can all rest in our gospel-freedom, embracing children as the Lord does (sacrifices, messiness and all!).

Articles & Resources:

  1. God loves life, and He is the ultimate giver / sustainer of life.
  2. God's glory is displayed through family relationships.
  3. God is Lord over the womb - He is sovereign over childbearing.
  4. God thinks children are a blessing.
  5. God wants us to display the gospel as we sacrifice for the nurture of children - also, He loves the spread of the gospel from generation to generation, where parents disciple their children in the Lord.

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Transcript

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0:00.0

Motherhood is hard. One second, we think we're doing a good enough job and the next we feel

0:09.8

like the worst mom on the planet, which is why we need the refreshing truth of the gospel

0:14.9

to be repeated over and over, giving us hope in the everyday moments. So mama, whether

0:20.9

you're sipping cold coffee or doing a sink full of dishes, we hope you'll find true,

0:25.9

encouragement and laughter here. This is the Risen Motherhood Podcast. Thanks for joining us.

0:36.4

Welcome back to another episode of Risen Motherhood. I'm Emily Jensen,

0:40.7

here with my sister-in-law, Laura Whiffler. Hello, hello. And some of you guys might be new

0:46.9

listeners. And so we just wanted to do a really quick shout out. We tried to do this very often,

0:53.0

but every once in a while. We just remind you guys that one of the best ways to get the word out

0:58.7

about Risen Motherhood and everything that we talk about on the show is to actually leave us

1:04.8

a rating and review on iTunes. They have these, we're complex algorithms that we don't totally

1:10.6

understand, but it definitely helps other people find the show. And so many, many of you have already

1:18.4

done this. And we are so grateful. And we're always just blown away, completely humbled when we read

1:23.8

them. And are so just rejoicing about what God is doing through this podcast. And so if you haven't

1:31.1

done that yet, if you would consider taking five minutes, I think it does take just a few minutes to

1:36.9

to do that for us. There's also a tutorial on our website, www.RisenMotherhood.com. We always get

1:42.0

little questions about how to do it. So Laura has already prepped that for you. So definitely,

1:48.0

that would be super awesome. So today, we are talking about kind of another follow-up question

1:55.1

from the Ask Us Anything Show, although we've been mulling about doing this topic for a very long

2:01.2

time. Mm-hmm. Yeah, we're excited today to talk a little bit about family planning and just how

2:08.5

I think some of the questions from the Ask Us Anything Show really revolved around, how did you

2:12.0

decide to have more children? And did you guys start out with knowing what your family would look

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