Being a Spiritually Attuned Family in Uncertain Times

Famous at Home

Josh + Christi Straub

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

4.9 • 653 Ratings

🗓️ 27 August 2020

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Summary

How is your family approaching these uncertain times? Do you feel overwhelmed by schooling from home? Confused about what God might be up to right now? Figuring out what a new normal looks like for your family?

In this episode, we talk candidly about our own pursuit of the deeper things of God during these uncertain times. Specifically, we talk about:

* How to not to "miss" our child's inner world* Overcoming the spirit of distraction* How to turn our focus onto what really matters in the day-to-day * Why we believe God wants to use families in these uncertain times* How we approach discipleship with our kids* Why bringing our kids into the conversation matters

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0:00.0	I just want to echo everything that we're saying.
0:02.7	I want to put like a bow on everything that we're saying.
0:06.7	And I want this bow to be of love and power and sound mind.
0:11.7	Yeah.
0:12.1	That you come out of this with that.
0:13.8	Maybe there's a sense of conviction, but that conviction's got to come from the Holy Spirit.
0:17.9	It's not shame.
0:18.7	It's not shame or condemnation.
0:20.6	You are listening to the famous at home podcast with Dr. Josh. Holy Spirit, not condemnation. It's not shame. It's not shame or condemnation.
0:26.1	You are listening to the Famous at Home podcast with Dr. Josh and Christy Straub.
0:31.6	Because when it's all said and done, we all want to know that we were famous at home.
0:41.7	Welcome back to the Famous at Home podcast. Today, we are talking in relation to everything happening in our world around us and with our kids in mind. So we talk about being famous at home and what we want to pay attention to today is how we can be famous at home as parents.
0:49.4	But what does that look like particularly raising kids in the culture around us that's happening right now?
0:56.2	And one of the major components of this is making sure that we pay attention to the difference
1:02.6	between a spirit of fear and the emotion of fear. So we want to make sure that we're not
1:09.1	inviting into our home or coming into agreement in our family with a spirit of fear, but that we're walking with our kids and helping them recognize and voice and label the emotion of fear or worry that they might have surrounding something happening in the culture.
1:27.4	And even for
1:28.6	us to be able to recognize that as parents, but to be able to use courage to overcome that fear,
1:36.4	bravery to overcome that fear. You know, 2 Timothy 1 says, for God has not given us a spirit of fear,
1:47.7	but of power, love, and a sound mind.
2:00.8	And I think today what we want to talk about is the power, the love, and the sound mind that we have walking in Christ as parents in our home and how we lead our kids.
2:05.4	Yeah, and how we help our kids walk in that power too.
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