Church Hurt, Conflict With Your Spouse, Fairness With Kids + Uninvolved Grandparents (Q+R)
The Intentional Parents Podcast
Intentional
4.9 • 1.6K Ratings
🗓️ 27 May 2026
⏱️ 64 minutes
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Summary
For the first time from our brand-new studio, all four of us are together responding to your questions on personal formation, marriage, parenting, and navigating generational relationships.
We talk about how to process church hurt while still raising kids in the church, including the importance of separating people’s failures from the character of God, remaining grounded in Scripture, and modeling healing, honesty, and discernment for your children. We also discuss the responsibility leaders carry and what it looks like to pursue restoration with wisdom and humility.
We also answer questions about addressing tension in marriage before resentment builds, learning when to absorb small frustrations with grace and when difficult conversations need to happen. From there, we talk through parenting children with different needs and why fairness is not always about equal attention, but about making sure each child feels seen and understood.
Finally, we explore the challenges and beauty of multigenerational family relationships, including navigating distant grandparents, helping older generations find renewed purpose, and creating family cultures where everyone feels valued and connected.
This episode is a thoughtful, Scripture-packed conversation on relationships, healing, family dynamics, and growing through difficult seasons.
Scripture Mentioned: Luke 22, Hebrews 12:15, Hebrews 4:15, Isaiah 53:3, Galatians 6:1, Song of Solomon 2:15, 1 Corinthians 13:4-7, 1 Peter 4:8, 1 Corinthians 7:3 + Proverbs 17:6
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| 0:00.0 | Hey friends, we wanted to take a quick minute and personally invite you to two really special gatherings coming this fall. |
| 0:06.6 | First, our intentional motherhood retreat in Portland, Oregon, October 15th through the 17th, |
| 0:12.0 | and then our intentional fatherhood retreat in Austin, Texas, November 12th through the 14th. |
| 0:18.0 | Honestly, these retreats have become so much more than events for us. |
| 0:22.0 | They've become spaces where people encounter God, experience healing, honesty, friendship, |
| 0:27.4 | freedom, and real transformation. We live in a world that is full of information. We have |
| 0:32.5 | podcasts, books, content, advice, but transformation requires more than information. |
| 0:38.3 | Sometimes you need space, you need community, you need honesty, you need the presence of God, |
| 0:44.3 | and you need to get around other people who are fighting for the same things you are. |
| 0:48.3 | At these events, we've watched marriages soften again, we've watched fathers come out of hiding, |
| 0:53.3 | we've watched mothers breathe deeply again, we've watched fathers come out of hiding. We've watched mothers breathe |
| 0:54.5 | deeply again. We've watched people feel seen, known, challenged, and deeply encourage. And we |
| 1:00.9 | would genuinely love for you to join us. You can learn more and grab tickets at |
| 1:05.0 | Intentionalparents.org. And for all things, fatherhood, you can visit Intentionalfatherhood.org. |
| 1:11.2 | We hope to see you there. |
| 1:14.8 | You're listening to the Intentional Parents podcast, brought to you by Intentional. |
| 1:19.9 | Intentional is all about spiritual formation in the family. |
| 1:23.8 | We desire to bring biblical hope and practical hope. |
| 1:27.2 | Enjoy this week's conversation. |
| 1:34.8 | Welcome back to the intentional parents' podcast. |
| 1:37.8 | We are coming to you for the first time from our new studio in our new space, which is really exciting. |
| 1:44.0 | So if you have not seen, if you want to see what this is visually like, and we have options too. We'll have a bunch of different sets. But you can go to YouTube because you can watch all these, which is really exciting. But we are here today, Phil and Diane, Elizabeth and I. We're going to respond to your questions. You send a lot in, and we're really grateful for it. |
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