Episode #158: Lifegiving Parent Podcast Series - Sam Smith
Life with Sally
Sally Clarkson
4.9 • 3K Ratings
🗓️ 3 May 2018
⏱️ 24 minutes
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Summary
No matter how hard we try to help our children stay on the straight and narrow way, how diligently we try to guard their eye and ear gates, how much we try to model and train them to practice the Golden Rule, they are constantly tempted to be pulled away from God's ideals. Truly faith-driven parents will never completely give up on their biblical standards, and yet the longer we are on the parenting journey, the more we may let go of our tight grip on what we believe Scripture teaches about parenting. But that doesn't change the realness of the ideals.
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| 0:00.0 | Hi everyone, welcome to Add Home with Sally. I'm Sally Clarkson and I have the biggest |
| 0:13.0 | privilege in the world to be with so many friends from all over the world who join me every |
| 0:18.6 | week to listen to my stories, inspiration, biblical encouragement and I am just so glad |
| 0:24.6 | that you're here today. Thanks so much for joining me. |
| 0:37.4 | Hi everyone, here we are again on our lunch week and it's been so much fun to talk to some |
| 0:43.4 | of our favorite authors, favorite people, favorite parents to help us launch our new book, |
| 0:50.6 | The Life Giving Parent. And today is such a delight to me and to Clay because we get to talk |
| 0:58.1 | with a very dear friend that we admire and enjoy and we just can't wait for you to hear from him today |
| 1:04.8 | and you want to introduce him? Sure, we are so privileged to have Sam Smith with us today and I've |
| 1:12.1 | known Sam since 2011. We met at the funny named Little Christian Arts event in Nashville called |
| 1:22.8 | Hutch Moot and Sam and I think met that year, I believe it was that year and we spoke together on |
| 1:30.6 | imagination a couple of times after that and I've just loved getting to know him through the years |
| 1:36.5 | and then it was a part, loved watching him when he launched his website storyworn.com, |
| 1:43.0 | wonderful, wonderful website you'll want to go to and then our big connection with him recently, |
| 1:49.4 | as some of you might know, has been that our son Joel has been a part of doing the audio book |
| 1:56.8 | recording for his book. So we just love Sam and all that he's doing and we're so glad you're with |
| 2:05.7 | us here today. Sam. Hello Sam. Hi, I'm so delighted to be there with you guys in this virtual space. |
| 2:14.9 | It's a I wish we were together in person. Yes, I would be but our families are big fans of you guys |
| 2:21.8 | and have been for years and we love what you're doing so much and so great to make a connection |
| 2:28.8 | today. Well, I think our hearts are so similar in Sam tell everybody about your family tell them |
| 2:35.1 | where you live and just a few little things that might help them to get to know you better. |
| 2:41.0 | Well, we live in the center of the universe in West Virginia, the mountain state almost |
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