Parents of prodigals often need to guard their speech when they're interacting with their

wayward children. Here's Mary Cassian.

You bite your tongue regularly except when you're on your knees in prayer, and that's where

you don't bite your tongue. You pour out your heart and you plead to the God of heaven

to send his messengers into your child's life. Welcome to the God of heaven to send his messengers into your child's life.

Welcome to the Reviver Hearts podcast for June 1st, 2023.

I'm Dana Gresh.

Our host is the author of Lies Women Believe and The Truth That Sets Them Free.

Nancy DeMas, Welcome to her.

Music Nancy DeMas, welcome. It's really interesting to watch how people engage with those they disagree with, whether it's in person or on social media. For example, someone can be pouring out her heart on some subject and then

someone else steps in to point out a grammatical error. Or maybe you hear another person saying

something that is doctrinally inaccurate and your impulse is to correct their wrong thinking

right there on the spot. On the other hand, maybe you avoid social media debates altogether,

because it's just too contentious. Well, we're not going to talk about social media today,

not directly, but we are going to consider the important topic of how we as followers of Jesus

treat others, how we respond to them. Not long ago, Bob Lapine sat down with

Mary Cassian to talk about this very thing. Both of them have been longtime friends of mine,

and they've helped revive our hearts in so many ways. Bob has served on our advisory board since 2001,

and Mary has spoken at every true woman event since 2008.

So let's listen to this conversation, and as we do, let's ask the spirit to search our hearts and show us any areas where we need his help to do a little course correction.

Here's Bob Lapine talking with Mary Cassian.

One of the things that I've been thinking about a lot over the last couple of years

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