Welcome to Crages Parenting Podcast, a weekly show to quit parents with biblical truth on raising

confident Christian kids in an uncertain world. Hi, I'm Angie from Crages Mom. And I'm Isaac from

Resolute Man. We've been married for 21 years and have seen the fruit from raising our eight kids

biblically based on the raw truth found in the Bible. We can no longer let the culture win the

hearts of children. Too many children from Christian families are walking away from their faith

by age 18 and it doesn't have to be this way. It shouldn't be this way. Join us as we start an

important conversation about effective parenting and following. Welcome back to the podcast. We're

glad you're here. Hey guys. What an important episode. Sometimes in transitions going to the fall

here, sometimes when there's change, obviously so many crazy things going on in the world. Sometimes

just things going on in our own lives of families. We need a bit of encouragement. So we're

talking about how to handle discouraging times and be encouraged today. This is a really important

topic for families because it I would say it's one of the potentially most impactful conversations

regarding the culture of your home actually. When Isaac and I were talking about this,

one of the things that kept coming to mind was how moms, especially oftentimes set the tone of

the home. They have a massive influence on the atmosphere of their homes. And so if we're

struggling with being discouraged, how much does that impact our children, our marriages,

our home impacts us for the next day potentially as well. And so this is actually probably one of

the most important conversations that we could have because this would be relevant to people

at any point in their life. And there's unintended consequences when we're discouraged and we're

the leaders in our home, which as our kids can feel like burdens, they can feel like they can't

actually open up and communicate with you with things they need to talk about because they see

that you're kind of overran with your own things. Right. So as we're starting out today,

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