Christian Parenting.

Welcome to Pardon the Miss.

I'm your host, Courtney DeFaio, and on this podcast, we talk about raising kids as Christian parents.

It's so very important for me to honor God with my family and the two kids that he's given me.

But honestly, it's not always neat or easy or tidy,

but it's always worth it. So join us every week to laugh and learn together on this beautiful

and messy journey of parenting.

Okay, folks, when I say the word influencer, what do you think?

You probably have some negative thoughts in your head, but it's not always been kind of a buzzword or something that we roll our eyes at because I have it to tell you there's a lot of people influencing the world around us for good. And I think that we have bucketed some of these accounts and some of these

marketing ways into one area. And there's so much good that can come from each of us, no matter

what our sphere is, whether it's a school, our influences our family,

our influence is our office place, or a social media account. We can use our God-given influence

to do something, to draw others to Christ, to share love. There's so many things we can do with our

influence. So I love our guest today. He's a friend of ours from our school. Our kids go to

school together. His name is Dr. Jonathan Murphy. He's the department chair and professor of pastoral

ministries at Dallas Theological Seminary. And he's hilarious and profound and from Northern Ireland.

And his precious wife, Sarah Jane, handed me his book. And as I flip through it, I'm like,

we got to have this talk.

It's about encouragement, influencing. He talks about the life of Barnabas, which is my biblical

hero these days. The more I hear about Barnabas, I'm like, that's the guy I want to be. So, enjoy

my friend Jonathan. And I think you'll walk away having a different perspective of the word

influencer.

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