You're listening to the Allender Center podcast with Dr. Dan Allender.

This week, Dan reflects on the beautiful, difficult questions we received from listeners at the end of the last year.

Questions about relationships, parenting, spiritual warfare, trauma, abuse, and more.

Dan addresses a question that many people might be wrestling with after our recent marriage series.

How do you negotiate leaving and leaving and dating?

And how do you transition from singleness to engagement while still honoring your parents?

Some time ago, we invited you to send in questions that are connected to some of the podcasts that we've done.

And, oh my goodness, what a gift to have seen both the number but also the quality of the questions that have come in.

Lots of questions about relationships, particularly about marriage.

Some really fabulous questions about parenting, spiritual warfare,

and certainly the categories of trauma and abuse.

Just to let you know what this year holds, at least in some plan,

somewhere in late mid-February and on with the launch of the new book, Healing the Wounded Heart, I'll have probably four to six podcasts on the material from that book.

So I won't address questions at the moment about trauma and abuse.

And I would prefer to address some of the questions about spiritual warfare when my wife joins me again, because a number of those questions have to do with how you, as a couple,

how you individually deal with different hearing of Jesus from a husband versus a wife,

and how you work together with regard to spiritual warfare. And questions on parenting, I'm going to ask my daughter-in-law

and Elizabeth has already been on the show, but she is a Montessori educator with primary focus

on ages zero through three. And some of the questions have to do with what feel like a more

specialized focus on some of the parental issues dealing with a child's way of coming into understanding

themselves. So just to let you know, there are a lot of

questions in those categories, but the ones I'm going to at least focus on at this point are

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