Marriage, Mentorship, and Parenting in a Digital Age w/ Jay Holland
Marriage After God
Aaron & Jennifer Smith
4.9 • 2.7K Ratings
🗓️ 7 August 2025
⏱️ 75 minutes
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Summary
This week Aaron Smith sits down with Jay Holland, husband to Emily, and the biological, adoptive, and foster father of four children. For over 25 years he’s served as a pastor in college and student ministries and has personally navigated seasons of special‑needs parenting within his own family, and is the voice behind the Let’s Parent on Purpose podcast. Together, they discuss the intersection of marriage, parenting, and youth ministry. Jay shares powerful insights on raising children in today’s culture, the importance of rites of passage in shaping manhood and womanhood, and how parents can intentionally model faith and humility in their homes.
Whether you’re navigating the challenges of parenting or seeking to strengthen your marriage in the midst of raising kids, this episode is packed with biblical wisdom and practical encouragement.
Key Topics:
- Marriage and parenting in a digital age
- The importance of rites of passage for boys and girls
- Building community and mentorship for youth
- Technology’s effect on mental health and connection
- Modeling repentance and humility in parenting
- Encouraging bravery and risk-taking in the physical world
- Teaching children their identity in Christ
- Prioritizing joy and intimacy in marriage
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- letsparentonpurpose.com
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Keywords: marriage, parenting, youth ministry, rites of passage, manhood, womanhood, community, technology, anxiety, spirituality
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, marriage after God, friends. Thank you for your continued faithfulness in listening each and every week. Jennifer and I have often shared with you about how important prayer is in the life of a believer. It's so important, in fact, that we're told this in First Thessalonians. Rejoice always. Pray without ceasing. Give thanks in all circumstances for this is the will of God and Christ Jesus for you. It is God's will for us to pray. And we want to inspire you to begin praying for your spouse and marriage every day. This world hates marriage, and so does our enemy, because he knows the power that your marriage is meant to have in this world. He knows that if you and your spouse are praying and chasing boldly after God together, that the impact Christ will have in and through you will be powerful. So we need to be praying more than ever before. |
| 0:38.0 | Our heart is to encourage you along with everyone who listens to this show to be praying for your |
| 0:41.1 | spouses and your marriages, to be strengthened, renewed, healed, prepared and empowered to do the |
| 0:46.4 | ministry that God has for you to do in this world together. So Jennifer and I would love to invite you |
| 0:51.0 | to join the thousands of other couples and taking our 31-day marriage prayer challenge. This is a completely free and fun way to build a habit of prayer in your |
| 0:59.4 | marriage. All you have to do to join is visit marriage prayerchallenge.com and fill out the registration form. |
| 1:05.2 | Once you do that, you will begin to receive an email every day from us during the 31 days |
| 1:09.2 | to not only remind you to pray for your |
| 1:11.2 | spouse, but we'll also give you various topics and prompts to help you know what to pray for. |
| 1:15.3 | We dare your marriage to start praying like never before. Start the challenge today at |
| 1:20.1 | marriage prayer challenge.com. We're looking for people who have been blessed by this free |
| 1:24.2 | podcast and our free daily marriage prayer emails and who want to help be a |
| 1:27.9 | blessing to others. Creating and hosting this podcast and sending out our daily emails do incur |
| 1:32.3 | financial cost, and we want to invite you to join our faithful patron team to help financially |
| 1:37.0 | support these resources so that they can remain free for all who need them. Please join our patron team |
| 1:42.4 | today and become one of the faithful financial supporters |
| 1:44.8 | who desires to help bless thousands of marriages around the world. Your support will help us pay for the |
| 1:49.1 | creation, hosting, and promotion of our podcast and daily emails. Thank you, and we hope to see you |
| 1:53.8 | become a marriage after God patron. Hey friends, Aaron Smith here just wanted to take a moment and share with you something really special. |
| 2:02.6 | You know, as parents, we're always looking for ways to encourage our kids' faith journey. |
| 2:06.6 | Recently, I picked up some amazing highlighters and Bible resources from Mr. Penn as a gift for my daughter. |
| 2:12.6 | She's been diving deeper into scripture and wanting to highlight her favorite verses and passages and wanting |
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