TIL 542: Practices of Gentle Parenting (feat. Sam Stephens & Emily Stahly)
Truth in Love
Association of Certified Biblical Counselors
4.8 • 628 Ratings
🗓️ 10 November 2025
⏱️ 37 minutes
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Summary
1. What are some of the practice promoted in Gentle Parenting.
2. How are thoughts of depravity being modified into thoughts of sensitivity?
3. How does Gentle Parenting address the lack of self control in children?
4. How do we discern between Gentle Parenting's view of discipline and a biblical view of discipline?
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| 0:00.0 | Practices of gentle parenting on this edition of Truth and Love. |
| 0:11.0 | I'm Dale Johnson, and you're listening to Truth and Love, a podcast of the Association of Certified Biblical Counselors, |
| 0:16.3 | where we seek to provide biblical solutions to the problems that people face. |
| 0:20.9 | This week on the podcast I have with me, Dr. Sam Stevens and Emily Staley. |
| 0:25.8 | Dr. Stevens is assistant professor of biblical counseling at Midwestern Baptist Theological |
| 0:29.5 | Seminary. |
| 0:30.4 | His full-time job is with ACBC and he serves as director of membership and certification. |
| 0:35.5 | Emily is ACBC certified and is pursuing an MABC at Midwestern Baptist Theological Seminary. |
| 0:41.3 | She's the author of one of our ACBC booklets on the Duluth model, and she's married to Alec, |
| 0:46.0 | and they have two girls, Doddy and Gemma. |
| 0:49.1 | Also sad news that Emily is leaving us here at ACBC. |
| 0:56.8 | Oh, man. That's what she thinks. After five years. |
| 1:04.0 | After five years, wonderful service. And I was reminded that we've not had her on the podcast. And I'm so sad that I made that huge mistake. But I'm glad you're getting to hear from her now and we'll |
| 1:08.4 | incorporate her certainly in the future. So we're going to talk today about the concepts or the practices behind. Last week, we were able |
| 1:15.2 | to look at some of the ideas that undergird the concept of gentle parenting. We even got into |
| 1:19.9 | some of the ways that Christians are lured and enticed by these ideas. And error, as Ironaeus alludes |
| 1:26.4 | to, error is never naked. What he means by that is |
| 1:29.0 | there are elements of truth or even words that are used in a different way. That might be |
| 1:34.1 | Christian lingo, but it's used in different ways, as we talked about with gentleness, where it |
| 1:38.5 | lures people. And so I want us to consider even today some of these concepts and the practices |
| 1:43.3 | that are used in gentle parenting. |
| 1:46.4 | So this is ideas of behavior management versus the concepts of heart change. Obviously, the way |
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