Christian Parenting.

Christian Parenting.

Hey friends, welcome back to Pardon the Mess.

I'm your host, Courtney DeFaio.

Where are my needle point ladies at?

I've been a needle pointer for like three days, and I'm all about it. Larson, Courtney Defeo. Where are my needlepoint ladies at? I've been a needle pointer

for like three days and I'm all about it. Larson got to be sucked into this without telling me how

expensive it was. I'm like, why couldn't we have started the old cross stitch? But now I went to some

bougie store in Dallas and dropped way too much money on needle pointing. But it has given us something

to connect on and it's so fun and I'm learning a lot, I'm learning to be patient with myself, and it's keeping me off my phone from doom scrolling. So check it out. If you're a needle pointer, message me and send me all your favorite sites, because I need to know where to get some discounted things because the store in Dallas,

as cute as it is, I loved it. I won't tell you which one. I spent way too much money. So send me the deals, everybody. All right, let's talk about Samson. And we're going to pray for our kids' redemption stories. And so you're like, oh, great. But we're going to do it. We are going to talk about sin and mistakes for a second,

but we all have them. Like Samson, we all have strengths. We have weaknesses. Our kids have

strengths and weaknesses. And God can do things through those mistakes and he can redeem anything,

which is just such a great reminder. And maybe exactly where one of your kids are at. You're

like watching them implode their life. And we're going to just pray for that today and pray for redemption of

anything. So Samson, as a reminder, everybody go read your Bible. We're just going to gloss over

at the highest level, the story of Samson. But you really want to get the full context of judges

and all the judges and all the war and the things that are going on in the

book of judges and the Old Testament. What we learned about Sampson and maybe you've heard about him growing up. You're thinking, isn't that the really strong dude, the one with a lot of hair? Uh-huh, that's him, Samson and Delilah. You may have heard the story. But the area I want to focus in on today is that he made some colossal mistakes as a leader.

Terrible choices. Life was destructing around him. The war, everything was so bad.

But in his final moment before it all went, before it all went really, really bad, he turns back to

God. And that's the point of redemption. He turns back to God. So we see judges 1628. It says,

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