If we have the perspective of “being a Christian is hard,” we may have the wrong perspective. Today we are diving into some of the ways it is easy for us to value the world’s standard, believe a false gospel, and find ourselves caught in self-pity or pride. We pray this episode encourages you to …
 
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095: Being a Christian Is Hard

Culture has reduced the modern family to a joke -- informing parents they are only capable of shuttling their children from expert to expert who experiment with untested agendas. Katie and Elisha lean on their experience growing up in large families of 10 and 11 kids, to encourage parents to take back control, stop listening to popular relationship advice, and embrace their God-given role as their children's primary authority.

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- Sleep Training Method (no crying it out) Mom of 5 // Scheduling, Naps, Breastfeeding - https://youtu.be/qkDdnkSEX5I?si=DXOx7NiE4zF9hrVJ

281: Mega Churches, Giving Our Kids iPads, Boys Being Inappropriate

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Mentioned during the podcast: 
- "The Proper Care and Feeding of Husbands" by Laura Schlessinger - https://amzn.to/4cPaD2l

280: The Truth About Our Marriage

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Mentioned during podcast: 

- "Dirty Genes" by Dr. Ben Lynch- https://amzn.to/4aIZAG0
 - "Deep Nutrition" by Catherine Shanahan - https://amzn.to/3J7nmQm
- "Glucose Revolution" by Jessie Inchauspe - https://amzn.to/3TScydD
- "That Sugar Film" - https://amzn.to/3TNXhe1 - I only watched the first 30 minutes. It is PG-13, so watch at your own risk 

279: Depriving Our Kids Of Sugar

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 Is your life just too complicated to ever feel peaceful? 
Learn how to create a peacefully productive home in one week. 
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Catch a vision for the transformative power of a gospel-infused, joy-filled way of life in your family, homeschool, church, and community at the Relational Lifestyle Summit. 

It’s groundbreaking, exclusively online, and opening April 8-12, 2024. 

Register here - https://homeschoolsummits.com/lifestyle/

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Mentioned during podcast: 

- "The Birth Order Book: Why You Are the Way You Are" by Dr. Kevin Leman - https://amzn.to/3POEa2p

 - "Things Parents Of Multiple Children Overlook" - https://www.nowthatwereafamily.com/podcasts/now-that-we-re-a-family-10/episodes/2147859632

278: Hangups Of Being The Oldest Child

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Nancy Pearcey's latest book is The Toxic War on Masculinity: How Christianity Reconciles the Sexes. Her earlier books include Love Thy Body: Answering Hard Questions about Life and Sexuality, The Soul of Science, Saving Leonardo, Finding Truth, and two ECPA Gold Medallion Award Winners: How Now Shall We Live (coauthored with Harold Fickett and Chuck Colson) and Total Truth. Her books have been translated into 19 languages. She is professor and scholar in residence at Houston Christian University. A former agnostic, Pearcey has spoken at universities such as Princeton, Stanford, USC, and Dartmouth. She has been quoted in The New Yorker and Newsweek, highlighted as one of the five top women apologists by Christianity Today, and hailed in The Economist as "America's pre-eminent evangelical Protestant female intellectual."

Check out Nancy's website here - https://www.nancypearcey.com
Nancy's most recent book - "The Toxic War on Masculinity": https://www.amazon.com/Toxic-War-Masculinity-Christianity-Reconciles/dp/0801075734

095: Being a Christian Is Hard

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