People have 70,000 thoughts per day and about 80% of them are negative.

What is that doing to our emotional health? What is that doing to our actions? How is that affecting our very DNA?

Global bestselling author and pastor, Max Lucado, is here to help us understand not only the science behind our thoughts but the heart beneath them. 

How can we “take every thought captive?”

How does something like anxiety and depression factor in?

Is this just plastering a smile on a bad day or a rough life?

Let’s talk about it all.

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• “Everybody else says ‘do,’ but Jesus says ‘done.’” —Max Lucado

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• Get his latest book here.  

• Check out his site here. 

• Join the HIMH Pod FB group here. 

• Find Laurie on IG here.

How can we walk with others—our kids or those we are called to disciple— if we are wounded by our own parents?

We need to be fathered by the Father first.

Today, author and popular YouTuber, Glen Henry, helps us understand his journey of being fathered by God as he walks with his own kids.

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We don’t just follow a biblical sexuality

We surrender our sexuality.

What does that mean?

Today we have Authentic Intimacy co-founder, author, and psychologist, Juli Slattery, back on the show to help us understand the difference as well as: 

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You aren’t making it easy for us today!

Today, Laurie and Matt take YOUR questions including:

+ How should we navigate attraction—when it’s not to toward our spouses? (Single people, there is is stuff in this one for you especially when we speak generally about friendship/intimacy in friendships)

+ Is it hard to be married to someone who experiences same-sex attractions?

+ How do you protect your kids from violence while keeping them informed?

+ How did we talk with our kids about the shooting at Annunciation by someone identifying as transgender, and how did we talk with our kids about Charlie Kirk? (We recorded this before the funeral, FYI.)

+ How should we engage someone who attends our church and cross-dresses?

Find Out More:

• The Nov 7-8 Raising Kids Event here.  

• The Jan 31 HIMH Live Podcast Event Info coming soon!!

• Preorder the Kriegs’ book here. 

• Join the HIMH Pod FB group here.

• Ask Laurie a Q on IG here. 

Many of us know that we were not made to be alone, but what if we don’t have good friends? 

What if we don’t have friends who we can rely on in not just the good times but the hard?  

Today, ministry leader, speaker, and author Toni Collier is back to help us understand why we need godly community and how to get it as well as:

What if I feel too disappointed in God to even talk to him as my friend?

What if I don’t access my emotions well enough to share with others?

What if I’m an introvert?

Find Out More:

• Get Toni’s book here.  

• Check out her site here. 

• Watch the last episode with Toni here.

• Join the HIMH Pod FB group here.

• Ask Laurie a Q on IG here.

It’s hard to meet a parent of young kids today who isn’t desperately wondering how to equip their kids for this sexually broken world.

Thankfully, God is calling people to resource parents to equip their kids with a gospel vision for human sexuality, including a massive parenting discipleship project.

It is called Christian Sexuality: Raising Kids, and you can hear the behind-the-scenes details with friend, author, and theologian Dr. Preston Sprinkle today on the podcast!

Next Steps:

• Preorder the series here.

• Join the HIMH Pod FB group here.

• Laurie’s IG here.

• Watch here.

Burnout. Maybe you’ve experienced it—or maybe you’re in it right now and can’t quite name it yet.

All we see is:

1 . Emotional exhaustion

Yup. That’s burnout. How can we heal from it? How does it affect our relationship with God? And how can we move forward with hope?

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• Forbes article (with a quiz) here.

• Psychology Today article here.

• The app Steve mentioned here.

• Join the HIMH Pod FB group here.

• Connect with Laurie here.

It’s our season wrap episode, and we could not have asked for a better guest.

Ruth is a teacher and author, and she knows the real-life challenges of helping kids to and parents to turn their hearts toward God.

How can we practice something like family devotions without it feeling too forced?

What if husbands and wives are on different pages about how to lead the family spiritually?

Is structure helpful or hurtful?

Let’s dive in.

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THIS EPISODE.

We literally cried. All of us. And it led to a mentoring relationship between Matt and our guest, Michael John Cusick.

Why? We were struck thinking about how to *actually live* in that tension between our faith and our experience.

Join us?

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As ministry leaders and therapists (Matt and Laurie), we have often wondered: When do church leaders and pastors utilize therapists and para-church ministries and when do they care on their own?

Do pastors always outsource?

Do they never outsource?

What role does the church have for families in crisis?

Let’s talk about it with author and psychologist (and lover of the Church), Jennifer Ripley.

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What was your favorite children’s book while growing up?

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