In today's episode, I have a conversation about children and discipline with Mary Lee Bayly and her three daughters: Heather Ummel, Michal Crum and Hannah Weeks.

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This is the final part of our conversation about counseling with pastor Josh Knipp, and we spend the time talking about the importance of women in the work of counseling in the church. It is essential for older women to be committed to counseling younger women in the church!

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Pastors Tim Bayly, Max Curell, Josh Knipp and yours truly tackle the question, "Who is competent to counsel?" Romans 15:14 gives a good answer to the question, but we hope, as the puritans used to say, to "improve the text" in this episode.

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• Letting Go of Anxiety, with Josh and Rachel Knipp
• The Closing of the American Mind, by Allan Bloom

And there is no creature hidden from His sight, but all things are open and laid bare to the eyes of Him with whom we have to do.
- Hebrews 4:13

Discipline is only effective if you have real authority.

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Do not hold back discipline from the child, 

Although you strike him with the rod, he will not die.

You shall strike him with the rod 

And rescue his soul from Sheol.

- Proverbs 23:13-14

Today, we circle back around and talk about birth control and contraceptives again. We got a little push back from the last episode, and so we hope to clarify, improve, and sharpen our teaching on this very important topic. As you’ll hear Tim say later in the podcast, there is nothing more sensitive in a marriage relationship than the question of whether or not to have another child.

Today, we talk about companionship in marriage. Marriage is a mission, and a man and a wife cannot be two ships passing in the night if they hope to complete the mission with any success. Two ships passing in the night is not Christian Marriage. So today in our conversation, we try to give our listeners a vision of sweet companionship in Christian Marriage.

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The universal testimony of both Scripture and the Church through the ages has been to oppose the use of birth control. And yet, even the most conservative churches in our country have completely embraced it and consider child-bearing and contraception to simply be a question of stewardship. I hope our conversation today is challenging, helpful, informative… but mostly, I hope it strengthens your faith. There’s nothing quite so wonderful and scary as bringing a child into the world. It’s risky, and therefore terrifying. But God gives grace for the work, and there are joys you will never know apart from the work - and pain - of raising children.

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We live in a country where 50 shades of gray is released in the theaters on valentines day. This is the state of our understanding of love between a man and a woman. It's godless and loveless. And much of that thinking has seeped into the church.

In today's episode, we talk about the beauty of marriage and of real intimacy. There is nothing more romantic than a man and a woman getting married, and raising a family together. I hope you enjoy the episode.

Some helpful resources mentioned in today's podcast:

• Church Reformed, by Tim Bayly
• From Feminist to Biblical Womanhood, an interview with Mary Lee Bayly
• False Intimacy, by Harry Schaumburg

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