One of the exciting things about parenting is watching our kids develop interests and explore their giftings. On this episode of Over a Cup, Tara talks to Monica Swanson, author of Boy Mom, about fostering our children’s unique interests and how we can continually lead our kids to scripture. These two moms get very practical about how they have creatively supported their children’s interests, set healthy boundaries for their kids, and provided resources that they love to use that connect them to God’s bigger story.

Show Takeaways:

• Learn about Monica’s journey to allowing her kids to follow their interests
• Listen to how she is developing her own faith and passing it on to her kids.
• Discover the many children’s Bible resources and tips Tara and Monica share to encourage your kids to love God’s word and invest in it themselves.

Show Links:

• Bible Recap with Tara-Leigh Cobble
• YouVersion App
• Adventures in Odyssey
• Boy Mom by Monica Swanson
• Raising Amazing by Monica Swanson
• The Character Training Course
• The Action Bible
• The Story by Max Lucado and Randy Franzee
• The Jesus Storybook Bible by Sally Lloyd-Jones
• The Biggest Story Bible Storybook by Kevin DeYoung
• NIV Dramatic Audio Bible

In this episode, Monica and I share a lot of practical ideas to help you and your kids build a relationship with Jesus. If you need help making time with God a regular habit, please join our OverACup Patreon community for our Live Workshop on January 17th @ 1 pm, CST! This workshop will help you:

• Choose a habit based on how God uniquely made you
• Develop tiny daily habits that stick
• Celebrate your success to create lasting change

The workshop will be recorded for Patreon Members to view later. Go to patreon.com/overacup to learn more!

Have you ever wanted to help your kids memorize scripture? Or wondered if it is worth it? In this cultural moment, memorizing scripture and applying it can be life-changing for our children. On this episode of Over a Cup, Tara walks you through some simple yet very practical ways to engage scripture with your kids that will make a meaningful impact on their lives. Listen in as Tara reads another chapter from her book “Everyday Prayers for the School Year.”

Show Takeaways:

•       Listen in as Tara reads a chapter from her book “Everyday Prayers for the School Year”
•       Learn about practical ways to use scripture with your kids that will make a difference!
•       Discover how you can help form your children’s self-worth through the Word of God.

Show Links:

• Over A Cup Patreon Partners
• Sharpen Your Sword Workshop
• School Year Resource Package 

Welcome back to the Over a Cup Podcast, as we go through this season, we're covering the five topics that are in my new book, Everyday Prayers for the School Year. We pray over friendships, their character, their gifts, their schoolwork, and we pray over our students' relationships with their teachers which is exactly what today’s episode is about. So whether you're a homeschooling parent or a public school parent, or somewhere in between, Pre-K to college, I've got you covered.

Show Takeaways:

• Listen in to hear helpful ways to pray over your child’s and your own relationship with their teacher
• Discover my background with teaching and how that impacted my heart for teacher and students
• Why good communication with teachers is imperative to a good relationship and how to be effective at communicating with your child’s teacher

Show Links:

• Mary Carver’s Episode
• Michelle’s Episode
• Everyday Prayer for the School Year

Over A Cup welcomes back author, podcaster, and speaker, Michelle Diercks as we focus on our kids, prayer, and school year this season.  Michelle is a mother of two boys,  and shares some sage advice for communicating and guiding our children through situations no one plans for.  She also shares how she has instilled the love of being in God’s word and how it has impacted her boys and their relationship with God. 

 *Warning, mature topics are discussed in this episode.  

Show Takeaways: 

• Learn helpful phrases to guide your children in conversations they may have with peers
• Discover ways to help kids stay faithful from second grade until twenty
• Listen in to hear how to keep lines of communication open with our kids through the teen years

Show Links:

• Michelle’s Podcast 
• Michelle’s Bible Study: Promised Rest
• Skit Guys
• ESV Bible with Commentary
• You Version 
• Prayer Journals by JL Gerhardt
• Prayers of Rest Podcast 
• The Bible Project

*Affiliate links are used here. They don’t cost anything for you to use but help support this podcast. Thank you! 

Welcome to another episode of the Over a Cup Podcast. I am so glad you're here this month. My guest is Mary Carver. 

Mary is a writer and a podcaster, her podcast The Couch with Mary Carver talks about the intersection of faith and pop culture. She’s also a mom and a wife. And she has a new book coming out called Prayers From the Parking Lot and it is for moms who find themselves in the parking lot, either kind of trapped while they're waiting on their kids or maybe just hiding out from their kids, getting a few extra minutes of quiet in the minivan before they go inside back to the chaos.

In this episode, we discuss motherhood, parenting, and specifically helping our kids navigate friendships. 

Show Takeaways: 

• Listen in to hear the importance of how we as parents can pray over and help our children navigate friendships.
• Discover how Mary did this in her own life and what she’s learned. 
• Learn some practical ways to help your children navigate friendships no matter what their age. 

Show Links:

• Mary Carver Prayers from the Parking Lot
• The Bible Recap
• YouVersion
• One Year Chronological Bible
• The Chosen 
• Threadbare Prayers
• Veggie Tales
• What’s in the Bible
• Bible Gateway
• The Jesus Storybook Bible
• Minnow Kids
• ABC’s of the Bible

Show Notes:

Welcome back to another episode of the Over a Cup Podcast, and welcome to season three. This season is all about praying God's word over your children's school year. So whether you have children or grandchildren, this is pretty much for any age and stage. 

My first guest is Brooke McGlothlin from Million Praying Moms. Brooke is really the one who taught me how to pray God's word over my children so she is a perfect fit for our first guest of the season.

Show Takeaways: 

• Listen in to hear Brooke’s story of how she started praying God’s work over her kids.
• Learn how Brooke has used God’s word to pray over her kids, and how you can too.
• Discover resources to start praying over your kids. 

Show Links:

• Million Praying Moms Website
• Million Praying Moms Instagram
• Million Praying Moms Facebook
• Brooke McGlothlin Website
• Everyday Prayers for the School Year
• FREE Summertime Prayers Lock Screens

During the difficult days of mothering and training our children, we can often feel like we are alone in the fight.  Mom mentors offer listening ears, loving hearts, and encouragement as we journey through mothering.  

I am excited to share with you the wisdom of Terri Wilson, a mom mentor from my own life as we discuss the power of hindsight.  Terri shares ways she guided her children into their own relationships with God by growing her relationship with God.  

Listen in for practical encouragement from a mom that’s been there. 

Show Links:

• Seeds Family Worship
• Steve Green Music
• Connect on Instagram

Show Takeaways: 

• Listen in to hear why teaching our children to love God is the most important thing we can teach them.  
• Discover different ways to make the Word personal.
• Learn how to help our children through difficult times. 

During some seasons of life, it seems like this world has gone crazy! The chaos in our personal life or the world around us can be overwhelming and distract us from God. 

That was Melody’s life in early 2020 and she, like all of us during that time, wondered where to turn. She found her comfort in intercessory prayer. It might sound like a big, fancy term, but it simply means interceding on behalf of another. Taking one another to Jesus’ feet. 

However, instead of stopping her busy life as a homeschooling mom and homesteader, God showed her how to pray and intercede even as she went about her day. Love that! 

If you feel weighed down by life and wonder if there is time to pray amid the interruptions and distractions, this episode is for you! 

Resources:

• Good Notes app
• The One Year Chronological Bible
• YouVersion
• Blue Letter Bible
• Amanda Cook Music
• IHOP Prayer Room
• Maverick Music 

Podcast

Learn how to fight distractions and find the time to focus on Jesus in my conversations on the OverACup Podcast. 

Books

Find more abide ideas in my book Abide: 40 Ways to Focus on Jesus Daily.

Discover how to help your kids connect to God in the special and unique ways he made them in my book with Christie Thomas Sacred Pathways for Kids. 

Pray God's word over your child’s school year (no matter your schooling choice or child’s grade!) in my upcoming book releasing August 2, 2022, Everyday Prayers for the School Year. Pre-order today! 

Patreon Partners

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Bad things happen to good people. I wish it wasn’t true. I wish I could tell you, like Job’s friends in the book of Job, that God blesses the righteous and doesn’t allow hard things to happen. But it just isn’t true. 

As Amy Anguish shares in this episode, even in those hard times, there is hope. God walked her and her husband through 6 years of infertility and gave her the ability to comfort hurting women in a way she wasn’t able to before.

If you’re going to infertility, loss, or sickness, find hope in Amy’s story of walking with God through those times when you can only say, “Why God?” 

Resources

• Hannah’s Hope
• Priscilla Shirer Elijah Study
• Amy Anguish fiction books
• Hope Grown Faith

Connect with Amy Anguish:

• Facebook
• Twitter
• Website: A Bit of Anguish

During those times when we feel like we’ve been sucker-punched when our feet have been kicked out from under us, there is hope! Joy is possible.

Listen in as Gina L. Smith shares how she learned to find joy when life took an unexpected turn, and how she continues to seek God’s joy in her everyday life. 

In this episode learn how to:

• Turn venting to lamenting 
• Remember God’s Faithfulness
• Thank him for how he will be faithful
• Find Biblical Joy

Resources

• Abide 5 Day Challenge
• Million Praying Moms
• Everyday Prayers for Joy by Gina L. Smith
• Resources for 0-7 Kids
• Kay Authur- Precepts 
• Danna Gresh
• YouVersion app
• Revive our Hearts 

Connect with Gina L. Smith: 

Gina is an author, podcaster, and mentor mom for Million Praying Moms. Gina and her husband Brian have been married for more than three decades. They served as the on-campus parents at a Christian college for more than twenty years while Brian was a professor and dean of students. They mentored hundreds of college and seminary students as well as young couples over the years. Gina has a degree in Bible studies from Washington Bible College/Capital Bible

Seminary. She has written for several organizations, including Million Praying Moms. She is also

the author of Grace Gifts: Practical Ways to Help Your Children Understand God’s Grace. Gina and Brian have two grown children and reside in the metro area of Washington, D. C.

• Ginalsmith.com
• Gina L Smith Facebook
• Gina L Smith Instagram
• Gina L. Smith Twitter