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Leading parenting expert and pediatrician Dr. Meg Meeker shares about the masculinity crisis in today’s culture and encourages you as a parent to take an active role in guiding and shaping your son’s character. She says the foundation of any boy’s life is built on three things: his relationship with God, his parents, and his siblings and friends. Dr. Meeker takes a positive view of masculinity as she offers seven secrets to raising healthy sons.
Christmas is a season of interruptions. Some we enjoy, some we don’t. You may be facing an interruption during this season of life. What you wanted and what you received do not match, and now you’re troubled and anxious. Everything inside you and every voice around you says, “Get out. Get angry.” But don’t listen to those voices. You cannot face a crisis if you don’t face God first.
Colossians 1:16-17 (MSG) says, “For everything, absolutely everything, above and below, visible and invisible, rank after rank after rank of angels—everything got started in him and finds its purpose in him. He was there before any of it came into existence and holds it all together right up to this moment.” God holds it all together, and he will hold it together for you.
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Episode 2.63
This episode explores the biblical theme of naming—from Adam in Genesis to Jesus in Revelation—and shows how naming reveals authority, identity, mission, and destiny. Michael and Zach trace how Scripture uses naming to communicate dominion (Adam naming the animals), responsibility (parents naming their children), divine revelation (God naming Himself in Exodus 3), and testimony (Hagar calling God El Roi). The episode highlights how Jesus wields unmatched authority over the spiritual realm, silencing demons who attempt to name Him, and how He renames His followers—Peter the Rock, the Sons of Thunder—to define their calling.
The hosts show how naming attempts in the ancient world were often tied to power, control, or manipulation, yet Jesus resists every attempt to be defined by others. From Philippians 2’s “name above every name” to Revelation’s mysterious “name no one knows but Himself,” the Bible presents Christ as both revealed and inexhaustible.
The episode concludes by connecting naming to adoption: God places His own name on His children, granting belonging, identity, and security. The God who cannot be claimed or controlled chooses to claim us—writing His name on His people and inviting them into His family forever.
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