What role does social media play in our lives?  In this conversation, we are sharing our journey with social media over the years and how we navigate our convictions while making our living as content creators.

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Music Intro: The Light From Within by Howard Harper-Barnes

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For us, living disconnected from the world is not about completely extracting ourselves from society but, rather, intentionally choosing how we interact with the world. We are diving into why and how we have chosen to step away from the fast-paced, self-centered, materialistic, drowning-in-debt, workaholic environment that is so prevalent in America today.Ample Flame is here to encourage listeners to do the hard work of reclaiming the gifts God has given us of faith, family and food from a broken culture.Hollar Homestead Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@TheHollarHomesteadJoin us on Patreon for ad-free content and exclusive episodes like the Aftershow! https://www.patreon.com/c/AmpleFlameMusicIntro: The Light From Within by Howard Harper-BarnesOutro: Zanzibar by Jones Meadow

After speaking at an even this past weekend about the homestead pantry, we have more to say and wanted to go more in depth. So in today’s episode we’re going over the homestead “larder” and what that looks like for us. 

Ample Flame is here to encourage listeners to do the hard work of reclaiming the gifts God has given us of faith, family and food from a broken culture.

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Intro: The Light From Within by Howard Harper-Barnes

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Formal education is great, but what can you learn to prepare you and your family for a good quality of life? Ben and Meg sit down in this week’s episode to talk about the importance of life skills.

Ample Flame is here to encourage listeners to do the hard work of reclaiming the gifts God has given us of faith, family and food from a broken culture.

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Are the standards we have for our food becoming an idol we worship? Ben and Meg talk about not putting food above relationships, but still having standards for how they feed their family. 

Ample Flame is here to encourage listeners to do the hard work of reclaiming the gifts God has given us of faith, family and food from a broken culture.

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How do we raise kids that are helpful, respectful, and willing? 

Ample Flame is here to encourage listeners to do the hard work of reclaiming the gifts God has given us of faith, family and food from a broken culture.

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In this episode Ben and Meg talk about living a low consumption life, not giving into vapid consumerism, and how they have dealt with people’s expectations and opinions of how they live. 

Ample Flame is here to encourage listeners to do the hard work of reclaiming the gifts God has given us of faith, family and food from a broken culture.

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In this episode Ben and Meg talk about the place of technology and internet in the home, the boundaries they’ve set, and what it looks like in their family.

Ample Flame is here to encourage listeners to do the hard work of reclaiming the gifts God has given us of faith, family and food from a broken culture.

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Intro: The Light From Within by Howard Harper-Barnes

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Ample Flame is here to encourage listeners to do the hard work of reclaiming the gifts God has given us of faith, family and food from a broken culture.

In this episode Ben and Meg talk about what family culture is, why it’s important to have a family culture, and what they have done in their own family to promote a good family culture. 

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Intro: The Light From Within by Howard Harper-Barnes

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Ample Flame is here to encourage listeners to do the hard work of reclaiming the gifts God has given us of faith, family and food from a broken culture.

In this episode Ben and Meg talk about the need for in person community and how to find it.

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Intro: The Light From Within by Howard Harper-Barnes

Outro: Zanzibar by Jones Meadow