The Couch Time Podcast

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The Couch Time Podcast is a weekly resource that gives parents tools to help them connect with their kids and point them to Jesus. Hosted by Ryan, Caleb, and Stephen. A ministry to parents of Grace St... more

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How many episodes does The Couch Time Podcast have?

The podcast currently has 155 episodes available.

The Couch Time Podcast episodes:

July 08, 2019 EP 24: Tell Me What You See & Take A Walk | Alongside Bookclub Chapters 17 & 18
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In this Episode: Chapters 17 & 18 of Alongside

Chapter 17: Crowns
- It's important to say what is true about your kids.
- There are so many narratives that are fighting for your kid's attention, so it's important to speak what is true about what God has for them.
- Josh tells about his favorite movie: Cool Runnings
- What would your kids say that you see in them?

Chapter 18: Walk
- Physically walking and moving can help conversations.

You can this book on Amazon, or in the Florence Campus Resource Center.

How you can participate:
- Listen & take notes.
- Listen, read, and take notes.
- Listen, read, and discuss with others.

Announcements
Check the website this week for our Summer Calendars:
- Middle School
- High School
...more
17min
July 02, 2019 EP 23: Skin & Showing Up | Alongside Bookclub Chapters 15 & 16
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In this Episode: Chapters 15 & 16 of Alongside

Chapter 15: Skin
Why appropriate physical touch matters.

Chapter 16: Showing Up
Showing up shows you like your child.

You can this book on Amazon, or in the Florence Campus Resource Center.

How you can participate:
- Listen & take notes.
- Listen, read, and take notes.
- Listen, read, and discuss with others.

Announcements
Check the website this week for our Summer Calendars:
- Middle School
- High School
...more
17min
June 24, 2019 Skin and Showing Up | Alongside Book Club
Join our Summer Book Club ➡️ Click Here

In this Episode: Chapters 15 & 16 of Alongside

Chapter 15: Skin
Why appropriate physical touch matters.

Chapter 16: Showing Up
Showing up shows you like your child.

You can this book on Amazon, or in the Florence Campus Resource Center.

How you can participate:
– Listen & take notes.
– Listen, read, and take notes.
– Listen, read, and discuss with others.

Announcements
Check the website this week for our Summer Calendars:
– Middle School
– High School
...more
17min
June 20, 2019 EP 22: Feasting & Shame | Alongside Bookclub Chapters 13 & 14
Chapter 13
- Feasting together
- Eating together—The Difference Maker
The difference in our children
- Are your feasts for insiders only? How do outsiders feel?
Jesus example
Home Mission
Reaching the unreached in your child's life
- Making your house the place for shepherding
Examples
Encouragement

Chapter 14
- Shame can come from many different places
Our past, our words, our pain
Our children's perception
- Jesus understands, and has walked the walk
We have a great High Priest
- Think back to your own childhood, what caused you shame?
- Be slow to speak, slow to anger, and quick to forgive
Our reaction can make a big difference
- Go toward your kids when they have shame, you can’t do that without compassion

You can this book on Amazon, or in the Florence Campus Resource Center.

How you can participate:
- Listen & take notes.
- Listen, read, and take notes.
- Listen, read, and discuss with others.

Announcements
Check the website this week for our Summer Calendars:
- Middle School
- High School
...more
18min
June 18, 2019 EP 21: Our Identity: God Has Naming Rights | Alongside Bookclub Chapters 11 & 12
Chapter 11
- Names are powerful. The things we call people are powerful.
Calling our children by name.
The "things" we call them.
- We have influence on other people’s children as well.
- Do you really know your kid’s friend’s names?
- The Mission in your home.
- Teams work better when they’re working together.

Chapter 12
- Hospitality is such an incredible way to love children.
Our children grow up in our home.
What does our home tell their friends about Jesus?
- How to enter into the private world of your children.
Removing the barriers in the home.
- Showing up in their world.
What are they into now?
- Going after the root instead of the symptom.

You can this book on Amazon, or in the Florence Campus Resource Center.

How you can participate:
- Listen & take notes.
- Listen, read, and take notes.
- Listen, read, and discuss with others.

Announcements
Check the website this week for our Summer Calendars:
- Middle School
- High School
...more
19min
June 10, 2019 EP 20: Doing whatever it takes to bring students to Jesus | “Alongside” Book Club Chapters 9 & 10
CHAPTER 9
- Doing whatever it takes to bring students to Jesus:
Shapes what we think.
Shapes what we do.
Shapes what we how we spent our energy.
It radically effects everything.
- Every-time I am aimless I am ineffective and defaulting to all the wrong things:
Fear
Insecurity
- Hebrews 12: there is a destination and His name is Jesus.
- Be careful about competing destinations.
- Bringing face-to-face with Jesus > Mere behavioral modification
- What is the goal, direction, and destination that we are communicating to kids?

CHAPTER 10
- Create memories and milestones for students to learn about Jesus in our lives.
- Are we sharing some of the defining moments in our lives with our children?
- Helping our kids learn about milestones in their own lives.
- Help your kids see Jesus in their milestones.

You can this book on Amazon, or in the Florence Campus Resource Center.

How you can participate:
- Listen & take notes.
- Listen, read, and take notes.
- Listen, read, and discuss with others.

Announcements
Check the website this week for our Summer Calendars:
- Middle School
- High School
...more
18min
June 04, 2019 EP 19: I love you just because you are mine. | “Alongside” Book Club Chapters 7 & 8
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In this Episode: Chapters 7 & 8 of Alongside

Chapter 7
- God's unconditional love.
- Do you believe that God really loves you, not because of anything that you do?
- Do your kids know that you love them, not because of anything they do?

Chapter 8
- Jesus is reminding you that you're not alone.
- What does it change in your parenting to know that the Holy Spirit is with you and working in and through you?

You can this book on Amazon, or in the Florence Campus Resource Center.

How you can participate:
- Listen & take notes.
- Listen, read, and take notes.
- Listen, read, and discuss with others.

Announcements
Check the website this week for our Summer Calendars:
- Middle School
- High School
...more
18min
May 28, 2019 EP 18: In their shoes and how to be a beggar | Couch Time (5/28/19)
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In this Episode: Chapters 5 & 6 of Alongside

Chapter 5
- The importance of empathy
- How to have empathy and compassion for your student
- What are ways you unintentionally shut down conversations?

Chapter 6
- Abiding in Jesus fuels the ability to love your student
- False Evidence Appearing Real & conclusions
- Beggars make the best parents

You can this book on Amazon, or in the Florence Campus Resource Center.

How you can participate:
- Listen & take notes.
- Listen, read, and take notes.
- Listen, read, and discuss with others.

Announcements
Check the website this week for our Summer Calendars:
- Middle School
- High School
...more
17min
May 20, 2019 EP 17: Josh totally cried | “Alongside” Book Club Chapters 3 & 4
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In this episode:
We talking about chapters 3 & 4 of Alongside, by Drew Hill

Chapter 3 - The Deep End

How will you notice your student?
Will you jump into the deep end in spite of the lies that try to hold you back?

Chapter 4 - Hijacked

Do you see your student as precious?
How do you share your life with your student?

You can this book on Amazon, or in the Florence Campus Resource Center.

How you can participate:
Listen & take notes.
Listen, read, and take notes.
Listen, read, and discuss with others.

Announcements
Check the website this week for our Summer Calendars.
...more
19min
May 13, 2019 EP 16: “Alongside” Book Club Chapters 1 and 2!
In this episode:
We walk through the first two chapters of Alongside, by Drew Hill
Chapter 1 - Broken Heart
Bring the gospel home and make it real
Being a wounded healer
2 Corinthains 1:3-5

Chapter 2 - S.O.S.
Being actively dependent on God
Leading our children in dependency on God by example

You can this book on Amazon, or in the Florence Campus Resource Center.

How you can participate:
Listen & take notes.
Listen, read, and take notes.
Listen, read, and discuss with others.

Announcements
Kona Party this Sunday, May 19th! Pizza and a Kona Truck will be provided (a free Kona for each student).
Camp Registration CLOSES May May 19th at midnight! Register for camp by clicking the link below:
graceky.org/msmcamp
graceky.org/hsmcamp
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18min

FAQs about The Couch Time Podcast:

How many episodes does The Couch Time Podcast have?

The podcast currently has 155 episodes available.