The Nine Points Podcast

Today's show discusses how feeling "Welcome" vs feeling "Accepted" can impact the world that we create for ourselves. We discuss the story or Rachel, Leah & Jacob in one segment, & the story of Rebekah, Esau & Jacob in the second one. Throughout the show, my beautiful wife has fun gently ribbing me about getting Rachel & Rebekah's names mixed up. An added bonus in today's show is the fact that the entire family contributes for the first time in 2021. 

This episode reviews the events described in Genesis 9: 20-27. 

 Our families are ground zero for spiritual warfare. Today's episode focuses on how spiritual battles require spiritual warriors. There are also pointers for how to maintain composure so that the sympathetic nervous system doesn't become our excuse for our stubborn hearts. 

Thank you for considering this Christmas edition of our family podcast. We collaborated in one segment to discuss some of what Love and Christmas mean to us. Spoiler alert, if you are listening with young kids, my son mentioned his thoughts about Santa Claus. If you're not ready for that talk, this might not be the episode for you. Merry Christmas!

This episode deals with the concept of Faith and how it applies to life on individual, familial and societal levels. 

This show has two segments that address the concept of shame & tips for how to work through it. In the first segment, I offer operational definitions of regret and shame, before giving personal and general examples of shame in action. Later, I delve into strategies to help work through shame and open the floor to discuss shame with my sons.  

The theme for each of today's segments was fellowship. The first segment was the first of what I hope to be many more collaborations with the pastor of Transitional Life Christian Church, Victor Vinson. In segment two, I invited our teens to share their perspectives of how Covid-19 has impacted their sociability and "free time." 

On this Thanksgiving weekend the theme of today's show is thankfulness. In the first segment, I explain why I believe that you and I share at least 9 things to be thankful for. The second segment is a family collaboration where we give more personal accounts for what we are thankful for. 

Thanks for considering our family show! Segment one is a collaborative discussion about Pride with a new guest of the show. Segment two is a father and son collaboration about NTI and the teenage experience. Segment three is an analysis of the function and importance of families.

Thank you for considering our family program! We face no shortage of distractions in this busy world of ours. Yet, one of the most serious distractions that we face is the temptation to look to others to settle things that we need to take ownership of ourselves. This episode has two segments dedicated to the process of self-soothing.