Hey friends—many of you know by now that we are currently walking in the middle of a pretty deep valley. We were expecting our 4th child to be born in late October, but sadly we found out we miscarried and our baby is now with the Lord. While we took several weeks to grieve and mourn, God has wrapped His arms around us and brought us tremendous comfort through His Word, even in spite of the most difficult of seasons we’ve experienced. We will share more about our journey of healing in the next episode later this week, but wanted to share some Scriptures we’ve really clung to during this episode of Thoughts & Prayers. We pray this will serve to bless and comfort you when you experience pain and hurt.Thank you to ReliefBand for sponsoring today’s episode!Go to reliefband.com and use our promo code “myhouse” for 20% off plus free shipping!

Thoughts and Prayers: Praying the Scriptures through Adversity

Husband and wife duo Jordan and Milena Ciciotti take you on a raw and unfiltered journey through their lives as followers of Jesus and parents of Three. Whether they are sharing truth and Biblical wisdom, giving relationship advice, or telling funny stories of their dogs, Samson and Delilah, Jordan and Milena seek to exist as a platform for encouragement, love, and support for all who listen.

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Who has the most influence over your children? Whose voice does your child value the most? As parents, we’d love to think it was us, but more often than not, it’s actually other children. Peer-centered settings in school, church, sports, and extracurriculars have created an environment where our kids are solely around children their age for the vast majority of their days. What’s the problem with this? Kids are unable to raise kids. Duetronomy 6 and numerous scriptures demonstrate that it’s the duty of parents and elders to properly raise their children— not the tv, not cellphones, and definitely not other kids. Join us as we share our strategies to combat this and what we’ve implemented along the way!

Stop Letting Other Kids Raise Your Kids

Practically speaking, what does preparing for marriage look like? How can we use our singleness to set ourselves up for success in marriage? In this week’s episode we bring back our good friend, Alia Jones, to share her journey to contentment in singleness while still contending for her future marriage. For many, our 20s can feel like an awkward space between grieving where we once were, while longing to be where we desire next. Alia shares her struggles with life-altering transitions and how she still honors God and her parents in the process.

Don’t Waste Your Waiting - Singleness with Alia Jones

How can we expect our children to have a biblical worldview and know their identity according to God's word when they're so influenced by the world? Why is it so weird that parents want to actually have a say in the education of their children? Christian parents are often told we're "indoctrinating" our kids, yet as we continue our "world vs. word" series, in this epsiode we explore the idea that it's *all* indoctrination. Public school, home school, higher education, etc. all have an agenda and an end goal in mind. For us, our goal is simple- to follow the example given in the Scriptures and teach our children the word of God.We created an app! New stories are uploaded every week.Bible Stories for Kids (Apple): https://apps.apple.com/us/app/bible-stories-for-kids/id6451037832Bible Stories for Kids (Android): https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.bibleforkidsstories

We Can't Keep Outsourcing Our Kids' Education

This week’s guest has been one of the *most* influential voices in our parenting - Ginger Hubbard! You can have all the parenting books and study all the articles, yet if the Word of God is not your source of wisdom it will accomplish absolutely nothing. Ginger has taken principles found in the Word of God and teaches practical approaches to raising children that don’t just obey you, but most importantly honor the Lord. This conversation was an absolute honor!Ginger’s Wise Words for Moms chart and books referenced in this episode can all be found here https://www.gingerhubbard.com/collections/all (https://www.gingerhubbard.com/collections/all) AND she has given our listeners 10% off her resources using code ‘PARENTING’ at checkout!

Your Child's Behavior Isn't The Problem with Ginger Hubbard

Continuing our World vs. Word series, today’s “hot take” is God’s original design for raising children. When we look at the Scriptures we see how much emphasis God places on family, yet when we look at our society today we see more and more people choosing to delay starting their families or even opting to not have children at all. Our hearts behind today’s episode is to get back to the significance of why strong families are still important and desperately needed. Our children need Biblically sound parenting, but more importantly they need Jesus.

Thoughts and Prayers: Praying the Scriptures through Adversity

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