Extended family members are a blessing and a challenge, all to various degrees. Where do we need to draw boundaries? When do we have hard conversations? What does it look like to love and accept others where they are while also standing firm on Biblical truth and personal convictions? The Samsons and Bucheks will talk about these things and more in this episode of Aiming Arrows

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Episode Overview

00:00 Intro

3:15 Why This Conversation Matters

7:07 Principles to Navigate Emotions

9:37 Tripod: Truth, Humility, & Hope

13:22 Age spectrum: When should these convos start?

19:02 Drawing Boundaries

25:34 Pillars in Scripture

28:36 Spouse Alignment

32:53 Equipping kids to develop convictions

How can we celebrate the wonder of boys? How do we guide boys to be men in this day and age? In this episode with guests Todd Tramonte and Lisa Ricketts, we’ll dig into what God’s word says about raising REAL men (teaser: there’s an acronym there) and give you some memorable phrases and scriptures to use at home.

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Episode Overview

00:00 Intro

1:40 Why this Conversation Matters

3:40 Things to be Mindful of

8:28 Encouragement for Single Parents

11:38 What does God’s Word say?

16:50 Helpful Language/Phrases

19:12 The Importance of Gender Differences

23:50 Practical Ways to Celebrate your Boys

39:12 “Whole picture” of Biblical Manhood

45:53 Where Have You Missed the Mark?

50:07 Additional Resources

Lisa Ricketts and Randi Wideman are BACK! In this episode, we’re discussing what it looks like to raise godly women. We’ve got another REAL acronym to help us get a handle around what God’s word says specifically about raising girls to be godly women.

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Episode Overview

00:00 Intro

2:30 Why This Conversation Matters

4:10 Why Is There Tension Around Biblical Womanhood?

8:05 Where Do We Start To Help Our Girls?

11:27 Fighting the Lie: If I’m Not This Way, Then I’m Less Than A Woman

17:20 How Does Sin Try To Keep Us From Living Out Biblical Womanhood?

24:37 R.E.A.L. Overview

26:00 R – Rooted In Christ

35:04 E – Encourage With Strong Help

47:15 A – Adorned With A Gentle & Quiet Spirit

54:10 L - Lifegiver

We agree that reading the Bible is important, but how do we practically raise the value of God’s word in our homes? CityBridge elder Scott Harper and his wife Cara join Morgan and Andre to discuss how to prayerfully help our kids value and treasure the word of God for themselves.

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Episode Overview

00:00 - Intro

2:42 - Why Does Elevating God's Word Matter?

6:07 - How Does It Fit Into Daily Life?

7:52 - It Starts with Prayer

11:58 - And It Starts with Leading Yourself

12:49 - Scripture Memory to Music

14:28 - Quoting Scripture Out Loud to Yourself

15:30 - Practical for Older Kids

17:15 - Practical for Younger Years

17:51 - Give Them Structure and Space

21:50 - What to Do When They Just Don't Want to Read the Bible?

25:30 - Thoughts on Bribery

26:15 - The Memory Verse Helicopter

27:30 - For the Parent Who Doesn't Know The Bible

29:45 - For the Parent Who Doesn't Have Time

31:54 - Can't I Just Connect With God in Other Ways?

33:56 - Bible First, Bible Most

35:43 - Final Exhortations

In the third installment of our 3-part series on how we view children, Katherine Smith and Randi Wideman share some deep thoughts on how we can elevate or tear down God’s gift of parenting by the way we talk about our kids to one another within the church.

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Episode Overview

00:00 – Intro

2:50 – Why This Conversation Matters

7:23 – Reality: Parenting Is Hard

10:26 – There’s Power in the Tongue

16:00 – What Do We Do When We Only See the Hard?

22:46 – Our Sin Doesn’t Define Us or Our Kids

27:52 – Hard & Holy: How Do We Speak About Our Kids to Others?

30:45 – Hard & Hope: How Do I Help Others When Parenting is Hard?

CityBridge members Jordan and Kyla Bryan sit with Morgan and Andre to talk about why the way we talk to our family within the walls of our own home really matters. This is the second in our 3-part series on living out a Biblical perspective of parenting.

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Episode Overview

00:00 - Intro

2:46 - Why does the tone of your home matter?

5:49 - Where do we start?

9:10 - Where have you found success?

13:40 - Where have you struggled?

17:58 - Remember the purpose

19:15 - Preparing your heart before getting home

23:40 - Anchors of truth in scripture

27:15 - How do tone and discipline overlap?

30:23 - Grace for yourself

Andre and Morgan chat with Family Director Daniel Smith on the Biblical perspective of parenting. The Bible says children are a blessing, but in between tantrums, bedtime struggles, teenage emotions, and bad attitudes, can we really trust that? This is the first in a 3-part series on a Biblical parenting perspective.

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Episode Overview

0:00-2:00 Where are we going with the podcast.

2:00- 3:00 Introductions

3:00- 4:00 Why start with the heart

4:00-9:00 Shifting the target of parenting

9:00- 15:00 Reframe the "burden" of kids

15:00- 18:00 Cultivate conversations and wonder

18:00- 25:00 Investing in my relationship with God first

25:00- 29:10 How do you slow down and shift your perspective

29:10- 33:15 Next faithful step

What's in a name? CityBridge elder Matt Wideman launches the Aiming Arrows podcast with an introduction that will get you FIRED UP about what Psalm 127 has to say about children: “Like arrows in the hands of a warrior are the children of one’s youth.”

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