COURAGEOUS PARENTING

Will your kids be able to discern between truth and false teaching? It’s vital to raise them up to be independent thinkers so they can decipher the rampant false messages that will be coming at them in the teenage years and beyond. It’s alarming to see so many young Christians siding with empty truths that lack sound doctrine in today’s world. Don’t let that be your kids.

Part two of this two-part series: You will be encouraged to take leaps of faith and truly live during these challenging times we are in. These trips are great signature experiences but there’s a deeper purpose with a long-term vision shared at the beginning of this episode. And of course, the finish to the cliff-hanging story about the drunk man on the dock stumbling into the water beside Isaac an...

Part one of this two-part series: Get an inside view into our six-week trip as a family of 10 traveling through eight states during COVID, riots, and more. Lot’s of joy, challenge, RV drama, growing relationships, victories, and miracles happened on this trip. We share it all while giving you tips and insights for whatever adventures are in your future as a family.

Tune into this raw and real conversation with Isaac and Angie as they share some parenting struggles, biblical reminders for parents, and ah-ha moments that God has impressed upon their hearts while on the road with their 8 kids for 6 weeks in an RV! In this episode, you will be reminded to put your relationships before non-eternal checklists and other temporary expectations of yourself and others...

Would you like to be a fly on the wall in Angie’s home as she tends to the needs of her family’s health naturally and cleans without harsh chemicals? Tune into part-two of this series on the vital topic of keeping healthy homes in these uncertain times and get her tips.

Health matters, but how do you do it well enough while managing all the other aspects of life? Tune in to find out how Angie tends to the health needs of her home of eight kids and marriage of 20 years. In this episode, which is part one of a two-part series, she shares her tips and we encourage what it looks like to fully embrace the health of your family while also discussing the power and impor...

There’s no family like yours, so never try to be just like someone else's. Get ready to be encouraged to embrace and further discover the unique plan God has for your family. Isaac and Angie share their 20-year marriage journey as they wrestled many times on whether to have another child or not, how they came to be a large family, and why they don’t believe everyone should have a large family.

Often foolishness is disguised as wisdom today and there’s an unending number of people that will try and sway you one way or another. We must teach and model for our kids how to detect and only pursue Biblically sound wisdom. It can become so easy to embrace the wisdom that supports how we feel about something, but what happens when how we feel is wrong? We have to have good mentors in our lives...

Part-one of a two-part series: We live in a noisy world with too many people trying to influence us with their advice. That’s why it’s more important than ever to be careful about who we glean wisdom from. Often foolishness is disguised as wisdom, and we need to know how to detect it quickly. If you don’t know how to do this well, you won’t model or teach it to your kids. This is perhaps one of th...

If you want your kids to be wise decision-makers in the midst of increasing uncertainty, we must model and teach them critical skills in conjunction with how to seek God’s wisdom through the Scriptures. Check your decision-making and critical thinking skills and habits against these 6 biblical principles. Remember, all people naturally pursue the paths of least resistance, but if you make decision...

We live in the freest country in the world, with rights, but if you don’t know them, you won’t know when to stand strong in the face of persecution. Christians are warned in God’s word about the persecution that they will experience for following His ways. As we are all raising children for an uncertain world it is vital that we teach our children what their rights are as well as to give honor whe...

In this episode, we give you seven practical tips to help equip your kids to stand strong in their faith in an uncertain world. We must model and teach assuming virtue in others, especially when in conflict. If our kids are going to be effective for the Gospel when they are older, they must experience loving others well in your home first. This is a must-listen for parents with kids of all ages.

In this episode, you will learn how to influence your children to become better students by adjusting to what provides an optimal learning environment. There’s a lot you can do to accelerate their learning. In this second part series, we give you the next four disciplines that can help accelerate learning. If you follow these eight disciplines in this two-part series it will have a dramatic impact...

Whether you homeschool or not, you are your child’s most important teacher. In this two-part series, we teach eight disciplines that will forever boost your ability to educate them and fuel their lifelong love for learning. This is part one, where we talk about how to teach towards their interests, thoughts about curriculum, how to grow a love of learning, and the importance of experiential learni...

We believe loneliness is an epidemic right now and there are many deep reasons for it. The more digitally connected the world becomes, the lonelier people seem to be. As you listen to this episode you will likely discover areas of opportunity for yourself or your spouse to grow. If you have the four marriage conversations we encourage in this episode, it will catalyze your friendships, marriage, a...

Are you having a hard time getting things done because your kids have poor attitudes? I’m sure you try to fix this problem, but there could be things you are not realizing that keep the bad behavior persistently coming back. We teach six keys to influencing good attitudes in your kids that you can implement right now. Sometimes it just takes a small change to your approach to see big changes in yo...

If you are feeling lonely, wondering about your relationships, or just want to be refreshed during this challenging season this episode should help. We candidly discuss reasons for loneliness, how to nurture your relationships and lead your family with a Biblical response. Warning though, this episode may cause you to make some changes about how you re-enter life after quarantine.

Most decisions made in fear will be inferior decisions to what’s best. This episode will be helpful as you wrestle with whether you should have more kids or not during uncertain times and it will encourage those of you about to deliver another baby into the world who might be struggling with fear. It doesn’t matter what we think, what matters is what God’s will is for our lives. We share many of G...

Our kids learn the most from what they see us do during challenging situations. Let’s let them see our faith in God versus worries about the present. Resurrection Sunday is upon us, yet if we aren’t careful it could be overshadowed by what’s happening in the world. Let’s redeem this quarantine by filling our homes with spiritual protection, love, Biblical wisdom, and keep our focus on the Lord who...

How to manage your home is different when everyone is there 24/7! Many people are trying to figure out how to homeschool, work from home, and even lead their families spiritually. This episode dives into the realities we are all facing right now globally and how to do it well. You will get valuable homeschooling, marriage, and home management tips in this timely episode.

Proactively creating positive disruptions helps your marriage thrive. Transitions are inevitable in life, but how you handle them makes all the difference. How you make decisions can alter the course of your family legacy. Isaac and Angie share this secret for the first time that has led to an incredible marriage of twenty years through the most challenging and fruitful times alike. They will shar...

Regardless of what your children choose to do as a vocation in their future, they need to be equipped in how to take initiative and be resourceful. In this episode, we discuss many things you can do practically to equip your children. Knowledge is inferior to resourcefulness and a “get it done no matter what” attitude. Entitlement attitudes are cultivated from childhood and are destructive to thei...

If you or anyone you know has suffered a miscarriage, this episode will be insightful, equipping, and encouraging. We share about our recent loss of our 10th baby to miscarriage and explain why we announced the pregnancy right away, didn’t hide the loss from our kids, and what we named our baby. This is a raw but biblical perspective on loss, suffering, and grief. You don’t want to miss it.

If you over-protect your kids by hiding seasons of challenge from them, you may be paralyzing your child’s faith. It’s in all the moments we experience God helping us when we are weak, that fortify a strong faith that can’t be broken. If we’re honest, what we may call shielding our children from burdens and worry could be better explained as pride and a desire for our children to view us as having...