Raising Sinners

Matthew West is our guest on the podcast today! He’s a five-time GRAMMY nominee, a four-time ASCAP Christian Music Songwriter/Artist of the Year winner, and a 2018 GMA Dove Award Songwriter of the Year (Artist) recipient and has two RIAA Gold-certified and an RIAA Platinum-certified singles.  He has received an American Music Award, a Billboard Music Award, a K-LOVE Fan Award, and named Billboard’...

December is here and we are excited over here at the Raising Sinners Podcast! We celebrate BIG!!! On this episode you’ll hear us share some favorite memories of days gone by, traditions we began with our own children and fun things we continue to do with our grands.    For the Christian parent, the month of December is full of opportunities to point our children and community to Christ.  So, we wa...

We are so excited to have Mary Beth Chapman joining us today on Raising Sinners.  Mary Beth is a New York Times’ best-selling author, speaker and the wife of GRAMMY and Dove Award-winning recording artist, Steven Curtis Chapman.  She’s also the President of Show Hope.  November is National Adoption Awareness month and Show Hope’s mission since 2003 is to care for orphans by engaging the Church and...

Hebrews 10:25 – “not forsaking the assembling of ourselves together as is the manner of some but exhorting one another, and so much the more as you see the day approaching.”   We’re meant to do Church (life) together – in other words, the Church needs each other.  And our community is vital to growth, encouragement, protection, and life. But how? Life, schedules, and commitments sometimes overtake...

Parenting a child throughout life includes parenting them in and through their struggles. It hurts us to watch our child in angst as they don’t fit the mold that seems to fit all the other kids, or struggle to find their group.  When we decided to tackle this topic on Raising Sinners, we wanted to treat it like moms gathering around a table with a cup of coffee, discussing this topic that we’ve al...

In episode 2 of RAISING SINNERS , we discussed growing a close-knit family.  Dr. Larry Taylor was our guest and he shared helpful strategies to keep your family close long after graduation:   !) Parenting Style 2) How we deal with conflict 3) Family Rituals and 4) Communication. On this episode, we dive into FAMILY RITUALS AND TRADITIONS .  What are your daily rituals? Weekly rituals? Yearly ritua...

In episode 2 of RAISING SINNERS , we discussed growing a close-knit family.  Dr. Larry Taylor was our guest and he shared helpful strategies to keep your family close long after graduation:   !) Parenting Style 2) How we deal with conflict 3) Family Rituals and 4) Communication.   On this episode, we dive into COMMUNICATION.  Are you a good communicator? Do you enjoy hard conversations? Do you lov...

Dr. Larry Taylor is our guest on RAISING SINNERS today.  Dr. Taylor is the author of “Running with the Horses,” and we knew we wanted him as our guest early on because of his years of putting into practice what it takes to build, not only a kingdom family, but a close-knit family.  Don’t we all want our kids to come back home to visit once they’ve left the nest? Yes!   Dr. Taylor discusses the dai...

You are listening to the inaugural episode of RAISING SINNERS! We are over the moon excited for this journey and are thankful you are joining us.  Our show will be full of parenting help as well as encouragement for parents of all ages and stages.   We’ll talk about it all here.  If there’s a question you have or a topic you’d like explored, hold on, we’ll get there.  But we mostly want you to lea...

It all started in 2016 with Lisa Clark’s book, “Raising Sinners,” but she knew there was more to say. The Raising Sinners podcast tackles all the topics and questions parents have about raising their kids! Lisa and her co-host Chrissie Dunham, and the occasional special guest, cover it all: sibling rivalry, dating, and social media, but also discuss raising children who don’t fit the mold and even...