Now That We're A Family

200 podcast episodes! We couldn’t have done it without you guys! Thank you so much for making the podcast worth recording. We really enjoy doing this and hearing from you all so much! It’s one of our favorite parts of the week. Today we are going through and reliving some of the highlights and the lowlights of 200 episodes. It will be fun to see how the podcast will morph and change over the next...

Today we are talking about how we plan to talk to our children about sex and how we’ve already talked to them about it. This is going to include a brief history of how our parents talked to us about it. We feel we have so much to learn about this and don’t want to run away from the scariness or daunting aspect of this conversation. We want to lean into it and embrace the role that we have in our c...

Today we are doing a Q&A with questions our followers asked on Instagram. We love hearing your questions and since we don’t get a chance to answer them on Instagram, we will answer them here on the podcast! If you follow us on Instagram and have any questions you would like us to answer, put them in the Q&A box that is in our stories on Mondays! Listen along today as we answer these eight...

N. D. Wilson has authored numerous middle grade fiction books, as well as non-fiction, including "Leepike Ridge” (a children’s adventure story) and “100 Cupboards” series. He has written and been the executive producer of a Netflix children’s series called “Hello Ninja.” There are four seasons and it is highly ranked on Netflix. He has a great podcast called “Stories are Soul Food.” It is one...

Today we will be talking about things that come up in marriage that really make you realize you are on a different train of thought than your spouse. You are approaching something from a different perspective. You feel like you are in a more mature place than your spouse when it comes to spiritual or practical things or anything pertaining to life. Some questions we’ve had people ask is - What do...

Today we’re talking about some of the biggest pitfalls around big families or families in general, as well as some warning flags that the health of your family may not really be that healthy in the long term. It may show up later if we are not in tune to some of these little stages of development or some pitfalls that we can fall into as parents or overlook when it comes to raising our children. I...

Alex Goodings is a Christian, wife, lives in Arizona and is a mother to 7 living children and 4 in Heaven. She has a little mini homestead and homeschools her children. Today Alex shares her testimony of how she came to know Christ as her personal Savior and her journey through infertility. She is able to share from so much life experience and from various things that the Lord has taught her in he...

Today we are talking about how Katie’s pregnancy has been so far with baby #5 and answering questions that you have asked us! This pregnancy has felt different than our other ones since we had a miscarriage this past summer. It is remarkable how that really changed our perspective in regards to the preciousness of life. We have always loved our children, but we were so much more grateful for them...

Elizabeth Parsons, wife and mother of 5 and mainly known as purelyparsons on Instagram, has been sharing since 2019. Her passion is to speak life into motherhood and to help moms feel empowered to care for their children at home. She was traditionally trained as a pediatric nurse and worked inside the walls of the hospital for almost a decade before coming home full time in 2020 to be with her chi...

Today we are talking about Christian masculinity, Godly masculinity and Godly manhood - what it should and should not look like. Is there a template we can model our lives after as men or is it vague? Is it subjective? Is it to each his own? It wasn’t until I started having sons that I really started caring about Christian masculinity and what that looked like. As time has gone on and I’ve wanted...

Today, we look back on 2022 and also vision cast for 2023! It’s always fun to be able to look back on what God has done the past year and project where you hope His vision is for the new year. Elisha also shares his dream board from 2022! What exactly is a dream board?? It is when you sit down and analyze your thoughts, goals, and direction you want to be going in, in the new year. You then find p...

Joe Voetberg, my father, is my role model and one of my best friends. He is not a front stage guy, but the wealth of knowledge and wisdom that he has is abundant. He is 62 years old, has been married for 40 years and has 10 children and 26 grandchildren so far. 7 of his 10 children are married, and all are serving the Lord in a faithful way. He is also a successful entrepreneur. Today we talk abou...

How do you determine if negative feelings are from hormone issues or a sinful nature? When it comes to feelings, feelings are a physiological response to something. It’s an emotion. It’s in our body. We can’t necessarily control where feelings come from (ie. hunger). It’s not a sin to just feel a feeling. It’s what we do with that feeling that makes it sinful or not. Hormone issues can be a root o...

What are the benefits of courting and how to talk to family members who think your child should be allowed to date? We had a 10 month courtship (our first time around) and then a typical dating relationship later. We would not necessarily recommend courting, or at least the way we did it. We don’t want the dating model for our children though either. It’s not to say that a lot of harm can be avoid...

Families are high above businesses and other outside ministries, but we can learn so much from how we apply ourselves to business and hopefully get convicted and come back to our home and want to put the structure and intentionality into our home and family. However, we don’t want to cheapen what marriage or family is by comparing it to a business. Obviously the covenant of marriage is something G...

When a listener asked us, "What is something you've changed your mind about?," it got us thinking that we've changed our mind on a handful of issues and some were pretty big. Changing your mind is a part of growing, especially if the Lord is leading you a different way. The Lord has changed our hearts on a couple things: alcohol, birth control, Christmas, justification and eschatol...

Check out everything Angie and her husband, Isaac, have going on with Be Courageous Ministry here: https://www.becourageousministry.org/   - Follow Angie On Instagram here: https://www.instagram.com/courageous.mom/ - Listen To The Courageous Parenting Podcast Here: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/courageous-parenting/id1447714806 - Check Out The Courageous Parenting Mentor Program Here: http...

Joe Stout and his wife, Elizabeth, have nine children ages 13 years to eight months old. They live on a farm with 500 goats and run a 90-year-old company that makes health supplements from goat milk.  Joe received a Master’s of Science in Clinical Human Nutrition from the University of Bridgeport and a Bachelor’s of Science in Human Nutrition and Food Science from Washington State University. Alon...

Lisa lives in a 1860s farmhouse with her husband and seven children.  Welcome to Farmhouse on Boone! A place where Lisa passionately shares her scratch recipes, handmade projects, farmhouse restoration and her family’s simple life.  Visit Lisa's Website Here:  https://www.farmhouseonboone.com/ Listen To Lisa's Podcast Here:  https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/simple-farmhouse-life/id149...

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Against all odds we've made it through 4 years of doing the podcast without talking about Halloween. But we cracked. We caved. We succumbed. Succame? . . .The pressure got to us and we could not resist taking advantage of this seasonal opportunity to share our personal opinions and convictions on a polarizing holiday. Neither Katie or I grew up celebrating Halloween so we never needed to have...

A book titled "How To Leave And Cleave" would certainly get my attention and the author, my money. Or the publisher would get the money . . .who pays the agent? Idk. All I know is that starting a life and a home together as a married couple seems to go a little deeper than bank accounts and tax benefits. No, we are not going to break down the mystery of how "two becoming one" works...

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Scripture References   Our Inability To Save ourselves: 1 Cor. 2:14 , Rom. 5:12 , 2 Cor. 1:9, Eph. 2:1-3, Eph. 2:12 , Jer. 13:23 , Ps. 51:5, John 3:3, Rom. 3:10 -12 - We are saved by grace through faith in Christ alone: Is. 53:4-5, Is. 53:11 -12, 2 Cor. 5:21 , 1 Peter 2:24 , 1 Peter 3:18 , Rom. 3:20 -28, Rom. 5:18 -19, Phil. 3:8-9, Rom. 6:14 , Rom. 11:6, Eph. 2:8-9, 1 Cor. 15 - On The Gospel: Amer...

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