Stand Firm Parents

Another guest from across the pond joins Jake to talk about raising children that will stand firm. Olly Goldenberg was a children's pastor in one of the largest children's ministries in Europe for fifteen years. He now leads Children Can and hosts the podcast Raising Stand-ers. The connection between Jake and Olly is obvious as both have a heart to help children and teens have a sold-out faith tha...

Hearing that it takes conflict to give children a great story combined with the need to present them with a greater story sent Stand Firm Parents host, Jake McCandless, reeling. Over the last two episodes, he dived into how as parents can embrace conflict and help children navigate through it. In this third conversation about conflict in our children's stories, Jake takes us back to the time of th...

The guest from episode six sent the search for how to give families a faith that lasts in a new trajectory, leaving host, Jake McCandless, scrambling. It had been established we need to give our children a greater story. Asking his literary agent, what makes a great story, Cyle Young shared that it was conflict. This has left Jake considering how we should bring this understanding of conflict into...

Still reeling from his literary agent and writing guru, Cyle Young's answer to what makes a great story, Jake pauses to wrestle with how to embrace conflict in the story of our children's lives. Modern American Christian parenting is focused on sheltering children from the difficulties in life, while at the same time the number one reason for Americans leaving the faith is due to facing difficulti...

The previous episode shared research and evidence that giving our children a better story—a bigger story of Christianity—would help them have a faith that lasts. Talking about our "story" is trendy, we see it and hear it often, but what truly makes a story great. To breakdown this idea of giving a better story, Jake invited his literary agent, Cyle Young, on to talk about what makes a great story....

In a decade of researching why the emerging generation leaves the church and the faith, Jake has gained tremendous insight. In this episode, Jake shares the number one step towards helping our children have a faith that lasts. The introduction of this step and direction is something parents can't miss. Jake relays parental advice that author Donald Miller shared in his book, A Million Miles in a T...

In the previous episode, Jake shared a better goal for our parenting—our children actively following Jesus. Keeping the discussion about a better goal going, Jake visits with author and producer Stephanie Quick as she lives out this better goal and better story. Stephanie shares how actively following Jesus leads to unexpected adventure as she tells of her work in the Middle East with Frontier All...

As the saying goes, "If you don't have a target, you're not going to hit anything." One of the contributing factors to Christian children and teens eventually leaving the church and often the faith is that there wasn't goal in parenting them. Typically, Christian parents have an assumed goal, but have never actually formulated that goal and articulated. By having just an assumption of goals it's p...

Christian parents need to know the reality that they're up against. One of the compounding causes to children leaving the church and eventually the faith is that we're not looking in the mirror. Instead, churches and parents are avoiding the unfortunate reality they are facing in raising their children. The odds aren't in our favor. The statistics are heart-breaking. Understanding the importance o...

Children raised in church and Christian homes are leaving the faith in droves—yes, droves. Yet, we keep returning to the same training and teaching for parenting advice, it's time we shake it up. It's time for a different approach. Stand Firm Parents takes that different approach beginning with visiting with mother and son duo—Daphne Kirk and Andrew Kirk. Together they lead the ministry Generation...

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