The Journey Parent Podcast

Guests: Amy Petrof, Kristin Dysart, and Gabe Boyd   If you’d like to watch this podcast, check out the PCA YouTube page .   Parents, you'll want to get this valuable resource that will equip you to have meaningful and age appropriate conversations with your children on a variety of important topics including human dignity, abortion, homosexuality, transgenderism, technology, and politics. Authors...

Guests: Audrey Letcher, Chandler McGaha, Landon Murphy, and Campbell Panetti If you’d like to watch this podcast, check out the PCA YouTube page .   What makes PCA so special? Listen to four “lifers” (seniors who have been at PCA since Kindergarten, and before!) talk about their incredible years at PCA - from Kindergarten Circus to Boosterthon Fun Run, Let George Do It to HOCO and Minimester and A...

Guest: Erin Williams, LPC, PCA Upper School Counselor, Plano campus If you’d like to watch this podcast, check out the PCA YouTube page . Many of us were raised to ignore or stuff our emotions, but research today suggests that we learn how to better identify our emotions so that we can learn from them. We “name” them so that we can “tame” them - and not be prisoners of our own feelings.   In her b...

Guests: Ron Kelley, Sharayah Colter, Audrey Sol Loyola, Scott Turner   If you’d like to watch this podcast, check out the PCA YouTube page .   What were the top issues that voters identified as important as they went to the polls and what can we learn from those issues and the outcome of the election? Listen to this informative and fast-paced conversation with several informed friends about how we...

Guests: Scott and Sharayah Colter, The Danbury Institute: A Coalition for Life and Liberty   If you’d like to watch this podcast, check out the PCA YouTube page .   This is the second of a two-week conversation with Scott and Sharayah Colter, founders of The Danbury Institute. This week we examine several of the current cultural issues, many of which have become important political issues as well....

Guests: Scott and Sharayah Colter, The Danbury Institute: A Coalition for Life and Liberty   If you’d like to watch this podcast, check out the PCA YouTube page .   This will be a two-week conversation with Scott and Sharayah Colter, founders of The Danbury Institute. Week one will be a conversation about America’s Godly heritage - the influence of God’s Word on the Framers and the ideas that led...

Guest: Scott Turner, Associate Pastor at Prestonwood Baptist Church, former NFL player   Reminder that early voting here in Texas begins October 21st and goes through November 1st and the General Election is Tuesday, November 5th.   Voting is a very important and special honor as citizens of this country - and as citizens of heaven we should engage in all aspects seeking first the Kingdom of God a...

Guest: Scott Turner, Associate Pastor at Prestonwood Baptist Church, former NFL player   If you’d like to watch this podcast, check out the PCA YouTube page .   Loved our time with Scott Turner learning how God used his early humble beginnings to teach him the value of hard work and serving others well. Enjoy this episode with Scott listening to him share how God orchestrated so many people, place...

Guest: Pastor Jack Graham, Prestonwood Baptist Church   If you’d like to watch this podcast, check out the PCA YouTube page .   Twenty-seven years ago, Prestonwood was approached about allowing a new private, Christian school to use the Prestonwood name. About three years after PCA was launched, the school was struggling financially and might not have survived if the church hadn’t stepped in to su...

Guests in order: Reid Thornberry (PCA North senior), Steve Lee (11th grade Bible and Apologetics teacher, Plano campus), Hayden Fox (PCA Plano junior), Fabian Chong (11th and 12th grade physics teacher, Plano campus), Noelle Brenning (11th grade, Plano campus), Audrey Sol Loyola (2015 alumni), Freddy Gattelaro (2019 alumni), and Parker Panetti (2019 alumni), Kristen Smith (PCA Plano senior), Nami...

Guests: Allen Parr, host of The Beat, and Jordan Sekulow, Executive Director for the American Center for Law and Justice   If you’d like to watch this podcast, check out the PCA YouTube page .   Allen Parr and Jordan Sekulow join nearly a dozen other outstanding speakers, authors, and apologists, at the 2024 Biblical Worldview Conference held at Prestonwood Baptist Church September 22-24. To regis...

Guests: Dan Panetti, PCA Director of Parent Engagement & Ministry (interviewed by PCA sophomore Sevyn Trogdon)   If you’d like to watch this podcast, check out the PCA YouTube page .   Parents, we are celebrating 20 years of Biblical worldview training and transformation with this year’s Biblical Worldview Conference! From humble beginnings, the BWC has grown into the world’s largest and leadi...

Guests: Megan Rogers, PCA Senior Director of Development & Stewardship, and Kenzie Venus, Director of Development Events   If you’d like to watch this podcast, check out the PCA YouTube page .   North Texas Giving Day (NTGD) has begun! From now until September 19, you can give to the PCA Fund that helps provide that margin of excellence funding specific projects that make our school even bette...

Guests: Maddie McDonald (PCA Plano senior), Kellen O’Brien (PCA Plano junior), Naomi Livings (PCA Plano sophomore), Madison Kirby-Birdwell (PCA Plano freshman), and Ryan Newsome, PCA Plano Spiritual Development Director   If you’d like to watch this podcast, check out the PCA YouTube page .   Both the North and Plano campuses took their US students on retreat to Sky Ranch this past week. We had th...

Guests: Stephen Bryant (PCA dad, coach, SLi Director), Mike Thornberry (PCA North dad), Aaron Ulmer (PCA alumni, Class of 2007), Chris Housewright (PCA dad)   If you’d like to watch this podcast, check out the PCA YouTube page .   The Forge is the latest movie from the incredible Christian movie producers the Kendrick Brothers (Alex, Stephen, and Shannon), who brought Facing the Giants, Fireproof,...

Guest: Dr. Mike Goddard, PCA Superintendent   If you’d like to watch this podcast, check out the PCA YouTube page .   This year’s theme comes out of the Book of Joshua, specifically Joshua 1:9, which reads: “Have I not commanded you? Be strong and courageous. Do not be frightened, and do not be dismayed, for the Lord your God is with you wherever you go.”   As Joshua was standing at the precipice...

Guests: Jillian Bryant, Plano US Dean of Students, and Erin Williams, Plano US Counselor   If you’d like to watch this podcast, check out the PCA YouTube page .   PCA’s New “Internet Enabled Device” Policy Basically, PCA is going to be a “cell phone free” environment Much of the rationale for this decision is encapsulated in the research presented in Jonathan Haidt’s latest book The Anxious Genera...

Guests: Jillian Bryant, Plano US Dean of Students, and Erin Williams, Plano US Counselor   If you’d like to watch this podcast, check out the PCA YouTube page .   Dress code Greater emphasis on enforcement and understanding   Modesty Five Lies book by Rosaria Butterfield: A godly woman is a modest woman. A modest woman does not bring attention to herself but instead gives glory to God. In Modesty:...

Guests: Julie West, Senior Food Services Director, and Vinny Tellini, Executive Chef, with Sage Dining Services   If you’d like to watch this podcast, check out the PCA YouTube page .   Both Chef Julie West and Chef Vinny Tellini are “seasoned” veterans making the dining experience for PCA students something wonderful! Sage desires to be part of the PCA community  - a meal is a chance to connect w...

Guests: Anna May, Sharayah Colter, Marchelle Michel   If you’d like to watch this podcast, check out the PCA YouTube page .   Some Resource Recommendations for Parents: Godly people! You need to get plugged into a solid, Christ-centered, Bible-teaching church and “LifeGroup” filled with individuals who are doing life looking to know God and make Him known - and do life together with them! God’s Wo...

Guests: Anna May, Sharayah Colter, Marchelle Michel   If you’d like to watch this podcast, check out the PCA YouTube page .   Parents, we are creating a RESOURCE PAGE to help direct you to outstanding resources - and I’d love to get your favorite resources listed on there as well. Please email me at dpanetti@prestonwoodchristian.org to share your favorite books, videos, CDs, podcasts, etc…stayed t...

Guest: Russ Crosson, chief mission officer and senior partner of Blue Trust ( Ron Blue Institute ), and author of Your Life…Well Spent: The Eternal Rewards of Investing Yourself and Your Money in Your Family   If you’d like to watch this podcast, check out the PCA YouTube page .   Russ - I manage my money to have more LIFE, not just more money!   Russ - you need to know the difference between PROS...

Guests: Jane Matthews, Julie Hildebrand, and Gabe Boyd   For video of this podcast, check out PCA’s YouTube page .   In this episode, we look at the latest Inside Out 2 movie which adds additional emotions to young Riley as she turns 13 and enters puberty. In addition to Joy, Sadness, Fear, Anger, and Disgust, Riley now gets Anxiety, Envy, Ennui (Boredom in French), and Embarrassment.   As with th...

Guests: Jane Matthews, Julie Hildebrand, and Gabe Boyd   For video of this podcast, check out PCA’s YouTube page .   We started our discussion with the first Inside Out , which was released in 2015. This movie from Pixar looks at the various emotions that make up our personality - for the movie, they chose Joy, Sadness, Fear, Anger, and Disgust.    From a parenting perspective, the movie is filled...

Guests: Holly Hamilton, Sandy Leydig, and Joel Gordon   For video of this podcast, check out PCA’s YouTube page .   Raising Spiritual Champions: Nurturing Your Child’s Heart, Mind, and Soul By George Barna   Section ONE - The Importance of Children Section TWO - The Four Principles of a Disciple Section THREE - Families and Churches in Partnership   Section Three - Families and Churches in Partner...