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When it comes to making our adult children listen to us and helping them step into who God created them to be, we have to recognize we are fighting a spiritual war for our child. However, we are not at war with our child, we are at war with the darkness that is in the world today. That is why I am so excited to talk to best-selling author Jim Burns on this episode of the Warfare Parenting Podcast.

Jim shares that over 65% of children who graduate highschool walk away from their faith, and talks about what parents need to do in that period of their child's life to help them find their way back to God. Jim stresses the importance of a resource like my book, The Parent's Battle Plan: Warfare Strategies to Win Back Your Prodigal, to give parents strategies and hope to impliment in their lives to win their child back. 

You can order your copy of my new book, The Parent's Battle Plan: Warfare Strategies to Win Back Your Prodigal, at the link here: https://www.amazon.com/Parents-Battle-Plan-Strategies-Prodigal/dp/0800762843

Who is Jim Burns?

Jim Burns is the president of HomeWord and the executive director of the HomeWord Center for Youth and Family at Azusa Pacific University. He is a popular public speaker and writer who has almost two million resources in print in 20 languages. He primarily addresses the topics of building strong marriages, encouraging parents and empowering kids and healthy leaders. Jim’s books include Confident Parenting, The Purity Code, and Creating an Intimate Marriage. He and his wife, Cathy, reside in Southern California and have three grown daughters and two grandchildren.

Things We Talk About in this Episode:

• Why is it imporant to recognize that this is not just a cultural battle for our children, but a full-on spiritual war?
• How often do we see victory in that spiritual warfare? Why is it imporant to see the hope of that victory when we are fighting?
• What makes The Parent's Battle Plan: Warfare Strategies to Win Back Your Prodigal such a powerful, potent resource and how can it help bring our children back to God?

Resources:

Order Laine's New Book, The Parent's Battle Plan: Warfare Strategies to Win Back Your Prodigal, here: www.amazon.com/Parents-Battle-Plan-Strategies-Prodigal

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Thank you so much for joining me for this episode of Warfare Parenting. I hope you've found some encouragement or helpful info in this episode to help you on your journey. If you have a specific topic, you'd like me to talk about or a guest you'd like me to have on the show. Please feel free to send me a message on Instagram or Facebook. You can even text "Hi Laine" to 55444. Follow the podcast, so you never miss an episode, and leave me a rating and review. I would be so grateful!

Dr. Kathy Koch is the founder and president of Celebrate Kids, Inc. Her organization helps fathers and educators better understand the needs of children. She’s a frequent contributor for one of the largest Christian organizations, Focus on the Family.

Today, Kathy and Larry discuss the importance of building resilience in children. Raising resilient kids is an important part of parenting in today’s world. Resilience is the ability to recover quickly from difficulties and face challenges with courage. It is an essential quality for children to develop in order to be successful in life.

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Director of young adults for Focus on the Family, Lisa Anderson joins Blake to talk about her goal of helping 20 and 30-somethings navigate adulthood, own their faith, and date with purpose. Listen in as they talk about challenging the next generation on issues involving relationships, faith, career, and culture. 

Lisa is the author of The Dating Manifesto - available everywhere now!

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Website: Boundless.org

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Facebook: @lisacanderson

Podcast: The Boundless Show

Stop feeling overwhelmed and at a loss every time you open your Bible - learn how to study and read the Word of God so you know it for yourself rather than being told what it says by others. Learn 5 methods of getting into the Word, what they are, how best to implement them, and where to start. Head to crappychristian.com/bible-bootcamp to learn more and sign up!

If you’re like me and struggle with any combination of stress and anxiety or being on your phone too much – the Abide app is for you! I love this app and have been using it for years to help me fall asleep, ease me into the day, and I’ve even used it mid panic attack. Abide is the #1 Christian meditation app based on scripture with audio meditations that center you and help draw you closer to Christ. For a limited time, our listeners will get 25% off a premium subscription when you visit abide.co/blake. You’ll get additional stories, meditations, premium music, soothing sounds, and more!

Why is it important to have quality Christian content for kids? Author, editor, and creator Jesse Florea loves stories, kids, and has worked for over two decades to produce excellent stories for kids and families. He and Britt share their stories and experience to inspire parents to connect faith and truth with our kids in creative ways. 

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Phylicia and Coat dive into the rhythms of family discipleship. What is a rhythm? How do we form habits? What is the role of catechesis? How have people gone about discipling kids historically? How can moms and dads share the load of discipling kids?

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Robyn is passionate about every woman with an unexpected pregnancy to SEE the LIFE that they carry in their womb through free ultrasounds. Robyn works for Focus on the Family for their Sanctity of Life division where they provide grants for sonogram machines to pregnancy centers. She also discusses the upcoming See Life 2021 event coming up in Dallas, TX at American Airlines Center - a pro-life event for your whole family! 

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In today's episode Kirby King shares the difficult story of finding out about her husband's six-month long affair when she'd been married 34 years. Kirby decided to forgive him and hold onto her marriage, but after he kept going back to his mistress time and again she knew she could no longer be the peace keeper. Even though Kirby did everything she could to make her marriage work, it didn't turn out the way she wanted. But she shares how God is writing a new story for her and how she was able to let go of the bitterness toward her ex-husband. She also talks about her third child being born with Down Syndrome and her struggle coming to grips with that and how her now 29 year-old Down Syndrome son is about to be married. Such an exciting story! Kirby is an optimist and her passion in life is to teach people how to run to Jesus. You will walk away from this conversation encouraged in whatever situation you may be facing today.

Today we're returning to the emotional story of Donavan and Lavonna Garrett whose marriage seemed doomed due to Donavan's alcohol abuse. If you missed last week's episode please go back and listen. They have a miraculous story of going through the heartbreak of 13 miscarriages and finally being blessed with two babies. But the stress sent Donavan into a tailspin that resulted in a seven year journey of despair for their family. Today you'll get to hear how God rescued Donavan from his addiction and restored their marriage and family. I know you'll be blessed by the outcome of their story.

This week's guests are special friends of our family, Donavan and Lavonna Garrett. I'm so humbled by their willingness to share the hard story of Lavonna's loss of her parents and only sibling to cancer, their years dealing with 13 miscarriages and their painful struggle through Donavan's alcohol abuse. It's an incredible story of hope, forgiveness and healing. My hope is this episode will encourage you, especially if you're walking through your own seemingly hopeless situation.

My guests for this first podcast episode are my two very best friends, Julie Bagwell and Frieda Younts. We’ve been friends for 26 years! Over time we’ve experienced lots of ups and downs but have remained close through it all. How did we do it? By being honest and real with each other, for one thing, but mostly by building our friendship on the foundation of Jesus Christ.

Growing up I only had one friend at a time and always felt like I never belonged. In my late 20’s I began praying for God to bring some good friends into my life and He was faithful to do just that through Julie and Frieda.

Each of us has been married for at least 30 years and have grown children, so we have lots of experience under our belt—some good and some bad. But we’ve held onto each other through it all and are grateful God has helped our friendship to remain strong.

In this episode we talk about how hurts and jealousy, especially in a group with three friends, can be easy to fall into. But instead of letting them fester we bring it out in the open and talk about these things in the spirit of love. A friendship is work, but it’s so worth the reward.

Our desire is to help other women experience friendship like we have, because good, godly friends can have an amazing impact on your life. But in order to make it work we must be intentional. Listen in as we discuss simple and practical ways we learned to grow and sustain our friendship.

On this week’s episode:

Sal has technical issues…again,

F@#k Yous,

Things you would do drunk but you would not do sober,

What have you done differently during lock down,

Sal tells the story when he scammed his mom,

Jessica tells a story about and altercation with a meth head,

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