Understanding the Biblical foundations of Christian parenting and Christian marriage can be difficult and overwhelming. In Better Together, hosts DJ and Lorrie address share their 25 years of marriage and parenting experience to cover topics such as Biblical discipline, compassion in the home, understanding your spouse, marriage intimacy, and the commands to love and respect your spouse ..read more

We want to protect our children...and the tendency is to shield them from anything that causes pain or discomfort. That includes failure. Our culture places incredible pressure on our children to succeed...and we have to be careful that we don't shield our children from the learning experience of failure. Dealing with failure is something that has to be learned...and it never happens if we never fail...and it will never happen with our children if we never let them fail! Understanding the Biblical foundations of Christian parenting and Christian marriage can be difficult and overwhelming. In ..read more

Understanding the Biblical foundations of Christian parenting and Christian marriage can be difficult and overwhelming. In Better Together, hosts DJ and Lorrie address share their 25 years of marriage and parenting experience to cover topics such as Biblical discipline, compassion in the home, understanding your spouse, marriage intimacy, and the commands to love and respect your spouse ..read more

We are back after a two week break...our daughter got married!! Where do we get the confidence to let our kids seek out direction for their lives? First, we taught our kids to pray...seek after God's direction for their own lives. We would help them think it through and involve them in their own life decisions. Second, we stepped back and assessed our kids....the talents and gifts that the Lord has given them. We want our children to understand how God has equipped them for service. Finally, we put them in the game. Sending your child off to college shouldn't be the first adult decision th ..read more

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4 years ago we had something happen to us that was frightful.... We walked in to find one of our young daughters texting with a strange man...it was a numbing situation...but a reminder that there is danger all around for our children...and it often comes through the conduit of technology... That is what we are going to look at in this episode. 5 important steps to protecting your children from the dangers of technology. Understanding the Biblical foundations of Christian parenting and Christian marriage can be difficult and overwhelming. In Better Together, hosts DJ and Lorrie address share ..read more

According to a recent study, 67.5% of marriages that ended did so primarily due to communication problems. It is often not one big argument, but the daily frustration that builds when we fail to communicate Biblically and effectively. So in this episode we are look at the 5 Laws to Effective Communication in Marriage! Understanding the Biblical foundations of Christian parenting and Christian marriage can be difficult and overwhelming. In Better Together, hosts DJ and Lorrie address share their 25 years of marriage and parenting experience to cover topics such as Biblical discipline, compass ..read more

In pastoral ministry, we live with the reality of suffering. When the phone rings at 2am we know someone is hurting on the other end of the line. On our podcast we often talk about the joyful parts to marriage and parenting, today we are going to zoom in on a side of marriage and parenting that is all too real..and might be something that you are experiencing today. How we walk through suffering in our family...specifically the journey of grief and faith that comes with the loss of a spouse. Our guest today is Audra Smith...She and her husband (Jeremy) were on staff at Hopewell Baptist Church ..read more

In pastoral ministry, we live with the reality of suffering. When the phone rings at 2am we know someone is hurting on the other end of the line. On our podcast we often talk about the joyful parts to marriage and parenting, today we are going to zoom in on a side of marriage and parenting that is all too real..and might be something that you are experiencing today. How we walk through suffering in our family...specifically the journey of grief and faith that comes with the loss of a spouse. Our guest today is Audra Smith...She and her husband (Jeremy) were on staff at Hopewell Baptist Church ..read more

So we just talked with Audra Smith and one of the things that we took away was the importance of being prepared for the unexpected. When Jeremy (Audra's husband) got sick and ended up in the hospital it was too late for him to put the affairs of their house in order. That was definitely something we have been thinking about since that conversation as well. She talked about the grief of losing her husband...but then the pain of having to figure out finances, bills, bank statements, wills, credit cards....it was like it just kept adding on...and was overwhelming... ...so we are doing somethin ..read more