What would you do if the King of all the universe entrusted you to steward some of His most valuable treasures? If we are made in the image of God, what does that make our children?

In this episode, we talk about stewarding our children, and even our openness to having children, from the paradigm of the Parable of the Talents.

When the people of Jerusalem were facing another wave of exile to Babylon, God brought the charge against them through the exiled prophet Ezekiel that “you took your sons and daughters, whom you had borne to Me, and sacrificed them to idols to be devoured. Were your harlotries so small a matter? You slaughtered My children and gave them up to idols by causing them to pass through the fire” (Ezekiel 16:20-21, LSB). God says that their children are His children.

What if children are treasures that He has entrusted us to steward and they are talents, so to speak, that He has given? What if we don’t have the power in and of ourselves to create life and if children are a blessing from God, how does that shape how we parent them?

Scripture to Reflect On

Matthew 25:14-19

Resources Mentioned

Voice of the Martyrs

Directed Life with Kap Chatfield: Inside the Classrooms Being Used as a Weapon Against Your Kids | Robert Bortins

Tiny Theologians

“It Will Be Worth It All When We See Jesus” - Esther Kerr Rusthoi

What does it mean for a wife to submit to her husband? Is a wife to enable or silently abide the sinful patterns of her husband out of respect or reverence?

Submission never means that we go along with sin, like Saphira who co-plotted sin with Ananias in their deceitful offering of money for the land that was sold (Acts 5:1-11).

On the flip side, we also don’t want to have a Jezebel spirit that further entices a husband into sinful ways, as in the life of the evil king, Ahab (1 Kings 16:31-33; 21)

A husband is also called to love his wife with a self sacrificing love, like Jesus (Ephesians 5:25). And the kind of love that Christ had was one that regarded others as better than Himself and completely void of selfish ambition (Philippians 2:3-8).

Submission and love then is a picture of Christ and the Church (Ephesians 5:32). Love is sacrificial and regards others as better than itself, and the submission of the wife would first entail a submission of her will and spirit to receive the husband's self sacrificing love like Jesus. Submitting to his self sacrificing love for her just all Christians are called to surrender to Jesus’s loving sacrifice for us on the cross in grace.

Join the discussion as we dive into what the Bible has to say about submission and love in marriage.

Scripture to Reflect on

Colossians 3:12-19

Ephesians 5:15-33

Philippians 2:3-8

1 Corinthians 13:5-8

1 Peter 2:21-3:7

Exodus 21:7-11

Matthew 18:15-17

1 Corinthians 7:12-16

1 Samuel 25

Proverbs 31:10-31

Resources for Explore

The Deep End w/Taylor Welch: God's System for Healing (required pain, suffering, & reversing beliefs w/Dr. Tim Jennings

The Deep End w/Taylor Welch: Nimrod vs Jezebel (prophetic mixture, ascendance, & twisted Scripture)

What does it mean to be a family? How does the family function and what is its purpose?

In this episode, we share our personal visions of family from our upbringing and how family systems and day to day function affect the way we view family, sometimes more than what is explicitly expressed about family.

Join us as we take thoughts captive for Christ on distorted visions of family.

Scripture to Reflect on

Psalm 127

Psalm 128

Proverbs 16:9

Proverbs 19:21

Proverbs 29:18

Colossians 3:21-21

Ephesians 5:15-33

Resources to Explore

For the Life of the World: Letters to the Exiles