The school year can bring helpful structure—but if we aren’t intentional, school, sports, homework, and activities can quickly begin controlling the rhythm of our homes.

In this episode, Michael and Gabrielle talk honestly about navigating the transition back to school and protecting the things that matter most in the middle of a busy season. They share their family’s back-to-school tradition of worship, communion, prayer, and blessing their children—and why parents don’t need to be pastors or spiritual experts to create meaningful moments like these at home.

They also challenge families to examine whether every opportunity is actually beneficial. Are our schedules strengthening our children, marriages, and family culture—or are they keeping everyone moving too quickly to stay connected?

From protecting family dinners and creating regular check-ins with your spouse to evaluating what each individual child actually needs, this conversation is an invitation to stop letting the calendar make your family’s decisions.

Michael and Gabrielle also share how they discern God-given ideas through time and prayer, why they are continuing to rethink what education could look like for their family, and how to recognize when God may be preparing you to make a change.

You don’t have to overhaul your entire life this week. Ask the Holy Spirit to highlight one adjustment that could bring greater health, connection, and purpose into your home.

God can do a lot with a little when that little is submitted to Him.

What if your address isn’t accidental?

We often think of purpose and ministry as something that happens somewhere else—at church, on a mission trip, or through a major calling. But what if God wants to use you right where you already live?

In this episode, Michael and Gabrielle talk about the lost art of knowing your neighbors and why they believe God intentionally places us around particular people. Through stories from their own neighborhoods, they share practical ways to build genuine relationships: spending more time in the front yard, being willing to make the first move, asking meaningful questions, sharing meals, and opening your home.

This isn’t about treating people like projects or forcing spiritual conversations. It’s about becoming genuinely friendly, loving people well, and trusting God to create opportunities for your life and faith to make an impact.

Whether you live in a house, apartment, condo, or community complex, there are people around you for a reason—and ministry may be waiting right outside your front door.

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If you have a “baby” of the family, you know how easy it is to treat them a little differently.

Maybe the rules aren't quite as strict. Maybe you do things for them that their older siblings had to do for themselves. Maybe you still look at them and think, But they're my baby.

We get it — because we're living it too.

In this episode of the House of Roberts Podcast, we're talking about how to intentionally parent the youngest child in your family without accidentally keeping them dependent, underdeveloped, or simply “along for the ride.”

We share some of the adjustments we're making with our own youngest — from giving him real responsibility and a place on the family team, to teaching independence, raising expectations, and using our words to call him toward who God created him to become.

Because the goal isn't just to enjoy who our children are today. It's also to have a God-given vision for who they're becoming.

If you're raising the baby of the family — whether they're 5, 10, or already a teenager — this conversation will encourage you to love them deeply without being afraid to require something of them.

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