
Now That We're A Family
Culture has reduced the modern family to a joke -- informing parents they are only capable of shuttling their children from expert to expert who experiment with untested agendas. Katie and Elisha lean on their experience growing up in large families of 10 and 11 kids, to encourage parents to take back control, stop listening to popular relationship advice, and embrace their God-given role as their children's primary authority.
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Jul 17, 2025 • 50min
410: Raising Children You Love Being Around
OUR FAMILY MUSIC ACADEMY: Affordable and effective online weekly music lessons designed for families. https://www.voetbergmusicacademy.comBack to School Sale - Use coupon code: BACKTOSCHOOL2025 for 20% off your first month's subscription (available for the first 200 students).-Send us your questions for future podcasts! You can submit them here: https://www.nowthatwereafamily.com/podcastquestionsubmission-Mentioned during podcast: "When your Child is 6 to 12" by John Drescher - https://amzn.to/3GMOIxw

Jul 15, 2025 • 1h 2min
409: Fresh-Milled Q&A: Weight Gain, Crumbly Bread and Gluten Intolerance With Sue Becker
OUR FAMILY MUSIC ACADEMY: Affordable and effective online weekly music lessons designed for families. https://www.voetbergmusicacademy.comBack to School Sale - Use coupon code: BACKTOSCHOOL2025 for 20% off your first month's subscription (available for the first 200 students).- Sue Becker is a gifted speaker and teacher, with a passion to share principles of healthy living in an encouraging way. She is the co-owner of The Bread Beckers and founder of the ministry, Real Bread Outreach, all dedicated to promoting whole grain nutrition. Sue has a degree in Food Science from UGA and is the author of The Essential Home Ground Flour Book. Sue is a veteran home-schooling mom with 9 children and 13 grandchildren. She and her husband Brad, live in Canton, GA. Through her teaching, countless families have found improved health. Website: https://www.breadbeckers.com Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/breadbeckers/ YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCJf3-zJkeYKNdreDdDuW2hQ Podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/sues-healthy-minutes-with-sue-becker-the-bread-beckers/id1609279985 "The Essential Home-Ground Flour Book": https://amzn.to/4lwvsUa

Jul 10, 2025 • 46min
408: Moving Away From Family
OUR FAMILY MUSIC ACADEMY: Affordable and effective online weekly music lessons designed for families. https://www.voetbergmusicacademy.com Back to School Sale - Use coupon code: BACKTOSCHOOL2025 for 20% off your first month's subscription (available for the first 200 students).- Send us your questions for future podcasts! You can submit them here: https://www.nowthatwereafamily.com/podcastquestionsubmission - Mentioned during podcast: "Them Before Us: Why We Need a Global Children's Rights Movement" by Katy Faust - https://amzn.to/4eYHUd3

Jul 8, 2025 • 46min
407: How To Lead Your Family With Dr. Joel Beeke
Join us on Substack - https://substack.com/@elishaandkatievoetbergThis is a newsletter and deeply personal space for us to share family life, homeschooling, and music with you all. We have been writing on Instagram and email for years, but ever since leaving social media behind with our smart phones a few years ago, we have been looking for another space to connect in a meaningful way. -Dr. Joel R. Beeke is a pastor of the Heritage Reformed Congregation in Grand Rapids, Michigan, editor of Puritan Reformed Journal and Banner of Sovereign Grace Truth, editorial director of Reformation Heritage Books, president of Inheritance Publishers, and vice-president of the Dutch Reformed Translation Society. He has written and co-authored over one hundred books (most recently, Reformed Systematic Theology, Vol. 1: Revelation and God, Reformed Preaching, A Puritan Theology: Doctrine for Life; Knowing and Growing in Assurance of Faith; Prepared by Grace, for Grace: The Puritans on God’s Ordinary Way of Leading Sinners to Christ; and Debated Issues in Sovereign Predestination), edited another one hundred books, and contributed 2,500 articles to Reformed books, journals, periodicals, and encyclopedias. His PhD is in Reformation and Post-Reformation theology from Westminster Theological Seminary (Philadelphia). He is frequently called upon to lecture at seminaries and to speak at Reformed conferences around the world. He and his wife Mary have been blessed with three children and 9 grandchildren. Website - https://joelbeeke.orgInstagram - https://www.instagram.com/joelbeeke/Podcast - https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/doctrine-for-life/id1681912766 "How to Lead Your Family" by Joel Beeke - https://amzn.to/3IebEWW "Teach Them to Work" by Mary Beeke - https://amzn.to/4eEoM3B

Jul 3, 2025 • 45min
406: The Midlife Crisis Is Coming For Millennials
Get it All Done Club: Stop drowning in motherhood and start thriving! https://www.nowthatwereafamily.com/get-it-all-done-clubIs your life just too complicated to ever feel peaceful? Learn how to create a peacefully productive home in one week. Check out Katie's Free Home Management Masterclass: https://www.nowthatwereafamily.com/peacefully-productive-home-masterclass

Jul 1, 2025 • 42min
405: Extending 5 Star Hospitality with The Wellness Collective
Join us on Substack - https://substack.com/@elishaandkatievoetbergThis is a newsletter and deeply personal space for us to share family life, homeschooling, and music with you all. We have been writing on Instagram and email for years, but ever since leaving social media behind with our smart phones a few years ago, we have been looking for another space to connect in a meaningful way. -OUR FAMILY MUSIC ACADEMY:Affordable and effective online weekly music lessons designed for families. https://www.voetbergmusicacademy.comUse coupon code: PODCASTVMA for 10% off each month-Wellness Collective - October 21 & 22, 2025 Location: Star Barn in Lancaster, Pennsylvania You will hear from passionate speakers Ruth Chou Simons (@ruthchousimons), Rachel Zwayne (@joyful_mothers), and RuthAnn Zimmerman (@ruthannzimm) on the subjects of Christ-honoring motherhood, how to take charge of your family's health, and centering your life around the Word of God. https://www.wellnesscollectiveevent.comUse code NOWTHATWEREAFAMILY at checkout for 15% off.

Jun 26, 2025 • 49min
404: Undercover Feminists In The Conservative Church
Join us on Substack - https://substack.com/@elishaandkatievoetbergThis is a newsletter and deeply personal space for us to share family life, homeschooling, and music with you all. We have been writing on Instagram and email for years, but ever since leaving social media behind with our smart phones a few years ago, we have been looking for another space to connect in a meaningful way. - Get it All Done Club: Stop drowning in motherhood and start thriving!https://www.nowthatwereafamily.com/get-it-all-done-clubIs your life just too complicated to ever feel peaceful? Learn how to create a peacefully productive home in one week. Check out Katie's Free Home Management Masterclass: https://www.nowthatwereafamily.com/peacefully-productive-home-masterclass

Jun 24, 2025 • 43min
403: How We Help Each Other Stay Fit After Kids
OUR FAMILY MUSIC ACADEMY:Affordable and effective online weekly music lessons designed for families. https://www.voetbergmusicacademy.comUse coupon code: PODCASTVMA for 10% off each month-Katie’s fitness tracker - https://amzn.to/4jXjfWP

Jun 19, 2025 • 41min
402: How to Know Your Kids Are Saved with Ray Comfort
Get it All Done Club: Stop drowning in motherhood and start thriving! https://www.nowthatwereafamily.com/get-it-all-done-clubIs your life just too complicated to ever feel peaceful? Learn how to create a peacefully productive home in one week. Check out Katie's Free Home Management Masterclass: https://www.nowthatwereafamily.com/peacefully-productive-home-masterclass-Ray Comfort is the Founder/President/CEO of Living Waters Publications. After relocating from New Zealand to Southern California in the late 1980s, Ray introduced a long line of pastors and churches to a biblical teaching which he called Hell's Best Kept Secret. The positive and enthusiastic response that followed took Ray's Living Waters Publications ministry to a whole new level. From humble beginnings, LWP has become an internationally recognized ministry, reaching the lost and equipping Christians with every necessary resource to fulfill the great commission. Ray Comfort is the co-host (with Kirk Cameron) of the award-winning television program "The Way of the Master," which airs in 190 countries around the world. Ray is a best-selling author of more than 90 books. He and his wife, Sue, live in Southern California, where they have three grown children. Website - https://livingwaters.com/ YouTube channel - https://www.youtube.com/livingwaters

Jun 17, 2025 • 54min
401: What We’re Going Back To From Our Legalistic Backgrounds
Now That We're A Family Print Magazine: Receive Powerful Biblical Family Encouragement Order the summer magazine print issue:https://www.nowthatwereafamily.com/offers/SzzzmUav/checkout-OUR FAMILY MUSIC ACADEMY:Affordable and effective online weekly music lessons designed for families. https://www.voetbergmusicacademy.comUse coupon code: PODCASTVMA for 10% off each month-Mentioned during podcast: - “The Rise and Fall of Dispensationalism” by Daniel G. Hummel - https://amzn.to/45fdWyt- Katie’s swimsuit - https://albionfit.com/products/bella-tankini-santorini?variant=41987107258548