
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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May 8, 2025 • 1h 4min
390: Family Matriarchs: Where Did They Go?
Our Mother's Day Special! Get FREE access to our homeschool course when you purchase the Get It All Done Club from now until Mother's Day. Learn more about the club here: https://www.nowthatwereafamily.com/get-it-all-done-club
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May 6, 2025 • 44min
389: How To Speak Life To Your Husband(When All You Want To Do Is Yell At Him) with Ann and Dave Wilson
Our Mother's Day Special! Get FREE access to our homeschool course when you purchase the Get It All Done Club from now until Mother's Day. Learn more about the club here: https://www.nowthatwereafamily.com/peacefully-productive-home-masterclass
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ANN AND DAVE WILSON are bestselling authors, the former cofounders of Kensington Church, and former chaplains for the Detroit Lions. They now serve as FamilyLife Today radio and podcast hosts and as nationally beloved marriage speakers. They have appeared on NBC’s Today Show and many other podcasts and media outlets. Ann and Dave have been married for more than forty years and have three grown sons and a multitude of grandchildren.
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May 1, 2025 • 47min
388: Calvinism, Liberalism, and People Pleasing
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Mother's Day Special: Get FREE access to Home School: The First Three Years when you purchase The Get It All Done Club from now until Mother's Day. https://www.nowthatwereafamily.com/get-it-all-done-club

Apr 29, 2025 • 54min
387: Moral Dilemma: IVF, Surrogacy, and Adoption With Katy Faust
Mother's Day Get It All Done Club Special: Get FREE access to our course Homeschool: The First Three Years when you join the Gert It All Done Club from now until Mother's Day. Watch this FREE training to see if the club is right for you. https://www.nowthatwereafamily.com/get-it-all-done-club
Voetberg Music Academy's Six Songs Of Summer Challenge: Get paid to practice this summer! Starting June 3rd and running through July 8th, VMA's Six Songs Of Summer Challenge rewards students cash and badges mailed to your home. Join VMA today and be ready for this summer challenge. Use code PODCASTVMA to get 10% off each month you are enrolled. https://www.voetbergmusicacademy.com/courses
Katy Faust is Founder and President of Them Before Us, a global movement defending children’s right to their mother and father. She publishes, speaks and testifies widely on why marriage and family are matters of justice for children. Her articles have appeared in Newsweek, USA Today, The Federalist, Public Discourse, The Daily Signal, the Washington Examiner, the American Mind, the American Conservative. Katy helped design the teen edition of CanaVox which studies sex, marriage and relationships from a natural law perspective. Her next book, "Raising Conservative Kids in a Woke City" will be released Sept 2023. She and her pastor husband are raising their four children in Seattle.
You can find her work at https://thembeforeus.com/
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Apr 24, 2025 • 46min
386: Strict Standards Causing Deceitfulness in Our Kids
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Apr 22, 2025 • 44min
385: Changing Our Minds About Screens
Voetberg Music Academy's Six Songs Of Summer Challenge is starting at the end of May! Get paid to learn new songs this summer. Join VMA this month to be part of the 2025 Six Songs Of Summer Challenge. Go to www.voetbergmusicacademy.com and use coupon code: YOUTUBE for 10% off each month.-Top 5 Tuesday Join our weekly email list to keep up to date with the highlights of what is going on in our family life. https://www.nowthatwereafamily.com/top-5-tuesday-newletter

Apr 17, 2025 • 51min
384: Harry Potter, Paying Kids To Memorize Scripture, and Sabbath Ideas
Top 5 Tuesday Join our weekly email list to keep up to date with the highlights of what is going on in our family life. https://www.nowthatwereafamily.com/top-5-tuesday-newletter- Homeschool Course: The First Three Years Laying a foundation of joy, confidence, and a love of learning from the start.https://www.nowthatwereafamily.com/homeschoolFor 15% off the course, use discount code: YTHOMESCHOOL-Send us your questions for future podcasts! You can submit them here: https://www.nowthatwereafamily.com/podcastquestionsubmission

Apr 15, 2025 • 42min
383: What We Don't Tell Our Kid's About Easter
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: - '136: Why We Are Celebrating Christmas For The First Time" - https://www.nowthatwereafamily.com/podcasts/now-that-we-re-a-family-10/episodes/2147640442

Apr 10, 2025 • 50min
382: Arranged Marriages
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-Mentioned during podcast: - “Strangely Bright” by Joe Rigney - https://amzn.to/3G1f0vn - "Top of the Class: How Asian Parents Raise High Achievers--and How You Can Too” by Soo Kim Abboud & Jane Y. Kim - https://amzn.to/3XS9CAH

Apr 8, 2025 • 59min
381: Becoming Grandparents While Parenting Teens and Toddlers And Starting A Church // Isaac and Angie Tolpin
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-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-Isaac and Angie Tolpin have been married for twenty-five years and have nine children ages three - twenty-four years old, are now grandparents, and are experiencing Godly fruitfulness in their children. They are sought after speakers on marriage and family with the top-rated Christian podcast called Courageous Parenting and the fast growing Resolute Man show as well. They have been homeschooling for 21 years with three successful graduates so far. Together they have built numerous courses, authored books and bible studies, and coached thousands of parents to biblically raise their children through their parenting mentor program. They are the founders of becourageousministry.org where they are working to impact 10 million legacies by equipping parents to raise confident Christian kids during unprecedented times! You can learn more and follow Isaac & Angie through the resources below: - Website: www.becourageousministry.org - Courageous Parenting Course: https://courageousparenting.com - Podcast: https://www.becourageousministry.org/podcasts - App: https://www.becourageousministry.org/app