The Intentional Parents Podcast

Dallas Willard said it so well when he said, “Feelings are good servants, but they are disastrous masters.” We live in the “I feel, therefore I am” culture and no longer live in truth. In today’s show, we discuss how our emotions are tools given to us by God. God values emotions and feelings, but we must have them in the right order. We discuss how parenting is a space where emotions come up often, not just for our kids but for us as parents. We go over six big emotions that arise within us and our children, and then we explore different ways to relate to these emotions. Enjoy! 6 Big emotions:1) Jealousy2) Fear3) Anger4) Grief5) Guilt6) Anxiety 4 Things we all need as humans:1) Focused attention2) Acceptance3) Guidance4) Protection Watch on YouTube Speaking events:Forest Home Family Camp June 23-29 Follow us on Instagram:@intentional_parents @brook_mosser @Emosser @philmcomer @dianewcomer FREE TEXT Message Daily Devotional MERCH:Gear for the journey Grab a copy of our book:Raising Passionate Jesus Followers (Now available in audiobook!) Website: intentionalparents.org Join our Legacy Builders: Blog The Intentional Film Series

Today’s show explores the question, What is God’s Heart with our capacity? Just because we are capable of something doesn’t mean we have the capacity for it. The questions we discuss in today’s show will challenge you in self-awareness to help you discover your gifts, your capacity in them, and the season in which God is asking you to use them. We dive deeper into more areas around this topic, like our insecurities, how our community can help us discover our calling, and most importantly, how our calling is not about us. Enjoy!4 Questions to ask yourself:1) Am I striving?2) Am I living in fear?3) Am I accepting my limitations and my family’s limitations? 4) Is it Obedience?  Book recommendation:Sacred Fire by Ronald Rolheiser Scripture:1 Peter 4v8-11Proverbs 3v5-6Ecclesiastes 3v1-8James 1v12Psalm 131 Watch on YouTube Speaking events:Forest Home Family Camp June 23-29 Follow us on Instagram:@intentional_parents @brook_mosser @Emosser @philmcomer @dianewcomer FREE TEXT Message Daily Devotional MERCH:Gear for the journey Grab a copy of our book:Raising Passionate Jesus Followers (Now available in audiobook!) Website: intentionalparents.org Join our Legacy Builders: Blog The Intentional Film Series

We have Michael Handler, the Chief Innovation Officer at Awana, on today's show. Brook and Michael talked about becoming emotionally healthy and safe parents when this was not the model they grew up knowing. Michael reminds us that Christ is in the business of redeeming our stories and how God often uses our children in this formation process. In this conversation, you will hear about how multigenerational churches are a gift, how it's essential, to be honest about your story while honoring your parents, how our children can be a mirror to help us gain understanding, how hurt can become our identity, how we can give our children safety even if we never experienced it and how when we bring our children safety God can use it to provide us with the safety we may not have received. Enjoy! Book recommendation: Resilient: Child Discipleship and the Fearless Future of the Church Coming out August of 2024Forming Faith: Discipling the Next Generation in a Post-Christian Culture Watch on YouTube Speaking events:Forest Home Family Camp June 23-29 Follow us on Instagram:@intentional_parents @brook_mosser @Emosser @philmcomer @dianewcomer FREE TEXT Message Daily Devotional MERCH:Gear for the journey Grab a copy of our book:Raising Passionate Jesus Followers (Now available in audiobook!) Website: intentionalparents.org Join our Legacy Builders: Blog The Intentional Film Series

Marriage is hard, but it is worth the fight. On today’s show, we talk about marriage and things we can do or not do that will allow your marriage to thrive. Phil and Diane have been married for 45 years and Brook and Elizabeth just celebrated 17 years and they have some helpful insights that they have learned along the way to share with you today. Grab your spouse, take some notes, and be ready for some practical tips and some refreshing encouragement. Enjoy! A few key takeaways:-Learn your spouse-Love them for who they are-It will be imperfect, but try to love your spouse better each day -Husbands cherish your wives Book recommendation:Resolve conflict God’s way by Dr. Bill Graybill Scriptures mentioned:Ephesians 5v25-33 Quotes:Richard Foster: The many mini-deaths of going beyond ourselvesRichard Foster: Freedom is a byproduct of discipline and commitmentUnknown-“Because women are so rarely cherished, they settle for being occasionally desired” Watch on YouTube Speaking events:Forest Home Family Camp June 23-29 Follow us on Instagram:@intentional_parents @brook_mosser @Emosser @philmcomer @dianewcomer FREE TEXT Message Daily Devotional MERCH:Gear for the journey Grab a copy of our book:Raising Passionate Jesus Followers (Now available in audiobook!) Website: intentionalparents.org Join our Legacy Builders: Blog The Intentional Film Series

How long has it been since someone- anyone- poured into you? In 2023, over 600 mothers gathered together to learn, to worship, to grow, to encourage, and to be encouraged. We are still in awe of what God did! The Spirit moved, the Father spoke, and Jesus healed. It was so incredible that we can’t wait to do it again! We want to invite you to join us October 3rd - 5th, 2024, for a three-day retreat designed to pour into you. We know the task of motherhood is both beautiful and hard, life giving and exhausting, and we want to create a space for the Spirit to refresh you on your journey. We will press into how motherhood gently leads us to spiritual formation, how relationships are essential for the journey, and how our connection with God spills over to our connection with our families. Come to where we live, in Bend, Oregon… a place of startling beauty, a place to come away from it all. Come with your best friend, your sister, your mom— come together, or come alone. This is a retreat for any stage of motherhood you find yourself in… from mothers of infants to grandmothers and women who hope to be mothers someday. There will be something for all of you! We all need each other! We truly believe that the greatest gift you can give your children, young and old, is your transforming self. It was Dallas Willard who said, “If you don’t come apart for a while, you’ll come apart after a while.” So come! Come apart for a while with us. Come, planning to be surprised by God, to find in Him the delight your soul craves.  Sign Up Today!

On today’s show, we are asking some questions to get us thinking about conflict in a helpful way. What does conflict bring up internally for us and What do we do when we are overwhelmed with the feelings that surround conflict? We not only take a deep dive into what we feel when conflict arises but also how to see others in the conflict and how it affects them. When we interact with each of our relationships we are not just interacting with the person, but also with their story and their woundings. We hope today’s show helps you get a little more curious, have a little more compassion, and bring in a little more calm. Enjoy! 3 Ways people often handle or respond to conflict:1) Attack2) Ignore3) Manage 3 Things to ask yourself:1) Be curious about what is coming up2) Have Compassion for yourself3) Calmness Book recommendation:Resolve conflict God’s way by Dr. Bill Graybill Scriptures mentioned:Philippians 2v3-42 Timothy 2v23James 4 Watch on YouTube Speaking events:Forest Home Family Camp June 23-29 Follow us on Instagram:@intentional_parents @brook_mosser @Emosser @philmcomer @dianewcomer FREE TEXT Message Daily Devotional MERCH:Gear for the journey Grab a copy of our book:Raising Passionate Jesus Followers (Now available in audiobook!) Website: intentionalparents.org Join our Legacy Builders: Blog The Intentional Film Series

Welcome to our living room! Today is our first Intentional video podcast! We hope now more than ever you feel like you are sitting in our living room conversing with us and that you leave with hope and encouragement to keep stepping into the person God sees you becoming. Today, we sit down to talk about mentorship and our influence in our families and out in the world. We discuss why mentorship is important, what makes a great mentor, and how we can become great mentors ourselves. We discuss the pressures we face in our culture today to be an influence, how we can become a better mentor with age, and something we call accidental influencing. We cover six ways to become an intentional mentor and five reflection questions to help you process where to begin. Enjoy! 6 ways to become intentional mentors (applies to accidental mentoring):1) Slow down2) See people3) Say encouraging things4) No shame5) Be Safe6) Make it Simple 5 Reflection questions:1) Think back on your life -who are the people who inspired and influenced you to press in and follow Jesus in a deeper way?2) Who needs to be seen by you?3) What do you see in them?4) What regrets can you pass on so that someone else can learn from your mistakes, what do you wish you would have done differently?5) What are the top 3 spiritual practices that have opened your whole self to come near to God and where has He transformed you most radically? Scriptures mentioned:2 Timothy 2v2Deuteronomy 6v71 corinthians 11v1 Watch on YouTube Speaking events: Forest Home Family Camp June 23-29 Follow us on Instagram:@intentional_parents @brook_mosser @Emosser @philmcomer @dianewcomer FREE TEXT Message Daily Devotional MERCH:Gear for the journey Grab a copy of our book:Raising Passionate Jesus Followers (Now available in audiobook!) Website: intentionalparents.org Join our Legacy Builders: Blog The Intentional Film Series

We have a fun show for you today. All four of us recently traveled to a great church in San Diego called Rise City, and we got to sit down at the end of the conference to do a live question and response time. Their community asked many fantastic questions that many of you have asked us, so we thought we would share this with you today. We cover questions about discipline, parenting children with special needs, our best advice for marriage, what we would do differently in our parenting, blended families, parenting when you blew it in the early years, is therapy Biblical, and cultivating digital rule of life for your family. Enjoy! Speaking events: Forest Home Family Camp  June 23-29 Follow us on Instagram:@intentional_parents@brook_mosser@Emosser@philmcomer@dianewcomer Grab a copy of our book: Raising Passionate Jesus Followers (Now available in audiobook!)https://www.amazon.com/Raising-Passionate-Jesus-Followers-Intentional/dp/0310347777 Website: intentionalparents.org Donate: https://www.intentionalparents.org/donate Blog: https://www.intentionalparents./blog GET: The Intentional Film Serieshttps://www.intentionalparents.org/film-series

Today we are covering the topic of one of the eight primary emotions, anger. Anger reveals what matters to us- both good and not good. Anger becomes a warning signal, compelling humble people to look inside to identify what emotion they are experiencing and why. Fear? Hurt? Sadness? Resentment? Anger is possibly the most important feeling we experience as emotional and spiritual beings because it is the first step to authentic living. It shows our yearnings and hunger for life. We will also cover five ways to start working on being aware of your anger and how to live in the power of the Spirit. Enjoy! Follow us on Instagram:@intentional_parents@brook_mosser@Emosser@philmcomer@dianewcomer Grab a copy of our book: Raising Passionate Jesus Followers (Now available in audiobook!)https://www.amazon.com/Raising-Passionate-Jesus-Followers-Intentional/dp/0310347777 Website: intentionalparents.org Donate: https://www.intentionalparents.org/donate Blog: https://www.intentionalparents./blog GET: The Intentional Film Serieshttps://www.intentionalparents.org/film-series Interview with Aundi Kolber!https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-intentional-parents-podcast/id1462206659?i=1000537701695

When we teach our children to accept the word no, we give them a gift to help them as they mature into adulthood. On today’s show, Phil, Diane, Brook, and Elizabeth share some recent events where teaching the word no has proven challenging and has also provided a ton of fruit in their family. Join us today as they unpack the stories and lean into how God teaches us to accept the word no, how welcoming the word no brings contentment in life, and how we can give our children a no without breaking their spirit. Enjoy! 3 Dont’s:1. Don’t be avoidant, if you ignore these conversations it won’t help2. Don’t be dismissive, sometimes you have to slow way down to be fully present 3. Don’t be snarky or sarcastic, it’s belittling 3 Do’s:1. Do put on compassion, you don’t have to feel it, put it on like clothes2. Do listen and reflect back, it’s powerful! “I hear you saying...Do I have that right?” Go into it with curiosity3. Do practice humility, be open Digital Rule of Life PDF Speaking events: Rise City Church January 26-28 Forest Home Family Camp June 23-29 Scriptures mentioned:1 John 5v14-15 Romans 2v41 Timothy 6v6 Colossians 3v122 Thessalonians 2v16-17 Follow us on Instagram:@intentional_parents @brook_mosser @Emosser @philmcomer @dianewcomer FREE TEXT Message Daily Devotional MERCH:Gear for the journey Grab a copy of our book:Raising Passionate Jesus Followers (Now available in audiobook!) Website: intentionalparents.org Join our Legacy Builders: Blog The Intentional Film Series