TLP 560: What’s Coming in Season 30!

Expectations as the Foundation of Parenting and Godliness

We've talked a lot about expectations recently, and we're going to talk a lot more about expectations because they're so absolutely foundational to our lives and godliness. Parenting isn't about us. In fact, parenting isn't even about our kids.

Parenting is just one way Christian dads and moms are to worship God. So welcome to the Truth Love Parent podcast, where we train dads and moms to give God the preeminence in their parenting. Good day, good day.

I am Aaron Michael Brewster, your host and friend. This month marks our eighth year podcasting, and this is our 560th show. I and Team TLP are consumed by the mission of glorifying God in your home by equipping you to worship Him with your parenting.

Now, if you're new to the show, I hope you will subscribe and share. But more than that, I hope you will learn and grow right along with me as we consider the biblical truths that need to be impacting our lives.

Season 30 Will Return to Slower, More Scripture-Heavy Teaching

So far this season, we've been doing some overview episodes where we've been quickly discussing the big pictures concerning learning and education and thinking and feeling. We've talked about discipleship and the consequences of discipling our kids the wrong way.

But the key thing we've been doing is overviewing these concepts in light of the hundreds of episodes worth of content we've created over the past eight years. So if you're new, I hope you'll listen to those episodes, but then follow the breadcrumbs as I point you to other standalone episodes and series that will go beyond the overview in that episode and really consider the nitty-gritty details we see in Scripture.

But for season 30, we're going to go back to our previous format of taking a little more time with each topic, and more importantly, discussing far more Scripture than we have been of late this season.

I hope that excites you. I hope you don't listen to this podcast because I'm a family counselor, or I hope you don't listen to this podcast because I share what sounds like good ideas and opinions. I hope you're here to learn from the Bible because that's why I'm here.

My parenting would be in a dumpster fire if I weren't rooting it in the Bible. And that doesn't mean that I'm simply using the Bible like a baseball bat on my kids or lobbing verses at them from afar.

I personally want to do the right things in the right ways for the right reasons in order to please the Lord. Yes, that will affect the content of my parenting, but it will dictate so much more than just the content.

Parenting Your Kids to Adulthood

So I'm looking forward to discussing two very important topics over the course of season 30, and they're each going to be about six to seven episodes long. I want to take the time to build a biblical case for how we need to approach these realities in our homes.

So the first series we're going to do is called Parenting Your Kids to Adulthood. Now please understand that this series is going to be absolutely necessary and extremely foundational regardless of the age of your kids.

In fact, I'm going to suggest that the sooner you start working through this material, the better. The younger your kids are, the better suited they will be to thrive into their adult years. My point is, don't wait to listen to a series like this until your kids are quote unquote older, lest you miss out on some important building blocks that will help your quote unquote older kids be more successful if you lay them early.

Almost five years ago, I talked about my son's adulthood ceremony, his manhood ceremony. And about two years ago, I told you about my daughter's womanhood ceremony. But I hadn't spoken much about the events leading up to that ceremony or make any significant application to you and your home.

So then a number of you have asked me over the years to provide more information about this process, the whys and hows of what we did and the biblical principles and commands that influenced our decisions.

It's my desire to talk about the very important mindset you need to have in order to parent your kids to godly adulthood. Then we're going to define our terms by categorically identifying what it means to be a Christ-honoring adult.

From there, we're going to move into the expectations. We've talked a lot about expectations recently with our Expectational Education series that started off season 29. And we're going to talk a lot more about expectations because they are so foundational to our lives and godliness.

And though I've kind of talked a lot about them, I haven't really used that word as often as I should. Anyway, we're going to identify the necessary and potential expectations we need to parent our kids to this adulthood.

Then we're going to talk about the process, the whats, the hows, and the whys of parenting your kids to adulthood. And then I plan to discuss the absolute importance of onboarding your family's community into the process.

I'll give you a framework from which to build your own adulthood ceremony for your kids when the time comes. And then we're going to end the series talking about how to transition your kids from childhood to young adulthood to older adulthood.

Parenting Sorrowing or Sorrowful Children

That's our first series of season 30. Our second series will be Parenting Sorrowing or Sorrowful Children. In a couple weeks, I'll be teaching a workshop at the Association of Certified Biblical Counselors annual conference called Counseling Sorrowing Children.

These two concepts of counseling and parenting are very closely related, and I want to take a number of episodes to go into deeper detail on the subject, moving from the counseling side of things to the parenting side of things.

If you have access to the Doctrine of Emotions on the Evermind app, then you'll be able to listen to the workshop I'm going to do for ACBC. You'll also get access to the notes as well as my previous workshops and teaching on the topics of emotions.

In case you didn't know, the Doctrine of Emotion resource in the Evermind app includes some key elements of the Suffering Well online course also available on the Evermind app. Both of those resources really are priceless, and the two together will give you the most well-rounded understanding of emotions as well as how to interpret and handle them in yourself and your kids.

But this particular series will be available on TruthLove Parent for a limited time before it's moved exclusively to the Evermind app. So be sure to consume it as it comes out. We're going to start that series talking about the importance of identifying the cause of the sorrow.

Too many dads and moms whip out the exact same tools and tactics the moment they see tears without identifying why the tears are there. But identifying the source of the sorrow is absolutely integral to being able to help your kids navigate it correctly.

So not only will we talk about why it's important to identify the actual source as differentiated from the perceived source, but we'll also talk about how you can do that. But recognizing the root of sadness isn't the only detail necessary.

We also have to identify the flavor of sorrow. What kind of sorrow are our kids experiencing? The type of sorrow also will require different parenting techniques and truths. So the next five episodes are going to work through each of the Bible's five different sorrows.

We'll learn what they are and how to parent our kids through each. By the way, as you can imagine, the truths we're going to discuss should also help you with understanding your sorrow and navigating it to God's honor and glory.

Subscribe, Share, and Seek Help for Parenting Questions

So that is what you have to look forward to for season 30 of the TruthLove Parent podcast. I hope you'll subscribe and join us each week and share the episodes with your friends. In fact, you can start by sharing this episode so your friends can join you in learning how to parent their children to adulthood and guiding their kids through sorrow.

And if you need personalized assistance with your parenting, please email us at counselor at truthloveparent .com or leave a voicemail at 828 -423 -0894. We would love to open God's Word to help you become the biblical parent God called and created you to be.

So I'll see you next time as we discuss the mindset you'll need to parent your children to adulthood. Truth Love Parent is part of the Evermind Ministries family and is dedicated to helping you worship God through your parenting.

So join us next time as we study God's Word to learn how to parent our children for life and godliness. And remember that TLP is a listener supported ministry. You can visit truthloveparent .com forward slash donate to learn more.