{"id":304046,"date":"2016-06-17T11:00:00","date_gmt":"2016-06-17T15:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-stage.familylife.com\/www\/podcast\/%series%\/what-to-do-when-they-fall\/"},"modified":"2016-06-17T11:00:00","modified_gmt":"2016-06-17T15:00:00","slug":"what-to-do-when-they-fall","status":"publish","type":"podcast","link":"https:\/\/wp-stage.familylife.com\/www\/podcast\/familylife-today\/what-to-do-when-they-fall\/","title":{"rendered":"What to Do When They Fall"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>guest: Brian Housman | Series: How You Always Meant to Parent | Our children will fail at times, just like we do. Brian Housman, father of two, talks with parents about how to handle the moral failings of their children. 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Housman shares what he did when realized his teen son had been viewing pornography.","meta_box":{"show_notes":"","transcript_url":"https:\/\/transcript.familylifetoday.com\/fl2016-06-17.pdf","transcript_content":"<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob:<\/strong> Guess who really doesn\u2019t want you to raise godly children? Brian Housman says there is an enemy, and he\u2019s got a lot of strategies that he employs with parents.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Brian:<\/strong> The primary objective of the enemy for us, as a parent, is to constantly knock our legs out from under us, to make us think we will never be better than we are today; that we will always be a failure as a parent--as a mom, you\u2019re just always going to yell; as a dad, you\u2019re always going to be short with your kids\u2014that you\u2019ll never somehow become more like Christ. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tWe\u2019ve got to cling to that promise in Philippians that \u201cHe who began a good work in you will be faithful to complete it until Christ comes back again.\u201d That\u2019s a promise from the Lord that, even when you feel like a failure, the Holy Spirit is still transforming you just as He\u2019s transforming your child.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob:<\/strong> This is <em>FamilyLife Today<\/em> for Friday, June 17th. Our host is the President of FamilyLife<sup>\u00ae<\/sup>, Dennis Rainey, and I'm Bob Lepine. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>1:00<\/strong>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tHow can you continue to be aware of the strategies of the enemy as you seek to raise your children? We\u2019re going to spend time thinking about that today with Brian Housman. Stay tuned.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tAnd welcome to <em>FamilyLife Today<\/em>. Thanks for joining us. I guess I didn\u2019t realize our guest this week was just as libertine as he is. He never scolds his kids; never grounds them. [Laughter] Never does. . . \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tI\u2019m just kidding! \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>\u00a0<\/strong>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis: <\/strong>Bob!\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob:<\/strong> I\u2019m just kidding!\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong> Well, Brian Housman does join us again here on <em>FamilyLife Today. <\/em>Before I introduce him to our listeners, I just want to say \u201cthanks\u201d to Legacy Partners. I just want to say \u201cthank you\u201d for making broadcasts like these. We\u2019ve had a great conversation this week with Brian around how to approach discipline with your children, and what the end game is for a parent. How should we view this whole assignment of parenting with our kids?\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>\u00a0<\/strong>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>2:00<\/strong>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>\u00a0<\/strong>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tI just want to say \u201cthanks\u201d to Legacy Partners for making it possible.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob:<\/strong> Legacy Partners are the folks who, each month, will make a contribution to help cover the costs of producing and syndicating this daily radio program. We are grateful for our Legacy Partners, and we\u2019ve just recently added some new ones and so it\u2019s always good to have new Legacy Partners joining the team.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong> It is! And if you haven\u2019t heard previous broadcasts that we did with Brian Housman, we did a series that was just outstanding from his book, <em>Tech Savvy Parenting<\/em>; a great resource for knowing how to handle this digital age as parents (plenty of great thoughts to equip you as a parent). He has come back again, and he\u2019s written another book called <em>How You Always Meant to Parent.<\/em>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob:<\/strong> And I was just kidding when I said that you don\u2019t ever discipline your kids. You are very focused on wanting to make sure that the relationship with your son and your daughter is kept primary and that you\u2019re not doing anything to sabotage or undermine that relationship. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>3:00<\/strong>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tAny discipline that would do that is wrong-thinking discipline, right?\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Brian:<\/strong> Absolutely.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong> But it doesn\u2019t mean, by the way\u2014because I can hear some parents who might hear that statement and say, \u201cWell, then that doesn\u2019t mean I should ever. . .\u201d\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob:<\/strong> \u201cThat means all discipline is bad.\u201d And you\u2019re not saying all discipline is bad.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Brian:<\/strong> No, we are commanded to discipline, just as the Lord disciplines us. But the Lord disciplines us in the context of a relationship with Him, not as an authoritarian, far-removed figure that just comes in to zap us with lightning bolts. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob:<\/strong> You don\u2019t want to be the drill sergeant dad.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Brian:<\/strong> No.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob:<\/strong> You don\u2019t want to be the police dad who is just coming along and slapping the handcuffs on your kids. You want to make sure your kids know, \u201cDad loves you, but there are some things that just aren\u2019t going to work around here that you may want to do.\u201d\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Brian:<\/strong> Yes, yes.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong> The Bible is about boundaries.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Brian:<\/strong> Right.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong> And, in fact, I keep thinking back, as we\u2019ve been talking this week, about King David and his son, Absalom. It\u2019s said that at the end of his life, looking back, Absalom was a spoiled brat as an adult.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>4:00<\/strong>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>\u00a0<\/strong>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tIt said the reason was, \u201cHis father David had never pained him.\u201d He had really not disciplined him around the consequences of violating boundaries that had been established. At the end of his life\u2014well, it cost him his life, it seems, a bit early, because he hadn\u2019t obeyed and hadn\u2019t been trained in discipline. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob:<\/strong> Brian, one of the areas that you address in your book as it relates to parenting is how we help our kids when they fall, and when they fail. Kids are going to mess up, and you believe this is a critical place for mom and dad to engage and to approach that failure or that fall in the right way.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Brian:<\/strong> Yes, there are several different kinds of failings that our children are going to go through. All of our kids are going to have failings in their life. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>5:00<\/strong>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>\u00a0<\/strong>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tJust like when you\u2019re trying to teach your child how to ride that bicycle, and, you know, you go out in the front yard. For my kid, it was when we finally took the training wheels off and, I remember, I had my hand on the back of the seat, and I was instructing Bailey where to go, how to do it, how to steer; everything. And he went about ten feet, and he rears his head around because he realizes my voice has gotten further and further away, and when he reared his head around, the handlebars turn, and he crashes into the curb.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tSo I come running over and I pick him up and he looks up at me and he says, \u201cYou lied to me!\u201d I said, \u201cWhy?!\u201d He says, \u201cYou said you would not take your hands off of the bicycle!\u201d (Because he\u2019s a very cautious kid.)\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob:<\/strong> Right.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Brian:<\/strong> I said, \u201cYou\u2019re right, Bailey, I did; but I had to take my hands off of the bike, because you\u2019ve been watching me do it and it was time for you to learn to do it on your own.\u201d I said, \u201cOkay, let\u2019s get up! Let\u2019s get back on the bike.\u201d He says, \u201cOh, no! I\u2019m done.\u201d I said, \u201cNo, no! You can\u2019t be done, or you\u2019ll never have the joy of being able to ride a bike around the block by yourself.\u201d \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>6:00<\/strong>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>\u00a0<\/strong>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tSo, you know, he didn\u2019t want to, but I put him back on the bicycle, and we did it again. You know, this time he goes fifty yards and he crashes. Sure enough, just like your child, they\u2019re going to crash half a dozen times before they finally make it down to the end of the street, but once they do, then you get to celebrate that win! You know, you don\u2019t get to celebrate until they go through all of those failings.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tSome of those failings our kids are going to go through are things like unprovoked circumstances\u2014they\u2019re just life experiences that happen. Maybe, you know, your kid has been waiting to finally get onto the competitive soccer team and then you get a job promotion and have to move. Now they don\u2019t get to be on the team, and they have to leave all their friends behind. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tIt was nothing bad that they did; it\u2019s just a hardship that they\u2019re having to go through, and we get to partner with them in it. Either we can partner with them by saying trite things like, \u201cWell, buck up camper! It\u2019ll be okay,\u201d or \u201cThings will be better tomorrow,\u201d or we can choose to say, \u201cYou know what? I\u2019m going to be with you in this!\u201d\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>7:00<\/strong>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>\u00a0<\/strong>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tSome of those failings are things like unmet expectations; maybe that you\u2019ve always, as a dad, dreamed of your kid playing high school football, and he tried and he tried and he tried, but he\u2019s ridden the bench every single game since seventh grade. Everything in you wants to go to that coach and say, \u201cMan, you don\u2019t understand how good my son is!\u201d\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tOr maybe the teacher that you feel like is never quite fair to your kid--you want to go to that teacher and reprimand them instead of helping your kid understand that sometimes we\u2019re going to work hard and things just don\u2019t work out in the end. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tBut I think the hardest failings for us as a parent aren\u2019t those. It\u2019s the moral failings our kids go through, and us figuring out, \u201cHow do we partner with them in their moral failings?\u201d Because you better believe that God partners with us. He comes down into our muck and mire, which is really a picture of what Jesus did, right?\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>8:00<\/strong>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tWhen God says, \u201cI\u2019m so desperate for you to understand my love for you as my creation that I\u2019m going to send my only Son to come\u201d\u2014that\u2019s what the whole book of Philippians is about, that He took on the very nature of a servant. He came down into our brokenness and into our shame, so we\u2019re going to model, as a parent, what Christ did for us by me coming into my child and meeting them in their sin as well.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong> You know, I so like what you\u2019re talking about. I am thinking of the book I\u2019m holding in my hand. I\u2019m sorry, Brian; it\u2019s not yours. [Laughter] It\u2019s the Bible.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Brian:<\/strong> A little more authoritative.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong> Yes, a little more authoritative. I\u2019m thinking: what is this book about? Is it mostly about people\u2019s successes? \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Brian:<\/strong> Oh, no!\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong> Or is it mostly about how people failed and how they responded to failure.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Brian:<\/strong> Yes.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong> It\u2019s how God tutored them through the process of dealing with their failure and what happened in their lives. Think of King David. Talk about a major moral failure!\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>9:00<\/strong>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Brian:<\/strong> Yes.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong> What did God do to him? He disciplined him. David felt the pain; he repented. And it was said of David that he was \u201ca man after God\u2019s own heart.\u201d\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tAs a parent, isn\u2019t that what you want with your children? You\u2019re not going to get perfection. We wish we would, but they\u2019re related to us! How many of our children\u2019s failures could we trace back to the DNA they got from Barbara and me?!\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Brian:<\/strong> Yes.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong> I mean, it\u2019s a part of the paradox of parenting that what you\u2019re disciplining your children for, they got from you.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Brian:<\/strong> Right!\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob:<\/strong> But when a son or a daughter does fall or fail in an area of moral compromise, the fear we feel as parents\u2014the pain we feel as parents\u2014is pretty profound. I think a lot of parents respond in parenting out of that fear rather than responding in parenting in a God-like way. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Brian:<\/strong> Yes, I think because when we see our children in sin, we start to think so often, \u201cIt\u2019s always going to be like this.\u201d\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>10:00<\/strong>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>\u00a0<\/strong>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tMy wife, she would admit she\u2019s guilty of this. If our children do the same wrong thing two or three times . . . \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob:<\/strong> \u201cThis is where they\u2019re headed.\u201d\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Brian:<\/strong> Yes! Immediately, she sees a pattern: \u201cOh, no! We\u2019re creating a habit here!\u201d\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob:<\/strong> Right.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Brian:<\/strong> I\u2019m like, \u201cWhoa, wait a minute! This just happened twice. Let\u2019s step back and take an honest evaluation of what\u2019s going on here.\u201d\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob:<\/strong> So if you are a mom or a dad and, let\u2019s say, this is a situation where you just checked the browser history and you saw some sites that have been visited that you didn\u2019t visit, and your spouse didn\u2019t visit, and nobody should have been visiting, I\u2019d call that moral compromise, right?\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Brian:<\/strong> Yes, absolutely.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob:<\/strong> Your 15 year-old is the most obvious suspect for that.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Brian:<\/strong> Yes.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob:<\/strong> How do you help your child who has failed in that kind of an area, and get them to a place where they are pointed in the right direction.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Brian:<\/strong> That\u2019s a great example, Bob.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>11:00<\/strong>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>\u00a0<\/strong>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tBecause we know that 80% of all adolescent boys admit to struggling with digital pornography at some point in time. Roughly 55% of all grown men struggle with it. The average child\u2019s first exposure is going to be between the ages of nine and eleven. So it\u2019s really not an issue of, \u201cIs it going to happen?\u201d It\u2019s, \u201cWhen is it going to happen?\u201d\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong> And it\u2019s going to happen to the girls, too.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Brian:<\/strong> Absolutely.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong> There are an increasing number of girls\u2014isn\u2019t it approaching 50%?\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Brian:<\/strong> Yes!\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong> They\u2019re looking at \u201crelational porn.\u201d\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Brian:<\/strong> Right, yes.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob:<\/strong> So this issue. . .\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Brian:<\/strong> So back to you.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob:<\/strong> More than likely. . . \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Brian:<\/strong> Yes.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob:<\/strong> This is going to happen in most homes.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Brian:<\/strong> Yes. It has happened with us. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob:<\/strong> You\u2019re either going to find out that your son or daughter\u2019s done this, or you\u2019re just not paying attention. What do you do?\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Brian:<\/strong> So, Bailey\u2014and he has shared this story on national radio, so he\u2019s given me permission to share it; which, by the way, I think, often, mom and dad, we are guilty of going to other parents when our children are in sin and sharing our children\u2019s sin stories with our friends.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>12:00<\/strong>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>\u00a0<\/strong>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tWe need to be very careful of that, because we would never want someone else to talk about our personal sin with someone else. Your child\u2019s sin is their story to share, not your story to share. So, Bailey has given me permission to share this. He was 14 when we were driving to youth group one day, and he says, \u201cDad, can we have one of those conversations that\u2019s just between you and me and we don\u2019t have to tell mom about it?\u201d\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tWell, I pulled the car off the side of the road into the Taco Bell parking lot. It was the quickest place. He didn\u2019t know it, but I already knew, because I had found it two days earlier. As soon as I found it, I was frustrated. I was devastated. I was angry. Most of those feelings\u2014all of those feelings\u2014were not directed at him. Those feelings were directed at the enemy.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tI knew I had done my due diligence. We had had a number of conversations ahead of time, where I was marking the boundaries, which I think so often, as parents, we have expectations that we never clearly communicate to our kids. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>13:00<\/strong>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>\u00a0<\/strong>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tSo when we reprimand them for sin, they don\u2019t understand where this is coming from because we never had the appropriate conversations. So, anyway, we had had several conversations, and we had had protective software. They\u2019re not allowed to have their screens in their rooms. I mean, we\u2019re doing everything we can to protect them, and yet it still happened, because our enemy is incredibly cunning and will do whatever he can in order to worm his way in to our families.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tSo I pull the car off to the side of the road and almost my exact words to him were this\u2014I said, \u201cBailey, unfortunately, this will not be the last time that this happens, because now the enemy has gotten your attention.\u201d Regardless of what the sin is with our kids, once they venture into that sin, then, for the enemy, we\u2019ve opened up a foothold. Many times, the enemy is going to exploit that in our children\u2019s lives.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tWhereas we might see a pattern of disobedience in our kids, what I see is a pattern of spiritual attack on my child.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>14:00<\/strong>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>\u00a0<\/strong>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tSo they\u2019ve chosen to listen to the wrong voice. It\u2019s not that my kid is intentionally trying to disappoint me or dishonor God; it\u2019s that they haven\u2019t learned to listen to the right voice yet.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob:<\/strong> Right.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Brian:<\/strong> So we\u2019re in the car, and I said, \u201cThis won\u2019t be the last time this happens.\u201d And I said, \u201cWe will continue to have many conversations about this.\u201d I said, \u201cBut I promise you this: I will never, never, never shame you.\u201d I said, \u201cI know what this feels like; what you\u2019re going through. I know the burden of sin, and I will never publicly embarrass you for your sin; I will never call you out in front of your friends for your sin. When you sin, we will handle it in private.\u201d\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tI think that\u2019s huge, mom and dad! Because we are guilty, especially and even when our kids are little, and they\u2019re being disrespectful in the grocery story--we will swat them or yell at them or take the candy away from them, whatever it is, thinking, \u201cI\u2019ve got to deal with this right now!\u201d Instead of (realizing) the Lord disciplines us in the context of a relationship of love.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>15:00<\/strong>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>\u00a0<\/strong>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tI want to do this same thing with my child. Then I said to him, \u201cBailey, no matter how many times you fall into this pit, I choose to jump in it with you, because you\u2019re not just my son; you\u2019re my brother in Christ. You and me, we are a band of brothers, and I will never leave you to fight this fight alone.\u201d\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tSo regardless if the issue that your child is struggling with is selfishness or disrespect or lying or cheating, we have to figure out a way of, \u201cHow do I jump in this with my kid so we can find our way back to Jesus together? Not me just point the way, but walk the way with them back to wholeness and holiness.\u201d\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob:<\/strong> We\u2019re talking to Brian Housman, who\u2019s written a book called <em>How You Always Meant to Parent<\/em>. I\u2019m just going to ratchet this illustration up one more notch because some parents are saying, \u201cI\u2019ve gone to my child and they\u2019re aware of this, and I\u2019ve confronted them, and my child has said, \u2018Mom, Dad, I know that you believe in the Bible and God, but I don\u2019t.\u201d\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>16:00<\/strong>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t\u201cI know you believe this is wrong. I don\u2019t. So I\u2019m basically just saying: I know these are your rules, but I don\u2019t have a problem with this. My friends are doing this, and we don\u2019t think there\u2019s anything wrong with it. I appreciate your concern, but I\u2019m on my own on this one.\u201d\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tWhat do you do in that kind of a situation?\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Brian:<\/strong> The things that we read when we read through the Proverbs, and we read through these stories that Dennis was talking about, of just brokenness and dysfunction in families. . .\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tBy the way, do you know that there is not one single family in the Scriptures. that we see of, that\u2019s a whole family? They\u2019re all broken and dysfunctional! Partly, that should give us hope, shouldn\u2019t it?!\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong> In a strange way, it does.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Brian:<\/strong> You know, yes! When I look at the life of Peter, I want to say, \u201cYes!! I\u2019m going to be okay.\u201d [Laughter]\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tWhen this guy constantly puts his foot in his mouth!?\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob:<\/strong> Yes.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Brian:<\/strong> I think I\u2019m doing alright! [Laughter]\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tBut I think, when we look at these Scriptures, that God gives us principles. They\u2019re not\u2014many times, they\u2019re not necessarily\u2014promises that, \u201cIf I do this, it\u2019s always going to turn out this way.\u201d\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>17:00<\/strong>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tSo I\u2019ve got to always have that in my mind, that just because I teach my children truth doesn\u2019t mean they\u2019re going to walk in truth. But let\u2019s say that I do have a kid, or maybe you, mom, your child is saying just what Bob is saying: \u201cI hear you, but I\u2019m not buying into it.\u201d As hard as it is, my job is not to beat truth into them. In the end, I\u2019ve taught my children, \u201cYou have to own your own sin. Your sin, if I have walked in truth, I\u2019ve taught truth, and I\u2019ve modeled truth, and you willfully walk outside of God\u2019s design for you; outside of God\u2019s best for you, then I\u2019m sorry, son, that\u2019s on you.\u201d\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t\u201cThere will be a consequence from the Lord, and probably a consequence from us as well, but I\u2019m not going to own that as some kind of badge that I\u2019m a bad dad because you willfully walked outside of God\u2019s design for you.\u201d\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tI think one of the primary objectives of the enemy for us, as a parent, is to constantly knock our legs out from under us, to make us think we will never be better than we are today; that we will always be a failure as a parent.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>18:00<\/strong>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tAs a mom, you\u2019re just always going to yell; as a dad, you\u2019re always going to be short with your kids\u2014that you\u2019ll never somehow become more like Christ. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tWe\u2019ve got to cling to that promise in Philippians that \u201cHe who began a good work in you will be faithful to complete it until Christ comes back again.\u201d That\u2019s not just a principle there! That\u2019s a promise from the Lord that, even when you <em>feel<\/em> like a failure, the Holy Spirit is still transforming you just as He\u2019s transforming your child.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tSo there may be a time where you have to say to your kid, \u201cI can\u2019t let you go to that dance, because you\u2019ve already told me that you don\u2019t buy into my principle that we are not going to partake of alcohol before the age of 21, and you\u2019re telling me that you have no intentions of obeying that boundary. So unfortunately, I can\u2019t give you the privilege of going to a place that that\u2019s probably going to be happening.\u201d\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob:<\/strong> Right.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Brian:<\/strong> \u201cI can\u2019t let you go hang out with these friends if there\u2019s a high possibility of that happening.\u201d\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob:<\/strong> Right.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Brian:<\/strong> \u201cAnd It doesn\u2019t matter if you like it or not. My job is to protect you and to guard your heart.\u201d\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>19:00<\/strong>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong> And, Brian, as I\u2019m listening to you, I\u2019m thinking back to a passage of Scripture that talks about how God does this with us. It\u2019s kind of an unusual passage, because it\u2019s talking about what the Scripture does in our life. In 2 Timothy, Chapter 3, verse 16, it says, \u201cAll Scripture is breathed out by God and is profitable for [four things]: for teaching. . .\u201d\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tThat\u2019s what you did with your son: you taught him the standard; you trained him in what was right. He couldn\u2019t plead ignorance; he had been taught. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Brian:<\/strong> Yes.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong> But it doesn\u2019t stop there. It says the Scripture is also given (for teaching and then) \u201cfor reproof.\u201d What\u2019s reproof? That\u2019s pointing out when we\u2019re wrong.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Brian:<\/strong> Yes.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong> And that\u2019s what a parent is to do to the child. He\u2019s to help a child understand the right and the wrong of their choices. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tThe third thing the Scripture does is \u201cfor correction.\u201d Picture your child driving down the road and they get off in a ditch. What correction does is come like a wrecker.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Brian:<\/strong> Yes.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>20:00<\/strong>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong> It gets hooked up to them--alongside them, as you described it\u2014and pulls the child out of the ditch, back onto the road.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Brian:<\/strong> When we fall into sin, the objective is to put the bar right back up there where it was.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong> Yes.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Brian:<\/strong> We always continue to raise the bar.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong> Yes.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Brian:<\/strong> You know, if you fall over the high bar, the coach doesn\u2019t lower it by six inches and say, \u201cOh, I bet you can get it this time.\u201d\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tSo when our kids fall into sin, we always have to put the bar back up. The bar is not me, or mom or dad. The bar is Jesus, and how we\u2019re being transformed into Him.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong> Yes, and the fourth thing that the Scripture does\u2014it says the Scripture is given \u201cfor teaching, for reproof, for correction\u201d--pulling us out of the ditch, and then it says\u2014\u201cand for training in righteousness,\u201d which is continued direction down the road of life that they\u2019re headed down, where you\u2019re training them in knowing how to live; how to make great choices the next time they\u2019re faced with a temptation. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tIf they fail again, the same Scripture that reproves us, pulls us out of the ditch, and puts us back on the road; the same love of God does the same thing for a child when he or she makes a mistake.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>21:00<\/strong>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Brian:<\/strong> Yes!\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob:<\/strong> You lay all of this out in your book, <em>How You Always Meant to Parent,<\/em> and we should just let our listeners know that we do have copies of Brian\u2019s book in our <em>FamilyLife Today <\/em>Resource Center. Go online at FamilyLifeToday.com to request a copy or call 1-800-FLTODAY. Again, the website is FamilyLifeToday.com. You can call to order at 1-800-FLTODAY, and the title of the book is<em> How You Always Meant to Parent.<\/em>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong> I think what you\u2019re talking about here, in parenting, is really, really important. We can\u2019t just teach our kids how to succeed. We must teach them how to process failure, because they will fail as human beings, just as we have failed. I love your illustration of how you did that with a child riding a bike, and I\u2019m thinking back over the life of a child. They learn how to walk by falling down. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Brian:<\/strong> Yes.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>22:00<\/strong>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong> You wouldn\u2019t really help your toddler if you kept him from falling down. He\u2019d never learn how to walk! So a lot of that transfers all the way into and through adolescence into adulthood. I\u2019ll tell you, as one who has experienced this, it\u2019s even a bigger challenge to watch your adult children go through life having to learn some of the same things you learned, except that this time, you can\u2019t put your hands on the handlebar and train your child. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tYou\u2019ve got to keep your hands off the handlebar, you\u2019ve got to pray for your child, and you\u2019ve got to trust that the God of heaven, who loves our kids, is going to finish the process of raising them.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tI just appreciate you, Brian, and your book; all your books: <em>Tech Savvy Parenting; <\/em>this one, which is challenging parents to rethink how they\u2019re going about this and to address the issue of the heart. I think it\u2019s good stuff and I think parents need to dig in this\u2014both moms and dads\u2014and make this a part of their daily lifestyle with their kids.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>23:00<\/strong>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Brian:<\/strong> Hey, thank you guys so much for having me on again!\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob:<\/strong> Well, we should also say thanks to our listeners here, because they\u2019re the ones who make all of this possible. Anytime we have conversations like this, it\u2019s listeners who call or who go online to help support <em>FamilyLife Today<\/em> who make these kinds of conversations happen. So thanks for your support of this ministry. Those of you who are Legacy Partners, we appreciate you. Those of you who call occasionally, or who go online occasionally, we are always glad to hear from you.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tYou can donate at FamilyLifeToday.com, or you can call 1-800-FLTODAY. Or you can mail your donation to <em>FamilyLife Today<\/em> at Box 7111, Little Rock, AR. And our zip code is 72223.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tSpeaking of people who support the ministry, happy anniversary today to Alejandro and Lissett Menendez in Spring, Texas. They are celebrating their anniversary and they are Legacy Partners. We appreciate you guys linking arms with us. Happy anniversary as you guys celebrate today!\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>24:00<\/strong>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tAnd, to all of you, I hope you have a great weekend. I hope you and your family are able to worship together in church this weekend, and I hope you can join us back on Monday, when we\u2019re going to hear a powerful message on the importance of forgiveness and the reality is, every relationship you\u2019re in is going to require forgiveness at some point, so we better figure out how to do it, right? \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tWe\u2019ll talk about that Monday. 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