Ways They Should Go

Moses’ parents chose to bring life into a dark and dangerous world, fearing God more than Pharaoh. In this episode, we explore what their faith teaches us about parenting today—trusting God’s sovereignty, rejecting fear-driven decisions, and embracing the blessing of children even when the world tells us not to.

Joseph forgave his brothers, but he also learned from his parents. There's a lot to learn from this story for us parents. In this episode, we talk about avoiding favoritism, modeling forgiveness in our homes, guiding children to reconcile with one another, and teaching them to accept God’s unconditional love.

When Joseph stood before Pharaoh, he was ready because God had been shaping his character all along. This episode unpacks what parents can learn from his story, being faithful where we are in life and guiding children to be faithful where they are, teaching stewardship, resisting temptation, and trusting God’s sovereignty in every circumstance.

Joseph’s time as a slave and prisoner shows us that true success isn’t measured by comfort or achievement, but by faithfulness to God. In this episode, we talk about teaching our children to define success biblically, preparing them to face trials and temptations, and pointing them to Christ as the only source of hope and holiness.

The reunion of Jacob and Esau shows the power of forgiveness after years of hurt. As parents, we can use their story to teach our kids how to treat their siblings, how to forgive instead of holding grudges, and how to rely on God when conflicts arise.

Jacob’s story with Leah, Rachel, and Esau shows us more than family drama—it teaches parents how to prepare their children for life. In this episode, we draw out lessons on guiding kids to pursue godly marriages, helping them discern character, asking the right questions, and preparing them to encounter the living God with reverence and faith.

Genesis 27 gives us one of the Bible’s most dramatic family moments—Jacob deceiving Isaac to steal Esau’s blessing. From this story, parents can learn the dangers of partiality, the importance of unity in marriage, the reality of consequences for sin, and the hope that God can still work through brokenness.

Esau’s choice to sell his birthright for a meal is more than just a cautionary tale. This story gives us several lessons we can apply as parents, praying faithfully for our families, loving each child without favoritism, teaching our kids to value spiritual inheritance, and trusting God’s sovereign plan.

The high priest’s role was filled with weight, beauty, and meaning—and it all pointed to Jesus. As parents, we are called to follow His example in guiding our children: interceding for them in prayer, modeling holiness, and keeping Christ preeminent in our homes.

In the Old Testament, priests stood between God and His people, mediating, teaching, interceding, and protecting. In this episode, we explore how those same priestly principles apply to Christian parents today. From cultivating holiness to guarding against worldly influences, we discuss how to faithfully shepherd our children toward a life of devotion to Christ.

The Ark of the Covenant was more than a golden box—it was a symbol of God’s faithfulness, presence, and power. In this episode, we help you teach your kids the stories, meaning, and misuses of the Ark—and how it all points to Christ. From bedtime prayers to hard conversations, we show how to disciple your kids with confidence that God is still with us.

In this episode, we connect the Most Holy Place to parenting, why God’s holiness matters, how sin separates, and what it means to raise kids who long for His presence. From tabernacle imagery to bedtime prayers, we explore how reverence, awe, and access through Christ shape the way we disciple our children.

The Bread of the Presence illustrates our fellowship with God and we need to illustrate that with our Kids. We talk about that in this episode.

God desires to dwell with his people, and we see that in the tabernacle. The Old Testament is important to teach our kids. We hope we can encourage you to use the Tabernacle as a tool to disciple you kids.

Evangelizing our kids. How do we share the gospel with our kids so they might believe and be saved? How do we NOT do it, and how DO we do it? In this episode, we talk about those things.

Learning from the Tower of Babel story as an example of sinful pride, what are some common ways we parents are prideful without recognizing it? In this episode talk about pride vs humility and some examples of sinful pride in parenting.

Out goal in this episode is to convince you to teach your kids to defend their faith.

We would like to encourage you as a parent that you can do this parenting things! But we need to make sure we understand this properly. We can use the story of Noah and the Flood to do that.

Let's do an exercise where we take real-life parenting scenarios and practice using the story of Noah to help teach our kids. Beyond that, how can Noah motivate us to be better parents.

The Flood is an important account in the Bible, and it's relevant and important to us today. How do we help our kids understand that and not just relegate it to one of the things they learned in Sunday School?

The Bible tells us we all inherit sin and death from Adam, but Jesus offers life and Redemption to all. The world disagrees with that worldview, trusting that our hears are good. How can we teach our kids to understand that contrast in worldviews and lead them to the truth in Scripture?

God gives us a great example of how to respond to our children when they are emotional and when they sin in the story of Cain. In this episode we talk about how we can parent our children like God does.

In this episode, we talk about the Fall and how that truth can help our kids understand this world we live in.

The Gospel is important, and there are a lot of ways we can teach our kids wrong. Sometimes its important to consider the actions and words we should avoid, and that's what we're doing in this episode.

How do we balance the fact that our kids are not good according to God's standards without them believing they are worthless? It can be a tough balance sometimes, but lets understand the truth.

The Bible tells us that we're stewards of the earth. Our kids need to know how to do that as well. Today we talk about stewarding our kids and how to teach them stewardship.

Sometimes our kids ask us questions we aren't prepared to answer. In this episode, we talk about how to respond in those moments.

There's so much about the creation of Adam and Eve that is relevant to our society today. We need to remember that our understanding of Biblical marriage comes from this story. But when do we talk to our kids about these topics? Join us as we discuss these things.

Continuing the conversation from last week. What are our kids being taught in school about the origin of the universe, and how life works? In this episode we talk about how the Biblical worldview conflicts with a worldly worldview and how it effects schools. As parents we need to be aware of what our kids are being taught.

What are our kids being taught in school about the origin of the universe, and how life works? In this episode we talk about how the Biblical worldview conflicts with a worldly worldview and how it effects schools. As parents we need to be aware of what our kids are being taught. The conversation continues in the next episode.

In this episode Chris and Jefferey talk about how we can give our kids a Biblical understanding of the origin of the universe and how we got where we are now.

Family Worship is an imporant thing. We talk about what it is, what the Bible says about it, and how we should do it, with some practical questions answered. This is not a complete exploration of the topic, but hopefully helpful. Don Whitney Family Worship article - desiringgod.org/articles/worthy-of-family-worship And his book on the same topic - heritagebooks.org/products/family-worship-whitney.html Grace & Truth Memory Books -press.founders.org/shop/truth-and-grace-tag-memory-books-3-book-set-2/ Family Worship Bible Guide -heritagebooks.org/products/family-worship-bible-guide-hardcover.html Chronological Bible - Plenty of versions availsble Pilgrim's Progress - Find a good, modern translation Jesus Storybook Bible - a.co/d/4rfxlVQ The Biggest Story Bible - thebiggeststory.com/families/

The story of the Bible is good news, or the gospel. Above all things, that's what we need to teach our children. In this episode we talk about what the gospel is, and how we can teach it to our kids.

In this episode we talk about how to prepare our kids to face lies by helping them handle the truth regularly.

If God's Word is complete, then we have everything God wants us to know about how to raise our kids. We discuss this topic with a different elder from FBCO, Phil Mendenhall.

Our children need to know the entire Old Testament and that Jesus affirmed it. In this episode, we talk about how we can teach this lesson to our kids so they grow up knowing what God says in the Old Testament and have faith that God has purposefully and accurately preserved his word.