As we recorded this episode the season of Lent has just bgun. Chip and Brittany share some thoughts aroud the idea of how giving something up for a season can actually be not so much of a loss but really in the end a big gain... how "Less" can be "More" and how powerful that can be in our lives personally but also how we might see that practice can work within our families and children. Chip and Brittany share some real life stories of how one family used an opportunity of sharing the abundance of what they had with a family in need to show their children waht a Compassionate and Charitable Spirit can look like in action... and the really amazing thing was the children responded to the opportunity and blew the parents away!
Here's a great resource on this topic for your family from author Jen Hatmaker her book 7: An Experimental Mutiny Against Excess (Disturbed by her family's comfortableness with American excess, Jen Hatmaker writes with humor and depth about their unique social and spiritual decision to live by a rule of seven, reducing material possessions/ distractions in order to connect with a greatly increased God.)
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Episode 51 - "Mid Winter Funk"
Episode 50 - "Forgiveness and Parenting"
Episode 49 - "Emmanuel Still With Us"
Episode 48 - "Where We've Been and Where We're Going - Marking Time"
Episode 47 - The Happy New Year Episode
Episode 46 - The Christmas Eve Episode
Episode 45 - The Christmas Memories Episode
Episode 44 - Must Be Santa a Christmas Controversy
Episode 43 - "Bringing Advent Home"
Episode 42 - "Why Are Kids Impatient, Bored, Friendless and Entitled?"
Episode 41- Growing Gratitude in Your Family Part 3
Episode 40 - Growing Gratitude in Your Family - Part 2
Episode 39 - Growing Gratitude In Your Family
Episode 38 - "Helping Your Family Get Organized"
Episode 37 - Growing in Empathy and Compassion
Episode 36 - Helping Kids Develop a Healthy Work Ethic
Episode 35 - Diane Estep Interview Part 2
Episode 34 - Diane Estep Interview Part 1
Episode 33 - Celebrating the Big, the Little and the Mundane
Episode 32 - Rest, Shabbat, Sabbath, Menuha
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