Recent Episodes
Are You Ready to Talk About SEX?
Are you totally comfortable talking to your kids about sex? If you’re not… Welcome to the club. Few things create more anxiety in a parent than the thought of “The Talk.” Debby Wade, a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist, Certified Sex Therapist, and Certified Sex Addiction Therapist who is also a committed Christian, joined us...
This is the Real Me… Being Authentically You
Authenticity is: The quality of being genuine; real; an origin supported by unquestionable evidence; verified; one’s true nature or beliefs. The courage to live authentically is not natural in this comparison-based society. But we would challenge you to consider authenticity in a broader concept than just looking perfect on social media and being a...
Mom’s Testimony of Faith and Trust
In our podcast this week, Pastor Dave Carl talks with Linda Wylie, Pastoral Leader of Student Ministries, and Chrissy Smith, Pastoral Leader of Stonebriar Women, about the transitions women face along life’s journey and how so often our identify gets lost along the way. Changes and transitions occur throughout our life cycle, whether it...
Ministering to Families with Adopted and Foster Children
Recently, we had the opportunity to invite Dr. Andi Thacker to speak at a networking luncheon for churches and staff involved in special needs ministry around our community. This presentation contained so much information that anyone working with or volunteering in any children’s and student ministries would find value in spending an hour listening...
Overcome Over-Parenting
In this Parenting Pathway Podcast, Pastor Dave Carl has invited Young Adults Associate Pastor Brandon Fletcher and Student Ministries Associate Pastor Nathan Kocurek to talk about what they see in their ministries as the kids raised by helicopter and lawnmower parents start to reach adulthood. They share in this podcast that most of these...
Parenting Pathway Podcast: Not the Boss of Us
We are back this week with the next episode of our Parenting Pathway Podcast. Pastor Dave Carl is having a conversion with author, entrepreneur, and mom Kay Wills Wyma about her new book, Not the Boss of Us: Putting OVERWHELMED in its Place in a Do-All, Be-All World. That’s a crazy long title, but Kay...
Hope for Raising a Child with ADHD
This episode of our Parenting Pathway Podcast discusses children with ADHD. Family Ministry Pastor Dave Carl has a conversation with Shannon Thornton, M.A. LPC with Chrysalis Behavioral Therapy and Counseling who specializes in working with parents and children struggling with ADHD and Executive Functioning....
Parenting Your Child Struggling with Anxiety, Part 2
Parenting Pathway Podcast Volume 3.2 – Pastor Dave Carl leads a discussion about teen anxiety with a team of counselors from Watershed Initiative. In Part 2 of this Parenting Pathway Podcast series, we are discussing parenting a child who suffers from disabling anxiety. Family Ministry Pastor Dave Carl has a conversation with Jeri Marshall, Licensed Professional...
Parenting Your Teen Struggling with Anxiety
In our latest Parenting Pathway Podcast series, we are discussing parenting a child who suffers disabling anxiety. In part one, Family Ministry Pastor Dave Carl has a conversation with Jeri Marshall, Licensed Professional Counselor, and Erin Johnson, Licensed Processional Counselor Intern with Watershed Initiative. We will look at how the changing environment around our kids with...
Podcast: Raising Children in a Modern World, Part 2: It’s All About Relationships
In part two of our Parenting Pathway Podcast series Raising Children in a Modern World, Family Ministry Pastor Dave Carl has a conversation with Linda Wylie, Ministry Leader of High School Ministries, and Chrissy Smith, Pastoral Leader of Stonebriar Women. Following our prior conversation—where we discussed helping our children to see the value of...
I’ll Have My Cake and Eat It Too, Please!
We see this in our ministry to teens and families more than you would think. We meet a family in crisis because the husband is having an affair, or the wife is emotionally disconnected. We meet teens who have watched hours and hours of porn to the extent that they are isolated, scared, and...
Podcast: Raising Children in a Modern World, Part 1
In part one of our Parenting Pathway Podcast series Raising Children in a Modern World, Family Ministry Pastor Dave Carl has a conversation with Linda Wylie, Ministry Leader of Student Ministries, and Chrissy Smith, Pastoral Leader of Stonebriar Women. There is a growing trend with young people today, especially those raised in church: they...