A pivotal episode to help you create the changes needed in your family

Being courageous sounds good but is hard to do with the pressures around us. This is an important episode for all parents.

The practical insights to solve whining in your home

Practical insights to bringing more meaning to the Christmas season.

If you are scared about your children’s future, who they will marry, or what the world will be like when they are older, this episode is a must-listen.

Make sure your children grow up believing children are a blessing because of their own experiences in your home.

It’s never too late to capture the heart of your children and shift your parenting which leads to greater fruitfulness.

You may be contributing to the lack of peace in your own home, tune in to see why.

You have to seize the opportunities in this short season of parenting as it’s a pivotal time for children.

Let’s make sure our homes are love vs. performance-driven homes.

Overlooking sin in your children for the pursuit of tranquility only creates a fake peace in your home

We need God’s wisdom more than ever, tune in to be encouraged.

Protecting your children very well may cause a lack of popularity, even in some Christian circles, but it’s worth it!

Get practical ways to help your children connect with God in ways that nurture a real relationship!

Four tips that will help your marriage thrive

Get practical tips on building strong friendships without sacrificing who God wants you to be.

We have to take this topic seriously in our parenting. It’s an essential part of equipping them to launch in an uncertain world.

What to do if family or friends are an unbiblical influence on your children.

The global trends show movement towards authoritarianism, transhumanism, and increased persecution against Christians. Tune in to get practical parenting insights.

An important message for the uncertain times we are in. Please share this with others.

We must orient our lives towards the most important priorities God has set out for us.

This is one of those episodes that we likely won’t all agree on, but is important for everyone to hear and think about.

Does your faith walk encourage your children to have faith like a child?

A raw God-inspiring inside look into how Courageous Parenting came to be.

In a world that embraces moral relativism, it’s vital you follow through in correcting your children.

We want to help make it easier for you to stand firm in a woke world.

How to navigate spending decisions with woke corporations that hate what you stand for.

Let nothing hinder establishing a new Godly legacy through your family

Don’t let the comparison trap influence you away from doing what’s best for your family.

Family culture is the ethos of your family; not what you want it to be, but what it actually is when no one is looking. It’s the rhythm or the beat of the heart of your family life.

A teachable heart is a vital life skill, but it’s also what will bring more peace to your home.

Check yourself by listening to this episode. Do you contribute to future confusion or unbelief with your children about the Bible or sound doctrine?

It’s vital to become more resilient and strengthen your marriage during these uncertain times.

Practical insights on parenting during this time of transition are influenced by the global reset efforts by the liberal elite.

Equip your kids to tell the truth and reap the short term consequences for the long-term gain of good relationships

We asked what you want to hear and answered the four most helpful questions.

The Tolpin’s get real about having a 10 month, 3, and 6-year-old while in their 40’s.

This episode is an important listen to make sure the things we say don’t detour our kids from believing there are limits to their futures

Meaningful contribution improves behavior and attitudes. Perhaps your kids want to help more without even realizing it?

Help your kids manage their emotions well while expecting their obedience.

Today is a special episode on the Courageous Parenting Podcast as Angie invited Abbie Halberstadt who recently wrote, “M is for Mama” to join her in the discussion of Biblical Mothering in today’s world.

A huge parenting challenge is to get one-on-one time with each child in a way that cultivates a growing and deep relationship with your children. This is what builds strong heart-strings while they are young that continue a deeper relationship into their teenage years when it matters most.

It’s your job to equip your kids so that they don’t get fooled by people and organizations with hidden agendas.

Angie and Missy Robertson (Duck Dynasty Wife) have a candid conversation about having unconditional love for their children and lessons from her new book “Because You Are My Family”

Purpose to believe the opposite of these popular three statements mentioned in this episode.

When you endorse a company, their brand attaches to you, so make sure it’s positive

Respond well to your kids when they blameshift or show entitlement, their future depends on it.

Both giving and receiving feedback about each other’s kids can be challenging, but it doesn’t have to be, and frankly shouldn’t be.

Even though it feels like your surviving, you can still be thriving, tune in to be encouraged.

A raw and personal episode that will encourage you with Biblical truth.

How to prevent your kids from growing up believing they can handle exposure to the wrong influences.

Get ready to hear Drew’s perspective on family Bible time, manhood, and what he loves most about his mom.

Today’s culture wants you to believe that you can’t have healthy in-love relationships when in truth, in-loves are a gift from God intended to sharpen, strengthen, love, and protect you.

It’s important to dream together in a unified way. Get valuable insights in this episode.

Perhaps the best marriage episode ever on this podcast!

This episode helps you think through how to give gifts that positively impact your kids long term.

Practical insights of their engagement and reflections of the first month of marriage.

Get an inside look at the proactive thinking and changes the Tolpin’s are making so the ministry grows its impact in uncertain times.

Seize the season to help each individual in your family implement the change they would like to see in their lives for the coming year.

Fully transparent as the Tolpin’s share their health challenges and tips on how they overcame them.

You often get more of what you encourage consistently, so it’s important to look at where we could increase our encouragement to learn.

Consistency is a major difference-maker if you want respectful, obedient kids.

It’s hard to lead well, when we feel discouraged, this episode will help.

When things go bad, you want to be in a population of like-minded people.

There are so many ways parents create barriers for kids to feel comfortable sharing hard things with their parents

When you focus on the heart, it transforms your whole approach to parenting

Tune in so that you are more equipped to help your family’s health as the hospitals may not be able to help you. There’s a perfect storm happening in the hospitals all over the world right now with so many doctors and nurses quitting due to the vaccine mandate (rightfully so), more patients due to Covid fear-mongering and the unfortunate situations of people needing serious care due to covid and all the normal health needs, especially going into the fall. All show notes, scripture references, and resources mentioned are found at COURAGEOUSPARENTING.COM.

The Tolpin’s just celebrated 22 years of marriage and they share how to prevent selfishness from causing destruction over time and tips to a thriving marriage.

We are to be wise, and when you look at the Covid situation as a whole, it seems prudent not to trust those guiding what to do.

Why Afghanistan matters for your family and Biblical perspectives on how God may use these situations so more come to know Him.

Regardless of where your kids go to school, make sure you add these eight things to their education. I’m sure you would agree the world has drastically changed over just the last two years. As we look at the trends, these eight things are vital for your kids to thrive as believers in an increasingly uncertain future.

Your convictions shouldn’t have to be sacrificed for your provision. Get practical insights into discovering your best ways to provide for your family

Join our first public conversation ever discussing our stance and biblical truth regarding vaccinations.

Don’t underestimate the pressure your kids will or are facing to be more worldly. Especially on the controversial issues of today.

We must move beyond just-in-time decision-making and purchasing behavior if we are going to be prepared for the potential challenges ahead.

Tune in to get these important insights that will help your family thrive despite what may be happening in the world six months from now.

There is no perfect place to live until we are in heaven, but no community is safe from this growing challenge that could prevent your kids from launching with a Biblical worldview.

If you need a boost of energy and direction towards your parenting, listen to this episode.

Angie is back on the show getting real about her recent birth and postpartum experience with many practical insights and encouragement.

If you don’t want your kids to be sucked into the desires of the world, you must be the most consistent teacher of Biblical truth in their lives.

Part of your parenting objectives for these uncertain times needs to include helping your kids have emotional resilience. Listen to get valuable insights on how to lead this well.

If you don’t reject passivity in these six areas you will likely see the repercussions years down the road. It takes a more diligent parenting approach than previous generations usually realize.

A unique inside look into how Isaac and Angie work as a team during her birth’s and postpartum with practical wisdom for Dad’s in how to support their wives.

Get Isaac’s five tips that have helped him lead his family through major life changes and give him confidence in the chosen direction.

Get ready to reflect on where your people-pleasing is negatively affecting your parenting in this episode and get encouraged to equip confident Christian kids for an uncertain world.

There’s a lot you can do to cultivate a stronger Biblical community right where you are or even if you move somewhere new! As you may know, the Tolpin’s moved to a new state seven months ago despite having a strong Biblical community right where they were. They give an update on building a new community in Idaho and share six keys that will help you right now! There’s a lot of change happening around all of us over the past year and it’s more important than ever to run the race with other Biblically minded people you trust during these increasingly uncertain times. Listen to this episode and ask yourself honestly where your opportunities exist to cultivate the kind of community that’s good for your whole family.

If you want your vacation to have a permanent impact for good change on your family it’s vital to do what’s in this episode just before you get home. These strategies yielded incredible growth in the Tolpin family and will help you too.

Don’t miss the incredible impact your vacation can have on the lives of your kids. But it takes being purposeful about a few things that prevent selfishness from growing stronger during your trip. Get lots of practical tips so that you thrive on your vacation but more importantly your family grows stronger together.

The communication you have with your family before your vacation makes a huge difference in the attitudes and behavior of your kids while on your trip. It takes some thoughtfulness on what your family needs to hear and sometimes that’s what we fail to spend time on. You will get ideas that will help in this episode.

Have you thought about the idea that there could be limits on what you even think about attempting as a family due to not realizing the potential of your team at home? We believe it’s important to do things that require your family to help on purpose. In this episode, we give you practical ideas/projects to do based on the different age levels of your kids. Let’s keep doing things that require more than our own strengths so we have to rely on God and our family. Otherwise, we may decide to do less based on our own abilities and limit the desire within our kids to contribute.

There are several reasons most families lack a sense of productive teamwork within their families with a growing ability to do amazing things together. From the beginning, we have been cultivating a sense of teamwork in our family and share these important insights with you in this two-part series. It’s really cool to be able to get more done with more people helping, however, the bigger importance is how it better equips your kids for the uncertain world they will be launching into.

Isaac and Angie are sharing their “list” of things they have done or are planning to do regarding being prepared to care for their family and potentially others in uncertain times. Join them for this second episode in a 2-part series where they share their personal stories while also sharing the scriptural reasoning behind WHY they have felt prompted to be more intentional about being self-sufficient while also keeping a Biblical perspective on it all.

The Tolpins are tackling the relevant topic of “Preparing for Uncertain Times” from a Biblical perspective and will take you back to what the Word of God says and encourage you in your roles as parents and Christ-followers in THIS generation and time. There is a balance between being what people call “self-sufficient” and being wisely prepared and the difference is simply revealed in one’s approach to the topic. Providing for your family and preparing for uncertain times must be measured with recognizing WHO the provision truly comes from and how we should steward what He has given us. Join Isaac and Angie as they dig deep in this first part of a two-part series.

We have found a productive path forward with Brenda of “God is Grey”, tune in to get the details and know-how to support us moving forward.

Baby #9 is on its way and Angie shares her candid thoughts about her experience now and reflections on the past. Isaac also shares insights for men about supporting their wives during this important time. Did you know they don’t come from big families, nor did they originally plan to have this many children? Tune in to get a few of their inside perspectives from the last 20 years of having kids.

While it’s important to be relationship versus control-driven parents you don’t want to take it too far. You are the most important God-given authority in your kid’s lives. But it’s because of a strong relationship with your kids that you are able to hold them accountable, speak the truth they need to hear and lead them away from foolishness and towards righteousness.

While we want to be relationship driven parents, there are challenges when we lean too far in either of these directions actually. Are you more control or relationship driven in your parenting approach? How about your spouse? This two part series will give you good insights to reflect on your own parenting to see where you land with insights on what to do about it.

We all get discouraged about our parenting at times. This episode will encourage you in how to be the kind of leader that helps mold kids with great moral character. There is one thing that you’ve got to do well to build long-lasting trusting relationships with your kids. You’ve got to become good at admitting when you are wrong. Learn more in this episode.

Get ready for tons of practical insights most parents aren’t thinking about from Ken Ham the CEO of Answers In Genesis and the Ark Encounter. Every parent needs to hear the specific answers they must-have for their kid’s future questions. In fact, we need to be proactively educating our kids on these things. Tune in for perhaps one of the most impactful episodes you’ve heard so far.

In this episode, Isaac and Angie give practical tips on how to set yourself up for success when parenting young children and you feel overwhelmed. They cover both the aspects of what anxiety and overwhelm can be a reflection of from a physical perspective as well as a spiritual heart condition. If you or your children struggle with anxiety, stress, fear, worry, or feelings of overwhelm, this is a must listen to episode. Get ready for some biblical encouragement.

Are you a peacemaker? Most Christians probably believe they are; however, when you listen to this episode as we discuss this with special guest Steve Crane, you may be surprised what Jesus actually means in His “Sermon on the Mount.” Too often the wrong thinking about being a peacemaker has led to being passive about truth for the sake of peace. That’s not only wrong but harmful to the mission God has for us. And sometimes that mission actually causes conflict in a fallen world.

Are you a critical thinker? Are you sure? Are you doing what you need to make sure your kids are savvy critical thinkers in this uncertain world? Tune into this second part of the series to get the other four tips that the Tolpins share to help you in equipping your children with critical thinking skills and discernment.

We are seeing the next generation swept away to absurd philosophies that contradict biblical truth and it’s happening on purpose. So we need to be more on purpose than ever to counter this effort. It’s vital that you proactively equip your kids to be critical thinkers, and this doesn’t just happen in the normal flow of life unless you purpose to do so. Get practical tips that will help every parent no matter how old your kids are.

Your kids were born into these uncertain times on purpose! But it is your job to equip them differently than in times past. There will be times that our kids must be willing to put their comfort aside to resist conforming to the world. Do you think your kids will? Get encouraged by this episode as the Tolpin s dive into this important topic.

As leaders of our families, we’ve got to be full of hope and vision in this new year. Your kids’ energy for their initiatives may be depending on it. We never want to fail to plan because of today’s uncertain environment. That’s a recipe for being a victim as well as depression. We must fuel our resiliency to be able to handle the changes and challenges ahead. Your family needs it from you right now! This episode will stir up hope in you for this year.

While disunity at large appears to be growing it’s important we navigate standing for truth well, while not losing our saltiness for the Gospel. There’s a balance between being bold and showing love. So how do we do this well? The Tolpin’s tackle this important topic at length in this important episode.