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Now That We're A Family
Culture has reduced the modern family to a joke -- informing parents they are only capable of shuttling their children from expert to expert who experiment with untested agendas. Katie and Elisha lean on their experience growing up in large families of 10 and 11 kids, to encourage parents to take back control, stop listening to popular relationship advice, and embrace their God-given role as their children's primary authority.
Episodes
Now That We're A Family045: We Didn’t See The Writing On The Wall
Today we’re talking about getting to the end of your rope, feeling hopeless, and God’s Faithfulness. You can order Elisha’s CD here…
Now That We're A Family044: Retreat Takeaways, An Announcement, And Something New
It’s here! We can’t believe this is actually happening after almost a year of preparing!! This is kind of a rambly episode because so many fun things happened…
Now That We're A Family043: What To Do When Your Visions Aren’t Aligned
Here’s that Courageous Conversations video we made a while back: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m0QNxl2ueuM&t=60s Here’s a link to Zig Ziggler’s marriage book…
Now That We're A Family042: Elisha Opens Up About Something For The First Time
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Now That We're A Family041: Should Christians Believe In The Power Of Positive Thinking?
Elisha is sharing what he learned at a Man Camp he went to this weekend! This message is so encouraging to any Christian! Advertising Inquiries…
Now That We're A Family040: Our Biggest Announcement In A Long Time
So . . . we’re sharing a life-long dream with you today. Our goal is that these will encourage and help you as much as they have helped us. Thank you for…
Now That We're A Family039: What Katie Would Tell Her 18-year-old self
Join us for a chatty episode, where we talk through some of the low points of last week, mention what we’re feeling now, and answer some personal questions…
Now That We're A Family038: What We Do When We Feel Ourselves Spiraling
Here are some things we are actively doing to stop our downward spiral before it gets out of control. Hopefully it encourages you and gives you an idea or two!…
Now That We're A Family037: Katie Asks Elisha Hard Questions
Sometimes we get in a rut of “being married” but not growing in our marriage. And sometimes I like it that way. When marriage is smooth sailing, we often want…
Now That We're A Family036: How To BE Your Dream Home
At first I thought I didn’t hear him correctly. BE your dream home? Didn’t Elisha mean, “create your dream home? Make your dream home? Have your dream home?”…
Now That We're A Family035: Finding Friends And Building Community
We have never felt a lack of community. However, that doesn’t mean Elisha and I have always been apart of rich, healthy, community. Today we’re talking about…
Now That We're A Family034: How Husbands Can Be Emotionally Present for Their Wives
Today we’re diving into two main reasons why husbands can be emotionally distant, how to encourage them to open up emotionally, and some practical ways a man…
Now That We're A Family033: What is a Proverbs 31 Man? // Interview with Chad Johnson
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Now That We're A Family032: How To Grow Your Confidence In Any Area Of Life
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Now That We're A Family031: Five Changes We’ve Made Since Having Our Third Child
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Now That We're A Family030: How To Encourage Your Husband In Spiritual Leadership // Why Men Feel Inadequate to Lead
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Now That We're A Family029: Should Wives Submit to Their Husbands?
Does God want wives to be doormats? Today we’re talking about Ephesians 5:23 and what God-honoring submission does and does NOT look like in a marriage. In the…
Now That We're A Family028: Q&A: Side-hustles, criticism, and resolving conflict
Today we’re answering all your questions! (Well, maybe not all of them, but some of the ones you asked over on Instagram!) Some questions we’re answering!…
Now That We're A Family027: Our Personal Testimonies
This is a pretty personal episode about a pretty big topic. Today we are sharing about the first time we prayed to accept Christ’s gift of Salvation, and when…
Now That We're A Family026: Generational Faith: How Do We Pass It On?
We are praising God for Louis Martin entering our lives this week! He was born at 37 weeks, and weighed 7 pounds 3 ounces at 1:45am June, 22nd! Now, as the…
Now That We're A Family025: Lessons Learned From Past Mistakes
Today we are sharing two of our favorite tools to learn from past mistakes (or awesome experiences) and use that knowledge to make our future better! The two…
Now That We're A Family024: Think Big, Act Small
Some of us are dreamers. We have all the ideas–castles in the sky that blow everyone’s imaginations out of the water. But when we come down from our 30,000…
Now That We're A Family023: What is a Marriage After God? –Aaron and Jen Smith
You know those people that are further ahead in marriage, family, and life? But they aren’t just further ahead in years. They are wiser, smarter, more…
Now That We're A Family022: Staying Unified While Making Big Decisions . . .We’re Moving!
You probably know Elisha has been on the job search for about a month now. Naturally, this created a rollercoaster of emotions, conversations, and new…
Now That We're A Family021: Cultivating Sibling Relationships
Elisha is the fourth born of 10 kids. I’m the eldest of 11. We get asked a lot, “how did your parent’s cultivate your relationships with your siblings?” and…
Now That We're A Family020: Our Expectations for Postpartum (and an announcement)
We need your help! The survey is closed! Thank every single one of you who filled it out and we look forward to getting our book to a few of you! If you STILL…
Now That We're A Family019: Answering Your Assumptions About Us
In this weeks episode we are answering your assumptions about us! To weigh in next time we do an Instagram story poll, you can find us at…
Now That We're A Family018: Our Thoughts on Singleness
In this episode of the Now That We’re A Family Podcast, Elisha and I are talking all about being single. We get so many questions from friends and awesome…
Now That We're A Family017: What We’re Working on Personally | The Stop. Go. Grow. Method.
For this entire episode, we refer to a tool @thegiant5guy taught us a couple years ago. It’s been an invaluable resource for stepping back when we don’t like…
Now That We're A Family016: Child Training Advice From Parents of 8 – With Isaac And Angie Tolpin
WOW! What a privilege to interview Isaac and Angie Tolpin from courageousparenting.com. Katie and I were encouraged by not only their heart for families, but…
Now That We're A Family015: Our Love Story | How We Met
Elisha and I go wayyyyy back. So people assume we established a friendship. Started dating. And got married. But really, we got that backwards. We got married…
Now That We're A Family014: His Needs, Her Needs (how we scored each other)
Do you want a roadmap to meeting your spouses’ needs? We sure do! This last weekend, we went to a marriage workshop where my dad, @thegiant5guy, shared on the…
Now That We're A Family013: What No One Tells You About Sex After Kids
Elisha: Sex is still a priority. People say if you want to see what someone prioritizes, look at their calendar and bank statement. In other words, we give our…
Now That We're A Family012: How We Live A Low Drag High Impact Life
We are in the process of shopping for a family vehicle and as a result we’ve been having conversations around the topics of “drag” and “impact.” We dig deeper…
Now That We're A Family011: Should Marriage Make Us Happy Or Holy?
Did God create marriage to make us holier or happier? He definitely calls it a blessing in the Bible but what if it doesn’t feel like a blessing? Should we…
Now That We're A Family010: Twenty Five Years of Marriage and 11 Children — How to Keep The Spark Alive with Chad and Jenise Johnson
What a treat to sit down with Katie’s parents and pick their brains about marriage and family. Here are the links we mention in the show: Keep up with Chad…
Now That We're A Family009: How Many Kids We Can Afford
Since becoming pregnant with our third child, the topic of how expensive children are has come up so much! So, we thought we would share our thoughts. We hope…
Now That We're A Family008: The Giant 5: Our Tool For Making ALL Decisions
We GET to make decisions in life. That said, how do we filter our decisions? We’ve got a tool that helps us SOOO much. We hope that you can use this tool too!…
Now That We're A Family007: Marriage Q And A: Sex, Insecurities, Cheap Dates. . .
Thank you so much for participating on this episode with your fun questions about our marriage! We don’t know much but we do like talking about our own…
Now That We're A Family006: How We Get Out Of Funks
The truth is, we get bummed out sometimes. Since this is a thing for pretty much all human beings, we decided to share the practical tools we use to get out of…
Now That We're A Family005: Interacting With In-Laws As A Married Couple
Everybody has such different experiences with their in-laws. That said, we thought we would share what we have learned, how we have grown, and what we are…
Now That We're A Family004: Pros and Cons of Growing Up in Big Families.
The truth is, we loved growing up in big families. However, from our experiences there are some pros and there are some cons. In this episode we dive into what…
Now That We're A Family003: Oneness And Individuality
Are married people supposed to become one or are they already one? How does individuality play into all of this? Can we grow towards a unified vision? // Top 5…
Now That We're A Family002: Lessons Learned From Having Two Kids in Two Years Of Marriage
The original plan was to not get pregnant in our first year of marriage. That said, it was only three days into our honeymoon that we had a dramatic change of…
Now That We're A Family001: Our Vision For Family // Finding Fulfillment In Fatherhood
BOOM! We did it. We started a podcast. So what are we going to talk about? Well, in this episode we talk about why we are so excited about having our own…