Northeast Christian Podcast

This week we're grateful to have Guest Speaker, Clayton Hentzel. Clayton is Lead Pastor of The Crossing Church.

Today we're hearing from a panel of parents who are all at different stages in their parenting journeys.

Life is full of firsts. Naturally, parenting is too. From your baby's first steps across the living room to their first steps out into the world as an adult, your children will experience many things for the very first time.

As a parent, you have a role in how these "firsts" contribute to the formation of your child. The experiences they have are largely out of your control, but you can help form them as they slowly become adults who experience life for themselves.

Today, we're thinking through how you can contribute to your child's spiritual formation by discipling them through all the "firsts" along the way.

If you want to raise kids that are leaders of consequence in the kingdom of God, you need a plan. But before you make a plan, you need to catch a vision.

This week of Intentional Parenting is super practical. Whether you still have kids in your home or not, you'll learn how to catch a vision for intentional parenting, identify your values, and make a plan to help you stay on track.

We've created four worksheets to help you work through this process. Download them through the link below:

https://www.necchurch.org/intentional-parenting-vision-values-plan/

There's no such thing as the perfect parent, but it is possible and necessary to be an intentional one. So how is it done? How can you bring intentionality to your children's spiritual development with the same passion and devotion you bring to the rest of their development?

We're spending the next five weeks exploring these questions together.

Even if you aren't a parent, this series is sure to provide practical tools for your spiritual formation.

Guest Speaker, Mark Moore, concludes our Summer of Prayer series. Praying for the lost always has a cost. If you're a "sideline" Christian, the cost to your comfort, relationships, and time will be too high. Mark walks through four different types of prayers Jesus prayed, and poses a challenge to all who claim to follow Jesus: are you willing to follow in Jesus' footsteps and pay the cost to reach the lost?

Prayers of adoration remind us of the character of God. This week, we're looking at examples from Scripture of what it looks like to adore and praise God through prayer.