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This week, special guest Voddie Baucham joins the Gary Wilkerson Podcast. This insightful conversation covers topics ranging from parenthood to the state of the American church and what a ‘battle mentality’ can look like for Christians.
Key Points from the Podcast
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In parenting, there is a tension between responsibility and inadequacy that requires us to depend on God. Growing as a parent is a process where we learn over time through experience.
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There is a temptation as parents to take too much credit for our kids’ successes as well as their failures.
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We can learn how to be better parents and spouses through the Word of God and other mature believers that God places in our life.
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Americans are blessed but spoiled. We don’t understand suffering. The persecution that the American church faces is nothing compared to other parts of the world.
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No matter what culture looks like around us, we are called to labor and till the ground until the Lord returns.
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Catastrophe is here: churches and families split, faithful men falling, faith being shipwrecked. This is not the first catastrophe the church has faced, and it will not be the last.
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If you’re a person of peace and battles come your way, fight for peace. Fight the kingdom’s battle and you will win because God is undefeated.
Resources Mentioned in the Podcast
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“Learning to Be a Daughter When I’m No Longer a Kid” by Jasmine Holmes
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Faultlines by Voddie Baucham
About Voddie Baucham
Voddie Baucham is a husband, father, grandfather, former pastor, church planter, author, and professor. He currently serves as Dean of the School of Divinity at African Christian University in Lusaka, Zambia.
Whether teaching on classical apologetic issues like the validity and historicity of the Bible, or the resurrection of Christ; or teaching on biblical manhood/womanhood, marriage and family, or the Social Justice Movement, he helps ordinary people understand the significance of thinking and living biblically in every area of life.
Voddie and his wife, Bridget have been married since 1989. They have nine children and three grandchildren. The Bauchams are committed home educators.