213: Parenting in Hard Seasons with Caroline Saunders

The Gospel-Shaped Life Podcast

Caroline Saunders is a pastor’s wife, mom of 3, and author, most recently of the new children’s books, The Story of Home and The Story of Water. She has a passion to equip and encourage parents to know how to raise their children with the truths of God's Word even in hard seasons. We pray you come away from this episode deeply encouraged and inspired.

What We Chat about in Today’s Episode:

~Caroline’s two new children’s books, The Story of Water and The Story of Home, what led her to write them, and what readers can expect

~Caroline’s experience of now transitioning into writing children’s books

~How stories in Scripture surrounding the topic of water point to the truth of Jesus being Living Water

~How Scripture points to Jesus being our Home

~The power of understanding the metanarrative nature of Scripture

~Understanding that even kids can do Biblical theology and think deeply about Scriptural truth

~How Caroline’s books differ from other children’s books currently on the market; how she went about helping kids to grasp complex concepts in these two books

~The importance of not just stopping at Jesus with kids, but moving on to discussing the Holy Spirit and the early church

~How the water stories in the Bible point to God’s sovereignty

~Advice for parents who want to help their kids work through very challenging seasons but don’t know how or where to start

~The problem of denial hard times and how the Word acknowledges the existence of hard and bad things in life

~The lie that tells us as moms that we always have to be perfectly ok and have it all together all the time for our kids

~How we can help our kids understand more complex Bible topics; the importance of loving God’s Word ourselves as parents

~How to share with our kids about the love of God, especially in light of hard seasons in life

~The power of naming our sin to our children and helping our kids to understand how God deals with sin

~What Caroline hopes families take away from these books

~The power of being honest with the Lord about where we are

~What to do when you don’t want to spend time in the Word

~And more!

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