Shae: Welcome to season 12 of Therapy and Theology. I'm approaching this season's topic with both excitement and tenderness. It's called Fight For Your Family. Out of all the comments, DMs, podcast reviews, and general questions we receive, family relationships are definitely the most common dynamics where listeners are seeking help from therapy and theology. Maybe you want to fight for a better marriage or fight for better communication between you and your kids.
Maybe you want to fight for better relationships and your extended family. Whatever your desires and probably your prayers are, I know this season is gonna help you fight for togetherness, even when the circumstances or the dynamics are messy. Each episode of this season will equip you with biblical wisdom and therapeutic practices to more intentionally live and love with the most important relationships in your life. Now, here's a sneak peek of what's to come.
Lysa: If trust is the oxygen of our relationship, then we need to spend some time talking about where are there small breaches of trust and maybe even bigger breaches of trust.
Rebecca: We live in this broken world and we have these these hurts and these cuts and these injuries to our relationships that are normal because we're human beings bumping up against each other. Right. But if we don't know how to repair well, then we're just, you know, walking around with a bunch of bumps and bruises that don't seem to heal.
Jim: Does prayer change things? No.
But I tell you what I know at 64, prayer changes me.
Joel: The entire idea of boundaries from a biblical theological perspective was always intended to keep us safe, but not to isolate us. It was to keep us safe, but also to have, soft hearts, tender hearts, so that we can be open to the possibility of relationship and restoration if possible.
Rebecca: When we learn those things about our partner, we become more emotionally intimate with them. We know them on a deeper level. And that's what caring for the relationship involves is knowing one another that deep.
Lysa: The enemy does not want us to fight for our family. The enemy wants us to partner with him to fight against our family.
Jim: Amen.
Shae: You guys, this season is going to be so good. Before you go, there are two things I want to ask of you. Number one, use the link below in our show notes to enter your email address and be notified as soon as new Therapy and Theology episodes are available. We'll meet you in your inbox. Just subscribe and stay connected.
Number two, share this trailer with a friend or a family member and tell them that you want to watch and discuss this season together. I can't think of a better way to fight for connection than to listen to these conversations with those that you do everyday life with. Episode one of Fight For Your Family drops next week. We'll see you then.