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Hey sweet friends! My name is Christy Young, and I’m a wife, homeschool mom of six, foster/adoptive parent, former lawyer, Christ-follower and LOVE encouraging other women in Christ! My aim is to encourage women to lead Gospel-saturated lives with courage and tenacity, willing to sacrifice and step into challenging circumstances and situations - empowered by God’s grace and equipped by His Spirit!
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Thursday Apr 04, 2024
Thursday Apr 04, 2024
Fostering kids - like parenting generally - has been incredibly humbling and such an incredible sanctifying tool the Lord is using to refine me.
The Lord is ever-teaching me that I do not always know what's best (even though I may think I do), that I do not know what His good and perfect will aims to accomplish and that it's not my job to be preoccupied with fostering outcomes (Will the kids in my care be reunified with bio mom and dad? What will their lives look like one year down the road? Five years?).
The Lord has used and is ever using fostering as a means to daily humble me and convict me of my pride and selfishness. As we work with difficult bio parents, daily care for children that are not our own, strive to obtain our yearly foster training hours, meet monthly with case managers and attend hearings - the whole system can feel overwhelming. And then when you see a bio mom or dad making compromising choices which have and are substantially impacting their children, it's really hard not to make judgment calls about the best case scenario for kids in your care. I'm guilty of it.
And the Lord is actively teaching, refining and humbling me - reminding me that I am not God. That my ways are not His ways, and that I do not always know what's best for the kids in my care. And that worrying about outcomes for the children in my home is not my burden or responsibility (except for ever-advocating for them). Jesus is teaching me to leave all the heavy lifting to Him, and for me to rest in doing the work He has set before me - to daily love and care for His children. And stretch to love and encourage difficult bio parents along the way. He's daily reminding me that every single child in my care - bio, adopted or foster - is HIS first and foremost, and that His will will be done for each and every one of them. I am humbly reminded that I don't need to be concerned with outcomes.
My job is to work in the daily - loving, caring for, teaching and discipling all the kids in my house, and aiming to love, support and encourage biological parents of the foster kids in my home. The Lord is reminding me that my only real job is to live out the gospel daily with all of those in my home and those the Lord places in my path. My job is to be an advocate for the foster children in my care, to pray for them, their parents and their hearts, speak up when I need to advocate for a child, and then to leave all that I have little to no control over at the Lord's feet.
#fosterparents #foster #grittygospel #homeschooling #parenting #parenthood #motherhood #stayathomemom #discipleship #fostering
Saturday Mar 30, 2024
Saturday Mar 30, 2024
We will use the acronym TRUTH to learn WHY we can trust the Bible as trustworthy. This is the intro video! Listen in to hear what each letter of the TRUTH acronym stands for as it is sourced from 2 Peter 1:16-21. Consider memorizing this acronym with your kids so that we can better engage the culture in discussions about why we believe the Bible is trustworthy!
#apologetics #discipleship #parenting #homeschooling #stayathomemom #grittygospel #bitesizeapologetics #homeschoolmom #parenthood
Saturday Mar 30, 2024
Saturday Mar 30, 2024
Join me as I examine the eyewitness accounts of Scripture and their reliability. Who are the eyewitnesses? Does the evidence suggest their accounts are trustworthy? We will examine what you need to analyze in order to determine whether eyewitness accounts can be trusted, and whether the Gospel accounts pass these tests!
#apologetics #homeschooling #motherhood #parenting #stayathomemom #discipleship #grittygospel #homeschoolmom #parenthood #bible
Sunday Mar 17, 2024
Sunday Mar 17, 2024
We are all already apologists anyway! Did you know that? We make defenses for ourselves, our friends and family more than you even realize!
The study of apologetics helps affirm our faith, strengths our ability as evangelists and helps students not to stray away from the faith when we have intellectual answers to their biblical or faith-based questions. Listen in and let's discuss why we all, as parents, should tackle the study of apologetics with our kids!
#grittygospel #homeschooling #stayathomemom #apologetics #motherhood #parenthood #discipleship #bible
Saturday Mar 16, 2024
Saturday Mar 16, 2024
What is the study of apologetics? Let's discuss why it's so important for us to be able to make a defense of our faith - and how that BLESSES both the hearer and our own faith walk!
Jesus was the ultimate apologist! He consistently put on display evidence (miracles performed, prophecies fulfilled, etc.) in order that people might believe in Him, as Messiah, believe and be saved! Jump in with me as we aim to become great Christian apologists!
#grittygospel #homeschooling #motherhood #parenting #gospel #apologetics #stayathomemom #discipleship
Monday Feb 26, 2024
Monday Feb 26, 2024
There are simply certain truths that are OBJECTIVELY true or false. Yet we live in a culture where we increasingly hear the assertions: "well, that is your truth" or "that may be true for you, but not for me." Listen in as we discuss the importance of distinguishing between objective and subjective truth claims!
#grittygospel #homeschooling #homeschoolmom #motherhood #parenting #parenthood #discipleship #apologetics #stayathomemom
Monday Feb 26, 2024
Monday Feb 26, 2024
Objective truth is true for everyone, regardless of whether we believe it or not! Where subjective truth is opinion, objective truth is based upodn the real, external world and is independent from our preferences and beliefs. Let's dive in together and discuss objective truth claims!
Saturday Feb 10, 2024
Saturday Feb 10, 2024
Let's discuss and define "subjective" truth! What is Subjective Truth? Why does it matter that we understand and can identify these truth claims?
Subjective truth claims are simply the opinions of those expressing them. It's vitally important that we understand subjective truth so that we won't be manipulated into believing that we must affirm and accept the subjective truth (aka opinions) of others as objectively true.
#motherhood #parenthood #parenting #apologetics #homeschooling #homeschoolmom #stayathomemom #gospel #parenting #grittygospel #bitesizeapologetics
