Episodes

  • Episode 84: Our Dating Story: The Mistakes, the Messes, and the Mercy.

    Episode 84: Our Dating Story: The Mistakes, the Messes, and the Mercy.
    Feb 21 2025
    Derek and Lindsay discuss their dating journey, emphasizing the importance of intentionality in relationships and how their experiences shaped their marriage.
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    44 mins
  • Episode 83: Prioritizing Family Devotion and Family Worship

    Episode 83: Prioritizing Family Devotion and Family Worship
    Feb 6 2025
    Link to the Allen Family devotional plan: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1wkczpIXCtNJXrExjFTJPCF7ynwwFHLtR8LtRaaYbqeI/edit?tab=t.0
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    36 mins
  • Episode 82: Family Fun or Immoral Debauchery? Mardi Gras

    Episode 82: Family Fun or Immoral Debauchery? Mardi Gras
    Jan 28 2025
    What are Christians to do with Mardi Gras? Is it just another way to have good, clean family fun, or is it a celebration of immorality and debauchery? Listen in as Derek and Lindsay talk about it on this episode of The C2 Life.
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    41 mins
  • Episode 81: Protecting Kids and Teens in a Device Driven World

    Episode 81: Protecting Kids and Teens in a Device Driven World
    Jan 24 2025
    Links from this Episode Discounted Bark Phone: https://www.bark.us/?ref=CQ2DH9J * * Screen Time Health Impacts: https://www.hopkinsmedicine.org/health/wellness-and-prevention/screen-time-side-effects-in-kids-and-teens * * California's New Social Media Law: https://www.axios.com/2024/09/21/social-media-ad-addictive-feeds-law * * Australia's Social Media Ban: https://www.npr.org/2024/12/19/nx-s1-5231020/australia-top-regulator-kids-social-media-ban * * Teens and Screens: https://www.desiringgod.org/interviews/teens-and-screens
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    57 mins
  • Episode 80: Why we are losing the pro-life/abortion debate

    Episode 80: Why we are losing the pro-life/abortion debate
    Oct 7 2024
    Recent state-wide initiatives have pointed in one direction. Pro-life legislation has failed. Pro-abortion legislation has succeeded. One major political party has made abortion a central part of its platform, and the other major political party has shown clear signs of distancing itself from the pro-life cause. Why? This is not a top-down process. It is a grassroots effort in which voters' opinions shape political positions. So why is the pro-life argument losing ground? Lindsay and Derek discuss this crucial issue on this episode of The C2 Life.
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    42 mins
  • Episode 79: The World is on Fire! A Christ Centered Headline Review

    Episode 79: The World is on Fire! A Christ Centered Headline Review
    Sep 18 2024
    In this episode, Lindsay and Derek read and quickly respond to Yahoo News, Associated Press, Fox News, and NPR headlines. What is a Christ Centered response to news about Israel and Hezbollah, attempted assassinations of Trump, haircuts in space, and more? Listen in to find out.
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    47 mins
  • Episode 78: Why can't we cope? A Christ-Centered discussion about therapy and counseling.

    Episode 78: Why can't we cope? A Christ-Centered discussion about therapy and counseling.
    Sep 4 2024
    We can't deal! At least, it seems we can't. But why can't we? In this episode, Lindsay and Derek talk with Brent Vance who is an LPCS (Licensed Professional Counselor Supervisor) and the Missions and Children's Pastor at FBTC. Brent helps us unpack a Christ-Centered view of counseling, therapy, and the 21st century culture that "can't even deal."
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    58 mins
  • Episode 77: Toxic Masculinity or Perpetual Boyhood?

    Episode 77: Toxic Masculinity or Perpetual Boyhood?
    Aug 13 2024
    God designed men to be the pastors, protectors, and providers for their families and, in many ways, for the entire culture. Modern culture works against that design, and one of the hot-button phrases is "toxic masculinity." In this episode, Derek and Lindsay discuss toxic masculinity and address the question, "Does our culture suffer from an overabundance of men who are too manly, or is the real problem a lack of boys who grow into mature manhood?" Yes--real men are nurturing, approachable, non-threatening, polite, men of conviction, responsible, diplomatic, progressive, and reverent. But they are also warriors. That is not toxicity. It is masculinity.
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    47 mins