Keeping It Young

Keeping It Young is a Christian conversation podcast led by Dave and Bethlie Young, who introduce themselves together as the Youngs. It covers ordinary life under strain: marriages, households, children and church. The exchange between the two is warm and steady. Quick affirmations punctuate the longer teaching passages, so the instruction feels shared rather than delivered from a lectern. Most of the material is organized into series. The Overcoming series is the clearest example, framed around Jesus as the greatest overcomer and built on the idea that believers can overcome as well. Depression gets more than one episode. Anxiety gets four. On discouragement, the hosts argue that staying focused on one's duties is what keeps a setback from sliding into depression. On anxiety, they read Matthew chapter six on worry about a tomorrow no one can be sure of, then suggest working through a series of concrete questions so that a listener lives in present reality rather than in the what-ifs. Joseph, who spent thirteen years in prison for doing the right thing, and Daniel, a slave, appear as examples of painful pasts that led somewhere better. The teaching reaches beyond the Bible too. The Youngs cite medical sources, remember a godly pediatrician who helped their family find practical answers, and criticize television and YouTube ads that present medication as the fix for hard emotions, comparing them to alcohol commercials. They expect pushback, and in one closing they ask listeners to hear them out and pray before firing off a disagreeing email. Question episodes run alongside the series. The hosts called one March stretch their March madness, joking that the questions themselves were not mad, and in it they answered a batch of listener questions before spending two weeks on miscarriage and the loss of children. 'Is Birth Control Right or Wrong?' closed out that month. The hosts flag it for parents who may want children out of earshot and bring research on how religious traditions and Americans view the question. The church calendar shows up as well: one anxiety episode falls in Easter week, and the hosts urge families to read the Easter stories with their children. They point listeners to their archive for issues such as broken marriages, blended families, raising teenagers, discipline and discipleship, and they announce a coming series on technology in the family, promised as simple and practical. Closings return again and again to the same charge: whatever else you do, serve the Lord with gladness. The show is a Bax 5 Media production.