Truth.Love.Parent.

152 episodes listed below

Listen to the show on

Scripture-first parenting for Christian families.

The gist

Truth.Love.Parent. brings Christian parents into close, Scripture-driven teaching on family discipleship. Recent episodes work through 1 John with direct application to love, sin, confrontation, discernment, obedience, and spiritual confidence at home.

PRESS PLAY

Find your next episode

All episodes

About Truth.Love.Parent.

Truth.Love.Parent. is a Christian parenting show that frames family life as discipleship under biblical authority. recent episodes shows a long devotional arc through 1 John, with episodes treating the biblical family through love, discernment, obedience, confidence, conviction, and repentance. It is not casual advice dressed in religious language. The teaching repeatedly asks whether family conduct actually matches the claims people make about God, love, and spiritual maturity. A.M. Brewster speaks in a clear, organized teaching mode, often building arguments through numbered points and close attention to biblical passages. The show can be blunt. It names sin, hatred, false teaching, self-centered motives, and empty words as real family problems rather than vague relational friction. That directness is balanced by a steady emphasis on growth, grace, confidence, joy, peace, gratitude, and the possibility of slow but real change. Recent episodes also look ahead to topics such as parental woes, confrontation done rightly, advice worth giving, and helping children see God working. The result is a show less interested in parenting hacks than in spiritual formation inside ordinary family relationships. Its recurring concern is alignment: words with conduct, love with obedience, counsel with Scripture, and family goals with worship. The show also makes room for practical supports such as notes, transcripts, life work, related resources, and individual or family counsel. Those supports matter because the episodes often ask for application beyond listening. Truth.Love.Parent. is best understood as structured biblical instruction for Christian homes that want parenting language, correction, and encouragement to come from Scripture. It has a serious tone, but not a detached one. The voice is personal enough to acknowledge difficulty and imperfection while still pressing for repentance and change. The distinctive value is its refusal to separate parenting from theology. In this show, family conflict, love, discipline, discernment, and counsel all become questions about worship and obedience before God.

Made for: Suits a listener who wants Christian parenting guidance anchored in biblical teaching and direct spiritual application. It fits parents and families willing to examine motives, speech, obedience, love, and repentance through Scripture.

What sets it apart: Truth.Love.Parent. stands apart by treating parenting as family discipleship before it treats it as technique. Recent episodes stay close to 1 John and carry that study into concrete questions about confrontation, discernment, counsel, love, and change at home.

In their own words

Parenting isn’t about us. In fact, parenting isn’t even about our kids. Parenting is just one way Christian dads and moms are to worship God. So welcome to the Truth.Love.Parent. podcast where we train moms and dads to give God the preeminence in their parenting.

Why you'd press play

A family Bible study with life work: your answers have to survive the week at home.

Press play if you want

  • to work through 1 John with your family instead of dipping into a verse and calling it done
  • to consider what love asks of you when a relative needs help beyond kind words
Read the full recommendation in PlayNext →
biblical family discipleship1 John devotional teachinglove and obediencediscernment and false teachingrepentance and confessionconfrontation in familiesparental counselspiritual maturity

Talks about

Best episodes of Truth.Love.Parent.

Short reviews from the PlayNext desk, based on the episodes we processed.

TLP 626: Biblical Families, Part 14 | the ConfidenceApr 7, 2026

A steady closing devotional on worship, slow growth, prayer, and family discipleship.

This closing devotional through 1 John places parental confidence inside a larger Christian frame: every family worships something, and parenting becomes one way Christian mothers and fathers worship God.

TLP 625: Biblical Families, Part 13 | the ConsummationMar 31, 2026

A firm devotional on obedience, faith, and family worship.

Truth.Love.Parent.'s second-to-last First John family devotional frames family maturity as worship, shown in glad submission to God's commands.

TLP 624: Biblical Families, Part 12 | the StingMar 24, 2026

A firm devotional on conviction, repentance, and Christian parenting in daily life.

The episode frames the sting as a searching test of Christian parenting: whether claims of love for God can hold up when daily sin, anger, and disobedience enter the home.

TLP 623: Biblical Families, Part 11 | the Purpose of LoveMar 17, 2026

Family love is framed as worship, with its purpose returning to God.

Truth.Love.Parent. frames family love as ordered toward one final end: God. Peace, joy, happiness, and maturity are treated as fruits of that aim rather than the aim itself.

TLP 622: Biblical Families, Part 10 | the Necessity of DiscernmentMar 10, 2026

A Christian parenting devotional about testing spiritual claims against the Bible.

This single-episode review presents biblical family life as a question of spiritual discernment. The host treats parenting as an act of worship for Christian mothers and fathers, then defines a biblical family through shared born-again belief.

Podcasts like Truth.Love.Parent.

  • Word MattersBrandon Smith and Trevin Wax

    Two Bible translators unpack Scripture's hardest passages, from Revelation's 666 to the Witch of Endor.

  • The Heart

    Scripture, surrender and faith put into practice.

  • BridgewaterBridgewater Sydney Australia

    Faith tested in everyday acts of love.

  • Outreach ChurchOutreach Church

    Urgent preaching for lived-out faith.

  • Coast Hills ChurchCoast Hills Church

    Plainspoken Bible teaching for real obedience.

  • Misioneros Urbanos de JesucristoMisioneros Urbanos de Jesucristo

    Gospel meditation for surrender.

Episodes

  1. 1

    TLP 587: Parenting Isn't Your Purpose

    ·22m
  2. 2

    TLP 625: Biblical Families, Part 13 | the Consummation

    ·18m
  3. 3

    TLP 624: Biblical Families, Part 12 | the Sting

    ·22m
  4. 4

    TLP 623: Biblical Families, Part 11 | the Purpose of Love

    ·21m
  5. 5

    TLP 622: Biblical Families, Part 10 | the Necessity of Discernment

    ·21m
  6. 6

    TLP 621: Biblical Families, Part 9 | the Consequences of Love

    ·25m
  7. 7

    TLP 620: Biblical Families, Part 8 | the Battle

    ·24m
  8. 8

    TLP 619: Biblical Families, Part 7 | the Hope

    ·20m
  9. 9

    TLP 618: Biblical Families, Part 6 | the Shelter

    ·21m
  10. 10

    TLP 617: Biblical Families, Part 5 | the Enemy

    ·24m
  11. 11

    TLP 616: Biblical Families, Part 4 | the Preeminence of Love and Hate

    ·21m
  12. 12

    TLP 615: Biblical Families, Part 3 | the Continuation

    ·25m
  13. 13

    TLP 614: Biblical Families, Part 2 | the Start

    ·24m
  14. 14

    TLP 613: Biblical Families, Part 1 | the Groundwork

    ·18m
  15. 15

    TLP 612: What’s Coming in Season 34!

    ·9m
  16. 16

    TLP 611: How to Biblically Help Your Children Find a Spouse

    ·22m
  17. 17

    TLP 610: Good Parents Eat the Bible

    ·16m
  18. 18

    TLP 609: Equipping Our Children to Shame Us

    ·21m
  19. 19

    TLP 608: Change Demands Death

    ·18m
  20. 20

    TLP 607: What Would Change in Your Home?

    ·26m
  21. 21

    TLP 606: How Resolving One Problem Needs to Reveal Others

    ·21m
  22. 22

    TLP 605: Stop Your Kids from Pitting You against Your Spouse

    ·15m
  23. 23

    TLP 604: How You Describe Your Kids Determines How You Parent Them

    ·16m
  24. 24

    TLP 603: Where Do Your Kids Get Their Answers?

    ·22m
  25. 25

    TLP 602: Teach Your Children to Flee

    ·23m
  26. 26

    TLP 601: Your Children’s Behavior is More Important than You Realize

    ·23m
  27. 27

    TLP 600: Emotional Blackmail

    ·17m
  28. 28

    TLP 599: What’s Coming in Season 33!

    ·6m
  29. 29

    TLP 597: It’s Really Hard to Push a Rope

    ·15m
  30. 30

    TLP 596: What Does Having a Prodigal Say about Your Parenting?

    ·19m
  31. 31

    TLP 595: Where Do You Aim the Arrow?

    ·24m
  32. 32

    TLP 594: Escapism versus Reflection

    ·21m
  33. 33

    TLP 593: Discipline & the Gospel

    ·25m
  34. 34

    TLP 592: The Difference between Discipline & Punishment

    ·27m
  35. 35

    TLP 591: Show & Tell Parenting

    ·19m
  36. 36

    TLP 590: Your Children & Children’s Church

    ·26m
  37. 37

    TLP 589: Why Didn’t Your Child Do What You Asked?

    ·22m
  38. 38

    TLP 588: Should I Give My Child an Allowance?

    ·14m
  39. 39

    TLP 626: Biblical Families, Part 14 | the Confidence

    ·25m
  40. 40

    TLP 586: What’s Coming in Season 32!

    ·7m
  41. 41

    TLP 585: How Your Children May Respond to Sin, Part 11 | Repentance

    ·15m
  42. 42

    TLP 584: How Your Children May Respond to Sin, Part 10 | Humility

    ·16m
  43. 43

    TLP 583: How Your Children Respond to Sin, Part 9 | Blame

    ·19m
  44. 44

    TLP 581: How Your Children Respond to Sin, Part 7 | Fear

    ·17m
  45. 45

    TLP 582: How Your Children Respond to Sin, Part 8 | Anger

    ·22m
  46. 46

    TLP 580: How Your Children Respond to Sin, Part 6 | Delusion

    ·16m
  47. 47

    TLP 579: How Your Children Respond to Sin, Part 5 | Callousness

    ·19m
  48. 48

    TLP 578: How Your Children Respond to Sin, Part 4 | Conviction

    ·16m
  49. 49

    TLP 577: How Your Children Respond to Sin, Part 3 | Knowledge

    ·22m
  50. 50

    TLP 576: How Your Children Respond to Sin, Part 2 | Temptation

    ·19m
  51. 51

    TLP 575: How Your Children Respond to Sin, Part 1 | The Nature of Sin

    ·22m
  52. 52

    TLP 574: What’s Coming in Season 31!

    ·9m
  53. 53

    TLP 573: Parenting Sorrowing Children, Part 6 | Deadly Sorrow

    ·21m
  54. 54

    TLP 572: Parenting Sorrowing Children, Part 5 | Discipleship Sorrow

    ·21m
  55. 55

    TLP 570: Parenting Sorrowing Children, Part 3 | Discontented Sorrow

    ·18m
  56. 56

    TLP 567: Parenting Your Kids to Adulthood, Part 7 | The Transition

    ·32m
  57. 57

    TLP 566: Parenting Your Kids to Adulthood, Part 6 | The Ceremony

    ·22m
  58. 58

    TLP 565: Parenting Your Kids to Adulthood, Part 5 | The Community

    ·22m
  59. 59

    TLP 564: Parenting Your Kids to Adulthood, Part 4 | The Process

    ·23m
  60. 60

    TLP 563: Parenting Your Kids to Adulthood, Part 3 | The Expectations

    ·22m
  61. 61

    TLP 562: Parenting Your Kids to Adulthood, Part 2 | The Definition

    ·23m
  62. 62

    TLP 561: Parenting Your Kids to Adulthood, Part 1 | The Mindset

    ·30m
  63. 63

    TLP 560: What’s Coming in Season 30!

    ·8m
  64. 64

    TLP 559: Why a Regular College May Be Pointless, But a Christian College Isn’t

    ·17m
  65. 65

    TLP 558: How to Destroy the World with Your Children

    ·19m
  66. 66

    TLP 557: The Pitfalls of Merely Moral Parenting

    ·17m
  67. 67

    TLP 556: The Best Version of Your Kids

    ·19m
  68. 68

    TLP 555: The Truth and Lies of Developmental Stages

    ·31m
  69. 69

    TLP 554: Anti-Intellectualism and Your Children

    ·15m
  70. 70

    TLP 553: Do Your Kids Know What It Is to Think?

    ·20m
  71. 71

    TLP 552: Expectational Education, Part 5 | The Moment of AH!

    ·24m
  72. 72

    TLP 551: Expectational Education, Part 4 | The Individuality of Expectations

    ·28m
  73. 73

    TLP 550: Expectational Education, Part 3 | The Universality of Expectations

    ·20m
  74. 74

    TLP 549: Expectational Education, Part 2 | The Importance of Maturity

    ·20m
  75. 75

    TLP 548: Expectational Education, Part 1 | The Power of Expectations

    ·22m
  76. 76

    TLP 547: What’s Coming in Season 29

    ·5m
  77. 77

    TLP 546: Biblical Conflict Resolution, Part 12 | a case study in Philemon

    ·20m
  78. 78

    TLP 545: Biblical Conflict Resolution, Part 11 | speak biblically

    ·19m
  79. 79

    TLP 544: Biblical Conflict Resolution, Part 10 | speak kindly

    ·17m
  80. 80

    TLP 543: Biblical Conflict Resolution, Part 9 | speak wisely

    ·16m
  81. 81

    TLP 542: Biblical Conflict Resolution, Part 8 | speak personally

    ·13m
  82. 82

    TLP 541: Biblical Conflict Resolution, Part 7 | make time for time

    ·13m
  83. 83

    TLP 540: Biblical Conflict Resolution, Part 6 | make time for resolution

    ·13m
  84. 84

    TLP 539: Biblical Conflict Resolution, Part 5 | make time for potential conflict

    ·17m
  85. 85

    TLP 538: Biblical Conflict Resolution, Part 4 | prepare your retaliation

    ·24m
  86. 86

    TLP 537: Biblical Conflict Resolution, Part 3 | prepare your focus

    ·12m
  87. 87

    TLP 536: Biblical Conflict Resolution, Part 2 | prepare your reaction

    ·18m
  88. 88

    TLP 535: Biblical Conflict Resolution, Part 1 | prepare your worldview

    ·25m
  89. 89

    TLP 534: What’s Coming in Season 28

    ·5m
  90. 90

    TLP 533: Is Being a Parent Really Like Running a Marathon?

    ·16m
  91. 91

    TLP 532: Is Being a Parent Really Like Being a Gardener?

    ·15m
  92. 92

    TLP 531: Is Being a Parent Really Like Owning a Puppy?

    ·17m
  93. 93

    TLP 530: How to Know If You Need Help in Your Parenting

    ·21m
  94. 94

    TLP 529: The Dangers of Assumptive Communication

    ·13m
  95. 95

    TLP 528: If You Want to See Change in Your Family, You Absolutely Must . . . .

    ·31m
  96. 96

    TLP 527: What’s New with Truth.Love.Family.?

    ·10m
  97. 97

    Episode 626: TLP 626: Biblical Families, Part 14 | the Confidence

    ·25m
  98. 98

    Episode 625: TLP 625: Biblical Families, Part 13 | the Consummation

    ·18m
  99. 99

    TLP 568: Parenting Sorrowing Children, Part 1 | The Cause of Sorrow

    This episode introduces a series on parenting sorrowing children, focusing on the biblical cause of sorrow and how to help children navigate it for God's glory.

    ·25m
  100. 100

    TLP 571: Parenting Sorrowing Children, Part 4 | Divine Sorrow

    This episode introduces the concept of divine sorrow as a remedy for discontented sorrow in children, emphasizing that parenting is a form of worship.

    ·22m
  101. 101

    TLP 569: Parenting Sorrowing Children, Part 2 | Daily Sorrow

    A Christian parenting podcast episode discussing how to help children navigate sorrow biblically, emphasizing that parenting is an act of worshiping God.

    ·23m
  102. 102

    TLP 598: Your Child and Self-Esteem

    This episode explores the concept of self-esteem in children from a Christian parenting perspective, critiquing secular definitions and emphasizing parenting as an act of worship.

    ·21m
  103. 103

    TLP 627: What’s Coming in Season 35!

    Host A.M.

    Apr 14, 2026·4m
  104. 104

    TLP 626: Biblical Families, Part 14 | the Confidence

    Truth Love Parent closes its 1 John 5:13-21 devotional by arguing that biblical families can know eternal life, pray within God's will, and intervene for brothers and sisters who are sinning.

    Apr 7, 2026·25m·1 clip
  105. 105

    TLP 625: Biblical Families, Part 13 | the Consummation

    Truth.Love.Parent.

    Mar 31, 2026·18m·1 clip
  106. 106

    TLP 624: Biblical Families, Part 12 | the Sting

    Truth.Love.Parent.

    Mar 24, 2026·22m·1 clip
  107. 107

    TLP 623: Biblical Families, Part 11 | the Purpose of Love

    Truth.Love.Parent.

    Mar 17, 2026·21m·1 clip
  108. 108

    TLP 622: Biblical Families, Part 10 | the Necessity of Discernment

    Hidden gem

    TLP 622, "Biblical Families, Part 10 | the Necessity of Discernment," opens with Aaron Brewster asking whether three readers can all be right about the same passages in 1 John 4:1-6.

    Mar 10, 2026·21m·1 clip
  109. 109

    TLP 621: Biblical Families, Part 9 | the Consequences of Love

    A.M.

    Mar 3, 2026·25m·1 clip
  110. 110

    TLP 620: Biblical Families, Part 8 | the Battle

    Truth.Love.Parent.

    Feb 24, 2026·24m·1 clip
  111. 111

    TLP 619: Biblical Families, Part 7 | the Hope

    Feb 17, 2026·20m
  112. 112

    TLP 618: Biblical Families, Part 6 | the Shelter

    Truth.Love.Parent.

    Feb 10, 2026·21m·1 clip
  113. 113

    TLP 617: Biblical Families, Part 5 | the Enemy

    Truth.Love.Parent.

    Feb 3, 2026·24m·1 clip
  114. 114

    TLP 616: Biblical Families, Part 4 | the Preeminence of Love and Hate

    Hidden gem

    Truth.Love.Parent.

    Jan 27, 2026·21m·1 clip
  115. 115

    TLP 615: Biblical Families, Part 3 | the Continuation

    Hidden gem

    Truth.Love.Parent.

    Jan 20, 2026·25m·1 clip
  116. 116

    TLP 614: Biblical Families, Part 2 | the Start

    Truth.Love.Parent.

    Jan 13, 2026·24m·1 clip
  117. 117

    TLP 613: Biblical Families, Part 1 | the Groundwork

    Jan 6, 2026·18m
  118. 118

    TLP 612: What’s Coming in Season 34!

    Dec 30, 2025·9m
  119. 119

    TLP 611: How to Biblically Help Your Children Find a Spouse

    Truth.Love.Parent.

    Dec 23, 2025·22m·1 clip
  120. 120

    TLP 610: Good Parents Eat the Bible

    Dec 16, 2025·16m
  121. 121

    TLP 609: Equipping Our Children to Shame Us

    Dec 9, 2025·21m
  122. 122

    TLP 608: Change Demands Death

    Dec 2, 2025·18m
  123. 123

    TLP 607: What Would Change in Your Home?

    Nov 25, 2025·26m
  124. 124

    TLP 606: How Resolving One Problem Needs to Reveal Others

    Nov 18, 2025·21m
  125. 125

    TLP 605: Stop Your Kids from Pitting You against Your Spouse

    Nov 11, 2025·15m
  126. 126

    TLP 604: How You Describe Your Kids Determines How You Parent Them

    Nov 4, 2025·16m
  127. 127

    TLP 603: Where Do Your Kids Get Their Answers?

    Oct 28, 2025·22m
  128. 128

    TLP 602: Teach Your Children to Flee

    Oct 21, 2025·23m
  129. 129

    TLP 601: Your Children’s Behavior is More Important than You Realize

    Oct 14, 2025·23m
  130. 130

    TLP 600: Emotional Blackmail

    Oct 7, 2025·17m
  131. 131

    TLP 599: What’s Coming in Season 33!

    Sep 30, 2025·6m
  132. 132

    TLP 598: Your Child and Self-Esteem

    Sep 19, 2025·21m
  133. 133

    TLP 597: It’s Really Hard to Push a Rope

    Sep 16, 2025·15m
  134. 134

    TLP 596: What Does Having a Prodigal Say about Your Parenting?

    Sep 9, 2025·19m
  135. 135

    TLP 595: Where Do You Aim the Arrow?

    Sep 2, 2025·24m
  136. 136

    TLP 594: Escapism versus Reflection

    Aug 26, 2025·21m
  137. 137

    TLP 593: Discipline & the Gospel

    Aug 19, 2025·25m
  138. 138

    TLP 592: The Difference between Discipline & Punishment

    Aug 12, 2025·27m
  139. 139

    TLP 591: Show & Tell Parenting

    Aug 5, 2025·19m
  140. 140

    TLP 590: Your Children & Children’s Church

    Jul 29, 2025·26m
  141. 141

    TLP 589: Why Didn’t Your Child Do What You Asked?

    Jul 22, 2025·22m
  142. 142

    TLP 588: Should I Give My Child an Allowance?

    Jul 15, 2025·14m
  143. 143

    TLP 587: Parenting Isn't Your Purpose

    Jul 8, 2025·22m
  144. 144

    TLP 586: What’s Coming in Season 32!

    Jul 1, 2025·7m
  145. 145

    TLP 585: How Your Children May Respond to Sin, Part 11 | Repentance

    Jun 24, 2025·15m
  146. 146

    TLP 584: How Your Children May Respond to Sin, Part 10 | Humility

    Jun 17, 2025·16m
  147. 147

    TLP 583: How Your Children Respond to Sin, Part 9 | Blame

    Jun 10, 2025·19m
  148. 148

    TLP 582: How Your Children Respond to Sin, Part 8 | Anger

    Jun 3, 2025·22m
  149. 149

    TLP 581: How Your Children Respond to Sin, Part 7 | Fear

    Jun 3, 2025·17m
  150. 150

    TLP 580: How Your Children Respond to Sin, Part 6 | Delusion

    May 20, 2025·16m
  151. 151

    TLP 579: How Your Children Respond to Sin, Part 5 | Callousness

    May 13, 2025·19m
  152. 152

    TLP 578: How Your Children Respond to Sin, Part 4 | Conviction

    May 6, 2025·16m