The Carrie Abbott Show

Where do babies come from? This common question creates a great opportunity for parents. Authors Justin and Lindsey Holcomb bring us another fantastic book with powerful theology, practical applications, and a thoughtful approach to this big question! Who creates and then gives His creation the ability to reproduce with His help? This idea and so much more will inspire you!

Meta agrees to pay 18 billion in social media addiction settlements and make big changes to kids' access, time online, likes, beauty filters, and more. Will this be enough, and how did they get so much control over your kids' identity formation in the first place? On another scaffolding front, Log Cabin Republicans, advocates for LGBT, are dropping the "T"! We examine the reality check on their ideology. 2 big stories!

Counselor and author Tricia Thornton brings us her latest book, "Beyond Blessed Parenting." We highlight the 7 principles, how co-regulation works with others, and our childhood, our attachment style, and responses to life are addressed in this first conversation along with the key to silence and stillness for our brains. Intriguing! Tricia Thornton (https://www.triciathornton.com/)

Like any parenting style or method, there are pros and cons to each. Counselor Rob Jackson joins us to explain the negatives of certain methods and how intentional parenting can work well. Rob introduces some key concepts for individual parenting plans and gives all parents hope that we have what it takes!

Işık Abla brings us her powerful testimony—raised in Turkey, experiencing years of abuse in a death culture that led her to want to be a suicide bomber at the age of 12. After an arranged marriage and more trauma, she fled for her life to the US and encountered Christ in a miraculous way! Now she ministers to Muslims worldwide! This will inspire your faith! Share this with Muslim friends! Işık Abla Ministries (https://isikabla.com/)

Author Marci Ferrell joins us again to share how God transforms us in the ordinary tasks of homemaking and managing a home to be like Christ. She explains how serving others, starting with our family, literally is the Gospel on display. Women and men will be so encouraged by the reset that can happen when you embrace homemaking as ministry! Thankful Homemaker | Gospel-Driven Homemaker Encouragement (https://thankfulhomemaker.com/)

Enes Kanter Freedom and Royce White have announced plans to declare for the WNBA 2027 draft! We explain their reasoning, related to the possible inclusion of trans players. We tackle the ongoing drama in the WNBA, including Sophie Cunningham's courage, the backlash against teen girls attending a Seattle Storm game, and what is really at stake in this ongoing saga.

The Parent Center at the National Center on Sexual Exploitation is now launched and ready to help parents find answers and resources for all the difficult situations their kids face online, including taking pictures down, adult interaction, bullying, and much more. Layne Shill, Director of the Center, joins us with the details on how this new platform works to provide answers that are vetted by the best organizations. Parent Center (https://parentcenter.org/)

Dean Eric Smith, author, minister, and high-performance coach, is one of the nation's leading voices on the topic of forgiveness. Dean shares his own shocking story of experiencing murder in his family and the pain, heartache, and upheaval it brought. His journey to true forgiveness wasn't easy or simplistic. This first part of his story sets the stage for the miraculous.

Azure Standard started as a small farm distributing wheat to neighbors, and now they distribute 15,000 products nationwide, bringing whole, organic, non-GMO products to families. David Stelzer, CEO/Founder, joins us with the history, including being a very sick boy who became healthy when his family switched to whole foods. Azure Standard (https://www.azurestandard.com/)