07: The Collapse of Family Values & How to Rebuild Your Home on God
Meet at the Well with Lauren & Justin Emerick
Release Date: 11/19/2025
11: Why Gentle Parenting Is Failing Our Kids | Raising Children With Discipline, Discernment, and Christ
Meet at the Well with Lauren & Justin Emerick
Parenting is not complicated, but it is intentional. And if we don’t intentionally form our children, the world will. In this powerful episode of Meet at the Well, Justin and Lauren have an honest conversation about parenting—what’s working, what’s failing, and why so many modern approaches are leaving children anxious, entitled, and spiritually unanchored. They talk openly about why gentle parenting feels deeply unbiblical, how culture has centered children’s feelings instead of building emotional resiliency, and what it actually means to train up a child in the way...
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10: Building a Strong Marriage and Family Legacy with Gino & Julia Barbaro
Meet at the Well with Lauren & Justin Emerick
In Episode 10 of Meet at the Well, we sit down with Gino Barbaro and Julia Barbaro for an honest, grounded conversation about marriage, money, faith, and family legacy. Married for 27 years and parents of six, Gino and Julia share openly about delayed commitment, learning how to communicate through conflict, healing money tension, and building a life rooted in faith rather than fear or performance. This episode explores what actually strengthens marriages over time—and why covenant, not control, is what allows relationships to blossom. We talk about how childhood experiences...
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09: Trusting God When Nothing Is Moving
Meet at the Well with Lauren & Justin Emerick
What do you do when you’re praying, but nothing seems to be happening? In this potent episode of Meet at the Well, Justin and Lauren talk candidly about waiting seasons—the kind that test your faith, your marriage, and your ability to trust God when His answers feel delayed. They share a real conversation about longing for more children, watching others receive what you’re praying for, and learning how to stay grounded when emotions, comparison, and fear try to take over. This episode explores what it actually means to trust God in the silence—not through...
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08: Faith, Fatherhood & Marriage: What It Means to Be a Christ-Led Man
Meet at the Well with Lauren & Justin Emerick
In this honest and heart-filled episode, Lauren and Justin sit down for a conversation for the men—about what it really means to be a Christ-led husband, father, and leader in today’s world. They open up about their own marriage, fatherhood, and faith journey—from learning how to lead and be led, to navigating seasons when one partner feels further ahead spiritually than the other. Together, they explore real questions like: 💧Can a man be a good husband and father without being Christ-led? 💧How can wives support their husbands’ faith without nagging or control?...
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07: The Collapse of Family Values & How to Rebuild Your Home on God
Meet at the Well with Lauren & Justin Emerick
In today’s episode, Justin and Lauren sit down for one of the most needed conversations of our generation—a raw, honest look at the spiritual and cultural war being waged against marriage, motherhood, and the family. Everywhere you look, culture is telling women to run from the home, men to numb out, couples to separate, and families to fall apart. And we’re watching the fruit of it in real time: loneliness, depression, exhaustion, and homes without order. This episode is a call to come back. Back to the true covenant of marriage. Back to the design God laid out....
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06: Spiritual Warfare in Marriage (Part 2): Putting on the Full Armor of God
Meet at the Well with Lauren & Justin Emerick
In this potent continuation of last week’s episode, Justin and Lauren go even deeper into what spiritual warfare looks like inside marriage, and how subtle “open doors” give the enemy access to the home, heart, and legacy God is building. They unpack how unhealed wounds, past relationships, and distorted beliefs about men and women can create entry points for attack—and what it means to close those doors through prayer, repentance, and the covering of Christ. This powerful episode dives into: 💧 How the enemy gains access through unhealed trauma, bitterness, and false...
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05: Spiritual Warfare in Marriage (Part 1): How the Enemy Attacks Families, & How to Stand in Authority Through Christ
Meet at the Well with Lauren & Justin Emerick
In this powerful two-part series, Justin and Lauren open up about what it really looks like to face spiritual warfare inside a marriage, and how to recognize when the enemy is trying to divide, distract, or distort what God has joined together. Justin shares a deeply personal story of recently walking through a week filled with anxiety, panic attacks, and unexpected chaos; how he came face-to-face with unseen battles in his mind; and how prayer, discernment, and the authority of Jesus broke the spiral. Lauren and Justin brings biblical and practical perspective on: 💧How the...
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03. God’s Order for Marriage (and Why It Still Works)
Meet at the Well with Lauren & Justin Emerick
“Headship without love is tyranny. Submission without love is slavery. True biblical leadership is holy, weighty, and marked by empathy and honor.” In this raw and powerful conversation, Lauren and Justin dive deep into God’s divine design for marriage, and why His order still works today. They open up about the cultural confusion around submission, leadership, and gender roles, sharing real-life stories from their own marriage, parenting, and walk with God. From the backseat-driving analogy that exposes control dynamics to scripture-based truth from Ephesians 5 and Genesis...
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04: Why New Age Can’t Replace Jesus
Meet at the Well with Lauren & Justin Emerick
In this episode of Meet at the Well, Lauren and Justin dive deep into one of the biggest deceptions in modern spirituality—the idea that you can find “light” apart from Jesus. Lauren shares her personal experience of being deeply involved in New Age practices, from manifestation and moon rituals to “healing” work, and how it all promised freedom but led her deeper into confusion, exhaustion, and darkness. What Lauren and Justin discovered when they surrendered to Jesus was this: The New Age offers false light that constantly requires performance and striving The...
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02: Marriage as Ministry: How God Redefined Our Roles as Husband and Wife
Meet at the Well with Lauren & Justin Emerick
In this episode of Meet at the Well, Lauren and Justin dive into one of the most misunderstood topics in marriage—God’s divine order and what it means to work together as husband and wife. They open up about how culture teaches independence, self-focus, and “equality” without order, and how that mindset nearly destroyed their connection. Through honest conversation and biblical truth, they share how letting God redefine their marriage turned it into ministry. In this episode, Lauren and Justin dive into: Why cultural narratives around independence and feminism can...
info_outlineIn today’s episode, Justin and Lauren sit down for one of the most needed conversations of our generation—a raw, honest look at the spiritual and cultural war being waged against marriage, motherhood, and the family.
Everywhere you look, culture is telling women to run from the home, men to numb out, couples to separate, and families to fall apart. And we’re watching the fruit of it in real time: loneliness, depression, exhaustion, and homes without order.
This episode is a call to come back.
Back to the true covenant of marriage.
Back to the design God laid out.
Back to the roles that protect, strengthen, and sanctify a family.
Back to the ground where men can lead and women can flourish — not in competition, but in unity.
They talk about:
💧Why motherhood and fatherhood are being openly mocked in modern culture
💧How feminism, Hollywood, and “self-first” ideology have shaped this generation
💧Why men are checking out, and the real spiritual war behind it
💧Women’s exhaustion and the unseen weight they carry
💧The difference between covenant and convenience
💧How Satan targets the home—and what opens the doors for him to enter
💧The power of repentance, rebuilding, and spiritual leadership
💧Why couples need church, community, and holiness now more than ever
This isn’t a light conversation, and it’s not meant to be.
Marriage is under attack. Families are under attack. And the enemy is not subtle about it.
But God’s design hasn’t changed from the very beginning.
And when a man and woman return to that order, healing begins, unity returns, and the home becomes a place of strength, not warfare.
If you’re a woman desiring a biblical marriage, a man wanting to lead, or a couple trying to break generational patterns and raise a family that honors God—this episode will speak life into you.
Pull up a chair, take a breath, and meet us at the well.
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