Restore The Glory Podcast

This week, Jake and Bob talk about the relationship between parents and children and what it means to honor one another while also being honest about the wounds we've experienced. They explore the dignity of parenthood, the responsibility parents have to create a loving and secure home, and their call to model honor by honoring their children first. They also discuss the honor our parents deserve, how to honor someone who has wounded us, and how to create healthy boundaries in family relationships.
 
Key Points:
Many times, in families, we must learn how to honor others while remaining honest about the ways they have wounded us.
Parents are a child's first representatives of God. But parents have their own wounds and sin and have the capacity to distort a child's understanding of God. 
While children are called to honor their parents, parents are not meant to occupy the place that belongs to God alone.
Getting married involves a healthy separation from one's parents so that a new family can be established.
The honor owed to parents is connected to their dignity and role, even when they do not always live according to the dignity of that role.
Understanding the stories and wounds of both parents and children helps us to form healthier relationships with family members.
A child's wounds do not excuse disrespect, just as a parent's wounds do not excuse harmful behavior.
Forgiveness is essential to breaking the cycle in which parents and children continually wound one another.
Forgiveness does not mean returning to an unsafe relationship or abandoning the boundaries necessary to protect one's dignity and family.
Healthy boundaries can create enough space for love to remain without allowing unhealthy attachment or enmeshment to continue.
The amount of distance necessary in a relationship can change as circumstances, maturity, trust, and safety change.
Parents have a responsibility to pursue their own holiness and healing rather than expecting their children to compensate for their wounds.
Children are also called to examine their own hearts, repent of disrespect, and take responsibility for the ways they have wounded their parents.
 
Resources:
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Chapters:
00:00 Introduction
03:38 What Does the Church Say About Family Wounds?
11:15 What Does it Mean to Honor One Another?
19:35 Recognizing Our Own Parent's Imperfections
26:23 Forgiveness within Families
32:48 The Responsibility of Parents
38:01 The Responsibility of Children
42:36 Discernment in Setting Boundaries
 
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This week, Jake and Bob welcome John Edwards (Just a Guy in the Pew) back to the show to continue his story of conversion and the long journey of healing that followed. John opens up about what happened after his powerful encounter with Christ in a jail cell, including the hard work of rebuilding trust with his wife and children, learning to be vulnerable, and surrendering control. He also talks about the struggle to reconcile with himself, especially the self-hatred and false identities that can remain even after receiving forgiveness from God and others. Through his story, John reminds us that conversion and healing is not a one-time event, but an ongoing invitation to allow Christ to transform every part of our lives. 
 
Key Points:
Radical conversion does not instantly repair the relationships damaged over years of destructive behavior.
Simply stopping addictive behaviors is many times not enough for complete healing. This is because deeper wounds like selfishness and self-focus also need to be healed.
Life is not ultimately about ourselves but about loving and serving the people God had entrusted to us.
Self-reliance, control, and selfishness are not merely struggles unique to addicts but can quietly affect the lives of many people.
Vulnerability is not weakness but an act of courage that allows a person to acknowledge the truth about himself and receive help.
Reconciliation reveals God not as an angry judge waiting to punish us but as a loving Father who desires our good and wants to walk with us.
The reconciliation of our relationships requires us to examine our own responsibility rather than waiting for other people to change.
Reconciling with ourselves requires confronting the lies that attack our identity and continually renewing our minds with the truth of who God says we are.
Self-forgiveness is essential because refusing to receive God's forgiveness for ourselves can keep us bound to the identity of our past.


Resources:
Power Made Perfect by John Edwards
Just a Guy in The Pew Website
Redeemed Men's Retreat with the JPII Healing Center
Episode 149: Healing in Men (Part 1) w/ John Edwards

 
Chapters:
00:00 Introduction
02:10 John's Unmasking
07:18 The One Priest Who Changed His Life
12:06 From Self-Focus to Self-Gift
19:41 The Courage to Become Vulnerable
26:20 Reconciliation with God
33:51 Reconciling with Yourself
37:28 Breaking the Voice of Self Hatred
49:11 The Long Road to Rebuilding Trust
57:30 Finding Freedom from Addiction
 
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This week, Jake and Bob discuss the subtle ways the enemy gains influence in our lives through the interpretations, judgements, and conclusions we draw in the ordinary moments of everyday life. They explore how these footholds can gradually become strongholds, why fear and shame often lie beneath our attempts to protect ourselves, and how distorted images of God shape the way we see the world. No matter where you may find footholds in your life, there is hope. Through simple acts of trust each day, we can learn to let God become our true stronghold. 
 
Key Points:
The enemy often gains influence through subtle interpretations in everyday life rather than obvious temptations.
Strongholds are built through repeated agreements with lies, judgments, and false beliefs.
Fear frequently lies underneath anger and drives many of our defensive reactions.
Footholds become believable because they attach themselves to existing wounds and vulnerabilities.
Pride convinces us that we fully understand another person's motives or God's actions.
A lack of peace and the absence of the fruits of the Spirit can reveal areas of bondage.
Confession is a powerful place to bring our agreements with lies and receive grace.
Renouncing lies and proclaiming truth is a simple but effective daily practice to loosen the bonds of footholds.
Lasting freedom grows through repeated, small acts of trust that allow God to become our true stronghold.
 
Resources:
Healing Prayers and Renunciations Booklet
 
Chapters:
00:00 Introduction
00:41 How the Enemy Gains A Foothold 
10:07 Anger, Fear and Speaking Truth
14:45 Fear: Emotion vs Wound
24:44 Recognizing Strongholds in Daily Life
33:28 Breaking Agreements and Experiencing Freedom
42:35 The Power of Small Acts of Trust
 
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This week, Jake and Bob are joined by Andrew Laubacher, the Executive Director of Humanality, to explore how our digital world is reshaping our attention, attachments, and relationships. After stepping away from social media and smart phones to overcome addiction, Andrew realized that healing sometimes requires more than better habits, fasting, or more prayer—it requires recovering the way God created us to live and relate. Together, they discuss the false intimacy of online community, the loneliness epidemic, and why technology is never as neutral as we assume. Andrew also shares practical steps you can begin today to live intentionally with technology.
 
Key Points:
Modern technology offers a false intimacy while leaving us increasingly isolated, lonely, and craving real in-person community.
Human beings are biologically designed for face-to-face connection, not constant digital interaction.
Technology is not neutral because every platform is intentionally designed to keep us using it.
AI offers remarkable benefits but also presents significant dangers when it replaces authentic human relationships.
Healing requires real encounter, attention, and attachment that technology can never fully provide.
Many of today's mental health struggles exist alongside a broader crisis of addiction and overstimulation.
Constant digital stimulation weakens our capacity for focus, presence, contemplation, and prayer. It also affects sleep, physical health, eyesight, and overall well-being.
Living intentionally with technology allows people to recover creativity, purpose, authentic relationships, and a deeper encounter with God.
 
Resources:
Humanality
 
Chapters:
00:00 Introduction
06:49 How Technology Diminishes our Humanity
14:04 Artificial Community and False Intimacy
21:03 Can AI Heal Us?
31:10 The Tension of Virtual Communication
36:54 Attention, Attachment, and Addiction
52:33 Reclaiming Your Attention
57:07 Resources and Encouragement
 
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This week, Jake and Bob conclude their series on confession with Fr. John Horn and explore the root system behind two deadly sins: sloth (acedia) and lust. Through personal examples, they uncover the deeper attitudes, fears, and wounds that drive these struggles and keep us from intimacy with God. They also discuss how self- reliance, discouragement, and isolation can distort our desires and lead us away from the freedom God offers us through the Sacrament of Reconciliation. 
 
Key Points:
Virtue grows when our desires are reordered toward God through love rather than fear.
Sloth, or acedia, is often misunderstood as just laziness. It can also manifest as overactivity, restlessness, and self-reliance.
Discouragement is frequently rooted in the belief that we must transform ourselves without God's help.
The remedy for acedia begins with surrendering control and accepting poverty of spirit.
Lust reflects a deeper attempt to satisfy desires apart from God.
Shame, hopelessness, and a lack of purpose often lie beneath struggles with lust.
Confession becomes more fruitful when we bring our underlying attitudes and beliefs rather than only our behaviors.
The Sacrament of Reconciliation restores communion with God, ourselves, the Church, and others.
Freedom grows as we learn to receive the Father's delight and stop holding our sins and weaknesses against ourselves.
 
Resources:
Institute for Priestly Formation
Confession Fourfold 


Chapters:
00:00 Introduction
02:26 The Goal is Not the Removal of Sin
10:57 What is Sloth (Acedia)?
18:40 Personal Examples of Acedia
27:19 Emotion is Not A Sin
38:15 What is Lust?
44:14 A Lack of Hope
65:45 Resources
 
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