Placed For A Purpose

By: Chris and Elizabeth McKinney
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  • We want to love our neighbors, but we’re busy and sometimes don’t know where to start. In each episode, we’ll keep neighboring on your mind by encouraging you with simple ways to connect with those next door. Because your address is not an accident, and neither is your neighbor’s.
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Episodes
  • Loving Your Little Neighbors

    Loving Your Little Neighbors
    May 6 2025
    In this episode, we dive into what it looks like to love our littlest neighbors—kids! Whether they live under your roof, next door, or pop by for snacks and sidewalk chalk, we explore how our view of children shapes the way we engage them. Kristen Jeffries, mom of four and the creative arts co-director for Crossing Kids, joins us in-studio to help us push back against some of the negative cultural narratives surrounding kids—that they’re inconvenient, messy, or burdensome—and instead adopt Jesus’ view of children as valuable, curious, and deeply worthy of love. We talk about how kids aren’t just “future adults,” but full image-bearers right now, and why it matters that we slow down to see and know them. Kristen shares stories of how kids have influenced entire families through simple faith and how neighbors (like Mr. Kevin) have become like family through everyday kindness. We also get practical: what boundaries help kids navigate the neighborhood safely? How can families engage their own kids in loving others missionally? What does it look like to live out your faith in front of the kids next door without being pushy? From praying at dinner with a neighbor friend to picking up sticks after a storm, this episode offers encouragement and tangible ways to love the little ones among us in ways that honor their personhood, reflect God’s heart, and maybe even spark deeper relationships in your neighborhood. Good Pictures Bad Pictures: Porn-Proofing Today's Young Kids God Made All of Me: A Book to Help Children Protect Their Bodies (God Made Me) CONNECT ON SOCIALS: Instagram TELL US WHAT YOU THINK: Follow this link to share your neighboring stories with us or tell us your thoughts on today's episode.
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    47 mins
  • Loving Your Neighbor With Different Parenting Styles

    Loving Your Neighbor With Different Parenting Styles
    Apr 29 2025
    In this episode of our Loving Your [Fill-in-the-Blank] Neighbor series, we’re diving into something many of us face daily but rarely talk about—how to love your neighbor with a different parenting style. From sleep training battles to snack-time politics, from screen-time boundaries to trampoline supervision, this episode is for anyone trying to raise kids in community while navigating differing values, opinions, and convictions. We reflect on our early parenting years and the pressure they felt to pick “God’s way” of parenting—only to realize that many of these decisions fall more in the realm of opinions than convictions. We'll walk through a helpful framework (convictions, persuasions, opinions) and unpack how parenting styles like authoritarian, permissive, free-range, helicopter, and gentle parenting often stir up strong feelings—but don’t need to divide us. CONNECT ON SOCIALS: Instagram TELL US WHAT YOU THINK: Follow this link to share your neighboring stories with us or tell us your thoughts on today's episode.
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    40 mins
  • Loving Your Christian Nationalist Neighbor

    Loving Your Christian Nationalist Neighbor
    Apr 22 2025
    In this continuation of our Loving Your [Fill-in-the-Blank] Neighbor series, we sit down with pastor and author Caleb Campbell to talk about what it means to love our Christian nationalist neighbors. Caleb’s book, Disarming Leviathan: Loving Your Christian Nationalist Neighbor, invites us to move beyond fear and frustration and instead adopt the posture rooted in empathy, curiosity, and the way of Jesus. We unpack the meaning of Christian nationalism, explore how it functions as political ideology, tribal identity, and spiritual idolatry, and reflect on the cultural forces that have fueled its rise. Caleb shares deeply personal stories from his own ministry, including the painful losses, surprising encounters, and moments of conviction that led him from combativeness to compassion. Whether you’re feeling confused, angry, or just overwhelmed by what you're seeing in churches and communities, this conversation offers clarity and hope. Disarming Leviathan: Loving Your Christian Nationalist Neighbor CONNECT ON SOCIALS: Instagram TELL US WHAT YOU THINK: Follow this link to share your neighboring stories with us or tell us your thoughts on today's episode.
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    47 mins

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