What Do You Wanna Know? is an ask-anything podcast hosted by Pastor David and Venus Griffith, answering the questions people actually have about Jesus, faith, doubt, and life. No dodging hard topics. No surface-level answers. Just real conversation, biblical perspective, and space to wrestle with what it means to follow Jesus.
What happens the day your kid becomes an adult - and you don’t get to parent them anymore?
In the final installment of What Do You Want to Know?’s parenting series, Venus and Pastor David Martin sit down on his daughter's actual 18th birthday to tackle the question most Christian parents are quietly asking: now what? David shares the unexpected gratitude (not grief) of waking up to an adult daughter, the Malcolm Gladwell 10,000-hour reason he can finally call himself a parenting expert, and the eagle-and-the-eaglet picture that reframes the whole next decade.
This conversation covers everything from Pastor Jeff Harris’s gut-punch line (“if you do your job right, they’re supposed to leave”), to the healthy transition when your 18-year-old still lives in your house, to honest hypotheticals. Then they get real about meddling parents, the dad David counseled who hasn’t spoken to his daughter in 18 months, the guilt-trip mom who gets the same 20-minute lecture every call, why hurt always turns to anger, and the Prodigal Son’s dad who ran instead of lectured.
They close with 1 Corinthians 13 as a WWJD bracelet for parenting adults, and the reminder that no matter how old your kid gets, your job is still to love them like Jesus does.
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18 Oct 2026
Godly Parenting Part 2: Surviving the Teenage Years
The world your teenager is growing up in isn't the world you grew up in, so how do you actually parent them?
In Part 2 of What Do You Want to Know?'s parenting series, Venus and Pastor David Martin dive into the teenage years: the identity crises, the social media minefield, the peer pressure, the self-harm, the questions parents didn't have to face at that age. David draws on 16 years as a youth pastor and almost two decades of raising his own two teens to answer the hard questions honestly: yes, parents should be scared. No, "not my baby" isn't a strategy. And yes, your job is shifting - from parent to coach to (eventually) friend.
This conversation covers personal examples of the challenges, the wins, the highs, and the lows of raising teens, plus a huge conversation about prophesying over your kids - how the words "you're such a brat" or "you're just like your dad" can literally set the trajectory of a young life - and the flip side, when parents over-praise and set their kid up for a hard landing.
They close with rapid-fire wisdom: the mistake to give yourself grace for, what parents overcomplicate ("the days are long but the years are short"), the one verse to keep close (Proverbs 3:5-6), and the single most important thing you can do: model an imperfect Christian life your kid can actually see.
If you're raising a teenager, terrified of what's coming, or trying to hold on for dear life, this one's for you.
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11 Oct 2026
Godly Parenting Part 1: The Truth About Discipline
Does being a great Christian parent guarantee your kid grows up to love Jesus?
In Part 1 of What Do You Want to Know?'s two-part parenting series, Venus and Pastor David Martin get real about raising kids as Christians: from the newborn stage through elementary school. David shares the moment he realized he and Sarah had had a kid living in their house since 1996 (Dave Jr. is almost 30, Ashley turns 18 in three weeks), and why his answer to the "godly parenting formula" question is a lot more honest than most.
This conversation covers everything from why kids are a gift (even when they're a handful), to modeling faith instead of forcing it, to the "Sunday Fun Day" tradition David started so his daughter wouldn't grow up hating church the way he did, to what to do about a kid misbehaving on a church campus, to a genuinely funny (and unforgettable) origin story of "Mr. Sadspoon." Plus, David and Venus tackle the Christian discipline stereotype head-on, the pit-bull-vs-poodle reality of parenting different personalities, and why kids actually feel safer when there are lines.
If you're a new parent, in the trenches with littles, or thinking about having kids someday, this one's for you.
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