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Many children born in the late 1970s to the present day have found themselves influenced by Dr James Dobson founder of Focus on the Family. James Dobson equated child rearing to training dogs, his harmful abusive training techniques raised a generation of children. We would like to speak up.
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The Cult I Left Behind

Amanda & Kyle Briggs

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Newly-ish married couple, Amanda and Kyle, discuss Amanda’s upbringing in the IBLP cult of Duggar infamy – a story Kyle learns about along with listeners. Through sometimes humorous, sometimes heartbreaking stories, Amanda and Kyle explore the cult’s ideology, the strange rules that surrounded Amanda’s childhood, and the abuse she endured before leaving the cult. Through it all, they talk about what it takes to break free from a cult and what gets left behind.
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Now That We're A Family

Elisha and Katie Voetberg

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Culture has reduced the modern family to a joke -- informing parents they are only capable of shuttling their children from expert to expert who experiment with untested agendas. Katie and Elisha lean on their experience growing up in large families of 10 and 11 kids, to encourage parents to take back control, stop listening to popular relationship advice, and embrace their God-given role as their children's primary authority.
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You'll find a mixed bag of Jesus, theology, Christian apologetics, and cultural topics from a Christian perspective here. I'm an ex-New Thoughter (with a little Ex New Ager sprinkled in) and a lot of my videos focus on topics related to this as well. My hope is to help Christians thoughtfully know what they believe and why they believe it.
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As we continue to navigate through the understanding of the 1,000 Year Reign of Christ we start focussing in on two major topics; The 70 Weeks of Daniel and Dominion. We first look at where dominion began (in Genesis with man having dominion over all the earth), then how it evolved to man taking dominion […] The post 241025 The 1,000 Year Reign of …
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OUR FAMILY MUSIC ACADEMY: Affordable and effective online weekly music lessons designed for families. https://www.voetbergmusicacademy.com Use coupon code: PODCASTVMA for 10% off each month - Get it All Done Club: Stop drowning in motherhood and start thriving! https://www.nowthatwereafamily.com/get-it-all-done-club Is your life just too complicate…
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Following up on the marriage purposes series, Amanda and Kyle share their non-courtship story that basically ignored all of Bill's relationship guidelines. However, Kyle almost followed purity culture with room for the Holy Spirit for a whole lotta dates. Amanda will never let him live it down. They compare Bill's marriage principles to the insight…
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A vacuum, an echo chamber, confirmation bias — all things that will detour you from learning the truth about any subject. This week Michael challenges us to get out of the vacuum of faith and personal belief because it is the thing that will stop anyone from discovering the truth. As the discussion moves forward […] The post 241018 The Twelve Tribe…
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Send us a text support the podcast check out the PATREON Robert Callahan II is back and discussing the book Fire In The Whole. I enjoyed our conversation last time and am so honored he has returned. In this episode, we dive into his book, released two weeks ago. I encourage people to pick up a copy. Robert and I discuss racism, microaggressions, mi…
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Amanda flies solo for another episode. This time, she shares about her journey out of a very checked out or dissociative state and home to her own body, mind, and emotions. Amanda went on this journey as she left the cult and began abuse recovery, and also more recently. She shares the ups and downs of the process, including the discomfort of check…
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Michael and Daniel open up sharing about the powerful impact the understanding of the completed 1,000 Year Reign of Christ has on their brains. Daniel explains how the renewing of the mind to the Gospel weeds out worry and fear and Michael proclaims his freedom from worry! The discussion moves on to comparing the age […] The post 241011 Paul, The A…
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Marriage Maximizer - Build A Masterpiece Marriage Whether you have been married for 30 years, or are just starting out on the adventure of a lifetime, this course is for you! https://www.nowthatwereafamily.com/Marriage-Maximizer Free webinar: https://www.nowthatwereafamily.com/marriage-maximizer-learn-more-1 - Get it All Done Club: Stop drowning in…
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Send us a text Please Support the show- check out the PATREON Please support our guest Dave by checking out his BLOG Please welcome back Dave, who played Jimmy Barclay on Adventures in Odyssey. Dave is a profound writer please check out his blog at This is the end of the four-part series. I have learned so much about my friend Dave. This was an hon…
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Amanda and Kyle are joined by a special guest! Skye's story caught our attention right away—her mother, the owner of an adult toy business, sent her to a fundamentalist Christian elementary school WAIT WHAT?! The part about her mom’s business is a great story and will make you chuckle, but unfortunately, this school is also where Skye first experie…
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Join us for the encore of “The Pageantry of the 1,000 Year Reign of Christ” as Michael Lilborn Williams and Daniel Thomas Rouse engage in another session discussing death, specifically what is the second death. Religions have been built around this planet prolonging the return of Christ and his final victory over sin and death […] The post 241004 T…
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Get it All Done Club: Stop drowning in motherhood and start thriving! https://www.nowthatwereafamily.com/get-it-all-done-club Is your life just too complicated to ever feel peaceful? Learn how to create a peacefully productive home in one week. Check out Katie's Free Home Management Masterclass: https://www.nowthatwereafamily.com/peacefully-product…
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OUR FAMILY MUSIC ACADEMY: Affordable and effective online weekly music lessons designed for families. https://www.voetbergmusicacademy.com Use coupon code: PODCASTVMA for 10% off each month - Get it All Done Club: Stop drowning in motherhood and start thriving! https://www.nowthatwereafamily.com/get-it-all-done-club Is your life just too complicate…
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We reach the end of our Six Purposes of Marriage journey! Amanda and Kyle procrastinate and talk about a lot of other things, including how the violin is the most righteous instrument, before diving into Bill Gothard’s strange teachings about what marriage “illustrates.” Amanda and Kyle recap the purpose of marriage in the IBLP cult, which is basic…
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Have you ever wondered… if Yeshua defeated death and hades, then why do people still die? Perhaps at one point or another we all have and that’s what this show is all about -thanks to questions that have come in from some of our YouTube viewers. Much of Christianity teaches a physical resurrection of all […] The post 240927 If Death Is Defeated, Wh…
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Get it All Done Club: Stop drowning in motherhood and start thriving! https://www.nowthatwereafamily.com/get-it-all-done-club Is your life just too complicated to ever feel peaceful? Learn how to create a peacefully productive home in one week. Check out Katie's Free Home Management Masterclass: https://www.nowthatwereafamily.com/peacefully-product…
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Good Ranchers - American Meat Delivered Bringing everyone to the table to share in the best of what makes life good. They source all of their meat from local, independent farms in the U.S. As we approach the upcoming election, remember that your voice isn’t just heard at the ballot box—it’s heard every day. How? By voting with your dollar. When you…
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Mothers aren't protective. Divorce taints godly seed. A woman finally matters because she made a lot of kids who went and did church work. We talk about these topics and many other confusing aspects of Bill Gothard's teachings about pure Christian family lines. Amanda and Kyle also answer listener questions about beliefs in the cult regarding docto…
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Join in on this fresh podcast which will become session 7 to our recent conference series “The Pageantry of the 1,000 Year Reign of Christ”. We revisit the importance of understanding that the 1,000 Year Reign of Christ is a completed segment of history. Michael shares about “junk doctrines” that have distracted us from the truth […] The post 24092…
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Get it All Done Club: Stop drowning in motherhood and start thriving! https://www.nowthatwereafamily.com/get-it-all-done-club Is your life just too complicated to ever feel peaceful? Learn how to create a peacefully productive home in one week. Check out Katie's Free Home Management Masterclass: https://www.nowthatwereafamily.com/peacefully-product…
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Good Ranchers - American Meat Delivered Bringing everyone to the table to share in the best of what makes life good. They source all of their meat from local, independent farms in the U.S. As we approach the upcoming election, remember that your voice isn’t just heard at the ballot box—it’s heard every day. How? By voting with your dollar. When you…
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Amanda and Kyle discuss the IBLP cult's stance on how a godly couple goes about family planning...or doesn't, because God will plan your family. We learn things like the role of proper music and abstinence in conception, the many "hidden designs" in the Bible, and how the pull out method of birth control can get you killed. Send us text! Please not…
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Marriage Maximizer - Build A Masterpiece Marriage Whether you have been married for 30 years, or are just starting out on the adventure of a lifetime, this course is for you! https://www.nowthatwereafamily.com/Marriage-Maximizer Free webinar: https://www.nowthatwereafamily.com/marriage-maximizer-learn-more-1…
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OUR FAMILY MUSIC ACADEMY: Affordable and effective online weekly music lessons designed for families. https://www.voetbergmusicacademy.com Use coupon code: PODCASTVMA for 10% off each month - Get it All Done Club: Stop drowning in motherhood and start thriving! https://www.nowthatwereafamily.com/get-it-all-done-club Is your life just too complicate…
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Some Christians will say that for every counterfeit spiritual experience out there, there's an authentic version of it. This is how some odd and bizarre behaviors are explained to be not only biblical but also a display of spiritual power and favor from God. But what if that's not the case and there is more to this? I asked Dr. Berg, an expert on t…
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As Kyle puts it, this episode is all about "connecting with your spouse through abstinence." Join us as we talk about Bill Gothard's view on completeness in marriage and how not eating and not having sex play a big role. We also answer some listener questions about how to talk to people you know who are still in a cult, why the word "encouragement"…
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Good Ranchers - American Meat Delivered Bringing everyone to the table to share in the best of what makes life good. They source all of their meat from local, independent farms in the U.S. As we approach the upcoming election, remember that your voice isn’t just heard at the ballot box—it’s heard every day. How? By voting with your dollar. When you…
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To celebrate the one-year anniversary of The Cult I Left Behind podcast, Amanda and Kyle share their favorite moments, favorite episodes, insights into the creation of episodes, and their deep appreciate for the community that has formed around this podcast. Send us text! Please note this platform only supports one-way communication. Support the sh…
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Let’s talk about sex…again! Amanda and Kyle talk through Bill Gothard’s teaching on pleasure in the marriage relationship. In a shocking turn of events (haha), everything revolves around the menstrual cycle. It turns out abstinence plays a big role in marriage pleasure, as well as in healing all manner of physical ailments. All of this wise relatio…
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In a years worth of Powercasts we have examined 50 Commands and Teachings of Christ published by a ministry called the Institute of Basic Life Principles (iblp.org). To show how even the founder of this ministry, Bill Gothard, couldn’t live by the teachings of Christ and his own ministry, we reached into the archives to […] The post 240830 Survivin…
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OUR FAMILY MUSIC ACADEMY: Affordable and effective online weekly music lessons designed for families. https://www.voetbergmusicacademy.com Use coupon code: PODCASTVMA for 10% off each month - Get it All Done Club: Stop drowning in motherhood and start thriving! https://www.nowthatwereafamily.com/get-it-all-done-club Is your life just too complicate…
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Good Ranchers - American Meat Delivered Bringing everyone to the table to share in the best of what makes life good. They source all of their meat from local, independent farms in the U.S. Labor Day is coming up, and it’s time to fire up the grill with 100% American meat! Celebrate the long weekend and close out the summer with Good Ranchers. Use t…
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Did you know companionship in marriage is really about the menstrual cycle? Did you also know you’re in a covenant relationships with everyone with whom you’ve shared a meal? And that abstinence is important in marriage? Neither did we. But this is what we learn about in the IBLP Advanced Seminar materials. We also learn more about Bill Gothard’s s…
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Daniel joins Michael in the “Room of Rooms” for this week’s Powercast. After another sneak peak at this years upcoming Fall Grace Conference, the duo works to destroy all authority structures. We travel back in time to understand the “authority mindset” of the disciples as they walked with Jesus, the rightful heir to the throne […] The post 240823 …
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OUR FAMILY MUSIC ACADEMY: Affordable and effective online weekly music lessons designed for families. https://www.voetbergmusicacademy.com Use coupon code: PODCASTVMA for 10% off each month - Get it All Done Club: Stop drowning in motherhood and start thriving! https://www.nowthatwereafamily.com/get-it-all-done-club Is your life just too complicate…
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Good Ranchers - American Meat Delivered Bringing everyone to the table to share in the best of what makes life good. They source all of their meat from local, independent farms in the U.S. Labor Day is coming up, and it’s time to fire up the grill with 100% American meat! Celebrate the long weekend and close out the summer with Good Ranchers. Use t…
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Time to wrap up how to go about courting in the holiest manner possible. Amanda tells Kyle the final steps to a godly pre-marriage relationship. Kyle is confused. We learn why Ruth is way more chaste and holy than other female Bible characters, Amanda's Bible college and seminary training pays off, and Kyle issues a complaint with the way IBLP uses…
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Our explorers, who have been likened to Lewis and Clark, have set sail to explore more Gospel truth in this week’s Powercast. So buckle up and enjoy the ride! Two GRs write in with questions the help us clarify our recent discussions on the father-son-relationship between God and Jesus and the significance of the baptism […] The post 240816 Feed My…
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OUR FAMILY MUSIC ACADEMY: Affordable and effective online weekly music lessons designed for families. https://www.voetbergmusicacademy.com Use coupon code: BACK2SCHOOLPODCAST for 10% off each month - Get it All Done Club: Stop drowning in motherhood and start thriving! https://www.nowthatwereafamily.com/get-it-all-done-club Is your life just too co…
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Good Ranchers - American Meat Delivered Bringing everyone to the table to share in the best of what makes life good. They source all of their meat from local, independent farms in the U.S. Labor Day is coming up, and it’s time to fire up the grill with 100% American meat! Celebrate the long weekend and close out the summer with Good Ranchers. Use t…
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Amanda and Kyle embark on a perilous journey through more cult ideology around dating, sex, marriage, and purity. Bill's vision (for everyone except himself and his brothers) involves some pretty steep expectations of young men that are, dare we say, impossible in 2024. Young women fare much better under Bill's system in that they aren't supposed t…
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Get ready for another denomination destroying Powercast! We open the mailbag in the first half of this show to answer a couple questions and concerns. First we hear from Al Vitali in response to our comments about “evil having no power”. He explains that evil only has power when we give it power. Then we […] The post 240809 Drowning The False Doctr…
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Get it All Done Club: Stop drowning in motherhood and start thriving! https://www.nowthatwereafamily.com/get-it-all-done-club Is your life just too complicated to ever feel peaceful? Learn how to create a peacefully productive home in one week. Check out Katie's Free Home Management Masterclass: https://www.nowthatwereafamily.com/peacefully-product…
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Send us a text Support this podcast check out the PATREON You may be asking, why do we need a part three? My friend Dave who acted the character Jimmy Barclay on Focus on the Family's Adventure's In Odyssey has a lot to say. One of the very few children who grew up amongst the Christian Nationalist organization and propaganda machine to blow the wh…
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A special guest joins us to discuss the case against Amanda's brother. Jennifer, an Assistant District Attorney and podcast listener, prosecutes sexual assault cases in her state and has some interesting thoughts on Amanda's experience as a witness, the politics that impacted the case against her brother, and the legal outcome of the case. Amanda, …
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Good Ranchers - American Meat Delivered Bringing everyone to the table to share in the best of what makes life good. They source all of their meat from local, independent farms in the U.S. Use the code VOETBERG and subscribe to any Good Ranchers box and you can choose a free gold medal add-on for the next four years (or until the next summer games)…
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