Spiritual Warfare and the Prodigal Child
What do you do when the child you love chooses a path you never imagined—and your faith is tested in ways you didn’t expect?
In this episode of Honest Christian Conversations, I sit down with Jeff and Diana Seaman, pastors and authors of Restore the Road Home, to talk about the heartache, hope, and endurance required when parenting a prodigal child.
Jeff and Diana share their journey not as experts with easy answers, but as parents who have wrestled deeply with grief, fear, and unanswered prayers. Through their story, we explore what it looks like to cling to Christ when the road feels long, to resist isolation and shame, and to lean into community and prayer when hope feels fragile.
This conversation gently invites parents to consider difficult but necessary questions:
How do you love your child unconditionally without losing sight of the truth?
How do you recognize the real battle without turning your pain toward your child?
And how do you find the strength to keep praying when the waiting feels endless?
This episode is a reminder that parents walking this road are not alone—and that God’s presence remains steady, even in seasons of heartbreak.
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Wife. Mother of five. Podcaster. Fiction Novelist
Ana is the host of the Honest Christian Conversations podcast and a prodigal saved by God’s unending grace.
She grew up in a legalistic Christian home where asking questions often felt wrong. In her early twenties, overwhelmed by confusion and hurt, she walked away from her faith. Yet even then, God’s love never stopped pursuing her. At thirty years old—and after a painful second divorce—He brought her back to himself, and she has never looked back.
As Ana returned to Christ, she began rebuilding her faith from the ground up and asked the questions she once feared to ask. Along that journey, she discovered inconsistencies, misplaced teachings, and even lies woven into the Christianity she grew up with. Instead of destroying her faith, this only deepened it. Out of that discovery, she founded Honest Christian Conversations. Ana's heart is to help others navigate the same tension she once lived with: wanting to know the real Jesus while sorting through the noise of deceptive teachings, spiritual manipulation, and “wolves in sheep’s clothing.”
Everything she creates flows from gratitude for the God who rescued her, restored her, and continues to shape her into who He intended her to be.
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