#136 – Raising Kids with Christian Courage with Sinclair Ferguson
The Family Discipleship Podcast
The Family Discipleship Podcast
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🗓️ 9 February 2026
⏱️ 34 minutes
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- John Knox by Sinclair Ferguson
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| 0:00.0 | You're listening to the Family Discipleship Podcast. |
| 0:11.0 | Welcome to the Family Discipleship Podcast. We're here to equip and encourage Christian |
| 0:14.4 | parents to lead their families. We're now posting every other Monday all year long. |
| 0:18.0 | This is Adam Griffin, and I'm not here today with any of my co-host, Cassie, |
| 0:22.3 | Chelsea. They couldn't make it. But good news for you guys is I have a great guest with us today. |
| 0:27.2 | I'm joined by Dr. Sinclair Ferguson. Dr. Ferguson, how are you today? Well, I'm fine. I'm in the |
| 0:32.5 | dark highlands of Scotland where we live in a village, which has a 20 mile an hour speed limit and a beautiful |
| 0:40.3 | river running through it. So it's very different from where you live. Yeah, that sounds wonderful. |
| 0:45.4 | I'm in a sunny part of the city of Dallas this morning. And instead of rivers, I have fast-moving |
| 0:51.4 | streets. And instead of highlands, I have apartment complexes. So it's basically |
| 0:56.8 | the same thing, I think. At least you've got the Trinity River in Dallas, although anytime I've |
| 1:03.4 | seen it, there's not been a lot of water in it. No, it's not much of a river. Every once in a while |
| 1:08.8 | to flood, and then you can call it a river. But yeah, the Trinity is still strong in Dallas. It's just not the river. Well, for those of you, for those of our listeners who aren't familiar with your writing, you're leading, your pasturing, your professoring, Dr. Ferguson, could you tell us a little bit about you? Tell us about your family and tell us about your ministry? Well, most people recognise from my accent that I'm not from around here, wherever here is. |
| 1:30.3 | So I'm not from around here, |
| 1:29.2 | wherever here is. So I'm Scottish. I was born, brought up in Scotland, came to the United States |
| 1:35.6 | with my family to teach at Westminster Seminary in 1982 to 83. That's 1982 to 83, not 1882 to 83. And apart from a period of about five years |
| 1:51.5 | when I was back home, spent most of my life actually working in the United States, |
| 1:57.5 | either teaching in seminary or pastoring a congregation or laterally |
| 2:03.0 | doing both. |
| 2:04.2 | I'm retired 12 years ago, but try and keep myself busy in the kingdom. |
| 2:10.7 | I've been married to Dorothy for 54 years with four grown children and 13. And as far as we know, they're all |
| 2:20.3 | human. None of them, none of them isn't alien, although one of them lives in Australia and |
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