Welcome to the Paul Tripp podcast, where pastor and best-selling author Dr. Paul David Tripp connects the transforming power of Jesus Christ to everyday life.

In today's episode, we're going to listen to another session from Paul's conference material, Your Christian School, a culture of grace. In it, Paul wants

to help teachers and parents address the heart issues of their students. If you're interested in hearing

more on this topic, you can purchase the full conference at paultrip.com slash school. Here's Paul

on running a Christian school.

One of the things you deal with in the classroom is constant relational chaos.

Constant conflict. I mean, think about this.

How many of you so far have been able to construct a conflict-free classroom this year how about last week how about yesterday how about yesterday today because you weren't in it so you finally made it

yay isn't an amazing thing? How much conflict there is in our relationships.

Well, let me illustrate this, as I'm going to do throughout the day with some of my own stories.

I travel almost every weekend, and I love when I had those occasional weekends home, because I don't get to experience those very often.

And I was home on a weekend and thought that I had a couple teenagers still at home.

I thought that I could do something with a member of my family on that Saturday.

As it turned out that most of my family was otherwise occupied, so it was in the fall.

My mind went immediately to Saturday afternoon

college football, because I don't get to watch that very often. And I thought that maybe I could

actually hold the remote control in my hands, one of the proofs of the existence of God.

And I went down to our family room. I was just sitting down to

to watch a football game when out of the bathroom next to the fan room came my then 16-year-old son,

and he had the most outrageous color of green hair you've ever seen.

This wasn't that temporary spray stuff that they make nowadays.

And you don't yet know what his hair was like.

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