A Generational Impact: Modeling Godly Character

The Heidi St. John Podcast

Heidi St. John

Christianity, Religion & Spirituality

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🗓️ 1 January 2024

⏱️ 24 minutes

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A listener asks a question about how to impart godly character traits to our children and what that looks like on a daily basis, and I'll give some concrete ways to instill these traits in children. The importance of demonstrating good character as parents and grandparents can't be ignored, and living a steadfast life before God has a generational impact.

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0:00.0	Well, hey everybody, happy new year. You have found me here at the intersection of
0:04.7	faith and culture. This is the Heidi St. John podcast and today is mailbox Monday
0:09.4	and for the first day of a brand new year I'm going to be answering listener questions.
0:13.7	Today we're going to be focusing a little bit on what it looks like for parents
0:17.4	and grandparents to pass down godly character traits to their children.
0:20.9	Thank you for joining me at the Off The Off The Bunch Podcast. Stick around. I think you're here to be starting a brand new year. You guys you made it you
0:39.9	made it to 2024 I am really thrilled about what God's going to do in 2024 and I think
0:45.9	it's so important for us to start off the new year right to make a commitment to
0:51.5	being in the word of God. You guys have heard me say before that I'm not I'm not a really big fan of New Year's resolutions I think as a general rule. They set us up for failure, particularly if we're looking at it like I'm going to try this thing I've never tried before and just go at it with all the gusto that you can possibly imagine.
1:10.0	Maybe a really good example of this is going to be my sour dough starter.
1:14.8	I told you guys that in the middle of the Rona, when my life was falling apart underneath
1:19.6	me and people were yelling at us at the grocery store and the airlines were crazy and all of the events that I had planned for that year.
1:27.0	And actually the subsequent year were being cancelled.
1:30.0	I turned to something to sort of like a new hobby, something to learn. I turned to making
1:34.9	sourdough bread. I'm really happy that I did not say I'm going to make myself an artisan
1:39.8	loaf of sourdough bread because you know what? It took me a year to figure that part out and I want you to think about the new year
1:48.6	not in terms necessarily of a resolution but of a lifestyle what kind of a lifestyle do we want to be living?
1:56.0	If we want to be slowing down a little bit in 2024,
1:59.0	do we want to be listening more for the voice of the Lord in our lives and directing, taking our family a different
2:05.2	direction in 2024. There are so many important things that God would have us focus on and one of the most important things is
2:13.9	character it's passing character good character traits on to our children
2:18.2	Angela in California wrote in to say when the children's behavior is not what it
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