Welcome to Breakpoint, a daily look at an ever-changing culture through the lens of

unchanging truth.

For the Colson Center, I'm John Stone Street.

Well, this year's Colson Center National Conference addressed how Christians can cultivate and live out a courageous faith. Courageous faith. Courage

doesn't just happen. It's a virtue. Virtues are like muscles. They have to

be developed. They have to be worked out. One of the presenters was a beloved author of

speaker and founder of Celebrate kids, my friend Dr. Kathy Cook. Dr. Cook

described how parents can cultivate Christian courage in their children.

As she put it, Christian courage is rooted in the truth of who God is,

and who he made us to be.

Here's just a small segment of the talk by Dr. Cook.

How do we and our children reach that victorious I am?

It takes courage, and courage isn't about what we do.

Courage is about who we do. Courage is about who we are and who is we are.

Courage hinges on knowing who God is and acting on that knowledge.

We matter. on that

we matter. who we teach matters and what we teach matters and how we live matters.

And we may not ever know this side of heaven

the effect we're having, but I hope we live to have one.

And I hope that you know in the knowing of your knowing because the spirit reveals something

to you that you're making a difference here. Courage for God requires that we and our children know God and we relate

to him accordingly. Our children need us to teach this and to model it.

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