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Focus on the Family Equipping Parents Podcast

Devotional Lessons Your Kids Understand

Focus on the Family Equipping Parents Podcast

Focus on the Family

Parenting, Kids & Family

4.41K Ratings

🗓️ 13 January 2026

⏱️ 11 minutes

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Summary

How do you teach your kids about God when they're little? Danny describes some times where his kids struggled to understand certain concepts in the Bible. Plus, Jim Daly speaks with Tim Shoemaker on how a trip to a stock car race became a powerful spiritual lesson for his sons.

 

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0:00.0

Your church comes to you each week to fill their cup. But when the crowd leaves, who's filling yours?

0:07.3

That's exactly what I'm here to do with my new podcast from Focus on the Family. It's called

0:12.1

Pastor to Pastor with Dave Stone. I'm so excited to help you navigate the unique challenges

0:17.7

that pastors face in their ministry journey, both personally and professionally.

0:22.8

So I invite you to listen and subscribe to pastor to pastor wherever you get your podcasts.

0:33.1

Well, you want to teach your child about God, but maybe cracking open a theology book when they're four isn't going to really connect with them.

0:43.0

You've got to get on their level.

0:44.7

But how do you discern if your child is really understanding what you're sharing?

0:48.9

I'm John Fuller, along with Dr. Danny Werta, who heads up our parenting team.

0:52.7

And Danny, I wonder if there's ever a time where you tried and you realized,

0:57.3

this is just not working.

0:59.8

Well, I'm thinking back at the time when we talked about parables for the first time with the kids,

1:05.1

and they just stared blankly.

1:06.8

What happened?

1:08.2

What do you mean?

1:08.9

The story's not real.

1:10.0

Yeah.

1:10.5

And then Revelation was an interesting one with the kids at a young age.

1:16.6

They said, yeah, I still don't get it.

1:18.5

I can't picture any of this.

1:20.4

Circumcision and sacrifices were the other ones that we had a hard time just letting them know what what this all meant, especially in the Old

1:29.1

Testament with sacrifices.

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