Do Your Kids See You Reading the Bible?
Focus on Parenting Podcast
Focus on the Family
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🗓️ 24 July 2025
⏱️ 11 minutes
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Summary
Do your children see you read your Bible? John and Danny address how they tried setting a good example for their kids by reading God's Word. Then, Jim Daly and Danika Cooley give some thoughts on ways you can teach your children to appreciate Scripture.
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| 0:00.0 | God is at work and he's calling his people to rise in truth. Truth Rising is a powerful new |
| 0:05.6 | documentary from Focus on the Family in the Colson Center. See how ordinary Christians choose |
| 0:11.1 | courage in a culture that needs truth. Watch Truth Rising starting September 5th and find out how |
| 0:17.4 | you can be a part of the change and become an agent of restoration. |
| 0:22.4 | Sign up at truthrising.com. |
| 0:24.8 | That's truthrising.com. |
| 0:30.8 | What do your kids see you doing? |
| 0:35.7 | I think I've shared this story before about encouraging my son to take in truth before trivia |
| 0:42.3 | when he was in middle school. |
| 0:44.3 | He was just drawn to the side stuff. |
| 0:47.3 | And I realized I'm drawn to the side stuff too. |
| 0:50.3 | I'm not starting with truth as the foundation for my day. So that really has |
| 0:57.0 | motivated me to get into my Bible reading. And it's often that he'll come downstairs and he finds me |
| 1:01.7 | sitting down with my coffee reading my Bible. Now, I'm not holding myself up as the example, |
| 1:07.1 | except in the failure part of that. And maybe you feel like, I fail all the time. I'm not really modeling love for God's word. We want to encourage it today. So lean in. I'm John Fuller with our vice president of parenting, Dr. Danny Werta. And Danny, your quiet time. Did your kids see you engaging in the scripture, talking with the Lord, praying? Yeah, I would say not as much as I could have. And I think that would be most of us. Yeah, back at my failure part of it, right? And I don't know if it's failure. I think many of us are trying the best we can. And I think God has grace on that. And the kids need to see that. that this isn't a I should or I have to and otherwise I'm a bad person or a failure. |
| 1:28.7 | But I'm a bad |
| 1:45.8 | person or a failure but I'm trying and I want to do my best and I want to pursue this and if I |
| 1:52.3 | didn't do it I missed out on something and it's not shame on me it's man I missed it let's try |
| 1:59.7 | again tomorrow. |
| 2:08.0 | And in our home, John, what we did is, you know, we would try to do it together on a consistent basis. |
| 2:08.6 | I think we were even more consistent with that than me being alone doing it in front of the kids. |
| 2:13.6 | I know when they were younger, I did do a few where I was outside during the summertime and just relaxing outside. |
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