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Focus on the Family with Jim Daly

Empowering Teens to Navigate Faith in Modern Culture (Part 1 of 2)

Focus on the Family with Jim Daly

Focus on the Family

Kids & Family, Relationships, Society & Culture, Parenting

4.84.2K Ratings

🗓️ 25 June 2025

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

From social media to tricky relationships – how can parents help their teens bring clarity to a world of confusion? Professor and apologist Dr. Sean McDowell brings hope to a lonely, spiritually hungry generation – and you can too!  

 

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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.

0:26.8

It's okay to sit with questions.

0:40.3

It's good.

0:41.7

Over and over again, when I talk to people who've deconstructed their fate to the point of deconversion,

0:48.0

I'm telling you, Jim, over and over and over again, what I hear is people saying,

0:53.1

I didn't have room for questions in the church.

0:56.4

My parents shot me down.

0:58.4

Well, Professor, Author, and Apologist, Sean McDowell is our guest today on Focus on the Family with Jim Daly.

1:04.5

I'm John Fuller, and thanks for joining us.

1:06.5

You know, John, being aware of culture is so important. I mean, I like to engage the culture. I know the Lord tells me,

1:13.1

especially in Second Timothy, Galatians, other places, when you do that, do it with grace, do it with love,

1:18.1

do it with kindness, and I get all that. But it's important for us as Christians to understand

1:22.6

the culture that we're in and what the Lord requires of us to proclaim truth, to love those around us,

1:29.0

especially those that don't know him so that we might crack their heart open to the possibility

1:33.7

that Jesus is who he said he is and that he has a plan for your life as a non-believer, right?

1:39.6

That excites me.

1:40.7

I think at the root, I am an evangelist.

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