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

Focus on the Family with Jim Daly

Focus on the Family

Kids & Family, Relationships, Society & Culture, Parenting

4.8 • 4.2K Ratings

🗓️ 26 June 2025

⏱️ 28 minutes

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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.
0:37.3	Kindness and common ground can go such a long ways towards just having walls go down and real conversation
0:46.7	you know beginning that's why in conversation with people rather than focusing on differences
0:52.8	i'm looking for areas of common ground that we have.
0:57.8	Dr. Sean McDowell is back with us today on Focus on the Family with Jim Daly, talking about
1:02.5	grace and truth and about engaging the culture well. Thanks for joining us. I'm John Fuller.
1:08.6	John, last time we had a great conversation with Sean McDowell, and I so enjoy when he comes.
1:13.1	And his father, of course, Josh McDow was influential in my life.
1:16.2	Me too, as well. It really made a difference when I was in high school and college and
1:19.4	kind of gave me the undergirding beyond the scripture with evidence that demands a verdict.
1:24.0	What a great book that was and is. If you haven't read that or have that on your
1:29.1	shelf, you should order it, evidence that demands a verdict. And help me in college going to
1:34.2	state school. It helped me defend my faith and kind of parry the professors who were really
1:39.3	coming after me because I would talk about my faith in Christ. They would belittle me. That's a fairy tale.
1:45.3	If you're a college student, you shouldn't believe that stuff.
1:48.2	I mean, it was horrific.
1:49.4	And Josh really did a great job in helping me.
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