I used to think that the goal of Christian parenting was to raise godly kids and I would

still tell you that but I would put a big butt on there, or except is probably the better word.

It's to play at the gospel in my home because God needs something, this world needs something more than my perfect kids.

You know?

The world needs kids who know that they need Jesus.

Janelle Brightenstein is once again our guest on Focus on the Family with Jim Daly and I'm John Fuller.

Here's something to think about, John. We want our children to be spiritually healthy

emotionally healthy physically healthy right that's kind of the norm and

oftentimes in this life there's something being attacked in one of those three

spheres typically and it's rare that a child is healthy in every place and if they are you should be praising God for that and if they're not you need to think of strategies as a parent to help them and we want to cover how to help with that

spiritual development today. You might be saying where do I start? I don't even know

where to begin. Well our guest has some great ideas and we talked about this last time if you missed it go to the website or download the app for focus on the family broadcast you get access to the entire library but Janelle our guests talked so well about how to keep your

child's spiritual best interests in mind and how to nurture your child's devotion

to the Lord in so many ways and we're going to continue that

discussion today. And Janelle Brightenstein is back with us again. She's the

mom to four. She and her husband John live not too far away from Colorado

Springs here.

She's an author, a freelance writer, and a popular speaker,

and we're talking about an excellent book she's written.

It includes a group discussion guide, actually,

it's called permanent markers spiritual life

skills to write on your kids hearts and we'll encourage you to learn more about

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