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In the New Testament the Apostle Paul wrote to Timothy and said fan into flame the gift of God

For God gave us the spirit not a fear, but of power and love and self-control.

And that verse is a really good summary of our job as parents.

We should lead our kids to Christ and we should fan their flame and encourage them to serve God boldly.

And we'll talk about that today.

I'm John Fuller along with Danny Werta.

Danny leads our parenting and youth team here at Focus on the family.

And Danny, I've met your kids

they're cool they're strong they're resilient you've done something there to

help them kind of withstand peer pressure what did you do that worked? It's taken a lot of conversations.

The reality is we even as adults we are prone to get sucked into peer pressure

because we're afraid of disapproval, we're afraid of

standing out in the wrong way, not being enough. And so for for my kids we've had

intentional conversations along the way of being aware of

how certain people make us feel how we feel in certain situations and why that is what are we

wanting or needing from from the people around us and the fact that peer pressure is real.

And it doesn't make it good or bad, it's just a reality and we have to decide, help our kids recognize that. So as my son, there have been many times

when he's been asked to go to a movie. That's been a conversation for us.

We're at Christian Home, and they're making different decisions.

And a group of friends are going to a certain movie.

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