The other day I was talking to my friend Marcus and he said that one of my kids had called him and talked for about 25 minutes.

Just had a lot on the mind and wanted to kind of vet it.

Marcus, for a couple of my kids, is dad number two.

He's kind of a substitute dad when I'm not around, or safer to go to than I am. I'm so grateful for his presence because

he's a good godly man. That's what we want for our kids. We want godly influences

and we're going to talk about that a little bit today.

I'm John Fuller along with our vice president of parenting Dr. Danny Huerta and let's go

ahead and hear now from Jody Burnt who is a very popular broadcast guest. She has a passion for prayer

and she talked to Jim Daly about ways that as her kids were growing up especially,

they learned to have fun while learning about God.

You have a cute story about your daughter, Virginia, waving leaves while telling a Bible

story. What happened?

Yeah, well, you know, they weren't, it was around the Easter time and we knew the Hosanna story.

And they weren't palm branch leaves.

I think they were a kuba leaves or something in our garden, but she picked them up and they were out there she

Virginia and our younger son Robbie and we were all just messing around in the yard and I

overheard her telling the biblical narrative of Jesus riding on the donkey and coming in and she went through the whole thing.

Even to the point she said, Robbie, you know, and they put nails in his hands, nails.

And she had so much passion just as about a four-year-old telling this story

and she finished and she handed Robbie the leaves and she said now you tell the

story Robbie and I thought to myself that's that's what we want we want our kids to know God's word, to know God's stories, to know God's history,

because they're not getting it. You know, our culture is not teaching them scripture, and even today's churches a lot of times are not

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