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🗓️ 22 July 2025
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How do you and your spouse try to teach your kids about God? Even if you have very different methods, it's good for your kids to learn from both of you. Danny and John share how their methods of training their children to love Jesus were different from their spouses. Also, Danika Cooley talks with Jim Daly about how her and her husband used their unique gifts to help their kids.
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0:32.7 | Well, we've talked on prior episodes about how you can teach your children to read the Bible and understand it themselves. |
0:39.2 | But what if the ways that you connect with God are different from your child and from your spouse? |
0:45.4 | Well, I'm John Fuller, and I'm joined by the head of our parenting department here, Dr. Danny Werta. |
0:51.2 | And Danny, when it comes to guiding kids spiritually, I wonder what you and Heather had in terms |
0:57.5 | of strengths and interests in how those related to how you trained up your kids. |
1:01.6 | That's pretty funny, John. |
1:04.0 | Because you're different? |
1:05.2 | Oh, very, very different. |
1:06.2 | Yes. |
1:06.8 | And Heather, Heather was more of the structured type. |
1:09.9 | She's task-focused. |
1:10.9 | She is good at looking for. And Heather, Heather was more of the structured type. She's task focused. |
1:19.7 | She is good at looking for devotionals and wanting to do devotions and more of the structure of things. And she would actually ask us, did you pray about that? |
1:22.9 | Did you pray about that? |
1:23.8 | She's very consistent with certain rhythms in life. So that's been her strength, |
1:30.0 | and I've loved it. We've needed it in our home. And for me, teaching as we go is fun for me, |
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