Well, here at Focus on the Family, our counseling team gets about 2,000 calls a month,

and one of the top reasons that people call us for counseling is because they have a child who

has walked away from God or has drifted away from the faith.

How can you stay hopeful in that kind of a circumstance?

I'm John Fuller, joined by Dr. Danny Werta,

who leads our parenting team, and we have some hope for you. We're going to hear now from Jody

Burnt. She was on Focus on the Family with Jim Daly, and Jody explained how you can trust God

during those times when your kids, especially your teen, rebels. In your book, praying the scriptures for your teens, you address teen rebellion and prodigals,

and we do want to spend a little time there. We are talking about that.

Those are tough issues for Christian parents particularly, because again, to a degree it reflects upon us.

Our children are part of us.

So when our kids are not behaving the way good Christian kids should behave, we take it

personally.

We absolutely do.

We think it's our fault.

I remember with one of our kids at one point getting so discouraged that I felt like

I couldn't even pray anymore.

You know, get to that point where you're just at the end,

where you think, I've said all the prayers I can pray, where do we even go from here? And I think

if you're in that spot with your child, no matter how old they are, remember a couple of things.

Remember, again, that God gets it. He's a parent. He knows exactly Isaiah 1. I think it's verse 2,

you know, where we see God's children walking away from him. Right. He's the perfect parent.

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