One of the great anxieties that parents face is the fear of what our own sins could do to corrupt our kids.

It can be a paralyzing anxiety, one that has come up on the podcast in many different forms over the years. It's the fear of those

who believe in God's judgment on generational sins, sins of the past being visited on future

generations. More commonly it's the fear of young men and women

born out of wedlock or born into dysfunctional homes who wonder if their past dooms their future family to a similar broken fate.

It's the fear of Christian parents, of prodigals, who are left wondering what they did to

mess up their children so badly.

The fear of young men and women awakened to the potency of sin in their own hearts

and afraid to even have children because of what their own sins could do to corrupt those future kids.

In each of these scenarios we find the same haunting question lurking behind it all.

Did my sin or will my sin ruin my child? In our new APJ book you can see these

scenarios on pages 192 to 193.

And the same question echoes in this heartbreaking email

from a broken dad.

He writes an anonymous sleep.

After John, my wife and I have four sons ranging from 20 to 8.

We recently found out our 20 and 15 year olds both claim to suffer from so-called gender

dysphoria. The 20-year-old is walking with the Lord and knows it's wrong, fighting his temptations and trying to dwell in God for strength and attends a solid Bible-believing church.

But he's in college two hours away and we are still worried for him.

Our 15 year old is not a believer.

He is in a public school and we are now looking to move him into a private Christian school setting

and will continue to help to support him. But he has been cold and

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