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Focus on the Family Parenting Podcast

Jesus Can Handle Tough Questions

Focus on the Family Parenting Podcast

Focus on the Family

Kids & Family, Parenting

4.41.1K Ratings

🗓️ 28 April 2026

⏱️ 16 minutes

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Summary

Do you remember the time in life when your faith in Jesus made sense? John and Danny recount the times they decided to put their faith in Christ after asking good questions. You'll also hear Jim Daly and Natasha Crain share how you can respond well when your kids ask you hard questions about God.

 

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0:00.0

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0:07.6

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0:09.2

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0:18.0

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0:32.5

When I was about 17 and knew in my faith, I had a job that allowed me to do some work, these

0:38.6

bursts of work, and then sit down and read.

0:41.5

And by God's Providence and His Grace, I was reading C.S. Lewis, mere Christianity, which

0:48.3

just solidified my faith.

0:50.5

I mean, I was a new believer, but going through that book, it just connected with me

0:55.3

and confirmed and set me on a path of slow and steady, trust in God and growth in him.

1:02.8

And I wonder when your child might have that kind of a moment and what you can do to kind of

1:07.7

pave the way for that. I'm John Fuller with Dr. Danny Werta, who leads our focus

1:12.5

on the family parenting team and Danny. How about you? When did your faith become like,

1:18.0

this is true? Wow. I would say my teen years is when I was asking the big, big questions,

1:24.9

and I was wrestling through. Is this really real?

1:28.3

Is this just my parents' faith?

1:30.7

Are we believing a lie?

1:33.1

I had been going to Christian school all my life, and I was going, man, is there something else there?

1:39.8

So that's when I began to wrestle through that.

1:42.3

My grandfather's passing, that moment where God came, and you could completely see that God was in the room there.

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