Navigating the Difficult Parts of the Bible
Focus on Parenting Podcast
Focus on the Family
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🗓️ 26 June 2025
⏱️ 13 minutes
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Summary
How do you teach your kids about the challenging parts of the Bible? Danny and John talk about sections of the Bible they find difficult. Then, Danika Cooley and Jim Daly give some recommendations on when to share the tougher parts of Scripture with your children.
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| 0:00.0 | Well, thanks for joining us today. Last time we talked about why it matters that you and your kids read scripture together and the importance of truth and keeping it central in your home. And today we're going to talk about how to handle those difficult parts that might scare you. I'm John Fuller, along with our vice president of parenting, Dr. Danny, |
| 0:21.0 | Dr. Danny, what are some of the trouble spots for you as you open the scripture? |
| 0:26.2 | Are there any, I guess, is the first question. |
| 0:28.1 | We've talked about in our family about Job. Job is a tough one. We've had some great |
| 0:33.7 | conversations about the book of Job. The first one that's gotten me the most is the fact |
| 0:40.2 | that Satan could actually negotiate with God. There was a moment where you said, hey, so what about |
| 0:45.9 | Job? And was given the opportunity to do that. I don't quite understand in that book what that means or why that can happen. |
| 0:56.3 | So with my kids, when we've talked about that, we've talked about the need to trust in God, |
| 1:04.9 | that he has a strategy like no other. |
| 1:08.2 | He has a love like no other, and we can trust him wholeheartedly. And in that |
| 1:14.7 | a reverence towards him that when we pray, we truly pray that we know he has the big picture |
| 1:22.8 | in mind and he has the best intent with us. |
| 1:27.8 | And that's the main one, John, that I would say. |
| 1:30.9 | I don't know which one have you struggled with. |
| 1:32.7 | You know, I used to struggle with revelation, but I've just come down to saying, |
| 1:36.7 | God is mysterious, kind of like what you're saying. |
| 1:39.4 | God is mysterious. |
| 1:41.0 | He knows the end, and none of it takes him by surprise. And it's all going to happen |
| 1:46.2 | the way he wants it to or allows it to. So I've got a pretty high view of God's sovereignty. |
| 1:52.5 | It helps me with those hard passages. But let's go ahead and listen to Danica Cooley. She was on |
| 1:58.1 | Focus on the Family with Jim Daly, and Danica and Jim talked about |
| 2:01.7 | what to do when you and your kids are reading the Word of God and you hit a tough spot. |
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