Welcome to the Gospel Coalition podcast, where we help to renew and unify the contemporary church in the ancient gospel.

Today's podcast is a talk by Mike and Melissa Kruger called Parenting with Hope in an Anxious Age.

It was recorded at our 2025 National Conference.

Well, good afternoon, everyone. We'll go ahead and get this cranked up.

Let me offer you a warm welcome to this session on parenting with hope, parenting with hope in an

anxious age in particular, and a special welcome to all you anxious parents out there.

And you have two anxious parents on the stage. So we're all in this together. No, we're thrilled

about this. Melissa and I are just so excited to discuss this topic with you to be here at the Gospel Coalition

2015 conference. If you don't know me, my name is Mike Krueger. I'm the president of Reform Theological

Seminary in Charlotte, North Carolina, and also Professor of New Testament. And my wife is Melissa Kruger,

and she is the vice president of discipleship programming at this wonderful conference and at TGC.

And what is it exactly you do, Melissa, with discipleship programming anyway?

What is that exactly?

That's a good question.

Yeah, exactly.

I am over two parts.

One are all of our events.

So everything that's happening here, I get to help plan and be a part of. And then

our women's initiatives is also kind of under my side of things. So it's really good. And do you

want me to tell about our family? I do. That's why we're here. Yes. We have three kids.

We have an 18-year-old who is getting ready. I hope there's at least one tar heel

in the house. Okay, good. She's getting ready to go to UNC next year. So we'll be empty

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