In this journey of life we all could use a sage a mentor a good friend who can come

alongside us but who has been a few steps ahead of us and who understands not only what we're going through, but the way

forward. I'm Alan Arnold, and you're listening to the Ransomed Heart podcast.

For me, for many years, that person was Craig McConnell.

Now a lot of you know Craig, he was part of the Ransomed Heart team,

almost from the beginning and Craig passed

away a few years ago but he was a man of great heart and great joy and we

had hundreds of conversations and I would always walk away feeling better and lighter after having spent time with him.

One of my favorite conversations that we ever had was on parenting and how to do that from a level of deep heart.

That's the podcast I want to share with you today. It was recorded in 2015 and it's called

Parenting Without Fear. And in this podcast Craig and I have a conversation about how our relationships with our children, whether they're adult children or whether they're young children, or anywhere in between, can flourish when we start pursuing the child's heart over an outcome.

I think this is a conversation that you will savor.

There will be moments that you're going to laugh out loud

at Craig's stories, and there's moments

that will bring a tear to your eye.

Let him mentor you on the art of parenting without fear.

Here's Craig and me in the conversation. Welcome to the Ransom Heart Podcast. This is Alan Arnold and Craig McConnell.

I was talking to a friend just last week and he was asking me

well how are things going with your kids? My answer was it's going really well.

However there's some areas where there's things I see that would be so

beneficial for them if they would just step into, but it's not necessarily their desire right now they're just not aware of what

could be and so it's not anything they're pursuing and I can talk to them but in their age 10 through 15 it just

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