Parents are Not Miracle Workers—Knowing Your End Goal and Facing Tough Questions

Fearless with Cissie Graham Lynch

Billy Graham Evangelistic Association

Religion & Spirituality, Society & Culture, Christianity

4.8 • 1K Ratings

🗓️ 30 January 2024

⏱️ 21 minutes

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Summary

What is your end goal with your kids? Having a good relationship with our kids is important, but too often, we see parents’ compromise truth and God’s standards to accomplish that goal. If you’ve followed me for a while, you’ve probably heard me say that our kitchen table is our greatest mission field. Some of the toughest questions we’ll face as parents will come from our children who are seeing confusing and contradicting messages in the world around them. We need to be prepared to have hard conversations, so our kids will still want to come to us when they’re grown. But, we have to build their trust now and that comes through sharing the Truth in love. How will you respond when your kids are asking tough questions?

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0:00.0	Proverbs 910 says the fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom and we need to have a healthy view of what fearing the Lord is and
0:08.8	Fearless is a word that we use here on the podcast all the time. My podcast is named Fearless. It's a word that's so important to me, but it can have different meanings and different stages of life and different connotations, but we are of course are living in a hostile culture that's an increasingly hostile to
0:26.2	biblical truth of course and I wrote a fearless family devotional for those that didn't know. And it's a study on First Peter.
0:34.0	It's only 14 days long,
0:36.0	but it's to help equip you to spend daily time in God's word
0:39.0	and to help you prepare your family
0:41.0	to have a fearless faith. And Peter of course he wrote this
0:44.7	short letter to believers who were living in turbulent times just like we are
0:49.0	today and I will put a link in the show notes of how you can get your own copy but it's also on my website
0:55.2	sissy Graham Lynch.com.
0:57.0	There are days as a parent when I put my head on the pillow. I feel like I've gotten it all wrong and I know I'm not alone in that feeling.
1:09.0	We as parents can feel that pressure of doing it all for our kids and carrying that burden. How do we
1:15.8	navigate our children's curiosities and all the questions they have in this world
1:20.0	that's forever changing and compromising? And honestly, there's some days as parents, we don't get it right.
1:26.4	But on today's episode of Fearless, I want to encourage you of ways that we can navigate through that and that we do not need to panic
1:34.4	because God's gonna help us through that.
1:37.0	Hi, I'm Cissy Graham Lynch. Welcome to Fearless, helping you have a fearless faith in a compromising culture. one time I was at a mom's conference and I was
1:59.0	one time I was at a mom's conference
2:00.6	and I was eager to hear the main speaker.
2:03.0	He's not someone I typically agree with,
2:05.0	but nonetheless, I was eager to hear what he would speak about that night.
2:09.0	And he asked moms, what is your end goal with your kids?
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