As a parent, one of the greatest blessings is watching your children grow in their love and understanding of God.

But sometimes it can be hard to know how to help them on that journey.

How should we encourage our kids to spend time with their Savior through the Bible without it becoming a chore or merely something to check off a list?

My guest today is Rusty Osborne, and in our conversation, he explains how he has sought

to model a genuine love for God in front of his kids.

Throughout the interview, he shares stories of hard moments he's faced as a parent and offers

advice on how to answer your kids when they say things like, the Bible is boring.

Rusty serves as associate professor of biblical and theological studies at the College of the Ozarks and is the author of,

God, You Are, 20 promises from the Psalms for kids from Crossway. Let's get started.

Well, Rusty, thank you so much for joining me today on the Crossby podcast.

Yeah, Matt, it's great to be here. I appreciate you taking the time and getting a chance to talk about some important things.

Yeah. So as Christian parents, you're a parent, I'm a parent. We all want to help our kids come to a saving faith in Christ. We want to help them grow in their love for God, and we want to help them grow

in their understanding of God's word. And yet I think sometimes as parents, especially with

young kids, but I'm sure this continues as the kids get older too. It can, we might not always know what that's going to look like, what that should look like,

especially as our kids are growing and changing all the time and our family lives are getting

more full and more busy and maybe even chaotic sometimes.

And it just seems like sometimes we're at a loss as parents for how do I actually serve my kids

in helping them to understand God's truth and come to love God for who he is.

I wonder, to start us off, have you ever felt that way as a parent?

Is that an experience that you can resonate with?

Absolutely.

I mean, I think anyone who is raising children in the 21st century

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