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Focus on the Family Equipping Parents Podcast

Passing Down Your Faith

Focus on the Family Equipping Parents Podcast

Focus on the Family

Parenting, Kids & Family

4.41K Ratings

🗓️ 15 January 2026

⏱️ 13 minutes

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Summary

Giving your child a legacy of faith needs to be your top priority. Danny and John address why it's critical to help your kids know who God is. You'll also hear Jim Daly interview Tim Shoemaker on how Psalm 78 inspired him to focus on spiritually training his kids.

 

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0:00.0

Chat GPT and AI can offer you ideas and attempt to give you answers, but it can't listen with compassion,

0:07.1

pray with you, or guide you with wisdom shaped by faith. When life feels overwhelming, real human connection matters.

0:14.8

At Focus on the Family, we believe in the power of professional help and biblical wisdom.

0:20.3

That's why we offer a free, confidential consultation with a caring Christian counselor

0:25.2

to walk with you through life struggles.

0:27.9

Whether you're navigating challenges in marriage, parenting, anxiety, grief, or something

0:33.2

else, our counselors are here to help.

0:36.0

If you're hurting, don't wait. Hope is real and healing

0:39.4

begins with a conversation. Request your free confidential consultation today. Call 1-800-A-family. That's

0:47.8

1-800-232-6459 or visit focusonthefamily.com slash get help. That's focus on the family.com

0:58.3

slash get help. In the scheme of things, everything you're doing as a parent is important, of course.

1:07.7

Well, maybe not everything. Some things are way more important than most things.

1:12.9

And passing your faith onto your child, giving a spiritual legacy to your child, that's incredibly

1:19.3

important. Only you can really do that, mom or dad. I'm John Fuller, along with Dr. Danny Werta,

1:25.2

who leads our parenting team. And Danny, legacy is critical

1:29.9

for most of us. Spiritual legacy for the Christian is job number one. Yeah, I mean, there's a war

1:37.7

for our children's soul. We need to realize that. Waking up in the morning, there's truly an enemy to our children's soul.

1:46.8

And there's a constant attempt to distract, to tempt, to come at them.

1:52.9

Now, it's not out of fear.

1:53.9

It's out of awareness that we need to be intentional about having conversations,

1:58.3

modeling what it means to follow our Heavenly Father. Do we truly believe it?

2:03.7

Do we believe the fact that God is real? Jesus came to die in the cross and to save us from sin,

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