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You're listening to the Gospel Coalition podcast, equipping the next generation of believers,

pastors, and church leaders to shape life and ministry around the gospel.

Today we're featuring a message from the 2017 TGC Podcast Archives.

Listen in as Paul Tripp teaches us about how parenting is gospel ministry. Let's pray together.

Thank you, Lord, for the stunning reality that we have been chosen to be your children.

And we are the Bombay by Moment recipients of your forgiving, rescuing, and transforming grace.

We pray in this moment because we know how fickle our hearts can be, how easily distracted

we can be how easily distracted we can be how defensive we can be.

I pray that you would open our hearts.

And my prayer is that this just wouldn't be a time where we receive parenting information, but I am so bold as to pray that by your grace this would lead

to heart and life transformation.

That we would look back on this moment and say that God has been with us and he has done a good thing.

Thank you that you never turn a deaf ear to Christ. a good thing.

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