Welcome to the Gospel Coalition podcast, equipping the next generation of believers,

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

On today's episode, you'll hear a breakout session led by Michael Kruger from TGC's

2004 Women's Conference.

My name is Michael Kruger, and I'm just thrilled about this session.

As the first session, we still have a few people coming in and making their way to their seats,

but I hope you're in the right place.

I trust you are.

The title of our talk here is Out of the Nest,

a conversation for parents and teens about parenting for life in a secular world. I can't imagine

a topic more relevant for not only our current age, but even for this conference. And I trust for you,

as you've made your way in here,

this is something on your mind, but it's been on my mind for a long time. It's on my mind,

really, for a couple reasons. One reason the subject's been on my mind is because some of you may

know, sort of on the academic side of what I do. I've devoted my whole academic career to

helping people believe the Bible, believe Christianity

is the word of God, and to make that sort of foundational for their life. And so in one sense,

what we'll be talking about today is helping reassure our teens that the Bible is true and that

Christianity is true. And so certainly I resonate with this topic for that reason, because this is

what I've written and spoken about for years. But actually,

there's another reason that this topic is so near and dear to my heart, and probably the same reason

it is for you, and that I am a parent. I'm a dad. I have three kids, one out of college, one in

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