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Healthy By Heather Brown

Raising Teens For Christ: Insider Secrets On Battling Social Media & Secular Influences With Melissa Kruger, The Gospel Coalition EP 98

Healthy By Heather Brown

Heather Brown

Education, How To, Mental Health, Christianity, Health & Fitness, Religion & Spirituality

5 • 814 Ratings

🗓️ 3 December 2024

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Summary

In this episode of the 'Healthy by Heather Brown' podcast, Heather is joined by Melissa Kruger, Vice President of Discipleship Programming at The Gospel Coalition who uses Biblical teachings, insights from developmental experts, and her personal experiences as a teacher and mother of three young adults to help guide parents on raising teens with a rock-solid faith in her new book Parenting with Hope: Raising Teens for Christ in a Secular Age.

Melissa has made the transition from raising three kids to adults, while learning and discovering how to make shifts in her parenting style. Like many parents experience, childhood transitions snuck up on Melissa, and she found limited resources to help guide her past the early years of mothering. Melissa shares insights from her new book, Parenting with Hope: Raising Teens for Christ in a Secular Age, and offers practical advice on maintaining open communication through intentional bonding, setting boundaries around technology and schedules, and creating a loving home environment. Melissa and Heather discuss the harmful effects of parents emphasizing performance over relationship and character as well as the idols that hold parents back from a more faith-filled home. The episode also touches on the importance of outdoor activities, understanding teen development, and the power of prayer. Heather and Melissa wrap up with an encouraging prayer and actionable tips for parents striving to nurture their children's faith.

00:00 Welcome to Healthy by Heather Brown
00:42 Introducing Melissa Kruger and Her New Book
01:22 Understanding the Gospel Coalition
02:58 Challenges of Raising Teens in a Digital Age
05:24 Navigating Technology and Social Media with Teens
12:32 Setting Boundaries and Leading by Example
15:45 Encouraging Outdoor Activities and Reducing Screen Time
16:29 Communicating with Teens and Addressing School Influences
17:41 Creating Space for Teens to Open Up
19:26 The Power of Open Conversations
21:13 Balancing Teaching and Curiosity
24:21 Building a Warm and Loving Home
27:31 Staying Connected with Your Kids
29:37 Encouraging Curiosity and Genius
32:19 Resources and Final Thoughts

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0:00.0

Hey y'all and welcome to the Healthy by Heather Brown podcast, where I encourage you in healthy, mind, body, and spirit through my Sunday reset.

0:08.8

Let's get into it.

0:14.1

Hello, girl gang, and welcome back to another episode of Healthy by Heather Brown.

0:17.9

I'm so thrilled to have you on today and I think that you're really to leave and courage. Today's topic is actually something that you guys have requested,

0:25.8

and that is, we talk a lot about younger kids, but we haven't talked as much about what it looks

0:31.1

like to raise teens for Christ in a secular age. And so a lot of you guys have requested that,

0:36.6

and you've also talked about what it looks like to raise children in a dark and scary world.

0:42.5

And so I get to tackle that today with my new friend Melissa Kruger.

0:46.2

She is the vice president of discipleship programming at the Gospel Coalition.

0:50.6

And she has a new book, which is how I knew she had to come on air because it's basically titled

0:55.1

what you guys wanted to hear about, which is Parenting with Hope, Raising Teens for Christ in a Secular Age.

1:01.1

So with all that said, I get to invite in Melissa today.

1:04.5

Hey, Melissa, welcome to the show.

1:06.0

Hey, thanks so much for having me.

1:08.2

You're so very welcome.

1:09.3

We are honored to have you as a guest today, and I feel

1:12.1

like this is probably a super simple thing, but sometimes people have never heard of the gospel

1:18.2

coalition, and then other people, it's like, yeah, I mean, I've heard about that since I was a little

1:22.2

girl. So what is the gospel coalition? That is a great question that is sometimes complicated to answer.

1:28.5

The gospel coalition started about 20 years ago with about 40 pastors.

1:32.9

So it started with a council of pastors.

1:35.8

And they wanted to really unify around the gospel.

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