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Focus on the Family Equipping Parents Podcast

Struggles and Desires of This Upcoming Generation

Focus on the Family Equipping Parents Podcast

Focus on the Family

Kids & Family, Parenting

4.41K Ratings

🗓️ 25 July 2024

⏱️ 11 minutes

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Summary

The current generation is facing many challenges through social media, shows and peer pressure. The world is constantly telling them what's acceptable. Jim Daly and J. Warner Wallace bring up how kids and teens today long for something that's real. Plus, John and Danny give some ideas for how kids can practice authenticity.

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0:00.0

Every generation has its challenges, but today's kids have things that I could never have imagined.

0:09.0

It is so hard, but God is on the throne and our hope is in him.

0:14.9

I'm John Fuller along with Focus on the Family Vice President of Parenting, Dr.

0:18.8

Danny Huerta, and we're going to turn now to a conversation that focused president Jim Daly had with

0:24.4

popular apologist Jay Warner Wallace who used to be a cold case detective.

0:30.2

He's now a speaker and author and he talked about some of the common struggles that young people today are dealing with.

0:37.0

You know, I've always tell Susie it embarrasses her, but I love her because I think she's beautiful.

0:42.0

She's smart, think she's beautiful. She's smart but she's good and that's what keeps that power for me is that I just know she's all well I want my kids to know that Christianity is beautiful and smart and good.

0:57.0

So that's really the goal I think.

0:58.0

That's really good.

0:59.0

Let me ask you too with the

1:04.3

two things that they're expressing to those researchers is they feel overwhelmed and they feel

1:09.7

overwhelmed and they feel very lonely even with all the social media connection but

1:16.2

they're not having human interaction in the same way either.

1:19.2

Right.

1:20.2

Well there's a reason why we were designing as three dimensions.

1:21.6

Christianity has a high value for three dimensions, right?

1:26.2

It's not that we're going to eventually go into heaven and we're going to remain as

1:30.2

spirit, disembodied spirits. No, we're going to be given a resurrection body.

1:36.3

Like we are something about our design that requires this kind of three

1:39.4

dimensional proximity and any step away from that reduces the relationship.

1:45.0

So you know that I can be misunderstood if I'm just texting, Susie, that two-dimensional

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