Counseling Your Parents on this edition of Truth and Love.

I'm Dale Johnson, and you're listening to Truth in Love, a podcast of the Association of Certified Biblical Counselors,

where we seek to provide biblical solutions for the problems that people face.

This week on the podcast, I am delighted to welcome Dr. Sam Stevens here with us.

Many of you may know Sam. He is the director of our training center certification, and he

helps to oversee many of our training centers across the U.S. And I'm delighted that he's here

today to talk about a very important subject that I think is critical, even for many of us,

as we grow up into maturity in the Lord Jesus. It's interesting for us when we think about

our parents and even ministry to parents and how over time sometimes that relationship may change.

You know, because what we primarily think of our parents and the things that we teach very strongly

is that parents are responsible for discipline, for training in righteousness, for discipleship.

They are the primary places at which God has given us to train the children as they're raised. And so being

in that position, we often have as children just a perception of our parents as if maybe things

are going well for them. They're trying to pour into us. But as life happens and as we begin to

grow up in the things of the Lord, you know,

some of that relationship starts to change. Sam, can you talk a little bit about maybe some

of your experiences as how that relationship changed? You're now married. You have two children.

And in that process of growing up from being a single young man in college to now being married with

children, sometimes that relationship with your parents changes. Talk just a little bit about

those relationship changes. Sure, yeah. For me, I think this topic really came to bear on my

life personally somewhere around seven years ago. My family, extended family went through a difficult tragedy.

We had a loss in our family that was sudden and unexpected.

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