spiritual warfare in the family on this edition of Truth and Love.

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

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

Today, I have a familiar face and voice on the podcast with us, Dr. Stuart Scott, who many

of you know and love. We certainly love him around here. He's a professor of biblical counseling

at the Master's University, and he is actually our director of

membership services here at ACBC. So many of you've had interaction with him. You've heard his

teaching over the years. He's been married to Zondra for 40 years and so grateful for their life

and ministry. And today, Stuart, I want us to talk in this direction of spiritual warfare as it relates

to the family. There are so many ways in which we could, we could shape this particular podcast.

We could talk about it from the perspective of the counselor. We can talk about it from the

perspective of so many pastors, even that we see where there's difficulties and struggles

in the home in raising

children and what that what all that entails or, you know, so many members of our churches

that are struggling to raise kids, particularly in this world that we live in, so many

difficulties and struggles. And so as we jump into this, just several things that I think are important for us to

consider. So let's talk about some of the things that you see in our culture, what's going on,

that are distractions in the world in which we live. Yeah. Thank you, Dale. And it's great to be

back here with you and be talking about this particular topic. It's one that I need to keep reviewing

constantly because I forget, I'm in a war. I'm in a spiritual war. 24 hours a day, seven days a week.

It's sort of like living on red alert. And I don't always have that mindset each and every day, but I need to. The Bible calls us,

God calls us to have that kind of a red alert. There's enemy, but walk with the victor,

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