Encouraging parents with wayward children 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 to the problems that people face.

Today on the podcast, I welcome back Dr. Stewart Scott. He's ACBC's Director of Member Care and

Professor of Biblical Counseling at Bob Jones University and Seminary in Greenville, South Carolina.

He's also the executive director of 180 counseling and education in Louisville,

Kentucky. He teaches in the area of biblical counseling as an adjunct instructor at the Southern

Baptist Theological Seminary in Louisville. He serves currently as a fellow with ACBC and Dr. Scott

is the author of the exemplary husband, communication and conflict resolution, the faithful

parent, killing sinful habits, and most recently, which we're going to talk about today,

the wayward children, finding peace and keeping hope. Brother, I'm so grateful that you're

willing to write things like this and visit us today on the podcast to talk about it.

Well, thank you, Dale. It's a blessing

and an honor to come alongside of the listeners and try to encourage them on this topic.

Yeah, and as always, I mean, Stuart, not just this topic, but so many others where you're such

an encouragement to me, wonderful sounding board as I think through issues here at ACBC and how

we can approach those and

diligently work through those and just appreciate your measured voice always and looking forward

to our topic today and you providing much the same. Now, it's always curious, you know,

to hear the background of a book and where the idea come from

and how you approach these things. Just give a little bit of idea on what led to you writing

on this particular topic. A couple of things in my own life. I mean, growing up in a home

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