Besides the word no when my kids were little one of their favorite words was why why why and when it comes to faith how do you answer those questions of why regarding God and who he is and what he does?

Well, I'm John Fuller along with Dr. Danny Werther, who heads up our parenting team, and we're going to hear a clip now.

Focus President Jim Daly and I spoke with Janelle Brightenstein,

who wrote a book called Permanent Markers,

Spiritual Life Lessons to Write on your kids hearts.

Now, in this clip, Janelle and Jim discuss why it's good to encourage your children to

trust in Jesus.

You're a mom of four, give us the ages of your kids.

18, 17, 15, and 14.

There are no twins in there people,

so if you're doing the math, I was just like running a preschool

for several years, I was just exhausted.

Well, the point being, you know what it's like to be a busy parent, right?

The way to passing on the faith, your faith to your kids,

I mean, that's what the book's all about, permanent markers.

You know, it's got to be a burden. It should be a burden for us.

Actually, we want our kids to enjoy faith in Christ. Yeah, and you know, the sad thing is, is there's so many things

entertaining our kids right now and

sometimes they don't associate our faith with that they don't associate faith

with with being engaged with spiritual life

you know for parents life can get so busy we fail to ask kind of a fundamental question which is why is it important for our kids to have faith? I mean I know that sounds like what but

we don't stop and ask that question. Well yeah I mean we're like trying to find the

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