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Well, Lindsey Carlson says that she knows that you, as a parent, need God\u2019s wisdom.\n\n<strong>Lindsey:<\/strong> There are certain things that my daughter might be really interested in that I think are really great pursuits, because they\u2019re going to feed her wonder and fascination of who God is; and then there are other things that I feel like would just be distracting. Those things might not distract one of my sons; but for her, I know that it\u2019s very alluring. I think you have to know your kid to know, \u201cWhat are the things that are going to be the most easily distracting?\u201d\n\n<strong>Michelle:<\/strong> Lindsey Carlson is going to help us understand how to raise our kids in life\u2014but most importantly in faith\u2014on this edition of <em>FamilyLife This Week<\/em>.\n\nWelcome to <em>FamilyLife This Week.<\/em> I\u2019m Michelle Hill. Last week, at the end of our show, I mentioned, \u201cIf you have a teenager right now, there are days that, well, you might love them; and there are days that you probably <em>plead<\/em> with God for enough love not to scream at them\u201d; because raising teens is hard.\n\nYou know, as a parent, you\u2019re seeing these years left to guide and direct them in your home\u2014well, they\u2019re limited\/they\u2019re coming to an end. You\u2019re asking yourself, \u201cWhat is the one thing I want them to leave my home with?\u2014a good work ethic?\u201d Well, yes; that\u2019s why they do their chores. \u201c\u2026\u2014good manners?\u201d\u2014well, yes, that\u2019s why you\u2019ve worked so hard to instill that in them. And you want them to be good citizens, but is that all? Yes, I know, you\u2019re probably thinking right now, \u201cMichelle, you\u2019ve forgotten the most important thing.\u201d You want them to <em>love<\/em> God and to know Christ as their Lord and Savior.\n\nWell, recently, I talked with my friend, Lindsey Carlson. Lindsey is a mom; but she\u2019s also an author of a brand-new book entitled, <em>Growing in Godliness: A Teen Girl\u2019s Guide to Maturing in Christ. <\/em>She had some <em>great <\/em>answers on just: \u201cHow do we help our kids understand the love of God?\u201d You know, I really love Lindsey. We\u2019ve been friends for several years now. I think she just has some <em>great<\/em> advice on how to help our kids grow. Here\u2019s my conversation with Lindsey Carlson.\n\n[Previous Interview]\n\n<strong>Michelle:<\/strong> So, Lindsey, what are your hopes and dreams for your daughter, Madeline?\n\n<strong>Lindsey:<\/strong> Wow! That\u2019s a loaded question.\n\nYou know, I think that moms, generally, have some kind of dream version of their daughter, like, \u201cOh, she\u2019ll be just like me,\u201d or \u201cOh, she won\u2019t be anything like me,\u201d\u2014\n\n<strong>Michelle:<\/strong> Yes.\n\n<strong>Lindsey:<\/strong> \u2014or \u201cShe\u2019ll participate in this activity or that activity.\u201d\n\nI feel like, because I\u2019m walking with Christ, my dreams for her have really always just been that she would pursue the Lord with a pure heart\u2014you know?\u2014and really just want to know God and make Him known. That can look really, really different however the Lord calls her to live.\n\nI think it has allowed me to kind of let go of the: \u201cThis is what my wedding will look like when I grow up,\u201d \u201cThis is what my daughter will look like when I grow up,\u201d\u2014and to really just cling to that understanding of: \u201cCome, Lord Jesus. Make Yourself known in her life. Call her to do what You\u2019ve called her to do. Help me to just walk beside her and hold her hand.\u201d\n\n<strong>Michelle:<\/strong> \u2014which really gives <em>her<\/em> freedom. You have <em>not<\/em> put her in a box; you haven\u2019t limited her in any way; you have just asked her to live her life before Christ.\n\n<strong>Lindsey:<\/strong> Yes; and I won\u2019t say that that\u2019s been an easy road to walk. I mean, there was, definitely in the early days, a letting go of\/I don\u2019t need to shape her to fit the mold I think that she should fit in order to fulfill <em>my<\/em> dreams of motherhood. I need to say: \u201cThank You, Lord, that my child is captured by how amazing animals are!\u201d \u201cThank You, Lord, that she loves to play in the dirt,\u201d \u201cThank You, Lord, that she has this gift.\u201d\n\nBut I think that, you know, it\u2019s always kind of a letting-go process: trying to see what the Lord is doing and thanking Him for how He has made her uniquely.\n\n<strong>Michelle:<\/strong> You know, there\u2019s probably a mom right now, who\u2019s listening and saying, \u201cLetting go process\u2014what did that look like?\u201d\n\n<strong>Lindsey:<\/strong> I think it\u2019s walking by the Spirit and keeping in mind, when you look at Scripture: \u201cWhat are scriptural mandates for obedience to the Lord, and what are preferences?\u201d It\u2019s not in the Scripture that my daughter needs to wear a bow on her head. It\u2019s not more pleasing to God if she chooses dolls over dinosaurs. I think the Lord has used parenting a lot to work out a lot of my control-freak tendencies that were unholy. [Laughter]\n\n<strong>Michelle:<\/strong> I\u2019ve heard that a lot!\n\nNow, in your book, <em>Growing in Godliness<\/em>, it\u2019s a beautiful book for young ladies. I know that Madeline was the reason why you wrote that. Why did you write a book for her?\n\n<strong>Lindsey:<\/strong> I started thinking about this book when she was approaching her 13<sup>th<\/sup> birthday; because I think that I had this kind of overwhelming sense of: \u201cTime seems to be speeding up really fast.\u201d\n\n<strong>Michelle:<\/strong> Yes.\n\n<strong>Lindsey:<\/strong> When she was approaching 13, I kind of had this moment of like, \u201cGosh! I\u2019ve been doing all I have known to do, but there still seems to be so much more that I want to tell her. How do I put myself in her life in a way that can say, \u2018Hey, as you\u2019re heading into middle school and then high school, here are the things that are <em>the most important <\/em>things. It\u2019s not math; it\u2019s not reading; it\u2019s not driving a car; it\u2019s not makeup tutorials. The most important thing that you need to know is how to grow in godliness.\u2019\u201d\n\n<strong>Michelle:<\/strong> Yes.\n\n<strong>Lindsey:<\/strong> So just for her communication preferences, I think I kind of thought, \u201cYou know, I think that would be a really special\/like a really cool birthday present\u2014to just write to her and surprise her with it.\u201d That was really, honestly, all that I set out to do\u2014but then the more that it formed, the more I kind of thought, \u201cYou know, I wish I had had this kind of book when I was a teenager.\u201d\n\n<strong>Michelle:<\/strong> You know, as I read your book, I felt <em>that<\/em>\u2014that you were trying to be practical; but yet, you were trying to paint this picture of God to say: \u201cHe is your All-in-all. He is the King of kings and Lord of lords,\u201d\u2014and trying to also say\u2014\u201cOkay, it\u2019s not math; it\u2019s not Facebook<sup>\u00ae<\/sup>; it\u2019s not Instagram<sup>\u00ae<\/sup>, or TikTok<sup>\u00ae<\/sup>, or wherever you\u2019re residing these days. There is something <em>so much<\/em> bigger and <em>so much<\/em> greater.\u201d\n\nIn your first chapter, you talk about the before and after pictures in our lives. Share that with us; what does that look like?\n\n<strong>Lindsey:<\/strong> I think that our before picture is, obviously, we are dead in sin and following the course of the air. We need help! The before picture\u2014I actually used the metaphor in my book of\u2014do you remember Glamour Shots? [Laughter] Were you in the Glamour Shots generation?\n\n<strong>Michelle:<\/strong> I <em>was <\/em>in the Glamour Shots generation! I never had a Glamour Shot; I <em>always<\/em> wanted one! That was\u2014\n\n<strong>Lindsey:<\/strong> Well\u2014\n\n<strong>Michelle:<\/strong> \u2014you know\u2014\n\n<strong>Lindsey:<\/strong> Exactly!\n\n<strong>Michelle:<\/strong> \u2014you became the \u201cin\u201d person if you\u2014\n\n<strong>Lindsey:<\/strong> Yes, exactly! That\u2019s probably the only reason I wanted it, because it was like the trendy thing when I was in fifth grade or whatever it was.\n\n<strong>Michelle:<\/strong> Yes.\n\n<strong>Lindsey:<\/strong> If you\u2019re not familiar with them\u2014you would essentially go to the mall, and they\u2019d dress you up in these ridiculous costumes, and spray your hair huge, and put tons of makeup on you; you know? Then take these dramatic pictures, where you\u2019re supposed to look like a model. Really, if you\u2019re a fifth grader, and they\u2019re doing that with you\u2014like, my teeth were like all jagged, because I hadn\u2019t had braces yet, you know? I had acne, probably; I don\u2019t know. I just kind of look like a 13-year-old realtor, you know?\u2014like it was very right.\n\n<strong>Michelle:<\/strong> Yes; right.\n\n<strong>Lindsey:<\/strong> I think that that\u2019s kind of what we tend to try to do with growing in godliness. We know that it seems cool to seem grown up. We want maturity, naturally; and we want to be impressive to other people; and we want to seem like we\u2019ve developed skills that we may not have actually developed. In the process of trying to look impressive to other people, we try to fake maturity: we try to pretend that we don\u2019t gossip; we try to pretend that we\u2019re not struggling with anger, or lust, or greed, or whatever it may be in our heart; but it doesn\u2019t look real, because it isn\u2019t real.\n\nWhen we think about the before and the after picture, we know that, when we come to faith in Christ, that He is going to conform us to this image and that He makes all things new; but we really, really, desperately want Him to do it <em>immediately<\/em>, with the flip of a switch. When He doesn\u2019t, it\u2019s very easy to get disappointed and think: \u201cOh, well, maybe I\u2019m not really saved,\u201d or \u201cMaybe I don\u2019t know Jesus,\u201d\u2014to miss the fact that that change comes in the transformative process of sanctification over time.\n\nSo rather than seeing yourself as: \u201cWell, I professed faith\u2014I walked an aisle; checked a box\/I prayed a prayer\u2014I should look like Jesus today, and I\u2019m still struggling with my sin,\u201d we need to see that as an invitation to <em>grow<\/em> and understand that the after picture, where we\u2019re <em>completely<\/em> made new and look completely like Christ, is not until the very end, when Jesus returns and makes the whole world new. That doesn\u2019t mean that we just settle for the yucky parts that still exist in our hearts; but it does mean that we need to strive to change, little by little by little, and develop that maturity, progressively, over time.\n\n<strong>Michelle:<\/strong> You know, Lindsey, when I was young\u2014let\u2019s go back to <em>my<\/em> teenage years\u2014learning about God was the last thing on my list; it was the very <em>last<\/em> thing on my list. As I\u2019ve grown, of course, it\u2019s become\u2014not always the first thing like it <em>should<\/em> be\u2014but it\u2019s up on the list a lot more.\n\nAs I\u2019ve become a Sunday school teacher, or a teacher in some way, I\u2019ve watched little kids, like kindergarteners\u2014they\u2019re <em>so excited <\/em>about God\u2014but then, once you work up through the high school years, they\u2019re kind of like, \u201cOh, yes; we\u2019ve heard this all before.\u201d How do <em>you<\/em>, as a mom, continue to instill excitement into Madeline and into other girls that you are mentoring?\n\n<strong>Lindsey:<\/strong> That\u2019s a really good question. You know, I feel like, a lot of times\u2014when teenagers have kind of lost that sparkle for following Jesus and are kind of unimpressed by the gospel\u2014I think sometimes it can be indicative that they\u2019ve just gotten distracted by worldly pursuits. You know, the world outside of our front door is very flashy; it\u2019s very attractive. Satan makes sure that we want to look at it, and we want to follow it.\n\nI think that, as parents, anything we can do to remind them that the pleasures of the world are fleeting: that they\u2019re not real, and that they don\u2019t satisfy, and not feeding the things that we know our kids are specifically wired to lust after and to chase after. There are certain things that my daughter might be really interested in that I think are really great pursuits, because they\u2019re going to feed her wonder and fascination of who God is; and then there are other things that I feel like would just be distracting. I think you have to know your kid to know, \u201cWhat are the things that are going to be the most easily distracting?\u201d\n\nI think another part of it is that you have to make faith so relevant for your daily life and deeds that there\u2019s not a way to separate it from your daily life. When we\u2019re regularly talking about the need for God, and the need for Christ\u2019s forgiveness, and the need to be made new, and the need to repent, and the need to ask forgiveness\u2014all of these things\u2014it becomes such a daily language that you\u2019re just more aware of your <em>need<\/em>. When you\u2019re aware of your need, I think that\u2014maybe that\u2019s the key\u2014when you\u2019re aware of that need, that fuels the desire to look for God; because you\u2019re like, \u201cI know I can\u2019t do this in my own strength. I know I need God; He is bigger than I am,\u201d and \u201cI need to understand Him, because I cannot do this without Him.\u201d\n\nI think a lot of teenagers don\u2019t have that because their parents care, honestly, so well for them that they don\u2019t know need. They don\u2019t know what it\u2019s like to not have something or to not be in control of a situation. Sometimes, just allowing them to feel that <em>need<\/em>, and then pointing them to Jesus, Who will meet the need, maybe makes that more necessary to chase after.\n\n<strong>Michelle:<\/strong> Yes.\n\n[Studio]\n\n<strong>Michelle:<\/strong> You\u2019re listening to my conversation with Lindsey Carlson. Isn\u2019t she so encouraging to help you understand your teen, and how to better share Christ with them? She wrote the book, <em>Growing in Godliness: A Teen Girl\u2019s Guide to Maturing in Christ. <\/em>We\u2019re going to hear more encouragement from her, but we need to take this break. I\u2019ll be back in <em>two<\/em> minutes.\n\n[Radio Station Spot Break]\n\n<strong>Michelle: <\/strong>Welcome back to <em>FamilyLife This Week<\/em>. I'm Michelle Hill. Today, we\u2019re talking with Lindsey Carlson, author of <em>Growing in Godliness: A Teen Girl\u2019s Guide to Maturing in Christ<\/em>. Here\u2019s Part Two of my conversation with Lindsey.\n\n[Previous Interview]\n\n<strong>Michelle:<\/strong> Lindsey, I\u2019m going to read for you a series of questions that you have in your book, <em>Growing in Godliness<\/em>:\n\nHow do you respond when God answers, \u201cNo,\u201d to a prayer request, or gives you something other than what you\u2019ve asked for, or leads you through an unwelcome challenge or trial?\n\nDo you ever feel angry, fearful, or anxious when you don\u2019t know what the future holds?\n\nDo you worry God\u2019s forgotten you?\n\nHave you ever tried to take over for Him or attempted to manipulate Him into giving you what you want?\n\n<strong>Lindsey:<\/strong> Yes.\n\n<strong>Michelle:<\/strong> Okay, those are all questions that, like, I fight <em>all the time<\/em>!\n\n<strong>Lindsey:<\/strong> Absolutely! [Laughter] I do too! So I knew how to ask them!\n\n<strong>Michelle:<\/strong> As I\u2019m reading this, I\u2019m like, \u201cOkay, first of all, this is speaking to me; because I ask all those questions all the time.\u201d That is such a hard thing to answer for a teenager: to wait\/to humbly wait on Him for that answer or to know, if what we\u2019ve asked for, is in His will. That\u2019s hard! How do you talk to a child about that?\n\n<strong>Lindsey:<\/strong> Well, I think it\u2019s <em>essential<\/em> to talk to kids about this. I can think about\u2014even when my kids were very, very young, you know, you have a fish that starts to get sick or something\u2014you know, if you pray for the fish to live, and then the fish dies overnight, does that teach your kids that God isn\u2019t good because He allowed your fish to die? Well, that is a prime set-up to teach your kids practical theology.\n\n<strong>Michelle:<\/strong> Yes.\n\n<strong>Lindsey:<\/strong> Your kids need practical theology, because everything that they\u2019re learning and taking in is teaching them something. When you and I, you know, listen to Christian radio, or listen to a sermon when we go to a friend\u2019s church, or we talk to a friend who says something in passing, all those little things and bits and pieces that we\u2019re hearing are piling up as pieces of information that are forming what we think to be true about God. If we are reading\u2014I even think about signs at Hobby Lobby<sup>\u00ae<\/sup> or something, that have a nice-sounding phrase on it that\u2014you know, says \u201cBlessed,\u201d or something\u2014you know? It\u2019s completely <em>not <\/em>tied to any Bible verse or anything, but we start to make assumptions about what that must mean.\n\nWhen we\u2019ve gathered all these things from random sources\u2014and we don\u2019t necessarily know if they\u2019re tied to Scripture, or if they\u2019re someone\u2019s opinion, or a misinterpretation of Scripture, or anything like that\u2014we need someone to come in and give us a solid base to say, \u201cOkay, this is actually what God\u2019s Word says,\u201d and \u201cWhen He\u2019s talking about this in Scripture, this is who He is talking to,\u201d or \u201c\u2026this is what He is talking about. This doesn\u2019t say that God is going to give you all the desires of your heart if you want a race car and a mansion, and you know, a husband and three girls.\u201d We make these extravagant lists of things; and then we bring in all this terrible, faulty understanding of Scripture to the table; then we think God is unkind, or ungracious, or that God is not providing for us.\n\nIf we can take kids and meet them in subjects that they understand\u2014we don\u2019t have to use big words like \u201ctheology,\u201d \u201csanctification,\u201d \u201cregeneration\u201d\u2014I mean, we can; that\u2019s great\u2014but we can also just say: \u201cYou know what? It hurts when God doesn\u2019t answer in the way that we want Him to; doesn\u2019t it? It\u2019s sad. Did you know, though, that God says, even when you\u2019re sad, He will be with you?\u2014and that He will comfort you?\u2014and that, when He sends the Holy Spirit, the Holy Spirit will be your comforter? What does that look like for God to comfort you?\u201d I mean, these are the prime ways that we engage kids in spiritual language and start to build biblical understanding of God\u2019s good character and Who He is.\n\n<strong>Michelle:<\/strong> And it sounds like what you\u2019re building on, also, is to open your child\u2019s eyes to the fact that the Bible is truth. Every single word in the Bible is truth. That\u2019s a mindset that we\u2019re having a hard time trying to break. As you\u2019re talking, you\u2019re saying, \u201cOkay, God is truth!\u201d Help a parent understand just how we can continue to instill that fact into our kids\u2019 lives: that the Bible is our authority.\n\n<strong>Lindsey:<\/strong> Yes; that one, I think, is one of the most important things that you, as a parent, have to settle in your own heart; because it will be behind every conversation that you have with your kids about faith; because they are growing up in a generation that tells them that there is no truth: \u201cTruth is up to you. You make it; you decide it. Everything is shift-able.\u201d\n\nWhen your kids are growing up in a world that says, \u201cYou do you!\u201d\u2014like: \u201cMake your own decisions,\u201d \u201cLive your truth,\u201d\u2014all of these things\u2014they also have access to the internet. If my son does not know how to bake something, he Google<sup>\u00ae<\/sup>s it. Five minutes later, he thinks he\u2019s the Iron Chef; because he can make chocolate chip muffins. [Laughter] And then he gets surprised, when he doesn\u2019t follow the instructions the right way, and it turns out, you know, flat muffins or salt-less muffins, or whatever it is. This happens all the time!\n\nTeaching our kids that, just because you type something into an internet search engine, or ask someone who has been given a position of authority\/like a teacher, does not mean that the answer that they are going to give you is actually good and true. I think that\u2019s when we can turn our kids to the Proverbs and say, \u201cLook how much God has shown us about: \u2018What does wisdom looks like?\u2019 \u201cWhat does foolishness looks like?\u2019 and \u2018How do we determine which is which?\u2019\u201d\n\nI think that, if we just kind of leave our kids to their own devices, they\u2019re going to decide a lot of unbiblical things are good and true. It is our responsibility to say, \u201cThere <em>is <\/em>absolute truth that exists. It can be known and found; this is how you find it\u2026\u201d Engage with their arguments and their questions.\n\nIt\u2019s tempting to be impatient\u2014\n\n<strong>Michelle:<\/strong> Yes.\n\n<strong>Lindsey:<\/strong> \u2014when they do come home with questions. My kids were in public school; they would frequently hear teachers say things as fact that were not what our family believes to be found in Scripture. We would talk with them about that: \u201cWhy do you think that that\u2019s not true?\u201d and \u201cWhere do you think it says that?\u201d and \u201cHow does that contradict the Bible?\u201d and \u201cWhat do you think that that\u2019s asking them to believe that they\u2019re not considering?\u2014like they may say it as fact, but they\u2019re assuming a lot of things that they have to have faith in to believe what they\u2019re believing.\u201d\n\nWe just try to talk with our kids about that so that they\u2019re prepared to have those conversations when they go back to school or when they talk with their friends. It\u2019s not like, \u201cOh, my goodness! I didn\u2019t think through that question!\u201d They know there are answers to these things. I may not know where they are, and I might not know it off the top of my head; but it can be found!\n\n<strong>Michelle:<\/strong> Yes.\n\n<strong>Lindsey:<\/strong> And Scripture is where I need to turn to find it. So now, I have an understanding also of the importance of <em>why<\/em> I need my kids to be versed and very aware of the importance of Scripture being deeply rooted in their lives, so that they know where to go\/know where to turn for answers.\n\n<strong>Michelle:<\/strong> Have you seen a difference in Madeline\u2019s life after she read the book you wrote for her?\n\n<strong>Lindsey:<\/strong> It\u2019s hard to tell what she got from just parenting,\u2014\n\n<strong>Michelle:<\/strong> Yes, I\u2019m sure.\n\n<strong>Lindsey:<\/strong> \u2014and just things that we\u2019re already living, and the book. I do think she has read it; maybe twice. You know, I think that you can read\u2014any book you can read\u2014and get different things out of it each and every time.\n\nI think that the sweetest thing that I have seen her take away from reading the book has been that she has found it a fun tool to share with friends. It\u2019s one thing, if you say to your friends, \u201cHey, let\u2019s talk about Jesus,\u201d or \u201cHey, read this book with me.\u201d Especially, we live in the Mid-Atlantic, so it\u2019s not a super-Christian culture. It\u2019s not real popular to say, \u201cHey, let\u2019s study the Bible after school!\u201d\u2014\n\n<strong>Michelle:<\/strong> Right.\n\n<strong>Lindsey:<\/strong> \u2014she\u2019s really out on a limb when she does that\u2014but it\u2019s a lot more interesting and intriguing to people when she says, \u201cHey, did you know my mom is a published author? She wrote me this book! Would you want to talk about it?\u201d\n\nI didn\u2019t think that a teenager would want to do that kind of thing, and she has been able to do that. We actually just had one of her friends\u2014who we\u2019ve been friends with for about five years, who is about her age\u2014she read the book. They had started to have very interesting conversations about faith, and she actually just came to faith this summer.\n\n<strong>Michelle:<\/strong> Wow!\n\n<strong>Lindsey:<\/strong> To see the way that they have interacted over that book,\u2014\n\n<strong>Michelle:<\/strong> Yes.\n\n<strong>Lindsey:<\/strong> \u2014without me even\u2014like I didn\u2019t set it up; I didn\u2019t get into it\u2014she just took this book; gave it to her; she read it; and she said, \u201cHey, let\u2019s talk about it.\u201d Then the Lord progressed the story.\n\n<strong>Michelle:<\/strong> Yes.\n\n<strong>Lindsey:<\/strong> The Lord did all these things in her life, completely apart from me and my daughter. That\u2019s what is so beautiful to me about truth\u2014\n\n<strong>Michelle:<\/strong> Right.\n\n<strong>Lindsey:<\/strong> \u2014it\u2019s that when you present God\u2019s Word, you allow God\u2019s Word to do the work. I love that this book is a tool\u2014\n\n<strong>Michelle:<\/strong> Yes.\n\n<strong>Lindsey:<\/strong> \u2014that any parent can pick up and hand to either their kid, or a girl in their youth group, or someone that they know who might need to hear God\u2019s Word. God is the One doing the heavy lifting, no matter what they read on the page.\n\n<strong>Michelle:<\/strong> Yes; that is so encouraging; that is so neat to hear.\n\nLindsey, thank you so much for joining me today. This has been a joy to talk to you about how to grow in godliness and how to help our kids.\n\n<strong>Lindsey:<\/strong> Thank you for having me.\n\n[Studio]\n\n<strong>Michelle:<\/strong> Wasn\u2019t that an encouraging conversation with Lindsey Carlson? You know, if you want more information on Lindsey\u2019s ministry, go to our website, FamilyLifeThisWeek.com; that\u2019s FamilyLifeThisWeek.com. We have a link there.\n\nHey, coming up next week, we are going to talk with worship leader, Justin Unger; and we\u2019re going to talk about just why he has a passion for the local church. That\u2019s next week on <em>FamilyLife This Week. <\/em>\n\n<em>\u00a0<\/em>\n\nThanks for listening! I want to thank the president of FamilyLife<sup>\u00ae<\/sup>, David Robbins, along with our station partners around the country. And a big \u201cThank you!\u201d to our engineer today, Keith Lynch. Thanks to our producer, Marques Holt. Justin Adams is our mastering engineer, and Megan Martin is our production coordinator.\n\nOur program is a production of <em>FamilyLife Today<\/em>, and our mission is to effectively develop godly families who change the world one home at a time.\n\nI'm Michelle Hill, inviting you to join us again next time for another edition of <em>FamilyLife This Week.<\/em>\n\n<strong>\u00a0<\/strong>\n\nWe are so happy to provide these transcripts to you. 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Well, Lindsey Carlson says that she knows that you, as a parent, need God\u2019s wisdom.\n\n<strong>Lindsey:<\/strong> There are certain things that my daughter might be really interested in that I think are really great pursuits, because they\u2019re going to feed her wonder and fascination of who God is; and then there are other things that I feel like would just be distracting. Those things might not distract one of my sons; but for her, I know that it\u2019s very alluring. I think you have to know your kid to know, \u201cWhat are the things that are going to be the most easily distracting?\u201d\n\n<strong>Michelle:<\/strong> Lindsey Carlson is going to help us understand how to raise our kids in life\u2014but most importantly in faith\u2014on this edition of <em>FamilyLife This Week<\/em>.\n\nWelcome to <em>FamilyLife This Week.<\/em> I\u2019m Michelle Hill. Last week, at the end of our show, I mentioned, \u201cIf you have a teenager right now, there are days that, well, you might love them; and there are days that you probably <em>plead<\/em> with God for enough love not to scream at them\u201d; because raising teens is hard.\n\nYou know, as a parent, you\u2019re seeing these years left to guide and direct them in your home\u2014well, they\u2019re limited\/they\u2019re coming to an end. You\u2019re asking yourself, \u201cWhat is the one thing I want them to leave my home with?\u2014a good work ethic?\u201d Well, yes; that\u2019s why they do their chores. \u201c\u2026\u2014good manners?\u201d\u2014well, yes, that\u2019s why you\u2019ve worked so hard to instill that in them. And you want them to be good citizens, but is that all? Yes, I know, you\u2019re probably thinking right now, \u201cMichelle, you\u2019ve forgotten the most important thing.\u201d You want them to <em>love<\/em> God and to know Christ as their Lord and Savior.\n\nWell, recently, I talked with my friend, Lindsey Carlson. Lindsey is a mom; but she\u2019s also an author of a brand-new book entitled, <em>Growing in Godliness: A Teen Girl\u2019s Guide to Maturing in Christ. <\/em>She had some <em>great <\/em>answers on just: \u201cHow do we help our kids understand the love of God?\u201d You know, I really love Lindsey. We\u2019ve been friends for several years now. I think she just has some <em>great<\/em> advice on how to help our kids grow. Here\u2019s my conversation with Lindsey Carlson.\n\n[Previous Interview]\n\n<strong>Michelle:<\/strong> So, Lindsey, what are your hopes and dreams for your daughter, Madeline?\n\n<strong>Lindsey:<\/strong> Wow! That\u2019s a loaded question.\n\nYou know, I think that moms, generally, have some kind of dream version of their daughter, like, \u201cOh, she\u2019ll be just like me,\u201d or \u201cOh, she won\u2019t be anything like me,\u201d\u2014\n\n<strong>Michelle:<\/strong> Yes.\n\n<strong>Lindsey:<\/strong> \u2014or \u201cShe\u2019ll participate in this activity or that activity.\u201d\n\nI feel like, because I\u2019m walking with Christ, my dreams for her have really always just been that she would pursue the Lord with a pure heart\u2014you know?\u2014and really just want to know God and make Him known. That can look really, really different however the Lord calls her to live.\n\nI think it has allowed me to kind of let go of the: \u201cThis is what my wedding will look like when I grow up,\u201d \u201cThis is what my daughter will look like when I grow up,\u201d\u2014and to really just cling to that understanding of: \u201cCome, Lord Jesus. Make Yourself known in her life. Call her to do what You\u2019ve called her to do. Help me to just walk beside her and hold her hand.\u201d\n\n<strong>Michelle:<\/strong> \u2014which really gives <em>her<\/em> freedom. You have <em>not<\/em> put her in a box; you haven\u2019t limited her in any way; you have just asked her to live her life before Christ.\n\n<strong>Lindsey:<\/strong> Yes; and I won\u2019t say that that\u2019s been an easy road to walk. I mean, there was, definitely in the early days, a letting go of\/I don\u2019t need to shape her to fit the mold I think that she should fit in order to fulfill <em>my<\/em> dreams of motherhood. I need to say: \u201cThank You, Lord, that my child is captured by how amazing animals are!\u201d \u201cThank You, Lord, that she loves to play in the dirt,\u201d \u201cThank You, Lord, that she has this gift.\u201d\n\nBut I think that, you know, it\u2019s always kind of a letting-go process: trying to see what the Lord is doing and thanking Him for how He has made her uniquely.\n\n<strong>Michelle:<\/strong> You know, there\u2019s probably a mom right now, who\u2019s listening and saying, \u201cLetting go process\u2014what did that look like?\u201d\n\n<strong>Lindsey:<\/strong> I think it\u2019s walking by the Spirit and keeping in mind, when you look at Scripture: \u201cWhat are scriptural mandates for obedience to the Lord, and what are preferences?\u201d It\u2019s not in the Scripture that my daughter needs to wear a bow on her head. It\u2019s not more pleasing to God if she chooses dolls over dinosaurs. I think the Lord has used parenting a lot to work out a lot of my control-freak tendencies that were unholy. [Laughter]\n\n<strong>Michelle:<\/strong> I\u2019ve heard that a lot!\n\nNow, in your book, <em>Growing in Godliness<\/em>, it\u2019s a beautiful book for young ladies. I know that Madeline was the reason why you wrote that. Why did you write a book for her?\n\n<strong>Lindsey:<\/strong> I started thinking about this book when she was approaching her 13<sup>th<\/sup> birthday; because I think that I had this kind of overwhelming sense of: \u201cTime seems to be speeding up really fast.\u201d\n\n<strong>Michelle:<\/strong> Yes.\n\n<strong>Lindsey:<\/strong> When she was approaching 13, I kind of had this moment of like, \u201cGosh! I\u2019ve been doing all I have known to do, but there still seems to be so much more that I want to tell her. How do I put myself in her life in a way that can say, \u2018Hey, as you\u2019re heading into middle school and then high school, here are the things that are <em>the most important <\/em>things. It\u2019s not math; it\u2019s not reading; it\u2019s not driving a car; it\u2019s not makeup tutorials. The most important thing that you need to know is how to grow in godliness.\u2019\u201d\n\n<strong>Michelle:<\/strong> Yes.\n\n<strong>Lindsey:<\/strong> So just for her communication preferences, I think I kind of thought, \u201cYou know, I think that would be a really special\/like a really cool birthday present\u2014to just write to her and surprise her with it.\u201d That was really, honestly, all that I set out to do\u2014but then the more that it formed, the more I kind of thought, \u201cYou know, I wish I had had this kind of book when I was a teenager.\u201d\n\n<strong>Michelle:<\/strong> You know, as I read your book, I felt <em>that<\/em>\u2014that you were trying to be practical; but yet, you were trying to paint this picture of God to say: \u201cHe is your All-in-all. He is the King of kings and Lord of lords,\u201d\u2014and trying to also say\u2014\u201cOkay, it\u2019s not math; it\u2019s not Facebook<sup>\u00ae<\/sup>; it\u2019s not Instagram<sup>\u00ae<\/sup>, or TikTok<sup>\u00ae<\/sup>, or wherever you\u2019re residing these days. There is something <em>so much<\/em> bigger and <em>so much<\/em> greater.\u201d\n\nIn your first chapter, you talk about the before and after pictures in our lives. Share that with us; what does that look like?\n\n<strong>Lindsey:<\/strong> I think that our before picture is, obviously, we are dead in sin and following the course of the air. We need help! The before picture\u2014I actually used the metaphor in my book of\u2014do you remember Glamour Shots? [Laughter] Were you in the Glamour Shots generation?\n\n<strong>Michelle:<\/strong> I <em>was <\/em>in the Glamour Shots generation! I never had a Glamour Shot; I <em>always<\/em> wanted one! That was\u2014\n\n<strong>Lindsey:<\/strong> Well\u2014\n\n<strong>Michelle:<\/strong> \u2014you know\u2014\n\n<strong>Lindsey:<\/strong> Exactly!\n\n<strong>Michelle:<\/strong> \u2014you became the \u201cin\u201d person if you\u2014\n\n<strong>Lindsey:<\/strong> Yes, exactly! That\u2019s probably the only reason I wanted it, because it was like the trendy thing when I was in fifth grade or whatever it was.\n\n<strong>Michelle:<\/strong> Yes.\n\n<strong>Lindsey:<\/strong> If you\u2019re not familiar with them\u2014you would essentially go to the mall, and they\u2019d dress you up in these ridiculous costumes, and spray your hair huge, and put tons of makeup on you; you know? Then take these dramatic pictures, where you\u2019re supposed to look like a model. Really, if you\u2019re a fifth grader, and they\u2019re doing that with you\u2014like, my teeth were like all jagged, because I hadn\u2019t had braces yet, you know? I had acne, probably; I don\u2019t know. I just kind of look like a 13-year-old realtor, you know?\u2014like it was very right.\n\n<strong>Michelle:<\/strong> Yes; right.\n\n<strong>Lindsey:<\/strong> I think that that\u2019s kind of what we tend to try to do with growing in godliness. We know that it seems cool to seem grown up. We want maturity, naturally; and we want to be impressive to other people; and we want to seem like we\u2019ve developed skills that we may not have actually developed. In the process of trying to look impressive to other people, we try to fake maturity: we try to pretend that we don\u2019t gossip; we try to pretend that we\u2019re not struggling with anger, or lust, or greed, or whatever it may be in our heart; but it doesn\u2019t look real, because it isn\u2019t real.\n\nWhen we think about the before and the after picture, we know that, when we come to faith in Christ, that He is going to conform us to this image and that He makes all things new; but we really, really, desperately want Him to do it <em>immediately<\/em>, with the flip of a switch. When He doesn\u2019t, it\u2019s very easy to get disappointed and think: \u201cOh, well, maybe I\u2019m not really saved,\u201d or \u201cMaybe I don\u2019t know Jesus,\u201d\u2014to miss the fact that that change comes in the transformative process of sanctification over time.\n\nSo rather than seeing yourself as: \u201cWell, I professed faith\u2014I walked an aisle; checked a box\/I prayed a prayer\u2014I should look like Jesus today, and I\u2019m still struggling with my sin,\u201d we need to see that as an invitation to <em>grow<\/em> and understand that the after picture, where we\u2019re <em>completely<\/em> made new and look completely like Christ, is not until the very end, when Jesus returns and makes the whole world new. That doesn\u2019t mean that we just settle for the yucky parts that still exist in our hearts; but it does mean that we need to strive to change, little by little by little, and develop that maturity, progressively, over time.\n\n<strong>Michelle:<\/strong> You know, Lindsey, when I was young\u2014let\u2019s go back to <em>my<\/em> teenage years\u2014learning about God was the last thing on my list; it was the very <em>last<\/em> thing on my list. As I\u2019ve grown, of course, it\u2019s become\u2014not always the first thing like it <em>should<\/em> be\u2014but it\u2019s up on the list a lot more.\n\nAs I\u2019ve become a Sunday school teacher, or a teacher in some way, I\u2019ve watched little kids, like kindergarteners\u2014they\u2019re <em>so excited <\/em>about God\u2014but then, once you work up through the high school years, they\u2019re kind of like, \u201cOh, yes; we\u2019ve heard this all before.\u201d How do <em>you<\/em>, as a mom, continue to instill excitement into Madeline and into other girls that you are mentoring?\n\n<strong>Lindsey:<\/strong> That\u2019s a really good question. You know, I feel like, a lot of times\u2014when teenagers have kind of lost that sparkle for following Jesus and are kind of unimpressed by the gospel\u2014I think sometimes it can be indicative that they\u2019ve just gotten distracted by worldly pursuits. You know, the world outside of our front door is very flashy; it\u2019s very attractive. Satan makes sure that we want to look at it, and we want to follow it.\n\nI think that, as parents, anything we can do to remind them that the pleasures of the world are fleeting: that they\u2019re not real, and that they don\u2019t satisfy, and not feeding the things that we know our kids are specifically wired to lust after and to chase after. There are certain things that my daughter might be really interested in that I think are really great pursuits, because they\u2019re going to feed her wonder and fascination of who God is; and then there are other things that I feel like would just be distracting. I think you have to know your kid to know, \u201cWhat are the things that are going to be the most easily distracting?\u201d\n\nI think another part of it is that you have to make faith so relevant for your daily life and deeds that there\u2019s not a way to separate it from your daily life. When we\u2019re regularly talking about the need for God, and the need for Christ\u2019s forgiveness, and the need to be made new, and the need to repent, and the need to ask forgiveness\u2014all of these things\u2014it becomes such a daily language that you\u2019re just more aware of your <em>need<\/em>. When you\u2019re aware of your need, I think that\u2014maybe that\u2019s the key\u2014when you\u2019re aware of that need, that fuels the desire to look for God; because you\u2019re like, \u201cI know I can\u2019t do this in my own strength. I know I need God; He is bigger than I am,\u201d and \u201cI need to understand Him, because I cannot do this without Him.\u201d\n\nI think a lot of teenagers don\u2019t have that because their parents care, honestly, so well for them that they don\u2019t know need. They don\u2019t know what it\u2019s like to not have something or to not be in control of a situation. Sometimes, just allowing them to feel that <em>need<\/em>, and then pointing them to Jesus, Who will meet the need, maybe makes that more necessary to chase after.\n\n<strong>Michelle:<\/strong> Yes.\n\n[Studio]\n\n<strong>Michelle:<\/strong> You\u2019re listening to my conversation with Lindsey Carlson. Isn\u2019t she so encouraging to help you understand your teen, and how to better share Christ with them? She wrote the book, <em>Growing in Godliness: A Teen Girl\u2019s Guide to Maturing in Christ. <\/em>We\u2019re going to hear more encouragement from her, but we need to take this break. I\u2019ll be back in <em>two<\/em> minutes.\n\n[Radio Station Spot Break]\n\n<strong>Michelle: <\/strong>Welcome back to <em>FamilyLife This Week<\/em>. I'm Michelle Hill. Today, we\u2019re talking with Lindsey Carlson, author of <em>Growing in Godliness: A Teen Girl\u2019s Guide to Maturing in Christ<\/em>. Here\u2019s Part Two of my conversation with Lindsey.\n\n[Previous Interview]\n\n<strong>Michelle:<\/strong> Lindsey, I\u2019m going to read for you a series of questions that you have in your book, <em>Growing in Godliness<\/em>:\n\nHow do you respond when God answers, \u201cNo,\u201d to a prayer request, or gives you something other than what you\u2019ve asked for, or leads you through an unwelcome challenge or trial?\n\nDo you ever feel angry, fearful, or anxious when you don\u2019t know what the future holds?\n\nDo you worry God\u2019s forgotten you?\n\nHave you ever tried to take over for Him or attempted to manipulate Him into giving you what you want?\n\n<strong>Lindsey:<\/strong> Yes.\n\n<strong>Michelle:<\/strong> Okay, those are all questions that, like, I fight <em>all the time<\/em>!\n\n<strong>Lindsey:<\/strong> Absolutely! [Laughter] I do too! So I knew how to ask them!\n\n<strong>Michelle:<\/strong> As I\u2019m reading this, I\u2019m like, \u201cOkay, first of all, this is speaking to me; because I ask all those questions all the time.\u201d That is such a hard thing to answer for a teenager: to wait\/to humbly wait on Him for that answer or to know, if what we\u2019ve asked for, is in His will. That\u2019s hard! How do you talk to a child about that?\n\n<strong>Lindsey:<\/strong> Well, I think it\u2019s <em>essential<\/em> to talk to kids about this. I can think about\u2014even when my kids were very, very young, you know, you have a fish that starts to get sick or something\u2014you know, if you pray for the fish to live, and then the fish dies overnight, does that teach your kids that God isn\u2019t good because He allowed your fish to die? Well, that is a prime set-up to teach your kids practical theology.\n\n<strong>Michelle:<\/strong> Yes.\n\n<strong>Lindsey:<\/strong> Your kids need practical theology, because everything that they\u2019re learning and taking in is teaching them something. When you and I, you know, listen to Christian radio, or listen to a sermon when we go to a friend\u2019s church, or we talk to a friend who says something in passing, all those little things and bits and pieces that we\u2019re hearing are piling up as pieces of information that are forming what we think to be true about God. If we are reading\u2014I even think about signs at Hobby Lobby<sup>\u00ae<\/sup> or something, that have a nice-sounding phrase on it that\u2014you know, says \u201cBlessed,\u201d or something\u2014you know? It\u2019s completely <em>not <\/em>tied to any Bible verse or anything, but we start to make assumptions about what that must mean.\n\nWhen we\u2019ve gathered all these things from random sources\u2014and we don\u2019t necessarily know if they\u2019re tied to Scripture, or if they\u2019re someone\u2019s opinion, or a misinterpretation of Scripture, or anything like that\u2014we need someone to come in and give us a solid base to say, \u201cOkay, this is actually what God\u2019s Word says,\u201d and \u201cWhen He\u2019s talking about this in Scripture, this is who He is talking to,\u201d or \u201c\u2026this is what He is talking about. This doesn\u2019t say that God is going to give you all the desires of your heart if you want a race car and a mansion, and you know, a husband and three girls.\u201d We make these extravagant lists of things; and then we bring in all this terrible, faulty understanding of Scripture to the table; then we think God is unkind, or ungracious, or that God is not providing for us.\n\nIf we can take kids and meet them in subjects that they understand\u2014we don\u2019t have to use big words like \u201ctheology,\u201d \u201csanctification,\u201d \u201cregeneration\u201d\u2014I mean, we can; that\u2019s great\u2014but we can also just say: \u201cYou know what? It hurts when God doesn\u2019t answer in the way that we want Him to; doesn\u2019t it? It\u2019s sad. Did you know, though, that God says, even when you\u2019re sad, He will be with you?\u2014and that He will comfort you?\u2014and that, when He sends the Holy Spirit, the Holy Spirit will be your comforter? What does that look like for God to comfort you?\u201d I mean, these are the prime ways that we engage kids in spiritual language and start to build biblical understanding of God\u2019s good character and Who He is.\n\n<strong>Michelle:<\/strong> And it sounds like what you\u2019re building on, also, is to open your child\u2019s eyes to the fact that the Bible is truth. Every single word in the Bible is truth. That\u2019s a mindset that we\u2019re having a hard time trying to break. As you\u2019re talking, you\u2019re saying, \u201cOkay, God is truth!\u201d Help a parent understand just how we can continue to instill that fact into our kids\u2019 lives: that the Bible is our authority.\n\n<strong>Lindsey:<\/strong> Yes; that one, I think, is one of the most important things that you, as a parent, have to settle in your own heart; because it will be behind every conversation that you have with your kids about faith; because they are growing up in a generation that tells them that there is no truth: \u201cTruth is up to you. You make it; you decide it. Everything is shift-able.\u201d\n\nWhen your kids are growing up in a world that says, \u201cYou do you!\u201d\u2014like: \u201cMake your own decisions,\u201d \u201cLive your truth,\u201d\u2014all of these things\u2014they also have access to the internet. If my son does not know how to bake something, he Google<sup>\u00ae<\/sup>s it. Five minutes later, he thinks he\u2019s the Iron Chef; because he can make chocolate chip muffins. [Laughter] And then he gets surprised, when he doesn\u2019t follow the instructions the right way, and it turns out, you know, flat muffins or salt-less muffins, or whatever it is. This happens all the time!\n\nTeaching our kids that, just because you type something into an internet search engine, or ask someone who has been given a position of authority\/like a teacher, does not mean that the answer that they are going to give you is actually good and true. I think that\u2019s when we can turn our kids to the Proverbs and say, \u201cLook how much God has shown us about: \u2018What does wisdom looks like?\u2019 \u201cWhat does foolishness looks like?\u2019 and \u2018How do we determine which is which?\u2019\u201d\n\nI think that, if we just kind of leave our kids to their own devices, they\u2019re going to decide a lot of unbiblical things are good and true. It is our responsibility to say, \u201cThere <em>is <\/em>absolute truth that exists. It can be known and found; this is how you find it\u2026\u201d Engage with their arguments and their questions.\n\nIt\u2019s tempting to be impatient\u2014\n\n<strong>Michelle:<\/strong> Yes.\n\n<strong>Lindsey:<\/strong> \u2014when they do come home with questions. My kids were in public school; they would frequently hear teachers say things as fact that were not what our family believes to be found in Scripture. We would talk with them about that: \u201cWhy do you think that that\u2019s not true?\u201d and \u201cWhere do you think it says that?\u201d and \u201cHow does that contradict the Bible?\u201d and \u201cWhat do you think that that\u2019s asking them to believe that they\u2019re not considering?\u2014like they may say it as fact, but they\u2019re assuming a lot of things that they have to have faith in to believe what they\u2019re believing.\u201d\n\nWe just try to talk with our kids about that so that they\u2019re prepared to have those conversations when they go back to school or when they talk with their friends. It\u2019s not like, \u201cOh, my goodness! I didn\u2019t think through that question!\u201d They know there are answers to these things. I may not know where they are, and I might not know it off the top of my head; but it can be found!\n\n<strong>Michelle:<\/strong> Yes.\n\n<strong>Lindsey:<\/strong> And Scripture is where I need to turn to find it. So now, I have an understanding also of the importance of <em>why<\/em> I need my kids to be versed and very aware of the importance of Scripture being deeply rooted in their lives, so that they know where to go\/know where to turn for answers.\n\n<strong>Michelle:<\/strong> Have you seen a difference in Madeline\u2019s life after she read the book you wrote for her?\n\n<strong>Lindsey:<\/strong> It\u2019s hard to tell what she got from just parenting,\u2014\n\n<strong>Michelle:<\/strong> Yes, I\u2019m sure.\n\n<strong>Lindsey:<\/strong> \u2014and just things that we\u2019re already living, and the book. I do think she has read it; maybe twice. You know, I think that you can read\u2014any book you can read\u2014and get different things out of it each and every time.\n\nI think that the sweetest thing that I have seen her take away from reading the book has been that she has found it a fun tool to share with friends. It\u2019s one thing, if you say to your friends, \u201cHey, let\u2019s talk about Jesus,\u201d or \u201cHey, read this book with me.\u201d Especially, we live in the Mid-Atlantic, so it\u2019s not a super-Christian culture. It\u2019s not real popular to say, \u201cHey, let\u2019s study the Bible after school!\u201d\u2014\n\n<strong>Michelle:<\/strong> Right.\n\n<strong>Lindsey:<\/strong> \u2014she\u2019s really out on a limb when she does that\u2014but it\u2019s a lot more interesting and intriguing to people when she says, \u201cHey, did you know my mom is a published author? She wrote me this book! Would you want to talk about it?\u201d\n\nI didn\u2019t think that a teenager would want to do that kind of thing, and she has been able to do that. We actually just had one of her friends\u2014who we\u2019ve been friends with for about five years, who is about her age\u2014she read the book. They had started to have very interesting conversations about faith, and she actually just came to faith this summer.\n\n<strong>Michelle:<\/strong> Wow!\n\n<strong>Lindsey:<\/strong> To see the way that they have interacted over that book,\u2014\n\n<strong>Michelle:<\/strong> Yes.\n\n<strong>Lindsey:<\/strong> \u2014without me even\u2014like I didn\u2019t set it up; I didn\u2019t get into it\u2014she just took this book; gave it to her; she read it; and she said, \u201cHey, let\u2019s talk about it.\u201d Then the Lord progressed the story.\n\n<strong>Michelle:<\/strong> Yes.\n\n<strong>Lindsey:<\/strong> The Lord did all these things in her life, completely apart from me and my daughter. That\u2019s what is so beautiful to me about truth\u2014\n\n<strong>Michelle:<\/strong> Right.\n\n<strong>Lindsey:<\/strong> \u2014it\u2019s that when you present God\u2019s Word, you allow God\u2019s Word to do the work. I love that this book is a tool\u2014\n\n<strong>Michelle:<\/strong> Yes.\n\n<strong>Lindsey:<\/strong> \u2014that any parent can pick up and hand to either their kid, or a girl in their youth group, or someone that they know who might need to hear God\u2019s Word. God is the One doing the heavy lifting, no matter what they read on the page.\n\n<strong>Michelle:<\/strong> Yes; that is so encouraging; that is so neat to hear.\n\nLindsey, thank you so much for joining me today. This has been a joy to talk to you about how to grow in godliness and how to help our kids.\n\n<strong>Lindsey:<\/strong> Thank you for having me.\n\n[Studio]\n\n<strong>Michelle:<\/strong> Wasn\u2019t that an encouraging conversation with Lindsey Carlson? You know, if you want more information on Lindsey\u2019s ministry, go to our website, FamilyLifeThisWeek.com; that\u2019s FamilyLifeThisWeek.com. 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