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The Tudor Dixon Podcast: Cissie Graham Lynch on Faith, Family, and Raising Children to Stand Firm at Christmas
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Tudor Dixon
Welcome to the Tudor Dixon Podcast. On this Christmas Eve episode we have Christmas expert Cissy Graham lynch with us. She is the granddaughter of evangelist Billy Graham and daughter of Franklin Graham. She works with the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association, Samaritan's Purse and has her very own podcast called Fearless. Welcome. Welcome to the podcast Sissy.
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Sissy Graham Lynch
Well tutor, thanks for having me a Christmas expert. I don't know if that's what I am on this Christmas Eve I was making a list of everything I needed to do as a mom and get it done. And I have a lot more to do than I thought I did isn't.
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Tudor Dixon
That I know when you have I have four kids. So I was just saying I've spent like the last few days wrapping gifts and as I'm wrapping these gifts I'm thinking we kind of get consumed with do I have enough for each kid and in and are they going to have what their friends are going to have? That is not what I should be consumed with. How do you as a family of faith, how do you bring that focus on Jesus?
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Sissy Graham Lynch
You know, it happens to all of us. I just was doing my devotions in the quietness this morning with the fireplace going and I realized how busy just the last couple of weeks not even doing our Advent with my kids. And I think a lot of it you have to find that time. And for me, in the season of life, life I'm in right now, the time is my car rides with my kids and that's when we're talking about the Christmas season, what it means. And I have a wide range of age in my house. I have a three year old who thinks it's all about presence and having a teacher. It's Jesus. We're celebrating Jesus Christ and his birthday. And then I have older kids, you know, and talking to them, hard conversations in those cars. Even here at Christmas when we look at some of the tragedy that's happening around the world and trying to teach my kids what truth is. So as moms, sometimes we have to get creative. Always. Not that picture perfect image that we have might have in our mind of sitting down as a family. But I think our kitchen table, our car rides, those are the greatest mission fields with our families right now in this season and the busyness of the holiday season.
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Tudor Dixon
Your grandfather had such an impact, obviously, your father has had such an impact on this country. What do you think your grandfather would be saying right now, as we see? Because I think I lost my dad a few years ago. And I think about how just in a few years, so much has changed. The anti Semitic terror attack that we just saw October 7th, this kind of rising antisemitism across the country and attack on faith in general. If your grandfather were here, how do you think he would handle that?
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Sissy Graham Lynch
You know what I miss most about my grandfather in times when I see tragedy is his steadiness and that wisdom he would bring. My dad also has that, that steadiness. And I think we all want that. We want that peace, we want that assurance. But what I'm thankful for is my grandfather. So many of his messages. I'll go back and listen to. I'll listen to his message after 9 11, when he spoke to a grieving nation from the National Cathedral and after the Oklahoma bombing. And you know what? So many of his messages. And I listened to him on Sirius xm, you can listen to the Billy Graham Channel. And his messages are like, he's speaking to today's time. Whether it's political turmoil, economic and policies going on, whatever it is, there's nothing new under the sun. Those issues we were facing, you know, 20, 30 years ago when he's giving these messages. And so I still listen to him today, but I think what he would tell you is we have a God that understands the pain. We have a God that understands that hurt and that anger. And many of us ask questions of why does God allow evil to happen? Why does God allow tragedy to happen? So much of what we've seen this year, and those are okay to ask, those questions are okay to ask. And it's okay to grieve, it's okay to be angry. But we have. But what we need to do is to go to a God who can be trusted and trust a sovereign God in these times, a God whose love does not waver in the midst of the storms and the battles that we face. And you know, I think we have a God when we have Jesus Christ as our Lord and Savior. Here's a savior that left heaven to come to this earth. He's seen the darkness of this earth. He's lived it. He experienced. He gave his life for you and for me on a cross to a world that mocked him, a world that laughed at him and rejected him. But he gave his life freely for you and me. That whoever believes in him could have eternal life. And that's what we celebrate at Christmas, this greatest gift of all. And you know what, too. We look around, we still see a world mocking him. We still see a world laughing at him and mocking the name of Jesus Christ. Because the name Jesus is offensive to the world. Because it makes us come face to face with our sins. Because he came to provide a way for us to heaven. We have an enemy that doesn't want that.
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Tudor Dixon
What do you tell parents who are. I'm in this situation where I have young children who are in middle school and high school. They are in Christian schools. They're headed to. My oldest is going to be a senior next year. So we're looking at colleges. And there is that panic of once she leaves this safety of where we go. We have a, you know, we have a church that we go to every Sunday. We have a. They have youth group. They go to Christian schools. They are surrounded by faith. Once they go into universities, there's so much opportunity for that to be tested. And how do I know I've set them up with the right foundation to withstand those tests?
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Sissy Graham Lynch
I mean, that's the launching pad that, you know, God designs for our. He designs for our children to go out into the world. And it is. It's our job. You know, I remember my grandmother, Ruth Graham, she said, as parents, you know, when we talk about salvation and our faith, that's a miracle of the heart. And we, as moms and parents, we're not in the miracle business, only God is. But what we can do is what we're responsible for is the possible, not the impossible. So we take care. We train them, just as you've been, like you said, taking them to church and teaching them what they believe and why they believe it. So that when they do go into this world, that they know not just what my mom believes, but I know what I believe and why. And their faith will be tested. They're going to be challenged. There's going to be questions that they ask, and those are probably going to be really good questions. But we're still there at home when they come home and ask those questions. It is scary when you look at these universities, I don't know if I want to spend my money and send these, my kids to some of these universities. And that'll be a conversation I'll have in a couple of years when my daughter reaches that point.
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Tudor Dixon
You know, it's interesting because I just heard on the news this morning that a. There was a university, I can't remember which university, but one of the professors, I think it was like an assistant professor, failed one of the students on her paper because they were asked about transgenderism and she referenced the Bible and, and the professor was transgender, said it was offensive, failed her. How do you still. Obviously this has become quite an issue. The university has gone in and reviewed it. But how do you stand strong in your faith when there is so much attack? How do you. What is the message that you give to young people as they go out into the world to say it is you are going to be. Have these moments where you're going to be pushed back upon and it's okay to stand strong in those things.
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Sissy Graham Lynch
Yeah. I have three kids. I have a 12 year old, a 9 year old and then a 3 year old. She's my wild one. But I've had these conversations with my kids. When they see the news, I have the news going on, they see the tragedy happening and we have to talk to them. I talk to them in a way that they would understand it at their age. But as believers in Jesus, the world won't like it and the world won't like their faith. And as we as the news story you just shared, I remember on college campus I went to Liberty University for two years, which also that was a shock because I grew up in public high school, so to go there where you can pray in classrooms. But then I transferred to Appalachian State University and I had my professor look down her glasses at me and call me Ms. Liberty because she hated Jerry Falwell senior at the time and she didn't even know my last name. She didn't know who I was. She later eventually found out. But I was really tested in my faith. I mean, these were some tough debate classes I was in. I'm thankful Liberty, I think, helped prepare me for those. But I would be the only conservative if I was. I was the only outspoken one in that classroom and the only Christian that would at least be outspoken. I'm not gonna say I was the only one in there, but I had to know what I believed and why. And my favorite Bible verse is in Daniel, chapter 11. You know, Daniel and his friends, they were taken captive to a foreign land but they didn't compromise to the world around them. And In Daniel chapter 7 it says those who know their God will be able to stand in strength and take action. And that's what we want for our children. That's what we want for ourselves and world. We want to be able to stand firm, but then we also want to be able to take action with that. And how do we do that? And that's to know who God is, to know his attributes, to know what he loves, what he doesn't love. The world will try to redefine love. I've even had that conversation with my kids in the car this week. What is love? Because the world will define it differently. They try to redefine and rob us of our terms. You know, I, I talk to my kids, what does the rainbow flag mean in script? I mean what does the rainbow mean in scripture? But what is the world adopted it? And those are conversations we have starting young that they will not be like because of their faith in Jesus.
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Tudor Dixon
Let's take a quick commercial break. We'll continue next on the Tudor Dixon Podcast.
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Sissy Graham Lynch
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Tudor Dixon
It's kind of like it's such a bright symbol out there every day. So that's been one of our biggest conversations is the girls have been like, well, I don't want to wear rainbow stuff to school because I don't want people to think that I'm I'm a part of the LGBTQ group. I just want to be myself. And I'm like, but you can't allow the rainbow to be taken and seized by a group and say that you can't ever have it because the rainbow is our symbol. And it is a really, it's a confusing thing because I do think that whether it's politics or whether it's faith, there is an attack to take over the symbols that are in the words that are important to us and change them. And I don't want my kids to feel like that's off limits now because it's been taken over by another group.
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Sissy Graham Lynch
Yeah, I just try to teach them what does God's word say? And then I'm very open, what does the world say about it? Because I want. There's a stark difference and I want them to be able to recognize that even at a young age, you know, of course, in ways that they can understand at 12 years old, but they gain. They know a lot at 12 and 9 years old.
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Tudor Dixon
So you say you listened to a lot of your grandfather's sermons, which you just talked about Daniel and said, you know, this is what, this is. What I can point to in the Bible that is still relevant today, which is why the Bible is such a wonderful living document, is that it is still relevant today. It tells us everything that we need to know on how to live. But that is also true of when someone is preaching the Bible. And so you go back and you listen to your grandfather's speeches and his messages. And one of the things I think he was so clever about was that he was, he was genuinely lovable and made jokes. You know, he wasn't always serious. He was always, he was self deprecating. He would make jokes, he would bring people in, he would let people see.
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Tudor Dixon
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Sissy Graham Lynch
Yeah, the same Billy Graham the world saw was the same Billy Graham we got at home. And oh, I do miss him. I miss my grandmother. I miss their wisdom. And I'm thankful that, that as a granddaughter I get to listen, that that's available to me to listen to them because when they were alive and when he was in the middle of his ministry, I was so young that, you know, I hadn't lived life to be able to ask him. I hadn't seen things going on in our world to be able to ask him, well, how would you respond? So I listened to him today and it is. You would. I have, I used to have Charlie Kirk. He would message me and say, hey, I'm listening to your grandfather's message right now. And it's like he's speaking to today. It's because the gospel does not change. That's why it's relevant. That's why it sounds like he's speaking to today. And that's what we need right now. That when we look at the world and the darkness of the world, the Only thing. And it seems like darkness prevails. We have to choose light. And Jesus Christ is the light of the world. And that's what we're celebrating at Christmas. And so, yeah, I encourage you sometimes if I'm, you know, listen to Billy Graham, look up on YouTube or Sirius XM, because I'm still learning from them.
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Tudor Dixon
There was a movie a few years back, Unbroken, and that was incredibly powerful to me. Was it your brother that was in the movie that played?
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Sissy Graham Lynch
So in the first one, Unbroken, that was produced by Angelina Jolie, it kind of stopped at the story, you know, when Louis Zepperini, when World War II was over. But there was more to Louis Zeppini's story. And those who are listening, who Louis Zeppini was, He was a prisoner of war. He was an Olympic, Olympic athlete before World War II started. But then in a. When he was taken prisoner and he was beaten and tortured. But when he came back to America, he suffered with severe PTSD and alcohol, and his marriage was failing. His wife had taken him to a Billy Graham crusade in California. He didn't want to go. And in that day, or in that day, he surrendered his life to Jesus Christ at a Billy Graham crusade. But my brother, Will Graham, who's named after my grandfather, got to play in the second story. They did a kind of a part two, and he got to play the role of my grandfather.
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Tudor Dixon
How cool was that? I mean, that had to have been such a huge honor.
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Sissy Graham Lynch
Yeah, I think. And if I remember correctly, he spoke the same sermon my grandfather spoke that night. If I remember some of the words of my grandfather that.
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Tudor Dixon
So I read the book and then I saw the movie, and it made me think about the importance of. I mean, obviously you're. Your grandfather was larger than life. But every day it's important for us to live out our faith because you never know whose life that's going to impact. Tell us a little bit about your ministry and how you're able to reach people. And just as a family in general, do you have any idea of the number of lives you've saved?
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Sissy Graham Lynch
Oh, that's not who we saved, you know, it's who. Jesus Christ and God. I mean, what an honor, I think, to work in ministry. I think growing up, I never wanted to have anything to do with ministry. I wanted to be far away from the Graham name and far away from Samaritan, his purse and the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association. But as you grow up, God's got other plans for you. And I think it's a true. It's a privilege and it's an honor to be in ministry. Nothing I ever feel worthy of doing, but I look at Samaritan's Purse as a whole that I get to be a part of. I look at our volunteers. This year at Samaritan's Purse, we've had almost 250,000 volunteers. There is a something for every everybody, you know, from high school to college to retirees, depending on, you know, what you love. There's something for everybody to get involved with. What an honor, because we've talked about in the beginning of the show the darkness of this world. But at Samaritan's Purse and the Billy Graham Evangelistic association, we get a front row seat to see God's goodness to work in the midst of the storms. At the Billy Graham Evangelistic association, we have chaplains who partner with Samaritan's Purse. They go out on every deployment and, you know, they pray with homeowners who have lost their homes, you know, at Bondi beach and what we just saw there, we, our chaplains were invited to come and just to pray with people who were hurting. And so it's being a part of ministry. I never thought, but I'm thankful. I'm thankful that I have a hope in Jesus Christ and I get to be a part of that and sharing that in this world.
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Tudor Dixon
I think that's fascinating considering how we started talking about how do you make sure your kids don't kind of wander away. Just the thought that you were like, I, I don't want to be a part of the ministry. Part of it, but then kind of got sucked in and now you just.
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Sissy Graham Lynch
Never say never because, you know, just the older I get, I'm thankful that I had a heritage of just faithfulness and unwavering faithfulness to serve the Lord and a grandfather and a grandmother and parents who kept their eyes on the cross in a world that the waves are crashing on every side. I'm thankful for a family that hasn't taken their eyes off the cross. And I pray that for my gener or my children and the future generations that they can be faithful in the days that they will face.
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Tudor Dixon
What was. What do you think your fear was or your. Your apprehension was about getting involved? I mean, obviously you'd seen it your whole life. Did it feel like a lot of weight to be in ministry?
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Sissy Graham Lynch
Sure. I think as a teenager, one that pressure, you're a gram. I'm technically not a pastor's kid. Father wasn't a pastor, he was an evangelist. But, you know, you had these. These preconceptions that were tossed on you and thrown on you. And my grandparents and my parents never had these expectations of us. They were so gracious. Even when we'd mess up and fail and I wouldn't, you know, broke the rules or get caught doing something I was not supposed to do. My family was just gracious. And that's. That's how we have a heavenly father who shows grace on us. But I never wanted to be a part of the Graham name, to be honest. That was a struggle I really had to face in my childhood. And there was one day I was on a trip with my dad. It was my. After my freshman year in college at Liberty, I'd really struggled, and I was struggling with an addiction privately. And my dad took me on a trip and we kind of went around the world. He had some crusades with the Billy Graham Evangelist association, but we also went to Samaritan's Purse projects. And I can remember I was in Africa. We were with this Rendelli tribe. It was like straight outta National Geographic where we were doing literacy programs for women. And I remember looking at my dad, I was standing under this tree in the desert, and I said, this is why my dad's been gone so much of my life. He was being obedient to what God had called him to do. And in that moment, God changed my heart as this kind of like bitter teenage girl towards my dad, who was gone a lot in ministry and resenting ministry. I was thankful in that moment that I had a father who was obedient to God's calling in his life. And to. As I get older, I'm just more and more thankful because I know not everybody has had that. But I want to encourage those who are listening today. Maybe you didn't grow up with a godly heritage. Maybe you didn't have that example. It's never too late to start that for your own family and to kind of change the direct the course of your family. You can start that.
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Tudor Dixon
Do you feel like that was a moment when God spoke to you? Because I think that for those of us, I. I didn't grow up in a family where we. We went to church every Sunday. I mean, we were Christian, but, you know, the Christians that go to church on Christmas and Easter, you know, so I. My faith grew as an adult. But do you think that for people who look at your family like, I think I assume everybody is just like, so gung ho Christ all the time, and it's like, this is our family mission. And we love it. Do you feel like that moment was sort of an eye opening, this is what Christ is kind of moment for you?
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Sissy Graham Lynch
It was a moment that I forgave my dad. You know, it was rooted as a child, you know, when he would miss things or miss games or different things. I didn't realize it at the moment, but there was little seeds taking place. And it was a moment that wasn't really outspoken, but I just forgave him. And God dealt with my own heart. You know, sometimes as our children, as parents, we can't control everything. God's got to deal with our own individual hearts. And in that moment, God dealt with my own heart. And it took time, but I'm just, once again, I'm thankful that I had a father that was obedient. And as parents, as we're raising our kids, we don't know how they're going to all turn out all the time. And that can be scary in this world. But my prayer is, as a parent, that I would point them and guide them to truth. The world is constantly searching for truth, but I want them to have that peace and that assurance that they can stand in strength and be able to take action. And that's what we're celebrating at Christmas. When I talk about the Christmas story, I look at Mary, a young girl, the mother of Jesus. Here was a young girl, 12 to 15 years old, whose life was turned upside down. And what she would face as a mother, as a young girl, watch her son. I mean, she would suffer through her life and what she would have to deal with. But she told the angel that day, I am the Lord's servant. May your will be done. And that's what we need to be. We need to be serving the Lord and trusting his will. And there was a peace and assurance in that. Not knowing what her life would unveil, not having all the answers to the questions when her life turned upside down, that she was going to have a baby and she's not even married, but she had a peace and assurance, and we all want that. That's what we're searching for. And through Jesus Christ, we can have that.
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Tudor Dixon
And I think that's such a great example of how the Bible impacts you and the word of God impacts you differently at different points in your life. I think when you're young, Christmas is such a magical time that Christ came. He was, you know, it was like a miracle that we see the baby Jesus come to life and, and he comes to this earth and there's the star and The Wise Men. And. And it's just such a wonderful story. And then as you get older and you actually become a mom yourself, you do look at that and you say, she was going to go through such hardship, and yet she did it with joy. And that's the difference between joy and happiness. You know, we. We've talked about this quite a bit at church recently. Is that that joy in Christ, that joy in God, that joy in knowing who your Lord is? And she said. Said, use me. That's a hard thing in society today to just say, use me. Because we don't want anything hard.
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Sissy Graham Lynch
Yeah. I mean, when you look at following in Luke, chapter two, when she had Mary the Magnificent, and it was really a parallel prayer to Hannah's prayer, and it was, my soul magnifies the Lord that at a young age her heart was saturated with God's Word. And that's kind of what I meant earlier is those who know their God will be able to stand in strength. Mary knew God was. She knew just through Scripture, has studied Scripture, that in that moment when her life took this major turn, that she was able to stand with a peace and an assurance and in God because she knew who he was. And I mean, think of a mother who watched her son hang on a cross before the world, and the world mocked her son. She was probably mocked her whole life, you know, maybe until Jesus turned that water into wine in his first miracle, that people really began to think maybe Mary was telling the truth all these years. There's something special about her son. But she was so faithful and how thankful I am, you know, that we have that example of her in Scripture. I think we don't talk about her enough. Especially in the Protestant evangelical world, we don't talk about Mary enough. But a remarkable, you know, that God chose this young girl and his plan of redemption for the world.
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Tudor Dixon
And even in that moment when he turned water to wine, she went to him and he said, it's not time yet. But he agreed to do it. You almost see this moment where God goes, I need to give back to you that love, that amazing love that is like, it's not time, but for you, I will do this.
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Sissy Graham Lynch
Yeah. I mean, we don't really know all the details of her life and what she endured, but I think in that moment, in that miracle, he did that for his mom.
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Tudor Dixon
And that is the human part, you know, that's the part where he is fully man and fully God. And that's the beauty of the story that we want to share with so many people. Let's take a quick commercial break. We'll continue next on the Tudor Dixon Podcast.
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Sissy Graham Lynch
And the talent is unreal. The best women's players on the planet are running it back with even bigger moments and bigger stakes. Don't miss as Paige Beckers, Nafiza Collier, Kelsey Plumb, Brianna Stewart and more take.
- [32:05]
Podcast Announcer
The court and redefine the game.
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Sissy Graham Lynch
This isn't your regular season. This is unrivaled, where the pace is faster, the energy is higher and every athlete shines. Unrivaled basketball season two, sponsored by Samsung Galaxy, tips off January 5 on TNT, TruTV and HBO.
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Tudor Dixon
As we go into Christmas, as we are are busy and thinking of all the last minute gifts and thinking of all the last minute wrapping, what do you think tomorrow morning when we wake up and we rush down there with our kids, what will be the first thing you do? Do you take a moment to take in the day? To take in what? Who we're celebrating? To celebrate the Lord?
- [35:32]
Sissy Graham Lynch
Absolutely. So in my tradition growing up just as a little girl in my parents home, of course I had three older brothers and I would wake up so early but my dad would make us wait. He'd go down and get his coff. You know that waiting was so hard and difficult but as we would come down he would always read the Christmas story out of Luke. And that's what we do now with my kids before we open any present, we read the Christmas story. And sometimes I'll take the Nativity for like my little one and it and do it as my husband is reading and that's what. And then we spend time as a family in prayer before, before we open any. Anything.
- [36:12]
Tudor Dixon
That sounds amazing. I think that's a great suggestion to everybody out there for this Christmas season and to make that a tradition in your homes. It's that moment of quiet and I appreciate the moment for coffee as well. So I'm with your dad on that because it's always, it doesn't matter how old my kids get. It's always like five o' clock in the morning when they're like it's morning, I've woken up up. Like what are you. This is. This should be illegal. No, it's Not.
- [36:40]
Sissy Graham Lynch
Well, now, as a parent, I understand the coffee part. I get it.
- [36:44]
Tudor Dixon
Exactly, exactly. But it is good to have that moment. And there is that moment of calm, that moment of peace. Take that moment to really instill those. Because I will tell you just before we go, I'll tell you. A few weeks ago, we had a former FBI agent on the program and the way and she had been in finance and she was there the day that the towers fell. And she said in that moment as she was running and seeing the towers falling, that a song from Sunday school came into her head. And she just started singing that song and praying. And I was almost reassured in that moment that all of these things that we've taught our kids, even if you feel like your child has kind of stepped away from faith, that foundation comes back. And you hear so many stories of someone who has gotten into trouble or stepped away from the Lord and a scripture suddenly like blooms in their heart and comes out and just like echoes in their mind. And that foundation is so important. So these moments that you build, these morning, these Christmas mornings where you take that moment to go through the word and, and learn about the Christmas story, that's what builds that foundation. So that when you send them off in those moments that are scary, they are prepared.
- [38:04]
Sissy Graham Lynch
Yeah, it really is important. And you'll never know when God uses that later in their life, but it is true. Those little Sunday school songs, they take root. And those Bible verses that may memorize and vbs, you know, during the summer, God uses that. It's rooted in their heart and God will use it in their life one day.
- [38:24]
Tudor Dixon
It has been such a pleasure talking to you. Merry Christmas, Sissy. Graham Lynch, I appreciate you coming on the podcast.
- [38:31]
Sissy Graham Lynch
Well, thank you for having me and Merry Christmas to you, tutor.
- [38:34]
Tudor Dixon
Thank you and thank you all for joining us. Merry Christmas to you all. You know where you can watch and listen to the podcast on YouTube on. Wherever you get your podcast, you can listen to it and make sure you join us next time. But everybody have an amazing and blessed Christmas.
- [38:51]
Podcast Announcer
Season two of unrivaled basketball is here.
- [38:54]
Sissy Graham Lynch
And the talent is unreal. The best women's players on the planet are running it back with even bigger moments. Moments and bigger stakes. Don't miss as Paige Becker, Snafeeza Collier, Kelsey Plumb, Brianna Stewart and more.
- [39:05]
Podcast Announcer
Take the court and redefine the game.
- [39:07]
Sissy Graham Lynch
This isn't your regular season. This is unrivaled where the pace is faster, the energy is higher and every athlete shines. Unrivaled basketball season two sponsored by Samsung Galaxy tips off January 5th on TNT, TruTV and HBO.
- [39:20]
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Tudor Dixon
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