{"id":300860,"date":"2005-03-24T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2005-03-24T17:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-stage.familylife.com\/www\/podcast\/%series%\/dying-to-live\/"},"modified":"2024-10-07T22:42:02","modified_gmt":"2024-10-08T02:42:02","slug":"dying-to-live","status":"publish","type":"podcast","link":"https:\/\/wp-stage.familylife.com\/www\/podcast\/familylife-today\/dying-to-live\/","title":{"rendered":"Dying to Live"},"content":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you knew you would die soon, what would you do?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":91,"featured_media":294104,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","inline_featured_image":false,"_uag_custom_page_level_css":"","episode_type":"","audio_file":"https:\/\/web.familylifetoday.com\/fl2005-03-24.mp3","podmotor_file_id":"","podmotor_episode_id":"","cover_image":"","cover_image_id":"","duration":"00:","filesize":"11.41M","filesize_raw":"11968786","date_recorded":"","explicit":"","block":""},"categories":[2822],"tags":[4280,4281,4299],"podcast_series":[7365],"cwp_profile":[3058],"series":[2101],"class_list":["post-300860","podcast","type-podcast","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-growing-in-your-faith","tag-death","tag-dying","tag-faith","podcast_series-living-like-youre-dying","cwp_profile-tim-kimmel","series-familylife-today"],"acf":[],"episode_featured_image":"https:\/\/wp-stage.familylife.com\/www\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1001\/2024\/09\/FLT-Podcast-Cover-2-508x508-3.jpg?w=508","episode_player_image":"https:\/\/wp-stage.familylife.com\/www\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1001\/2023\/02\/image-scaled.jpg","download_link":"https:\/\/wp-stage.familylife.com\/www\/podcast-download\/300860\/dying-to-live","player_link":"https:\/\/wp-stage.familylife.com\/www\/podcast-player\/300860\/dying-to-live","audio_player":null,"episode_data":{"playerMode":"light","subscribeUrls":{"apple_podcasts":{"key":"apple_podcasts","url":"https:\/\/podcasts.apple.com\/us\/podcast\/familylife-today\/id212174303?mt=2&app=podcast","label":"Apple Podcasts","class":"apple_podcasts","icon":"apple-podcasts.png"},"google_podcasts":{"key":"google_podcasts","url":"","label":"Google Podcasts","class":"google_podcasts","icon":"google-podcasts.png"},"spotify":{"key":"spotify","url":"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/show\/0j5UaKdQOHQCuo1bt0ebEm","label":"Spotify","class":"spotify","icon":"spotify.png"},"youtube":{"key":"youtube","url":"","label":"YouTube","class":"youtube","icon":"youtube.png"}},"rssFeedUrl":"https:\/\/wp-stage.familylife.com\/www\/feed\/podcast\/familylife-today","embedCode":"<blockquote class=\"wp-embedded-content\" data-secret=\"RZy4yqbRzs\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wp-stage.familylife.com\/www\/podcast\/familylife-today\/dying-to-live\/\">Dying to Live<\/a><\/blockquote><iframe sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-stage.familylife.com\/www\/podcast\/familylife-today\/dying-to-live\/embed\/#?secret=RZy4yqbRzs\" width=\"500\" height=\"350\" title=\"&#8220;Dying to Live&#8221; &#8212; FamilyLife\u00ae - A Cru Ministry\" data-secret=\"RZy4yqbRzs\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" class=\"wp-embedded-content\"><\/iframe><script>\n\/*! 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gospel song that says, \"This world is not my home, I'm just a-passin' through.\"\u00a0 Why is it that most of us believe that but don't live that way?\u00a0 Here's Tim Kimmel.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tTim:\u00a0I think, for some people, if we told you, \"You're going to be dead in three weeks,\" for some people I think it would cause them to go into depression, preoccupation, gloom, doom.\u00a0 But I got to thinking about a person that I know very well who actually knew He was going to die.\u00a0 Not only did He know He was going to die, He knew when and He knew how.\u00a0 His name is Jesus.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tBob:\u00a0This is FamilyLife Today for Thursday, March 24th.\u00a0 Our host is the president of FamilyLife, Dennis Rainey, and I'm Bob Lepine.\u00a0 What was the central focus of Jesus' life as He approached His final days of life on earth?\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t\u00a0And welcome to FamilyLife Today, thanks for joining us on the Thursday edition.\u00a0 When we think about eternal life, we usually think about it starting later.\u00a0 But the reality is that eternal life starts now, right?\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tDennis:\u00a0That's right.\u00a0 John 17:3 says, \"And this is eternal life that they may know Thee, the only true God in Jesus Christ whom Thou has sent.\"\u00a0 In other words, eternal life is a personal relationship with Almighty God through the person of Jesus Christ.\u00a0 That means eternal life doesn't start when you die and go to heaven.\u00a0 Eternal life begins at the moment you come into a personal relationship with the Savior.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tBob:\u00a0And you don't put off living with an eternal perspective until you reach heaven.\u00a0 We really ought to have an eternal perspective from the moment we come to know Christ.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tDennis:\u00a0That person who says \u2013 and you've heard this excuse many times \u2013 \"Well, I'm just going to sow my wild oats, and then I'll get serious about my faith and my walk with God.\"\u00a0 I think that person is in a dangerous place and really needs to take heed to some words that we're going to share with them this week here on FamilyLife Today.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tBob:\u00a0You've heard people ask the question, \"If you knew you were going to die tomorrow,\" \"If you knew you were going to die next year,\" \"If you knew you were going to die in 10 years\" \u2013 we all know we're going to die, we just don't know when.\u00a0 But the fact that it is coming, and we don't know when, ought to motivate us to live every day with an eternal perspective, and that's what Tim Kimmel challenged our staff with recently.\u00a0 Many of our listeners know Tim as the author of a number of books.\u00a0 He has been a regular guest on FamilyLife Today.\u00a0 He and his wife Darcy speak at our Weekend to Remember conferences, at our Rekindling the Romance one-day conferences for couples, and Tim was in town not long ago and did a chapel for our staff.\u00a0 And his message was about Jesus' perspective on life and death, and here, a few days before Easter, that's a good perspective for us to examine.\u00a0 Let's listen together.\u00a0 Here is part 1 of a message from Dr. Tim Kimmel.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tTim:\u00a0I went elk hunting once.\u00a0 I was armed with a bow and arrow.\u00a0 Some of you think that's barbaric but, really, it's just an idiot with a stick and a string in his hand running around the woods trying to look like a ficus plant.\u00a0 I really had no clue what I was doing, the elk had home court advantage, and they saw me, the smelled me, they heard me, they knew I was there, and they knew to keep their distance.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t\u00a0I could hear what I felt was laughter a few times \u2013 elk laughter.\u00a0 I went out this particular morning, and I realized that I had put on too many layers of clothing because one of the things when you're bowhunting is you have to sit absolutely still.\u00a0 You cannot move, and you're all camouflaged out.\u00a0 You really have to look like the woods, and when you have to many clothes on, you're overheated, and so you squirm and, obviously, that gives you away.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t\u00a0So when I came in at lunchtime I decided I'm going to shed some of these layers and go back out a little more comfortable.\u00a0 Well, I did, and we had parked the car, the Suburban \u2013 there were three other men hunting with me \u2013 and we parked this car in the meadow, and I went on up into the mountain, and I waited and waited and didn't see or hear anything.\u00a0 And when it started getting late in the afternoon, I realized it was time to get on down into the meadow while I still have light.\u00a0 I worked my way down to the meadow, the car wasn't there, the guys weren't there yet, but I thought there's a lot of reasons why that could be.\u00a0 I'll just stay put and maybe something will come by here, and I'll give them a little surprise.\u00a0 Nothing came by, and no car came back.\u00a0 It got dark.\u00a0 And then I started thinking about the trail I took down, and I realized I took a wrong turn.\u00a0 I knew exactly where I'd made that wrong turn.\u00a0 I'd come down the wrong side of the mountain.\u00a0 That meadow was on the other side of this mountain.\u00a0 I am lost.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t\u00a0It was very dark, and because I couldn't see what I was doing, I was walking along, and I tripped over a root, I think, but I fell headlong, just splashed right down into about six inches of standing water.\u00a0 I mean, I just hit it \u2013 full body \u2013 it splashed over me and covered me with water.\u00a0 So here I am with no coat, no gloves, soaking wet, and I knew the temperature was going to drop into the 20s.\u00a0 I didn't have any matches.\u00a0 I didn't have a space blanket.\u00a0 I was totally unprepared to spend the night in the woods that night and do you know what?\u00a0 For about three hours I actually thought, \"This is how I'm going to die.\u00a0 I'm going to die tonight, frozen to death out here.\"\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t\u00a0It's interesting what you think when you realize you're going to die.\u00a0 It's very interesting.\u00a0 Obviously, I thought about Darcy and the kids, and I realized how angry she's going to be at me.\u00a0 She realizes I'm going to die, but to die this way \u2013 I mean, it's so stupid.\u00a0 And, yes, the fear that grips you, all that stuff, it was all real and vivid to me, and then it was interesting \u2013 Scripture started coming to the surface, and it just started washing over me \u2013 \"I will never leave you or forsake you.\u00a0 Cast all your care upon Me, because I care for you.\"\u00a0 Jesus appeared to me \u2013 not visibly, but His presence was clearly there.\u00a0 He wrapped His arms around me, and I sensed He was there with me, and He says, \"Tim, I know right where you are, I know exactly the conditions you're in, do not worry.\u00a0 I'm going to get you through this.\"\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t\u00a0So I shifted my head that \"You're not going to die tonight.\u00a0 You're going to be very sick tomorrow, but you're not going to die tonight,\" so I realized I had to make a plan, and so I made that plan, primitive as it was, and I started to work on that plan.\u00a0 And at 3:30 in the morning, I walked into my camp.\u00a0 There were two guys asleep in the tent, just snoring away, having a great time.\u00a0 One was still out there, and so I started heading down the road in the direction I figured he would be, and about 15 minutes down that road, sure enough, I came upon him in the car, and he was so glad to see me.\u00a0 He'd been out looking the whole time.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t\u00a0When I turned 40, I did not respond well to that birthday.\u00a0 I remember that was another time when I started thinking about dying.\u00a0 In fact, I was out to dinner with Darcy, and we were in a restaurant that was rather middle-of-the-road because it had paper napkins.\u00a0 So you can write on them and draw on them, and we had ordered our food, and she was just looking at what other people were ordering, and just looking around, and I was drawing, and I drew what I thought was a pretty good rendition of a casket.\u00a0 And I said to her, I said, \"Darcy, how many people does it take to carry one of these things?\"\u00a0 She said, \"Six, eight \u2013 I think eight.\"\u00a0 I said, \"Okay, if I died tonight, who would you call?\u00a0 Who would my pallbearers be?\"\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t\u00a0She named one right away \u2013 she named another and another, and then she started filling in the blanks with my brothers.\u00a0 I said, \"No, no, no, they don't count.\u00a0 They're my brothers, they have to be there.\u00a0 They're required to be there.\u00a0 They're my brothers.\u00a0 I want to know who you would call that would drop whatever they're doing to come and drop me.\"\u00a0 And I realized that I did not have all my pallbearers accounted for.\u00a0 Now, I had many, many friends, but I didn't have those ones that stick closer than a brother \u2013 those ones that you invest your life in so much that they would move anything to be there with you when you needed them the most.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t\u00a0And so I've been spending that time ever since then grooming my pallbearers, pouring my life into those people up close to me that she can call.\u00a0 By the way, who do you think the first one she named was \u2013 that guy out looking for me; his name is Corey.\u00a0 That was the first one that came out of her mouth.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t\u00a0I want to ask you something \u2013 if you found out today that you are dying, and that your time is very limited, maybe they could give you a specific time, and you're going to die.\u00a0 You're going to be gone.\u00a0 How would that impact you?\u00a0 How would that change the way you're making decisions right now?\u00a0 I think for some people, if we told you, \"You're going to be dead in three weeks,\" for some people I think it would cause them to go into depression, and a lot of foreboding, preoccupation, gloom, doom, and so forth. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t\u00a0But I got to thinking about a person that I know very well who actually knew He was going to die.\u00a0 Not only did He know He was going to die, He knew when and He knew how.\u00a0 And yet, against that backdrop, He made deliberate choices in His life that I think we could all learn from and maybe mimic in the way we live our lives, and His name is Jesus.\u00a0 He knew exactly when He was going to die and, more importantly, He knew how.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t\u00a0Against the backdrop of His imminent death, I think it just gave Jesus a greater respect for time.\u00a0 It gave Him a greater respect for time, and He wanted to use it for things that are more important than time.\u00a0 Example \u2013 He didn't get angry when His time didn't go the way He planned.\u00a0 Do you?\u00a0 Matthew, chapter 14, starting in verse 13 \u2013 His cousin and dear friend, John the Baptist, has just been beheaded, and Jesus had been informed of this.\u00a0 Now, keep in mind, it says Jesus, a man of sorrows, acquainted with grief, and just like you would feel bad if one of your colleagues in this room died.\u00a0 Okay, so you have that grief, but what if it's also a relative?\u00a0 And also one who had just put everything on the line for you?\u00a0 Don't you think it's time to go off and grieve, and that's exactly what Jesus needed.\u00a0 He needed to go off and grieve and nurse His grief.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t\u00a0And so He said to the guys, \"We've got to get out of here.\u00a0 I need to be by myself.\"\u00a0 But then listen to this \u2013 Jesus heard what had happened.\u00a0 He withdrew by a boat privately to a solitary place.\u00a0 Hearing of this, the crowds followed Him on foot from the towns, and when Jesus landed, He saw a large crowd.\u00a0 He had compassion on them, and He healed their sick.\u00a0 In fact, if you read on, He also fed them \u2013 this is the 5,000.\u00a0 He fed with that kid's Happy Meal Deal thing, you know?\u00a0 I mean, He had a right to say to his handlers, \"Hey, send these people away.\u00a0 I need to be by myself,\" but no, no, no.\u00a0 He was dying, He was running out of time, and He wanted to use His time to do things that lasted forever.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t\u00a0He used time to do things that would outlive him.\u00a0 I look at how many people want to put their spiritual life on cruise control once they get some gray hair.\u00a0 I see this in the church all the time.\u00a0 They think, \"Well, I have done my duty on the elder board or the deacon board.\u00a0 I've been teaching Sunday school.\u00a0 Now it's time for me to get in my camper, and I'm just going to spend my Sundays just out sitting around by the lake with a line in the water.\"\u00a0 Now, listen, something we all need to remember \u2013 heaven is when we die.\u00a0 It is not here, it is not now, it is when we die.\u00a0 Don't try and set it up now.\u00a0 God says, \"I'm going to give it to you for eternity, okay?\"\u00a0 That's a pretty long time.\u00a0 Up next to what you're here, I mean, this is not even a dot on a linear timeframe.\u00a0 So this isn't that long.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t\u00a0\"Serve me, make difference\" \u2013 and you know what?\u00a0 When it comes to the time He didn't let the urgent take priority over the important.\u00a0 He knew when it was time to party.\u00a0 If we were setting up the Christian movement, and we got our 12 executive VPs, I think it's time for some conscience of prayer and some strategic planning.\u00a0 Jesus said, \"No, we're going to a wedding.\u00a0 I have some friends that are getting married.\u00a0 You've got to go.\u00a0 We're going to have a great time,\" and that's when He did His first miracle.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t\u00a0Not only did He have a greater respect for time, He had a higher regard for people, and I think against the backdrop of His imminent death, it just gave Him an incredible higher regard for people.\u00a0 He saw their intrinsic value even when they couldn't see it themselves.\u00a0 I love that story in John, chapter 1, verse 35 and following.\u00a0 Andrew has met Jesus, and he is so excited about Jesus, he goes to find his brother, Simon.\u00a0 He says, \"You've got to meet this guy.\u00a0 I think we've found the Messiah.\"\u00a0 And so Jesus finally meets Simon, and He says, \"Simon, Simon, that's not your name.\u00a0 I'm going to call you 'the rock.'\u00a0 I'm going to call you Peter, the rock.\"\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t\u00a0Now, what's the big deal about that?\u00a0 What does Simon mean?\u00a0 It means vacillator.\u00a0 His nickname was vacillator.\u00a0 In the modern vernacular, we call him a \"flip-flopper.\"\u00a0 He says, \"You have a reputation of being a flip-flopper.\u00a0 I see something bigger and greater in you.\u00a0 I'm going to call you 'the rock.'\"\u00a0 And guess what Peter did for the rest of Jesus' ministry?\u00a0 He flip-flopped on Him.\u00a0 He vacillated, didn't he?\u00a0 And Jesus kept seeing the greater good in him.\u00a0 No wonder Peter openly followed Him.\u00a0 You know, when it came to people, Jesus consistently looked out for the downtrodden and the disenfranchised.\u00a0 He consistently looked out for the downtrodden and the disenfranchised, the people that are demon-possessed in the Bible; the paralytic; the people with leprosy; folks like Zacheus and the sinful woman.\u00a0 These people represented the desperate, the helpless, the hopeless, and the outcasts, and Jesus wanted to spend His time on earth reaching out to them.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t\u00a0And here is what's interesting \u2013 they are all around us.\u00a0 We encounter them almost daily, if you are out and about.\u00a0 They are everywhere.\u00a0 Do you notice them?\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t\u00a0So He goes, and there was this young businessman, a very exciting guy who was doing very well in business, and he had all the trappings.\u00a0 He went out and rewarded his efforts with a brand-new Jaguar.\u00a0 Maybe you heard this story \u2013 a brand-new Jaguar, and he was going from one appointment to the other, going through this kind of section of town where there was just nobody at street level \u2013 not a great section of town.\u00a0 All of a sudden, as he is coming down this one street, this little kid came out from between two cars, took a brick, and just threw it at his car and gashed his car.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tThe guy hit his brakes, and he came out, and he looked at the dent he made, and he said, \"What were you thinking?\u00a0 Why did you do that?\u00a0 Look what you've done to my car.\"\u00a0 And the little boy has got these tears in the corners of his eyes, and he's whimpering, and he said, \"Oh, sir, I'm so sorry, but around the corner, my brother, he's in a wheelchair, he's bigger than me, and he hit a crack, and it fell over, and he's burning on the concrete, and I can't get him up.\"\u00a0 And the guy came around and, sure enough, there's this poor kid down there struggling, and he righted the wheelchair and picked the boy up and put him in the wheelchair, and the little boy took his brother, and said, \"I'm sorry about your car,\" and then he just started wheeling off.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t\u00a0The guy came back and looked at this dent in his car, and he made a decision right there and then that he was not going to repair that dent.\u00a0 He says, \"I don't want to be going through life so fast that I don't notice things at street level that God has to throw a brick at me to get my attention, and I want this to remind me, you don't have to throw a brick at me, God, I'm looking.\" \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t\u00a0Are we paying attention?\u00a0 Jesus did everywhere He went.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tBob:\u00a0We've been listening to part 1 of a message from Dr. Tim Kimmel, and as he was talking there, Dennis, I was thinking about \u2013 I've been teaching through the book of Isaiah in my Sunday school class, and just recently we were in Isaiah, chapter 42, and the prophet says to the people of Israel \"Hear you, Deaf, and look you, Blind, that you may see \u2013 who is blind but my servant?\u00a0 Who is so deaf as my messenger whom I send?\u00a0 Who is so blind that he is at peace with me or so blind as the servant of the Lord?\"\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t\u00a0I stopped and pondered those verses, and I thought is it possible to be a blind and deaf servant of the Lord?\u00a0 I think it's possible for all of us to be distracted from what we ought to be paying attention to and not paying attention to what the Lord would have us pay attention to.\u00a0 I used the illustration, I said, \"Imagine you ran a newspaper, and you sent a reporter out to cover a basketball game, and the reported got distracted by the cheerleaders.\u00a0 He got so distracted by the cheerleaders that he came back, and he didn't know who had won the game, he couldn't tell you about any of the important plays, couldn't tell you who fouled out, couldn't give you the score.\u00a0\u00a0 You'd fire him because he wasn't paying attention to what he ought to pay attention to, he was distracted.\"\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t\u00a0I think a lot of us wind up distracted to what we ought to be paying attention to, which is God's purpose on planet earth, God's agenda, God's plan.\u00a0 We get distracted and wind up deaf and blind to the important spiritual things that ought to characterize our lives.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tDennis:\u00a0And to live an entire life like that is a wasted life, period.\u00a0 Think about the end of your life.\u00a0 Do you want to arrive at the finish line and have someone say to you, \"You know what?\u00a0 You really were distracted.\u00a0 You had idols, you had other loyalties but, for the most part, you really ignored the One who made you, the One who loves you; the One who wants to give you life.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t\u00a0There's a lot of choices before each of us today.\u00a0 You, as a listener, are going to have some choices to make.\u00a0 Perhaps you are facing some very serious choices about your marriage, about a child, a relationship.\u00a0 God calls you to walk by faith in obedience to Him.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tBob:\u00a0This week as we think about the celebration of the resurrection of Christ, we want to encourage any listener who has never made a commitment of his life to Christ, we want to challenge you to take that bold step and commit your life to Christ and contact us and let us send you a copy of a book that we have called \"Pursuing God.\"\u00a0 It lays out clearly what it means for a man to be in a right relationship with God, and what it means to follow after Christ.\u00a0 We'll send it to you as our gift.\u00a0 There's no cost associated with it.\u00a0 You can call 1-800-FLTODAY to request a copy.\u00a0 That's 1-800-F-as-in-family, L-as-in-life, and then the word TODAY.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t\u00a0You can also get more information about the book online at FamilyLife.com, and while you're there you can also get information about a couple of very helpful books that deal with the reality of the resurrection of Christ.\u00a0 There's Josh McDowell's book, \"Evidence That Demands a Verdict.\"\u00a0 That's a classic book, and then Lee Strobel has come out with a very helpful book called \"The Case for Easter,\" and we have both of those books in our FamilyLife Resource Center, and if you order both of them, we'll send at no additional cost the CD or the cassette of the message from Tim Kimmel that we're featuring this week on FamilyLife Today.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t\u00a0Get more information online at FamilyLife.com or give us a call at 1-800-FLTODAY, and those of you who are planning to take part this weekend in the World's Largest Neighborhood Easter Egg Hunt, if you still have anything you need to get ready for the hunt, you can find most of what you're looking for at the Family Christian Store near you.\u00a0 That's our World's Largest Neighborhood Easter Egg Hunt headquarters this year.\u00a0 Or contact us directly here at FamilyLife.\u00a0 You can get more information on our website or give us a call at 1-800-FLTODAY.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t\u00a0Finally, a quick word of thanks to those of you who help support this ministry.\u00a0 This is a listener-supported ministry, and donations to FamilyLife Today are tax-deductible.\u00a0 In fact, it's those donations that keep FamilyLife Today on the air in this city and in cities all across the country, and we appreciate those of you who partner with us in this endeavor.\u00a0 We trust that the first place you're giving is to your local church.\u00a0 That ought to be your first priority but, beyond that, if you are able to help with our financial needs, we would appreciate it. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t\u00a0You can donate online at FamilyLife.com or you can call 1-800-FLTODAY to make a donation right over the phone.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t\u00a0Well, tomorrow we're going to hear part 2 of this message from Tim Kimmel that reminds us to live with an eternal perspective.\u00a0 I hope you can be back with us for that.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t\u00a0I want to thank our engineer today, Keith Lynch, and our entire broadcast production team.\u00a0 On behalf of our host, Dennis Rainey, I'm Bob Lepine.\u00a0 We'll see you next 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