{"id":301290,"date":"2007-01-26T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2007-01-26T17:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-stage.familylife.com\/www\/podcast\/%series%\/building-on-timeless-truths\/"},"modified":"2007-01-26T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2007-01-26T17:00:00","slug":"building-on-timeless-truths","status":"publish","type":"podcast","link":"https:\/\/wp-stage.familylife.com\/www\/podcast\/familylife-today\/building-on-timeless-truths\/","title":{"rendered":"Building on Timeless Truths"},"content":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today, Crawford Loritts, pastor of Fellowship Bible Church in Roswell, GA, and author of the book For a Time We Cannot See, tells how service and obedience are the necessary traits of a valuable leader.<\/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\/fl2007-01-26.mp3","podmotor_file_id":"","podmotor_episode_id":"","cover_image":"","cover_image_id":"","duration":"00:","filesize":"12.63M","filesize_raw":"13244579","date_recorded":"","explicit":"","block":""},"categories":[2833],"tags":[4276],"podcast_series":[7502],"cwp_profile":[3076],"series":[2101],"class_list":["post-301290","podcast","type-podcast","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-godly-legacy","tag-legacy","podcast_series-living-your-legacy","cwp_profile-crawford-loritts","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\/301290\/building-on-timeless-truths","player_link":"https:\/\/wp-stage.familylife.com\/www\/podcast-player\/301290\/building-on-timeless-truths","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=\"5I12f4z6AH\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wp-stage.familylife.com\/www\/podcast\/familylife-today\/building-on-timeless-truths\/\">Building on Timeless Truths<\/a><\/blockquote><iframe sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-stage.familylife.com\/www\/podcast\/familylife-today\/building-on-timeless-truths\/embed\/#?secret=5I12f4z6AH\" width=\"500\" height=\"350\" title=\"&#8220;Building on Timeless Truths&#8221; &#8212; FamilyLife\u00ae - A Cru Ministry\" data-secret=\"5I12f4z6AH\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" class=\"wp-embedded-content\"><\/iframe><script>\n\/*! 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leader.","meta_box":{"show_notes":"","transcript_url":"https:\/\/transcript.familylifetoday.com\/fl2007-01-26.pdf","transcript_content":"<p>\n\t\t\t\tBob:\u00a0As a parent, it's important for all of us to walk in the power of the Holy Spirit every day.\u00a0 But as Dr. Crawford Loritts reminds us, there is a reason that the Bible refers to the Holy Spirit as the Spirit of truth.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tCrawford:\u00a0You can't have some microwave filling of the Spirit of God.\u00a0 You can't have a content-less filling of the Spirit of God.\u00a0 You see, there cannot be a consistent filling of God's Spirit unless a life is committed to truth not as a stabilizing factor in your life.\u00a0 What's going to cause you to flourish?\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tBob:\u00a0This is FamilyLife Today for Friday, January 26th.\u00a0 Our host is the president of FamilyLife, Dennis Rainey, and I'm Bob Lepine.\u00a0 The person who wants to be filled with God's Spirit needs to start with God's Word.\u00a0 Stay tuned.\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 Friday edition.\u00a0 It's been a good week.\u00a0 We have been hearing a message that I think is reminding all of us, as parents, of what our priorities need to be as parents.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tDennis:\u00a0You know, Bob, we're going to get into one of the great psalms in the Old Testament, Psalm, chapter 1 today, as we listen to Dr. Crawford Loritts talk about the power of a godly parent, and we see what the benefits are to being a godly parent.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t\u00a0I want our listeners to know that as you make the right choices in being a godly parent and pointing your kids to God and to Christ, you are going to reap the benefits as well.\u00a0 Not only them and the legacy you leave, but you are going to experience the blessing of God, and I want to read you and remind you what is more true than the newspaper that you read this morning before you started your day.\u00a0 It's Proverbs, chapter 24, verse 3 and 4 \u2013 \"By wisdom a house is built and by understanding it is established, and by knowledge the rooms are filled with all precious and pleasant riches.\"\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t\u00a0Who doesn't want precious and pleasant riches?\u00a0 It's the picture of peace, harmony, people getting along, and it doesn't mean it's perfect.\u00a0 We had squabbles this morning before we left for school.\u00a0 I had to resolve a couple of issues, but the thing the Bible calls us back to is the standard that we are to forgive one another, we are to bless one another, and as a parent, as a mom, as a dad, a single parent, a grandparent, gets into the Scriptures, and as we meditate in it, and as we draw our life from it, we, then, are blessed.\u00a0 We will benefit as parents, as men, as women.\u00a0 Our homes will be filled with precious and pleasant riches.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t\u00a0Now, I'm not talking about materialistic things.\u00a0 I'm talking about things that money can't buy.\u00a0 I'm talking about meaningful relationships connected heart-to-heart with a teenager, and that's the benefit of having a godly family.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tBob:\u00a0Well, and you will see that legacy continue as you live it out in your own family, and that's what Crawford Loritts talks about in Part 3 of this message, where he is talking about parenting priorities.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tDennis:\u00a0Crawford and his wife, Karen, live in Atlanta, Georgia.\u00a0 They have four children; speak at FamilyLife marriage conferences all over the country.\u00a0 Crawford has also spoken to Promise Keepers, and it's a privilege to have him on the broadcast a third day, as he spoke at a gathering of our staff here in Little Rock, and just challenged us to be faithful \u2013 to stick and stay in the Word of God and to experience the benefits of being a man who draws his life from the Scripture.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tBob:\u00a0Let's listen together \u2013 here is Dr. Crawford Loritts.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tCrawford:\u00a0(From audiotape.)\u00a0 The very first psalm deals with a profile of godliness.\u00a0 He talks about the godly person's resolve, he talks about the godly person's resource and, thirdly, he talks about the godly person's result, or what it looks like.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t\u00a0What will happen?\u00a0 \"And he will be like a tree firmly planted by streams of water, which yields its fruit in its season, and its leaf does not wither, and whatever he does is profit.\"\u00a0 And I want to make several observations here.\u00a0 \"You will be like a tree firmly planted.\"\u00a0 What will take place when we make the right resolve, and we stay in the resources that we will have stability.\u00a0 He will be like a tree.\u00a0 It's a simile \u2013 he will be like a tree planted by rivers of water.\u00a0 The tree could be planted anywhere.\u00a0 It could be out in the middle of the desert, but it will still flourish.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t\u00a0You see, it's not the environment or the circumstances that gives you stability, it's not the work environment, it's not where you are, it's not where you live, it's not having what you want.\u00a0 What gives you stability is the Word of God.\u00a0 It's truth.\u00a0 That is the stabilizing factor in your life.\u00a0 What's going to cause you to flourish.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t\u00a0It's not just understanding your gift, now, don't get me wrong, that is important.\u00a0 I'm not putting any of that down, but the core of your soul is this (taps Bible).\u00a0 He will be like a tree firmly planted.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t\u00a0Now, watch this \u2013 in this verse is a picture of a threefold ministry of the Spirit of God and the life of a believer.\u00a0 He will be like a tree firmly planted by streams of water.\u00a0 An alternative rendering of that text is \"canals.\"\u00a0 Canals \u2013 canals are used to redirect water, to redirect it, or to carry a ship or boat to a destiny.\u00a0 It is a picture of a ministry of the Spirit of God in our lives.\u00a0 Whenever you see the results of being filled with the Spirit in Ephesians 5, and you overlay that in Colossians, chapter 3, with letting the Word of Christ dwell in you richly, they are the same results.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t\u00a0You see, there cannot be a consistent filling of God's Spirit unless a life is committed to truth.\u00a0 Once you live in a surrendered way under truth, the Spirit of God fills in your life.\u00a0 You can't have some microwave filling of the Spirit of God.\u00a0 There's no such thing consistently of being filled with the Spirit of God without there being godly discipline.\u00a0 You can't have it.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t\u00a0There's always been the relationship of truth and power.\u00a0 Remember what Jesus said in the Upper Room Discourse?\u00a0 He said \"part of the ministry of the Comforter is to lead us into all truth.\"\u00a0 The assumption is that we will take time to look at the truth, and that truth that we know, He will lead us to apply.\"\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t\u00a0There is a filling of the Spirit.\u00a0 But, secondly, right here in the text, there is the fruit of the Spirit, \"and he will be like a tree firmly planted by streams of water, which yields its fruit\" \u2013 now notice the prepositional phrase \"in its season.\"\u00a0 Oh, man, now, in my church this is shoutin' grounds.\u00a0 \"In its season\" \u2013 do you see that?\u00a0 Not only do you have the stability, you've got an ongoing source \u2013 that stream of water.\u00a0 It just keeps moving.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t\u00a0And then He takes Galatians, chapter 5, the nine character qualities there \u2013 we talk about it in the conferences \u2013 the nine character qualities.\u00a0 He says you will produce the appropriate fruit to match your set of circumstances.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t\u00a0There's a filling of the Spirit, the fruit of the Spirit, but then, thirdly, there's the favor of the Spirit, and \"whatever he does, he prospers.\"\u00a0 That word \"favor\" is what the old sages call \u2013 some call \"unction.\"\u00a0 I like the word \"anointing,\" it's the same thing.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t\u00a0I personally believe \u2013 now, some will disagree with me on this, and that's fine, but it is my personal view of the ministry of the Spirit of God that there is something special, there is a special \u2013 anointing simply means a \"special touch\" for a particular task.\u00a0 It has to do with the favor of God.\u00a0 You want favor in your household?\u00a0 Every day of my life I pray for my children \u2013 \"Oh, God, keep me in a place of blessing.\u00a0 Don't let me do anything to cause You to take Your hand off my children.\"\u00a0 That's the legacy.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t\u00a0My mother never went to any conference or anything like that, but my mother \u2013 I'd come by her room.\u00a0 That woman would be on her knees praying.\u00a0 I mean, that woman would call out her children by name to God.\u00a0 I tell you what, when your children see you depending upon God, you see, our kids don't become \u2013 and I say this at a few of the parenting conferences \u2013 our kids don't become what we say, they become who we are.\u00a0 The tragedy, the tragedy of most of the leaders of the three great spiritual awakenings, the tragedy of all of them were that their homes \u2013 excuse the expression \u2013 were like hell.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t\u00a0John Wesley, we try to sanitize his family situation, but he had some weird views about marriage \u2013 screwed up.\u00a0 George Whitfield married a woman and didn't live with her but only about a year and a half or two.\u00a0 And you can go on and on, and you see \u2013 and I think God is giving us another chance.\u00a0 The only exception was Edwards.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t\u00a0Edwards was the only exception \u2013 Jonathan Edwards.\u00a0 Well, and [unintelligible] Meddleton, too, who is an obscure name but he was a powerful man of God, but he was never married.\u00a0 Perhaps God has us for such a time as this \u2013 the vision, the future, we need a movement of God because we've got to give our kids a sacred stewardship.\u00a0 Will they be able to handle it?\u00a0 Can we handle it?\u00a0 Can we handle it?\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t\u00a0I'll close with this little story.\u00a0 Next week I have to go see my mom.\u00a0 Pray for her, she's not doing very well.\u00a0 She and Papa, as you know, they've been married for 53 years, and Mom's just not doing well at all, and a few months ago I was up there taking care of some of her affairs, and she's getting very forgetful.\u00a0 She's depressed, and although Pop went home to be with the Lord in 1995, Mom's just not \u2013 things are not \u2013 she's just not doing well at all.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t\u00a0And you've heard me talk about my dad a great deal, but I'll never forget this day \u2013 I was straightening out some mess at the various accounts at the bank for her and other things, and she wanted to go to the cemetery.\u00a0 And we get to the cemetery, and she's shaking, and she starts to cry, because she's flustered, and she can't remember.\u00a0 She'd been there \u2013 I don't know how many times.\u00a0 My sister takes her up every \u2013 she couldn't remember where Pop was buried.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t\u00a0And I said, \"Mama, don't worry about it.\u00a0 It will be all right,\" and so she's standing \u2013 I knew where it was.\u00a0 I'd gotten a little turned around, because we came another way, but I remembered where it was, and I said, \"I'll just take the flowers up there, don't worry, Mom.\" \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t\u00a0So there is my mother shaking and crying and there I am at my dad's gravesite, and the picture of this.\u00a0 The man of strength and stability, he'd gone on.\u00a0 The flashing across my mind was the fact that he always took care of business and, as in a child, that little book of mine, he never walked away, and he invested in my life.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t\u00a0And I just said there, \"Pop, as long as I've got breath, and as long as she's alive, I'll take care of her.\"\u00a0 On a different level, there is a spiritual stewardship.\u00a0 I don't know if you've sensed it as I have these few hours that I've been here, especially today.\u00a0 There is a stewardship that's floating down on this ministry.\u00a0 God says, \"Are you going to step up and do what it takes to make a difference?\u00a0 Are you going to complete the task?\"\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t\u00a0Your kids, if they decide to go left, that's their business.\u00a0 They are prodigals.\u00a0 My view of things is that, oh, our kids may know, there ain't no guarantees, but, before God, you ought to be able to say, \"I walked and lived in such a way that they made a knowledgeable choice to do evil.\"\u00a0 We are the legacy.\u00a0 We extend it to them by our spiritual integrity.\u00a0 The resolve that we make, drawing upon the resource, and letting the results be demonstrated through our lives.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tBob:\u00a0Well, we've been listening to Day 3 of a message from Dr. Crawford Loritts reminding us of the importance of the legacy we will leave, and that always causes us, Dennis, to look backwards to the heritage we've inherited as Crawford talked about today.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t\u00a0And there are a lot of folks who look backward, and there is pain, and there is challenge, and there is confusion, and there is hurt, but they're purposing that they're going to leave a different legacy to their own children.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tDennis:\u00a0Yeah, in fact, some of our listeners, as I read one of the most startling Proverbs that I know of in all of Scripture are going to be able to speak of what this Proverb speaks about.\u00a0 They've had a legacy left to them of trouble and evil and difficulty and a lack of peace and a lack of harmony and certainly not a godly legacy at all.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t\u00a0Proverbs, chapter 11, verse 29 is a phenomenal warning to any man, any woman, who is giving leadership to a family.\u00a0 It reads, \"He who troubles his own house will inherit wind, and the foolish will be servant to the wise-hearted.\"\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t\u00a0That passage challenges me, as a dad, to make sure that I don't bring trouble upon my home.\u00a0 And, you know, there's a lot of ways that we can bring trouble into our house.\u00a0 We can be trouble, we can fail to protect our home against trouble and, therefore, allow it to gain entrance through our passivity, through our laziness, through our lack of diligence, through our lack of protection.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t\u00a0Trouble is waiting at the doorstep of all of our homes, and our assignment as moms and dads, single parents, grandparents, is to prayerfully protect and strive against evil, against the world, against the flesh, and not give up.\u00a0 There are so many things taking place in this culture that just wants us to drop our guard just for a few moments, and I'm going to tell you, there are some dire warnings in Scripture about letting go of the Scripture and letting your life become foolish even for a few moments.\u00a0 A few moments can change your legacy.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tBob:\u00a0That's right.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tDennis:\u00a0It can have an impact for generations to come.\u00a0 If we could interview Moses right here, if we had him in the studio, he could tell you that a foolish choice he made at a point in time kept him out of the promised land.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tBob:\u00a0The same is true of King David or others in the Bible.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tDennis:\u00a0That's right, and I think the challenge for all of us is to be men and women who just don't quit.\u00a0 In spite of our mistakes, we have a God of grace, a God of forgiveness, a God who is there to pick us up when we make those errors and continue on.\u00a0 But to be careful about dropping our guard, and there may be a mom or a dad right now who is thinking about quitting their marriage.\u00a0 There may be a single parent who is just at the end of themselves and is about to rush off into a relationship that that single parent knows is wrong \u2013 just trying to get their needs met with another person.\u00a0 Don't do it unless God's in it.\u00a0 Don't do it unless the Scripture approves of it.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t\u00a0What Crawford has been talking about on the broadcast today are the benefits to a man or a woman who walk in the ways of God, who seek the counsel of godly men and women and, Bob, there are no regrets there.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t\u00a0Barbara and I look back over our lives, and I can tell you, as we look back, we certainly have our share of mistakes but, overall, we have fought the good fight, and we continue to do so even today.\u00a0 And that's when I want to just cheer those moms and dads on to do \u2013 don't quit, hang in there, keep standing strong on behalf of your kids and don't allow your house to inherit wind.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tBob:\u00a0You can see, as you look at Crawford's own life, how the integrity of his father paved the way for a legacy of integrity in Crawford and in his four children.\u00a0 And to reflect back on a dad who said, \"Here is how our family is going to live.\u00a0 Here is what we're going to stand for and what we're going to believe in.\"\u00a0 Well, he didn't inherit wind, but he inherited substance, he inherited godliness and a legacy that will transcend him and last for generations.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tDennis:\u00a0Yeah, and another Proverb, Proverbs 13:22 speaks of that inheritance.\u00a0 It says, \"A good man leaves an inheritance to his children's children.\"\u00a0 Now, that specifically is speaking about an inheritance of wealth, but I think by application it speaks of the life of one generation impacting a couple of other generations into the future.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t\u00a0In fact, outside this verse, Bob, you can see what I have written \u2013 \"My dad.\"\u00a0 Because my dad left me an inheritance, and it wasn't mere money, it was the life of integrity of a man who loved one woman for a lifetime; who was faithful to her, and who was a man who was impeccable in his integrity and his model.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t\u00a0And, you know, that same thing happened in Crawford Loritts's life, and he wrote about it in a book.\u00a0 The book is really the story of how his dad parented him and, certainly, all of us, as parents, can learn from how a man raised a boy in Newark, New Jersey, in the midst of what couldn't be considered ideal circumstances by any stretch of the imagination, and yet Crawford Loritts has turned out to be a pretty strong man and a great man of God and a spokesman for God today.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tBob:\u00a0And the things that he inherited from his father, he is sharing the wealth with us not only in the message we've been hearing today but also in the book he's written, which is called \"Never Walk Away, Lessons on Integrity from a Father Who Lived It,\" which we have in our FamilyLife Resource Center.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t\u00a0I want to encourage our listeners to get a copy of this book.\u00a0 Go to our website, FamilyLife.com.\u00a0 You can click a red button in the middle of the screen that says \"Go,\" and that will take you right to a page where you'll get more information about this book from Crawford Loritts, other resources that are available from us here at FamilyLife.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t\u00a0In fact, if you'd like a CD that has Crawford's message on it, we'd be happy to send that along to you at no additional cost.\u00a0 When you get a copy of Crawford's book and a copy of the book that you've written, Dennis, called \"One Home at a Time,\" which helps all of us as husbands and wives and moms and dads to implement God's plan for marriage and family in our own home.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t\u00a0Again, there is more information about these resources on our website at FamilyLife.com.\u00a0 Click the red button that says \"Go,\" and that will take you right to the page where you can get the information.\u00a0 Or call us at 1-800-358-6329.\u00a0 That's 1-800-F-as-in-family, L-as-in-life, and then the word TODAY.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t\u00a0When you stop by our website, you may see information there about being a Legacy Partner.\u00a0 These are folks who, each month, help support the ministry of FamilyLife Today with a donation of any amount.\u00a0 During the month of January, we are hoping that more of our listeners will consider becoming Legacy Partners.\u00a0 In each of the cities where FamilyLife Today is heard, there is a small group of folks who have said, \"We believe enough in what you're doing that we want to support this ministry on a monthly basis,\" and this is a group of folks that we called Legacy Partners and each month we try and communicate with you about what's happening here at the ministry, resources that are available from us here at FamilyLife.\u00a0 We offer a sneak peak on some of what's happening behind the scenes.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t\u00a0There is more information about being a Legacy Partner on our website at FamilyLife.com, and we're hoping that some of you will consider joining that group and becoming a Legacy Partner.\u00a0 Again, there is more information on our website at FamilyLife.com, or give us a call at 1-800-FLTODAY.\u00a0 We appreciate you listening, and we hope you will consider joining with us and becoming a Legacy Partner.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t\u00a0Well, I hope you have a great weekend.\u00a0 I hope you and your family are able to worship together this weekend, and I hope you can be back with us on Monday when we're going to hear from a Texas pastor who has spent a lot of time teaching on the Song of Solomon.\u00a0 In fact, he's taught on this subject all across the country, and he has some thoughts about love and romance and marriage and how it all fits together in God's plan.\u00a0 Tommy Nelson joins us Monday.\u00a0 I hope you will join us as well.\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 back on 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