{"id":301362,"date":"2007-05-25T11:00:00","date_gmt":"2007-05-25T15:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-stage.familylife.com\/www\/podcast\/%series%\/put-on-your-gospel-boots\/"},"modified":"2007-05-25T11:00:00","modified_gmt":"2007-05-25T15:00:00","slug":"put-on-your-gospel-boots","status":"publish","type":"podcast","link":"https:\/\/wp-stage.familylife.com\/www\/podcast\/familylife-today\/put-on-your-gospel-boots\/","title":{"rendered":"Put on Your Gospel Boots"},"content":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When a military member goes to war, a family goes to war.<\/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\/fl2007-05-25.mp3","podmotor_file_id":"","podmotor_episode_id":"","cover_image":"","cover_image_id":"","duration":"00:","filesize":"8.14M","filesize_raw":"8536002","date_recorded":"","explicit":"","block":""},"categories":[2895],"tags":[4958,4956,4959,2955,4957],"podcast_series":[7523],"cwp_profile":[],"series":[2101],"class_list":["post-301362","podcast","type-podcast","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-military-marriage","tag-air-force","tag-army","tag-marines","tag-military","tag-navy","podcast_series-military-ministry-with-major-general-ret-bob-dees","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\/301362\/put-on-your-gospel-boots","player_link":"https:\/\/wp-stage.familylife.com\/www\/podcast-player\/301362\/put-on-your-gospel-boots","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=\"FL6eReHoVm\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wp-stage.familylife.com\/www\/podcast\/familylife-today\/put-on-your-gospel-boots\/\">Put on Your Gospel Boots<\/a><\/blockquote><iframe sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-stage.familylife.com\/www\/podcast\/familylife-today\/put-on-your-gospel-boots\/embed\/#?secret=FL6eReHoVm\" width=\"500\" height=\"350\" title=\"&#8220;Put on Your Gospel Boots&#8221; &#8212; FamilyLife\u00ae - A Cru Ministry\" data-secret=\"FL6eReHoVm\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" class=\"wp-embedded-content\"><\/iframe><script>\n\/*! 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It was given to me by General Bob Dees of the military ministry of Campus Crusade for Christ, and he actually mounted, on a plaque, a set of military boots.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tBob:\u00a0Combat boots, right?\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tDennis:\u00a0That's right, and he just wanted to say thanks for FamilyLife's partnership with the military ministry, and then he went on to tell a story that our listeners are going to get a chance to hear, and it has to do with a pair of boots on the ground, and I want to tell you, you will not want to miss this, because the military is in the news.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t\u00a0We don't hear enough good stories like this one for us to be reminded that our military does, indeed, save lives.\u00a0 They save people, real people, who have real legacies, and you're going to hear a wonderful story about how these boots on the ground saved the lives of a little girl's daddy.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tBob:\u00a0One of the huge challenges that military families are facing today is the challenge to marriage and FamilyLife together with the military ministry of Campus Crusade for Christ is \u2013 well, we're putting together a response to try to strengthen marriages both for those who are in active duty and those who are coming home from active duty and re-engaging on the home front.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tDennis:\u00a0That's right, and the home front is the one that suffers the most when these soldiers come back to their spouses and to their families.\u00a0 What we've done is team up with General Dees and his staff to offer small group Bible studies, training to military personnel, and we have some long-term plans, Bob, to hopefully be a solution and a help to the military as their military families are under an attack of their own.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t\u00a0General Bob Dees, as I mentioned, is the national director of the military ministry of Campus Crusade for Christ.\u00a0 He attended Westpoint and graduated in 1972 and had a distinguished career for more than 31 years.\u00a0 He received two stars and is really becoming a very good friends of FamilyLife, and I just want our listeners to know who support FamilyLife \u2013 the Legacy Partners, those who are family champions, who support our ministry.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t\u00a0When you give to the mission of FamilyLife, you make it possible for us to forge partnerships like we've done with the military ministry of Campus Crusade for Christ to be able to offer all kinds of training and resources that help military marriages and families.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tBob:\u00a0And some of our listeners are aware of the fact that when you make a donation this month, that donation is being double up to a total of $475,000, and we're nearing the end of the month and, at this point, I don't think that we have reached that total amount yet.\u00a0 So we're hoping to hear from folks in the next few days who will go online or call us, make a donation of any amount.\u00a0 Your donation is going to be doubled on a dollar-for-dollar basis up to a total of $475,000, and we've just got a couple of days left, so can we ask you today to consider making a donation, again, either online at FamilyLife.com or by calling 1-800-FLTODAY and helping to support the ministry of FamilyLife Today.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tDennis:\u00a0That's right, and when you do give, you're helping us do battle on behalf of families both in the military and outside, and I'd just like to say we need you to stand with us.\u00a0 This is a great time for this ministry.\u00a0 We have some exciting plans for the future, but we need fuel for the tanks.\u00a0 We need the Air Force here on FamilyLife Today to continue strong so that we can influence more and more families across the country.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tBob:\u00a0General Dees was in our offices not long ago and spoke to our staff, and we thought with Memorial Day on Monday, we ought to play for our listener what General Dees shared with our staff.\u00a0 So here, from that recent staff meeting, is General Bob Dees.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t\u00a0GEN. DEES:\u00a0[from audiotape.]\u00a0 I often ask myself, and I want to make it sort of a teaching point for the day \u2013 when did I start loving soldiers?\u00a0 I noticed it sometimes along the way as a leader that sometime I started loving soldiers.\u00a0 It went from a head knowledge to a heart knowledge to a passion to a calling for soldiers.\u00a0 And I don't know when it was.\u00a0 Maybe it was when I saw that first soldier drown trying to save the life of another soldier.\u00a0 \"No greater has a man than to give his life for another.\"\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t\u00a0Or when I saw a helicopter pilot that crashed, and he bled to death.\u00a0 And as I reflect back on that, now I recognize how our Lord Jesus Christ bled to death on our behalf.\u00a0 Or may I started loving soldiers when I saw a young veteran just out of Iraq whose life had been snuffed away \u2013 not for sure, but somewhere it went from my head to my heart to a passion to a calling to take care of soldiers.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t\u00a0And then the same is with families.\u00a0 I'm not for sure when it was \u2013 was when I, as a young officer, handed that first flag to the grieving widow?\u00a0 And when I said \"Your grateful nation thanks you for your selfless service.\"\u00a0 When was it?\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t\u00a0But somewhere it went from the head to the heart to the passionate calling to help take care of military families, because they are really the backbone of these military people that are sent, in every way, around our world.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t\u00a0These are perilous times.\u00a0 If you look at the enemy within, the cultural erosion in our country has been perilous.\u00a0 Our moral fabric of our country is bad frayed.\u00a0 Spiritual infrastructure is an element of national power just as transportation and energy and the military and the socio and economic sectors.\u00a0 Spiritual infrastructure is critically important, and our spiritual infrastructure is sadly weakened in this country.\u00a0 We've got to strengthen it if we're going to be strong internally, and if we're going to be strong externally, and the external threat is significant.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t\u00a0You take the combination of radical Islamic fundamentalism plus weapons of mass destruction and new technologies unprecedented plus state-sponsored terrorism, directly and indirectly, using surrogates and directly it is a potent, perfect storm that is on our doorstep.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t\u00a0And for all of us, there are perilous times ahead, I would offer, and if we're going to minimize that, if we're going to work it responsibly as a Christian body in the churches, the citizens, the communities, the Christians, the churches, if we're going to work it responsibly, we've got to go back to our first of Jesus Christ, we've got to put on those Gospel boots, and we've got to work hard to strengthening of our moral infrastructure.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t\u00a0Let me just tell one story \u2013 I think Dennis has related some of this to you, and it has to do with a profound experience I had in 1994.\u00a0 We were in Holland, and in 1994 my wife was on the ground in a muddy drop zone.\u00a0 In 1944, that was a bloody drop zone.\u00a0 She was on a muddy drop zone in 1994, because it was the 50th year commemoration Operation Market Garden.\u00a0 The biggest airborne operation in all history \u2013 bigger than Normandy, even. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t\u00a0Three airborne operations \u2013 101st Airborne Division, 82nd Airborne Division, British 1st Airborne Division, trying to clear up and airhead line that an armored car would go through, and then they would flank the Nazis to the north.\u00a0 Some of you may know about that, commemorated in Cornelius Ryan's movie, \"A Bridge Too Far,\" and book and so forth.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t\u00a0Well, the operation went down in September of 1944, and so here we are, 50 years later, we're getting ready to jump.\u00a0 She was on the ground, I was in a bumpy Dutch C130, and I was a big sick at my stomach, you know, we'd been bumping around, the weather was rough, and you have heavy equipment on your back, and so we're going along and then, all of a sudden, you hear \"Get ready!\u00a0 Get ready!\" and you know the time \u2013 you know, when they say \"Get ready\" there's an expression in the Army that says \"Threat clears a man's head,\" and you are very clear-headed when you're getting ready to go out the door of an airplane.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t\u00a0So \"Get ready!\u00a0 Outboard personnel stand up!\u00a0 Inboard personnel stand up!\u00a0 Hook up!\"\u00a0 Now it's getting real serious when you're hooking up.\u00a0 You know something is going to happen.\u00a0 \"Hook up!\u00a0 Check static lines, check equipment!\u00a0 All okay, Jumpmaster!\u00a0 All okay!\u00a0 All okay!\u00a0 All okay!\u00a0 All okay, Jumpmaster!\u00a0 One minute!\u00a0 Stand in the door!\" and you're standing in the door and, again, you have a pretty clear head, okay?\u00a0 And you're getting ready to say \"Go!\u00a0 Go!\u00a0 Go!\" then you jump out of the airplane and, all of sudden, you hear this roar of engines, you hear the blast, you hear the sharp jerk, and it's your parachute opening for which you give great thanks, okay?\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t[laughter] \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t\u00a0And then you hear the ever-distant roar of the airplane engines, and all of a sudden there's a period of silence, and you have a moment of reflection before you're getting ready to hit the ground, and in this moment of reflection for me, at least, 50 years after this actual event, I was thinking about those veterans floating down, getting shot at, people being wounded.\u00a0 You could here the cries of travail right and left.\u00a0 And then, all of a sudden, I came out of that reverie, thankful for their sacrifice 50 years earlier.\u00a0 I came out of that reverie because I knew I was getting ready to hit the ground, and it was going to be ugly if I didn't do something smart.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t\u00a0So I landed, and I was gathering my 'chute, strong winds, you know, you have to wrestle it, and this Dutch lady came up, and as she came up to me, it was amazing.\u00a0 She was elderly, she just came up, and she got down on her knee, and she grabbed me, and she started crying, and she wouldn't let go.\u00a0 I mean, I literally couldn't get \u2013 so we had somebody get a translator because we couldn't understand what she was saying.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t\u00a0And she came, and she told the story that the Germans were killing five fathers a day in the town of Einhoven.\u00a0 That was an Evil Empire.\u00a0 You know, we talk about Evil Empires, that was an Evil Empire, and righteous people on the earth had to stand up and do something, they had to stand up to be counted.\u00a0 The military had to stand up to be counted against that evil empire.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t\u00a0She told the story, five fathers a day, her father had been apprehended on a day in September 1944.\u00a0 He was to be shot at noon.\u00a0 The 101st Airborne Division landed at 10:00 that morning.\u00a0 Her father's life was spared.\u00a0 She was not even born yet.\u00a0 She was subsequently born, and you can imagine the profound engagement.\u00a0 I was the first person she could grab.\u00a0 She just was expressing her profound thanks for the life of her father.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t\u00a0And so that said a lot to me.\u00a0 But the next sequel to this, I think, is even more important.\u00a0 Think about the soldiers.\u00a0 Think about those soldiers.\u00a0 They were also sick at their stomach, some of them were wounded when they landed, they'd been shot at and so forth.\u00a0 And what did they do?\u00a0 When they landed, they just started putting one boot in front of another, one boot in front of another, and by those small acts of obedience, those small acts of selfless service, they saved a father's life just by what they were doing.\u00a0 They saved a father's life.\u00a0 They liberated the nation of Holland from an evil empire, and then they started to free up a whole continent of Europe from an evil empire.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t\u00a0Okay, so let's go back to that jump story.\u00a0 If you're in that jump story, the next sequel to this \u2013 think of yourself as a Christian warrior, a Christian airborne warrior \u2013 small acts of obedience, step-by-step, selfless service, step-by-step, acts of spiritual discipline, and you jump into people's lives in situations in various ways, and when you land, just because of who you are and the sweet aroma of Jesus Christ lived out through your life, you inherently, automatically, lives start being changed.\u00a0 Fathers and mothers and families are changed and transformed.\u00a0 Whole continents and whole nations are changed for Jesus Christ.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t\u00a0And so that's how it relates to us, I think, because how beautiful are the feet of those who wear those Gospel boots and one boot in front of the other, share that Gospel of Jesus Christ on behalf of the lost.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t\u00a0So let me show you a picture worth 1,000 words.\u00a0 Let's show this.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t[Glenn Miller, \"In the Mood\"]\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tMan:\u00a0Not far from here, just east a number of miles is the town of North Platte, Nebraska.\u00a0 Anybody know North Platte, Nebraska?\u00a0 You've been there.\u00a0 North Platte's out there.\u00a0 You've got to want to go to North Platte.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t[airplanes, machine gun fire]\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t\u00a0In 1941, it was a town of 12,000 people.\u00a0 The Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor on December 7th, the 12,000 people of this Union Pacific railroad called North Platte. Ten days later there was a train coming through.\u00a0 It was National Guard troops.\u00a0 The word went out it was Nebraska National Guard troops and so some folks baked cookies and stuff and went down to the train, and they went down to give them some cookies, and they looked in the windows, and they looked in the windows.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t\u00a0It wasn't Nebraska guys, they couldn't find any of their own.\u00a0 It happened to be Kansas.\u00a0 But they stood there with the cookies and the cakes and stuff and finally one young woman by the name of Raye Wilson, a drugstore clerk, said \"Well, I'm not keeping my cookies, I'm not taking my cookies home.\"\u00a0 She stepped up and gave them to one of the young men, and then everybody gave their stuff.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t\u00a0Immediately after that, when they started moving Army troops through, and sailors and stuff, Raye Wilson organized some women, and they decided they were going to meet the trains that came through North Platte, Nebraska.\u00a0 Bob Green, a journalist from the Chicago Tribune has written about this in a book called \"Once Upon a Town.\"\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t\u00a0And they started to meet the trains, and over the next four-and-a-half years, they organized, mostly women, 55,000 women, and they met every train that came in.\u00a0 Sometimes up to 32 trains a day.\u00a0 And the Union Pacific railway gave the restaurant to them, and they dubbed it \"the North Platte Canteen,\" and they got 10 minutes to get off the train.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t\u00a0These guys would jump off the train, run in there, and there would be wall-to-wall tables with sandwiches and cakes and pies.\u00a0 One woman said, \"My job during the war was to make 10 angel food cakes from scratch with turkey eggs every week in the back of that train station.\"\u00a0 Everything was rationed.\u00a0 People had to give it out of their own goods.\u00a0 Only $5 came from the government, and it was a check from Franklin Roosevelt, said, \"I heard you're doing some good things out there,\" and he sent five bucks.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t\u00a0The people of these towns, like yours, all over that area, came there during the course of the war.\u00a0 I mean, these guys would jump out of the train, run in there, and there would be hot coffee, there would be doughnuts, there would be pheasant sandwiches in season, and I said this at the Nebraska Governor's Prayer Breakfast, and the Senator came to me afterwards and said, \"Sometimes out of season.\"\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t\u00a0They get back on the train, and they'd go off, many never to return.\u00a0 During the course of the war, 6 million United States servicemen and women came through North Platte, Nebraska, and every single train was met.\u00a0 And the story would go something like this \u2013 a guy would say, \"I graduated from Brooklyn High School, never been out of New York City.\u00a0 I went down and signed up on Monday.\u00a0 They put me on a train going West.\u00a0 I rode for three days and nights, sitting up, eating k-rations and not taking a shower, and somebody in the middle of the night said, \"North Platte, Nebraska, next stop.\" \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t\u00a0I'd never heard of North Platte, Nebraska.\u00a0 I jumped off the train, ran into a place, and I saw girls who looked like my sisters and my cousins and women who looked like my aunts and my mom, and they had all this food, and they just \u2013 they gave it to us, and when we left, they hugged us, and they said, \"Sailor, we're praying for you.\u00a0 God bless you,\" and we'd get back on the train scared out of our minds, not knowing where we were going, not knowing if we'd ever come back, but when we went into that place for 10 minutes, something went away. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t\u00a0We got back on the train, and we went on, and in the middle of the night in France, with mortars coming down and there was a lull in the fighting, a voice would come out of the darkness saying, \"Wouldn't it be great to be back in North Platte for five minutes?\"\u00a0 Because love chases away fear, and when Bob Green interviewed these guys, they'd start crying \u2013 85-year-old guys start crying.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t\u00a0He'd say, \"What are you crying for?\"\u00a0 He said, \"Because, here I was, an 18-year-old kid, scared to death, and I went into that place, and for five minutes in the middle of the night in a place I'd never been to with people I'd never met going to a place I didn't know, somebody loved me and was kind to me.\"\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t\u00a0I told this story in Denver a couple of years ago at the 60th anniversary of Youth for Christ Campus Life.\u00a0 A young woman came up to me the next morning and said, \"When you were telling that story I thought about my grandpa.\u00a0 My grandpa was in the Navy, and he lived in Pennsylvania, and I wondered, did he go through North Platte, Nebraska?\"\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t\u00a0She said, \"My grandpa is 90 years old in the nursing home, and he has dementia.\u00a0 He doesn't remember us most of the time, but I called him, and I said, 'Grandpa, this is Jennifer.'\u00a0 And I said, 'Grandpa, does the name North Platte, Nebraska, meaning anything to you?'\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t\u00a0And he said 'North Platte, Nebraska,' instantly he was lucid.\u00a0 'You bet it does.'\u00a0 He said, 'I went in there, and they gave me doughnuts and sandwiches and coffee, and they shined my shoes.\u00a0 You bet I remember North Platte, Nebraska.'\"\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t\u00a0What is it, 60 years after the fact, that brings a 90-year-old man out of dementia?\u00a0 When you're scared, and you're 18, and you're going off to war, and on the way somebody loves you and is kind to you.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t[\"In the Mood]\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tGen. Dees:\u00a0[from audiotape.]\u00a0 When you're scared, and you're 18, and somebody loves you, that's the difference that we can make in people's lives that we love them.\u00a0 As I look at this, I think, \"Okay, what's my takeaway?\"\u00a0 There's all sorts of things you could take away.\u00a0 I think of that drugstore clerk, Raye Wilson.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t\u00a0Raye Wilson was not a CEO of a company, she was not a person of prominence, she was a drugstore clerk of moral courage, and they stood there with their cookies, and then she said, simply, \"Well, I'm not taking my cookies home.\u00a0 I'm not taking my cookies home,\" and she demonstrated moral courage, and she led the charge for 55,000 women over four-and-a-half years.\u00a0 How powerful is that?\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t\u00a0And so for our own team, Military Ministry for FamilyLife Today, my message is, we cannot take our cookies home.\u00a0 God has given us a great ministry, God has given us stewardship of people's lives and of families, and at such a time as this, and we've got to work together.\u00a0 While the day is short, we've got to work together.\u00a0 We cannot take our cookies home, because the families of America, the families of the world, the families of the military truly need us.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tBob:\u00a0Well, again, that is General Robert Dees, the leader of the Military Ministry of Campus Crusade for Christ speaking recently at a staff meeting here at FamilyLife, and with Memorial Day now being celebrated this weekend, that's a great reminder.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tDennis:\u00a0It really is, and, as he closed there, I thought, you know, it's a privilege that we haven't take our cookies home.\u00a0 We are expending ourselves on behalf of military marriages and families trying to make a difference and trying to be a part of the solution.\u00a0 And being known by what we're for as a ministry not by what we're against and, again, I just want to remind you, as a listener, this month we've had friends of the ministry offer a matching grant where your gift can be matched up to $475,000, and I don't think we've reached that amount yet.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t\u00a0If you haven't given, or even if you have, maybe it's time for a second gift.\u00a0 We need your help.\u00a0 We need you to stand with us so that we can keep serving the spiritual ingredients up to a group of people that have been challenged by war, and war is hard on marriages and families.\u00a0 So I invite you \u2013 will you stand by us so we can stand with the military?\u00a0 And, if you do, I want to say thanks in advance.\u00a0 We greatly appreciate you.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tBob:\u00a0And let me say to those listeners who either are military families or who may know someone who is in a military family, we have some resources available in our FamilyLife Resource Center.\u00a0 You can go to our website at FamilyLife.com, and if you click that red \"Go\" button that you see in the middle of the screen, it will take you to an area of the site where you can find out about some Homebuilders studies, small group studies that we've put together for military couples to go through, and a brand-new book that is available for women who are married to men in the military.\u00a0 It's called \"Loving Your Military Man,\" written by Bea Fishback and published by us here at FamilyLife.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t\u00a0All the information you need about these resources, you'll find on our website at FamilyLife.com.\u00a0 If you click the red button you see in the middle of the screen that says \"Go,\" that will take you to the area of the site where there is more information about these resources.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t\u00a0You can also call 1-800-FLTODAY, that's 1-800-358-6329, and someone on our team will make arrangements to have sent to you whatever resources you request.\u00a0 Again, our phone number is 1-800-FLTODAY, and our website is FamilyLife.com.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t\u00a0And, with that, I want to say I hope you have a great weekend.\u00a0 I hope you can be back with us next Monday, on Memorial Day, when we're going to have a conversation with General Robert Dees about what FamilyLife and the Military Ministry are doing together to help strengthen military marriages and families.\u00a0 I hope you can tune in 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 back next time for another edition of FamilyLife Today. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t\u00a0FamilyLife Today is a production of FamilyLife of Little Rock, Arkansas, a ministry of Campus Crusade for Christ.\u00a0 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a military member goes to war, a family goes to war.","meta_box":{"show_notes":"","transcript_url":"https:\/\/transcript.familylifetoday.com\/fl2007-05-25.pdf","transcript_content":"<p>\n\t\t\t\t[shot fired, woman cries]\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t\u00a0Allied forces could not have been aware of what was happening in Eindhoven, but they were committed to the liberation of the Dutch people and in September of 1944, they launched Operation Market Garden.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t[old-time radio announcer]\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tAnnouncer:\u00a0Part of the greatest airborne army the world has ever known \u2013 a 285-mile-long sky train crosses the English Channel and seizes strategic points in Holland.\u00a0 Among them, Arnum, where one heroic group was trapped.\u00a0 The Eimhagen Bridge over one arm of the Rhine and this objective at Eindhoven. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t[bombs, airplanes]\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tBob:\u00a0This is FamilyLife Today for Friday, May 25th.\u00a0 Our host is the president of FamilyLife, Dennis Rainey, and I'm Bob Lepine, and today we'll learn the story of the father whose life was spared because the allies arrived just in time on a particular September day in 1944.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tAnnouncer:\u00a0British and Americans rolled through Eindhoven where the Dutch give them a rousing welcome.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t[cheers, march music]\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tBob:\u00a0And welcome to FamilyLife Today, thanks for joining us on the Friday edition.\u00a0 I guess I ought to say, \"Ten-Hut!\"\u00a0 You've got the boots in here.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tDennis:\u00a0Boots on the table.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tBob:\u00a0What is the deal with the boots?\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tDennis:\u00a0Over the years, I've been given a few awards that I really like.\u00a0 I like this award. It was given to me by General Bob Dees of the military ministry of Campus Crusade for Christ, and he actually mounted, on a plaque, a set of military boots.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tBob:\u00a0Combat boots, right?\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tDennis:\u00a0That's right, and he just wanted to say thanks for FamilyLife's partnership with the military ministry, and then he went on to tell a story that our listeners are going to get a chance to hear, and it has to do with a pair of boots on the ground, and I want to tell you, you will not want to miss this, because the military is in the news.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t\u00a0We don't hear enough good stories like this one for us to be reminded that our military does, indeed, save lives.\u00a0 They save people, real people, who have real legacies, and you're going to hear a wonderful story about how these boots on the ground saved the lives of a little girl's daddy.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tBob:\u00a0One of the huge challenges that military families are facing today is the challenge to marriage and FamilyLife together with the military ministry of Campus Crusade for Christ is \u2013 well, we're putting together a response to try to strengthen marriages both for those who are in active duty and those who are coming home from active duty and re-engaging on the home front.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tDennis:\u00a0That's right, and the home front is the one that suffers the most when these soldiers come back to their spouses and to their families.\u00a0 What we've done is team up with General Dees and his staff to offer small group Bible studies, training to military personnel, and we have some long-term plans, Bob, to hopefully be a solution and a help to the military as their military families are under an attack of their own.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t\u00a0General Bob Dees, as I mentioned, is the national director of the military ministry of Campus Crusade for Christ.\u00a0 He attended Westpoint and graduated in 1972 and had a distinguished career for more than 31 years.\u00a0 He received two stars and is really becoming a very good friends of FamilyLife, and I just want our listeners to know who support FamilyLife \u2013 the Legacy Partners, those who are family champions, who support our ministry.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t\u00a0When you give to the mission of FamilyLife, you make it possible for us to forge partnerships like we've done with the military ministry of Campus Crusade for Christ to be able to offer all kinds of training and resources that help military marriages and families.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tBob:\u00a0And some of our listeners are aware of the fact that when you make a donation this month, that donation is being double up to a total of $475,000, and we're nearing the end of the month and, at this point, I don't think that we have reached that total amount yet.\u00a0 So we're hoping to hear from folks in the next few days who will go online or call us, make a donation of any amount.\u00a0 Your donation is going to be doubled on a dollar-for-dollar basis up to a total of $475,000, and we've just got a couple of days left, so can we ask you today to consider making a donation, again, either online at FamilyLife.com or by calling 1-800-FLTODAY and helping to support the ministry of FamilyLife Today.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tDennis:\u00a0That's right, and when you do give, you're helping us do battle on behalf of families both in the military and outside, and I'd just like to say we need you to stand with us.\u00a0 This is a great time for this ministry.\u00a0 We have some exciting plans for the future, but we need fuel for the tanks.\u00a0 We need the Air Force here on FamilyLife Today to continue strong so that we can influence more and more families across the country.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tBob:\u00a0General Dees was in our offices not long ago and spoke to our staff, and we thought with Memorial Day on Monday, we ought to play for our listener what General Dees shared with our staff.\u00a0 So here, from that recent staff meeting, is General Bob Dees.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t\u00a0GEN. DEES:\u00a0[from audiotape.]\u00a0 I often ask myself, and I want to make it sort of a teaching point for the day \u2013 when did I start loving soldiers?\u00a0 I noticed it sometimes along the way as a leader that sometime I started loving soldiers.\u00a0 It went from a head knowledge to a heart knowledge to a passion to a calling for soldiers.\u00a0 And I don't know when it was.\u00a0 Maybe it was when I saw that first soldier drown trying to save the life of another soldier.\u00a0 \"No greater has a man than to give his life for another.\"\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t\u00a0Or when I saw a helicopter pilot that crashed, and he bled to death.\u00a0 And as I reflect back on that, now I recognize how our Lord Jesus Christ bled to death on our behalf.\u00a0 Or may I started loving soldiers when I saw a young veteran just out of Iraq whose life had been snuffed away \u2013 not for sure, but somewhere it went from my head to my heart to a passion to a calling to take care of soldiers.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t\u00a0And then the same is with families.\u00a0 I'm not for sure when it was \u2013 was when I, as a young officer, handed that first flag to the grieving widow?\u00a0 And when I said \"Your grateful nation thanks you for your selfless service.\"\u00a0 When was it?\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t\u00a0But somewhere it went from the head to the heart to the passionate calling to help take care of military families, because they are really the backbone of these military people that are sent, in every way, around our world.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t\u00a0These are perilous times.\u00a0 If you look at the enemy within, the cultural erosion in our country has been perilous.\u00a0 Our moral fabric of our country is bad frayed.\u00a0 Spiritual infrastructure is an element of national power just as transportation and energy and the military and the socio and economic sectors.\u00a0 Spiritual infrastructure is critically important, and our spiritual infrastructure is sadly weakened in this country.\u00a0 We've got to strengthen it if we're going to be strong internally, and if we're going to be strong externally, and the external threat is significant.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t\u00a0You take the combination of radical Islamic fundamentalism plus weapons of mass destruction and new technologies unprecedented plus state-sponsored terrorism, directly and indirectly, using surrogates and directly it is a potent, perfect storm that is on our doorstep.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t\u00a0And for all of us, there are perilous times ahead, I would offer, and if we're going to minimize that, if we're going to work it responsibly as a Christian body in the churches, the citizens, the communities, the Christians, the churches, if we're going to work it responsibly, we've got to go back to our first of Jesus Christ, we've got to put on those Gospel boots, and we've got to work hard to strengthening of our moral infrastructure.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t\u00a0Let me just tell one story \u2013 I think Dennis has related some of this to you, and it has to do with a profound experience I had in 1994.\u00a0 We were in Holland, and in 1994 my wife was on the ground in a muddy drop zone.\u00a0 In 1944, that was a bloody drop zone.\u00a0 She was on a muddy drop zone in 1994, because it was the 50th year commemoration Operation Market Garden.\u00a0 The biggest airborne operation in all history \u2013 bigger than Normandy, even. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t\u00a0Three airborne operations \u2013 101st Airborne Division, 82nd Airborne Division, British 1st Airborne Division, trying to clear up and airhead line that an armored car would go through, and then they would flank the Nazis to the north.\u00a0 Some of you may know about that, commemorated in Cornelius Ryan's movie, \"A Bridge Too Far,\" and book and so forth.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t\u00a0Well, the operation went down in September of 1944, and so here we are, 50 years later, we're getting ready to jump.\u00a0 She was on the ground, I was in a bumpy Dutch C130, and I was a big sick at my stomach, you know, we'd been bumping around, the weather was rough, and you have heavy equipment on your back, and so we're going along and then, all of a sudden, you hear \"Get ready!\u00a0 Get ready!\" and you know the time \u2013 you know, when they say \"Get ready\" there's an expression in the Army that says \"Threat clears a man's head,\" and you are very clear-headed when you're getting ready to go out the door of an airplane.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t\u00a0So \"Get ready!\u00a0 Outboard personnel stand up!\u00a0 Inboard personnel stand up!\u00a0 Hook up!\"\u00a0 Now it's getting real serious when you're hooking up.\u00a0 You know something is going to happen.\u00a0 \"Hook up!\u00a0 Check static lines, check equipment!\u00a0 All okay, Jumpmaster!\u00a0 All okay!\u00a0 All okay!\u00a0 All okay!\u00a0 All okay, Jumpmaster!\u00a0 One minute!\u00a0 Stand in the door!\" and you're standing in the door and, again, you have a pretty clear head, okay?\u00a0 And you're getting ready to say \"Go!\u00a0 Go!\u00a0 Go!\" then you jump out of the airplane and, all of sudden, you hear this roar of engines, you hear the blast, you hear the sharp jerk, and it's your parachute opening for which you give great thanks, okay?\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t[laughter] \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t\u00a0And then you hear the ever-distant roar of the airplane engines, and all of a sudden there's a period of silence, and you have a moment of reflection before you're getting ready to hit the ground, and in this moment of reflection for me, at least, 50 years after this actual event, I was thinking about those veterans floating down, getting shot at, people being wounded.\u00a0 You could here the cries of travail right and left.\u00a0 And then, all of a sudden, I came out of that reverie, thankful for their sacrifice 50 years earlier.\u00a0 I came out of that reverie because I knew I was getting ready to hit the ground, and it was going to be ugly if I didn't do something smart.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t\u00a0So I landed, and I was gathering my 'chute, strong winds, you know, you have to wrestle it, and this Dutch lady came up, and as she came up to me, it was amazing.\u00a0 She was elderly, she just came up, and she got down on her knee, and she grabbed me, and she started crying, and she wouldn't let go.\u00a0 I mean, I literally couldn't get \u2013 so we had somebody get a translator because we couldn't understand what she was saying.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t\u00a0And she came, and she told the story that the Germans were killing five fathers a day in the town of Einhoven.\u00a0 That was an Evil Empire.\u00a0 You know, we talk about Evil Empires, that was an Evil Empire, and righteous people on the earth had to stand up and do something, they had to stand up to be counted.\u00a0 The military had to stand up to be counted against that evil empire.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t\u00a0She told the story, five fathers a day, her father had been apprehended on a day in September 1944.\u00a0 He was to be shot at noon.\u00a0 The 101st Airborne Division landed at 10:00 that morning.\u00a0 Her father's life was spared.\u00a0 She was not even born yet.\u00a0 She was subsequently born, and you can imagine the profound engagement.\u00a0 I was the first person she could grab.\u00a0 She just was expressing her profound thanks for the life of her father.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t\u00a0And so that said a lot to me.\u00a0 But the next sequel to this, I think, is even more important.\u00a0 Think about the soldiers.\u00a0 Think about those soldiers.\u00a0 They were also sick at their stomach, some of them were wounded when they landed, they'd been shot at and so forth.\u00a0 And what did they do?\u00a0 When they landed, they just started putting one boot in front of another, one boot in front of another, and by those small acts of obedience, those small acts of selfless service, they saved a father's life just by what they were doing.\u00a0 They saved a father's life.\u00a0 They liberated the nation of Holland from an evil empire, and then they started to free up a whole continent of Europe from an evil empire.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t\u00a0Okay, so let's go back to that jump story.\u00a0 If you're in that jump story, the next sequel to this \u2013 think of yourself as a Christian warrior, a Christian airborne warrior \u2013 small acts of obedience, step-by-step, selfless service, step-by-step, acts of spiritual discipline, and you jump into people's lives in situations in various ways, and when you land, just because of who you are and the sweet aroma of Jesus Christ lived out through your life, you inherently, automatically, lives start being changed.\u00a0 Fathers and mothers and families are changed and transformed.\u00a0 Whole continents and whole nations are changed for Jesus Christ.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t\u00a0And so that's how it relates to us, I think, because how beautiful are the feet of those who wear those Gospel boots and one boot in front of the other, share that Gospel of Jesus Christ on behalf of the lost.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t\u00a0So let me show you a picture worth 1,000 words.\u00a0 Let's show this.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t[Glenn Miller, \"In the Mood\"]\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tMan:\u00a0Not far from here, just east a number of miles is the town of North Platte, Nebraska.\u00a0 Anybody know North Platte, Nebraska?\u00a0 You've been there.\u00a0 North Platte's out there.\u00a0 You've got to want to go to North Platte.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t[airplanes, machine gun fire]\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t\u00a0In 1941, it was a town of 12,000 people.\u00a0 The Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor on December 7th, the 12,000 people of this Union Pacific railroad called North Platte. Ten days later there was a train coming through.\u00a0 It was National Guard troops.\u00a0 The word went out it was Nebraska National Guard troops and so some folks baked cookies and stuff and went down to the train, and they went down to give them some cookies, and they looked in the windows, and they looked in the windows.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t\u00a0It wasn't Nebraska guys, they couldn't find any of their own.\u00a0 It happened to be Kansas.\u00a0 But they stood there with the cookies and the cakes and stuff and finally one young woman by the name of Raye Wilson, a drugstore clerk, said \"Well, I'm not keeping my cookies, I'm not taking my cookies home.\"\u00a0 She stepped up and gave them to one of the young men, and then everybody gave their stuff.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t\u00a0Immediately after that, when they started moving Army troops through, and sailors and stuff, Raye Wilson organized some women, and they decided they were going to meet the trains that came through North Platte, Nebraska.\u00a0 Bob Green, a journalist from the Chicago Tribune has written about this in a book called \"Once Upon a Town.\"\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t\u00a0And they started to meet the trains, and over the next four-and-a-half years, they organized, mostly women, 55,000 women, and they met every train that came in.\u00a0 Sometimes up to 32 trains a day.\u00a0 And the Union Pacific railway gave the restaurant to them, and they dubbed it \"the North Platte Canteen,\" and they got 10 minutes to get off the train.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t\u00a0These guys would jump off the train, run in there, and there would be wall-to-wall tables with sandwiches and cakes and pies.\u00a0 One woman said, \"My job during the war was to make 10 angel food cakes from scratch with turkey eggs every week in the back of that train station.\"\u00a0 Everything was rationed.\u00a0 People had to give it out of their own goods.\u00a0 Only $5 came from the government, and it was a check from Franklin Roosevelt, said, \"I heard you're doing some good things out there,\" and he sent five bucks.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t\u00a0The people of these towns, like yours, all over that area, came there during the course of the war.\u00a0 I mean, these guys would jump out of the train, run in there, and there would be hot coffee, there would be doughnuts, there would be pheasant sandwiches in season, and I said this at the Nebraska Governor's Prayer Breakfast, and the Senator came to me afterwards and said, \"Sometimes out of season.\"\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t\u00a0They get back on the train, and they'd go off, many never to return.\u00a0 During the course of the war, 6 million United States servicemen and women came through North Platte, Nebraska, and every single train was met.\u00a0 And the story would go something like this \u2013 a guy would say, \"I graduated from Brooklyn High School, never been out of New York City.\u00a0 I went down and signed up on Monday.\u00a0 They put me on a train going West.\u00a0 I rode for three days and nights, sitting up, eating k-rations and not taking a shower, and somebody in the middle of the night said, \"North Platte, Nebraska, next stop.\" \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t\u00a0I'd never heard of North Platte, Nebraska.\u00a0 I jumped off the train, ran into a place, and I saw girls who looked like my sisters and my cousins and women who looked like my aunts and my mom, and they had all this food, and they just \u2013 they gave it to us, and when we left, they hugged us, and they said, \"Sailor, we're praying for you.\u00a0 God bless you,\" and we'd get back on the train scared out of our minds, not knowing where we were going, not knowing if we'd ever come back, but when we went into that place for 10 minutes, something went away. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t\u00a0We got back on the train, and we went on, and in the middle of the night in France, with mortars coming down and there was a lull in the fighting, a voice would come out of the darkness saying, \"Wouldn't it be great to be back in North Platte for five minutes?\"\u00a0 Because love chases away fear, and when Bob Green interviewed these guys, they'd start crying \u2013 85-year-old guys start crying.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t\u00a0He'd say, \"What are you crying for?\"\u00a0 He said, \"Because, here I was, an 18-year-old kid, scared to death, and I went into that place, and for five minutes in the middle of the night in a place I'd never been to with people I'd never met going to a place I didn't know, somebody loved me and was kind to me.\"\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t\u00a0I told this story in Denver a couple of years ago at the 60th anniversary of Youth for Christ Campus Life.\u00a0 A young woman came up to me the next morning and said, \"When you were telling that story I thought about my grandpa.\u00a0 My grandpa was in the Navy, and he lived in Pennsylvania, and I wondered, did he go through North Platte, Nebraska?\"\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t\u00a0She said, \"My grandpa is 90 years old in the nursing home, and he has dementia.\u00a0 He doesn't remember us most of the time, but I called him, and I said, 'Grandpa, this is Jennifer.'\u00a0 And I said, 'Grandpa, does the name North Platte, Nebraska, meaning anything to you?'\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t\u00a0And he said 'North Platte, Nebraska,' instantly he was lucid.\u00a0 'You bet it does.'\u00a0 He said, 'I went in there, and they gave me doughnuts and sandwiches and coffee, and they shined my shoes.\u00a0 You bet I remember North Platte, Nebraska.'\"\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t\u00a0What is it, 60 years after the fact, that brings a 90-year-old man out of dementia?\u00a0 When you're scared, and you're 18, and you're going off to war, and on the way somebody loves you and is kind to you.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t[\"In the Mood]\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tGen. Dees:\u00a0[from audiotape.]\u00a0 When you're scared, and you're 18, and somebody loves you, that's the difference that we can make in people's lives that we love them.\u00a0 As I look at this, I think, \"Okay, what's my takeaway?\"\u00a0 There's all sorts of things you could take away.\u00a0 I think of that drugstore clerk, Raye Wilson.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t\u00a0Raye Wilson was not a CEO of a company, she was not a person of prominence, she was a drugstore clerk of moral courage, and they stood there with their cookies, and then she said, simply, \"Well, I'm not taking my cookies home.\u00a0 I'm not taking my cookies home,\" and she demonstrated moral courage, and she led the charge for 55,000 women over four-and-a-half years.\u00a0 How powerful is that?\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t\u00a0And so for our own team, Military Ministry for FamilyLife Today, my message is, we cannot take our cookies home.\u00a0 God has given us a great ministry, God has given us stewardship of people's lives and of families, and at such a time as this, and we've got to work together.\u00a0 While the day is short, we've got to work together.\u00a0 We cannot take our cookies home, because the families of America, the families of the world, the families of the military truly need us.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tBob:\u00a0Well, again, that is General Robert Dees, the leader of the Military Ministry of Campus Crusade for Christ speaking recently at a staff meeting here at FamilyLife, and with Memorial Day now being celebrated this weekend, that's a great reminder.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tDennis:\u00a0It really is, and, as he closed there, I thought, you know, it's a privilege that we haven't take our cookies home.\u00a0 We are expending ourselves on behalf of military marriages and families trying to make a difference and trying to be a part of the solution.\u00a0 And being known by what we're for as a ministry not by what we're against and, again, I just want to remind you, as a listener, this month we've had friends of the ministry offer a matching grant where your gift can be matched up to $475,000, and I don't think we've reached that amount yet.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t\u00a0If you haven't given, or even if you have, maybe it's time for a second gift.\u00a0 We need your help.\u00a0 We need you to stand with us so that we can keep serving the spiritual ingredients up to a group of people that have been challenged by war, and war is hard on marriages and families.\u00a0 So I invite you \u2013 will you stand by us so we can stand with the military?\u00a0 And, if you do, I want to say thanks in advance.\u00a0 We greatly appreciate you.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tBob:\u00a0And let me say to those listeners who either are military families or who may know someone who is in a military family, we have some resources available in our FamilyLife Resource Center.\u00a0 You can go to our website at FamilyLife.com, and if you click that red \"Go\" button that you see in the middle of the screen, it will take you to an area of the site where you can find out about some Homebuilders studies, small group studies that we've put together for military couples to go through, and a brand-new book that is available for women who are married to men in the military.\u00a0 It's called \"Loving Your Military Man,\" written by Bea Fishback and published by us here at FamilyLife.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t\u00a0All the information you need about these resources, you'll find on our website at FamilyLife.com.\u00a0 If you click the red button you see in the middle of the screen that says \"Go,\" that will take you to the area of the site where there is more information about these resources.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t\u00a0You can also call 1-800-FLTODAY, that's 1-800-358-6329, and someone on our team will make arrangements to have sent to you whatever resources you request.\u00a0 Again, our phone number is 1-800-FLTODAY, and our website is FamilyLife.com.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t\u00a0And, with that, I want to say I hope you have a great weekend.\u00a0 I hope you can be back with us next Monday, on Memorial Day, when we're going to have a conversation with General Robert Dees about what FamilyLife and the Military Ministry are doing together to help strengthen military marriages and families.\u00a0 I hope you can tune in 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 back next time for another edition of FamilyLife Today. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t\u00a0FamilyLife Today is a production of FamilyLife of Little Rock, Arkansas, a ministry of Campus Crusade for Christ.\u00a0 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