{"id":301403,"date":"2007-07-24T11:00:00","date_gmt":"2007-07-24T15:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-stage.familylife.com\/www\/podcast\/%series%\/welcome-to-the-wonderful-world-of-reading\/"},"modified":"2024-10-07T22:49:58","modified_gmt":"2024-10-08T02:49:58","slug":"welcome-to-the-wonderful-world-of-reading","status":"publish","type":"podcast","link":"https:\/\/wp-stage.familylife.com\/www\/podcast\/familylife-today\/welcome-to-the-wonderful-world-of-reading\/","title":{"rendered":"Welcome to the Wonderful World of Reading"},"content":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dennis Rainey and Mark Hamby encourage you to join them in fasting from TV for the month of August.<\/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\/fl2007-07-24.mp3","cover_image":"","cover_image_id":"","duration":"00:","filesize":"10.36M","filesize_raw":"10860228","date_recorded":"","explicit":"","block":""},"categories":[10350,2870,2881],"tags":[5005,4289,4961,5006,4962],"podcast_series":[7392],"cwp_profile":[9078],"series":[2101],"class_list":["post-301403","podcast","type-podcast","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-digital-and-media-choices","category-tweens","category-young-children","tag-books","tag-media","tag-reading","tag-summer-activities","tag-tv-fast","podcast_series-turn-off-the-tv-and-pick-up-a-book","cwp_profile-mark-hamby","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\/301403\/welcome-to-the-wonderful-world-of-reading","player_link":"https:\/\/wp-stage.familylife.com\/www\/podcast-player\/301403\/welcome-to-the-wonderful-world-of-reading","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=\"5KLfQvIIfB\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wp-stage.familylife.com\/www\/podcast\/familylife-today\/welcome-to-the-wonderful-world-of-reading\/\">Welcome to the Wonderful World of Reading<\/a><\/blockquote><iframe sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-stage.familylife.com\/www\/podcast\/familylife-today\/welcome-to-the-wonderful-world-of-reading\/embed\/#?secret=5KLfQvIIfB\" width=\"500\" height=\"350\" title=\"&#8220;Welcome to the Wonderful World of Reading&#8221; &#8212; FamilyLife\u00ae - A Cru Ministry\" data-secret=\"5KLfQvIIfB\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" class=\"wp-embedded-content\"><\/iframe><script>\n\/*! 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help because he doesn't want to waste his muscle on the hustle and bustle.\u00a0 And Smarty, with his big bag of tricks, he can probably fix anything, but he doesn't want to strain his poor brain.\u00a0 And then Beauty, she is a beauty, she says, \"I'm sorry, can't help you, today's a bad today, my washing and washing is just minutes away.\u00a0 I've been powdered and pampered, and you won't find a dent, you'd never believe how much I've spent,\" and she won't help, either.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t\u00a0So little Trusty comes along, and he's the smallest of all the trains, and this is what he says.\u00a0 He says, \"How can I help you?\u00a0 I see that you're stuck.\u00a0 The fact that I'm here is certainly not luck.\u00a0 This morning while I was completing a task, I stopped for a moment to pray and to ask, 'Dear God, make me useful to someone today.\u00a0 If a friend is in need then send me their way.'\"\u00a0 So that's Trusty.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tBob:\u00a0This is FamilyLife Today for Tuesday, July 24th.\u00a0 Our host is the president of FamilyLife, Dennis Rainey, and I'm Bob Lepine.\u00a0 Everybody loves a great story, but it's even better when a great story helps you cultivate character.\u00a0 Stay with us.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t\u00a0And welcome to FamilyLife Today, thanks for joining us.\u00a0 I cannot wait \u2013 I'm so pumped about August.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tDennis:\u00a0Yes, August is the month \u2026\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tBob:\u00a0Man!\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tDennis:\u00a0August is the month we're fasting from television \u2026\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tBob:\u00a0Oh, yes!\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tDennis:\u00a0I am so glad to see you compliant, Bob.\u00a0 It is wonderful.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tBob:\u00a0Oh, compliant, nothing!\u00a0 I mean, I've got \u2026\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tDennis:\u00a0You're motivated.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tBob:\u00a0I have got books stacked up by the \u2013 I cannot \u2013 in fact, I may go ahead and just turn off the TV now and get started reading.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tDennis:\u00a0So how many \u2013 okay, what's your goal?\u00a0 How many books are you going to read during the month of August?\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tBob:\u00a0I don't know that I have a goal.\u00a0 I'm just going to \u2026\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\u00a0\u2026 talk about a goal.\u00a0 I mean, it's August, okay?\u00a0 You know, August is kind of supposed to be the lazy, hazy, crazy days of summer.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tDennis:\u00a0I'm just wondering if this is smoke or \u2013 how about \u2013 Bob, how about two?\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tBob:\u00a0Just check with me in September.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tDennis:\u00a0Two.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tBob:\u00a0Check with me and see how I did.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tDennis:\u00a0Two books in the month of August.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tBob:\u00a0All right, I'll see what I can do.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tDennis:\u00a0Change the pattern \u2013 it has to be cover to cover, Bob, not just the flyleaf.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tBob:\u00a0I'm a slow ready.\u00a0 You know, I'm thinking I could probably get through this one, \"Trusty.\"\u00a0 I can probably do that cover to cover.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tDennis:\u00a0You know, we are talking about an alternative to television for an entire month, and we've been doing this for half a dozen years here on FamilyLife Today, calling families, calling married couples, calling singles, to declare the month television free.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tBob:\u00a0And it's not just because you look at TV and go, \"Boy, there's a lot of garbage on here.\"\u00a0 But we need a break from the electronic stimulation, don't you think?\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tDennis:\u00a0We do.\u00a0 In fact, Barbara and I, a year ago, were coming back from an international trip where we had started the trip in the midst of this fast from television, and so we continued it on into September.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tBob:\u00a0Yes, you'd been in South Africa, hadn't you?\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tDennis:\u00a0I had.\u00a0 And we arrived in JFK, and the television was on, and Barbara looks at it, and she goes, \"I have not missed you one bit.\"\u00a0 All of the drivel, all of the same thing.\u00a0 It's, like, it really was like the message had not changed.\u00a0 It was the same message.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t\u00a0And so we're going to not only challenge you to give up television, we're going to give you and alternative that will be healthy for you, your marriage, and your family.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tBob:\u00a0And this is where I got pumped on it, because you know I wasn't really all that excited about it when we first launched this idea again this year, but \u2026\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tDennis:\u00a0That's right.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tBob:\u00a0I'm coming around.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tDennis:\u00a0There's a reason why.\u00a0 We had a motivator who took over the broadcast, and if you weren't motivated to read after listening to Mark Hamby, then it may be you don't know how to read at that point.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t\u00a0Mark Hamby is the founder and president of Lamplighter Ministries.\u00a0 He and his wife, Debbie, have been married for 28 years.\u00a0 They have three children.\u00a0 I want to welcome you back, Mark, and you are a motivated guy when it comes to reading, aren't you?<br>\u00a0\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tMark:\u00a0Yes, I am.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tBob:\u00a0This really is a passion for you, isn't it?\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tMark:\u00a0Oh, it is a passion, it's a calling.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tBob:\u00a0And part of the reason it's a passion is because of how God's used the books that you're publishing in your own life, and Lamplighter publishes \u2013 you've published more than 100 books now, is that right?\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tMark:\u00a0About 100 titles, yes.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tBob:\u00a0And yet, at the same time, you are now hearing from other people, other families, who are writing you about these same books, and this is different than just somebody reading a book and going, \"That was a good book, I really enjoyed that.\"\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tMark:\u00a0Absolutely.\u00a0 In fact, this just came in this morning, I wasn't even going to tell you I wanted to read this, but let me just read this.\u00a0 This is \u2013 a letter came this morning via e-mail.\u00a0 It says, \"Mr. Hamby and staff, I am so excited to hear all the Lord is doing for His kingdom through Lamplighter.\u00a0 We have been a TV-free household for a little over three years now, and it's the best decision my husband has ever made.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t\u00a0A sports fan himself and with six children, we see fruit every day from this godly decision.\u00a0 Lots more flag football games take place in the yard with Dad included.\u00a0 Our family has been addicted to Lamplighter books for years now.\u00a0 Our six children ranging in ages from 14 to 7 enjoy every one of the books I read aloud.\u00a0 Yay for no TV and more Lamplighter books.\u00a0 Can we hear more about\" \u2013 dah dah dah dah.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tDennis:\u00a0Mark, I'm sorry Barbara's not here to say \"Amen,\" because she's the one who carried \u2013 well, she carried the baton and the fire into our family to read to our children.\u00a0 I understand that only 39 percent of all parents read on a regular basis to their children.\u00a0 You've developed a bunch of books.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t\u00a0In fact, what we want to do is you've got some books here, a pile of them and a stack of them for preschoolers.\u00a0 There's another stack for those who are elementary age, and then another stack for teenagers.\u00a0 And what we're going to do is we're going to ask you \u2013 first of all, tell us just a little bit about all four, and then tell us which one is your favorite.\u00a0 You've got to do this quick, Mark.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tMark:\u00a0Okay, the first one, \"Hedge of Thorns.\"\u00a0 This was written in the 1600s.\u00a0 This is a children's illustrated \"Hedge of Thorns.\"\u00a0 We also have it in the larger version \u2013 a story basically about a child who is told not to go near this hedge of thorns.\u00a0 It's six feet wide, 12 feet high, and a mile long.\u00a0 Of course, when you're told not to do something you want to know all the more what's behind it.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t\u00a0This little boy gets his little seven-year-old sister to crawl through this hedge.\u00a0 The thorns are about six inches long and razor-blade sharp, and she gets halfway through, and she yells for him to pull her out, but instead of pulling her out, his passion is so great, he pushes her forward to try to get through the hedge, and the thorns go into her face and scar her for life.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t\u00a0The mother bandages the little girl's face, and then sits the little girl in his arms and says, \"I want you to look at your sister's face and never forget that when you cross the boundaries that God sets for you, you can harm those you love the most.\"\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t\u00a0The father takes him to same spot the next morning, lifts him up as if he's going to throw him into the hedge to teach him a lesson but rather he lifts him up on the palms of his hands and lets him see what's on the other side of the hedge of thorns.\u00a0 When he sees what's on the other side of the hedge of thorns it changes his life forever, because on the other side of the hedge of thorns \u2013 well, you'll have to read the book.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tDennis:\u00a0Oh, it's a great story, too.\u00a0 And the interesting thing is that story came about as a result \u2013 is this accurate?\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tMark:\u00a0Yes.\u00a0 What we found out is that this is a true story, and this boy, he crosses another boundary in his life when he's 19 years old and this time it cost him his life.\u00a0 And he dies at 19 years old, and he doesn't finish the story, and his sister finishes it for him.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tBob:\u00a0Wow.\u00a0 Okay, that's \"Hedge of Thorns.\"\u00a0 What's the second one?\u00a0 These are for preschoolers.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tMark:\u00a0Preschool \u2013 this is a true story about a little girl who gives up her favorite doll to feed a starving beggar, and the beggar looks at her and says, \"May the Almighty God, my child, someday make you a queen.\"\u00a0 And Queen Victoria was the youngest girl ever to become queen.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tBob:\u00a0Wow.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tDennis:\u00a0Wow.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tMark:\u00a0A great story.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tDennis:\u00a0And that book is, again, illustrated?\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tMark:\u00a0Yes, and it's called \"The Beggar's Blessing.\"\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tDennis:\u00a0And it was written, like, when?\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tMark:\u00a0The newspaper article, I think, goes in the early 1800s.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tDennis:\u00a0Okay.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tMark:\u00a0And then another illustrated book is called \"Teddy's Button,\" and we have \u2013 \"Teddy\" is one of my all-time favorite stories, and, of course, we have these both in illustrated and the larger version, but this one is a 64-page fully illustrated book, and this is about a boy and girl that hate each other, and they learn that you go in the battle with guns, swords, and hate; you win the battle with love; and your greatest enemy is yourself.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tDennis:\u00a0I've got a feeling right now there are moms all across America going, \"A book about sibling rivalry?\"\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tBob:\u00a0I'd like two copies of that, please.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tDennis:\u00a0That's exactly right \u2013 required reading for my children.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tMark:\u00a0What's great about it is that in the story Teddy always wanted to be a soldier, and when he learns that he has been fighting for the enemy all this time, that when this pastor leads him to Christ, he starts realizing that in order to be a soldier of the King, that you have to fight with a flag, because the banner over me is love, because love covers a multitude of sins.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tDennis:\u00a0And this next book you're picking up right now \u2013 this is your choice in this category for preschoolers.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tMark:\u00a0Yes.\u00a0 I'm going to choose this one, because we have \u2013 now, \"Teddy\" is my all-time favorite, but \u2026\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tDennis:\u00a0You can only buy just one of these four books and don't get the bundle \u2013 this is the one you're going to recommend.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tMark:\u00a0I guess.\u00a0 It's between \"Teddy\" and \"Trusty,\" but I'm going to go with \"Trusty,\" because we have Teddy in the larger version and, most likely, they can get that one.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t\u00a0This one's called \"Trusty, Tried and True.\"\u00a0 It's about a little train, and there are four trains.\u00a0 There's Trusty, and there's Brawny, and there's Beauty, and there's Smarty.\u00a0 And the train breaks down, and all of these trains come, and Brawny doesn't want to help because he doesn't want to waste his muscle on the hustle and bustle.\u00a0 And Smarty, with his big bag of tricks, he can probably fix anything, but he doesn't want to strain his poor brain.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t\u00a0And then Beauty, let me just read you this one \u2013 just this one paragraph in Beauty, because she is a beauty.\u00a0 She says, \"I'm sorry, can't help you, today's a bad today, my washing and washing is just minutes away.\u00a0 I've been powdered and pampered, and you won't find a dent, you'd never believe how much I've spent,\" and she won't help, either.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t\u00a0So little Trusty comes along, and he's the smallest of all the trains, and this is what he says.\u00a0 He says, \"How can I help you?\u00a0 I see that you're stuck.\u00a0 The fact that I'm here is certainly not luck.\u00a0 This morning while I was completing a task, I stopped for a moment to pray and to ask, 'Dear God, make me useful to someone today.\u00a0 If a friend is in need then send me their way.'\"\u00a0 So that's Trusty.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tDennis:\u00a0That's cool.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tBob:\u00a0That's a great \u2013 that's \u2013 you know, parents read bedtime stories to their kids, and you pull out \"Goodnight, Moon,\" and you pull out \u2026\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tDennis:\u00a0Which, I mean \u2026\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tBob:\u00a0\u2026 \"The Little Engine That Could.\"\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tDennis:\u00a0\"Goodnight, Moon,\" is wonderful but, okay, so what?\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tBob:\u00a0Yes, so what?\u00a0 But you read a book like \"Trusty,\" and you're planting a seed.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tDennis:\u00a0You are.\u00a0 Okay, here's our next bundle for elementary.\u00a0 Quickly, you shared about this earlier \u2013 \"The Basket of Flowers.\"\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tMark:\u00a0Yes, that was one of my very first books about a father and daughter.\u00a0 She's falsely accused, and he teaches her it's better to die for the truth than to live for a lie \u2013 an outstanding book on \u2013 for parents and for children, probably, 10 and up.\u00a0 \"Teddy's Button,\" that's the larger version.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tDennis:\u00a01890?\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tMark:\u00a0Yeah, amazing story.\u00a0 That's our number-one bestseller for children, and that book has led so many children to Christ.\u00a0 You should see the letters we get from parents.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tDennis:\u00a0All right, here's the next one \u2013 \"The Giant Killer.\"\u00a0 Is this about David?\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tMark:\u00a0No, \"The Giant Killer\" is about a mother and her children \u2013 actually, it's a pastor's home in the 1800s, and these two children come and stay for the summer.\u00a0 I think they may be cousins, and these children are bad.\u00a0 They are disobedient, disrespectful, they are disrupting their home, and so there's this conflict between these bad children and these good children. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t\u00a0But the wise mother sits them down each morning, and she begins to tell them of the story of the giant of hate, the giant of pride, the giant of selfishness, the giant of laziness, and, all of a sudden, her children start realizing that those giants live in their lives and unless those giants are killed on a daily basis, they'll not be able to be a peacemaker, which God loves.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t\u00a0And, all of a sudden, her children change, which changes the heart of the two bad children.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tDennis:\u00a0Okay, here's the last one in this category \u2013 \"Jessica's First Prayer.\"\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tMark:\u00a0Wow, you can't read that book without a box of tissues.\u00a0 It's about a little girl who is abandoned by her alcoholic mother.\u00a0 She eats out of garbage cans, and one day she smells the fresh coffee down by this coffee stall, and this old greedy man is down there selling coffee and fresh-baked goods, and she just comes sheepishly around, smelling the coffee and the breads and one day he looks at her with pity, and he says, \"Here, child,\" and he throws her a little bit of scraps from the day before, and he gives her some stale bread and coffee from the day before.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t\u00a0Well, each day she comes by, and he keeps giving her the leftovers until one day, this little girl, she has been influenced because she's been hearing this church service, and she's been learning about Jesus.\u00a0 And so she starts praying this one day, \"Dear Jesus, thank you so much for all the wonderful food that Mr. Daniel has been giving me every day.\"\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t\u00a0And, all of a sudden, he hears this little girl's prayer, and he drops to his knees and repents and receives Christ as his Savior right there, and then he takes the little girl, picks her up and brings her home, and he becomes her father.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tDennis:\u00a0Cool.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tBob:\u00a0Okay, so if you could only pick one of the books for children \u2026\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tDennis:\u00a0Is it \"Teddy's Button?\"\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tMark:\u00a0It's between \"Teddy's Button\" and \"Giant Killer\" and \u2026\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tDennis:\u00a0You've got to pick.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tMark:\u00a0\"Teddy's Button.\"\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tBob:\u00a0There we go.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tDennis:\u00a0\"Teddy's Button,\" all right, we've got only three in this teenager category.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tMark:\u00a0Okay, these are wild.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tDennis:\u00a0Okay, let's go to \"The Hidden Hand.\"\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tMark:\u00a0\"The Hidden Hand\" \u2026\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tDennis:\u00a01859.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tMark:\u00a0\"The Hidden Hand\" was originally written by a lady named Southworth.\u00a0 Now, one thing you've got to understand about these books, you can find these books online in their original \u2026\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tDennis:\u00a0I was going to ask you about that.\u00a0 Have you changed them a little bit, to edit them, so that \u2026\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tMark:\u00a0Absolutely.\u00a0 One of the reasons we've had to edit these, we want to make sure that when parents read a Lamplighter book that they can rest assured that what their children are going to be reading, that the doctrine is correct, that there is not a good works salvation.\u00a0 A lot of the books had a good works salvation.\u00a0 There is no profanity in there.\u00a0 We took out places where, in some of the books back then, they smoked, and they drank.\u00a0 It was allowable back then.\u00a0 People didn't mind that.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t\u00a0We don't want children to be reading books that are going to give them the wrong impression, so we've edited them.\u00a0 We've left the story the same.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tBob:\u00a0What's the story of \"The Hidden Hand\" about?\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tMark:\u00a0Okay.\u00a0 \"The Hidden Hand,\" originally written as a newspaper article and every day there was another article, and it lasted for several years.\u00a0 And it was the talk of the streets.\u00a0 Everyone wanted to know what was going to happen next, and after, around, I think, 1850, they put it together and bound it in the form of a book.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t\u00a0And when I first read this, I found this book in an auction across the street from where our office is, and my son picked it up and said, \"Dad, why don't you buy this?\u00a0 It's only $1.\"\u00a0 It had a leather cover, and it didn't have a spine, and it was 600 pages long.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tDennis:\u00a0Wow.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tMark:\u00a0And I said, \"I'll never read that, David.\"\u00a0 He said, \"Dad, just buy it,\" and it sat on my mantle for about three years.\u00a0 And one day, it was in the winter, I picked it up, and I read the preface.\u00a0 And it said, \"This is the best book that's ever been in print.\"\u00a0 And I said, \"Oh, there's someone like me,\" you know? \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t\u00a0And so I started reading it, and I got into the first chapter, and I couldn't put it down, took three days off work, couldn't put the book down.\u00a0 It's the story of God bringing seven people to the end of themselves so they'll learn to trust in the hidden hand of God, and, literally, you can't put this book down, it's amazing.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t\u00a0I've had, oh, I'd say 100 people have contacted me saying the same thing \u2013 it's the best book they've ever read in their life.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tBob:\u00a0Wow.\u00a0 All right, what about this \u2013 what is it called \"Uli's\" \u2026\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tMark:\u00a0\"That Printer of Udell's.\"\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tBob:\u00a0Udell's, okay.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tMark:\u00a0That's a unique book.\u00a0 President Ronald Reagan said that when he was nine years old, his grandmother gave him that to read, and it led him to Christ as his Savior, and he said that book was the mentor in his life that prepared him to become President of the United States.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tDennis:\u00a0Really?\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tBob:\u00a0What's the story about?\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tMark:\u00a0It's about this teenager that comes looking for a job in this very hypocritical down in the Midwest.\u00a0 People just talk about their Christianity, but they do something differently.\u00a0 And he gets this job with this printer, and this boy, he starts to think that \"I don't want my Christianity to be like \u2013 you know, to be hypocritical.\u00a0 I'm going to start doing things that Christ teaches us.\u00a0 I'm going to start bearing my cross and making a difference in this world.\"\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t\u00a0And, all of a sudden, the town starts to change, and people start asking, \"What has brought about this change?\"\u00a0 And they all say, \"That printer of Udell's.\"\u00a0 Udell is the name of the printer who owns the shop.\u00a0 His name is Udell, and people kept saying, \"That printer of Udell's, he's the one that's causing the change.\" An incredible book, that's a life-changing book.\u00a0 In fact, that's a life-changing book for churches.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tDennis:\u00a0Cool.\u00a0 \"The Lost Clue?\"\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tMark:\u00a0Oh, \"The Lost Clue.\"\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tDennis:\u00a0When was it written?\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tMark:\u00a0I think that was probably late 1800s.\u00a0 This book I put as the book of the year.\u00a0 I read this book about seven months ago, so it's just newly in print.\u00a0 This is a book about a young man who is a captain in the English army, and he is very well-to-do, but when he goes home on leave, he spends time with his very vulgar father, and there is this inconsistency \u2013 how do you have this boy who is refined and a gentleman but has the background of this father that is vulgar and just so tasteless?\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t\u00a0And so the father doesn't allow him to stay home.\u00a0 The father kept him at a boarding school, the father keeps him away from him.\u00a0 It's almost like the father doesn't even want to be an influence in his life.\u00a0 So one day the young man, the captain, gets this letter, and it's a letter from his father's deathbed.\u00a0 It says, \"Come home immediately, I have to tell you something.\"\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t\u00a0So the young man quickly goes home, the father grabs his arm and says, \"I am not your father.\u00a0 In the safe there is a letter that I want you to read, and it will tell you of your true identity, but you can't read it until after I die.\u00a0 And\" he says, \"there is something else that I need you to help me with after I die.\u00a0 One of the ministers in our village was dying, and he wanted me to use a little bit of savings that he had to invest it so that he would be able to take care of his wife and his daughters,\" and so this vulgar type of many says, \"Yes, I'll invest your money, I'll take care of your children and your wife.\"\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t\u00a0And so he looks, and now he's talking to his son years later, and he says, \"I invested their money somewhere in South Africa, and I lost it all.\u00a0 I lost all my money, I lost all theirs, and I don't have the heart to tell them.\u00a0 After I die, would you go and tell them what has happened to their savings?\"\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t\u00a0And so the man dies, and the very first thing that he does is goes in the safe and looks for the letter, and the letter is missing, so he doesn't know who he really is now.\u00a0 So there's that part of the mystery.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t\u00a0And he goes to the family to tell them that they've lost all \u2013 his father lost all their money, and there's these three daughters there, and the mother, and they're just so gracious to him, and he looks at them and sees their graciousness and how much Christ lives in their life.\u00a0 He is so taken by that, that he says, on the spot, \"I am going to correct the error of my father's deeds, and I am going to leave my position in the army, and I am going to work, and I will support you for the rest of my life.\"\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t\u00a0And so he does that.\u00a0 So he starts supporting them, and one thing leads to another where one of the daughters overhears something about a letter that was stolen from a safe, and she sends him a letter and tells him about it, and that sets him on the journey to find out who his true identity is.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t\u00a0But what I love about it is it helps young people realize that great sacrifice leads to great blessing.\u00a0 And this man does the unthinkable, that he's going to give up something very important to him to go and take care of this family that he doesn't even know.\u00a0 And when you find out who he is at the end of the story, I mean, you're just so blown away by the story, it's like, \"Oh, oh, dear.\"\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tDennis:\u00a0Well, I was just thinking a book like that around a lost identity for a teenager.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tMark:\u00a0Absolutely.\u00a0 That would be awesome.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tDennis:\u00a0I mean, what a time of crisis and of unbelief that teenagers face today \u2013 which one of these three is going to be your recommended treasured book, Mark.\u00a0 You can do it.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tMark:\u00a0Oh, dear.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tDennis:\u00a0This is tough.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tMark:\u00a0I'll tell you what \u2013 \"The Hidden Hand.\"\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\tDennis:\u00a0He was afraid I was about to withdraw the offer, Bob.\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\t[laughter] \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t\u00a0Well, our listeners can find all of these on our website at FamilyLife.com and, in fact, what we've done is we've taken some of Mark's favorites because we couldn't get him to nail it down to one throughout the program, we've taken and bundled together several books that are appropriate for preschool age, for Mom and Dad to read to preschoolers or for young readers to begin to read on their own, a group of books that are appropriate for elementary-aged readers either to be read to or to read on their own.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t\u00a0And then a group of books that are perfect for teenagers to read, or, again, these are books that could be read to the whole family by Mom or Dad, and all of this has next month in mind when many of you will join us in turning off the TV for a month and just spending some time doing other things, like reading, like reading great books.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t\u00a0There is information about all of the books we've talked about on our website, FamilyLife.com.\u00a0 You can go there and click a red button that you see in the middle of the screen that says \"Go,\" and that will take you right to the area of the site where you can get more information about these books, or you can order individual books or bundles of books online, or you can call 1-800-FLTODAY and just mention that you're interested in certain titles, or you need more information about what's available.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t\u00a0Again, the toll-free number is 1-800-358-6329, that's 1-800-FLTODAY, or you can find more information online at FamilyLife.com, click that red \"Go\" button, and you'll go right to the area of the site where you can get information about these books.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t\u00a0Let me encourage you as well \u2013 when you do get in touch with us, if you are able to support the ministry of FamilyLife Today this month with a donation of any amount, first of all, we'd appreciate it.\u00a0 This is the time of year when we don't hear from as many of our listeners as we normally do, and so funds get a little low, and it's always great when we can hear from somebody during the month of July.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t\u00a0And this week, when you make a donation of any amount, we'd like to send you a thank you gift that includes four CDS, messages from our Weekend to Remember Marriage Conference all centered around the subject of communication and sexual intimacy in marriage.\u00a0 We talk about resolving conflict, what we can do to more effectively express our ideas to one another, how we can be better listeners, and then about the whole issue of sexual intimacy in marriage, and that's really a part of our communication with one another.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t\u00a0These four messages are available on CD as our way of saying thanks for your support of the ministry of FamilyLife Today, and you can make a donation easily online at FamilyLife.com.\u00a0 If you're doing that, as you fill out the donation form, there will be a keycode box.\u00a0 You just type the three letters, \"WTR,\" in that keycode box, and that stands for Weekend to Remember.\u00a0 Or call 1-800-FLTODAY, make a donation over the phone, and, again, just mention that you'd like the CDs from the Weekend to Remember.\u00a0 We'll be happy to send them out to you, and let me just say we really do appreciate those of you who are able to partner with us this month.\u00a0 It's great to hear from you.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t\u00a0Now, as we have talked about books that we can read during the TV fast month next month, have you come up with the list of books that you're going to try and read through?\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tDennis:\u00a0You know, here's my question for Mark.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tBob:\u00a0Okay.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tDennis:\u00a0I have \u2013 well, I'm soon to have 11 grandchildren, and we're going to have what's called \"Fam at the Ranch\" \u2026\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tBob:\u00a0Yeah, it's coming up in just a week or two, right?\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tDennis:\u00a0Yes, just a few days, and they're all seven years old and under, all right?\u00a0 So I'm going to have, I'd say, six or seven of them that are old enough to crawl up in Papa's lap and to have a reading time.\u00a0 Which one of these books that you recommended for a younger group of children, would you recommend that I establish a reading time, probably every morning so the parents can kind of have some fun for a while?\u00a0 But it's going to be Papa's reading time.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tMark:\u00a0That would be wonderful.\u00a0 I would definitely go through the illustrated books for seven and under first, and then I would go with \"Jessica's First Prayer,\" and then I would go to \"Teddy's Button,\" and then \"The Giant-Killer.\"\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tDennis:\u00a0Well, I'm not that fast a reader, Mark, but I do want to thank you.\u00a0 He's selling me books, is what he's doing.\u00a0 I know what's happening here.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t\u00a0I do want to thank you, though, for coming in and allowing us to slice open your heart and hear your passion about reading and literature and, more important than that, I think books on purpose.\u00a0 You know, I think that's something that's been lost today that anchors the soul to Almighty God and ultimately to the Gospel.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tBob:\u00a0And, actually, you stop and think about it, and probably the best TV happens when the TV is off, and you're making up the pictures in your own mind, anyway.\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. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t________________________________________________________________\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tWe are so happy to provide these transcripts for you. 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August.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tDennis:\u00a0Yes, August is the month \u2026\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tBob:\u00a0Man!\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tDennis:\u00a0August is the month we're fasting from television \u2026\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tBob:\u00a0Oh, yes!\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tDennis:\u00a0I am so glad to see you compliant, Bob.\u00a0 It is wonderful.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tBob:\u00a0Oh, compliant, nothing!\u00a0 I mean, I've got \u2026\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tDennis:\u00a0You're motivated.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tBob:\u00a0I have got books stacked up by the \u2013 I cannot \u2013 in fact, I may go ahead and just turn off the TV now and get started reading.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tDennis:\u00a0So how many \u2013 okay, what's your goal?\u00a0 How many books are you going to read during the month of August?\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tBob:\u00a0I don't know that I have a goal.\u00a0 I'm just going to \u2026\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\u00a0\u2026 talk about a goal.\u00a0 I mean, it's August, okay?\u00a0 You know, August is kind of supposed to be the lazy, hazy, crazy days of summer.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tDennis:\u00a0I'm just wondering if this is smoke or \u2013 how about \u2013 Bob, how about two?\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tBob:\u00a0Just check with me in September.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tDennis:\u00a0Two.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tBob:\u00a0Check with me and see how I did.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tDennis:\u00a0Two books in the month of August.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tBob:\u00a0All right, I'll see what I can do.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tDennis:\u00a0Change the pattern \u2013 it has to be cover to cover, Bob, not just the flyleaf.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tBob:\u00a0I'm a slow ready.\u00a0 You know, I'm thinking I could probably get through this one, \"Trusty.\"\u00a0 I can probably do that cover to cover.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tDennis:\u00a0You know, we are talking about an alternative to television for an entire month, and we've been doing this for half a dozen years here on FamilyLife Today, calling families, calling married couples, calling singles, to declare the month television free.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tBob:\u00a0And it's not just because you look at TV and go, \"Boy, there's a lot of garbage on here.\"\u00a0 But we need a break from the electronic stimulation, don't you think?\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tDennis:\u00a0We do.\u00a0 In fact, Barbara and I, a year ago, were coming back from an international trip where we had started the trip in the midst of this fast from television, and so we continued it on into September.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tBob:\u00a0Yes, you'd been in South Africa, hadn't you?\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tDennis:\u00a0I had.\u00a0 And we arrived in JFK, and the television was on, and Barbara looks at it, and she goes, \"I have not missed you one bit.\"\u00a0 All of the drivel, all of the same thing.\u00a0 It's, like, it really was like the message had not changed.\u00a0 It was the same message.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t\u00a0And so we're going to not only challenge you to give up television, we're going to give you and alternative that will be healthy for you, your marriage, and your family.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tBob:\u00a0And this is where I got pumped on it, because you know I wasn't really all that excited about it when we first launched this idea again this year, but \u2026\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tDennis:\u00a0That's right.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tBob:\u00a0I'm coming around.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tDennis:\u00a0There's a reason why.\u00a0 We had a motivator who took over the broadcast, and if you weren't motivated to read after listening to Mark Hamby, then it may be you don't know how to read at that point.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t\u00a0Mark Hamby is the founder and president of Lamplighter Ministries.\u00a0 He and his wife, Debbie, have been married for 28 years.\u00a0 They have three children.\u00a0 I want to welcome you back, Mark, and you are a motivated guy when it comes to reading, aren't you?<br>\u00a0\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tMark:\u00a0Yes, I am.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tBob:\u00a0This really is a passion for you, isn't it?\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tMark:\u00a0Oh, it is a passion, it's a calling.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tBob:\u00a0And part of the reason it's a passion is because of how God's used the books that you're publishing in your own life, and Lamplighter publishes \u2013 you've published more than 100 books now, is that right?\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tMark:\u00a0About 100 titles, yes.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tBob:\u00a0And yet, at the same time, you are now hearing from other people, other families, who are writing you about these same books, and this is different than just somebody reading a book and going, \"That was a good book, I really enjoyed that.\"\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tMark:\u00a0Absolutely.\u00a0 In fact, this just came in this morning, I wasn't even going to tell you I wanted to read this, but let me just read this.\u00a0 This is \u2013 a letter came this morning via e-mail.\u00a0 It says, \"Mr. Hamby and staff, I am so excited to hear all the Lord is doing for His kingdom through Lamplighter.\u00a0 We have been a TV-free household for a little over three years now, and it's the best decision my husband has ever made.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t\u00a0A sports fan himself and with six children, we see fruit every day from this godly decision.\u00a0 Lots more flag football games take place in the yard with Dad included.\u00a0 Our family has been addicted to Lamplighter books for years now.\u00a0 Our six children ranging in ages from 14 to 7 enjoy every one of the books I read aloud.\u00a0 Yay for no TV and more Lamplighter books.\u00a0 Can we hear more about\" \u2013 dah dah dah dah.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tDennis:\u00a0Mark, I'm sorry Barbara's not here to say \"Amen,\" because she's the one who carried \u2013 well, she carried the baton and the fire into our family to read to our children.\u00a0 I understand that only 39 percent of all parents read on a regular basis to their children.\u00a0 You've developed a bunch of books.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t\u00a0In fact, what we want to do is you've got some books here, a pile of them and a stack of them for preschoolers.\u00a0 There's another stack for those who are elementary age, and then another stack for teenagers.\u00a0 And what we're going to do is we're going to ask you \u2013 first of all, tell us just a little bit about all four, and then tell us which one is your favorite.\u00a0 You've got to do this quick, Mark.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tMark:\u00a0Okay, the first one, \"Hedge of Thorns.\"\u00a0 This was written in the 1600s.\u00a0 This is a children's illustrated \"Hedge of Thorns.\"\u00a0 We also have it in the larger version \u2013 a story basically about a child who is told not to go near this hedge of thorns.\u00a0 It's six feet wide, 12 feet high, and a mile long.\u00a0 Of course, when you're told not to do something you want to know all the more what's behind it.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t\u00a0This little boy gets his little seven-year-old sister to crawl through this hedge.\u00a0 The thorns are about six inches long and razor-blade sharp, and she gets halfway through, and she yells for him to pull her out, but instead of pulling her out, his passion is so great, he pushes her forward to try to get through the hedge, and the thorns go into her face and scar her for life.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t\u00a0The mother bandages the little girl's face, and then sits the little girl in his arms and says, \"I want you to look at your sister's face and never forget that when you cross the boundaries that God sets for you, you can harm those you love the most.\"\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t\u00a0The father takes him to same spot the next morning, lifts him up as if he's going to throw him into the hedge to teach him a lesson but rather he lifts him up on the palms of his hands and lets him see what's on the other side of the hedge of thorns.\u00a0 When he sees what's on the other side of the hedge of thorns it changes his life forever, because on the other side of the hedge of thorns \u2013 well, you'll have to read the book.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tDennis:\u00a0Oh, it's a great story, too.\u00a0 And the interesting thing is that story came about as a result \u2013 is this accurate?\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tMark:\u00a0Yes.\u00a0 What we found out is that this is a true story, and this boy, he crosses another boundary in his life when he's 19 years old and this time it cost him his life.\u00a0 And he dies at 19 years old, and he doesn't finish the story, and his sister finishes it for him.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tBob:\u00a0Wow.\u00a0 Okay, that's \"Hedge of Thorns.\"\u00a0 What's the second one?\u00a0 These are for preschoolers.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tMark:\u00a0Preschool \u2013 this is a true story about a little girl who gives up her favorite doll to feed a starving beggar, and the beggar looks at her and says, \"May the Almighty God, my child, someday make you a queen.\"\u00a0 And Queen Victoria was the youngest girl ever to become queen.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tBob:\u00a0Wow.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tDennis:\u00a0Wow.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tMark:\u00a0A great story.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tDennis:\u00a0And that book is, again, illustrated?\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tMark:\u00a0Yes, and it's called \"The Beggar's Blessing.\"\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tDennis:\u00a0And it was written, like, when?\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tMark:\u00a0The newspaper article, I think, goes in the early 1800s.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tDennis:\u00a0Okay.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tMark:\u00a0And then another illustrated book is called \"Teddy's Button,\" and we have \u2013 \"Teddy\" is one of my all-time favorite stories, and, of course, we have these both in illustrated and the larger version, but this one is a 64-page fully illustrated book, and this is about a boy and girl that hate each other, and they learn that you go in the battle with guns, swords, and hate; you win the battle with love; and your greatest enemy is yourself.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tDennis:\u00a0I've got a feeling right now there are moms all across America going, \"A book about sibling rivalry?\"\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tBob:\u00a0I'd like two copies of that, please.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tDennis:\u00a0That's exactly right \u2013 required reading for my children.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tMark:\u00a0What's great about it is that in the story Teddy always wanted to be a soldier, and when he learns that he has been fighting for the enemy all this time, that when this pastor leads him to Christ, he starts realizing that in order to be a soldier of the King, that you have to fight with a flag, because the banner over me is love, because love covers a multitude of sins.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tDennis:\u00a0And this next book you're picking up right now \u2013 this is your choice in this category for preschoolers.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tMark:\u00a0Yes.\u00a0 I'm going to choose this one, because we have \u2013 now, \"Teddy\" is my all-time favorite, but \u2026\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tDennis:\u00a0You can only buy just one of these four books and don't get the bundle \u2013 this is the one you're going to recommend.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tMark:\u00a0I guess.\u00a0 It's between \"Teddy\" and \"Trusty,\" but I'm going to go with \"Trusty,\" because we have Teddy in the larger version and, most likely, they can get that one.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t\u00a0This one's called \"Trusty, Tried and True.\"\u00a0 It's about a little train, and there are four trains.\u00a0 There's Trusty, and there's Brawny, and there's Beauty, and there's Smarty.\u00a0 And the train breaks down, and all of these trains come, and Brawny doesn't want to help because he doesn't want to waste his muscle on the hustle and bustle.\u00a0 And Smarty, with his big bag of tricks, he can probably fix anything, but he doesn't want to strain his poor brain.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t\u00a0And then Beauty, let me just read you this one \u2013 just this one paragraph in Beauty, because she is a beauty.\u00a0 She says, \"I'm sorry, can't help you, today's a bad today, my washing and washing is just minutes away.\u00a0 I've been powdered and pampered, and you won't find a dent, you'd never believe how much I've spent,\" and she won't help, either.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t\u00a0So little Trusty comes along, and he's the smallest of all the trains, and this is what he says.\u00a0 He says, \"How can I help you?\u00a0 I see that you're stuck.\u00a0 The fact that I'm here is certainly not luck.\u00a0 This morning while I was completing a task, I stopped for a moment to pray and to ask, 'Dear God, make me useful to someone today.\u00a0 If a friend is in need then send me their way.'\"\u00a0 So that's Trusty.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tDennis:\u00a0That's cool.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tBob:\u00a0That's a great \u2013 that's \u2013 you know, parents read bedtime stories to their kids, and you pull out \"Goodnight, Moon,\" and you pull out \u2026\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tDennis:\u00a0Which, I mean \u2026\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tBob:\u00a0\u2026 \"The Little Engine That Could.\"\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tDennis:\u00a0\"Goodnight, Moon,\" is wonderful but, okay, so what?\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tBob:\u00a0Yes, so what?\u00a0 But you read a book like \"Trusty,\" and you're planting a seed.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tDennis:\u00a0You are.\u00a0 Okay, here's our next bundle for elementary.\u00a0 Quickly, you shared about this earlier \u2013 \"The Basket of Flowers.\"\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tMark:\u00a0Yes, that was one of my very first books about a father and daughter.\u00a0 She's falsely accused, and he teaches her it's better to die for the truth than to live for a lie \u2013 an outstanding book on \u2013 for parents and for children, probably, 10 and up.\u00a0 \"Teddy's Button,\" that's the larger version.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tDennis:\u00a01890?\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tMark:\u00a0Yeah, amazing story.\u00a0 That's our number-one bestseller for children, and that book has led so many children to Christ.\u00a0 You should see the letters we get from parents.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tDennis:\u00a0All right, here's the next one \u2013 \"The Giant Killer.\"\u00a0 Is this about David?\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tMark:\u00a0No, \"The Giant Killer\" is about a mother and her children \u2013 actually, it's a pastor's home in the 1800s, and these two children come and stay for the summer.\u00a0 I think they may be cousins, and these children are bad.\u00a0 They are disobedient, disrespectful, they are disrupting their home, and so there's this conflict between these bad children and these good children. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t\u00a0But the wise mother sits them down each morning, and she begins to tell them of the story of the giant of hate, the giant of pride, the giant of selfishness, the giant of laziness, and, all of a sudden, her children start realizing that those giants live in their lives and unless those giants are killed on a daily basis, they'll not be able to be a peacemaker, which God loves.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t\u00a0And, all of a sudden, her children change, which changes the heart of the two bad children.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tDennis:\u00a0Okay, here's the last one in this category \u2013 \"Jessica's First Prayer.\"\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tMark:\u00a0Wow, you can't read that book without a box of tissues.\u00a0 It's about a little girl who is abandoned by her alcoholic mother.\u00a0 She eats out of garbage cans, and one day she smells the fresh coffee down by this coffee stall, and this old greedy man is down there selling coffee and fresh-baked goods, and she just comes sheepishly around, smelling the coffee and the breads and one day he looks at her with pity, and he says, \"Here, child,\" and he throws her a little bit of scraps from the day before, and he gives her some stale bread and coffee from the day before.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t\u00a0Well, each day she comes by, and he keeps giving her the leftovers until one day, this little girl, she has been influenced because she's been hearing this church service, and she's been learning about Jesus.\u00a0 And so she starts praying this one day, \"Dear Jesus, thank you so much for all the wonderful food that Mr. Daniel has been giving me every day.\"\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t\u00a0And, all of a sudden, he hears this little girl's prayer, and he drops to his knees and repents and receives Christ as his Savior right there, and then he takes the little girl, picks her up and brings her home, and he becomes her father.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tDennis:\u00a0Cool.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tBob:\u00a0Okay, so if you could only pick one of the books for children \u2026\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tDennis:\u00a0Is it \"Teddy's Button?\"\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tMark:\u00a0It's between \"Teddy's Button\" and \"Giant Killer\" and \u2026\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tDennis:\u00a0You've got to pick.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tMark:\u00a0\"Teddy's Button.\"\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tBob:\u00a0There we go.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tDennis:\u00a0\"Teddy's Button,\" all right, we've got only three in this teenager category.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tMark:\u00a0Okay, these are wild.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tDennis:\u00a0Okay, let's go to \"The Hidden Hand.\"\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tMark:\u00a0\"The Hidden Hand\" \u2026\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tDennis:\u00a01859.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tMark:\u00a0\"The Hidden Hand\" was originally written by a lady named Southworth.\u00a0 Now, one thing you've got to understand about these books, you can find these books online in their original \u2026\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tDennis:\u00a0I was going to ask you about that.\u00a0 Have you changed them a little bit, to edit them, so that \u2026\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tMark:\u00a0Absolutely.\u00a0 One of the reasons we've had to edit these, we want to make sure that when parents read a Lamplighter book that they can rest assured that what their children are going to be reading, that the doctrine is correct, that there is not a good works salvation.\u00a0 A lot of the books had a good works salvation.\u00a0 There is no profanity in there.\u00a0 We took out places where, in some of the books back then, they smoked, and they drank.\u00a0 It was allowable back then.\u00a0 People didn't mind that.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t\u00a0We don't want children to be reading books that are going to give them the wrong impression, so we've edited them.\u00a0 We've left the story the same.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tBob:\u00a0What's the story of \"The Hidden Hand\" about?\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tMark:\u00a0Okay.\u00a0 \"The Hidden Hand,\" originally written as a newspaper article and every day there was another article, and it lasted for several years.\u00a0 And it was the talk of the streets.\u00a0 Everyone wanted to know what was going to happen next, and after, around, I think, 1850, they put it together and bound it in the form of a book.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t\u00a0And when I first read this, I found this book in an auction across the street from where our office is, and my son picked it up and said, \"Dad, why don't you buy this?\u00a0 It's only $1.\"\u00a0 It had a leather cover, and it didn't have a spine, and it was 600 pages long.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tDennis:\u00a0Wow.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tMark:\u00a0And I said, \"I'll never read that, David.\"\u00a0 He said, \"Dad, just buy it,\" and it sat on my mantle for about three years.\u00a0 And one day, it was in the winter, I picked it up, and I read the preface.\u00a0 And it said, \"This is the best book that's ever been in print.\"\u00a0 And I said, \"Oh, there's someone like me,\" you know? \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t\u00a0And so I started reading it, and I got into the first chapter, and I couldn't put it down, took three days off work, couldn't put the book down.\u00a0 It's the story of God bringing seven people to the end of themselves so they'll learn to trust in the hidden hand of God, and, literally, you can't put this book down, it's amazing.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t\u00a0I've had, oh, I'd say 100 people have contacted me saying the same thing \u2013 it's the best book they've ever read in their life.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tBob:\u00a0Wow.\u00a0 All right, what about this \u2013 what is it called \"Uli's\" \u2026\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tMark:\u00a0\"That Printer of Udell's.\"\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tBob:\u00a0Udell's, okay.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tMark:\u00a0That's a unique book.\u00a0 President Ronald Reagan said that when he was nine years old, his grandmother gave him that to read, and it led him to Christ as his Savior, and he said that book was the mentor in his life that prepared him to become President of the United States.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tDennis:\u00a0Really?\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tBob:\u00a0What's the story about?\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tMark:\u00a0It's about this teenager that comes looking for a job in this very hypocritical down in the Midwest.\u00a0 People just talk about their Christianity, but they do something differently.\u00a0 And he gets this job with this printer, and this boy, he starts to think that \"I don't want my Christianity to be like \u2013 you know, to be hypocritical.\u00a0 I'm going to start doing things that Christ teaches us.\u00a0 I'm going to start bearing my cross and making a difference in this world.\"\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t\u00a0And, all of a sudden, the town starts to change, and people start asking, \"What has brought about this change?\"\u00a0 And they all say, \"That printer of Udell's.\"\u00a0 Udell is the name of the printer who owns the shop.\u00a0 His name is Udell, and people kept saying, \"That printer of Udell's, he's the one that's causing the change.\" An incredible book, that's a life-changing book.\u00a0 In fact, that's a life-changing book for churches.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tDennis:\u00a0Cool.\u00a0 \"The Lost Clue?\"\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tMark:\u00a0Oh, \"The Lost Clue.\"\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tDennis:\u00a0When was it written?\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tMark:\u00a0I think that was probably late 1800s.\u00a0 This book I put as the book of the year.\u00a0 I read this book about seven months ago, so it's just newly in print.\u00a0 This is a book about a young man who is a captain in the English army, and he is very well-to-do, but when he goes home on leave, he spends time with his very vulgar father, and there is this inconsistency \u2013 how do you have this boy who is refined and a gentleman but has the background of this father that is vulgar and just so tasteless?\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t\u00a0And so the father doesn't allow him to stay home.\u00a0 The father kept him at a boarding school, the father keeps him away from him.\u00a0 It's almost like the father doesn't even want to be an influence in his life.\u00a0 So one day the young man, the captain, gets this letter, and it's a letter from his father's deathbed.\u00a0 It says, \"Come home immediately, I have to tell you something.\"\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t\u00a0So the young man quickly goes home, the father grabs his arm and says, \"I am not your father.\u00a0 In the safe there is a letter that I want you to read, and it will tell you of your true identity, but you can't read it until after I die.\u00a0 And\" he says, \"there is something else that I need you to help me with after I die.\u00a0 One of the ministers in our village was dying, and he wanted me to use a little bit of savings that he had to invest it so that he would be able to take care of his wife and his daughters,\" and so this vulgar type of many says, \"Yes, I'll invest your money, I'll take care of your children and your wife.\"\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t\u00a0And so he looks, and now he's talking to his son years later, and he says, \"I invested their money somewhere in South Africa, and I lost it all.\u00a0 I lost all my money, I lost all theirs, and I don't have the heart to tell them.\u00a0 After I die, would you go and tell them what has happened to their savings?\"\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t\u00a0And so the man dies, and the very first thing that he does is goes in the safe and looks for the letter, and the letter is missing, so he doesn't know who he really is now.\u00a0 So there's that part of the mystery.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t\u00a0And he goes to the family to tell them that they've lost all \u2013 his father lost all their money, and there's these three daughters there, and the mother, and they're just so gracious to him, and he looks at them and sees their graciousness and how much Christ lives in their life.\u00a0 He is so taken by that, that he says, on the spot, \"I am going to correct the error of my father's deeds, and I am going to leave my position in the army, and I am going to work, and I will support you for the rest of my life.\"\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t\u00a0And so he does that.\u00a0 So he starts supporting them, and one thing leads to another where one of the daughters overhears something about a letter that was stolen from a safe, and she sends him a letter and tells him about it, and that sets him on the journey to find out who his true identity is.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t\u00a0But what I love about it is it helps young people realize that great sacrifice leads to great blessing.\u00a0 And this man does the unthinkable, that he's going to give up something very important to him to go and take care of this family that he doesn't even know.\u00a0 And when you find out who he is at the end of the story, I mean, you're just so blown away by the story, it's like, \"Oh, oh, dear.\"\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tDennis:\u00a0Well, I was just thinking a book like that around a lost identity for a teenager.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tMark:\u00a0Absolutely.\u00a0 That would be awesome.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tDennis:\u00a0I mean, what a time of crisis and of unbelief that teenagers face today \u2013 which one of these three is going to be your recommended treasured book, Mark.\u00a0 You can do it.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tMark:\u00a0Oh, dear.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tDennis:\u00a0This is tough.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tMark:\u00a0I'll tell you what \u2013 \"The Hidden Hand.\"\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\tDennis:\u00a0He was afraid I was about to withdraw the offer, Bob.\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\t[laughter] \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t\u00a0Well, our listeners can find all of these on our website at FamilyLife.com and, in fact, what we've done is we've taken some of Mark's favorites because we couldn't get him to nail it down to one throughout the program, we've taken and bundled together several books that are appropriate for preschool age, for Mom and Dad to read to preschoolers or for young readers to begin to read on their own, a group of books that are appropriate for elementary-aged readers either to be read to or to read on their own.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t\u00a0And then a group of books that are perfect for teenagers to read, or, again, these are books that could be read to the whole family by Mom or Dad, and all of this has next month in mind when many of you will join us in turning off the TV for a month and just spending some time doing other things, like reading, like reading great books.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t\u00a0There is information about all of the books we've talked about on our website, FamilyLife.com.\u00a0 You can go there and click a red button that you see in the middle of the screen that says \"Go,\" and that will take you right to the area of the site where you can get more information about these books, or you can order individual books or bundles of books online, or you can call 1-800-FLTODAY and just mention that you're interested in certain titles, or you need more information about what's available.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t\u00a0Again, the toll-free number is 1-800-358-6329, that's 1-800-FLTODAY, or you can find more information online at FamilyLife.com, click that red \"Go\" button, and you'll go right to the area of the site where you can get information about these books.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t\u00a0Let me encourage you as well \u2013 when you do get in touch with us, if you are able to support the ministry of FamilyLife Today this month with a donation of any amount, first of all, we'd appreciate it.\u00a0 This is the time of year when we don't hear from as many of our listeners as we normally do, and so funds get a little low, and it's always great when we can hear from somebody during the month of July.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t\u00a0And this week, when you make a donation of any amount, we'd like to send you a thank you gift that includes four CDS, messages from our Weekend to Remember Marriage Conference all centered around the subject of communication and sexual intimacy in marriage.\u00a0 We talk about resolving conflict, what we can do to more effectively express our ideas to one another, how we can be better listeners, and then about the whole issue of sexual intimacy in marriage, and that's really a part of our communication with one another.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t\u00a0These four messages are available on CD as our way of saying thanks for your support of the ministry of FamilyLife Today, and you can make a donation easily online at FamilyLife.com.\u00a0 If you're doing that, as you fill out the donation form, there will be a keycode box.\u00a0 You just type the three letters, \"WTR,\" in that keycode box, and that stands for Weekend to Remember.\u00a0 Or call 1-800-FLTODAY, make a donation over the phone, and, again, just mention that you'd like the CDs from the Weekend to Remember.\u00a0 We'll be happy to send them out to you, and let me just say we really do appreciate those of you who are able to partner with us this month.\u00a0 It's great to hear from you.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t\u00a0Now, as we have talked about books that we can read during the TV fast month next month, have you come up with the list of books that you're going to try and read through?\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tDennis:\u00a0You know, here's my question for Mark.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tBob:\u00a0Okay.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tDennis:\u00a0I have \u2013 well, I'm soon to have 11 grandchildren, and we're going to have what's called \"Fam at the Ranch\" \u2026\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tBob:\u00a0Yeah, it's coming up in just a week or two, right?\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tDennis:\u00a0Yes, just a few days, and they're all seven years old and under, all right?\u00a0 So I'm going to have, I'd say, six or seven of them that are old enough to crawl up in Papa's lap and to have a reading time.\u00a0 Which one of these books that you recommended for a younger group of children, would you recommend that I establish a reading time, probably every morning so the parents can kind of have some fun for a while?\u00a0 But it's going to be Papa's reading time.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tMark:\u00a0That would be wonderful.\u00a0 I would definitely go through the illustrated books for seven and under first, and then I would go with \"Jessica's First Prayer,\" and then I would go to \"Teddy's Button,\" and then \"The Giant-Killer.\"\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tDennis:\u00a0Well, I'm not that fast a reader, Mark, but I do want to thank you.\u00a0 He's selling me books, is what he's doing.\u00a0 I know what's happening here.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t\u00a0I do want to thank you, though, for coming in and allowing us to slice open your heart and hear your passion about reading and literature and, more important than that, I think books on purpose.\u00a0 You know, I think that's something that's been lost today that anchors the soul to Almighty God and ultimately to the Gospel.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tBob:\u00a0And, actually, you stop and think about it, and probably the best TV happens when the TV is off, and you're making up the pictures in your own mind, anyway.\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 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