{"id":301478,"date":"2007-11-29T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2007-11-29T17:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-stage.familylife.com\/www\/podcast\/%series%\/his-kids-radio-network\/"},"modified":"2007-11-29T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2007-11-29T17:00:00","slug":"his-kids-radio-network","status":"publish","type":"podcast","link":"https:\/\/wp-stage.familylife.com\/www\/podcast\/familylife-today\/his-kids-radio-network\/","title":{"rendered":"His Kids Radio Network"},"content":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wouldn&#8217;t it be nice if there was a radio network just for children?<\/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\/fl2007-11-29.mp3","podmotor_file_id":"","podmotor_episode_id":"","cover_image":"","cover_image_id":"","duration":"00:","filesize":"","filesize_raw":"","date_recorded":"","explicit":"","block":""},"categories":[2806],"tags":[4982,4798],"podcast_series":[],"cwp_profile":[9099,9097,9100,9098],"series":[2101],"class_list":["post-301478","podcast","type-podcast","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-spiritual-development","tag-christian-radio","tag-kids","cwp_profile-dave-carl","cwp_profile-dodd-morris","cwp_profile-eric-baesel","cwp_profile-terre-ritchie","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\/301478\/his-kids-radio-network","player_link":"https:\/\/wp-stage.familylife.com\/www\/podcast-player\/301478\/his-kids-radio-network","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=\"2lbOBKPU4L\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wp-stage.familylife.com\/www\/podcast\/familylife-today\/his-kids-radio-network\/\">His Kids Radio Network<\/a><\/blockquote><iframe sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-stage.familylife.com\/www\/podcast\/familylife-today\/his-kids-radio-network\/embed\/#?secret=2lbOBKPU4L\" width=\"500\" height=\"350\" title=\"&#8220;His Kids Radio Network&#8221; &#8212; FamilyLife\u00ae - A Cru Ministry\" data-secret=\"2lbOBKPU4L\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" class=\"wp-embedded-content\"><\/iframe><script>\n\/*! 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children?","meta_box":{"show_notes":"","transcript_url":"https:\/\/transcript.familylifetoday.com\/fl2007-11-29.pdf","transcript_content":"<p>\n\t\t\t\tTeacher:\u00a0All right, class, settle, please.\u00a0 Once again, it is time to begin preparations for the regional spelling bee.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tStudent:\u00a0Woo-hoo!\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tTeacher:\u00a0We'll have the class competition on Friday, and the top two winners will go to Cucamonga for the regionals.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tStudent:\u00a0MarSHA \u2013 MarSHA \u2013 MarSHA!\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tStudent:\u00a0Is Marsha the local favorite?\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tStudent:\u00a0You bet she is.\u00a0 Marsha is the queen bee of spelling bees.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tStudent:\u00a0Oh, cute.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tBob:\u00a0Now we're talking.\u00a0 That's a different kind of theater.\u00a0 This is FamilyLife Today for Thursday, November 29th.\u00a0 Our host is the president of FamilyLife, Dennis Rainey, and I'm Bob Lepine.\u00a0 Today we'll talk about engaging our children's theater of the mind.\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 Have you ever driven on Interstate 70 from St. Louis to Denver, you know, that long stretch of I-70?\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tDennis:\u00a0No doubt about it.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tBob:\u00a0Across Kansas from Kansas City until you get to the Front Range.\u00a0 There's just nothing, you know what I mean?\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tDennis:\u00a0Well, there are some great spots \u2013 Colby, Kansas, is a hot spot.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tBob:\u00a0Come on, I mean, I've been through Colby and all of these towns.\u00a0 There is nothing.\u00a0 I mean, you just \u2026\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tDennis:\u00a0Bob, Bob, we have a lot of listeners in Kansas.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tBob:\u00a0No, there aren't \u2013 well, we may have listeners in Kansas but around I-70?\u00a0 Trust me, there is nothing.\u00a0 And if you're in a car on a long trip like that, and you've got young children in the car, it can get really old quick, you know?\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tDennis:\u00a0Well, unless you have plenty of CDs and some \u2013 well, now, I guess, we have DVDs, too.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tBob:\u00a0Yeah, you go that.\u00a0 But I remember one trip we were on across that stretch of road, and when I cracked out the CDs and handed them out to the kids to listen to, there was this blissful quiet in the car, as they had on their headsets, and they were listening to children's programs on their \u2013 back in these days it was on their Walkmans on their cassettes.\u00a0 And it made the trip so nice.\u00a0 Mary Ann and I had pleasant conversations in the front and, meanwhile, in the back they were getting biblical truths imprinted on their heart.\u00a0 I said, \"We should drive this road more often, you know?\"\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tDennis:\u00a0And we listened to the \"Chronicles of Narnia\" on tape.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tBob:\u00a0You're talking about the old \u2026\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tDennis:\u00a0Yes, the British actor who used to read the abridged version of that, and just a terrific time of being able to build great stories into the lives of your children.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tBob:\u00a0[Using British accent]\u00a0 \"There once was a boy named Clarence Eustace Scrubb, and he actually deserved it.\"\u00a0 Didn't you love that line?\u00a0 I loved how he started that one.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tDennis:\u00a0Well, we have a studio full of guests here who love children, and we love them, too.\u00a0 I just wanted all of you to know we're big on children here on FamilyLife Today.\u00a0 But we want to talk about a new partnership that is being announced that is really cool for kids, and we've got some guests from Frisco, Texas, down in the heartland of Texas where the sun bakes the ground hard in the summer.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t\u00a0David Carl and Eric Baesel join us from a little ministry down there called \"Insight for Living.\"\u00a0 Our friend, Chuck Swindoll, of course, gives leadership to that.\u00a0 We love Chuck, and he's a good friend.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tBob:\u00a0And you guys produced the radio program for kids that Insight for Living puts together called \"Paws and Tails.\"\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tDavid:\u00a0\"Paws and Tails,\" that's correct.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tBob:\u00a0And that would be cats and dogs, is that what that's \u2026\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tDavid:\u00a0A number of bears, weasels, beavers, a number of animals.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tBob:\u00a0[laughing]\u00a0 all right.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tDennis:\u00a0All right, we are also joined by Terre Richie, who heads up the \"Children's Bible Hour\" ministry \u2013 a 65-year-old ministry that has a number of outreaches not only through radio but also the Internet and has a broad reach to children all over the United States, right?\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tTerre:\u00a0That's right, that's right, we do, and it's a great ministry.\u00a0 It is 65 years old, but we're trying to stay on cutting-edge technology for kids today.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tBob:\u00a0And you guys produce a radio program called \"Down Gilead Lane.\"\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tTerre:\u00a0\"Down Gilead Lane.\"\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tBob:\u00a0In addition to \u2013 doesn't Uncle Charlie work for you, too?\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tTerre:\u00a0Yes, he does.\u00a0 He's still there, and he's still alive, the next question.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tDennis:\u00a0Can you do an Uncle Charlie imitation, Bob?\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tBob:\u00a0I don't know that I could do a good Uncle Charlie.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tDennis:\u00a0I don't think I want to hear it, anyway.\u00a0 Dodd Morris also joins us as director and on-air host of His Kids radio.\u00a0 It's a network that was created by our friends up in Grand Rapids.\u00a0 You guys are doing a great work of reaching out to young people.\u00a0 You started this back in \u2013 how long ago?\u00a0 1988?\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tDodd:\u00a0Back in the late '80s, Our Kids radio station is almost 18 years old, if you can believe it.\u00a0 It's funny, people, they'll contact us \u2013 \"This is great, how long have you been doing it?\"\u00a0 \"Eighteen years?\u00a0 How come we didn't know?\"\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tBob:\u00a0Tell us a little bit about the genesis.\u00a0 Before we get into talking about the programs these folks produce, tell us a little bit about the heart for radio for children, because about the only thing I know that's really radio for children is Radio Disney, but you guys had the idea, let's do something for kids that's discipleship oriented and, like you said, it's been going on almost two decades now.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tDodd:\u00a0That's right.\u00a0 As Dennis mentioned, it started in Grand Rapids, Michigan, and I think it was out of our station manager's desire to reach more kids but not to lose the parent audience at the same time.\u00a0 But, it really was a strong desire, and we found out about this whole technology called \"sub-channel\" that was used for elevator music and agricultural reports and reading services for the blind, and we said if we can get these radios into the homes of kids and families, then we can do two radio stations full time at the same time, and it's not going to cost us $1 million for another FM signal, and that's how it started.\u00a0 Up to satellite, around the country, and now through the Internet around the world, and it's been very exciting.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tBob:\u00a0So you've got HisKids.net, which is your website that is kind of the home for the best Christian children's programming on radio today, right?\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tDodd:\u00a0It is.\u00a0 We've gone back over the years and had great relationships with our program producers and with artists that are singing the music for kids and just a couple of years ago we said, \"Technology is changing, the world is changing, kids need this more,\" but sometimes it's harder for them to get if we're just working by ourselves.\u00a0 So can we join hands in ministry, work together, and we didn't know exactly what that would look like, and we didn't know exactly where that would take us, but it's turned into HisKids.net.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tBob:\u00a0Terre, tell us about Children's Bible Hour.\u00a0 You've been around for 65 years, so this heart for children goes back a long way for you guys.\u00a0 In fact, you're probably \u2013 when you all get together, you're probably the grandparents at the table, aren't you?\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tTerre:\u00a0Yes, we are, yeah.\u00a0 Children's Bible Hour started with a little girl sitting on her uncle's knee asking, you know, \"How come there's so much radio for older people and adults, but there is nothing for kids?\"\u00a0 And four pastors got together and took that question a little bit farther, and they said, \"We ought to do something.\u00a0 Let's do it.\"\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t\u00a0And they started out just by singing and having a choir and a few stories, and it developed into this ministry that's just been amazing over the years to see the outreach.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tDennis:\u00a0What age range do you reach?\u00a0 Do you have different types of broadcasts for different age segments of children?\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tTerre:\u00a0We have \u2013 our classic CBH, and all these programs are somewhere between 6 and 12 or 6 and 14, but our classic CBH is a program that is including Uncle Charlie, who used to be there, and Aunt Bea, and we have \"Keys for Kids.\"\u00a0 It's a four-and-a-half minute program.\u00a0 We have \"Story Time,\" it's a 15-minute program.\u00a0 And our premier program is \"Down Gilead Lane,\" and that's 24-, 25- minute program, and it deals with a family just like yours and mine, the Morrisons.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t\u00a0They have five kids, and those five kids go through everything you can imagine.\u00a0 It's a real, true-life adventure, and the dad is a judge, and the mom is a stay-at-home mom, and it's heartbreaking sometimes and sometimes it's just absolutely hilariously funny.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tBob:\u00a0\"Down Gilead Lane\" is now seven \u2013 you're in your ninth season, is that right?\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tTerre:\u00a0Great, great.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tBob:\u00a0Can you \u2013 have you been surprised by the response to that program?\u00a0 Again, you've been doing children's programming for 65 years.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tTerre:\u00a0Right.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tBob:\u00a0But \"Down Gilead Lane\" represented something that was pretty new for you, pretty aggressive for you.\u00a0 It costs a lot of money to produce the program.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tTerre:\u00a0Yes.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tBob:\u00a0Have you been surprised by the response?\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tTerre:\u00a0Yes, we have, and I brought a few of those with me today, but I just want to tell you about one that really hit home, and this mother said that when they got the first episodes, she listened to them first, which, a lot of time parents do, and then she started giving them to her children.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t\u00a0Well, one at a time was not enough.\u00a0 So then it was, \"Okay, Mom, where's the next one, where's the next one, I want to hear what happened.\u00a0 What happened to this?\"\u00a0 And so, finally, the last season came out, season eight, and she hid it, but she would go in private and listen to it.\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, finally, on the road they just finally listened to the whole thing all at one time, six hours at one time.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tBob:\u00a0Wow, a closet listener.\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:\u00a0David, you produce \"Paws and Tails,\" a ministry of Insight for Living, as I mentioned earlier.\u00a0 Tell us what was the genesis of that and what that's grown to.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tDavid:\u00a0Well, there was a high-level meeting with the most important people in the company, and Eric and I were nowhere near that meeting.\u00a0 And when Chuck came out, he wanted a new project, he wanted something new, and I had done a lot of creative work with his son, Curt Swindoll, at the time, and so Curt came down into the production area, which is where I was working at the time, and he said, \"All right, make a list of stuff you'd like to do.\"\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tDennis:\u00a0Chuck wants it, he better get it.\u00a0 Was it that kind of thing?\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tDavid:\u00a0Not that afternoon.\u00a0 I had a couple of days.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tDennis:\u00a0So you had a couple of \u2026\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tDavid:\u00a0Yeah.\u00a0 So \u2013 but Chuck had written a book, a children's book, \"Papa Chuck's Big Ideas from the Bible,\" a few years earlier, and so we used that as a springboard, and we took the character's name, Papa Chuck, and we really created everything else around that.\u00a0 And I've been waiting for eight or nine years for somebody to tell me, \"You just can't go and do that,\" but they haven't said it yet.\u00a0 Of course, now they might.\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\tBob:\u00a0If somebody has not heard \"Paws and Tails,\" and they tune in, what are they going to hear?\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tDavid:\u00a0Well, they're going to hear talking animals, which were a whole lot cheaper than talking people.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tBob:\u00a0That's right.\u00a0 How do you train those animals to do that?\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tDavid:\u00a0It's a lot of sardines.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tBob:\u00a0Eric, are you one of the animals.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tEric:\u00a0[cartoon voice] Well, you know, it depends.\u00a0 You know, it just took six years to get on this silly little program, Dennis.\u00a0 Ned the beaver is a star, I tell you, he's a star.\u00a0 Wildwood, I'm famous in Wildwood.\u00a0 I can't even walk down the streets in Wildwood without getting mobbed.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tDennis:\u00a0[cartoon voice]\u00a0 And what \u2013 oh, excuse me, [regular voice] what animal are you?\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tEric:\u00a0I am a beaver, come on, look at me.\u00a0 You know, the cheeks, the tail, that gives it away.\u00a0 I'm short and stocky, but, you know, God made me that way, what can I do?\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tDennis:\u00a0We've had a few guests on FamilyLife Today where they broke into their persona.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tBob:\u00a0And we've usually not released those programs to the general public.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tEric:\u00a0Understandably so.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tBob:\u00a0Dodd, let me ask you about \u2013 as you've moved to the Internet now with His Kids, and these are some of the programs that folks find at HisKids.net.\u00a0 You've also \u2013 there is a \u2013 and I've got one of these in my office.\u00a0 It's a cool little device that is \u2013 it's an Internet-based wireless radio that can make it simple for a child to be able to push the \"on\" button, push the \"play\" button and get his favorite kids programs on demand, right?\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tDodd:\u00a0That's one of the things that brought us together.\u00a0 We call it the WiFi Family Radio, and there are several like this on the general market that tune into thousands and thousands of stations, but our model and the mindset behind that old sub-channel technology, let's do something that's safe enough that parents will let the kids have it in the room, have it as their radio, and so we've developed this technology that's safe and easy.\u00a0 It gets, instead of most of our programs are typically heard on a Saturday morning, we'd like to connect with kids at bedtime.\u00a0 Pick your favorite bedtime story and use this WiFi Family Radio.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t\u00a0\"Paws and Tails,\" \"Down Gilead Lane,\" some of our other ministry partners, \"Karen and Kids,\" \"Kids Corner,\" \"The Pond,\" \"We Kids with Mr. Nick.\"\u00a0 So there's really a variety of things for kids of all ages.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tDennis:\u00a0And it's really available on demand.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tDodd:\u00a0It is.\u00a0 It's on demand.\u00a0 Like, through our website, but this way it gets the listening away from the computer, and, Bob, you've got it at your desk, and you're tuning in, probably, to Ned the Beaver on a regular basis.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tDennis:\u00a0In fact, Dodd, I've got a little bit of a problem with that.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tDodd:\u00a0The whole worktime listening?\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tDennis:\u00a0No, no, no, no, it's that Bob \u2026\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tBob:\u00a0\u2026 has the radio \u2026\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tDennis:\u00a0\u2026 had the radio at his desk, and I'm the one who has \u2026\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tBob:\u00a0You know, such a deal we could work for you.\u00a0 \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\u00a0As a matter of fact, in the FamilyLife Resource Center we can make arrangements to get you your own radio.\u00a0 Call 1-800-FLTODAY.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tDennis:\u00a0I am going to want to purchase one of those because we just celebrated the birth of our 10th grandbaby, and I'm thinking \"What a great Christmas gift.\"\u00a0 I mean, seriously, you think about all the toys and stuff we give our grandchildren or our children, and here is a way that you can pipe truth into their bedroom while, at the same time, you know, there's no possibility of evil coming through the same pipeline.\u00a0 Isn't that true?\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tDodd:\u00a0That's right.\u00a0 And the whole idea behind it is it's safe but it's also intentional ministry to kids, and we've said we want to catch them 12, 13, 14, is sometimes too late if you want to make the biggest impression.\u00a0 And if we can do this in a way that is \u2013 it's evangelistic in its outreach, it's encouraging to kids who know Christ.\u00a0 It's entertaining so that they want to listen, and then we give them the tools, the technology, they can do that.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tDennis:\u00a0So why don't you explain how Bob's WiFi \u2026\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tBob:\u00a0Did you notice the bitterness \u2013 root of bitterness in the heart of the host?\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tDennis:\u00a0We've been working here 15 years, and it's okay that you didn't send me one, Dodd, but tell me, he's in trouble now.\u00a0 Tell our listeners how it works.\u00a0 I mean, this is \u2013 plugs in like a clock radio or \u2026\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tDodd:\u00a0It does.\u00a0 If you've got WiFi at home, high speed wireless Internet off your DSL or cable modem, something like that, satellite, however you get your high-speed Internet.\u00a0 And if you've got WiFi, just like you use on your laptop around the house, this radio connects to your WiFi network.\u00a0 And you can push a button to hear any one of these six or seven programs on demand, listen to His Kids radio full time, or take a look at \u2013 there is something in there especially for parents as well, but up front, presets, it's designed to be easy enough for kids that are two or three years old to find their favorite program and hear it as often as they want.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tBob:\u00a0Yes, here is one of the things that I don't know that you were aware of, but there are a few buttons.\u00a0 If you know how to push the right buttons \u2026\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tDennis:\u00a0Well, I don't have one, so how could I know?\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tBob:\u00a0Well, you've seen it in my office.\u00a0 If you know how to push the right buttons, you can get FamilyLife Today on demand.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tDennis:\u00a0Well, I was getting ready to ask Dodd.\u00a0 He said there were some special programs for adults, FamilyLife Today.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tBob:\u00a0FamilyLife Today, all you have \u2026\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tDennis:\u00a0\u2026 on demand.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tBob:\u00a0On demand, so if you've got wireless Internet, and you ran by this DSL cable modem stuff so quick, I'm not sure everybody understood.\u00a0 If you've got the Internet coming into your home, and if it's coming in high speed, either over cable or DSL, not dial-up.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tDodd:\u00a0Dial-up won't do.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tBob:\u00a0Okay, but if you've got a high-speed Internet, and you've got a computer, if you don't have wireless, you can go down to Comp USA or Best Buy and about $50 later you've got wireless, right?\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tDodd:\u00a0Right, and some communities have WiFi, too, but most typically it would be through your own little router.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tBob:\u00a0So all you have to do is hook that into the back of the computer, because I did this a few years ago, and if I can do it, friends, anyone can do this.\u00a0 You hook it into the back of your computer, now you've got a wireless signal in your home.\u00a0 And once you've got a wireless signal in your home, you get the radio, you plug it in, you turn it on, bingo, right?\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tDodd:\u00a0We sort of did a survey of Our Kids program producers are heard on 1,400 stations around the country, but it's at one time.\u00a0 And you have to sort of make an appointment with that radio station to hear it.\u00a0 This way, it puts it on the family's schedule and it also, if you're listening on demand, it takes it away from the computer so that if it's in the child's bedroom as they're going to sleep, when they wake up, if it's a quiet time, or if it's in the kitchen and dishes are being done, and the phone rings, and you can pause your program and come back to it.\u00a0 It's designed to be a tool for families.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tBob:\u00a0Dave, there is power in story that \u2013 I don't mean to denigrate preaching.\u00a0 Preaching is the power of God unto salvation, right, but the use of story \u2013 Jesus told lots of stories, and there's power there.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tDavid:\u00a0Well, I was just using Eugene Peterson last night talking about that very thing \u2013 that story is the principal means by which God communicated to us in Scripture.\u00a0 And there is something so powerful about story, and it's not just to adults, it is really the clearest way to communicate to the heart of a child.\u00a0 And Terre does this, we do this, we craft, very carefully, entertainment theology to kids.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t\u00a0And in such a way that they're not threatened, they're not put off, they, frankly, don't even realize it.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tBob:\u00a0Yes, I've heard somebody call it \"edutainment,\" and that's a good \u2026\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tDavid:\u00a0Yes, we are showing them, similarly, what a godly man looks like.\u00a0 There are houses across the country who have no idea.\u00a0 When we're writing our scripts I am constantly thinking of the mom who is, by default, left to be the leader, the spiritual leader in the family.\u00a0 She maybe feels the responsibility but doesn't know what to do.\u00a0 She can't go take a seminary class.\u00a0 She can't read a book on how to teach theology to your kids, but I have a building full of smart people, and I get to go up there and annoy them all the time with questions, because I need to synthesize these things down so that a third-grader can grapple with them, and that's the best part of my job.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tDennis:\u00a0You know, what you mentioned there is important because what's coming across the air can be trusted.\u00a0 It's coming from biblically centered ministries that will preach Christ and talk about Him first and foremost and what He did on the cross.\u00a0 It's not going to be watered down.\u00a0 Yes, it will be entertaining, but it's not going to stray from the truth, and I think today parents, more than ever, are really looking to ministries like yours to know who do we trust and who do we allow our children to listen to and I just want to applaud your work because I personally think we have to reach the next generation.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t\u00a0I began my faith journey at the age of \u2013 well, somewhere between my sixth and seventh birthday, and Bob and I have this ongoing debate whether I really became a Christian at six or seven or at the age of 19 or 20 in college.\u00a0 But the point is, I began my faith journey when I was a child and drew a picture in the second grade of a man preaching the Scriptures.\u00a0 That was what I wanted to do and what I wanted to be.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t\u00a0And I think we need to look at our children not for who they are today, although we need to value them as children and who they are today, but we need to look past that to what they're going to become.\u00a0 These are going to become the leaders of the church, the leaders of states and nations, and they need to have the Scriptures implanted in their souls and hearts, and I just want you to know we're thrilled to partner with you guys and making our listeners aware of this ministry and hope that many of our listeners will take advantage of this for their children and grandchildren.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tBob:\u00a0And you can find all of these programs available right now on the Internet at HisKids.net.\u00a0 They are available for live streaming so you can just go to the computer and find them there.\u00a0 But if you'd like to bring those programs to another room in the house, if you'd like your children to be able to be in their room and listen to these programs, or be in the kitchen with you and listen to these programs, then you'll want to check out one of these WiFi family radios that as long as you have wireless Internet in your home, which is easy to do.\u00a0 You can go down to a computer store, or Best Buy or Circuit City, someplace like that, and get the hardware you need so that you can have WiFi in your home, then once you've got that, this WiFi radio makes these programs available at the push of a button on demand in whatever room you want to put it in in your home.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t\u00a0All of the information about this new gizmo is on our website at FamilyLife.com \u2013 is it okay to call it a gizmo?\u00a0 I mean, that's what it is.\u00a0 It's one of these technology gizmos, and the information is available on our website at FamilyLife.com.\u00a0 If you go to our home page, there is a red button that you'll see in the middle of the page that says \"Go,\" and you click that button, it will take you to an area of the site where there is more information about how you can get one of these radios, plug it in, and get it all set up so that you can have WiFi radio in any room in your home.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t\u00a0You can also call us at 1-800-FLTODAY for more information.\u00a0 That's 1-800-358-6329.\u00a0 So either go online at FamilyLife.com or call 1-800-FLTODAY and, as we said, this is great for kids, it's great for grandchildren, and as we said, it's great to give your children the opportunity each day to listen to this kind of good, Christian programming.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t\u00a0Again, the information is on our website, FamilyLife.com, click the red \"Go\" button you see in the center of the screen or call 1-800-FLTODAY and someone on our team will let you know how you can get a radio like this sent to you.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t\u00a0While we're on the subject of children, there is a DVD for children that we've been making available this month to folks who help support the ministry of FamilyLife Today with a donation of any amount.\u00a0 It's a Christmas DVD, an animated holiday special that presents the Christmas story in a fresh, creative way.\u00a0 It's called \"The Very First Noel.\"\u00a0 Andy Griffith is the narrator, and we thought this would be something that would be fun for your family at Christmastime, and it would be a way that we could say thank you for your financial support of our ministry.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t\u00a0We're listener-supported, and your donations are what keep us on the air in this city and in other cities all across the country.\u00a0 So if you go online to make a donation to FamilyLife Today this month, and you'd like a copy of this DVD, when you get to the keycode box on the donation form, just type in the word \"Noel,\" or if you're calling 1-800-FLTODAY, making a donation over the phone, just mention that you'd like the DVD for families, and we're happy to send it out to you.\u00a0 We do appreciate your financial support of this ministry.\u00a0 It is always encouraging for us to hear from you, and we appreciate you.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t\u00a0Now, tomorrow we're going to keep talking about kids.\u00a0 In fact, we're going to have a surprise guest visit from \u2013 I don't know if I should tell.\u00a0 All right, I'll tell, Miss Pattycake is going to be here tomorrow with us.\u00a0 So if you have younger children who have seen some of Miss Pattycake's DVDs, make sure they're with you tomorrow when you tune in.\u00a0 They'll enjoy hearing Miss Pattycake on tomorrow's program as well.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t\u00a0I want to thank our engineer today, Keith Lynch, and our entire broadcast production team.\u00a0 On behalf of our host, Dennis Rainey, I'm Bob Lepine.\u00a0 We'll see you back 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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