{"id":301898,"date":"2009-09-29T11:00:00","date_gmt":"2009-09-29T15:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-stage.familylife.com\/www\/podcast\/%series%\/grounding-your-kids-in-the-truth\/"},"modified":"2009-09-29T11:00:00","modified_gmt":"2009-09-29T15:00:00","slug":"grounding-your-kids-in-the-truth","status":"publish","type":"podcast","link":"https:\/\/wp-stage.familylife.com\/www\/podcast\/familylife-today\/grounding-your-kids-in-the-truth\/","title":{"rendered":"Grounding Your Kids in the Truth"},"content":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You\u2019d never think of teaching your kids to spell before first teaching them their ABC\u2019s.<\/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\/fl2009-09-29.mp3","podmotor_file_id":"","podmotor_episode_id":"","cover_image":"","cover_image_id":"","duration":"00:","filesize":"12.1M","filesize_raw":"12689813","date_recorded":"","explicit":"","block":""},"categories":[2806],"tags":[4722,4818,4159,2209],"podcast_series":[7677],"cwp_profile":[3441],"series":[2101],"class_list":["post-301898","podcast","type-podcast","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-spiritual-development","tag-christianity","tag-evangelism","tag-gospel","tag-parenting","podcast_series-teaching-your-kids-gods-law","cwp_profile-al-mohler","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\/301898\/grounding-your-kids-in-the-truth","player_link":"https:\/\/wp-stage.familylife.com\/www\/podcast-player\/301898\/grounding-your-kids-in-the-truth","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=\"nzdC9tuPdv\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wp-stage.familylife.com\/www\/podcast\/familylife-today\/grounding-your-kids-in-the-truth\/\">Grounding Your Kids in the Truth<\/a><\/blockquote><iframe sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-stage.familylife.com\/www\/podcast\/familylife-today\/grounding-your-kids-in-the-truth\/embed\/#?secret=nzdC9tuPdv\" width=\"500\" height=\"350\" title=\"&#8220;Grounding Your Kids in the Truth&#8221; &#8212; FamilyLife\u00ae - A Cru Ministry\" data-secret=\"nzdC9tuPdv\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" class=\"wp-embedded-content\"><\/iframe><script>\n\/*! 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ABC\u2019s.","meta_box":{"show_notes":"","transcript_url":"https:\/\/transcript.familylifetoday.com\/fl2009-09-29.pdf","transcript_content":"<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dr. Mohler:<\/strong>\u00a0 The psychologies of the self, of the modern and post-modern worlds, are psychologies that assume the goodness of the human being.\u00a0 So much of what goes on in the name of contemporary education and pediatrics and the entire world of the therapeutic has to do with helping children to be who they want to be.\u00a0 Let me just give you a little hint, in the Bible there are sixty-six books here about how not to raise your children to be who they want to be.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob:<\/strong>\u00a0 This is <em>FamilyLife Today<\/em> for Tuesday, September 29<sup>th<\/sup>.\u00a0 Our host is the President of FamilyLife Dennis Rainey and I\u2019m Bob Lepine.\u00a0 We\u2019re going to hear today what we can do as parents to help our children move from looking inward to looking Godward.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tWelcome to <em>FamilyLife Today<\/em> thanks for joining us on the Tuesday edition.\u00a0 If we went to a lot of moms and dads today and asked them do you understand what your fundamental, primary, chief, number one assignment is as parents?\u00a0 I wonder how many Christian parents would say I understand it clearly and I\u2019m on mission.\u00a0 I know what the job is and I\u2019m doing it.\u00a0 Do you think most parents today would be able to answer that the way you and I think it ought to be answered?\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>\u00a0<\/strong>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong>\u00a0 It would be interesting to know if they listed in their top five assignments teaching their children the truth about God and the truth of what the scriptures teach about life.\u00a0 I don\u2019t know, I really don\u2019t know, Bob.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob:<\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0 If it\u2019s on the list, are they actually doing it?\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong>\u00a0 That\u2019s right.\u00a0 Our listeners know that on <em>FamilyLife Today<\/em> we become somewhat strident and passionate about the need for us to build strong homes where we are teaching the truth about God.\u00a0 The heart and soul of our nation begins at home; there is no more powerful institution in America than a family.\u00a0 Just listening to the news and seeing what\u2019s happening around us, the moral decay and all the electronic media that is just bombarding the family.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tAs never before a young family starting out today must know what it believes about God, about the scriptures and about life.\u00a0 If they don\u2019t know, the culture is going to tell them what to believe and what the culture tells you is not the truth.\u00a0 The culture is going to lie to you and it\u2019s going to seduce you and your children.\u00a0\u00a0 It really points out the need, Bob, for what you talked about young families today and for that matter families of all ages need to be teaching the truth about God to future generations.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob:<\/strong>\u00a0 We\u2019re going to provide some help today because we\u2019re going to be listening to part two of a message from Dr. Al Mohler.\u00a0 Dr. Mohler is the president of The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary in Louisville, Kentucky.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong>\u00a0 Its press release says that it\u2019s the flagship school of the Southern Baptist Convention.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob:<\/strong>\u00a0 Well, it is, it\u2019s got more students than any of the other seminaries.\u00a0\u00a0 In fact it\u2019s got more students than any seminary in the world as far as I know.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong>\u00a0 Is that how you become a flagship?\u00a0 You got more guns than anybody else?\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<strong>Bob:<\/strong>\u00a0 It doesn\u2019t hurt.\u00a0 Dr. Mohler spent some time here with us here at FamilyLife not long ago and he spoke to our staff giving a message out of Deuteronomy chapter 6.\u00a0 You know in Deuteronomy 6 there is the great statement what\u2019s called the Shama \u2013 \u201cHear O Israel the Lord our God, the Lord is One.\u00a0 And you shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul and with all your mind.\u201d\u00a0 It doesn\u2019t stop there and in fact as we listen to part two of this message that\u2019s where Dr. Mohler picks up the passage to remind moms and dads that that truth about who God is has got to be passed along.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dr. Mohler<\/strong>:\u00a0 These words which I am commanding you today shall be on your heart, the heart again this is the seed of knowledge, it\u2019s going to proceed from the inside out.\u00a0 Israel\u2019s morality and Israel\u2019s understanding of these things is that all truth comes from the inside out as the Lord reveals to the heart.\u00a0 This is a revealed religion.\u00a0 It isn\u2019t that they came up with this; it isn\u2019t that they looked in the mirror and discovered this.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tThey heard the voice of God speaking from the midst of the fire and they survived.\u00a0 They saw thunder on the mountain, and saw Moses come down with two tablets of stone.\u00a0 This is a revealed knowledge but it is then implanted in their hearts and then it works outward from the heart to life.\u00a0 These words which I am commanding you today shall be on your heart and then Israel\u2019s told they are to teach.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tYou shall teach them diligently, to whom?\u00a0 To your sons.\u00a0 We are in an age in which Christianity is marked by a great deficit of teaching and Christianity is compromised by a great deal of false teaching.\u00a0 Here the children of Israel are told that their first responsibility as God\u2019s covenant people as they prepare to enter the land of promise, is to teach.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tThey are to teach their sons and they are to talk of these laws, of these words.\u00a0 The words there refer primarily to what you find in Deuteronomy 5, where the actual 10 words, the Ten Commandments, but they become symbolic of the totality of all that God has spoken to His people.\u00a0 You shall teach them to your sons, you shall talk of them when you sit in your house and when you walk by the way and when you lie down, and when you rise up.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tThey are very specific things they are told to teach.\u00a0 They are told to teach monotheism, the exclusivity of the God who has made covenant, the fact that He is the only God.\u00a0 You will see very clearly, you shall not follow other Gods, you see in verse 14.\u00a0 Any of the gods of the peoples who surround you, that\u2019s a great danger.\u00a0 It\u2019s a reflective danger, it\u2019s an inescapable danger.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tThey were going into a land of promise, but that land of promise was very much inhabited and it was inhabited by people who had idols and they built high places and the reality is that our children today are in a land just like this.\u00a0 Our children are in a land in which they also are surrounded by pagan worship, by pagan idols and by high places of worship.\u00a0 One of the things that is in the background to the warning here from Moses is the reality that these things are alluring to the eye.\u00a0 They are fascinating to the mind.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tThey are often popular, and they are cherished and they are sacred to a people committed to paganism.\u00a0 That\u2019s very much where we are today.\u00a0 Because of time and the accumulated experience of human creativity, we may have even greater dangers that Israel here faced because the paganisms we face are sometimes more subtle.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tThere in the land of Canaan as is well known, there were high places to the god Molech.\u00a0 Molech was worshiped by the Canaanites he was a god of purity and as a god of purity he desired and demanded a pure sacrifice.\u00a0 Given the understanding of the people of that day, the purest sacrifice, the only acceptable sacrifice to Molech would be that of a child of innocence and that meant a child of roughly 24 months or younger.\u00a0 They would bring their children and they would put them into a furnace in the name of Molech often in the actual shape of how they envisioned this god of purity who demanded a pure sacrifice, and they would burn their children.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tGod speaks to His children saying, very specifically in this same book.\u00a0 I don\u2019t want your children burned, I want them taught.\u00a0 Israel now is told, what does God demand?\u00a0 He doesn\u2019t demand you to kill your children.\u00a0 He demands you to teach them.\u00a0 He demands you to discipline them.\u00a0 He demands you to bring them up in the nurture and admonition of the Lord.\u00a0 That\u2019s grace.\u00a0 It\u2019s grace to be told He doesn\u2019t demand the sacrifice of your children.\u00a0 He wants the souls, the teaching of your children.\u00a0 He wants them to grow up to be people of the covenant.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tDoctrine is so very important because we need to understand that contrary to so many of the contemporary psychologies of children our most important task as parents is not to draw out what is in them, but to put in them what must be put in them\u00a0 to be God\u2019s people.\u00a0 The psychologies of the self of the modern and post-modern worlds are psychologies that assume the goodness of the human being and the human being is the source of all wisdom.\u00a0 So much of what goes on in the name of contemporary education and pediatrics and the entire world of the therapeutic has to do with helping children to be who they want to be.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tLet me just give you a little hint in the Bible, there are sixty-six books about how not to raise your children to be who they want to be, and who they would be otherwise.\u00a0 But instead what we have is a cannon of scripture about how to raise them not to be pagans and it begins with teaching.\u00a0 They are not going to know these things if they are not taught time and time again Israel is told you teach.\u00a0 Every single member of the covenant people is a teacher.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tMost specifically, every parent is a teacher.\u00a0 One of the first callings of the parent is to teach lest our own children become pagans.\u00a0 Because if we do not teach, it is not that they will not be taught, it\u2019s that they will be taught by teachers who will teach a very different reality, teachers who will inculcate paganism in our own children.\u00a0 If we do not teach them they none the less will be taught.\u00a0 You shall teach them diligently to your sons, you shall talk of them when you sit in your house and when you walk by the way, when you lie down and when you rise up.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tYou have to teach them very specific things.\u00a0 They are to teach the law that is very, very important, that is central to Israel\u2019s responsibility.\u00a0 Parents were to teach their children the law.\u00a0 That is the reality and it gets to the second issue, which is discipline, because to teach is to discipline.\u00a0 To teach is to have disciples or followers, to be disciples is to learn a discipline, it is to follow.\u00a0 Now we use the word discipline in an altogether too restrictive sense and I\u2019m thankful we use it in any sense at all to tell you the truth in a world as confused as ours.\u00a0 But we confuse discipline with punishment.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tThe bad news for modern and for pre-modern humanity is that punishment is a necessary part of discipline because we are a hard-headed people.\u00a0 It still remains true that a good many of the lessons that must be learned by discipline are learned by punishment.\u00a0 However, discipline is an over-arching term which means the making of a disciple.\u00a0 It means to inculcate not only a knowledge of the head, but a following in the way because that\u2019s what Israel is called here to do.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tParents are to make certain that their children know enough that they actually follow in the way.\u00a0 They become not only those who are aware of the covenant, not only those who are aware of the law, but those who obey the law.\u00a0 Look how many times obey comes in here and the default position again is that if they are not taught, they will not know.\u00a0 But they also have to be taught in such a way that they are disciplined by that teaching so that they obey and so that they follow.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tThe warnings here are very clear as you see the warnings especially for Israel entering into the land of conquest in verse 10\u2014 \u201cThen it shall come about when the Lord brings you into the land which he swore to your fathers, Abraham, Isaac and Jacob to give you great and splendid cities which you did not build, and houses full of all good things which you did not fill and cisterns which you did not dig, vineyards and other trees which you did not plant.\u00a0 You eat and are satisfied, then what, then comes grave and deadly danger, then watch yourself, that you do not forget the Lord who brought you from the land of Egypt, out of the house of slavery.\u201d\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tThe great danger is that God\u2019s people forget, and in that forgetfulness, they will disobey and in that disobedience they will stray.\u00a0 The stakes cannot be higher let\u2019s just look at the statistics that we know, without even having to count the numbers we know that we are losing our young.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tEvangelical churches are experiencing the phenomenon of having young people graduate from high school and then disappear from the life of the church.\u00a0 The reality is that we do not have to have anything above anecdotal evidence in terms of our own knowledge to realize that we are failing to do here what Israel was commanded to do.\u00a0 The proof is in the fact that we see our own children walking away and entering into a paganism that we are to teach and discipline them to reject.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tThe last word is diligence and it comes up again and again.\u00a0 In verse 17 we read, \u201cYou should diligently keep the commandments of the Lord your God.\u00a0 Diligence is required because this is not an anecdotal, once in a lifetime, every once in awhile responsibility.\u00a0 This is the full time, birth to death responsibility of the people of God.\u00a0 There is no opportunity to let the guard down, there is no safe place where we can say this task is accomplished, there will always be the need to teach and to discipline the people of God and starting at the family to teach and to discipline children.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tIt\u2019s diligence that is called for.\u00a0 It\u2019s pictured here in this passage as we read and have already seen, the calling to teach is when you are in your house sitting, and when you are out of your house, walking.\u00a0\u00a0 For Israel that meant 24\/7 because at any given time they were either inside the house and sitting or outside and walking in the way, this means all the time and this is one of our key responsibilities as the church of the Lord Jesus Christ in the twenty-first century.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tWe\u2019ve got to teach Christian parents how to teach their children all the time.\u00a0 This means knowing how to translate every event of life, decision of life, and moment of life into a teaching opportunity and to understand that every single waking conscious moment children are being taught.\u00a0 It requires diligence; the Christian parent has to be taught how to translate every single moment, every decision, and every incident into an opportunity to teach.\u00a0 If that is not done, our children will be taught by others making the same observations, experiencing the same experiences, seeing the same things with their eyes.\u00a0 The diligence here, the context here of God\u2019s covenant people, the importance of the family is made clear at the end of this passage when the son comes to the father and says, alright, what\u2019s all this about?\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tWhy do we have these laws, why do we have to live this way, why can we not live as others live, why can we not eat and drink as others do, why can we not follow in the ways of others, why can we not do what they do, why can we not give ourselves the creativity to which they give themselves with their paganism why can we not give ourselves to the idolatrous practices that they know and do, why can we not do these things?\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tWell it comes down to this, we were slaves of pharaoh in Egypt and the one true and living God brought us out with His mighty hand and His outstretched arm.\u00a0 He brought us out of that bondage in order that He could bring us in here.\u00a0 He preserved us.\u00a0 I\u2019m telling you this because I\u2019m of the generation that was preserved in the wilderness until such time as the Lord brought us to the threshold of this land He has given us.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tWe are not here by accident, we are not here by our own name, and we are not here in our own power.\u00a0 We are a people who belong to the one true and living God, and it is grace to us to know how you would have us to live.\u00a0 For a God who would rescue us from bondage to pharaoh would give us what we need to know in order to live to His glory.\u00a0 You\u2019ll notice that time and time again in Deuteronomy chapter 6 it also says and for our good.\u00a0 It is our blessed knowledge to know that what brings God greatest glory is where we will find our greatest good and we will experience our greatest joy.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tWe are in an altogether different position than this parent in Israel, because when our son and our daughter comes to us and says what do these things mean, we do tell the story of an exodus, but it\u2019s not an exodus from slavery to pharaoh in Egypt, it\u2019s an exodus from slavery to sin.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tChild but for the grace of God we would be just as everyone else.\u00a0 But for the fact that God loved us and His son the Lord Jesus Christ we wouldn\u2019t live in a way any differently or any better than anyone else.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tBut for the fact that God in Christ was reconciling sinners to Himself, we would be just as blind, we would be just as hopeless, but the Lord God brought us out of slavery to sin and He did so by His son who died on Calvary\u2019s cross and shed His blood for the forgiveness of our sins.\u00a0 We are a purchased people and that means not just that we can\u2019t live as others live, it means that we don\u2019t have to live as others live, its grace to us.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tWhen your son asks you in time to come, saying what mean these things, that\u2019s when we will find out what it means to see the glory of God in the family.\u00a0 Writ large the glory of God in the church, the glory of God in a fallen world, when God\u2019s people say, let me tell you what these things mean.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob:<\/strong>\u00a0 Well we\u2019ve been listening today to part two of a message from Dr. Al Mohler, the president of The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary in Louisville, Kentucky.\u00a0 It\u2019s a great reminder that the hope of every civilization really can be boiled back to what\u2019s going on in that civilization\u2019s smallest unit, the family.\u00a0 The hope of churches can be narrowed down to what\u2019s going on in the churches smallest units, the family.\u00a0 Really the family is the cornerstone of any kind of civilization.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong>\u00a0 It is and so goes the family, so goes the nation.\u00a0 I believe today the way to address the spiritual poverty of our nation is by equipping families to do just what Dr. Mohler has instructed us to do here this week.\u00a0 He\u2019s encouraged us to teach the truth about God to our children and equip them to know that truth and to live out that truth in their generation.\u00a0 If you think about it, if they don\u2019t have that truth, they\u2019re going to be left to find their own way in the midst of who knows what kind of evil, Bob that will be perpetrated upon them.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tI really think we have a generation today that\u2019s at risk because I just wonder at points, Bob, if young families today are taking the command of Deuteronomy 6 really seriously in their own families and are teaching the truth about who God is to their sons and daughters.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob:<\/strong>\u00a0 I think there are a lot of families who want to do that they just don\u2019t know where to start.\u00a0 I think about some of the resources we\u2019ve come across over the years and some that our team has put together, the <em>Just Add Family<\/em> resource that we\u2019ve got where parents have a family devotion ready to go all they have to do is pull a card out of the box and it\u2019s essentially ready to launch.\u00a0 Or Charlie Boyd\u2019s book for parents called <em>What God Has Always Wanted, <\/em>a book that explains the big story of the Bible in a way that children can get it.\u00a0\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tIf you go to our web site, FamilyLifeToday.com we\u2019ve assembled there a number of resources that are designed to help parents who have heard what Dr. Mohler has been talking about today and they say ok, I\u2019m ready, I want to do this, I want to make sure that I am passing along the truth of God\u2019s word to my kids.\u00a0 I\u2019m just not sure exactly how to do it.\u00a0\u00a0 We\u2019ve got resources designed to help you with that.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tAgain, our web site is FamilyLifeToday.com.\u00a0 You can also call us if that is easier at 1-800-FL-TODAY is the number.\u00a0 That\u2019s 1-800-358-6329.\u00a0 Just ask what resources are available, how you can get them sent to you, someone on our team can answer any questions you have and make arrangements to get what you need sent to you.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tYou know this assignment of parents making the spiritual hand-off to the next generation is really one of the four core message that we have here at FamilyLife.\u00a0 We\u2019re committed through this broadcast and through all of our outreaches to talking about these four things; your walk with God and the need for repentance and purity, we\u2019re committed to talking about the marriage covenant and how important it is for a man and a woman to keep their vow.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tWe\u2019re committed to talking about what the Bible has to say about our roles in marriage as husband and wife, as mom and as dad, and we\u2019re committed to helping parents to understand what we can do to pass along a legacy of spiritual vitality to the next generation.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tSome of our listeners really resonate with those four messages and it\u2019s the reason, I think, why some of them have called or gone online to help support the ministry by making a donation.\u00a0 We\u2019re listener supported, we\u2019re a nonprofit organization, we depend on your donations to continue the work of this radio program and all of the outreaches that are a part of <em>FamilyLife Today. <\/em>\u00a0\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tSo if what we talk about here resonates with you, and you can help with a donation, this month we\u2019d like to send you as a thank you gift a copy of a message from a recent FamilyLife Weekend to Remember marriage conference where Dr. Crawford Lorritts talks about God\u2019s plan for marriage, what it means to leave, and to cleave and to become one flesh with your spouse.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tIf you\u2019re making a donation online at FamilyLifeToday.com, you\u2019ll come to a key code box on the donation form.\u00a0 Type in the word \u201cGIFT\u201d and we\u2019ll know to send you a copy of this CD.\u00a0 If you\u2019re donating by phone, call 1-800-FLTODAY, 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