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it\u2019s important for parents too, to recognize when you tell those stories it doesn\u2019t always have to be where you are the hero and where you did everything right.\u00a0 In fact your kids may learn more from the times you admit how you messed up.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Greg<\/strong>:\u00a0 Being real is so important before your kids.\u00a0 I think the tendency is as parents a lot of times to hide our struggles and that really doesn\u2019t teach our children that we have struggles and secondly that God is faithful to work in our lives in the midst of struggles and difficult times.\u00a0 That becomes a real teaching point and a point of worship when we begin to reasonably share with our kids the difficulty that we go through, the things that we are struggling with individually and as a family.\u00a0 Then bring it to the Lord and watch Him work.\u00a0 What a testimony that is to kids. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong>\u00a0 It 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couldn\u2019t relate to or\u2026\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob:<\/strong>\u00a0 A difference between what mom and dad were telling them is true and how mom and dad were living.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong>\u00a0 Yes, and you have to wonder if as they began to grow up and experience life and have disappointments and discouragement and doubt and unbelief and fear like we all do they didn\u2019t have a faith that had been tested at home and equipped at home to really move to trust in God.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob:<\/strong>\u00a0 I think you have helpfully reframed the whole subject for us as we have talked about it.\u00a0 We think of family worship as being a structured time where you sit down and you sing a few songs and you have a Bible lesson and then you pray and that\u2019s what family worship is supposed to look like.\u00a0 But as you\u2019ve talked about the importance of sharing God\u2019s work in your own life and in your own family every dinner table conversation about what\u2019s going on in our lives can be an occasion to say where is God in the midst of this?\u00a0 How do we understand what the Lord is doing?\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Greg:<\/strong>\u00a0 That is exactly right.\u00a0 We learn as children if we were raised in church we hear that God is with us always.\u00a0 I\u2019m afraid that a lot of times especially in our families we really kind of shy away from that.\u00a0 Maybe we are trying to protect God a lot of times.\u00a0 But we shy away from the fact that even in the struggles and the difficult times the worship within that is that we know confidently that God is with us always.\u00a0 So that\u2019s what we try to point out.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Martha:<\/strong>\u00a0 And you get there by the daily conversations.\u00a0 Twice in Deuteronomy and then again in Romans 12 the scripture says talk about me when you sit in your house, when you walk in the way or drive down the freeway, that says to me that we should be working to make that the divine.\u00a0 Really the focus of our life and our conversation all of our interaction should be where is God in this?\u00a0 How is God working in this?\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Greg:<\/strong>\u00a0 The victories and the difficulties.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob:<\/strong>\u00a0 Whenever we talk about this I always go back to Psalm 78 and in Psalm 78 there is a recounting of the history of the nation of Israel and basically it\u2019s a recounting of the failures and how we want to avoid the failures of the past because of how it impacted the nation.\u00a0 I want to read the first couple of verses of Psalm 78 because I think it gives a model for us as moms and dads.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tThe Psalmist writes \u201cGive ear oh my people to my teaching.\u00a0 Incline your ears to the words of my mouth I will open my mouth in a parable I will utter dark sayings from of old things that we have heard and known that our fathers have told us.\u201d\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tSo there is some generational passing on here.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t\u201cWe will not hide them from our children but tell to the coming generation the glorious deeds of the Lord and his might and the wonders that he has done.\u201d\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tAgain it\u2019s both \u2026well it goes on.\u00a0 It says \u201che established a testimony in Jacob and appointed a law in Israel\u201d and I think it\u2019s important that it says both a law and a testimony\u2014The word of God and the work of God.\u00a0 \u201cHe commanded our fathers to teach their children that the next generation might know them the children yet unborn and arise and tell them to their children so that they should set their hope in God and not forget the works of God but keep his commandments.\u201d\u00a0\u00a0 And it goes on from there.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tIt really is how we unpack both the word of God and the work of God for our children and Psalm 78 says if you don\u2019t do this your nation, the next generation, is headed for calamity.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong>\u00a0 It goes on to say the part you didn\u2019t read there at the end was, \u201cand not be like a stubborn and rebellious generation\u201d who had really blown it concerning the testimony and the law of God.\u00a0 They failed to pass on the works of God.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tLet\u2019s pull back and talk to a family who hasn\u2019t ever done anything in terms of family worship.\u00a0 Where should they start?\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Greg:<\/strong>\u00a0 I think the place to start first is they should be prepared and then be purposeful and then be perceptive.\u00a0 What I mean is that you need to be very intentional about doing this.\u00a0 You need to make the decision that this is what your family is going to be.\u00a0 You are going to be worshipers and be a family of worshipers.\u00a0 Once you make that decision and you are purposeful and intentional about that decision the next thing that follows is you begin to daily seek out the opportunities and create those opportunities that will allow you to point them to God.\u00a0 That is the first thing.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tDon\u2019t be discouraged because let me tell you that not everything that you say and do connects with kids.\u00a0 There is going to be sometimes that you have this great idea and you think it is going to be great and wonderful and you put it out there and they go now what.\u00a0 You need to understand that not everything connects with everybody in the family so you continue and you are purposeful about continuing to doing that and observing and watching what goes on from there. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Martha<\/strong>:\u00a0 The other thing is you don\u2019t always know what is connecting.\u00a0 It may seem at the time like it just fell flat and nobody responded but God is responsible for the outcome.\u00a0 We are responsible for the obedience and do it and don\u2019t worry too much if it didn\u2019t work to well that night.\u00a0 Just try again tomorrow because you don\u2019t know what really went into that child\u2019s spirit that will come up later on.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob:<\/strong>\u00a0 I have an answer.\u00a0 Can I give my answer?\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Greg:<\/strong><strong>\u00a0 <\/strong>Sure.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong>\u00a0 Yes.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob:<\/strong>\u00a0 Here\u2019s how you get started.\u00a0 You go to our website FamilyLife Today.com and you order the <em>What God Wants for Christmas<\/em> wouldn\u2019t that be perfect?\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Greg:<\/strong>\u00a0 That would be perfect.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Martha:<\/strong>\u00a0 Yes.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob:<\/strong>\u00a0 This is the time of year you can get one of these out and you can start something at Christmas time and then get the recipe tin for <em>Just Add Family<\/em> and in the new year now you have a tool that you can use around the dinner table or at breakfast in the morning.\u00a0 It\u2019s a way to creatively, easily engage the whole family in understanding God and Jesus and the Bible better.\u00a0 You can find out more about both of these resources on our website FamilyLife Today.com.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tI just want to say a word about <em>What God Wants for Christmas<\/em>.\u00a0 Lots of families have found this to be a fun tradition during the Christmas season.\u00a0 It\u2019s amazing how kids learn the Christmas story through an interactive nativity scene and how much they look forward to the surprise that is in box #7.\u00a0 Again all of the details about <em>What God Wants for Christmas<\/em> and <em>Just Add Family<\/em> can be found on our website FamilyLifeToday.com.\u00a0\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tThere is also information about the book Greg and Martha have written called <em>Setting Up Stones: A Parent\u2019s Guide to Making Your Home a Place of Worship<\/em>.\u00a0 You can order a copy of that book from us as well.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tYou can order from us if you\u2019d like or you can call 1-800-FL-TODAY, that's 1-800-358-6329, that\u2019s 1-800- \u201cF\u201d as in Family, \u201cL\u201d as in Life and then the word TODAY and someone on our team can let you know how you can get these resources sent to you. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tYou know we had some encouraging news arrive not long ago.\u00a0 Some friends of the ministry who had come to us recognizing that 2009 had been a challenging year for us as a ministry financially as it has been for a lot of ministries.\u00a0 These folks stepped forward and they said we want to encourage <em>FamilyLife Today<\/em> listeners to make a year-end contribution to <em>FamilyLife Today<\/em> and the way we are going to do that is by providing a matching gift.\u00a0 These folks have agreed that between now and the end of the year every donation that we receive they will match that donation dollar for dollar up to a total of $1,250,000.\u00a0 This is the largest matching gift opportunity we have ever been offered and frankly if we are going to take advantage of this opportunity we\u2019re going to need to hear from as many of our <em>FamilyLife Today<\/em> listeners as possible.\u00a0\u00a0 If you would consider first of all making a year-end contribution and then go online at \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tFamilyLifeToday.com or by calling 1-800-FL-TODAY and make a donation over the phone.\u00a0 Your donation whatever it is will be matched dollar for dollar thanks to the matching gift opportunity that has been presented to us.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tWe want to say thank you in advance for whatever you are able to do in support of this ministry.\u00a0 Because we are listener supported all of the costs that go into producing and syndicating this program are covered by donations.\u00a0 We appreciate those of you who are able and willing to partner with us in this effort.\u00a0 We look forward to hearing from you.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tTomorrow Martha and Greg Singleton will be back and we will continue to talk about what we can do to make our home a place of worship and keep Christ at the center not just during the Christmas season but all year long.\u00a0 I hope you can be with us for that.<br><\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tI 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 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