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season?","meta_box":{"show_notes":"","transcript_url":"https:\/\/transcript.familylifetoday.com\/fl2009-12-08.pdf","transcript_content":"<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Martha:<\/strong>\u00a0\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 and that says to me that daily we should be working to make that the divine and really the focus of our life, our conversation, all of our interactions should be, where is God in this?\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, December 8th.\u00a0 Our host is the President of <em>FamilyLife<\/em> Dennis Rainey, and I\u2019m Bob Lepine.\u00a0 We have some coaching for you today on what all of us can do to make sure that Jesus is central to our home all year long.\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 This time of year it is a little easier to bring up spiritual subjects around the home but carrying that over into the new year is where it gets to be a challenge and we want to help coach moms and dads today in that direction.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tBefore we get to that, we are letting listeners know about something that we\u2019re pretty excited about here at <em>FamilyLife<\/em>.\u00a0 We recently had some friends of the ministry step forward, in fact, one family in particular stepped forward and they said we know you\u2019re going to need help at year-end financially given the kind of year it\u2019s been for everybody.\u00a0 We want to be there, not only to help, but to encourage others to help.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong>\u00a0 That\u2019s right.\u00a0 And they stepped forward and committed the single largest matching gift in December that has ever been given in the 34 year history of FamilyLife.\u00a0 This family committed a million dollars.\u00a0 They said we so believe in FamilyLife\u2019s mission, the effectiveness of your radio broadcasts, your conferences, your small group Bible studies, internet site plus your future strategic initiatives that we want to make sure this happens.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob:<\/strong>\u00a0 Well and we\u2019ve had some other families who got wind of this and they said we want to be part of this as well so now the matching gift has worked its way up to a total of 1.25 million dollars.\u00a0 What this means is that every donation we receive during the month of December is going to be matched dollar for dollar up to that total of $1,250,000.\u00a0 Now if we\u2019re going to make that match we\u2019re going to have to hear from as many of our listeners as possible.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong>\u00a0 That\u2019s right, in fact what you just said, what this means.\u00a0 Well I want to add two things to what this means.\u00a0 Number one it means that a ton of our listeners who believe in our mission here on <em>FamilyLife Today<\/em> who want to keep this broadcast standing strong and on the station you are listening to right now need to step up.\u00a0 Big and small no gift is too small in any amount.\u00a0 Step up and make a gift and that dollar is going to be matched by another dollar.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tThe second thing it\u2019s going to mean, though, Bob if we have a strong year end we\u2019re going to be able to move into 2010 with a number of strategic initiatives that include taking what we\u2019re doing to China.\u00a0 Did you hear that?\u00a0 That\u2019s exactly right at the initiative of the Chinese government we have an unbelievable opportunity there.\u00a0 We also have eMentoring which is an online mentoring service that we\u2019ve been working on for a couple of years.\u00a0 We have video church curriculum and training packages that are all being developed and designed right now to be hosted by laymen in the church.\u00a0 Bob\u2019s working on a video conference that I believe is going to be the best of its kind.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tI want to tell you something, there is a lot of momentum here at FamilyLife and I have to tell you based upon what I\u2019m seeing happen in the family today across our nation, it\u2019s time.\u00a0 Because I\u2019m going to tell you something, the family is in serious trouble.\u00a0 When you start redefining marriage and family to be anything else other than what the scriptures say you\u2019re headed for some serious days.\u00a0 So I\u2019m asking you would you help?\u00a0 Would you step forward and help us use every penny of these matching dollars so none of them go to waste.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob:<\/strong>\u00a0 Well, if you can help go online today at FamilyLifeToday.com or call 1-800-FL-TODAY.\u00a0 You can make a donation over the phone all donations are tax deductible and again every donation you make is going to be matched dollar for dollar up to a total of $1,250,000.\u00a0 So let us here from you.\u00a0 Again online at FamilyLifeToday.com or call 1-800-FL-TODAY and make your donation over the phone.\u00a0 We appreciate your support of this ministry.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tI have given up on the book idea I\u2019ve talked about this week.\u00a0 You know the Give-it-up book I was going to write.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong>\u00a0 About family worship?\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob:<\/strong>\u00a0 About just not doing it, not even trying.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong>\u00a0 Why feel guilty just don\u2019t try.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob:<\/strong>\u00a0 I showed it to a few publishers and there\u2019s not a whole lot of interest \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong>\u00a0 No nibbles?\u00a0 There\u2019s a lot of parent who feel that way, but if you feel occasionally or regularly like you\u2019re a failure when it comes to family worship or an attempt to teach your children about God among the daily routine of the family we\u2019ve got a couple who are going to encourage you today.\u00a0 Martha and Greg Singleton join us on <em>FamilyLife Today<\/em>.\u00a0 Greg, Martha welcome back.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Greg:<\/strong>\u00a0 Thank you very much.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Martha:<\/strong>\u00a0 It\u2019s good to be here. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong>\u00a0 Greg and Martha are natives, well Martha isn\u2019t, she is a transplant from the panhandle of Texas, but Greg is a native of San Antonio.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Greg:<\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0 Lived there my whole life.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong>\u00a0 They have been married for 31 years have two adult children.\u00a0 As we heard earlier Martha was selected as one of the top ten school teachers out of all of the school teachers in the state of Texas.\u00a0 I\u2019ve got to tell you, I admire you, I really do.\u00a0 How many years have you taught?\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Martha:<\/strong>\u00a0 Thirty-eight.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob:<\/strong>\u00a0 Wow.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong>\u00a0 Is that cool?\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Greg:<\/strong>\u00a0 She doesn\u2019t look it, does she?\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Martha:<\/strong>\u00a0 I would not tell anybody but you that.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob:<\/strong>\u00a0 You started when you were twelve?\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Martha:<\/strong>\u00a0 I did.\u00a0 (Laughter)\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong>\u00a0 Tell me this, Bob is going to get onto me for asking you this question, but I\u2019m going to ask you a very tough question.\u00a0 You\u2019re going to have to review 38 years in a nanosecond.\u00a0 Ok?\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Martha:<\/strong>\u00a0 Ok.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong>\u00a0 What\u2019s your favorite moment of teaching out of 38 years if you could just keep one memory?\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Martha:<\/strong>\u00a0 Oh, one memory.\u00a0 I don\u2019t know if it\u2019s one memory, but it\u2019s the moment when one of my students realizes that they are good at something.\u00a0 That there is something that they can do that they just shine at and doing publications, I have writers, photographers, designers.\u00a0 I just love it when a kid goes, I am good at that?\u00a0 And I say, yes, you are good at that.\u00a0 They believe me and then go forward.\u00a0 I am really good at that.\u00a0 That\u2019s what I love.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong>\u00a0 The lights come on, they\u2019re motivated and they are excited.\u00a0 Well together you two have written a book called <em>Setting up Stones<\/em>.\u00a0 It\u2019s a guide for parents in leading their families in family worship and it\u2019s not an event, it\u2019s more of a moment by moment passing on of the truth about God and the experience of God.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob:<\/strong>\u00a0 Although your experience in trying to lead your children in some kind of spiritual something around your home really started with an event, didn\u2019t it?\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Greg:<\/strong>\u00a0 Well it did start with an event.\u00a0 We had tried to do worship the way that we had always thought it was going to be like we wanted to be like a church service kind of.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob:<\/strong>\u00a0 Right.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Greg:<\/strong>\u00a0 We imagined that our children would be sitting there, but we weren\u2019t thinking really like parents.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Martha:<\/strong>\u00a0 When the first Christmas that we were married I said I want to buy a really beautiful nativity set that will be the center of our home decorations.\u00a0 So we shopped and we spent probably more money than we should have, and bought a really beautiful, artistic nativity set.\u00a0 But we weren\u2019t parents and along came the kids and our little toddlers were so taken with the story of baby Jesus and those little hands wanted to touch and handle that nativity set.\u00a0 Greg pointed out to me that no, no was not really the message that we wanted our kids to get about baby Jesus.\u00a0 So we went\u2026\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Greg:<\/strong>\u00a0 Didn\u2019t think it was good theology.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Martha:<\/strong>\u00a0 No.\u00a0 So we went to the dime store which we still had back then and we bought these little plastic, cheap I mean they were so bad that like Mary\u2019s lips were painted over under her ear and Joseph\u2019s eyes were down even with his nose.\u00a0 They were awful.\u00a0 But the kids could play with them and they loved to play with them.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Greg:<\/strong>\u00a0 They would reach out and grab hold of all the figures and we began to just tell them the story on it and as it began to develop we kind of had an advent that sprang out of this.\u00a0 We gave our daughter the wise man and our son got the shepherds and they took them to their rooms and they began to each night during the Christmas holidays they started bringing them to the manger.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tWe would tell a little bit more of the Christmas story each night and they would move the figures toward the manger and finally we\u2019d get them to the manger and then on Christmas morning baby Jesus who had not been in the manger yet.\u00a0 He was a wrapped gift under the tree we\u2019d get the kids to open up the gift and there was baby Jesus the greatest gift of all.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Martha:<\/strong>\u00a0 Of course it wasn\u2019t always holy and perfect.\u00a0 There was the year we lost the wise men.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Greg:<\/strong>\u00a0 They were nowhere to be found.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Martha:<\/strong>\u00a0 Gone for a week.\u00a0 But fortunately Greg went to change the filter on the heater and we found the wise men in the heater closet.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Greg:<\/strong>\u00a0 Thankfully they did not melt.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Martha:<\/strong>\u00a0 They were whole.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong>\u00a0 Bob I just want to check with our nativity scene here that we\u2019ve offered our listeners.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob:<\/strong>\u00a0 <em>What God Wants for Christmas<\/em>?\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong>\u00a0 Yes, I want to see\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob:<\/strong>\u00a0 See if the wise men are in there?\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong>\u00a0 No, I\u2019m looking at the angel; the lips are in the right place.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Martha:<\/strong>\u00a0 This is good.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong>\u00a0 These aren\u2019t cheesy, cheap.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Martha:<\/strong>\u00a0 No, those are great.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob:<\/strong>\u00a0 But you know the team when they designed this and put it all together it was with the exact idea that you guys had in mind.\u00a0 They made them out of a resin material so that they are unbreakable.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Greg:<\/strong>\u00a0 They would survive a heater closet.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob:<\/strong>\u00a0 That\u2019s right.\u00a0 They put it together so that kids can touch it and play with it.\u00a0 Recognizing that that\u2019s what kids want to do.\u00a0 Then they took each of the pieces from the nativity scene and put them in individual gift boxes so the child.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong>\u00a0 There\u2019s a surprise.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob:<\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0 There\u2019s a surprise in the seventh box.\u00a0 But each of the boxes actually, you open a box; you are not sure what is in it.\u00a0 First one has the angel, second one has Mary, third one has Joseph, fourth one has Jesus, and then there are the shepherds, the wise men.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong>\u00a0 I\u2019m really impressed you could remember all that.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob:<\/strong>\u00a0 Well, we use this at our house.\u00a0 But the whole design is just what you are talking about.\u00a0 Christmas gives parents a natural setup to be able to talk with kids about Jesus.\u00a0 You may feel awkward talking about spiritual stuff in April, but December it\u2019s easy isn\u2019t it?\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Greg:<\/strong>\u00a0 Sure, absolutely easy.\u00a0 And that\u2019s what <em>Setting up Stones<\/em> is all about, the fact that God is actually a master teacher and He set up a situation and told Joshua the situation to set up where they brought these stones into the families dwelling place so that the children would ask questions.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Martha:<\/strong>\u00a0 The word is engaging.\u00a0 You are engaging your family and everybody\u2019s able to participate and relate at their own level and what\u2019s neat is you engage with scripture with the story with the Father, but you also engage with each other.\u00a0 And that becomes just like the fabric of your family.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob:<\/strong>\u00a0 Well and as a teacher you know that if all you do is lecture you\u2019re not really going to capture their hearts are you?\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Martha:<\/strong>\u00a0 That\u2019s exactly right.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob:<\/strong>\u00a0 You\u2019ve got to for some kids they have to be able to touch stuff, for other kids they have to be able to see stuff.\u00a0 For other kids they have to be able to do things, and so by not just saying here\u2019s a story book that I can read aloud to you and show you the pictures, but here are things you can touch and stuff you can do.\u00a0 Kids remember the story.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Martha:<\/strong>\u00a0 Absolutely.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob:<\/strong>\u00a0 And they\u2019re engaged.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Greg:<\/strong>\u00a0 Certainly.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob:<\/strong>\u00a0 You guys had high water marks and low water marks as you raised your kids and tried to keep this as a central theme for your family.\u00a0 What are some of the things you look back on and go those were the times when we knew God is in this and it\u2019s working?\u00a0 Do you remember?\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Martha:<\/strong>\u00a0 I think of one time especially, we were on vacation in Estes Park and our daughter was in middle school and our son was in upper elementary about to go to middle school.\u00a0 We were driving through the park one evening and we came upon this pool with I think they were elk.\u00a0 I\u2019m a Texas girl, I am not sure.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob:<\/strong>\u00a0 They were elk.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong>\u00a0 I\u2019ve been there, they were elk.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Martha:<\/strong>\u00a0 It was just at sunset and they were drinking from the pool it was just beautiful.\u00a0 So Greg pulled off to the side of the road so we could just sit and look at it and just kind of as a natural response without any hesitation Annie just started singing that scripture chorus, <em>As the Deer Pants for the Water<\/em>, and Matt jumped right in there with her and so we all joined in and I guess we sat there for 30 minutes just singing together and worshiping as a family.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tBut it was what I call serendipity it just happened.\u00a0 To me the fact that natural response would be there and that everybody in the family felt free to express that and not hold back told me that everything that we had done to try to teach our children to see God and to respond to God and to be worshippers had worked out.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob:<\/strong>\u00a0 I\u2019m thinking back to a message that we aired on <em>FamilyLife Today<\/em> back several months ago from Matt Chandler the pastor of the Village Church down in Dallas and I remember Matt talking about with his kids, he said we try to make sure that every experience in life that we are going through we reflect back on God so if we\u2019re going down a water slide my kids will get sick of this but I will say isn\u2019t God good to make waterslides?\u00a0 I mean isn\u2019t it cool that we have water that we can dive into and cool off in the summer.\u00a0 We\u2019re licking an ice cream cone and he goes isn\u2019t God good to make ice cream?\u00a0 I mean He could have just made one flavor and look at all these flavors that we have.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tBut he\u2019s trying to make sure that everything reminds kids that God\u2019s the hero of life.\u00a0 God is where it all comes from.\u00a0 God is where you find your joy, where you find your satisfaction and where you find your help.\u00a0 I\u2019m thinking, Martha, about when Annie was going off to school and was anxious you used a little object lesson to help her deal with her anxiety before she headed off to school didn\u2019t you?\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Martha:<\/strong>\u00a0 We did and once again we looked in the scripture and God is really big on object lessons and we were looking at the story of Jericho and we decided that we would go walk around the elementary school and pray.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob:<\/strong>\u00a0 Was Annie thinking the walls would tumble and she wouldn\u2019t have to go?\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong>\u00a0 Cancel school and classes.\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<strong>Martha:<\/strong>\u00a0 Something like that.\u00a0 But we did that and before we got out of the car, we went on a Sunday afternoon so there was no one around, and before we got out of the car we talked about the Jericho march and we said now we\u2019re going to go silently and these are the things we are going to pray for.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob:<\/strong>\u00a0 And she is seven or eight years old at this point?\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Martha:<\/strong>\u00a0 Yes.\u00a0 And the whole family Matt trudged along, too.\u00a0 I\u2019m going to tell you, in south Texas in August that was not pleasant.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Greg:<\/strong>\u00a0 It was a rough time.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Martha:<\/strong>\u00a0 But we did it and there again it resonated with her and she told us that she would remember that and know that that place was surrounded by prayer.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Greg:<\/strong>\u00a0 As they moved up to higher level schools we would go to those schools every time before school started and we would do the Jericho march there at the school.\u00a0 I recall one time that was really significant, Matt was starting his sophomore year in high school and we were marching around the high school where he was attending and he came to the flag pole and he just kind of called us over there together and he began to pray that from the ground that living water would spring forth from that high school campus.\u00a0 During that time that he was there he led the Fellowship of Christian Athletes.\u00a0 There were about 150 kids that came to know the Lord on that public school campus.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong>\u00a0 You all are demonstrating something here that I don\u2019t want our parents to miss.\u00a0 And that\u2019s this, you don\u2019t just send your kids to school, you launch them to school with a mission and you give them a picture of what that mission looks like and I think your Jericho march, I think that would be a great idea for any parent in terms of setting a context for why are you here?\u00a0 It\u2019s not all about you, you are being placed here and over the next twelve years all the way through high school God has a purpose for being in those classes with those teachers and with those students.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Greg:<\/strong>\u00a0 And let me tell you, it\u2019s not just in the public schools either, I think a lot of times\u00a0 we feel like if we send our kids to a Christian school that everything is ok and we can just throw our hands up and say well I\u2019ve got that taken care of.\u00a0 But the fact is kids face challenges wherever they are.\u00a0 Whether it be public school, private school, home school it\u2019s important as you said that we partner with them to help them face those challenges and see God work in each and every one of those situations that they find themselves in.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Martha:<\/strong>\u00a0 Going back to the Jericho march I know that we could have sat in our living room and prayed those prayers and God would have heard, but going out and walking around the school gave our kids a tangible picture in their minds.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong>\u00a0 And it tied a great story in the Bible, it was a story of faith, to where they were and especially your daughter who was afraid at the time.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Martha:<\/strong>\u00a0 Right.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong>\u00a0 So it turned fear into faith.\u00a0 And that\u2019s what we want to do as parents.\u00a0 And I just appreciate you guys coming and exhorting our parents to assume their responsibility as generational messengers, passing on the truth of God\u2019s word to their children and to future generations and I\u2019m thinking of how you\u2019ve encouraged them especially to use a resource like what we\u2019ve created here at FamilyLife, <em>What God Wants for Christmas<\/em>, for families to rally at the Christmas season and to teach the truth about the greatest gift that the world has ever been given.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Greg:<\/strong>\u00a0 Amen.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong>\u00a0 Thanks for being with us.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Greg:<\/strong>\u00a0 Thank you very much.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob:<\/strong>\u00a0 Well you mentioned <em>What God Wants for Christmas<\/em> and it\u2019s been fun for me to watch kids interact with this resource because all of the pieces of the nativity scene.\u00a0 The baby in the manger, Mary, Joseph, the shepherd, the wise men, the angels all of them are in little gift boxes and kids love opening the boxes to find what is in there and then placing those objects as a part of this interactive nativity scene.\u00a0 And of course the surprise of what\u2019s in box number seven is always intriguing for children.\u00a0 And of course there is a storybook that goes along with the nativity scene so mom and dad can use that.\u00a0 You can use this as a seven day advent devotional or you can use it on Christmas Eve to retell the Christmas story, however you\u2019d like to use it.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tThe point is tools like this or like the <em>Just Add Family<\/em> resource that Kurt and Olivia Bruner put together that gives creative ways for parents to engage the whole family in spiritual conversation and activity.\u00a0 These are the kinds of tools that help accomplish what we\u2019ve been talking about here today, making your home a place of worship.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tYou can go online today at FamilyLifeToday.com for more information about these resources, to get a copy of the book that the Singletons have written, <em>Setting up Stones<\/em>.\u00a0 Again all the details can be found online at FamilyLifeToday.com.\u00a0 You can order from us online if you\u2019d like or call 1-800-FL-TODAY, when you get in touch with us we will make arrangements to have whatever resources you are looking for sent 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