{"id":301938,"date":"2009-12-15T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2009-12-15T17:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-stage.familylife.com\/www\/podcast\/%series%\/christs-love-cleverly-disguised-as-a-tea-party\/"},"modified":"2024-10-07T22:51:49","modified_gmt":"2024-10-08T02:51:49","slug":"christs-love-cleverly-disguised-as-a-tea-party","status":"publish","type":"podcast","link":"https:\/\/wp-stage.familylife.com\/www\/podcast\/familylife-today\/christs-love-cleverly-disguised-as-a-tea-party\/","title":{"rendered":"Christ\u2019s Love Cleverly Disguised as a Tea Party"},"content":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Do you know a child that need to be encouraged?<\/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\/fl2009-12-15.mp3","podmotor_file_id":"","podmotor_episode_id":"","cover_image":"","cover_image_id":"","duration":"00:","filesize":"12.18M","filesize_raw":"12775319","date_recorded":"","explicit":"","block":""},"categories":[2821],"tags":[4722,4983,4798,2706],"podcast_series":[7696],"cwp_profile":[8922],"series":[2101],"class_list":["post-301938","podcast","type-podcast","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-reaching-out","tag-christianity","tag-family-devotions","tag-kids","tag-spiritual-growth","podcast_series-tea-parties-with-a-purpose","cwp_profile-robert-and-bobbie-wolgemuth","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\/301938\/christs-love-cleverly-disguised-as-a-tea-party","player_link":"https:\/\/wp-stage.familylife.com\/www\/podcast-player\/301938\/christs-love-cleverly-disguised-as-a-tea-party","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=\"LT8mFnOH7P\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wp-stage.familylife.com\/www\/podcast\/familylife-today\/christs-love-cleverly-disguised-as-a-tea-party\/\">Christ\u2019s Love Cleverly Disguised as a Tea Party<\/a><\/blockquote><iframe sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-stage.familylife.com\/www\/podcast\/familylife-today\/christs-love-cleverly-disguised-as-a-tea-party\/embed\/#?secret=LT8mFnOH7P\" width=\"500\" height=\"350\" title=\"&#8220;Christ\u2019s Love Cleverly Disguised as a Tea Party&#8221; &#8212; FamilyLife\u00ae - A Cru Ministry\" data-secret=\"LT8mFnOH7P\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" class=\"wp-embedded-content\"><\/iframe><script>\n\/*! 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the nicest introduction that has ever happened in the 18 years that we have been introducing guests.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong>\u00a0 I was thinking the same thing.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob:<\/strong>\u00a0 But I want to know do you go to these tea parties that your wife hosts?\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Robert:<\/strong>\u00a0 No.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob:<\/strong>\u00a0 Alright.\u00a0 Give it up.\u00a0 High five.\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>Bobbi:<\/strong>\u00a0 Now, that is not true.\u00a0 I\u2019m here and I want to speak speaking of a strong willed wife. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Robert:<\/strong>\u00a0 Well, I\u2019m not a young boy.\u00a0 It\u2019s interesting because our office is in our home and I do have to go close the office door because Bobbi is completely irreverent about the level of noise she is making with her tea parties so I go close the door.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tIt\u2019s really not for me and I don\u2019t have the same magic with children.\u00a0 Now with my grandchildren that\u2019s different.\u00a0 I don\u2019t attract kids.\u00a0 I attract dogs.\u00a0\u00a0 I\u2019m a dog whisperer but I\u2019m not for kids.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob:<\/strong>\u00a0 If it was root beer parties you\u2019d be out of the office there in a minute wouldn\u2019t you?\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Robert:<\/strong>\u00a0 Sure.\u00a0 Lots of foam.\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\tIt\u2019s really her ministry.\u00a0 It\u2019s not mine.\u00a0 If I were to come and sit down at the table and you can\u2019t respond to this sweetheart, because I think I know what\u2019d you say, I don\u2019t think it would be any fun anymore.\u00a0 I\u2019m German.\u00a0 I\u2019m all desks and straight rows.\u00a0 No gum chewing.\u00a0 No running in the hall.\u00a0 That\u2019s me and kids sense that with me.\u00a0 But with Bobbi it\u2019s no holds barred let\u2019s go for it.\u00a0 Let\u2019s have a great time.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bobbi:<\/strong>\u00a0 Actually Robert was invited to a tea party two weeks ago at my house because I had a little girl who is being raised by a single mom and a grandmother brought her over to my house specifically for a tea party so I would introduce her it Jesus.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tThe little girl came in and because she is from a single parent home I asked Robert if sometime during the tea party he could come down and make sure that he walked through the room so I could introduce him.\u00a0 I wanted this little girl to see what a mom and a dad together look like.\u00a0 I thought that would be a great way to bring Robert into the tea party so he did at the right time.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tWe were actually having a teddy bear tea party and we had ice cream cups with ears and little raisins for the eyes and we were having the ice cream cups and talking about bears and about her teddy bear and what she liked and at that moment Robert walked down and I said, now I want you to meet somebody very special.\u00a0 This is my husband, Mr. Robert.\u00a0 I talked about how wonderful it was and let him go.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tI thought just that picture our lives in every single area are to be a picture of Jesus.\u00a0 Whether it\u2019s our relationship in marriage, whether it\u2019s our home, it should especially be our joy because the joy of the Lord is what attracts people to Jesus.\u00a0 That is the wonderful thing.\u00a0 It\u2019s sort of like when you see a fire burning and you want to go and see what\u2019s happening there.\u00a0 That is the spark that is ignited in us is Jesus and then kids want to come around and say what is that?\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tWhy are those people so happy?\u00a0 I wanted this little girl to see a picture of what a mommy and daddy together look like.\u00a0 The grandmother had told me ahead of time the whole story.\u00a0 So whatever it is that we can use our homes, the little crackers we have in our pantry, the little cups we put out, I think anything you have you can use to share Christ\u2019s love.\u00a0 I say that really I\u2019m giving out the gospel of Jesus Christ cleverly disguised in a tea party.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob:<\/strong>\u00a0 You started doing these tea parties about 35 years ago when your kids were little.\u00a0 When your girls got to be teenagers I would imagine there was a slowdown in the tea party season, right?\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bobbi:<\/strong>\u00a0 Actually the older kids helped with the little kids and they enjoy that.\u00a0 I have a 13 year old granddaughter who helps.\u00a0 When we are having tea parties at her house she loves to help put out the things for the kids.\u00a0 Older kids can get involved.\u00a0 It\u2019s part of what they learn to do in sharing the love of Jesus and often I had Abby who is 13 for a hands and feet tea party.\u00a0 We have a little hand and foot that we put out for the centerpiece.\u00a0 We always have something to attract the children as a centerpiece.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tIt can be something as simple as construction paper with patterns on it.\u00a0 So we have a little hand and foot that we put out for the hands and feet tea party and she wrote walk as children of the light.\u00a0 And that was Abby\u2019s contribution and I said Abby, I\u2019d love to have your handwriting on this.\u00a0 The kids like to make name tags.\u00a0 They like to make little invitations and help with the crafts.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tI always have a story.\u00a0 Not only do I have a Bible story but I have listed in the book a Caldecott or a good library book for every story.\u00a0 Like if we are talking about under the sea tea.\u00a0 God made the fish let\u2019s talk about things God made.\u00a0 It\u2019s as simple as when you are telling the children a story to say isn\u2019t that amazing how God made the fish?\u00a0 Or we have a honey bee tea party.\u00a0 Without bees there would be no fruit so we bring out fruit and we say do you that it is because of the honey bees that we even have this fruit, isn\u2019t God amazing?\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tYou are bringing God into everyday experiences and just that little word that God made the bees or God made your hands or God made the fish or whatever it is that you are talking about it is sort of like a little ah-ha that the kids put in their brains.\u00a0 I call it furniture for their minds.\u00a0 You have to give children some pictures of God in order to have something to think about.\u00a0 They have to think high and holy thoughts of God but where are they going to get the picture.\u00a0 They get it from us.\u00a0 I love talking to the children about things God made and that He is the creator.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong>\u00a0 I loved how you tied the honey bees and the honey to Proverbs 16:24 about how the person who has wise words and good words is like the sweetness of honey.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bobbi:<\/strong>\u00a0 Yes.\u00a0 We go around the circle and I say now you give a good word to someone on your left.\u00a0 Then we go around the circle.\u00a0 I give them help because lots of times the children do not want to come up with it on their own.\u00a0\u00a0 I\u2019ll say, let\u2019s give a kind word to Sue.\u00a0 Sue you look like a sparkler today.\u00a0 Your smile is so bright.\u00a0 Then we talk about how did that make you feel when I said you look so happy today?\u00a0 Did you feel happy when I said that?\u00a0 We talk about the difference of sweet words and sour words.\u00a0 When you go home tonight practice.\u00a0 Don\u2019t tell anybody but give everybody a sweet word and see what happens?\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob:<\/strong>\u00a0 You are one of these people that we can just throw out an idea and you can run with it on the fly and make it up.\u00a0 The kids are going to connect.\u00a0 There are a lot of moms who are going that is not me.\u00a0\u00a0 But that is what the book is for, right?\u00a0 It is to give those moms who wouldn\u2019t come up with it on the fly.\u00a0 They may be thinking I want to have Miss Bobbi over to my house to do a tea party in my house.\u00a0 You can\u2019t do that but you can send them the book and they can do their own.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bobbi:<\/strong>\u00a0 And words of affirmation and laughter\u2026if you can just laugh in your home with children.\u00a0 We even have fishy jokes in here and little knock-knock jokes in here because children love to laugh.\u00a0 For the under the sea tea party we have a little tongue twister.\u00a0 The kids have to say as fast as they can \u201cSusie sells sea shells down by the sea shore.\u201d\u00a0 We do it really fast and then everybody starts to laugh.\u00a0 Isn\u2019t laughter fun?\u00a0 God made smile and for us to laugh.\u00a0 At the end of the tea party we always hold hands and I say thank you Jesus for these wonderful friends and for the fun that we had today, amen.\u00a0 It\u2019s as simple as that.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tI have had children when I say we are going to pray they didn\u2019t know what it was because they had never prayed before.\u00a0\u00a0 I always say to moms a second with Jesus Christ is enough.\u00a0 That\u2019s enough.\u00a0 He can change a child\u2019s heart for eternity.\u00a0 It\u2019s just amazing.\u00a0 He needs so little to work in their hearts.\u00a0 The truth is children are such an incredible resource often I say would you pray for Miss Bobbi because I\u2019m having trouble with my hand or whatever it is.\u00a0 A child praying for you is just a fabulous connector.\u00a0 I think the Lord uses children and they can teach us so much. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong>\u00a0 As I was reading your book and looking it over I created an adaptation of one of your ideas.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bobbi:<\/strong>\u00a0 Okay. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong>\u00a0 Your idea was to create houses\u2026\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob:<\/strong>\u00a0 Wait, is root beer involved?\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong>\u00a0 No, there is no root beer involved.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Robert:<\/strong>\u00a0 But there are knives.\u00a0 There are sharp steak knives.\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>Dennis:<\/strong>\u00a0 No, there isn\u2019t that either.\u00a0 You talk about how you can use the story of the three little pigs.\u00a0 This may be too sophisticated for a tea party but I thought of how most neighborhoods today are made up.\u00a0 They are made up of some intact families that are together.\u00a0 Some blended families.\u00a0 Some families that are in transition or broken families because of divorce or death or something that has taken place.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tThe story of the three little pigs is really the story of the house that withstood.\u00a0 You could read Matthew 7:24-27 and talk about the house that is built on the rock around Jesus Christ.\u00a0 These parties are evangelistic.\u00a0 You are trying to introduce them to who Jesus Christ is and explain God to a child.\u00a0 What a noble calling.\u00a0 I think of the number of moms who see their ministry as so small.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tThey think they are just raising children.\u00a0 But they are raising the next generation of leaders, moms and dads and those who provide the foundation and structure for our society.\u00a0 What you are talking about is reaching out into a neighborhood and perhaps not just touching a child but touching a family and introducing them to who Jesus Christ is.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bobbi:<\/strong>\u00a0 The last father\u2019s day Robert gave a Bible to every dad in our neighborhood.\u00a0 Because I had been working with the children and giving them out the Bible they know that Jesus is very important in our home.\u00a0 I felt like giving out the word of God in any form whether they are coloring a picture of a fish or if they are looking at Christmas cards of angels and we were having an angel tea party whatever it is.\u00a0 We are giving out glimpses of God.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tIn that tea party where we are talking about the homes we use the three little pigs because we build houses out of crackers with the three little pigs and then we talk about the most wonderful home of all is in heaven.\u00a0 Jesus said I go to prepare a place for you and if he goes he is going to come back and get us.\u00a0 Some day when we believe in Jesus someday we will go live in that house with him.\u00a0 That will be a wonderful house.\u00a0 So we introduce eternity which is a huge concept to a little child by reading them the story of the three little pigs and having them build with pretzels the one house and with crackers another house and the house of straw is made out of shredded wheat.\u00a0 They build those three little houses with peanut butter and then we talk about your home in heaven.\u00a0 It\u2019s opening up their minds for a moment and then when they are at home in their house maybe they will be like I was when I was eight years old.\u00a0 I had been to church with Martha and I lay in bed at night and thought how do I get Jesus in my house?\u00a0 Martha told me that Jesus was in her house.\u00a0 Why isn\u2019t he at my house?\u00a0 So I went and asked Martha\u2019s mother and Martha\u2019s mother told me how to get Jesus in my heart.\u00a0 Then I took Jesus home with me.\u00a0 Within two years both my parents and my sisters became Christians.\u00a0 That was because Martha\u2019s mother had a little tea party for me.\u00a0 The tea party was inviting me to sit at her kitchen table and talk to her.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tThat is why I am desperate to give out the gospel of Christ with every child I meet.\u00a0 If I can\u2019t talk about Jesus I will hug them and I will ask Jesus to light up their life somehow.\u00a0 Just to give them a smile\u2026the joy of the Lord is my strength that I want to give to them.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong>\u00a0 As you\u2019ve been talking here this thought continues to bounce around in my brain so I am going to express it.\u00a0 Bob is going, oh no, what\u2019s happening now?\u00a0 I\u2019m thinking I would like one hundred moms to step forward and say I want to be a part of one hundred moms in neighborhoods all across America. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob:<\/strong>\u00a0 I want to be a tea party mom, is that what you are saying?\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong>\u00a0 Yes.\u00a0 All I want you to do is pray a simple prayer.\u00a0 Lord, am I one of the one hundred?\u00a0 Am I supposed to reach out to the children in my neighborhood?\u00a0 If you think about this over the next ten years one hundred moms could touch thousands of children across the country.\u00a0 My challenge is are you one of the one hundred moms who is going to become a tea party mom?\u00a0 Maybe you host one of these tea parties at Easter time with Resurrection Eggs which is a great resource to use from an evangelistic standpoint to share the gospel.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tThere are a lot of resources we just need some women, some moms, who are passionate and who have a vision for children and want to do something about their eternal destiny.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob:<\/strong>\u00a0 I\u2019m wondering if the next time I\u2019m in your neighborhood do I come to the door and if there is a note on the door I can knock or if there\u2019s not a note on the door, which is it?\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bobbi:<\/strong>\u00a0 I put a little hanger on the door and it says Shhhhhh.\u00a0\u00a0 That\u2019s the only time the kids know they can\u2019t ring the door bell.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Robert:<\/strong>\u00a0 Except Bob can always come in.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bobbi:<\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0 That\u2019s right Bob is always welcome at our house.\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 Will you have root beer there for me?\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bobbi:<\/strong>\u00a0 Actually, now I want you to know the tea parties really don\u2019t have tea.\u00a0 We don\u2019t serve tea.\u00a0 I have a root beer float in there for one of the heavenly teas.\u00a0 You put any kind of soda over ice cream and it foams up so that is my angel tea.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob:<\/strong>\u00a0 Okay, I\u2019m in.\u00a0 Now we are talking.\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>Bobbi:<\/strong>\u00a0 So I have root beer floats in various forms.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong>\u00a0 Bobbi, thank you for your ministry to the children and thank you for sharing this with our listeners.\u00a0 Robert I want to thank you for one of the finest introductions of a guest we have ever had on FamilyLife Today.\u00a0 That was tremendous.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Robert:<\/strong>\u00a0 I\u2019m very grateful for my wife.\u00a0 I am very grateful that the Lord\u2026 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong>\u00a0 It\u2019s not good for you to be alone.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Robert:<\/strong>\u00a0 That\u2019s right and this is the one for you.\u00a0 I\u2019m very grateful for that.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tBob:\u00a0 Well, and we are grateful that you guys would stop by and spend some time with us.\u00a0 Our listeners can go to our website FamilyLifeToday.com where they can find out more about how to get a copy of the book <em>Tea Parties with a Purpose<\/em> book. <em>Ten simple and fun party ideas for kids of all ages.<\/em> \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tIt's in our FamilyLife Today Resource Center and I want to encourage you to go to FamilyLifeToday.com and look this information over or maybe order a copy from us online. Again the website is FamilyLifeToday.com.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tLet me also mention you will find online our interactive nativity scene which is called <em>What God Wants for Christmas<\/em>\u00ae. We designed it with kids in mind.\u00a0 It\u2019s a great tool to have around the house at Christmas time whether it\u2019s with your own children or with children from the neighborhood or maybe relatives that come in during the holidays.\u00a0\u00a0 This is a way to introduce the Christmas story and to use the mysterious box #7 to tell them what the real meaning of Christmas is all about.\u00a0 You can find out more about <em>What God Wants for Christmas<\/em>\u00ae when you go online at FamilyLifeToday.com.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tI should also mention the book your wife, Barbara, has written.\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 It\u2019s called <em>When Christmas Came<\/em> where Barbara takes an extended look at John 3:16 through the eyes of Christmas.\u00a0 Again all of the resources we\u2019ve talked about can be found at our website.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tYou can also call us toll-free, 1-800-FLTODAY\u20141-800-358-6329.\u00a0 That\u2019s 1-800 F as in \u201cfamily\u201d L as in \u201clife\u201d and then the word TODAY. When you get in touch with us we can answer any questions you have about the resources we've talked about here today, or make arrangements to have the ones you need sent to you.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tYou know with Christmas now just a few days away there are probably a lot of you who are in the same situation I\u2019m in with a long list and a lot to try to accomplish before you can relax and enjoy your Christmas celebration next week.\u00a0 I hope that one of the things you\u2019ve added to your list of things to do in recent days has been to take a few minutes and contact us here at FamilyLife and make a year-end donation to our ministry.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tWe've had some friends of the ministry who have stepped forward and they have offered to double every donation we receive this month on a dollar for dollar basis up to $1,250,000.\u00a0\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tThis is the largest year-end matching gift that we have ever received as a ministry and we are hoping to take full advantage of it.\u00a0 To do that we need folks to go online at FamilyLifeToday.com or to call 1-800-FLTODAY to make a donation of your own because we don\u2019t get the matching gift money until we hear from you.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tSo if you can donate $50 dollars, we get $50 from this other group.\u00a0 Whatever you can do.\u00a0 Make a year-end contribution for the ministry of <em>FamilyLife Today<\/em> and your donation is going to be matched dollar for dollar up to a total of $1,250,000.\u00a0 We do hope to hear from you and I want to say thanks in advance for whatever you are able to do to help support this ministry.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tNow tomorrow I want to encourage you to be back with us Rick Horne is going to be here and we\u2019re going to move from talking about tea parties and little children to talking about teenagers and tantrums that they throw.\u00a0 Rick has written a book called <em>Get Outta My Face<\/em> and I hope you can be back with us for that.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tI want to thank our engineer today Keith Lynch and our entire production team. 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