{"id":302065,"date":"2010-06-25T11:00:00","date_gmt":"2010-06-25T15:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-stage.familylife.com\/www\/podcast\/%series%\/walking-by-faith-not-by-sight-part-2\/"},"modified":"2010-06-25T11:00:00","modified_gmt":"2010-06-25T15:00:00","slug":"walking-by-faith-not-by-sight-part-2","status":"publish","type":"podcast","link":"https:\/\/wp-stage.familylife.com\/www\/podcast\/familylife-today\/walking-by-faith-not-by-sight-part-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Walking by Faith, Not by Sight, Part 2"},"content":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jennifer Rothschild thought college would give her freedom from the restrictions of her recent loss of sight.<\/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\/fl2010-06-25.mp3","podmotor_file_id":"","podmotor_episode_id":"","cover_image":"","cover_image_id":"","duration":"00:","filesize":"25.35M","filesize_raw":"26585707","date_recorded":"","explicit":"","block":""},"categories":[2822],"tags":[4932,2605,2216],"podcast_series":[7738],"cwp_profile":[3521],"series":[2101],"class_list":["post-302065","podcast","type-podcast","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-growing-in-your-faith","tag-difficulty","tag-sickness","tag-suffering","podcast_series-walking-by-faith-not-by-sight","cwp_profile-jennifer-rothschild","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\/302065\/walking-by-faith-not-by-sight-part-2","player_link":"https:\/\/wp-stage.familylife.com\/www\/podcast-player\/302065\/walking-by-faith-not-by-sight-part-2","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=\"GYPHRuHxPM\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wp-stage.familylife.com\/www\/podcast\/familylife-today\/walking-by-faith-not-by-sight-part-2\/\">Walking by Faith, Not by Sight, Part 2<\/a><\/blockquote><iframe sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-stage.familylife.com\/www\/podcast\/familylife-today\/walking-by-faith-not-by-sight-part-2\/embed\/#?secret=GYPHRuHxPM\" width=\"500\" height=\"350\" title=\"&#8220;Walking by Faith, Not by Sight, Part 2&#8221; &#8212; FamilyLife\u00ae - A Cru Ministry\" data-secret=\"GYPHRuHxPM\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" class=\"wp-embedded-content\"><\/iframe><script>\n\/*! 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sight.","meta_box":{"show_notes":"","transcript_url":"https:\/\/transcript.familylifetoday.com\/fl2010-06-25.pdf","transcript_content":"<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob:<\/strong><strong>\u00a0 <\/strong>Are you facing difficult circumstances today, and you find yourself in a place of despair, a lack of hope?\u00a0 It may be that God has brought you to this place for the purpose of brokenness.\u00a0 Here\u2019s Jennifer Rothschild:\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Jennifer:<\/strong><strong>\u00a0 <\/strong>If it is not well with your circumstance that is not what makes you broken!\u00a0 That is simply what God can use to introduce you to your own brokenness.\u00a0 Do not resist that which God has allowed to shape you and refine you and make you a true woman, a woman of beauty that is refined only through experiencing the brokenness that comes in this life.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob:<\/strong><strong>\u00a0 <\/strong>This is <em>FamilyLife Today<\/em> for Friday, June 25<sup>th<\/sup>.\u00a0 Our host is the President of FamilyLife, Dennis Rainey, and I\u2019m Bob Lepine.\u00a0 Jennifer Rothschild has found herself in difficult places, in places of despair, but she has also tasted the sweet fruit of brokenness.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tAnd welcome to <em>FamilyLife Today, <\/em>thanks for joining us.\u00a0 You know, letting a child go off to college is a hard release point for every parent, but you stop and think about what it must have been like for Jennifer Rothschild\u2019s mom and dad.\u00a0 Here, their daughter was blind.\u00a0 She had started losing her sight when she was 12, and by the time she was 15 or 16, she could not see, and here they were about to release her to head to college, and it was a risky step for them and for her!\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong><strong>\u00a0 <\/strong>Yes, and the interesting thing is she thought she was ready, right up until the moment when the door opened and she stepped out and started her journey toward college, and then she experienced what many of us have which is fear.\u00a0 Sometimes it\u2019s a terrifying fear that paralyzes us, or maybe it\u2019s just a fear that is one of worry and anxiety and just afraid of some choice or some decision that we have to make, and it\u2019s interesting to hear how she handled her own fear.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob:<\/strong><strong>\u00a0 <\/strong>Yes.\u00a0 Jennifer Rothschild shared this story with ladies who were at the True Woman \u201810 Conference in Chattanooga back in March, and I happened to be there.\u00a0 I was the MC for the event and had a chance to do a workshop.\u00a0 It was a great event and it was interesting to hear how women responded and how they could relate, even though these were all women who were sighted women, they could relate with the anxiety and the fear and what Jennifer had experienced as she shared stories from her own life.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tLet me just mention that the True Woman \u201810 conferences that Revive Our Hearts is hosting this year are going to be in Indianapolis coming up in September and in Fort Worth coming up in October.\u00a0 There is still an opportunity for women to come out.\u00a0 It\u2019s a great two-day conference for women, and I\u2019m going to be there again as the emcee and looking forward to it.\u00a0 They got a great line up of speakers who are going to be there.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong><strong>\u00a0 <\/strong>This would be a great opportunity not only to come as a woman, but maybe bring a friend or bring your daughter.\u00a0 It would be a great experience to come and bring a teenage daughter with you or an adult daughter and just go through the sessions together.\u00a0 You\u2019re going to get a fresh vision for what it looks like to be a woman today.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob:<\/strong><strong>\u00a0 <\/strong>Well, there\u2019s a link on our website at FamilyLifeToday.com to the True Woman website so you can get more information if you want.\u00a0 But let\u2019s dive in here.\u00a0 We\u2019re going to hear Part Two of Jennifer Rothschild\u2019s message on walking by faith and not by sight.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Jennifer:<\/strong>\u00a0 On August 14<sup>th<\/sup>, at about 3 o\u2019clock in the afternoon, it hit me.\u00a0 I\u2019m about to go off to college and I don\u2019t know anybody!\u00a0 And who\u2019s going to help me?!\u00a0 And I remember calling my mom out into the front yard and crying and negotiating, and lamenting, \u201cMom, I can\u2019t do this!\u00a0 I don\u2019t know what I was thinking!\u00a0 I can\u2019t go to college!\u00a0 Who\u2019s going to tell me what food\u2019s on my plate?!\u00a0 How am I really going to know it\u2019s safe to cross the street in the middle of the campus?!\u00a0 How am I really going to know\u2026?!\u201d\u00a0 I was terrified!\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tMy mom who wiped away her own tears said, \u201cJennifer, you have to go to college.\u00a0 You chose to go to college.\u00a0 You have prepared to go to college, and you got to go,\u201d but I don\u2019t think I completely understood, on August 14<sup>th<\/sup>, when my mother wiped away her own tears, what she was really dealing with.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tBut several years ago, I was on the phone with a writer for a magazine.\u00a0 She was doing a great interview, and near the end of this interview, she said to me, \u201cI\u2019d love to talk to your mother.\u00a0 Do you think your mom would be willing?\u201d\u00a0 I said, \u201cYou know, I\u2019ll ask.\u201d\u00a0 But I really thought my mom wouldn\u2019t be interested, and here\u2019s the reason.\u00a0 My mom is a one-on-one lover of people, and she will give and pour out, but she\u2019s very private, and this kind of setting probably wouldn\u2019t be one she was comfortable with, and I totally honor and respect that.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tBut even so, I called and I said, \u201cMom, would you be willing?\u201d\u00a0 She hesitated.\u00a0 It wasn\u2019t for the reasons I expected.\u00a0 She said, \u201cI can\u2019t.\u00a0 I can\u2019t answer those questions for that writer because to her, your blindness is a story, but to me your blindness is a wound.\u00a0 It really hurts.\u201d\u00a0 You see, that\u2019s the truth of life.\u00a0 It hurts.\u00a0 It\u2019s not well with your circumstances, and when it\u2019s not well with your circumstances, you can ask, \u201cWhat if?\u00a0 What if?\u201d\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tBut I want to remind you of something I learned from my mother that day that she never actually spoke with her lips.\u00a0 My mom carries a burden for my blindness that I believe is much heavier than the burden I actually carry for myself, and there are some women in this room who know exactly what I meant by that statement, because you\u2019re a hero.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tWhether you\u2019re a mom who has a child who\u2019s born with some really special needs, whether you\u2019re a daughter who\u2019s watching your parents age and it is breaking your heart, whether you\u2019re a wife who is looking at that husband who has just received a diagnosis and you are not only terrified for him, but you\u2019re terrified for yourself.\u00a0 You know what it feels like to bear that heavy weight of compassion and empathy.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tHere\u2019s what I want to remind you of:\u00a0 God\u2019s grace is sufficient.\u00a0 In 2 Corinthians 12, Verses Eight and Nine, the apostle Paul said to God, \u201cI got something in my life that hurts.\u201d\u00a0 He called it a thorn, and it hurts, and whether you possess the thorn or someone you love has it, it hurts.\u00a0 And when Paul asked the Father, \u201cTake it away!\u00a0 Take it away!\u00a0 Make it go away!\u201d\u00a0 God responded with grace, because thorn removal isn\u2019t sufficient in and of itself.\u00a0 Only grace is sufficient.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tSo those of you who have the responsibility to watch that person you love carry that heavy burden, may I just remind you that what God has given me as the one who carries the burden of blindness, what God has given that child, that parent, that sister, that friend that you love who has to carry the burden of cancer, autism, or Alzheimer\u2019s, God has given us participant grace.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tIt\u2019s adequate grace to participate with the burden, but you, my hero, sister, who has to watch and cry and pray those silent prayers and cry those invisible tears, God\u2019s given you what I call \u201cspectator grace.\u201d\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tNow, that\u2019s not in 2 Corinthians, though I\u2019m thinking, when I get to Heaven, Paul and I will discuss that.\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\tThe point is whether God has granted you the sufficiency of His grace in the package of being a participant or a spectator, His grace is sufficient.\u00a0 So rest in His grace.\u00a0 Rest.\u00a0 Rest in His grace.\u00a0 God\u2019s grace in Titus 2:11 is what equips us and powers us to say no to ungodliness, but His grace is also what equips us and empowers us to cease our striving and allow Him to be the One who wields and works within us for His good pleasure.\u00a0 So rest.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tI was in church last year-well I go every Sunday\u2026\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\tJust to clarify!\u00a0 One Sunday last year, I was in church, and our teacher in small group was going through the book of Luke, and he was at the place of discussing the Good Samaritan, and I remember sitting there and thinking, \u201cOh great!\u00a0 I know this story!\u201d\u00a0 And I know you never do this, but as soon as Cliff started reading about the Good Samaritan, I started making my grocery list, and thinking how I was going to help Connor with his homework that afternoon, and I caught myself.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tAnd as I caught myself, I said, \u201cLord, I\u2019m sorry! I want to be very present in this story.\u00a0 I want to be present because whether it\u2019s Your story, whether it\u2019s my story, whether it\u2019s the story of the Good Samaritan that Jesus told, every story has the potential of being God\u2019s story, so we don\u2019t want to miss it.\u00a0 So I asked God, \u201cHelp me in this story, Lord.\u00a0 Show me who I am.\u201d\u00a0 I\u2019ve done this for years.\u00a0 You may have, too.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tCliff was reading about the man who was on the journey and he got beat up by robbers and he was left for dead on the side of the road.\u00a0 Then Cliff began to read how some men came by him:\u00a0 the priest, the Levite, and they, of course, were too busy or had other reasons for not helping the poor, broken injured man.\u00a0 But then along came the Samaritan, and of course, so countercultural, he helped the man who was wounded.\u00a0 I began to weep as I heard this scripture read.\u00a0 I don\u2019t want to be spiritually elite.\u00a0 I want to recognize my own brokenness.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tAnd here\u2019s the thing:\u00a0 Blindness is not what makes me broken.\u00a0 If it is not well with your circumstances, that is not what makes you broken!\u00a0 That is simply what God can use to introduce you to your own brokenness.\u00a0 Therefore do not resist that which God has allowed to shape you and refine you and make you a true woman, a woman of beauty that is refined only through experiencing the brokenness that comes in this life.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tOn this stage, I don\u2019t know if you can see it, but I have a stool.\u00a0 I didn\u2019t always use a stool when I spoke.\u00a0 Several years ago, I was invited to be a guest with the Women of Faith tour, and if you\u2019ve ever been to one of their events, it\u2019s in an arena and their state is in the round.\u00a0 So the crew and my husband, who I call Dr. Phil, by the way (laughter), came up with a way by which I could navigate the entire stage and therefore speak to every element of the audience, and they did so by putting rugs in the shape of a plus sign.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tAnd at the end of each rug, there was a monitor, and I would walk toward each rug.\u00a0 I would hear the monitor, I would feel where the rug ended, I would go to the next one, and it worked!\u00a0 I could navigate!\u00a0 And you know what I loved about it?\u00a0 I felt normal! \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tAbout six months ago, I went through some real changes.\u00a0 Some of it\u2019s just my age.\u00a0 Some of it\u2019s just what happens when you mourn a loss through the stages of life.\u00a0 Sometimes it takes you off guard.\u00a0 And I just was really struggling.\u00a0 And one of the ways I was mostly impacted was through my orientation.\u00a0 I would stand up to teach to the left wall, and I would have no idea I was speaking that way.\u00a0 I\u2019d hear my husband and my assistant coughing wildly to try and help me know where to look.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tFirst couple of times, of course, I would laugh it off, and then it just wasn\u2019t funny.\u00a0 And God graciously\u2014because it is grace that empowers us to respond according to His kindness and His will\u2014has helped me to refasten the bridle of blindness onto my life and allow it to not be that which defines me, but once again, allow it to be that which refines me and that which He uses as a cross in my life, a place where I can surrender.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tA guy named Greg sent me an email recently that said, \u201cI have cancer.\u00a0 I have faith.\u00a0 I don\u2019t know how to have both.\u201d\u00a0 We began an email correspondence, and after about six months, he emailed and said that his cancer was in remission, and I was thrilled.\u00a0 Then I received and email months later, from Greg, \u201cDear Jennifer, it\u2019s Greg again.\u00a0 The cancer\u2019s back and I am so scared.\u201d\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tI read my next email, and of course, my computer talks also, and so as I was listening to the next email, it was from a woman.\u00a0 I remembered her.\u00a0 She had been at one of my conferences just a few weeks earlier.\u00a0 She had been very pregnant, and she wrote to tell me that her baby was born\u2026stillborn.\u00a0 She was devastated.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tAnd you know what my spiritual response was?\u00a0 \u201cOh God, why?!\u00a0 Why cancer?\u00a0 Why stillborn babies?!\u00a0 You can make babies be born on earth, why did you let it be born in heaven?\u201d\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t\u201cAnd God, why blindness?\u00a0 Why?\u201d\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tI went my piano and just tried to process what I had read and felt and thought and prayed, and as I was playing the piano, it was as if, in my mind\u2019s eye, an image of the cross appeared.\u00a0 And my questions transitioned from \u201cWhy cancer?\u201d and \u201cWhy blindness?\u201d to \u201cWhy grace?\u201d\u00a0 That\u2019s what we really don\u2019t deserve!\u00a0 Why forgiveness?\u00a0 Why peace?\u00a0 How dare we be spiritually elite when we, as the broken man on the side of the road, have been given that which we don\u2019t deserve.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tWhen you come to the cross, you\u2019ll realize that God has made it well with your soul.\u00a0 You may struggle with so many \u201cwhat ifs\u201d in your life, but when you come to the cross, you see what it is, and what it is is divinely unfair and amazingly equipping that you are able to walk with grace in this life.\u00a0 So don\u2019t resist.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tI know the many women in this room have been to church, but I\u2019m asking you this morning, \u201cHave you been to the cross?\u201d\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob:<\/strong><strong>\u00a0 <\/strong>Well we are listening again today to a message from Jennifer Rothschild shared at the True Woman \u201810 Conference in Chattanooga earlier this year.\u00a0 Just as she was closing, I was thinking, Dennis, of a quote I heard last summer from Larry Crabb, who said, \u201cIf you don\u2019t see the Gospel as the solution to your problem, then you don\u2019t understand your problem.\u201d\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t(Dennis chuckles) \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tAnd it really does call on us to adjust our perspective on life and on the issues we\u2019re facing in life.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong><strong>\u00a0 <\/strong>And, undoubtedly, Bob, we\u2019re speaking to a listener or two who is challenged by something he or she is afraid of, perhaps a fork in the road that you\u2019ve got to make a decision and you\u2019re afraid you\u2019ll fail.\u00a0 You\u2019re afraid, maybe like Jennifer, as she was going off to college, \u201cMan can I do this?\u201d\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tAnd I just want to remind you of 2 Timothy1, Verse 7.\u00a0 \u201cFor God gave us a spirit not of fear, but of power, love, and self-control.\u201d\u00a0\u00a0 Jesus Christ went to the cross and died there so that He can rescue us from our sins, our selfishness.\u00a0 But He also went to the cross so he could ultimately defeat death, be seated at the right hand of the Father, and He can send the Holy Spirit.\u00a0 And He\u2019s given us a spirit not of fear, but of love, of sound mind, and of self-control.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tI think for every listener who\u2019s facing something right now and just needs to be reminded of the truth about God, God is for you.\u00a0 He has offered the Gospel to redeem you from your sins, but also to help you today with the issues you\u2019re facing and your relationships, your life, your work, whatever it is you\u2019re facing.\u00a0 God will meet you there.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob:<\/strong><strong>\u00a0 <\/strong>Well, and I think Jennifer is an illustration of that.\u00a0 I think her life really gives testimony to exactly what you\u2019re saying.\u00a0 And, in fact, she\u2019s has just written a devotional book for women called <em>Fresh Grounded Faith, <\/em>where she offers a variety of illustrations from her own life about how God has met her in difficult circumstances and sustained her and given her grace and hope, how the gospel has been her source of life.\u00a0 And we got copies of her book in our FamilyLife Today Resource Center.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tYou can go online at FamilyLifeToday.com for more information about Jennifer Rothschild\u2019s new book, <em>Fresh Grounded Faith.<\/em>\u00a0 Again, it\u2019s a devotional book for women.\u00a0 Our website is FamilyLifeToday.com.\u00a0 You can also request a copy of the book when you call 1-800-FL-TODAY, 1-800-358-6329.\u00a0 1-800 F as in \u201cfamily\u201d L as in \u201clife\u201d and then the word TODAY.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tLet me also mention, when you go online at FamilyLifeToday.com, there\u2019s a link to the True Woman \u201810 website. If you\u2019d like more information about the upcoming True Woman conferences that are being hosted-one in Indianapolis in September and then one in Fort Worth in October.\u00a0 Jennifer was speaking at one of these True Woman conferences back in the spring in Chattanooga-and they are great events for women-hosted by our friends at Revive Our Hearts.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tI\u2019m going to be at both of the conferences as the emcee and hope that we\u2019ll have a chance to see many of our <em>FamilyLife Today <\/em>listeners out for these True Woman \u201810 conferences.\u00a0 Again, go to FamilyLifeToday.com, click on the link to the True Woman \u201810 website, and consider attending one of these upcoming events. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tIn fact, I think today is the last day.\u00a0 They\u2019ve been offering a discount, a kind of an early registration rate, and I think today is the last day for that, so you might want to go today and check the information out and get registered today.\u00a0 Go to FamilyLifeToday.com, click on the True Woman link and that will get you all the information you need.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tNow let me also say a quick word of thanks to those of you who support the ministry of <em>FamilyLife Today<\/em>.\u00a0 I think most of our listeners, if you\u2019ve been listening for any length of time you know that <em>FamilyLife Today, <\/em>like most of the programs you hear on this station, we\u2019re listener-supported.\u00a0 If it weren\u2019t for folks like you who, from time to time, either go online or give us a call and make a donation to help support the ministry, we would not be able to continue to be here.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tSo we appreciate those of you who, either when you hear a particular message where God really speaks to you through that message, or just, as you stop to think about how God\u2019s using the ministry of FamilyLife in your own life, you call or go online and say, \u201cI\u2019m going to make a donation.\u00a0 I can send them $20 or $50\u201d or whatever it is you can afford.\u00a0 We appreciate whatever support you\u2019re able to provide.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tThis month, if you can help with a donation of any amount, we\u2019d like to say thank you by sending you a copy of a book written by the founder of the Chick-fil-A restaurants:\u00a0 Truett Cathy.\u00a0 He has taught a Sunday school class for preteen boys for many years, and he wrote a book not long ago about how to instill character in the lives of young men.\u00a0 It\u2019s called, <em>It\u2019s Better to Build Boys Than Mend Men.<\/em>\u00a0 And again, we\u2019d love to send you a copy as our way of saying thank you for your support of the ministry of <em>FamilyLife Today<\/em>.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tYou can make your donation online at FamilyLifeToday.com, and if you do, type the word \u201cBOYS\u201d in the key code box that you find on the online donation form so that we know to send you a copy of Truett\u2019s book, or call 1-800-FL-TODAY, 1-800-358-6329.\u00a0 Make your donation by phone and just mention that you\u2019d like a copy of the book on building boys and we\u2019re happy to send it out to you.\u00a0 We do appreciate your financial support of the ministry of <em>FamilyLife Today.<\/em>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tAnd we hope you have a great weekend!\u00a0 I hope you and your family are able to worship together this weekend, and I hope you can join us back on Monday when we\u2019re going to talk to a four-time national champion, all-American gymnast.\u00a0 She\u2019s in the UCLA Hall of Fame:\u00a0 Kim Hamilton Anthony is our guest on Monday, and she\u2019s got quite a story to tell:\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Kim:<\/strong><strong>\u00a0 <\/strong>What I remember as a youngster with my father is just him wanting me to be perfect, wanting my mother to be perfect, and us never really being able to please him.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob:<\/strong><strong>\u00a0 <\/strong>Hope you can be here for that.\u00a0 I want to thank our engineer today Keith Lynch and our entire broadcast production team on behalf of our host Dennis Rainey I\u2019m Bob Lepine.\u00a0 We will see you back on Monday for another edition of <em>FamilyLife Today<\/em>.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<em>FamilyLife Today<\/em> is a production of FamilyLife of Little Rock, Arkansas.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tHelp for today.\u00a0 Hope for tomorrow.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tWe are so happy to provide these transcripts for you. 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