{"id":302142,"date":"2010-11-02T11:00:00","date_gmt":"2010-11-02T15:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-stage.familylife.com\/www\/podcast\/%series%\/courage-in-the-face-of-prosperity\/"},"modified":"2010-11-02T11:00:00","modified_gmt":"2010-11-02T15:00:00","slug":"courage-in-the-face-of-prosperity","status":"publish","type":"podcast","link":"https:\/\/wp-stage.familylife.com\/www\/podcast\/familylife-today\/courage-in-the-face-of-prosperity\/","title":{"rendered":"Courage in the Face of Prosperity"},"content":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What would you do if you had more courage?<\/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\/fl2010-11-02.mp3","podmotor_file_id":"","podmotor_episode_id":"","cover_image":"","cover_image_id":"","duration":"00:","filesize":"24.65M","filesize_raw":"25844256","date_recorded":"","explicit":"","block":""},"categories":[2850],"tags":[4829],"podcast_series":[7765],"cwp_profile":[3052],"series":[2101],"class_list":["post-302142","podcast","type-podcast","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-character-development","tag-courage","podcast_series-growing-together-in-courage","cwp_profile-barbara-rainey","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\/302142\/courage-in-the-face-of-prosperity","player_link":"https:\/\/wp-stage.familylife.com\/www\/podcast-player\/302142\/courage-in-the-face-of-prosperity","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=\"EHwUVzsK0u\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wp-stage.familylife.com\/www\/podcast\/familylife-today\/courage-in-the-face-of-prosperity\/\">Courage in the Face of Prosperity<\/a><\/blockquote><iframe sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-stage.familylife.com\/www\/podcast\/familylife-today\/courage-in-the-face-of-prosperity\/embed\/#?secret=EHwUVzsK0u\" width=\"500\" height=\"350\" title=\"&#8220;Courage in the Face of Prosperity&#8221; &#8212; FamilyLife\u00ae - A Cru Ministry\" data-secret=\"EHwUVzsK0u\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" class=\"wp-embedded-content\"><\/iframe><script>\n\/*! 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our assignments as moms and dads is to build strong character into our children, to teach them character qualities.\u00a0 But Barbara Rainey says that\u2019s not happening today as it ought to be.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Barbara:<\/strong>\u00a0 Families are so busy providing for their kids and taking them to lessons and all of the activity that swirls around a family when you\u2019re raising children.\u00a0 Yes, you know that your kid has some issues at school that might require some courage, but I don\u2019t think moms and dads are talking about the need to teach their children to be courageous in the midst of daily life.\u00a0 I don\u2019t think it\u2019s on their radar screen.\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, November 2<sup>nd<\/sup>.\u00a0 Our host is the President of FamilyLife, Dennis Rainey, and I'm Bob Lepine.\u00a0 We\u2019re going to talk today about a very practical way you can get the character quality of courage back up on the radar screen.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tAnd welcome to <em>FamilyLife Today<\/em>.\u00a0 Thanks for joining us.\u00a0 I stepped in when I shouldn\u2019t have.\u00a0 You were getting to introduce your wife to our listeners. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong>\u00a0 Oh, you just gave away the punch line!\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob:<\/strong>\u00a0 I gave away the punch line?\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong>\u00a0 Yeah!\u00a0 I was going to introduce her but I wasn\u2019t going to tell the audience who she was.\u00a0 I was just going to introduce her.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob:<\/strong>\u00a0 Okay.\u00a0 Let\u2019s go. . .\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong>\u00a0 Oh, yeah.\u00a0 Oh, yeah.\u00a0 Let\u2019s go back.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob:<\/strong>\u00a0 Pretend you don\u2019t know who we\u2019re introducing.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong> Pretend?\u00a0 It\u2019s my wife.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob:<\/strong>\u00a0 Shhh!\u00a0 But pretend you don\u2019t know.\u00a0 Here\u2019s Dennis with . . .\u00a0 Do you want to introduce our guest today?\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong>\u00a0 People wonder if these programs are scripted.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob:<\/strong>\u00a0 Obviously not.\u00a0 (Laughter)\u00a0 It\u2019s pretty obvious.\u00a0 So, would you like to introduce our guest today?\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong>\u00a0 Yes.\u00a0 Barbara, welcome to the broadcast.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob:<\/strong>\u00a0 That was a spectacular introduction, just as you promised.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong>\u00a0 Wasn\u2019t that good?\u00a0 My wife of 38 years.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Barbara:<\/strong>\u00a0 That\u2019s right.\u00a0 It\u2019s hard to believe.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong>\u00a0 Six children, five of them married.\u00a0 One of them two-thirds ready to be married.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob:<\/strong>\u00a0 Two-thirds ready?\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong>\u00a0 Her and the preacher.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob:<\/strong>\u00a0 Yes.\u00a0 Accepting applications?\u00a0 (Laughter)\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong>\u00a0 And we have 16 grandchildren.\u00a0 I mean, hello.\u00a0 When God commanded us to be fruitful and multiply and fill the earth, we took him literally on that.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob:<\/strong>\u00a0 You thought it was all on you, didn\u2019t you?\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong>\u00a0 We are doing our part.\u00a0 We are doing our part, and we have one more on the way, by the way.\u00a0 You know, as I introduce Barbara, though, I want to read a passage that she uses to begin her devotional on courage that she has written.\u00a0 It\u2019s from Joshua 1:9 and I want you just to comment, sweetheart, about why you began your devotional with this.\u00a0 I think it\u2019s pretty clear, but I want you to explain it.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t\u201cHave I not commanded you, be strong and courageous.\u00a0 Do not be frightened and do not be dismayed, for the Lord your God is with you wherever you go.\u201d\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob:<\/strong>\u00a0 And that\u2019s not the first time God says that in the book of Joshua, is it?\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Barbara:<\/strong>\u00a0 No, it\u2019s not.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob:<\/strong>\u00a0 There\u2019s this courage, courage, courage theme all the way through chapter one.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Barbara:<\/strong>\u00a0 All the way through.\u00a0 Well, the reason that I started with that verse is two-fold.\u00a0 One is any time we are in a difficult situation that requires us as an individual or as a family collectively to do something that is somewhat risky or difficult, to take a courageous stand, we\u2019re going to feel those things.\u00a0 We\u2019re going to feel fearful.\u00a0 There\u2019s going to be some anxiety level within that says, \u201cOh, I don\u2019t know if I really want to do this.\u00a0 Maybe I shouldn\u2019t stick my neck out.\u201d\u00a0 Or we\u2019re going to be dismayed by the crowd who seem to be against us because we feel like we\u2019re the only one.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tSo we\u2019re going to feel those two emotions:\u00a0 we\u2019re going to feel fear and we\u2019re going to feel dismay.\u00a0 But what I love about this verse that I think is the key to being courageous is that God says \u201cI want you to be courageous because I am with you.\u201d\u00a0 So what God is telling us is that \u201cIn any and all of these difficult situations that you will encounter in your life, just remember, I am with you.\u00a0 No matter where you are, no matter how big it is, how hard it is, how difficult, even if somebody\u2019s got a gun pointed to your head, I am still with you.\u00a0 I haven\u2019t left you, I\u2019m not going to leave you, and so therefore you can be courageous.\u201d\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob:<\/strong>\u00a0 Well, in the context of Joshua 1, this is one of the times when you need some courage because the task was pretty daunting.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Barbara:<\/strong>\u00a0 It was huge.\u00a0 He was having to lead the nation of Israel across the Jordan and take the Promised Land.\u00a0 He wasn\u2019t real sure he could do it; because he had been following Moses, the great one, so to speak, for so long, and I\u2019m sure he felt like \u201cwho am I? How can I possibly do this?\u201d\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob:<\/strong>\u00a0 And there were spies who had gone in and they said the obstacles are big.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong>\u00a0 There are giants in the land.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob:<\/strong>\u00a0 That\u2019s right.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong>\u00a0 There are giants in this land, too, and a lot of people cave in to the giants.\u00a0 I wanted to ask Barbara a question, because I know the answer to this.\u00a0 Did you struggle with fear as a new wife and a new mom?\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Barbara:<\/strong>\u00a0 Absolutely.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong>\u00a0 How?\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Barbara:<\/strong>\u00a0 Lots of it.\u00a0 I struggled with fear as a new wife wondering if I would be able to live up to that calling.\u00a0 I felt insecure because I\u2019d never done it before, obviously.\u00a0 I was afraid that I would fail or make too many mistakes, or that life would really get difficult and that maybe you might wake up one day and go, \u201cOh my gosh, what did I do?\u201d\u00a0 And I think a lot of new wives fear that, because you wonder, \u201cOkay, does he love me because he has to, or because he really does love me still?\u201d\u00a0 So I had all of those in the wife category.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tIn the mom category, the very first fears were, \u201cIs this child going to die in its sleep?\u201d because every new mom worries for the first six to 12 months if your child is going to stop breathing.\u00a0 So you start out with those sort of life and death kinds of things, and then it just mushrooms into a million issues of friendships, Will they make good enough grades?\u00a0 Are people going to like them?\u00a0\u00a0 Will he make the team? Will she get rejected?\u00a0 Will they survive high school?\u00a0 Will they ever find someone to marry?\u00a0 Will they find a good job?\u00a0 It just goes on forever.\u00a0 So there are lots of fears.\u00a0 I answered that well, didn\u2019t I?\u00a0 (Laughter)\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob:<\/strong>\u00a0 Fairly completely.\u00a0 So how did you go about acquiring courage and acting with courage in the face of those fears?\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Barbara:<\/strong>\u00a0 Trusting that God knew what he was doing, and reminding myself of the truth of Scripture:\u00a0 that God had called me to this marriage, God had given me these children, he had numbered their days, he knew what was ahead for them.\u00a0 It really ultimately goes back to trusting that God is in control and that he knows what he\u2019s doing, just like Joshua had to do standing there in front of these people he had to go conquer.\u00a0 God called him to do this, and if God called him to do it he was going to enable him to fulfill that calling.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob:<\/strong>\u00a0 It\u2019s interesting.\u00a0 I\u2019m thinking about the seven stories that you\u2019ve written about in the devotional guide that you\u2019ve written for families.\u00a0 Again, this is part of a series of devotionals that you\u2019re writing, taking a theme, giving stories that address that theme so that families can soak on a subject like this for a period of time.\u00a0 There is something about reading the stories of courage that inspires, that inflames the heart with courage.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Barbara:<\/strong>\u00a0 Yes.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob:<\/strong>\u00a0 There is something contagious about courage, isn\u2019t there?\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Barbara:<\/strong>\u00a0 That\u2019s right.\u00a0 And the thing that, as I did this, I realized, is I think our children in this culture really need great role models, because the role models that are around are . . . Well, they vary, of course.\u00a0 You can find good role models, but so much of what is presented to our kids today as role models, are pretty lousy.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tSo I wanted to paint a picture of young men and young women, moms and dads, who did really courageous things, and have that image of that story sort of burned into the kids\u2019 brains, so they\u2019re on the playground one day or they\u2019re at school standing by their locker and some kid comes up and whatever the situation might be, and they remember the story of Sophie, or they remember the story of Katherine, or someone else, and they go, \u201cI can stand up to this.\u00a0 I don\u2019t have to take it.\u00a0 I can stand up for the truth.\u201d\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob:<\/strong>\u00a0 The story of Katherine.\u00a0 What\u2019s the story of Katherine?\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Barbara:<\/strong>\u00a0 Well, there are two Katherines, actually, in one of the stories.\u00a0 But one of the stories of one of the Katherines is a young woman who was a young mom and she was captured by a band of Indians in the early days of our country.\u00a0 I think it was even before the Revolutionary War.\u00a0 It was way back.\u00a0 She and her young daughter, her infant child, were captured by the Indians and taken sort of as hostages, hoping that the white people would come after them and pay a ransom.\u00a0 They were there for I think almost a month with the Indians, living there in this hostage situation.\u00a0 Finally, the Indians decided nobody was going to come, so they didn\u2019t need them anymore.\u00a0 They tied her and her infant daughter to a stake, piled wood around her, and they were going to set her on fire and have a dance.\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>Barbara:<\/strong>\u00a0 But she stood there on that stake, and she could have, and it would have been very natural and understandable had she started to scream and yell at them, saying \u201cThis isn\u2019t fair.\u00a0 You shouldn\u2019t be doing this.\u00a0 You can\u2019t treat me this way.\u201d\u00a0 Any number of things she could have yelled at her captors.\u00a0 But what she chose to do was so remarkable that it saved her life.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tShe chose to act on her faith, because she was a believer and she knew that God was in control.\u00a0 She knew that he had a plan for her life and for her infant daughter, and that he was God, and this might be the end of her life and it might not be, but she was going to go out believing God and not giving in to her fear.\u00a0 So instead of giving in to her fear, she chose to begin to sing.\u00a0 And she started singing some of the hymns that she knew as a way to comfort herself and to comfort her baby as she stood there strapped to this stake.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tThe Indians were just fascinated.\u00a0 They had never heard anybody sing like this.\u00a0 So instead of lighting the fire they said, \u201cSing us another song,\u201d or whatever, so she began to sing another song, and her voice carried throughout the woods.\u00a0 Her husband and the other men who were trying to rescue her and the other hostages heard her singing, knew it had to be her because they were all believers and they all had the same heritage.\u00a0 They knew it wasn\u2019t the Indians singing.\u00a0 And they followed the sound of her voice and rescued her.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tBut the thing that is so fascinating about this story is not so much that she was rescued, although we love a happy ending, but the fact that she chose to face a really, really hard time with faith.\u00a0 To me, that\u2019s the real crux of the issue, is that we chose to demonstrate faith knowing that God is with me and will not leave me.\u00a0 That is the point that I want families to recognize that\u2019s worth imitating.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong>\u00a0 The thing I like about that story is, I first heard it from Gilbert Beers, I believe is his name.\u00a0 After he finished telling the story (he was a Christian author), he wrote:\u00a0 \u201cHer husband broke out of the woods and rescued Katherine and her daughter, and eight succeeding generations and me! . . .\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Barbara:<\/strong>\u00a0 \u201cIncluding me.\u201d\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong>\u00a0 he said with an exclamation point.\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 The point is, he said, was, how we live and how we choose to die can be a gift to future generations. . .\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Barbara:<\/strong>\u00a0 That\u2019s right.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong>\u00a0 that we never see nor ever can speak to.\u00a0 But those messages can be passed down generationally.\u00a0 So dealing with fear, being a person of faith, a person of courage, can impact future generations.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Barbara:<\/strong>\u00a0 Yes.\u00a0 And what a heritage that was for him and for everyone else in that family.\u00a0 To have that as a part of your family heritage would be a wonderful gift. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob:<\/strong>\u00a0 Do you think that families today recognize a lack of courage, or do you think they are just kind of lulled into a sense of \u201cwe\u2019re just going along with the flow,\u201d and they\u2019re not aware that there\u2019s something missing?\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Barbara:<\/strong>\u00a0 My sense would be that they are not aware of a lack of courage, simply because life is comfortable.\u00a0 I think families are so busy providing for their kids and taking them to lessons and all of the activity that swirls around a family when you\u2019re raising children.\u00a0 Yes, you know that your kid has some issues at school that might require some courage, but I don\u2019t think moms and dads are talking about the need to teach their children to be courageous in the midst of daily life.\u00a0 I don\u2019t think it\u2019s on their radar screen.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob:<\/strong>\u00a0 Years ago, Dennis, you shared with listeners a story of a dance that you and Barbara were serving as chaperones for.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Barbara:<\/strong>\u00a0 Oh, yes.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob:<\/strong>\u00a0 Where you had to evidence some courage.\u00a0 And the interesting thing about it is that it was courage in the face of an intimidating 14-year-old.\u00a0 I mean, you really had to muster up some courage to face down this 14-year-old.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong>\u00a0 Well, I walked into a cafeteria that was darkened and the parents were all sitting over by the light.\u00a0 They were shaking their heads in kind of a negative way, saying \u201cI can\u2019t believe the dance they\u2019re doing over there in the corner.\u201d\u00a0 I said, \u201cWhat dance?\u201d\u00a0 They said, \u201cJust go watch.\u00a0 Go back over there and watch.\u201d\u00a0 So I walked over in the cafeteria and stood there.\u00a0 Honestly, my hands began to get clammy and I began to become fearful, and I thought \u201cI need to say something to this young man.\u201d\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob:<\/strong>\u00a0 Did you know these kids?\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong>\u00a0 No.\u00a0 I didn\u2019t know them.\u00a0 So I walked over to the guy (tap, tap, tap on table) and kind of tapped him on the shoulder, not quite that hard, and I said, \u201cHey, knock it off.\u00a0 Knock it off.\u00a0 That\u2019s indecent. \u201c\u00a0\u00a0 He goes, \u201cHuh, who are you?\u201d\u00a0 I said, \u201cI\u2019m a dad,\u201d and I looked at the young lady and I said, \u201cYou know, you are a young lady.\u00a0 You have dignity.\u00a0 You\u2019re going to be somebody\u2019s wife someday.\u00a0 I wouldn\u2019t allow him to treat you that way.\u201d\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tIt was interesting.\u00a0 I looked over my shoulder, and all of a sudden here was the principal with a flashlight, and he\u2019s tapping people on the shoulder.\u00a0 And then other parents got involved.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 I think it was Billy Graham who said, \u201cWhen one person is courageous, the spines of others are stiffened.\u201d\u00a0 In other words, your courage gives other people permission to be courageous.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tTruthfully, I did not think of that as being all that courageous at the moment.\u00a0 I remember wondering, \u201cWhy in the world would I have clammy hands and be afraid of a pimple-faced 14-year-old boy?\u201d\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob:<\/strong>\u00a0 You could have taken him.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong>\u00a0 I could have taken him.\u00a0 I could have taken him.\u00a0 We spent the rest of the night, not policing, but just making sure that the kids danced appropriately \u2013 line dancing and various other dances that were okay.\u00a0 I\u2019ve reflected back on that many times.\u00a0 It would have been real easy to have done nothing.\u00a0 I think that\u2019s what we are tempted to do a lot of times.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Barbara:<\/strong>\u00a0 And it would have been also easy to say \u201cThat\u2019s not my child, so I\u2019m not going to get involved.\u201d\u00a0 I think that\u2019s sometimes where we get tripped up as parents because we are real focused on our own children, and we may not necessarily think about going to the defense of somebody else\u2019s child.\u00a0 In that big group situation, what they did therefore would embolden other kids to do, and somebody needed to step in.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tIt does make you uncomfortable even if it is a bunch of 14-year-olds, because you have a bunch of parents sitting over here who are watching you.\u00a0 You\u2019re thinking, \u201cWhat are they thinking about what I\u2019m doing?\u00a0 What if this kid\u2019s parents are sitting over there and they don\u2019t approve?\u201d\u00a0 There are a million thoughts that can run through your head.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong>\u00a0 And you\u2019re afraid also of what your own kids are going to think about you.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Barbara:<\/strong>\u00a0 Well we know what our kids thought about us.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong>\u00a0 At the time they were not all that grateful.\u00a0 But you know what, looking back on it I just kind of break into a sly smile, because I think, \u201cHow many young men in that junior high did I send the signal to, \u2018stay away from my daughter.\u00a0 Don\u2019t even think about coming near.\u2019\u201d\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Barbara and<\/strong> <strong>Bob:<\/strong>\u00a0 (Laughter)\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob:<\/strong>\u00a0 I was also interested in one of the stories that you wrote in your devotional.\u00a0 Here was the thing that was interesting.\u00a0 It was courage in the face of adversity, and the adversity was the adversity of prosperity.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Barbara:<\/strong>\u00a0 Yes.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob:<\/strong>\u00a0 It just struck me; this story doesn\u2019t sound like anybody who needs to be courageous.\u00a0 He sounds like everything is going fine for him.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Barbara:<\/strong>\u00a0 Exactly.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob:<\/strong>\u00a0 Tell that story.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Barbara:<\/strong>\u00a0 Well, one of the reasons I included that story is because it relates so well to our day, because we do live in a very prosperous country.\u00a0 We are under the assumption that the more money you have, or the more wealth, or the bigger house and the better car and the better school and clothes and on and on and on, the better off you are.\u00a0 We look at it very positively.\u00a0 And yet, this story takes another look at it.\u00a0 He didn\u2019t disdain it and he didn\u2019t walk away from it entirely, because what he did instead was the money he inherited he gave away.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tBut the story is the story of William Borden.\u00a0 As a young child, as a seven-year-old, he walked to the front of the church, (I believe it was Moody Church, because he grew up in Chicago) and gave his life to Christ as a seven-year-old.\u00a0 You know, so often as parents we see our children make decisions when they are young and we think, \u201cI wonder if that really was serious, or did he really mean it?\u201d\u00a0 But William really meant it, and he continued to follow after that call on his heart his entire life.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tHe went off to college and made it a point in college to find other young men who believed what he believed, and he started a small Bible study with just a few young men.\u00a0 By the end of his freshman year, or maybe it was part way into his sophomore year, he had hundreds of students coming.\u00a0 So he went to college with a purpose.\u00a0 He graduated from college and went to seminary with a purpose.\u00a0 He had decided sometime in those college years that he wanted to be a missionary.\u00a0 So he went to seminary it was so he could be further trained to be a missionary.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tOne of the things that I write about in this whole story of William is that one of the hallmarks of a courageous decision is \u201ccourage overcomes obstacles.\u201d\u00a0 All of us have obstacles in our lives.\u00a0 Sometimes it\u2019s a physical handicap, sometimes it may be a family obligation that it\u2019s hard to get out of, or whatever.\u00a0 The obstacles are numerous for each one of us that we have to overcome in doing what God has called us to do.\u00a0 Well, for William, one of his big obstacles was his wealth.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob:<\/strong>\u00a0 This was a kid who could have just taken a whole wad of money and sailed . . .\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Barbara:<\/strong>\u00a0 Absolutely\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob:<\/strong>\u00a0 on luxury liners and lived the high life.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Barbara:<\/strong>\u00a0 Partied and all of that for the rest of his life.\u00a0 He was a millionaire when he graduated from high school at 16, because that was what he had inherited.\u00a0 But what I like so much about his story is that he did not let the wealth that he had inherited and the privileged lifestyle of his upbringing hinder him from following Christ.\u00a0 He didn\u2019t let that get in his way.\u00a0 He refused it, used it for good causes, and gave his life for the Kingdom.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong>\u00a0 You know what I like most about the story is there were six words that he wrote in his Bible.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Barbara:<\/strong>\u00a0 And three different times he wrote those words.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong>\u00a0 That\u2019s exactly right.\u00a0 And if you want to find out what those six words are . . .\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob:<\/strong>\u00a0 laughing\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong>\u00a0 You see, Bob got on to me because I told the rest of the story on one of the other stories.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob:<\/strong>\u00a0 You\u2019re not telling today, are you?\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong>\u00a0 I\u2019m not telling again.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Barbara:<\/strong>\u00a0 That\u2019s right.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong>\u00a0 You just shamed me.\u00a0 So . . .\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob:<\/strong>\u00a0 If you want to know the six words, one of them is used three times.\u00a0 Right?\u00a0 One word?\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong>\u00a0 That\u2019s right.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Barbara:<\/strong>\u00a0 Yes, that\u2019s correct.\u00a0 That\u2019s correct.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob:<\/strong>\u00a0 That\u2019s all I\u2019m going to tell.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong>\u00a0 That\u2019s correct.\u00a0 And some of our listeners already know what those six words are.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob:<\/strong>\u00a0 They ought to get the book anyway.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong>\u00a0 They should.\u00a0 I\u2019ll tell you why: because this story needs to be read between husbands and wives.\u00a0 It needs to be read to our children, just to share the story of someone who turned his back on materialism and wealth to go make a difference in people\u2019s lives spiritually, to explain who Jesus Christ is, his forgiveness of sin.\u00a0 He went to the world to do that.\u00a0 You have to get the book to get the rest of the story to find out how he died, because it\u2019s a shocker.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Barbara:<\/strong>\u00a0 Yes.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong>\u00a0 It really is a shocker, and yet . . .\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Barbara:<\/strong>\u00a0 He fulfilled his purposes.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong>\u00a0 He fulfilled his purpose.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Barbara:<\/strong>\u00a0 That\u2019s right.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong>\u00a0 You know, Acts 13, about verse 36, says \u201cDavid, after he had served the purposes of God for his generation, he slept.\u201d\u00a0 He died.\u00a0 I think that the challenge for this next generation that we\u2019re raising right now in the midst of probably the greatest affluence any nation has ever seen is \u201cWhat are you going to live for?\u00a0 Who are you going to live for?\u00a0 What is your purpose?\u00a0 What is your mission?\u201d\u00a0\u00a0 <br>\u00a0\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tYou know what?\u00a0 Just that one story needs to be read at every dinner table in America.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob:<\/strong>\u00a0 Yes.\u00a0 And you can\u2019t read it tonight because you don\u2019t have a copy of the book.\u00a0 But we can get the book out to you if you\u2019d go online to FamilyLifeToday.com.\u00a0 The title of the book is <em>Growing Together in Courage<\/em>, brand new from Barbara Rainey.\u00a0\u00a0 Right now, the only place it\u2019s available is here at <em>FamilyLife Today<\/em>.\u00a0 So go to FamilyLifeToday.com to request a copy, that\u2019s FamilyLifeToday.com, or call 1-800-FL TODAY, 1-800-358-6329, that's 1-800 \u201cF\u201d as in Family, \u201cL\u201d as in Life, and then the word \u201cToday,\u201d and we\u2019ll make arrangements to have a copy of Barbara\u2019s new book, <em>Growing Together in Courage,<\/em> sent to you.\u00a0 Again, 1-800-FLTODAY is the number, or online at FamilyLifeToday.com.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tThis is the month of the year where we start thinking about being grateful and gratitude.\u00a0 One of the things we\u2019re grateful for here at FamilyLife is folks like you who help support this ministry by making a contribution online at FamilyLifeToday.com or by telephone at 1-800-FLTODAY.\u00a0 Those of you 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