{"id":302256,"date":"2011-04-14T11:00:00","date_gmt":"2011-04-14T15:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-stage.familylife.com\/www\/podcast\/%series%\/who-will-you-surrender-to\/"},"modified":"2011-04-14T11:00:00","modified_gmt":"2011-04-14T15:00:00","slug":"who-will-you-surrender-to","status":"publish","type":"podcast","link":"https:\/\/wp-stage.familylife.com\/www\/podcast\/familylife-today\/who-will-you-surrender-to\/","title":{"rendered":"Who Will You Surrender To?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The ultimate issue in your marriage and in every aspect of your existence is deciding who or what you will surrender to.  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to.","meta_box":{"show_notes":"","transcript_url":"https:\/\/transcript.familylifetoday.com\/fl2011-04-14.pdf","transcript_content":"<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob:<\/strong>\u00a0 On the battlefield, surrender is often associated with disgrace and defeat.\u00a0 In our spiritual lives, surrender is where we begin to find life.\u00a0 Here\u2019s Dennis Rainey.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong>\u00a0 What does surrender look like?\u00a0 It\u2019s a long obedience in the same direction -- little steps of faith followed by thousands of steps of faith, stumbling, getting up, stumbling, getting up, but still following.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob:<\/strong>\u00a0 This is <em>FamilyLifeToday<\/em> for Thursday, April 14<sup>th<\/sup>.\u00a0 Our host is the President of FamilyLife, Dennis Rainey, and I\u2019m Bob Lepine.\u00a0 We\u2019ll hear today how spiritual surrender can change not only your life, but your legacy \u2013 your children\u2019s lives and your grandchildren\u2019s lives as well.\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 on the Thursday edition.\u00a0 When we were onboard the FamilyLife <em>Love Like You Mean It Cruise<\/em> back a few weeks ago, I remember hearing a conversation from somebody who had heard your message the last night we were onboard the boat.\u00a0 You spoke to everybody who was there, and in fact, we had the whole ship.\u00a0 Every stateroom was somebody who was onboard the cruise to be a part of our group.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong>\u00a0 I\u2019ve been on cruises before with another Christian leader, and have spoken at those events, and there have been 400 or 500 people, and there are 2000 people onboard.\u00a0 That\u2019s a different type of cruise.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob:<\/strong>\u00a0 It\u2019s a different feel.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong>\u00a0 We had the whole boat.\u00a0 2300 people, and you know, by the time it was over, Bob \u2013 this is a cool story \u2013 we had impacted the people who served us.\u00a0 They had watched <em>The Art of Marriage<\/em>, which is our new video conference.\u00a0 We put it on the video screens in all the rooms to be looping through the entire video conference 24\/7.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tWe found out that the crew was staying up until 3:00 in the morning to watch it, because they knew we were going to hit port the next morning and they hadn\u2019t seen all six sessions.\u00a0 And the maitre d stood up in front of all the people eating dinner \u2013 you eat dinner in two shifts, and he said the same thing in both shifts.\u00a0 He said, \u201cThe crew has all voted.\u00a0 We want to take you with us on all of our cruises.\u201d\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob:<\/strong>\u00a0 He said in 19 years of being on board a ship this was his favorite group of customers.\u00a0 Now do you think \u2013\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong>\u00a0 He\u2019s said that before, to all the groups \u2013 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob:<\/strong>\u00a0 Does he say that every week?\u00a0 But you did have a sense that the crew really did enjoy meeting our listeners and being a part of the event.\u00a0 It was a great week.\u00a0 I remember after you had presented your message on the last night, somebody who had not been in to hear it said to somebody else, \u201cWhat did Dennis talk about?\u201d\u00a0 Whoever it was who they asked, he just said \u201cWell, it was classic Bill Bright.\u201d\u00a0 That\u2019s what they said. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tYou gave a message on surrender, and here we were onboard a marriage cruise where we\u2019d been talking about marriage themes.\u00a0 But you tied it together by saying the ultimate issue in your marriage, in your life, in every aspect of our existence, is who is your master?\u00a0 Who are you surrendered to?\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong>\u00a0 Yes, and we don\u2019t hear messages like this it doesn\u2019t seem to me much anymore, and I felt compelled to give a wrap-up message just challenging people \u2013 hey, come back to the Savior and let\u2019s make sure we\u2019re all settled up here and you are fully surrendered to the One who matters most.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob:<\/strong>\u00a0 Well, we\u2019re going to share it with our listeners today.\u00a0 This is part two of Dennis\u2019 message on surrender from the <em>Love Like You Mean It <\/em>cruise here a few weeks ago.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong>\u00a0 What does surrender look like?\u00a0 Let me give you three thoughts about that.\u00a0 Number one:\u00a0 total relinquishment of your life to Jesus Christ.\u00a0 Signing it all over.\u00a0 It is the unequivocal abandonment of the rights of your life to Jesus Christ.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tI like what Jesus said over in John chapter 12.\u00a0 Again, he does not mince words.\u00a0 He lays it on the line.\u00a0 In John 12, verses 24-25, and I\u2019m going to read an extra one here.\u00a0 He said, \u201cTruly, truly I say to you, unless a grain of wheat falls into the earth and dies, it remains alone.\u00a0 But if it dies it bears much fruit.\u201d\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tNow listen to what Jesus said about finding life.\u00a0 \u201cWhoever loves his life loses it and whoever hates his life in this world will keep it for eternal life.\u00a0 If anyone serves me, he must follow me and where I am, there will my servant be also.\u00a0 If anyone serves me, the Father will honor him.\u201d\u00a0 What\u2019s Jesus saying?\u00a0 Trust me.\u00a0 Yield to me.\u00a0 Give it up.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tBarbara and I did this, not only in college, but we formalized it in our first year of marriage at our first Christmas.\u00a0 I think the date was December 17<sup>th<\/sup>, 1972.\u00a0 And before we gave each other anything, we both wrote out a Title Deed to our Lives.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tI\u2019m going to tell you, if I\u2019d brought these Title Deeds to show you, because we opened them like twenty years later, some of the stuff we\u2019d written on there was silly.\u00a0 What we thought was important was absurd.\u00a0 But you know to us at that moment, it was precious.\u00a0 It was what we were struggling with, and so we signed over the Title Deeds to our Lives and signed it over, and gave it all to him and said as a couple, \u201cWhatever you want to do, wherever you want to take us, wherever you want us to go, we\u2019ll go.\u201d\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tWhen we opened those envelopes twenty years later, what God had given us in terms of life, in terms of abundance \u2013 and I\u2019m not talking about material abundance, although we enjoy that to a great extent in America more than any other people on the planet \u2013 I\u2019m just talking about friends, I\u2019m talking about community, I\u2019m talking about life, I\u2019m talking about family.\u00a0 You see, when you give it up to Jesus Christ, what he gives back is the adventure like none other.\u00a0 Total relinquishment of your life to Christ.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tSecondly, a long obedience in the same direction.\u00a0 What does surrender look like?\u00a0 It\u2019s a long obedience in the same direction.\u00a0 It\u2019s little steps of faith, made over and over and over again, tens of thousands of times.\u00a0 You come into a relationship with Jesus Christ by faith.\u00a0 You walk with him, you surrender to him, you experience him day by day, by faith.\u00a0 It is stepping out, trusting what God is doing, and wants to do in and through you.\u00a0 It may be a simple matter in stepping into someone\u2019s life, to touch their lives around a very personal small matter, but for you it\u2019s an act of faith.\u00a0 That\u2019s important.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tIt\u2019s a long obedience in the same direction.\u00a0 Hebrews 12:1-3 talks about this, actually 1 and 2.\u00a0 It says, \u201cTherefore since we are surrounded by so great a cloud of witnesses, let us also lay aside every weight and sin which clings so closely, and let us run with endurance the race that is set before us, looking to Jesus, the founder and perfector of our faith, who, for the joy set before him, endured the cross, despising the shame, and is seated at the right hand of the throne of God.\u00a0 Consider him who endured from sinners such hostility against himself so that you may not grow weary or faint-hearted.\u201d \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tOne step at a time, trusting Jesus Christ for who he is, that he is the King.\u00a0 It\u2019s a life that listens to what God is asking you to do and then does it.\u00a0 Imagine that!\u00a0 I am trying to do more and more of what I\u2019m sensing the prompting of God\u2019s Spirit in my life to do; to say something to someone, to step out and minister, to give, to be a part of someone\u2019s life and not just merely question myself, should I do that or should I not do that?\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tThe older I get, I take heart the great quote by C.H. Spurgeon, the great English preacher.\u00a0 He said, \u201cIt was by perseverance the snail reached the ark.\u201d\u00a0 Sliming my way to the finish line.\u00a0 You don\u2019t have to do it perfectly.\u00a0 You\u2019re going to be surrendering your life over and over and over again to Christ.\u00a0 It\u2019s like peeling an onion, getting deeper and deeper in your commitment.\u00a0 He reveals more of that.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tThird, it means a battlefield assignment on the front lines.\u00a0 Some of our wounded warriors could tell us about this.\u00a0 Far too many Christians today think that life takes place on a romantic balcony, not on a spiritual battlefield.\u00a0 They\u2019ve traded the battlefield for a playground.\u00a0 And again, I\u2019m not against playing.\u00a0 I\u2019m not against having fun; I have a lot of fun.\u00a0 I have my hobbies \u2013 both Barbara and I do.\u00a0 But you know what?\u00a0 I want to be with the King of Kings and be a part of overcoming evil on this planet, and pushing back against what the Devil of Hell wants to do to destroy marriages and families for generations that follow.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tA.W. Tozer put his finger on this with a very interesting quote comparing our day with a day long gone.\u00a0 Listen to what he said about the original founders of America, and their style of Christianity.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t\u201cIn the early days,\u201d he said, \u201cwhen Christianity exercised a dominant influence over American thinking, men conceived the world to be a battleground.\u00a0 Our fathers believed in sin and the devil and hell as constituting one force, and they believed in God and righteousness and heaven as the other.\u00a0 Man, so our fathers held, had to choose sides.\u00a0 He could not be neutral.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t\u201cFor him it must be life or death, heaven or hell, and if he chose to come out on God\u2019s side, he could expect open war with God\u2019s enemies.\u00a0 The fight would be real and deadly and would last as long as life continued here below.\u00a0 The Christian soldier never forgot\u201d \u2013listen to this \u2013 \u201cThe Christian soldier never forgot what kind of world he lived in.\u00a0 It was a battleground, and many were the wounded and the slain.\u201d\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tAre you on a war footing?\u00a0 Are you going into battle armored up?\u00a0 Are you on a mission for the King?\u00a0 If not, what is your mission?\u00a0 Why are you here?\u00a0 What\u2019s God got you here for?\u00a0 It may be your mission right now is as simple as caring for and nurturing the next generation.\u00a0 Moms, there is no more significant calling than that. Dads, protecting your family spiritually the same.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tTozer made this statement about the spiritual battle.\u00a0 He said, \u201cBut I\u2019ll tell you something.\u00a0 It\u2019s a delightful thing when you know you\u2019re close enough to the adversary that you can hear him roar.\u00a0 Too many Christians never get into lion country at all.\u201d\u00a0 You ever heard him roar?\u00a0 Have you been on the battlefield?\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tWell, what does it mean to surrender to Jesus Christ?\u00a0 Let me just put a little more of an explanation to it.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<ul>\n<li>\n\t\t\t\t\tJesus Christ didn\u2019t come to take sides; he came to take over.\n\t\t\t\t<\/li>\n\t\t\t<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>\n\t\t\t\t\tJesus Christ didn\u2019t come to be a spare tire; he came to be the owner and driver of your life.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t\t<\/li>\n\t\t\t<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>\n\t\t\t\t\tJesus Christ didn\u2019t come to have your attention for two hours a week on Sunday.\u00a0 He came to be the center of your affection and attention and focus of your existence. \n\t\t\t\t<\/li>\n\t\t\t<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>\n\t\t\t\t\tJesus Christ didn\u2019t come to have your half-hearted partial love.\u00a0 Instead he came to command us to love him with all our hearts. \n\t\t\t\t<\/li>\n\t\t\t<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>\n\t\t\t\t\tJesus Christ didn\u2019t come just to be our Savior from God\u2019s wrath, judgment and hell.\u00a0 No, he came also to be our Lord and master, so you can taste heaven now.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t\t<\/li>\n\t\t\t\t<li>\n\t\t\t\t\tJesus Christ didn\u2019t come just to be your buddy or a pal; he came to be feared, to be reverenced, to stand in his awe and to be worshipped and then obeyed.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t\t<\/li>\n\t\t\t<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>\n\t\t\t\t\tJesus Christ didn\u2019t come to satisfy all your needs and wants; he came to enlist you in his army and do his work here on this planet.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t\t<\/li>\n\t\t\t<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>\n\t\t\t\t\tJesus Christ didn\u2019t come to just give you life.\u00a0 Listen to this:\u00a0 He came to live in you and through you and love others and impact their lives through you. \n\t\t\t\t<\/li>\n\t\t\t<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>\n\t\t\t\t\tAnd finally, Jesus Christ didn\u2019t come just to give you a happy marriage and a holy huddle as a family.\u00a0 He came to use your marriage; he came and redeemed your marriage and your family to use you to change the world.\n\t\t\t\t<\/li>\n\t\t\t<\/ul>\n<p>\n\t\t\t\tI want to close with a great illustration of what I\u2019m talking about.\u00a0 I have a very odd habit.\u00a0 I collect and keep in my Bible funeral programs.\u00a0 Now you may think that\u2019s odd.\u00a0 Well, if you read Ecclesiastes 7 it really isn\u2019t.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tEcclesiastes 7 says it is \u201cgood to go to the house of mourning, because in the end the living take it to heart.\u201d\u00a0 And so I\u2019ve got three of these.\u00a0 I\u2019ve got my mom\u2019s, 91 years old.\u00a0 Here\u2019s Mary Grace Tucker, an eleven-year-old little girl, whose dad said at the funeral, \u201cI refuse to ask the question \u2019why\u2019 until I am standing before the only one who can answer that question.\u201d\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tAnd then, there\u2019s this one:\u00a0 James Edgar Chip Whitmore, Jr.\u00a0 I got to tell you how I came to attend this funeral.\u00a0 It\u2019s fascinating.\u00a0 It was in a staff meeting one day, and staff meeting ended and I was interrupted by this gentleman coming down the aisle with a microphone in his hand.\u00a0 He said, \u201cDennis, Dennis, the meeting\u2019s not over.\u00a0 I\u2019ve got something I need to do.\u201d\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tHe came all the way down to the second row, right down here, and he knelt before a young lady whose name is Karen, and he said to her, \u201cI want you to know that I love you and I want to leave a different legacy than the one I\u2019ve been given.\u00a0 Will you marry me?\u201d\u00a0 And of course she said \u201cyes\u201d and all the women in the audience oohed and aahed and it was a great staff meeting.\u00a0 What a way to end it, you know?\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tWell, I got back to my office and I go, \u201cI\u2019d like to know what was behind that little phrase, \u201cI want to leave a different legacy than the one I was given.\u201d\u00a0 So I wrote him an email and asked him, \u201cWhat\u2019s behind that?\u201d\u00a0 He wrote me back and told me that he was the only son of his father, who had been married 15 times, some for only six weeks, and that he wanted to do something with his life that left a different legacy than his father had left.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tSo the question is really two-fold for you.\u00a0 Will you surrender your life to the King of Kings and Lord of Lords?\u00a0 Will you participate and get involved in a lifetime of surrender, but beginning at a point of saying, \u201cYou\u2019ve got me.\u00a0 Let\u2019s go.\u201d\u00a0 You pick yourself up when you fail.\u00a0 Will you do that?\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tBut a second thing I want to challenge you to do:\u00a0 maybe you\u2019re already surrendered.\u00a0 Will you obey him and do what he wants you to do?\u00a0 And I\u2019m hoping that some in here will step out on the battlefield of marriages and families to push back on the evil that threatens the church, a nation \u2013 actually, the nations of the world \u2013 and make an impact by becoming a homebuilder and making a difference where you live, and be a part of a group of people who say, \u201cI refuse, we refuse to do nothing about a crisis in the Christian family and in the family of the culture, and we want to be a part of the solution by taking the Gospel to them.\u201d\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob:<\/strong>\u00a0 Well, we\u2019ve been listening again to part two of a message from Dennis Rainey on the subject of surrender, a message that was presented a few weeks ago on the <em>FamilyLife Love Like You Mean It <\/em>2011 Cruise.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tI think a part of your message was surrender is going to involve enlistment.\u00a0 If you\u2019re surrendered to Christ, that doesn\u2019t just mean that you sit back and go, \u201cOkay, I surrender.\u201d\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong>\u00a0 No.\u00a0 If you\u2019ve surrendered, your life isn\u2019t your own.\u00a0 You\u2019ve got to get on with what God\u2019s got for you.\u00a0 And you know what?\u00a0 I\u2019m convinced what he wants to do through every Christian is make disciples around the world.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tThe Great Commission is not for a select group of people.\u00a0 The Great Commission is for all followers of Christ.\u00a0 \u201cGo therefore and make disciples of all nations.\u201d\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tAnd so really as we wrap up today\u2019s broadcast there are three issues.\u00a0 Number one:\u00a0 Have you surrendered?\u00a0 Number two:\u00a0 Are you about the King\u2019s business?\u00a0 And if you\u2019re not, we have some tools here and some ways for you to get involved.\u00a0 It\u2019s called Homebuilders, and you know what?\u00a0 You can make a difference in the marriages and families in your community.\u00a0 Call us and let us show you how.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tAnd third, I want to challenge you to come join us on the next cruise.\u00a0 We\u2019re going to do this in a little less than a year, next Valentine\u2019s.\u00a0 We\u2019re going to fill the boat again.\u00a0 It\u2019s already a third full right now.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tCome join us and be a part of a cruise that is going somewhere, and I\u2019m not talking about the islands.\u00a0 Now the islands are great, and I\u2019m going to tell you, it\u2019s fun.\u00a0 The entertainment is world class; we\u2019ve got Paul Overstreet coming, we\u2019ve got Voddie Baucham speaking.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob:<\/strong>\u00a0 That\u2019s right.\u00a0 Gary Thomas is going to be with us, Michael O\u2019Brien is going to be back onboard with us, Matthew West will be joining us this year; a great lineup of folks.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong>\u00a0 It really is.\u00a0 Come join us and be a part of the cruise.\u00a0 I\u2019m going to tell you; it could change the course of your life.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob:<\/strong>\u00a0 Alright, we\u2019re not going to do that.\u00a0 Just turn off his mike if he\u2019s going to start doing puns like that.\u00a0 If you\u2019d like to join us on the <em>Love Like You Mean It <\/em>Cruise in 2012 go to our website, FamilyLifeToday.com.\u00a0 There\u2019s more information about everybody who\u2019s going to be onboard.\u00a0 You can get all the information you need.\u00a0 Again, click on the link for the <em>Love Like You Mean It <\/em>Cruise when you go to FamilyLifeToday.com.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tAnd for those of you who were listening as Dennis talked today about what spiritual surrender looks like, maybe that\u2019s a new thought for you.\u00a0 Maybe you have never had a personal relationship with God through Jesus Christ that comes through surrendering our lives to him.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tWe would love to send you a book that is called <em>Pursuing God<\/em> that explains what the Christian life is all about, and we\u2019d love to send it out to you for free.\u00a0 You can go online to FamilyLifeToday.com to request it, or you can call 1-800-FLTODAY and ask for the book <em>Pursuing God.<\/em>\u00a0 Again, we\u2019ll send it out to you at no cost to you.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tLet me also mention a wonderful book by our friend Francis Chan, a book that talks to all who are followers of Christ about going a little deeper in your walk with him, in your surrender, your commitment to Christ.\u00a0 We have the book <em>Crazy Love<\/em> in our FamilyLife Today Resource Center, and you can request a copy again, online at FamilyLifeToday.com or by calling 1-800 \u201cF\u201d as in Family, \u201cL\u201d as in Life, and then the word \u201cTODAY.\u201d \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tYou know, we need to say thanks to those of you who help support the ministry of <em>FamilyLife Today, <\/em>who make it possible for us to do what we are doing here through this daily radio program, on our website, through our events and our resources.\u00a0 We appreciate your support that makes all of that possible.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tThis month, if you can help us with a donation of any amount, we\u2019d like to say thank you by sending you a DVD.\u00a0 It\u2019s a movie called <em>Magdalena<\/em> that tells the story of the life of Jesus through the eyes of Mary Magdalene.\u00a0 It\u2019s perfect for your family to watch as you get ready for the Easter season, and because it also has overdubbing in Spanish and French and Mandarin, Korean, Arabic, Russian and Portuguese, you can pass this DVD along to someone who is a native speaker of one of those languages, and give them a special Easter gift when you do.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tRequest the movie <em>Magdalena<\/em> when you make a donation online at FamilyLifeToday.com.\u00a0 Just type the word \u201cMAGDVD\u201d \u2013 type that in the key code box on the online donation form, or call 1-800-FL-Today, 1-800-358-6329.\u00a0 When you make a donation over the phone, just ask for the <em>Magdalena<\/em> DVD and again, we\u2019re happy to send it out to you, and we do appreciate your ongoing support of this ministry.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tNow tomorrow we want to make sure you\u2019re back with us when we\u2019re going to have a treat.\u00a0 We\u2019re going to talk to a country music singer\/songwriter, in fact a guy who\u2019s going to be joining us on the <em>Love Like You Mean It <\/em>Cruise in 2012.\u00a0 Paul Overstreet is our guest tomorrow, and I hope you can be here for our conversation with him.\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 broadcast production team.\u00a0 On behalf of our host, Dennis Rainey, I'm Bob Lepine.\u00a0 We will see you back next time for another edition of <em>FamilyLife Today<\/em>.\u00a0 \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 to you.\u00a0 However, there is a cost to produce them for our website.\u00a0 If you\u2019ve benefited from the broadcast transcripts, would you consider <a 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