I want to spend my life
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Mending broken people
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I want to spend my life
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Removing pain
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Lord, let my words
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Heal a heart that hurts
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I want to spend my life
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Mending broken people
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I want to spend my life
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Mending broken people
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Hello and welcome to 3ABN Today.
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Thank you for joining us
as you do each and every day.
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I have a special guest with me,
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somebody I've known
most of my life now.
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She's not as old as I am but,
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well, not too far behind either.
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I'll leave it at that
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'cause I want to
stay in good terms
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with my Sister Brenda Walsh.
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Brenda, it's so
good to have you here.
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It's good to have you
too. Known as Miss Brenda.
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Now when I say
sister or sisters,
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she's my sister in the Lord.
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And of course,
I've known your family,
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and our parents knew each other,
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and your dad was raised
here in Southern Illinois.
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That's right, right
here in West Frankfort.
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And moved away for a
lot of years, you all did,
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but you had a
reason to come back
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about once a month
as grandma and grandpa,
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all right, were
still here in the area.
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I used to spend my summers here
with my grandparents as well.
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Yeah, yeah, absolutely.
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So we grew up more as family.
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Maybe like cousins
or brothers and sisters.
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But anyway, we've
known each other a long time.
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And about 30 years or so
ago, we first went on the air.
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Your dad was one of the
first speakers, presenters here.
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That's right.
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And then you
and the sisters came
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and would sing on his program.
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That's right.
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In fact, dad's
program was called
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Walking With The Master,
and it aired for 11 years,
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and then he did
another series for a year
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with Give Me The Bible.
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So you can
actually watch those today
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if you go on YouTube.
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And type in, you know, "Micheff"
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and you can watch his programs,
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and they're still very
popular and still watched.
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And, Mom and Dad,
if you're watching,
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you know I love you, right?
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I don't know how many times
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he took me to
places like Meramec Caverns
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over in Missouri or
down in Garden of Gods,
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and Giant City
State Park, and all that.
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He would take...
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Your folks would
take all the kids,
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and I was raised kind of poor,
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I didn't realize it at the time,
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but your folks would
even supply food for us,
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sandwiches and things like that.
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Your mother
would make all of that
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so when the kids
from the church would go,
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you know,
somewhere, they would take us.
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And so it was such a
neat experience to have the...
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And they've always
loved kids, so no wonder...
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Well, our Saturday
night socials at the church
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when Daddy got out there
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and played games with all of us.
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Yeah, there was a little hall.
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We didn't have a
hall at our little church,
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so St. Marks Hall there
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on St. Louis
Street in West Frankfort,
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and we would rent
that very cheaply,
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and then we'd
play all the games,
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and he would kind of lead up,
quite a character, quite a guy.
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He was always the
life of the party.
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He was, absolutely, absolutely.
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And we love you so much.
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But now your
brothers and sisters,
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you're all in ministry.
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Tell us a little bit.
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Oh, Mom and Dad
raised five children
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and all five of us are
not only in the church,
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we are, all five of us,
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leaders in the
church and in ministry.
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My sisters and I have
been here at 3ABN for,
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you know, 30 years now
in 3ABN Ministry together,
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and our
brothers are in ministry,
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they're ordained ministers
as well, our dad's a minister.
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And they get a chance
to minister together too.
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It's really awesome
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how God allows the
sister to administer together
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and then our brothers,
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my brother Jim is the
new Conference President
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of the Michigan
Conference, Jim Micheff.
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Right. Yeah.
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And my younger brother Ken
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is the Youth Director
for Michigan Conference.
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He's got, you know...
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Both of them got
really a wonderful opportunity
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to minister together
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and we do
really appreciate that.
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So ministry is not
new to the Micheff family,
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but it was your
parents and we saw...
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Yes.
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Growing up, that they're
so dedicated to the Lord,
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and to His Word,
and to the beliefs
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of the
Seventh-day Adventist Church
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which are built on the Bible.
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And so consequently,
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you have all this
family of children
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who were involved in ministry,
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and you, of course,
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Miss Brenda, have been with 3ABN
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and The Kids Time
for how many years?
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Almost 20
years. Almost 20 years.
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And she's been our
cheapest investment
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because we don't pay her.
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She's been a
volunteer all of these years,
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believe that or not,
doesn't ask for anything.
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But we do
appreciate so much what you do.
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And we've offered
to pay her in the past,
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but she said, "No,
the Lord will provide."
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And obviously, He has. Amen.
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And we're so blessed.
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But today, we're
going to be talking
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about your Bedtime Stories.
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When I grew up,
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they had the Uncle
Arthur Bedtime Stories,
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but now they
have the Miss Brenda.
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Now who published these?
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Pacific Press. Pacific Press.
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Nampa, Idaho.
Okay, and you have five.
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There's five hardcover books.
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They're beautiful
books with pictures inside,
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and there's a good balance
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in these books of
girl stories, boy stories.
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If you would...
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When I was, you know,
writing these stories,
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I was collecting
them from everywhere,
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when I traveled everywhere,
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I speak in
churches every weekend,
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and I would be asking for,
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"Do you have a good character
building story about a child?"
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All of the stories
have to be about children.
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And so everywhere I'd
go from all over the world,
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I would collect these
stories and I would say,
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"Look, all you have to do
is email me what happened.
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I'll write the story,
just give me all the facts."
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And so that was
really an incredible...
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I had a hard time
even like deciding
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which one would be in this book,
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you know, and which one...
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'cause so many good ones, so...
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Absolutely.
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We're going to find out
more about that in a minute.
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We're going to do some
music now with Kids Time.
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They always have
music. That's right.
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And so I travel around
the world as Brenda does
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and many churches,
most churches I go to,
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some of the folk who say
they love Kids Time singers,
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and the music in Kids Time
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happen to be anywhere
from 70 to 95 years old,
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and some of them say,
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"Oh, that's my favorite program
on 3ABN, is the Kids Time."
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So we can see why, but today
we have some of the singers
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and this is off of a
DVD we did some time ago,
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and the song is going to
be It's A Beautiful World.
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It's a beautiful
world that God made
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Just for you and for me
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He created all in six days
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I have faith to believe
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The Bible tells the story
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Of God's great power and glory
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He made the life,
the earth, and sea
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He made the flowers
and the buzzing bumblebees
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It's a beautiful
world that God made
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Just for you and for me
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God created
everything in just six days.
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On the first day,
God created light.
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And on the second day,
He made the heavenly skies.
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On the third day,
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He created the grass,
the trees, and the plants.
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On the fourth day,
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He created the sun,
the moon, and the stars.
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And on the fifth
day, God created the fish
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and all the wonderful
sea creatures in the water,
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and He created all
the birds in the air.
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It's a beautiful
world that God made
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Just for you and for me
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He created all in six days
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I have faith to believe
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The Bible tells the story
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Of God's great power and glory
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He made the
light, the earth, and sea
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He made the flowers
and the buzzing bumblebees
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It's a beautiful
world that God made
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Just for you and for me
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And on the sixth day,
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He created all the beautiful
animal life on the earth.
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But He also created something
very special that sixth day,
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yes, special and
dear to the heart of God.
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You guessed it, He
created you and me.
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The Bible tells the story
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Of God's great power and glory
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He made the
light, the earth, and sea
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He made the flowers
and the buzzing bumblebees
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It's a beautiful
world that God made
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Just for you and for me
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After creating
everything in just six days,
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the Bible says that God rested.
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Let's read about
it in Genesis 2:1-3,
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"Thus the heavens and
the earth were finished
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and all the host of them.
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And on the seventh day,
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God ended His
work which He had made,
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and He rested on the seventh day
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from all His work
which He had made.
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And God blessed the
seventh day and sanctified it
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because that in it He
had rested from all His work
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which God created and made."
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It's a beautiful
world that God made
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Just for you and for me
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He created it all in six days
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I have faith to believe
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It's a beautiful
world Such a beautiful world
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It's a beautiful
world It's a beautiful world
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It's a beautiful
world Such a beautiful world
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It's a beautiful
world It's a beautiful world
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It's a beautiful
world Such a beautiful world
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Amen.
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Amen, that brings
back lots of memories.
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It sure does.
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Love seeing the kids
there and of course, Trinity,
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and Justin Lee is
there and a bunch of others.
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Granddaughter Faith and...
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Faith and Jonah. And
our precious little Nori.
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She's not little anymore.
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No, I think a lot
of the folks from here,
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but some of the folks
that came from different areas,
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also Samara who...
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A lot of my Kids Time singers,
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you know, they've
been on Kids Time Praise,
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they'll recognize where
I've worked on that project.
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Samara there who
had one of the lead,
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she's with Aeolians
is on our latest project.
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At Oakwood University.
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Yeah, for our camp meeting here.
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Give Him Glory project,
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so she sang in
the studio with us.
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So it's really neat to see
these young people growing up
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and that God is blessing.
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It is a
beautiful world, isn't it?
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I'm so thankful that
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we have an opportunity
as Christians to share Jesus
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in the marketplace to
a lost and dying world.
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And you've been
doing this for many years
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reaching the young people.
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But you have
something very special,
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and I really want
to center in on this.
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Miss Brenda's Bedtime Stories,
maybe you could hold that up.
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These are
really nice, hardcover,
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and they're similar
to what Pacific Press
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put out for so many years.
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And they've put
out and of course
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the Uncle Arthur
and all of those,
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the Bible stories
and Bedtime Stories.
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But these are true stories.
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All true stories,
character building stories.
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You've gathered
from around the world.
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What I don't understand is how
she has time to do all of this
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and all the traveling that
she does, all of the articles,
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the prayer things that she does,
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all of the other
material, I do not understand,
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I've tried to figure out
where you get this much time,
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and I have no idea.
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But anyway, God bless you.
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Well, when you turn,
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you know, your life
over to Jesus and say,
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"Take control of my calendar,
take control of my schedule.
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Lord, what do You want
me to accomplish today?"
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He does.
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I mean, I didn't find out this
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until after these
books were actually printed
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that Uncle Arthur,
when he was writing,
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he didn't write all
his books in one year.
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Sometimes there was a couple
of years in between those books
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and the miracle of
what God did and, you know,
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these books are so
prayed over, Danny.
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I got to tell
you, every single story
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in here is prayed over.
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"Lord, do You want
this story in this book?
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Do You want it in this book?"
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You know, or
maybe in another time,
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but this isn't
going in this book.
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I mean, I literally just
prayed my way through these
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and it's really amazing to
me how God does lead and guide,
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and He guides your schedule.
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But these books,
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I was in full
production of Kids Time programs
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the year these books came out.
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So we never missed
one production date.
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So all of our
programs got put out that year,
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and I think we had
more than 20 programs,
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I think, we put
out for Kids Time.
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That's not
counting Kids Time Praise.
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So we got all those, all this
full production at Kids Time,
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plus I was speaking
every week and flying
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and God still allowed
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all five of these
books to get out in one year,
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all five in one year.
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So if that's not
God, the blessing,
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you know, I don't know what is.
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And like I said, I went,
you know, soliciting stories,
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and trying to find stories,
and then weeding out stories,
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and then collecting pictures.
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And like anything,
Danny, you don't...
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You know, God
gives me a good team
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and I have an incredible team.
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I have an awesome
assistant, Melissa Hoffman,
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who is the most
amazing copy editor.
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I wouldn't write a thing
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without her
looking at what I write.
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I've been writing
daily devotions on Facebook
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for almost 10 years now,
and I like her looking at...
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I try to, it's almost a game
now to me, like a competition,
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I try to write it so perfectly
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she's not going to
find one thing wrong.
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And I'll feel real good
about, and I say, "Okay, so..."
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She'll look it over before
it's posted, and she goes,
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"That's misspelled, you
got an extra space here,
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you got a comma
here, no comma here."
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And she said, "That's a
colon, you don't need that."
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And she said, "You got
too many exclamation points."
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I'm like, you know...
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I'm like, "Okay."
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So, you know, she's...
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God chooses the right
people to come into your life
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and to be such an amazing year,
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He's given me a
talent for writing,
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He brings me a copy editor,
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and then CQ or
Chrystique Neibauer
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is my graphic
designer, she's also the,
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you know, head of graphic design
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for 3ABN here.
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And she, you know, has
designed all the covers,
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all the inside
pages, and everything,
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and a designer can
put it all together,
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but then you need a copy editor
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to make sure that
everything is spelled right,
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and you go over
and you copy-edit,
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copy-edit, copy-edit.
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So these have really been gone
over with a fine-tooth comb.
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And so I give credit
first and foremost to Jesus
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and also to my incredible team.
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I couldn't do it without them.
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But it was really an incredible
project, putting this together.
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I not only asked people
to give me their stories,
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their personal stories.
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In fact, I asked
you for a story in here.
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You gave me a
story for one of these.
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But I also asked best-selling
authors to give me stories.
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So we have Jerry D. Thomas,
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and Kay Kuzma, Kay
Rizzo, and, you know,
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beautiful writers
that gave me stories
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that are in the book.
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And also, I asked
our church leaders
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to give me stories.
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John Bradshaw gave me stories,
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and Doug Batchelor, and
Ken Cox, and Mark Finley.
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I wanted to have
a well-balanced...
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And that's what God gave us.
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So you're not just
getting Miss Brenda's stories,
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there are a couple
of my personal stories
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in each volume,
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but it's not the
Miss Brenda's stories
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that are filled with,
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it's a balance of
stories in each book.
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And there's a lesson
index that you can look at.
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And let's say you're
having trouble with your child
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being honest.
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So you can go at bedtime,
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you can look up under the
lesson index under honesty,
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and there's all the stories
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that are going
to deal with that.
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So you might just
say, "You know what,
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why don't we read
this one tonight?"
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And see that it kind of
just subtly helped them through.
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So that lesson
index is a parent tool
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to really help their children.
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Absolutely.
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And in this day,
you know, of technology,
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people may say,
"Well, why books?
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You know, kids
don't really read books."
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They actually do.
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And if you go to
Amazon and all these places,
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the amount of
people downloading books,
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you know, are by the
hundreds of millions,
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and I'm amazed that people say,
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"Well, I don't know
if kids will read books."
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No, they read them.
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And I want to
tell you something else
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about these bedtime stories,
I learned this firsthand.
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I didn't look for
different stories,
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which is a good idea
on different subjects,
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but Trinity, my youngest,
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and so Trinity, she's 18 now.
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So I'm not
reading them to her now.
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She's old enough
to read them herself,
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but when she was
a little younger,
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just few years ago,
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every night, I
would go into her room
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before we said our
prayers and we picked up,
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and just read through.
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We'd read one
story after another.
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And then after we did
them, maybe all the way through.
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Then I'd say, "Is
there any favorite story?"
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And sometimes she would
say, "Well, let's go back"
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'cause you don't
get it in one reading.
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I mean, I can honestly
say that you read the books,
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the story's great,
but you don't get it all.
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When I would reread the story,
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something new
pops out every time,
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and it's like when you get a CD,
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you listen to the song once
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but you'll find
yourself listening to it
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over, and over, and over
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and then learning the
words and singing them.
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So I remember
when Melody was young,
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and this takes us way back.
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Sorry, Melody.
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Way back when she was young,
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we had Uncle Arthur Bedtime
Stories and the Bible stories,
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but she would
remember, to this day,
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she remembers
some of those stories
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and of course,
around the Christmas time,
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I go down and I'll read,
you know, we start with the...
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So though they may
be put out in the '50s,
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they're still relevant
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because it's just
like your Bible is,
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they were Bible stories.
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Then he had the Uncle
Arthur Bedtime Stories,
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this is newer,
updated versions of stories.
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Different stories
than what's in it.
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I get asked that all the time.
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Oh, no, absolutely
different. New stories.
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And different people
and different families.
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I mean, I'll talk about
something a little touchy
00:19:45.85\00:19:48.08
to some people,
but back in the '50s,
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you know, the bedtime stories,
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I actually have
met people who said,
00:19:52.15\00:19:54.49
"I never read my kids
because every story in it
00:19:54.52\00:19:57.43
and every picture in
it was white people."
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And so, you know,
that's not a true world for us.
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That's right.
00:20:02.86\00:20:04.20
But these, you have
blacks, you have Latinos,
00:20:04.27\00:20:06.27
you have
Orientals, this is very...
00:20:06.30\00:20:07.64
All God's rainbow
colors are represented.
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That's right, all of them are.
00:20:10.14\00:20:11.47
And the stories are represented
00:20:11.51\00:20:13.17
from different people
from their different cultures.
00:20:13.21\00:20:16.31
And so this is
something that anybody can get.
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And be happy about it
and read and feel included.
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And I think
nowadays, that is important.
00:20:22.62\00:20:24.52
That's not a political move,
00:20:24.55\00:20:26.22
it's just simply
the changing world
00:20:26.25\00:20:28.42
in which we live
00:20:28.46\00:20:29.82
and we understand
people better than we used to.
00:20:29.86\00:20:33.06
And so being aware...
00:20:33.09\00:20:34.50
And you've done a
great job doing that.
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So anyone who reads
these books are going to feel
00:20:37.07\00:20:40.17
they're included and
their stories are valid
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and that people will...
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That's right.
And that's important.
00:20:45.17\00:20:46.51
And that was intentional,
that's definitely God giving me
00:20:46.54\00:20:50.05
that wisdom and
direction to do that.
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So that didn't
just happen, I know.
00:20:53.11\00:20:55.95
And in fact, Danny, on
Kids Time, from day one,
00:20:55.98\00:20:58.69
you're not ever going to
find one Kids Time Program
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that just
represents white people.
00:21:01.66\00:21:03.93
All Gods...
00:21:03.96\00:21:05.29
Or any one culture.
00:21:05.33\00:21:06.70
Or any one culture,
00:21:06.73\00:21:08.06
it represents all God's children
00:21:08.10\00:21:11.03
of all colors.
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I love that song
I sang as a child
00:21:12.43\00:21:14.84
and I know you did too,
00:21:14.87\00:21:16.27
you know, Jesus loves
the children of the world,
00:21:16.30\00:21:18.17
red and yellow, black and white,
00:21:18.21\00:21:19.54
all are precious in His sight.
00:21:19.57\00:21:21.24
And I mean that,
and I love all kids,
00:21:21.28\00:21:23.55
Jesus loves all kids,
and they need to feel.
00:21:23.58\00:21:26.65
You know, everyone
needs to feel included.
00:21:26.72\00:21:29.18
So that was
intentional for sure.
00:21:29.22\00:21:33.12
We're going to
talk about, in a minute,
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you have the audio books
also, which is pretty neat.
00:21:34.79\00:21:38.83
But I want to say
something about the book itself.
00:21:38.86\00:21:42.16
It's not like just you get
the book and have the kids,
00:21:42.20\00:21:45.60
"Okay, go read them."
00:21:45.63\00:21:47.04
What I found out with Trinity,
00:21:47.07\00:21:49.40
and so me being older
and her being younger,
00:21:49.44\00:21:53.98
sometimes when you're young,
00:21:54.01\00:21:55.91
like I was only 20 when Melody
was born, and if I look back,
00:21:55.94\00:21:59.55
I could do
things a lot different.
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Well, Trinity came
into my life at a later age,
00:22:01.12\00:22:04.19
and I'm so
thankful God brought her
00:22:04.22\00:22:06.45
and gave me the
opportunity to be her daddy
00:22:06.49\00:22:08.99
for so many years.
00:22:09.02\00:22:10.53
But literally, every night,
00:22:10.56\00:22:12.93
I would go in
and it was the time
00:22:12.96\00:22:14.83
we spent together.
00:22:14.86\00:22:16.20
Because when we
went in, I would say,
00:22:16.23\00:22:18.77
"Okay, tell me when
you're ready for bed,"
00:22:18.80\00:22:21.00
and we had a certain time,
"when you're ready for bed,
00:22:21.04\00:22:23.41
I'll come in the room."
00:22:23.44\00:22:24.77
And then we'll pick
out a Miss Brenda story,
00:22:24.81\00:22:26.98
and read it, and then we prayed.
00:22:27.01\00:22:29.21
But we always found time
to talk, like in today, how...
00:22:29.24\00:22:33.82
And this is only just
in the last few years,
00:22:33.85\00:22:35.58
in other words,
00:22:35.62\00:22:36.99
when she's older,
even up to teenager.
00:22:37.02\00:22:38.95
So these aren't just
for like 7, 8, 10 years old,
00:22:38.99\00:22:41.79
though they're great,
00:22:41.82\00:22:43.16
they can understand
them, but the story...
00:22:43.19\00:22:44.53
I enjoyed them.
00:22:44.56\00:22:45.89
So I enjoyed
reading the stories,
00:22:45.93\00:22:47.60
and I'm older than
a teenager by the way.
00:22:47.63\00:22:51.60
And as I opened it up
just now, I hadn't even...
00:22:51.63\00:22:53.84
I didn't do that on purpose,
00:22:53.87\00:22:55.20
but here's a picture
that has to do with Melody.
00:22:55.24\00:22:58.21
That's right, your grandkids.
The grandkids on here.
00:22:58.24\00:23:01.34
And so a story, these
are again, true stories.
00:23:01.38\00:23:04.15
But what I found
most important about
00:23:04.18\00:23:06.95
this is the time
that we spent together
00:23:07.02\00:23:09.18
'cause everybody's so
busy on their iPhones and,
00:23:09.22\00:23:12.75
you know, their own
thing they're doing,
00:23:12.79\00:23:14.42
but when I would go in there
to read the story, I could say,
00:23:14.46\00:23:17.23
"How did things
go today at school?"
00:23:17.26\00:23:18.96
"Oh, well, Papa, this
happened or that happened."
00:23:18.99\00:23:21.50
And we find ourselves
really in a conversation
00:23:21.53\00:23:25.70
that you really need to be.
00:23:25.73\00:23:27.44
And so you then
understand your own child
00:23:27.47\00:23:30.34
more than you might normally
00:23:30.41\00:23:32.84
because everybody's
got their own things going.
00:23:32.87\00:23:34.81
So the fact that we had
an appointment every night,
00:23:34.84\00:23:37.88
in other word, every night
00:23:37.91\00:23:40.02
when I was home
or wasn't traveling,
00:23:40.05\00:23:42.85
and that I was there,
00:23:42.88\00:23:44.22
and that's most of
the time we were together,
00:23:44.29\00:23:46.05
I go in, and we
pick out a story,
00:23:46.09\00:23:48.52
we read the story,
then we talk about it.
00:23:48.56\00:23:50.73
And then...
00:23:50.76\00:23:52.09
And of course, you
get to read her own story
00:23:52.13\00:23:53.80
about her own horse Dee Dee
00:23:53.83\00:23:55.33
and what happened
there where the Lord blessed.
00:23:55.36\00:23:58.50
But the time that you spend
with your child is invaluable.
00:23:58.53\00:24:04.57
Now so why...
00:24:04.61\00:24:06.61
In fact, that's
the most important gift
00:24:06.68\00:24:08.28
you can give your
child is time, your time.
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It absolutely is.
00:24:11.11\00:24:12.58
And, you know,
today, I'm so thankful.
00:24:12.61\00:24:14.85
She's starting this fall
Southern Adventist University,
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and she's going
into social work.
00:24:19.25\00:24:21.22
And so it's a ministry to her,
she looked at something else
00:24:21.26\00:24:25.29
that would be a lot more money,
00:24:25.33\00:24:27.13
but she says, "I
want to be able to..."
00:24:27.20\00:24:29.06
She came from a family situation
00:24:29.10\00:24:32.37
that I able to take
her at a very young age,
00:24:32.40\00:24:35.57
she says, "I want to
be able to relate to kids,
00:24:35.60\00:24:38.44
like I was and
where I came from."
00:24:38.47\00:24:40.88
And it's all
because of ministry.
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And so I'm so thankful,
00:24:43.14\00:24:44.61
and these books
are a big part of that.
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Now you have the audio book.
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So why, Brenda,
00:24:48.38\00:24:50.02
do you need audio books if
you have the hardcover book?
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Well, that's a good question,
and when I encourage people
00:24:54.42\00:24:57.63
to purchase the Bedtime Stories,
00:24:57.66\00:24:59.69
they say, you know,
it's not an either-or.
00:24:59.73\00:25:02.66
Both the audio books
and the bedtime story books
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are equally important
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because, yes,
these are wonderful
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to read at bedtime,
00:25:10.64\00:25:11.97
Sabbath
afternoons, anytime really,
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but you can also,
with the audio book,
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it's my voice
reading the stories.
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And so they can put,
00:25:18.88\00:25:20.72
you know, if they're
traveling on a road trip,
00:25:20.75\00:25:22.35
if they're, you
know, going back and forth,
00:25:22.38\00:25:23.79
you can put in the CD
player, they can, you know,
00:25:23.82\00:25:26.76
download it to their
iPhones now and their iPads
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and they can be
listening to the stories.
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A mother told me,
she said, oh, she said,
00:25:31.99\00:25:33.73
"My daughter has to go in for
kidney dialysis all the time.
00:25:33.80\00:25:38.00
She's, you know,
has a health issues."
00:25:38.03\00:25:41.50
And she said,
"Those bedtime stories
00:25:41.54\00:25:44.01
have just helped
her make it through."
00:25:44.04\00:25:47.01
I've got another child
that's, you know, with cancer,
00:25:47.08\00:25:50.55
she said, "I can't even tell you
00:25:50.58\00:25:52.15
how many hours and hours
it's helped her pass that day,
00:25:52.18\00:25:54.58
get the time off
the pain that she's in.
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I mean, it takes
her mind off the pain,"
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she said, "just
listening to those stories."
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And it's kind of funny, I
was in Melbourne, Australia,
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and I was in one of
those shopping malls
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and my dad loves those,
00:26:06.39\00:26:08.26
you know, sheepskin
slippers over there.
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Every time I go,
I bring them back.
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I knew they have them at
this one place, it's big.
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I like them too, by the
way, not saying anything.
00:26:14.54\00:26:17.97
I'll be there
again in November, so...
00:26:18.01\00:26:20.98
All right, I'm
going in a couple months,
00:26:21.01\00:26:22.34
so I'll make
sure I bring you some.
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Tell me your size.
That worked all right, okay.
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So I'm in this open-air
market, and I'm looking,
00:26:28.25\00:26:31.12
you know, for my dad's slippers,
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and so I'm giggling and laughing
00:26:33.25\00:26:34.72
with the women's
ministries leader
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that was with me,
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and all of a
sudden I hear someone
00:26:37.83\00:26:39.16
on the whole next aisle
go, "That's Miss Brenda!
00:26:39.19\00:26:42.06
I know that voice anywhere."
00:26:42.10\00:26:44.37
And they came tearing around,
00:26:44.40\00:26:45.73
and come running
down the aisle towards me,
00:26:45.77\00:26:47.34
and she said, "I knew
it, I knew it, I knew it."
00:26:47.37\00:26:49.30
She said, "We
listen to your stories
00:26:49.34\00:26:52.64
every single night."
00:26:52.67\00:26:54.01
She said, "I'd know
that voice anywhere."
00:26:54.08\00:26:55.64
Wonderful, yeah.
00:26:55.68\00:26:57.05
So, you know, that just...
00:26:57.08\00:26:58.61
When God allows you to
know how He has used you,
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you know what I
call that, Danny,
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I call that a Holy Spirit hug.
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Absolutely.
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You know,
honestly, it's just like,
00:27:05.72\00:27:07.06
"Wow, okay, that's
why I do what I do."
00:27:07.09\00:27:10.06
And when I call
my dad, and I'll say,
00:27:10.13\00:27:12.53
"Daddy," I said...
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He'll always ask me,
"You got your praise report?"
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I'll say, "Oh, Daddy, I
got to tell you, but I just,
00:27:16.46\00:27:18.27
you know, talked
with this mother,
00:27:18.30\00:27:20.27
and told me about her daughter,
00:27:20.34\00:27:21.67
and she's given her
heart to Jesus, and all these,
00:27:21.70\00:27:23.27
you know,
because of these books."
00:27:23.30\00:27:25.71
And my daddy will
say, my nicknames Bibby,
00:27:25.74\00:27:28.34
he'd say,
"Bibby, you are overpaid.
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You might be a
volunteer but you're overpaid."
00:27:32.61\00:27:34.48
Overpaid. Yeah,
because that's my pay.
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I mean, you just
don't get better than that.
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You can't put a price on a soul.
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And when you got a precious
little one that's learning
00:27:42.06\00:27:44.76
about Jesus and coming close
to Him, that is just priceless.
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And the other thing
about these books is that
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these books are
non-doctrinal on purpose.
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These books are to help
kids fall in love with Jesus.
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This is the first step,
00:27:59.94\00:28:01.34
they're not going
to care about that.
00:28:01.38\00:28:02.78
Just pounding doctrine into kids
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isn't going to help them
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want to find their way to Jesus.
00:28:05.91\00:28:07.25
These are
character building stories
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to introduce kids to Jesus
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and help them to
want to be more like Him.
00:28:10.79\00:28:13.99
And so that's the benefit
of having the audio books
00:28:14.06\00:28:16.93
that you can listen to
them everywhere you go.
00:28:16.96\00:28:20.10
Of course, reading
the stories to them
00:28:20.13\00:28:24.40
first hand is the best thing,
00:28:24.43\00:28:25.77
but there are children that,
00:28:25.80\00:28:27.14
you know, may not have a parent
00:28:27.17\00:28:28.80
that's going to
read to them at night.
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And so they could fall
asleep listening these.
00:28:30.44\00:28:34.31
I know my grandsons
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who are old enough
to read themselves,
00:28:36.21\00:28:39.28
they still love
listening to my stories,
00:28:39.31\00:28:41.22
you know, on the audio book.
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In fact, I have a picture,
I'm having my grandson...
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Okay.
00:28:46.52\00:28:47.86
Do a promo for
me for these books
00:28:47.89\00:28:49.49
that we're going to
air on Kids Network.
00:28:49.52\00:28:51.16
Let's show a little clip of him.
00:28:51.19\00:28:52.53
This is Jason. He
loves these books.
00:28:52.56\00:28:54.43
So he said, "Oh, Grandma,
I'll do a promo for you."
00:28:54.46\00:28:57.80
So he said after this event,
00:28:57.83\00:29:00.54
you know, he's going through
00:29:00.57\00:29:02.10
and he's, you know,
point to everything,
00:29:02.14\00:29:04.31
and I'm off-camera
since he doesn't have to talk,
00:29:04.34\00:29:07.61
telling him what to do, I
say, "Turn the pages now, Jason,
00:29:07.64\00:29:10.55
and point to
this, point to that."
00:29:10.58\00:29:12.28
And he's doing it all.
00:29:12.31\00:29:13.72
And after we were
all done, he goes,
00:29:13.75\00:29:16.35
"Grandma, I would
not want your job.
00:29:16.38\00:29:19.02
That's hard work."
00:29:19.05\00:29:22.79
Well, isn't he adorable?
00:29:22.82\00:29:24.16
I just love him.
00:29:24.23\00:29:25.56
And he's quite a bit
older now but when we shot that,
00:29:25.59\00:29:29.83
but we're getting
ready to release a new promo
00:29:29.86\00:29:32.50
for the book with him in it.
00:29:32.53\00:29:34.17
Oh, good.
00:29:34.24\00:29:35.57
And they were just
precious, but yeah, these are...
00:29:35.60\00:29:37.97
The reason
these are so valuable,
00:29:38.01\00:29:40.28
and we don't like to
talk about a lot of times,
00:29:40.31\00:29:42.61
but we are in a
spiritual warfare.
00:29:42.64\00:29:44.81
The devil wants our children.
00:29:44.85\00:29:46.92
He can destroy the
church by destroying the family.
00:29:46.95\00:29:51.09
That's right.
00:29:51.12\00:29:52.45
And so he's going to
start with our young people.
00:29:52.49\00:29:54.26
And for us to close
our eyes and not believe
00:29:54.29\00:29:56.86
that our kids are
being indoctrinated,
00:29:56.93\00:30:00.30
you know, in bad ways, it
would be very foolish of us.
00:30:00.33\00:30:04.57
That's right.
00:30:04.60\00:30:05.93
It would be
spiritually foolish of us.
00:30:05.97\00:30:07.34
So we have to combat that.
00:30:07.37\00:30:08.70
We're in a spiritual
warfare, and some people say,
00:30:08.74\00:30:10.61
"Well, I don't
like to think of that.
00:30:10.64\00:30:12.91
How can you be in
warfare when you're spiritual?"
00:30:12.94\00:30:14.68
Well, there's a
great controversy
00:30:14.71\00:30:16.68
going on between good and evil,
between Christ and the devil.
00:30:16.75\00:30:20.15
So Christ is involved
in a spiritual warfare.
00:30:20.22\00:30:23.99
We, as a result of sin,
are also in spiritual warfare.
00:30:24.02\00:30:29.12
And so we have to
equip our children
00:30:29.16\00:30:31.93
just like our
armies do, our soldiers,
00:30:31.96\00:30:35.80
to go out on the
front line of battle.
00:30:35.83\00:30:38.07
They don't send
anyone out with no armor on
00:30:38.10\00:30:41.77
or with no
protection, they send them out.
00:30:41.80\00:30:44.77
So the Bible says,
00:30:44.81\00:30:46.17
"We're to put on
the whole armor of God."
00:30:46.21\00:30:48.78
And that whole armor
is not the physical armor,
00:30:48.81\00:30:52.35
it's the spiritual armor.
00:30:52.38\00:30:54.02
That's right.
00:30:54.05\00:30:55.38
David tried to put on
Saul's armor physically,
00:30:55.42\00:30:56.89
it was a hundred
and whatever pounds,
00:30:56.92\00:30:58.25
he couldn't hardly walk with it.
00:30:58.29\00:30:59.62
So he took it off, but he put
on the spiritual armor of God.
00:30:59.65\00:31:04.03
And then all of a sudden,
00:31:04.06\00:31:05.39
he was able to face
Goliath and to do his job.
00:31:05.43\00:31:08.43
That's right.
00:31:08.46\00:31:09.80
So what this is doing,
00:31:09.83\00:31:11.17
it's equipping our
kids to be prepared
00:31:11.20\00:31:14.24
because they're
in, and we all are,
00:31:14.27\00:31:16.71
in a spiritual battle,
whether we like it or not.
00:31:16.74\00:31:19.44
So we can't turn our
heads, we can't blink our eyes.
00:31:19.47\00:31:22.14
I know parents
00:31:22.18\00:31:23.55
who let their kids
listen to all kinds of stuff,
00:31:23.58\00:31:25.35
put on
headphones just to babysit
00:31:25.38\00:31:27.95
'cause they're
like, "I don't know
00:31:27.98\00:31:29.32
what to do with them,
00:31:29.35\00:31:30.69
and I can't get
them to listen anymore,
00:31:30.72\00:31:32.05
I can't get them to read."
00:31:32.09\00:31:33.46
And my deal is that's
because you, not them,
00:31:33.49\00:31:36.83
the reason they're that way is
00:31:36.86\00:31:38.39
you have let them put
this junk in their ears
00:31:38.43\00:31:41.73
for hours at a time.
00:31:41.76\00:31:43.13
That's right.
00:31:43.16\00:31:44.50
You're letting them
watch all these videos,
00:31:44.53\00:31:45.87
you're letting them,
00:31:45.90\00:31:47.24
and that's why we
wrote these two projects,
00:31:47.27\00:31:50.04
The Love Rules and
It's A Beautiful World,
00:31:50.11\00:31:52.84
one of the songs you
just saw, I did that.
00:31:52.87\00:31:54.74
So our parents would
have something to equip them
00:31:54.78\00:31:59.38
to give to the children
to counteract the information
00:31:59.41\00:32:04.29
that they're already getting.
00:32:04.32\00:32:05.65
That's right.
00:32:05.69\00:32:07.02
And they're getting
a lot of junk out there
00:32:07.06\00:32:08.39
and, you know, you've
heard this as children,
00:32:08.42\00:32:10.03
garbage in, garbage out.
00:32:10.06\00:32:11.46
Yeah.
00:32:11.49\00:32:12.83
You know, so how
do we expect our kids
00:32:12.86\00:32:14.20
to turn out to love Jesus
00:32:14.23\00:32:15.56
when we aren't
feeding them spiritually?
00:32:15.60\00:32:17.47
Yeah, I just read a
story where there's a ministry,
00:32:17.50\00:32:21.34
it's called, I think
it's Coming Out Ministries,
00:32:21.37\00:32:23.91
and they're
teaching young people
00:32:23.94\00:32:28.08
about homosexuality and
how you can overcome it,
00:32:28.11\00:32:31.01
and there's actually a movement,
00:32:31.05\00:32:33.21
we're in the city, that
everybody's against them,
00:32:33.25\00:32:35.75
saying, "This is not right
00:32:35.78\00:32:37.29
because they could
influence young people
00:32:37.32\00:32:39.75
and you shouldn't
influence the young people."
00:32:39.79\00:32:42.82
I was like, "Wait a minute,
00:32:42.86\00:32:44.59
so if we don't,
who is influencing?
00:32:44.63\00:32:46.70
Exactly.
00:32:46.73\00:32:48.06
Those who are
pro-homosexuality are doing it."
00:32:48.10\00:32:50.50
So there's no middle ground.
00:32:50.57\00:32:52.27
You can't just say,
"Well, just turn on the TV.
00:32:52.30\00:32:56.27
Well, this
happened, that happened."
00:32:56.30\00:32:58.11
We're on one side or the other,
whether we like it or not.
00:32:58.14\00:33:00.98
So that's why to have tools
like these bedtime stories,
00:33:01.01\00:33:05.15
the audio books, and the other.
00:33:05.18\00:33:07.15
You have another
book, the prayer.
00:33:07.22\00:33:09.58
This is a book,
Prayer Promises For Kids
00:33:09.62\00:33:12.52
because this is a little book
00:33:12.55\00:33:14.69
that is about, it's really...
00:33:14.72\00:33:18.49
My friend Kay Kuzma
and I wrote this together,
00:33:18.53\00:33:21.20
co-wrote this
together, and it's a book
00:33:21.23\00:33:23.57
that is to help kids
pray claiming Bible promises.
00:33:23.60\00:33:27.70
And on each page,
there's color pictures
00:33:27.74\00:33:30.34
that depicts what's
going on in the prayer,
00:33:30.41\00:33:32.34
and these are prayers
that are for kids of things
00:33:32.37\00:33:35.51
that kids face,
00:33:35.54\00:33:36.88
things that they
would pray about.
00:33:36.95\00:33:38.28
Maybe it's for homework,
making friends, bullies,
00:33:38.31\00:33:41.78
you know, eating disorders,
you know, going to school
00:33:41.82\00:33:46.12
and fitting in, and
making the right friends,
00:33:46.15\00:33:48.62
making good choices,
00:33:48.66\00:33:50.03
there's all the
things that kids deal with.
00:33:50.06\00:33:52.96
And it's important
to really help kids
00:33:52.99\00:33:56.67
learn how to pray
claiming Bible promises
00:33:56.70\00:33:59.23
'cause that's a
powerful way to pray.
00:33:59.27\00:34:00.64
But, Danny,
honestly, in this day and age,
00:34:00.67\00:34:03.84
the families that I meet,
00:34:03.91\00:34:06.17
like you said, that
they're feeding their kids
00:34:06.21\00:34:08.58
so much of our worldly
things and not spiritual things,
00:34:08.61\00:34:11.81
it's affecting the
outcome of our children.
00:34:11.85\00:34:14.52
Absolutely.
00:34:14.55\00:34:15.88
We wonder why our
Sabbath school rooms
00:34:15.92\00:34:17.29
are empty
00:34:17.32\00:34:18.65
because, you know, as soon
as kids have a chance to leave,
00:34:18.69\00:34:21.72
they're not coming
back and they're not there.
00:34:21.76\00:34:24.03
And families I
talk to don't even know
00:34:24.06\00:34:25.83
what family worship is anymore.
00:34:25.86\00:34:27.70
When I grew up,
and I know you did too,
00:34:27.73\00:34:31.20
you know, every
morning and every evening,
00:34:31.23\00:34:34.24
we had family worship.
00:34:34.27\00:34:35.64
And it didn't matter,
00:34:35.67\00:34:37.01
you know, how late we
would be to an appointment,
00:34:37.04\00:34:39.41
or school, or doctors, or
whatever, it didn't matter.
00:34:39.44\00:34:41.64
Nothing was going to shortchange
00:34:41.68\00:34:43.35
our time with God.
00:34:43.38\00:34:44.71
And families today don't
even know how to worship.
00:34:44.75\00:34:47.65
We just completed
00:34:47.68\00:34:49.12
a brand new
program on Kids Network
00:34:49.15\00:34:50.99
called Bible
Treasures with Rich Aguilera.
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It's for our Kids Time
ages, kids ages 10 to 15,
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it's a worship program,
15-minute worship program.
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And we have a Tiny
Tot Worship Program
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that my sister Cinda hosted to,
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you know, help the tiny
tots so that they have...
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Right.
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These books are
another way to have worship.
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Parents will say,
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"My kids get bored with worship,
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they don't pay attention."
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Why not start
having worship with a story
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because these are true
character building stories
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that will
introduce kids to Jesus.
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So I guarantee you,
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they read a story a
day for family worship,
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that child is not
going to be bored.
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They are going to like...
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And those stories are
going to just linger with them.
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When I talked with Mark Finley,
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when I asked him if
he would give me stories,
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he said, "Brenda,
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I would be proud
to give you stories.
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I would be happy
to give you stories."
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He said, "Of all the
things that I read..."
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And his wife, he said,
will say the same thing.
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When they were younger,
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it was the Uncle
Arthur Bedtime Stories
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because he said,
"Those stories kept playing...
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The message in those stories
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would play in my
mind over and over,
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I remember them
because it was a story."
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He said, "That had really...
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If I credited anything to
have the most impact on me
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becoming the person I am today,
it would be those stories."
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He said, "I would be happy."
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I said, "Well, I'm thinking
about writing another five."
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And he goes, "I'll
give you one for everyone."
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So, you know...
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I'd be all for it.
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I think it's incredible.
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But again, you
won't just read them once,
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it's not something you read,
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you'll read them
over and over again.
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You've read every story.
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I've read every story,
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and I've read them
probably more than I'd say
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maybe two or three times
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because as long as
she's willing to listen
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and showed an interest in them,
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and we did by talking about it.
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In other words, you don't just
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"Okay, it's time
to read the story."
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You talk about it and say,
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"Now what do you
think about this?
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Well, what about that?"
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Then we would say our prayers.
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It strengthens the child's faith
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because they see
other young people
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just like themselves.
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Now to you and me,
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Trinity's horse
was having problems
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that may not for a lot of people
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won't affect anything,
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but in her mind,
God did, and we saw it.
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See, He cares about everything,
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nothing so small that
God doesn't care about.
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That's right.
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But a lot of
times, we just think
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it's the big things in life.
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That's right.
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But when these
children say, "You know what,
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I prayed and I saw
God answer this prayer,"
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that's life-changing.
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They'll remember that
the rest of their life.
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They will.
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They may at times stray,
but they'll come back to it
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because...
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And that's what this is,
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is literally a series of stories
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that show the power
of God in our lives,
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in young people's
lives particularly here
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so they can
understand it and relate to it.
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And so these are wonderful.
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So I would encourage you.
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Now I may put on
more work than she wants,
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but if you've got
some great stories...
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That's right. Send them to me.
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Maybe we need some more,
you know, five more books.
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So you have a total of ten
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but maybe you
should send your stories,
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your great stories of...
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I'm going to call,
faith-building stories
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of
relationships of young people,
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maybe your son, your daughter,
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might be a nephew, a niece,
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someone that you saw
God working in their lives
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and how they were
drawn closer to the Lord.
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And I like to
say miracle stories.
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God's in the business
of doing miracle stories
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for young people just
like He is in older people.
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Amen.
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So I can't stress
enough that we're in a battle,
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there is no in-between,
you can't sit on the fence,
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you can't watch it,
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you are either promoting
the gospel of Jesus Christ
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to your children
and your grandchildren
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or you're against it.
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Do you know, Danny...
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You're either for or
against, there's no in between.
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I was signing books at a church,
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I won't tell you which
one, not that long ago,
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and there were
children that came up
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and they were
looking at the books
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and "Mommy, mommy,
please can we have these books?
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Can we have these books?"
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And she said, "Now
how much are those books?"
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And I told her, you
know, how much they were,
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and they're really not that much
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for these quality books,
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and she's says, "Well,
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you've been wanting
that new Nintendo game,
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so now, you know, if
you want that new game,
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then you won't be
able to get these books."
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And he goes,
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"Well, you told me I
could have that game."
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"Well, if you're going to
have these books, then you..."
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And she literally stood there
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and talked him
out of these books.
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I was like...
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And that game that
they wanted was more money.
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Yeah.
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You know, and I'm thinking,
"What is she thinking?"
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Yeah.
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It's something that
you see all the time
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that people spend a lot of money
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for their kids
for worldly things,
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nothing's going to
bring them closer to Jesus...
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But when it comes to
something that's going to...
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Most of it will
take them farther away.
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Exactly.
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But you were talking
about answered prayer
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and how God answers prayer,
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I have such an incredible answer
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to prayer story
while writing these books
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that today,
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even today when I think
about it, I could just cry
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because God
just answered such...
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We had...
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I had, you know, all
these out in one year I said.
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Well, we had a
deadline to get those out
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because if you
don't get them out
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before camp-meeting
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and get all the
camp-meeting sales
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and get them all pushed out,
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you want them all out there
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or they don't
really want to promote them
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till the following year.
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So there was a
deadline for print for me,
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and I had one story left,
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we find the
pictures for everything,
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and I had one story, and I was,
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you know, I had Melissa and CQ,
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we were actually at CQ's house,
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and we were all trying to find
the pictures to this one story.
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The story was of a family,
a mother had given me a story,
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her daughter had cerebral palsy,
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and she had told this
beautiful heartwarming story
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of how her daughter
wanted to run in a school race,
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and, you know, without
giving all the details,
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coach had picked her
up and taken her across,
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you know, and run with her.
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And so we were
trying to find pictures
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that would depict
what's going on in this race,
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and the mother did not want me
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to use her
daughter's name or pictures.
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They had pictures
but she didn't want.
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So that means we had
to get stock pictures
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and we could not find
any pictures of a girl
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that was 12-years-old that,
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you know, had cerebral palsy,
and we looked and we looked.
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Now our deadline is
8:30 that next morning.
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We were working hard,
by 9 o'clock at night,
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there still we
haven't found pictures
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and we were looking
and Melissa's googling,
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and googling, and all of
us are working, can't find it.
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So we get down, we pray,
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we go back to work,
looking, we can't find it.
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Now it is almost midnight
and we don't want to give up.
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If we don't find the
pictures to this last story,
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we will not go to
press the next day.
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And all of a sudden,
Melissa said, "You know what,
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I found a picture of a
boy with cerebral palsy."
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And she said,
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"Maybe since they
wanted to disguise the story,
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they'll just let
us make it a boy."
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And I said, "I don't
feel good about that,
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but let's call and see."
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So she said, "Well, I don't know
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if this is even related,
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it was on a blog
somewhere and I don't even know
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if they're related to this boy."
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And so I said,
"Give me the number."
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And she yells,
"Brenda, it's midnight."
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I said, "Find out
where that number is."
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And she goes, "It's California.
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Well, it's only 9 o'clock there,
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let's do it."
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You know, I said okay.
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So I dialed the
number to tell them...
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I asked for the
father's name and he goes,
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"Well, you're speaking to him."
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And I nearly about, you
know, fell out of my chair
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and I said, so
now I'm so excited.
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I said, "I can't believe it,
I'm so excited to talk to you."
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And he's like, "Who
is this crazy woman?"
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And I said, "Oh..."
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I said, "Let me
tell you who I am."
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I said, "Are you
at your computer?"
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He goes, "Yeah, I work on
my computer late at night."
00:42:29.68\00:42:31.95
And I said, "Type
in BrendaWalsh.com,
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that's my website.
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So you'll know who
you're talking to."
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So he did and he goes, "Oh..."
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He said, "So
you're in ministry."
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And I said, "Let me tell you
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why I'm so
desperate to talk to you."
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And I said, "My
assistant found on the blog
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and we have one more story,
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if we don't make this
story by 8:30 in the morning,
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we miss the deadline,
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and it will be another
year before these books get out.
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It's so critical."
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And he goes, he said,
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"Well, can I tell you
the story behind this?"
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And he told me his son's story.
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It was almost
identical to the girl's story.
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And he told me how his...
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When his son was
born, his wife said,
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"Either you give the boy up
for adoption or I'm leaving."
00:43:07.05\00:43:11.35
And he said, "I couldn't do
it, I couldn't abandon my son.
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And so his mother left us
and I have raised this boy.
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And every day," he said,
"I thank God for this boy.
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He's got the best spirit,
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he's brilliant,
he goes to school."
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And then he told me the story
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of how his son had wanted to run
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so desperately and he literally
told me that whole story.
00:43:28.07\00:43:31.37
And when he got done, I said,
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"How would you feel
if I rewrote this story
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and I wrote your son's story?
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Would you be willing
to give his pictures?"
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He goes, "Yeah."
00:43:41.22\00:43:42.55
I said, "But I
need the pictures now."
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And I said, "I'll stay up
all night and write the story,
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but I need the pictures now.
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I would need a
picture of the medal he got,
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I would need the
picture of him in his wheelchair
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with this communication board."
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He goes, he said,
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"I'll send them
to you right now."
00:43:55.26\00:43:56.67
And I said,
00:43:56.70\00:43:58.03
"Well, I need a
release form signed
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or I can't use them."
00:43:59.43\00:44:00.77
He goes, "Well, fax it to me.
I'll fax it to you right now."
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Literally, within 30 minutes,
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I have all the
pictures for this story,
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and in fact, it's
the second-to-last story
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in the last book.
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It's called The Impossible Race,
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and I have the boy's
real pictures in here in fact.
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I'm going to just
put this like that.
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It is just the
most amazing story.
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And he said, "Well,
could you use his real name?"
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I said, "Absolutely."
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There you go.
Hold it right there.
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Okay.
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He says, "Could
you use his nickname?"
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And he said, "They
call him Cool Bobby B."
00:44:36.71\00:44:39.01
I said, "Absolutely."
00:44:39.04\00:44:40.81
So I rewrote that story.
00:44:40.88\00:44:42.34
You guys are not going
to want to miss this story.
00:44:42.38\00:44:44.25
Oh, no.
00:44:44.28\00:44:45.61
I have never told this
story at a children's store
00:44:45.65\00:44:46.98
where people are
crying, adults too.
00:44:47.02\00:44:48.98
It is the most amazing story.
00:44:49.02\00:44:50.82
God just answered
so many prayers, Danny.
00:44:50.89\00:44:53.56
We got down on our
knees, we thanked Jesus.
00:44:53.59\00:44:55.96
I mean, that's how much...
00:44:55.99\00:44:58.73
Now this might seem like
a little thing to somebody,
00:44:58.76\00:45:01.23
but it made the
difference of people
00:45:01.26\00:45:02.93
being able to have the books,
00:45:02.96\00:45:05.47
you know, right then and
there rather than wait a year
00:45:05.50\00:45:07.97
and God gave us
that story for that book.
00:45:08.00\00:45:10.61
He wanted that
Cool Bobby B story
00:45:10.64\00:45:12.81
in this book.
00:45:12.84\00:45:14.18
It was amazing. He's
always on time, isn't He?
00:45:14.21\00:45:15.54
He is always on time.
00:45:15.58\00:45:16.95
You know, like
my grandma Micheff
00:45:16.98\00:45:18.31
always said, you
knew grandma Micheff.
00:45:18.35\00:45:19.68
Oh, yeah.
00:45:19.71\00:45:21.05
She'd say, you know,
"Well, you know, hon,"
00:45:21.08\00:45:22.62
she said, "the Lord," she
said, "He never gets in a hurry,
00:45:22.65\00:45:27.09
but He always
gets there on time."
00:45:27.16\00:45:29.16
Yeah.
00:45:29.19\00:45:30.53
Yeah, your grandma Micheff,
00:45:30.56\00:45:31.89
she was an
amazing, amazing woman.
00:45:31.93\00:45:34.50
And I remember, as a
child, when she prayed,
00:45:34.53\00:45:37.40
I thought I said,
"She's named every president,
00:45:37.47\00:45:41.24
she's named
everybody in the whole world."
00:45:41.27\00:45:44.01
She's brilliant.
Oh, yes, she was.
00:45:44.04\00:45:45.51
And her prayers were long,
00:45:45.54\00:45:47.28
well, when you're
eight or nine years old,
00:45:47.31\00:45:48.84
you're ready to get
out of church, you know.
00:45:48.88\00:45:51.65
But she had powerful prayers,
as I got a little older,
00:45:51.68\00:45:54.72
I understood it.
00:45:54.75\00:45:56.08
This woman had a
relationship with God.
00:45:56.12\00:45:59.22
I mean, it was amazing
00:45:59.25\00:46:00.76
because anything that
someone mentioned during church
00:46:00.79\00:46:04.56
or Sabbath
school, pray for somebody
00:46:04.59\00:46:07.40
or this person had
something wrong with him,
00:46:07.43\00:46:09.90
when they would say,
00:46:09.93\00:46:11.27
"Sister Micheff, would
you close with prayer,"
00:46:11.30\00:46:13.94
she would
remember every bit of that
00:46:13.97\00:46:15.84
and bring all of that out,
00:46:15.87\00:46:17.71
like how did she
remember all of this stuff
00:46:17.74\00:46:20.18
because her heart
was in tune to pray.
00:46:20.21\00:46:22.98
With Jesus, to pray for others
00:46:23.01\00:46:25.48
to be a blessing
to somebody else.
00:46:25.51\00:46:27.32
So what an incredible grandma.
00:46:27.35\00:46:28.95
Do you know there's a story...
00:46:28.98\00:46:31.05
And I wrote a book
called Passionate Prayer.
00:46:31.09\00:46:33.76
And it's all my
faith-building stories,
00:46:33.79\00:46:36.02
prayer-building stories,
00:46:36.06\00:46:37.43
you can find it on my
website BrendaWalsh.com,
00:46:37.46\00:46:39.23
but there's one chapter
in there for grandma Micheff.
00:46:39.26\00:46:43.10
It's called
"Prayed Up and Ready To Go"
00:46:43.13\00:46:45.03
because grandma
would always say,
00:46:45.07\00:46:46.40
"Honey, got to be prayed up.
00:46:46.43\00:46:47.77
Are you prayed
up and ready to go?"
00:46:47.80\00:46:49.24
Well, it's a story
of my last four days
00:46:49.27\00:46:52.37
with my grandmother.
00:46:52.41\00:46:53.78
I was with her when she died,
00:46:53.81\00:46:55.21
and it is the most
amazing heart-wrenching, just...
00:46:55.24\00:46:59.58
because she was
a prayer warrior.
00:46:59.61\00:47:01.12
Yeah.
00:47:01.15\00:47:02.48
And she taught me so
much about how to live,
00:47:02.52\00:47:06.25
but she taught me how to die.
00:47:06.29\00:47:07.99
When she first
learned that she was dying,
00:47:08.02\00:47:09.89
and I won't tell the story
00:47:09.92\00:47:11.26
'cause you got to read the book,
00:47:11.29\00:47:12.63
it's an amazing story.
00:47:12.66\00:47:14.00
But when she first
learned she was dying,
00:47:14.03\00:47:15.36
and I raced to
her hospital room,
00:47:15.40\00:47:16.77
and I'm saying,
"Grandma, grandma!"
00:47:16.80\00:47:18.13
And I said, "Is there any
news or is there any hope?"
00:47:18.17\00:47:21.97
She goes,
"Haven't you heard, honey?
00:47:22.00\00:47:24.04
I'm going to die."
00:47:24.11\00:47:25.57
And I'm like, "What?"
00:47:25.61\00:47:26.98
I'm like, "Wait a minute."
00:47:27.01\00:47:28.34
And I'm thinking
maybe I misunderstood.
00:47:28.38\00:47:29.81
And she goes, "No,
honey, the doctor said
00:47:29.84\00:47:31.71
I've got some big
hole in my intestine."
00:47:31.75\00:47:33.92
And she said,
"Doctor said I could be,
00:47:33.95\00:47:36.69
you know, maybe an hour or two,
maybe tonight, maybe tomorrow,
00:47:36.72\00:47:39.55
no longer than two weeks."
00:47:39.59\00:47:40.96
She said, "Why, I do hope
I get to die on the Sabbath,"
00:47:40.99\00:47:43.76
this was Friday.
00:47:43.83\00:47:45.16
She said, "Isn't that exciting!
00:47:45.19\00:47:46.83
I get to die."
00:47:46.90\00:47:48.23
Oh, my, my.
00:47:48.26\00:47:49.60
And it is the
most beautiful story
00:47:49.63\00:47:52.33
of a woman who
loved Jesus so much
00:47:52.37\00:47:55.77
and witness to
everybody in that hospital,
00:47:55.80\00:47:57.61
everyone, "Do you know the Lord?
00:47:57.64\00:47:59.21
Do you know when
you die in Jesus,
00:47:59.24\00:48:01.21
give your heart to Him,
00:48:01.24\00:48:02.58
you're just going to
go to sleep in Jesus."
00:48:02.61\00:48:03.95
And she said,
"And the next voice
00:48:03.98\00:48:05.68
I hear would be Jesus calling me
00:48:05.71\00:48:07.42
from that grave,
isn't that wonderful?
00:48:07.45\00:48:09.18
Oh, honey," and
she'd go to sleep
00:48:09.22\00:48:11.52
and she'd say,
"Am I still here?"
00:48:11.55\00:48:13.36
You know, she just...
00:48:13.39\00:48:14.72
It is a wonderful story,
"Prayed Up and Ready To Go"
00:48:14.76\00:48:17.63
in that book Passionate Prayer.
00:48:17.66\00:48:19.09
You know, being
a prayer warrior,
00:48:19.13\00:48:20.80
Danny,
00:48:20.83\00:48:24.67
that is how we have a
relationship with Jesus.
00:48:24.70\00:48:27.04
We don't have a relationship
with Jesus without prayer
00:48:27.07\00:48:29.87
and also listening
to God's words to us
00:48:29.90\00:48:32.84
through God's Holy Word.
00:48:32.87\00:48:34.21
And so it's not...
00:48:34.28\00:48:35.61
When you're having a
conversational relationship
00:48:35.64\00:48:37.05
with someone,
00:48:37.08\00:48:38.41
it can't be one
person doing all the talking.
00:48:38.45\00:48:39.78
You know, it's got
to be a two-way street.
00:48:39.81\00:48:41.15
Yeah.
00:48:41.18\00:48:42.52
And we need to listen
too, and God will speak to us
00:48:42.55\00:48:43.89
through His Word.
00:48:43.92\00:48:45.25
God's going to speak to
kids through these books,
00:48:45.29\00:48:47.09
and He does,
and He already does.
00:48:47.16\00:48:48.49
I get letters all
the time from kids
00:48:48.52\00:48:52.73
who are blessed by these books,
00:48:52.76\00:48:56.03
have given their heart
to Jesus from these books.
00:48:56.06\00:48:58.00
One little boy wrote me a letter
00:48:58.03\00:49:00.57
and he said, "Miss Brenda,"
00:49:00.64\00:49:01.97
he said, "I wanted you to know
00:49:02.00\00:49:03.34
that I don't use
bad words anymore."
00:49:03.41\00:49:06.98
And I was like,
"Thank you, Jesus.
00:49:07.01\00:49:08.64
Okay, he gets it," you know?
00:49:08.68\00:49:10.55
And another little girl told me
00:49:10.58\00:49:11.91
that she was
tempted to steal a candy bar
00:49:11.95\00:49:14.85
and she didn't do it.
00:49:14.88\00:49:17.19
She put it back.
She picked it up.
00:49:17.22\00:49:18.89
She was thinking about it.
00:49:18.92\00:49:20.26
She knew no one's
looking. She said, "I knew it."
00:49:20.29\00:49:21.86
And then she said, "I
remembered your story of,
00:49:21.89\00:49:25.63
you know, somebody
stealing in the book."
00:49:25.66\00:49:29.00
And she said, "I put it back."
00:49:29.03\00:49:30.37
And she said "No, I don't
want to miss out on heaven."
00:49:30.40\00:49:33.64
Okay.
00:49:33.67\00:49:35.00
So, you know, it really is...
00:49:35.04\00:49:38.11
Important to teach our children
00:49:38.14\00:49:40.41
who Jesus is, how
much He loves them,
00:49:40.48\00:49:43.21
and that He's coming back soon.
00:49:43.24\00:49:44.78
Yeah.
00:49:44.81\00:49:46.15
And this is really just a
powerful soul witnessing tool
00:49:46.18\00:49:48.78
to help children
know more about Jesus.
00:49:48.82\00:49:51.69
The Bible says,
"Train up a child
00:49:51.72\00:49:53.36
in the way he should go."
00:49:53.39\00:49:54.96
And I mean, I'm amazed
00:49:54.99\00:49:57.66
when I look
around and we have to...
00:49:57.69\00:50:00.10
Sometimes, it's tougher for
us older folks to understand
00:50:00.13\00:50:04.77
what our young
people are dealing with,
00:50:04.80\00:50:06.94
the social media,
00:50:06.97\00:50:08.30
the things that they
can watch on their phone,...
00:50:08.34\00:50:11.87
on their Some of them have iPads
00:50:11.91\00:50:13.88
or computers things that...
00:50:13.91\00:50:15.44
Texting.
00:50:15.48\00:50:16.85
Oh, I mean,
it's terrible. It is.
00:50:16.88\00:50:18.98
And so they're
constantly, the world...
00:50:19.01\00:50:23.49
I'm going to say the secular,
00:50:23.52\00:50:25.99
you know, or secularization
of our children is terrible
00:50:26.02\00:50:31.46
because the world is
going to put it in there
00:50:31.49\00:50:33.93
and they're
influenced by the devil.
00:50:34.00\00:50:35.73
We have to be putting in
00:50:35.76\00:50:37.67
to our young
people the Word of God.
00:50:37.70\00:50:40.34
And without that,
00:50:40.37\00:50:42.04
how can they possibly
ever know right from wrong
00:50:42.07\00:50:45.67
because you
listen to what's going on
00:50:45.71\00:50:48.48
and every wind of
doctrine is being blown?
00:50:48.51\00:50:52.61
We have young people in
our churches who are saying,
00:50:52.65\00:50:55.18
"Well, I don't
see anything wrong
00:50:55.22\00:50:56.55
with same-sex marriage
00:50:56.58\00:50:57.92
or I don't see anything
wrong with abortion or whatever"
00:50:57.95\00:51:00.56
because the media
that they're listening to
00:51:00.59\00:51:02.56
and watching so
promotes all of this stuff,
00:51:02.59\00:51:05.59
they think it's okay.
00:51:05.63\00:51:07.00
We have an opportunity to
ground these kids in Jesus
00:51:07.03\00:51:10.40
first of all, and
these type of books
00:51:10.47\00:51:12.07
will do that.
00:51:12.10\00:51:13.44
Once they are grounded in
that God is alive and well,
00:51:13.47\00:51:17.74
that Jesus came and
gave His life for us
00:51:17.77\00:51:20.08
on the cross of Calvary,
00:51:20.11\00:51:21.51
He's now ever interceding
00:51:21.54\00:51:22.98
at the right hand of the Father,
00:51:23.01\00:51:24.75
and that someday
when this life is over,
00:51:24.78\00:51:27.62
we are going to face the Maker,
00:51:27.65\00:51:29.28
we're either going
to be ready for heaven
00:51:29.32\00:51:31.09
or we're going to
be lost for eternity.
00:51:31.12\00:51:33.15
And so once
they understand this,
00:51:33.19\00:51:35.32
they're grounded and
rooted, but it starts somewhere.
00:51:35.36\00:51:38.66
These stories are great to have,
00:51:38.69\00:51:41.43
Miss Brenda's Bedtime Stories.
00:51:41.46\00:51:43.23
The books, the audio
books are a great start.
00:51:43.26\00:51:46.33
The music CDs,
anything that you can get
00:51:46.37\00:51:49.40
that promote Jesus
Christ and Him crucified
00:51:49.44\00:51:53.68
and they show
faith-building stories
00:51:53.71\00:51:56.04
that your child's not out there,
00:51:56.08\00:51:57.68
they never have to be alone.
00:51:57.71\00:51:59.08
They're always
going to have Jesus.
00:51:59.11\00:52:01.28
Once they understand that,
00:52:01.32\00:52:02.88
that's the road to
them growing spiritually
00:52:02.92\00:52:06.15
and winning this
spiritual warfare.
00:52:06.19\00:52:08.09
So I'm encouraging
each and every one of you,
00:52:08.12\00:52:10.96
contact Miss Brenda
00:52:10.99\00:52:12.76
and look at all of
the information she has,
00:52:12.79\00:52:15.46
especially on the
young people here,
00:52:15.50\00:52:17.27
the prayer book, promises,
00:52:17.30\00:52:19.93
you really need that,
00:52:19.97\00:52:21.30
but these bedtime
stories, the audio.
00:52:21.34\00:52:23.00
She has a number
of other books too
00:52:23.04\00:52:24.57
for us older folks.
00:52:24.61\00:52:25.94
So what I'd like to do
00:52:25.97\00:52:27.31
is I want to go to
an address right now,
00:52:27.38\00:52:29.14
then we're going
to have a news break
00:52:29.18\00:52:30.95
and we'll be back
for closing comment.
00:52:30.98\00:52:32.91
If you would
like to find out more
00:52:35.92\00:52:37.32
about Miss
Brenda's Bedtime Stories,
00:52:37.39\00:52:39.72
please visit her
website BrendaWalsh.com.
00:52:39.75\00:52:43.43
Each volume in this set
00:52:43.46\00:52:44.86
includes more than 25
delightful true stories
00:52:44.89\00:52:48.33
to help children
learn about forgiveness,
00:52:48.36\00:52:50.70
answered prayer,
obedience, and much more.
00:52:50.77\00:52:54.54
You may order the story
books or audio books online
00:52:54.57\00:52:57.71
at BrendaWalsh.com.
00:52:57.74\00:53:00.08
If you would
like to invite Brenda
00:53:00.11\00:53:01.58
to speak in your area,
00:53:01.61\00:53:02.94
just give her a call
00:53:02.98\00:53:04.31
at area code (865) 776-4908.
00:53:04.35\00:53:09.78
That's (865) 776-4908.
00:53:09.82\00:53:14.16
Or email her at
brenda@BrendaWalsh.com.
00:53:14.19\00:53:18.66