You’ve heard us talking about it this month. Now, the good news is—when you make a donation today we still have money available in our matching gift fund. What happens between now and midnight on New Year’s Eve will go a long way in helping to determine that. When you don’t hear from enough listeners, you have to say, “Okay it seems like we should not be investing the funding here.†It’s a difficult decision to make as a ministry. It’s because we had not heard from listeners, and we have to be good stewards of the funds that are available. ![]() The next four or five days will tell the tale about what we’re able to do in 2017.īob: We recently had to make the decision that we would go off the air in a few cities where FamilyLife Today is heard. If you can give, now is the time to do it because number one, it’ll be good for you in your marriage number two, it’ll be good for other people’s marriages and families and number three, we need you to give to keep this broadcast on the air, doing number one and number two.īob: Yes and this is a critical time for any ministry like ours. ![]() It’s time for a number of donors—who used to give but haven’t given recently, for a number of listeners who have listened for a good length of time but haven’t given, and it’s time for those who have given—to give again. We believe in it, we’ve given our lives to it, give our money to it as well. In fact, Barbara and I are donors to this ministry. I’ve raised my own support to work, here at FamilyLife and for Cru, since 1970. This gift is not to Bob / it’s not to me.ĭennis: I don’t take a penny from this broadcast. What do you do at a birthday? You give gifts okay? We need your help in celebrating our 25 th birthday. īob: This is—our 25 th birthday is coming up in 2017 isn’t it?ĭennis: It is coming up. God’s been at work through this ministry in some pretty amazing ways!â€ĭennis: He has and one of the things He did, was back in 1992—was He launched a little radio program on 22 stations across the country called FamilyLife Today, with Bob Lepine and Dennis Rainey. I have to tell you, Dennis—those two days—people have asked me, throughout the fall: “How was your 40 th anniversary celebration?†I’ve said, “You know, it’s interesting to take a couple of days and start to reflect on what the last 40 years have looked like,†and you go: “There have been some significant things happen over 40 years. We took two days in late July and got the staff together for a two-day celebration of 40 years of ministry. Al Mohler came and spoke to our staff, back in late July of 2016. We had an opportunity, in 2016, to hear from maybe one of the preeminent scholars of our day, who really—ĭennis: That’d be better said: “…one of the preeminent prophets of our day†because this is really a truth-telling message you’re about to hear.īob: It’s a prophetic message you’re right. I know you have spent a lot of time—I have as well—thinking about where we are in our country / in our world with regard to marriage and family. Thanks for joining us on the Thursday edition. Stay with us.Īnd welcome to FamilyLife Today. Is there anything we can be doing, as followers of Christ, to make marriage more meaningful in our culture than it is today? ![]() Our host is the President of FamilyLife ®, Dennis Rainey, and I'm Bob Lepine. When Christians go to a wedding, what we see is a picture of the gospel of Jesus Christ.īob: This is FamilyLife Today for Thursday, December 29 th. Frankly, for right now, at least, we can say, “two†but for how long can we say, “twoâ€? But for right now, all the world can say is that: “Two people are getting together for the length of time that both of them find mutually advantageous in order to identify with one another, and this is the party that,â€â€”by the way, doesn’t imply that they have not been coupling until now—but merely says, “This is when we’re throwing a party.†They see a party of two people coming together—and that’s all we can say now, in terms of the world, of two people coming together. Al Mohler.Īl: When we see a wedding, we see more than the world sees at a wedding. Bob: As a follower of Jesus, marriage ought to mean more to you than it does to your neighbor, who doesn’t go to church.
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