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A new MP3 sermon from Immanuel Baptist Church is now available on SermonAudio with the following details: Title: A Brief Overlook of Chapter 1 of Ecclesiastes Subtitle: Exposition of Ecclesiastes Speaker: Bob Dennis Broadcaster: Immanuel Baptist Church Event: Prayer Meeting Date: 5/7/2025 Length: 28 min.
A new MP3 sermon from Immanuel Baptist Church is now available on SermonAudio with the following details: Title: A Special Category of Widows Subtitle: Exposition of 1 Timothy Speaker: Bob Dennis Broadcaster: Immanuel Baptist Church Event: Sunday - PM Date: 8/11/2024 Bible: 1 Timothy 5:9-10 Length: 33 min.
A new MP3 sermon from Immanuel Baptist Church is now available on SermonAudio with the following details: Title: A Widow Indeed Speaker: Bob Dennis Broadcaster: Immanuel Baptist Church Event: Sunday Afternoon Date: 8/4/2024 Bible: 1 Timothy 5:5-8 Length: 31 min.
A new MP3 sermon from Immanuel Baptist Church is now available on SermonAudio with the following details: Title: Christ Was Made A Curse For Us Subtitle: Exposition Galatians Speaker: Bob Dennis Broadcaster: Immanuel Baptist Church Event: Sunday Service Date: 8/4/2024 Bible: Galatians 3:13 Length: 35 min.
A new MP3 sermon from Immanuel Baptist Church is now available on SermonAudio with the following details: Title: Exposition of Sermon on The Mount - 7/31/2024 Subtitle: Exposition of Matthew Speaker: Bob Dennis Broadcaster: Immanuel Baptist Church Event: Midweek Service Date: 7/31/2024 Bible: Matthew 6:9-13; Matthew 6:12 Length: 25 min.
A new MP3 sermon from Immanuel Baptist Church is now available on SermonAudio with the following details: Title: Exposition of Sermon on The Mount - 7/31/2024 Subtitle: Exposition of Matthew Speaker: Bob Dennis Broadcaster: Immanuel Baptist Church Event: Midweek Service Date: 7/31/2024 Bible: Matthew 6:9-13; Matthew 6:12 Length: 25 min.
A new MP3 sermon from Immanuel Baptist Church is now available on SermonAudio with the following details: Title: Exposition of Sermon on The Mount - 7/31/2024 Subtitle: Exposition of Matthew Speaker: Bob Dennis Broadcaster: Immanuel Baptist Church Event: Midweek Service Date: 7/31/2024 Bible: Matthew 6:9-13; Matthew 6:12 Length: 25 min.
A new MP3 sermon from Immanuel Baptist Church is now available on SermonAudio with the following details: Title: Exposition of Sermon on The Mount - 7/31/2024 Subtitle: Exposition of Matthew Speaker: Bob Dennis Broadcaster: Immanuel Baptist Church Event: Midweek Service Date: 7/31/2024 Bible: Matthew 6:9-13; Matthew 6:12 Length: 25 min.
A new MP3 sermon from Immanuel Baptist Church is now available on SermonAudio with the following details: Title: Wednesday Bible Study-7-24-2024 Speaker: Bob Dennis Broadcaster: Immanuel Baptist Church Event: Midweek Service Date: 7/24/2024 Bible: Mark 6 Length: 37 min.
A new MP3 sermon from Immanuel Baptist Church is now available on SermonAudio with the following details: Title: Only the Sheep can hear Jesus' voice Subtitle: Exposition of John Speaker: Bob Dennis Broadcaster: Immanuel Baptist Church Event: Sunday Service Date: 7/21/2024 Bible: John 10:22-30 Length: 48 min.
A new MP3 sermon from Immanuel Baptist Church is now available on SermonAudio with the following details: Title: Sin in the Church Family Subtitle: Exposition of 1 Timothy Speaker: Bob Dennis Broadcaster: Immanuel Baptist Church Event: Sunday - PM Date: 7/7/2024 Bible: 1 Timothy 5:1-2 Length: 40 min.
A new MP3 sermon from Immanuel Baptist Church is now available on SermonAudio with the following details: Title: God is our security Subtitle: Exposition of 1 Corinthians Speaker: Bob Dennis Broadcaster: Immanuel Baptist Church Event: Sunday Service Date: 6/30/2024 Bible: 1 Corinthians 1:26-31 Length: 49 min.
A new MP3 sermon from Immanuel Baptist Church is now available on SermonAudio with the following details: Title: Exposition of Sermon on The Mount - 6/19/2024 Subtitle: Exposition of Matthew Speaker: Bob Dennis Broadcaster: Immanuel Baptist Church Event: Midweek Service Date: 6/19/2024 Bible: Matthew 6:9-13 Length: 28 min.
A new MP3 sermon from Immanuel Baptist Church is now available on SermonAudio with the following details: Title: Exposition of Sermon on The Mount - 6/19/2024 Subtitle: Exposition of Matthew Speaker: Bob Dennis Broadcaster: Immanuel Baptist Church Event: Midweek Service Date: 6/19/2024 Bible: Matthew 6:9-13 Length: 28 min.
A new MP3 sermon from Immanuel Baptist Church is now available on SermonAudio with the following details: Title: A Father's Legacy Subtitle: Exposition of Romans Speaker: Bob Dennis Broadcaster: Immanuel Baptist Church Event: Sunday Service Date: 6/16/2024 Bible: Romans 8:29 Length: 53 min.
A new MP3 sermon from Immanuel Baptist Church is now available on SermonAudio with the following details: Title: Christ Became Poor Subtitle: Exposition of 2 Corinthians Speaker: Bob Dennis Broadcaster: Immanuel Baptist Church Event: Sunday - AM Date: 6/2/2024 Bible: 2 Corinthians 8:9 Length: 40 min.
A new MP3 sermon from Immanuel Baptist Church is now available on SermonAudio with the following details: Title: Christ Became Poor Subtitle: Exposition of 2 Corinthians Speaker: Bob Dennis Broadcaster: Immanuel Baptist Church Event: Sunday - AM Date: 6/2/2024 Bible: 2 Corinthians 8:9 Length: 40 min.
A new MP3 sermon from Immanuel Baptist Church is now available on SermonAudio with the following details: Title: The Strong Pastor Trusts God Subtitle: Exposition of 1 Timothy Speaker: Bob Dennis Broadcaster: Immanuel Baptist Church Event: Sunday - PM Date: 6/2/2024 Bible: 1 Timothy 4:10-11 Length: 45 min.
A new MP3 sermon from Immanuel Baptist Church is now available on SermonAudio with the following details: Title: The Battle of the Mind Subtitle: Exposition of 2 Corinthians Speaker: Bob Dennis Broadcaster: Immanuel Baptist Church Event: Sunday Service Date: 5/26/2024 Bible: 2 Corinthians 10:3-6 Length: 53 min.
A new MP3 sermon from Immanuel Baptist Church is now available on SermonAudio with the following details: Title: The Battle of the Mind Subtitle: Exposition of 2 Corinthians Speaker: Bob Dennis Broadcaster: Immanuel Baptist Church Event: Sunday Service Date: 5/26/2024 Bible: 2 Corinthians 10:3-6 Length: 53 min.
A new MP3 sermon from Immanuel Baptist Church is now available on SermonAudio with the following details: Title: The Path To A Successful Marriage Speaker: Bob Dennis Broadcaster: Immanuel Baptist Church Event: Sunday Service Date: 4/28/2024 Bible: Psalm 78:1-8 Length: 67 min.
A new MP3 sermon from Immanuel Baptist Church is now available on SermonAudio with the following details: Title: Seducing Spirits and Doctrines of Demons Subtitle: Exposition of 1 Timothy Speaker: Bob Dennis Broadcaster: Immanuel Baptist Church Event: Sunday - PM Date: 4/14/2024 Bible: 1 Timothy 4:1 Length: 44 min.
A new MP3 sermon from Immanuel Baptist Church is now available on SermonAudio with the following details: Title: Seducing Spirits and Doctrines of Demons Subtitle: Exposition of 1 Timothy Speaker: Bob Dennis Broadcaster: Immanuel Baptist Church Event: Sunday - PM Date: 4/14/2024 Bible: 1 Timothy 4:1 Length: 44 min.
A new MP3 sermon from Immanuel Baptist Church is now available on SermonAudio with the following details: Title: God's Wrath and the Cross Speaker: Bob Dennis Broadcaster: Immanuel Baptist Church Event: Sunday Service Date: 4/7/2024 Bible: 1 John 4:10 Length: 39 min.
True Crime Tuesday presents Matterhorn: Death At 14,000 Feet with New York Times Best Selling Author, Christopher Reich! Robbie Steinhardt lives a peaceful life. A fixture of his small alpine village, he tends cattle, minds his own business, and doesn't dwell on his former life and the family and lover he left behind—back when he was Mac Dekker, CIA. But, when he learns his son Will died following in his footsteps, he needs answers. What mission took Will up into the alpine heights, and why is Ilya Ivashka on the same trail? Ilya—his close friend, his rival in love. Ilya, who framed Mac for treason and sent him into hiding. Wiping away the years, Mac returns to the field to find the secrets Will hid and finds himself facing the Herculean task of stopping a terrorist plot that threatens thousands. But in a field of double agents, who can he trust? On today's TCT, Christopher Reich joins the show to talk about the inspiration behind the book, his own adventures on the Matterhorn, what makes the characters tick, and gives a sneak peak of what happens AFTER this book ends! Get your copy of "Matterhorn" here: https://bit.ly/3THw3Wv Get to know more about Christopher on his socials: Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/christopherreichbooks/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/ChristopherReichAuthor/?ref=ts X: https://twitter.com/chreichauthor PLUS AN ALL-NEW DUMB CRIMES/STUPID CRIMINALS WITH BOB DENNIS! Check out Urban Legends and Stranger Truths with Bob Dennis here: https://www.darknessradioshow.com/p/urban-legends-stranger-truths-with-bob-dennis/ #crime #truecrime #truecrimepodcasts #truecrimetuesday #christopherreich #matterhorn #macdekker #robbiesteinhardt #switzerland #cia #thomasandmercer #amazonpublishing #willdekker #ilyaivashka #marinazhukova #jimmychen#calthorpe #spythriller #murder #crimefiction #dumbcrimesstupidcriminals #TimDennis #bobdennis #mobandmfianews #urbanlegendsandstrangertruths #floridaman #drugcrimes #foodcrimes #stupidcrimes #funnycrimes #sexcrimes #dumbcrimes
True Crime Tuesday presents Matterhorn: Death At 14,000 Feet with New York Times Best Selling Author, Christopher Reich! Robbie Steinhardt lives a peaceful life. A fixture of his small alpine village, he tends cattle, minds his own business, and doesn't dwell on his former life and the family and lover he left behind—back when he was Mac Dekker, CIA. But, when he learns his son Will died following in his footsteps, he needs answers. What mission took Will up into the alpine heights, and why is Ilya Ivashka on the same trail? Ilya—his close friend, his rival in love. Ilya, who framed Mac for treason and sent him into hiding. Wiping away the years, Mac returns to the field to find the secrets Will hid and finds himself facing the Herculean task of stopping a terrorist plot that threatens thousands. But in a field of double agents, who can he trust? On today's TCT, Christopher Reich joins the show to talk about the inspiration behind the book, his own adventures on the Matterhorn, what makes the characters tick, and gives a sneak peak of what happens AFTER this book ends! Get your copy of "Matterhorn" here: https://bit.ly/3THw3Wv Get to know more about Christopher on his socials: Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/christopherreichbooks/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/ChristopherReichAuthor/?ref=ts X: https://twitter.com/chreichauthor PLUS AN ALL-NEW DUMB CRIMES/STUPID CRIMINALS WITH BOB DENNIS! Check out Urban Legends and Stranger Truths with Bob Dennis here: https://www.darknessradioshow.com/p/urban-legends-stranger-truths-with-bob-dennis/ #crime #truecrime #truecrimepodcasts #truecrimetuesday #christopherreich #matterhorn #macdekker #robbiesteinhardt #switzerland #cia #thomasandmercer #amazonpublishing #willdekker #ilyaivashka #marinazhukova #jimmychen#calthorpe #spythriller #murder #crimefiction #dumbcrimesstupidcriminals #TimDennis #bobdennis #mobandmfianews #urbanlegendsandstrangertruths #floridaman #drugcrimes #foodcrimes #stupidcrimes #funnycrimes #sexcrimes #dumbcrimes
A new MP3 sermon from Immanuel Baptist Church is now available on SermonAudio with the following details: Title: The Pastor's Home, Maturity, and Reputation Subtitle: Exposition of 1 Timothy Speaker: Bob Dennis Broadcaster: Immanuel Baptist Church Event: Sunday - AM Date: 2/18/2024 Bible: 1 Timothy 3:4-7 Length: 38 min.
A new MP3 sermon from Immanuel Baptist Church is now available on SermonAudio with the following details: Title: Blind Slaves of Sin Subtitle: Exposition of John Speaker: Bob Dennis Broadcaster: Immanuel Baptist Church Event: Sunday Afternoon Date: 1/14/2024 Bible: John 8:30-36 Length: 44 min.
A new MP3 sermon from Immanuel Baptist Church is now available on SermonAudio with the following details: Title: If the Righteous are Scarcely Saved Subtitle: Exposition of 1 Peter Speaker: Bob Dennis Broadcaster: Immanuel Baptist Church Event: Sunday Afternoon Date: 12/17/2023 Bible: 1 Peter 4:12-19 Length: 48 min.
A new MP3 sermon from Immanuel Baptist Church is now available on SermonAudio with the following details: Title: Union with Christ Subtitle: Exposition of Romans Speaker: Bob Dennis Broadcaster: Immanuel Baptist Church Event: Sunday Service Date: 12/10/2023 Bible: Romans 6:3-5 Length: 41 min.
A new MP3 sermon from Immanuel Baptist Church is now available on SermonAudio with the following details: Title: Young People Thinking About Marriage Speaker: Bob Dennis Broadcaster: Immanuel Baptist Church Event: Sunday Service Date: 10/29/2023 Bible: Ecclesiastes 12:1 Length: 50 min.
A new MP3 sermon from Immanuel Baptist Church is now available on SermonAudio with the following details: Title: Excluded From Heaven Subtitle: Exposition of John Speaker: Bob Dennis Broadcaster: Immanuel Baptist Church Event: Sunday - AM Date: 7/23/2023 Bible: John 7:25-36 Length: 48 min.
A new MP3 sermon from Immanuel Baptist Church is now available on SermonAudio with the following details: Title: False Teachers In The Ephesian Church Subtitle: Exposition of 1 Timothy Speaker: Bob Dennis Broadcaster: Immanuel Baptist Church Event: Sunday - PM Date: 7/23/2023 Bible: 1 Timothy 1:6-11 Length: 49 min.
Darkness Radio presents Supernatural News/Parashare: Do You Actually Believe This Crap Edition with Bob Dennis! Well, they say bad things happen in threes, and it sure did arond the Supernatural News Desk this week... No Bruiser, No Mallie, and No Jess... But that's ok... Tim just looked down at t-shirt he got for Christmas that said "Keep Calm and Call Uncle Bob!" Imagine his surprise when the voice on the other side said, "Uncle who"?! ... So after some begging, pleading and cajoling, WE GOT A SHOW! and oh yeah, Cruiser and Bob have all the stories you could possibly handle (or believe) in this week's Supernatural News! This Week, Half of our stories sound like they are strictly out of the Weekly World News, but hey, you can't say you weren't entertained! A Woman gets hit by a meteorite while having coffee with a friend, The Taos County Sheriff's Office decides to joke around with Bigfoot, An Ohio Woman thinks her pool might be possessed, and a singer divorces her Victorian Soldier ghost husband after less than a year (and you gotta hear why)! Check out Bob Dennis' podcast, Urban Legends and Stranger Truths here: https://www.darknessradioshow.com/p/urban-legends-stranger-truths-with-bob-dennis/ See the video of Bigfoot caught in West Virginia: https://exemplore.com/news/huge-bigfoot-gorilla Send Bruiser your well wishes for a speedy recovery : https://www.facebook.com/beercitybruiser https://www.instagram.com/beercitybruiser/ https://twitter.com/bcbwinchester #paranormal #supernatural #paranormalpodcasts #darknessradio #timdennis #beercitybruiser #ringofhonorwrestling #bobdennis #urbanlegendsandstrangertruths #supernaturalnews #parashare #ghosts #spirits #hauntings #hauntedhouses #haunteddolls #demons #deliverances #exorcisms #Psychics #tarot #ouija #Aliens #UFO #UAP #Extraterrestrials #alienhumanhybrid #alienabduction #alienimplant #Alienspaceships #disclosure #shadowpeople #AATIP #DIA #Cryptids #Cryptozoology #bigfoot #sasquatch #yeti #abominablesnowman #ogopogo #lochnessmonster #chupacabra #beastofbrayroad #mothman #Artificiallife #artificialintelligence #AI #space-X #NASA #ISS #Satanists #TheSatanicTemple #CIA #FBI #conspiracytheory #neardeatheexperience
Darkness Radio presents Supernatural News/Parashare: Do You Actually Believe This Crap Edition with Bob Dennis! Well, they say bad things happen in threes, and it sure did arond the Supernatural News Desk this week... No Bruiser, No Mallie, and No Jess... But that's ok... Tim just looked down at t-shirt he got for Christmas that said "Keep Calm and Call Uncle Bob!" Imagine his surprise when the voice on the other side said, "Uncle who"?! ... So after some begging, pleading and cajoling, WE GOT A SHOW! and oh yeah, Cruiser and Bob have all the stories you could possibly handle (or believe) in this week's Supernatural News! This Week, Half of our stories sound like they are strictly out of the Weekly World News, but hey, you can't say you weren't entertained! A Woman gets hit by a meteorite while having coffee with a friend, The Taos County Sheriff's Office decides to joke around with Bigfoot, An Ohio Woman thinks her pool might be possessed, and a singer divorces her Victorian Soldier ghost husband after less than a year (and you gotta hear why)! Check out Bob Dennis' podcast, Urban Legends and Stranger Truths here: https://www.darknessradioshow.com/p/urban-legends-stranger-truths-with-bob-dennis/ See the video of Bigfoot caught in West Virginia: https://exemplore.com/news/huge-bigfoot-gorilla Send Bruiser your well wishes for a speedy recovery : https://www.facebook.com/beercitybruiser https://www.instagram.com/beercitybruiser/ https://twitter.com/bcbwinchester #paranormal #supernatural #paranormalpodcasts #darknessradio #timdennis #beercitybruiser #ringofhonorwrestling #bobdennis #urbanlegendsandstrangertruths #supernaturalnews #parashare #ghosts #spirits #hauntings #hauntedhouses #haunteddolls #demons #deliverances #exorcisms #Psychics #tarot #ouija #Aliens #UFO #UAP #Extraterrestrials #alienhumanhybrid #alienabduction #alienimplant #Alienspaceships #disclosure #shadowpeople #AATIP #DIA #Cryptids #Cryptozoology #bigfoot #sasquatch #yeti #abominablesnowman #ogopogo #lochnessmonster #chupacabra #beastofbrayroad #mothman #Artificiallife #artificialintelligence #AI #space-X #NASA #ISS #Satanists #TheSatanicTemple #CIA #FBI #conspiracytheory #neardeatheexperience
A new MP3 sermon from Immanuel Baptist Church is now available on SermonAudio with the following details: Title: Our Conduct in the House of God Speaker: Bob Dennis Broadcaster: Immanuel Baptist Church Event: Sunday - PM Date: 7/9/2023 Bible: 1 Timothy 3:15 Length: 49 min.
A new MP3 sermon from Immanuel Baptist Church is now available on SermonAudio with the following details: Title: The Discriminating Love of God Subtitle: Exposition of Ephesians Speaker: Bob Dennis Broadcaster: Immanuel Baptist Church Event: Sunday Service Date: 1/8/2023 Bible: Ephesians 2:1-5 Length: 45 min.
A new MP3 sermon from Immanuel Baptist Church is now available on SermonAudio with the following details: Title: The Discriminating Love of God Subtitle: Exposition of Ephesians Speaker: Bob Dennis Broadcaster: Immanuel Baptist Church Event: Sunday Service Date: 1/8/2023 Bible: Ephesians 2:1-5 Length: 45 min.
A new MP3 sermon from Immanuel Baptist Church is now available on SermonAudio with the following details: Title: Love Without Hypocrisy Speaker: Bob Dennis Broadcaster: Immanuel Baptist Church Event: Sunday Service Date: 1/1/2023 Bible: Romans 12:9 Length: 46 min.
Darkness Radio Presents An Old Fashioned Spooky Christmas 2022 featuring Bob Dennis, Beer City Bruiser, & Mallie Fox! In Victorian times, it was custom to tell ghost stories at Christmas. It is custom during Christmas in the radio business to put out a new Christmas program for the people out in the audience who may not have a place to go on Christmas, to let them know that their family on the radio is with them on that special day! Well, Darkness Radio has put together this special Christmas broadcast of true paranormal stories and Classic Christmas Ghost Stories and gathered he family to entertain you this Christmas season! Cruiser and Bruiser spend the first half of today's program talking about true paranormal Christmas happenings and traditions, then on the second half of the program, you get some Classic Christmas Ghost Stories from Tim, Bob Dennis, and Mallie Fox! Check out archives, new and archived programs, and everything Darkness Radio at our new website: https://www.darknessradioshow.com/ To learn more about Microdose Gummies go to Microdose.com and use code: darkness to get free shipping & 30% off your first order #paranormal #supernatural #metaphysical #paranormalpodcasts #darknessradio #timdennis #beecitybruiser #ringofhonorwrestling #malliefox #bobdennis #paranormalgirl #urbanlegendsstrangerthings #ghosts #spirits #spectres #hauntings #hauntedhouses #haunteddolls #ghoststories #christmasghoststories #demons #deliverances #exorcisms #angels #guardianangels #spiritguides #charlesdickens #smee #thekitbag #neardeatheexperience
Darkness Radio Presents An Old Fashioned Spooky Christmas 2022 featuring Bob Dennis, Beer City Bruiser, & Mallie Fox! In Victorian times, it was custom to tell ghost stories at Christmas. It is custom during Christmas in the radio business to put out a new Christmas program for the people out in the audience who may not have a place to go on Christmas, to let them know that their family on the radio is with them on that special day! Well, Darkness Radio has put together this special Christmas broadcast of true paranormal stories and Classic Christmas Ghost Stories and gathered he family to entertain you this Christmas season! Cruiser and Bruiser spend the first half of today's program talking about true paranormal Christmas happenings and traditions, then on the second half of the program, you get some Classic Christmas Ghost Stories from Tim, Bob Dennis, and Mallie Fox! Check out archives, new and archived programs, and everything Darkness Radio at our new website: https://www.darknessradioshow.com/ To learn more about Microdose Gummies go to Microdose.com and use code: darkness to get free shipping & 30% off your first order #paranormal #supernatural #metaphysical #paranormalpodcasts #darknessradio #timdennis #beecitybruiser #ringofhonorwrestling #malliefox #bobdennis #paranormalgirl #urbanlegendsstrangerthings #ghosts #spirits #spectres #hauntings #hauntedhouses #haunteddolls #ghoststories #christmasghoststories #demons #deliverances #exorcisms #angels #guardianangels #spiritguides #charlesdickens #smee #thekitbag #neardeatheexperience
A new MP3 sermon from Immanuel Baptist Church is now available on SermonAudio with the following details: Title: Christians Are Spirit-Led Sons of God Speaker: Bob Dennis Broadcaster: Immanuel Baptist Church Event: Sunday Service Date: 9/25/2022 Bible: Romans 8:12-16 Length: 46 min.
A new MP3 sermon from Immanuel Baptist Church is now available on SermonAudio with the following details: Title: Christians Are Spirit-Led Sons of God Speaker: Bob Dennis Broadcaster: Immanuel Baptist Church Event: Sunday Service Date: 9/25/2022 Bible: Romans 8:12-16 Length: 46 min.
A new MP3 sermon from Immanuel Baptist Church is now available on SermonAudio with the following details: Title: Train Your Children To Obey Speaker: Bob Dennis Broadcaster: Immanuel Baptist Church Event: Sunday Service Date: 9/25/2022 Bible: Ephesians 6:1-3 Length: 62 min.
A new MP3 sermon from Immanuel Baptist Church is now available on SermonAudio with the following details: Title: Israel: Broken Of Temporarily Speaker: Bob Dennis Broadcaster: Immanuel Baptist Church Event: Sunday Service Date: 9/11/2022 Bible: Romans 11:13-24 Length: 48 min.
A new MP3 sermon from Immanuel Baptist Church is now available on SermonAudio with the following details: Title: Christ Canceled Our Debt Speaker: Bob Dennis Broadcaster: Immanuel Baptist Church Event: Sunday Service Date: 8/7/2022 Bible: Colossians 2:11-15 Length: 44 min.
A new MP3 sermon from Immanuel Baptist Church is now available on SermonAudio with the following details: Title: Fathers Who Impact Their Children For Christ Speaker: Bob Dennis Broadcaster: Immanuel Baptist Church Event: Sunday Service Date: 6/19/2022 Bible: Ephesians 5:15-17 Length: 54 min.
The body runs on chemicals and electricity. But it runs mostly on electricity (up to 80% by some estimates). The easy, safe, and effective low-hanging healing therapy, is rebalancing our bioenergy. Along with Ozone, this technology would be among the first things I'd turn to if I had virtually any condition or injury. Meet our guest Dr. Bob Dennis did original research work for NASA in 1996 on PEMF. He suffered a serious lower back injury as a firefighter in 2006. No mainstream medical options helped him (including oxycodone), so he modified his original work from NASA on PEMF into a portable PEMF device and it completely eliminated his pain. So it became his life's calling: to help people with serious debilitating pain who have no other options. Thank you to our partners Outliyr Peak Performance Shop: get exclusive discounts on cutting-edge health, wellness, & performance gear Micro-Pulse PEMF DigiCeuticals (code URBAN saves 10%): boosting your healing and helping alleviate chronic conditions with these systems Key takeaways PEMF therapy is a scientific surprise, it improves almost everything you use it on but we don't know how Therapeutic for pain, inflammation, circulation, swelling, oxygenation, cellular repair, sleep, immunity, wound healing, and injury repair Dr. Dennis brought the average cost of a system from $20-$50K to several hundred Waveform matters more than max power (gauss) Links Watch it on YouTube: https://youtu.be/jvpuhwgRshQ Full episode show notes: mindbodypeak.com/53 Connect with Nick on social media Instagram Twitter YouTube LinkedIn Easy ways to support Subscribe Leave an Apple Podcast review Suggest a guest Do you have questions, thoughts, or feedback for us? Let me know at mindbodypeak.com/53 and one of us will get back to you! Be an Outliyr, Nick
A new MP3 sermon from Immanuel Baptist Church is now available on SermonAudio with the following details: Title: From Unbelief to Faith Speaker: Bob Dennis Broadcaster: Immanuel Baptist Church Event: Sunday Service Date: 5/15/2022 Bible: John 4:43-54 Length: 46 min.
A new MP3 sermon from Immanuel Baptist Church is now available on SermonAudio with the following details: Title: Husbands Are To Be Loving Leaders Speaker: Bob Dennis Broadcaster: Immanuel Baptist Church Event: Sunday Service Date: 12/26/2021 Bible: Ephesians 5:25 Length: 46 min.
A new MP3 sermon from Immanuel Baptist Church is now available on SermonAudio with the following details: Title: God Determines Destinies Speaker: Bob Dennis Broadcaster: Immanuel Baptist Church Event: Sunday Service Date: 12/26/2021 Bible: Romans 9:10-13 Length: 42 min.
A new MP3 sermon from Immanuel Baptist Church is now available on SermonAudio with the following details: Title: God's Word Has Not Failed Speaker: Bob Dennis Broadcaster: Immanuel Baptist Church Event: Sunday Service Date: 12/19/2021 Bible: Romans 9:6-9 Length: 47 min.
A new MP3 sermon from Immanuel Baptist Church is now available on SermonAudio with the following details: Title: Jesus Must Increase Speaker: Bob Dennis Broadcaster: Immanuel Baptist Church Event: Sunday Service Date: 12/12/2021 Bible: John 3:22-30 Length: 43 min.
Hello everyone, and welcome back to a brand-new episode of Don't Take The Pill.Today, I interview biomedical engineer Bob Dennis, who has been studying the brain for most of his career.And he and I will be discussing exactly that: The human brain. As you know, the brain is tricky and complex, one of the most mysterious organs.And like every other organ, it can get inflamed. That inflammation can lead to a lot of issues, from mood disorders to ADD to even brain injuries.However, unlike for other organs, brain inflammation is not easily detected. But Bob has been working on a way to counter that, and today, he discusses his findings and answers a few questions for us such as: How does brain inflammation happen? And how can you heal your inflamed brain?I discuss this and more with Bob, so let's dive in! Key Takeaways:Intro (00:00)About brain inflammation (03:00)Bob's background (05:07)What's a brain gauge? (11:31)How a diagnosis with a brain gauge works (21:11)Using the brain gauge for guidance of treatment (28:02)Why is the brain gauge not more mainstream? (33:13)Three tips for better health (42:43) Additional Resources:To get in contact with us, send an email to: donttakethepill@gmail.comCheck out Bob's forum here.For more information about the Brain Gauge, click here.To learn about the PEMF, click here.--We love hearing from our listeners, so if you've enjoyed this episode, please follow, rate, and leave us a review!
A new MP3 sermon from Immanuel Baptist Church is now available on SermonAudio with the following details: Title: The Wife's Joyful Submission Speaker: Bob Dennis Broadcaster: Immanuel Baptist Church Event: Sunday Service Date: 7/25/2021 Bible: Ephesians 5:22-24 Length: 50 min.
A new MP3 sermon from Immanuel Baptist Church is now available on SermonAudio with the following details: Title: The Wife's Joyful Submission Speaker: Bob Dennis Broadcaster: Immanuel Baptist Church Event: Sunday Service Date: 7/25/2021 Bible: Ephesians 5:22-24 Length: 50 min.
A new MP3 sermon from Immanuel Baptist Church is now available on SermonAudio with the following details: Title: Be Rich Toward God Speaker: Bob Dennis Broadcaster: Immanuel Baptist Church Event: Sunday Service Date: 7/25/2021 Bible: Luke 12:16-21 Length: 39 min.
A new MP3 sermon from Immanuel Baptist Church is now available on SermonAudio with the following details: Title: The Family: God's Gift To Mankind Subtitle: Exposition of Genesis Speaker: Bob Dennis Broadcaster: Immanuel Baptist Church Event: Sunday Service Date: 3/28/2021 Bible: Genesis 1:1-4 Length: 62 min.
A new MP3 sermon from Immanuel Baptist Church is now available on SermonAudio with the following details: Title: The Family: God's Gift To Mankind Subtitle: Exposition of Genesis Speaker: Bob Dennis Broadcaster: Immanuel Baptist Church Event: Sunday Service Date: 3/28/2021 Bible: Genesis 1:1-4 Length: 62 min.
A new MP3 sermon from Immanuel Baptist Church is now available on SermonAudio with the following details: Title: Faith And Good Works Speaker: Bob Dennis Broadcaster: Immanuel Baptist Church Event: Sunday Service Date: 2/14/2021 Length: 55 min.
A new MP3 sermon from Immanuel Baptist Church is now available on SermonAudio with the following details: Title: In Jesus Is Life Subtitle: John Speaker: Bob Dennis Broadcaster: Immanuel Baptist Church Event: Sunday Service Date: 1/17/2021 Length: 47 min.
FamilyLife Today® Radio TranscriptReferences to conferences, resources, or other special promotions may be obsolete. Creating A More Romantic Marriage Day 8 of 8 Guest: Dennis Rainey From the Series: A Man's View of Romance________________________________________________________________Bob: This is FamilyLife Today. Our host is the Executive Director of FamilyLife, Dennis Rainey. I'm Bob Lepine. Happy Valentine's Day. We're talking about romance on the broadcast today, I hope you can stay with us. (Music: "My Funny Valentine") And welcome to FamilyLife Today, thanks for joining us on the broadcast as we continue looking at the subject of romance and, once again today, because of the nature of what we're going to be talking about, it may be inappropriate for younger listeners to be joining us. Parents may want to use some discretion because we're talking about how men look at romance and, as you've said over the last couple of days, Dennis, men look at it – not exclusively – but primarily from the aspect of the sexual relationship. In fact, on yesterday's broadcast, you mentioned that it is a wise woman who will assume some responsibility for affirming her husband in his sexuality. You also talked about the fact that a lot of men don't understand themselves their need for the sexual relationship, and then you talked about how a man needs to be needed and needs to know that his wife desires him. Dennis: Yeah, and even as you're going through that list we talked about yesterday – just revisiting that – you know, it feels risky to me, as a man, to talk to women about their husband's need sexually and certainly we're making some generalizations here that don't apply to every man, because God has made men differently, but I don't think we're too much off the mark when it comes to what men really desire from their wives. You know, I have counseled and interacted with men over the past 18 years at hundreds of FamilyLife Marriage Conferences, and their word to me, as you approach this subject, speaking to women, is "Just tell them how we feel. Help us communicate to our wives what's going on inside of us," because I don't have a vested interest here. I'm just after healthy marriages that are following Jesus Christ because I think our God made the sexual dimension of the marriage relationship. Bob: And so a healthy marriage will necessarily involve a healthy sexual relationship. Dennis: Yeah, and you would think Americans would be able to talk about this subject of sex, especially speaking to wives about their husband's sexuality, but I don't think it's that easy for wives to hear or for men to talk about. Now, we're more comfortable talking about it in public, but really getting down past the superficial, down to the deep core issues, especially as it relates to a man's sexuality, I think that is very threatening for couples to discuss. Bob: What do you think are some of those core issues for a husband or a wife? Dennis: Well, I think a wife needs to know that her husband is not as strong and confident as he appears to be. Now, he may look assertive, but in reality, most men, I think, when it comes to the sexual side of their relationship with their spouse, are unsure. I think it's because we're marrying today without any clear passage into manhood. For most men the passage from boyhood to manhood occurs when we get married, but in many cultures that passage has already occurred, and a young man has already had the opportunity to grapple with the issue of manhood and his sexuality. But when men get married today, that's when they're confronted with the issue of performing sexually in marriage, and I think a lot of married men are really afraid of failing when it comes to the physical side of marital love. Bob: What is it about these mystical passages that you refer to for a man? Why are they so significant? And what if a man has missed one? Dennis: Well, I'll never forget a young man that became a close friend of mine over a period of time, and he'd grown up in a home where his father had deserted him as a young lad. And as he began to have children and emerge as a husband in this new relationship with his wife, I could tell, from time to time, there was nothing on the screen that he could pull up by way of a memory of what a man ought to do or be or act like with his wife or with his kids as a man. I mean, he didn't have that model, that mentor. And so I took that young man fishing one time, and in the darkness of that car as we drove to the fishing spot, which was an overnight trip, I began to talk to him about the passage from being a young man, moving on into manhood, and I told him – and I'll call him Chuck – I said, "Chuck, I want to bless you as a man, and I want you to know that, having observed you over the past four or five years, you own all the rights and privileges as a man, and I want you to know anytime you wonder what you're to do, how you're to behave, how you're to perform as a man, I want you to feel free to come back to me, because I want you to know, from this day forward, as an older man to a younger man, I want you to know that I am declaring and recognizing you and the full rights and privileges of manhood." You know, it was a number of months later that I got a phone call back from that young man, and he said, "You know, Dennis, it was interesting. I did not realize what was occurring in the car that night until a few months later. But now as I approach my roles and responsibilities of a man, I feel different about myself than I have in the past." And I think, to those women who may be looking at their husbands and looking at a young man who may feel very insecure or maybe an older man who is still driven out of his own insecurity, you know, you may be able to be an affirming part of his transition to manhood on a daily basis. I think how a woman responds to a man sexually is a crowning celebration of a man's manhood. I think a woman who is looking at a man, and she's feeling powerless to help him, perhaps needs to pray that God will bring older mentors into his life and perhaps encourage her husband to pursue some of them and maybe even ask for this blessing – perhaps ask them what he needs to become, what he needs to do, how he needs to act to be recognized as a man. Bob: A woman may not be able to do what a father could have done for a son, but she can play a significant part in helping to supplement what may be missing. Dennis: Yeah. I'll say this about Barbara – when we were first married, there was a sense in which she affirmed me as a young man emerging into a mature man, and we've said on many occasions, I wasn't fully a man when I got married. She finished the job of the transition from boyhood to manhood. And it's the wise woman who realizes that when she gets married she may be marrying a boy in certain areas of his life. He may have immaturities where he has not grown up and simply needs the belief, the affirmation, the support, the respect that only someone who knows him well and who loves him most can provide. Bob: And romance and sexuality are tools, they're assets, for her, aren't they? Dennis: They are, and it's the woman who understands that her response to her husband at that point is a crowning affirmation. I don't know how to say it with any more dignity. It is a very, very important part for a young man to feel affirmed by his wife. George Gilder, in his book, "Men and Marriage," makes a great statement. He says, "Women are puzzled by men's continual attempts to prove their manhood or ritualistically affirm it." Bob: What is it, Dennis, about sexual performance that is affirming to a man's masculinity? Dennis: Well, let me let George Gilder make a stab at this from his book, because he really states it clearly, as a sociologist, to help us better understand what's going on inside a man. He writes, "Men must perform. There is no shortcut to human fulfillment for men – just the short circuit of impotence. Men can be creatively human only when they are confidently male and overcome their sexual insecurity by action." Now listen to this next statement – "Nothing comes to them by waiting or being." A man's got to initiate, and do you feel the risk that's there for a man as he initiates? What's the woman's response? He can't control it. Let me read on what Gilder says, "In general, therefore, the man is less secure sexually than the woman, because his sexuality is dependent on action, and he can act sexually only through a precarious process difficult to control. Fear of impotence and inadequacy is a paramount fact of male sexuality. For men, the desire for sex is not simply a quest for pleasure. It is an indispensable test of identity." Now, did you hear that? It is a test for a man to feel like a man, and when a wife can latch onto that idea, and she understands what is at risk for a man at that point, you know what? The lights go on inside of here where, all of a sudden, she can now exercise the mystical powers God has given her in the marriage relationship for the health and the well being of the man. Now, am I overstating the sex act for the man? From the men I've talked to, I don't think so. I think this is a core issue for men today. One last statement that Gilder writes about that I've got to read – he writes, "Unless men have an enduring relationship with a woman, a relationship that affords him sexual confidence, men will accept almost any convenient sexual offer." Now, think about it. Isn't that what the New Testament is trying to move men away from? Isn't that what Paul wrote about in 1 Corinthians 7? Because of immoralities let each man have a wife and please his wife? I think so. I think God recognizes that the way he has wired men today that they are susceptible in the marketplace to what Solomon warned his son about – that woman in the red light district who woos a man away from his home and offers him instant satisfaction – what's he trying to find there? What's he trying to prove? I think that man is trying to prove his masculinity. Bob: Yeah, so it's less about sex and more about who a man is. That's really what's behind it all, isn't it? Dennis: That's exactly right, and let me just say here – it is not just the act of intercourse that makes a man a man. If you read Song of Solomon, where the woman affirmed him, she started with his character. What caused her to be attracted to him as a man was that he was a man above reproach. He had integrity. She had seen his character develop. She talked about it being like olive oil being refined, which had to be crushed and go through a series of rocks so it could be purified. That's the picture of a man becoming like Jesus Christ. But you know what? There are a lot of men today who are running around trying to prove their manhood outside of marriage through the sex act, and that doesn't make 'em a man at all. That's wrong. God intended marriage to be the place where two people become one. Bob: Well, you know, as you said, some of this may be difficult for both a man and a woman to hear, but you wouldn't be saying it if you didn't feel it was a critical part of the marriage relationship. Dennis: Yeah, and, again, we're just talking straight about how to make a marriage last for a lifetime, and your husband wants you to approve of his physical and sexual approach to marital love – it's more than okay, it's good. It's been given by God, designed by the Creator of the universe. He made us different, and a woman is more relational, a man is more sexual. One is not better than the other. They were meant to complement one another. And I think what happens is the man is intended to deny his sexual needs, to love his wife relationally, and in the process of that he learns self-denial, and he learns sacrificial love. I think also the same sacrificial act occurs by the wife on behalf of her husband. Sometimes she has to be willing to give up some of her own emotional needs being met but I believe, again, it's the wise woman who can say to her husband, "Thank God you, as a man, are made the way you're made. I welcome you as my man." Bob: Dennis, don't you think the way the culture portrays the sex act has left a lot of Christians unable to separate the inappropriate way it's presented from the very appropriateness that God built into it? Dennis: I think what God designed and has sought to protect by grace, the world has taken and integrated it and has twisted it and perverted it, and what results from that is shame. But what God intends for us to experience in the marriage bed, he said it was good. I mean, think back to the Song of Solomon – in fact, let me just read a portion from that book, and this is King Solomon describing the Shulamite woman, his bride's body – "How beautiful your sandaled feet, O princess daughter. Your graceful legs are like jewels, the work of a craftsman's hands. Your navel is like a round goblet, which never lacks blended wine. Your waist is a mound of wheat encircled by lilies. Your breasts are like two fawns, twins of a gazelle. How beautiful you are and how pleasing, O love, with your delights. Your stature is like that of a palm and your breasts like the clusters of the fruit. I said I will climb the palm tree, I will take hold of its fruit. May your breasts be like the clusters of the vine, the fragrance of your breath like apples." That is just as inspired as John 3:16 – the God who inspired the scripture inspired that – that's from Song of Solomon, chapter 7. You know, throughout the book, the Shulamite woman is responding to Solomon. She is affirming him for who he is. Listen to her words back to him. "My lover is radiant and ruddy, outstanding among 10,000. His head is purest gold, his hair is wavy and black as a raven. His eyes are like doves beside the water's streams, washed in milk, mounded like jewels. His cheeks are like beds of spice yielding perfume. His lips are like lilies dripping with myrrh. His hands are rods of gold set with crystallite, his body is like polished ivory decorated with sapphires. His legs are pillars of marble set on bases of pure gold. His appearance is like Lebanon – choice as the cedars. This is my lover, this is my friend. O daughters of Jerusalem, eat your heart out." Bob: That's a loose translation there at the end. Dennis: That last part was a loose translation, but I sense our listeners needed to laugh. We may have some people turning around and going home on their way to work this morning. You know, the point is, God's not blushing. He's not ashamed. He made us different, but he made us to affirm one another in our differentness and, again, let us celebrate the way God has designed us sexually. Let me just make some applications for a woman who has been listening. First of all, if she finds it difficult to accept herself, and she feels insecure about how God has made her sexually, she may find it very difficult to affirm her husband, and so that particular wife may need to spend some time in prayer, may need to get some counsel, find a wise counselor of the same sex who can advise her and help her work through some things. Barbara and I have talked earlier in this series about those women who have been abused – read Dan Allender's book. Talk about the real issues of female sexuality and accept who God has made you to be. Secondly, I think a wife needs to move out and take some risks. Find a beginning step, however small that may be, to bless and affirm your husband in this sexual area of marriage love and, thirdly, for those who find that too risky, and you're just not ready to take any risks at this point, I would begin where the Shulamite woman was. She verbally affirmed Solomon. Perhaps write your own praise of your husband in a letter, perhaps state it verbally in a poem – find a way to affirm him and how God made him as a man. One last point – men are lonely today, and there's a reason for that. Most men, throughout the history of their lives have not been able to sustain close relationships with another human being, and it's no wonder they are insecure as they begin to love their wives and, you know, that's why a woman who accepts her husband where he is and can encourage him when he does it right and just affirm him as a man for his efforts at loving you, because every man, I believe, is in the process of learning from God how to love and how to give his life for his wife. Bob: Well, let me wish our listeners a Happy Valentine's Day. Hopefully, the series that we've been doing here will help make this Valentine's Day a more romantic one for couples, and join us tomorrow as we conclude the series with members of our FamilyLife team talking about how they have been ministered to romantically by their mates. I hope you can join us for that. Our engineer is Mark Whitlock. Our host is Dennis Rainey. I'm Bob Lepine. We'll see you tomorrow for another edition of FamilyLife Today. (Music: "My Funny Valentine") FamilyLife Today is a production of FamilyLife of Little Rock, Arkansas, a ministry of Campus Crusade for Christ. __________________________________________________________________We are so happy to provide these transcripts to you. However, there is a cost to transcribe, create, and produce them for our website. If you've benefited from the broadcast transcripts, could you consider donating today to help defray the costs? Copyright © FamilyLife. All rights reserved.www.FamilyLife.com
A new MP3 sermon from Immanuel Baptist Church is now available on SermonAudio with the following details: Title: God's Guidance To Persecuted Christians Speaker: Bob Dennis Broadcaster: Immanuel Baptist Church Event: Sunday Service Date: 1/3/2021 Bible: 1 Peter 4:12 Length: 51 min.
A new MP3 sermon from Immanuel Baptist Church is now available on SermonAudio with the following details: Title: God's Guidance To Persecuted Christians Speaker: Bob Dennis Broadcaster: Immanuel Baptist Church Event: Sunday Service Date: 1/3/2021 Bible: 1 Peter 4:12 Length: 51 min.
A new MP3 sermon from Immanuel Baptist Church is now available on SermonAudio with the following details: Title: The God Honoring Family Subtitle: Exposition of Genesis Speaker: Bob Dennis Broadcaster: Immanuel Baptist Church Event: Sunday Service Date: 11/22/2020 Bible: Genesis 1:26-28 Length: 47 min.
A new MP3 sermon from Immanuel Baptist Church is now available on SermonAudio with the following details: Title: Reasons To Be Thankful Speaker: Bob Dennis Broadcaster: Immanuel Baptist Church Event: Sunday Service Date: 11/22/2020 Bible: Luke 4:18 Length: 27 min.
A new MP3 sermon from Immanuel Baptist Church is now available on SermonAudio with the following details: Title: God Forms The Nations Subtitle: Exposition of Genesis Speaker: Bob Dennis Broadcaster: Immanuel Baptist Church Event: Sunday Afternoon Date: 11/1/2020 Length: 39 min.
A new MP3 sermon from Immanuel Baptist Church is now available on SermonAudio with the following details: Title: The First Sin In The New World Subtitle: Exposition of Genesis Speaker: Bob Dennis Broadcaster: Immanuel Baptist Church Event: Sunday Service Date: 10/18/2020 Bible: Genesis 9:18-27 Length: 56 min.
A new MP3 sermon from Immanuel Baptist Church is now available on SermonAudio with the following details: Title: God's Word Opens Our Eyes Subtitle: Exposition of Psalms Speaker: Bob Dennis Broadcaster: Immanuel Baptist Church Event: Sunday - PM Date: 10/11/2020 Bible: Psalm 19:8 Length: 18 min.
A new MP3 sermon from Immanuel Baptist Church is now available on SermonAudio with the following details: Title: The Meaning Of The Rainbow Subtitle: Exposition of Genesis Speaker: Bob Dennis Broadcaster: Immanuel Baptist Church Event: Sunday Service Date: 10/11/2020 Bible: Genesis 9:8-17 Length: 47 min.
A new MP3 sermon from Immanuel Baptist Church is now available on SermonAudio with the following details: Title: The Meaning Of The Rainbow Subtitle: Exposition of Genesis Speaker: Bob Dennis Broadcaster: Immanuel Baptist Church Event: Sunday Service Date: 10/11/2020 Bible: Genesis 9:8-17 Length: 47 min.
A new MP3 sermon from Immanuel Baptist Church is now available on SermonAudio with the following details: Title: The Meaning Of The Rainbow Subtitle: Exposition of Genesis Speaker: Bob Dennis Broadcaster: Immanuel Baptist Church Event: Sunday Service Date: 10/11/2020 Bible: Genesis 9:8-17 Length: 47 min.
A new MP3 sermon from Immanuel Baptist Church is now available on SermonAudio with the following details: Title: The Meaning Of The Rainbow Subtitle: Exposition of Genesis Speaker: Bob Dennis Broadcaster: Immanuel Baptist Church Event: Sunday Service Date: 10/11/2020 Bible: Genesis 9:8-17 Length: 47 min.
A new MP3 sermon from Immanuel Baptist Church is now available on SermonAudio with the following details: Title: The Meaning Of The Rainbow Subtitle: Exposition of Genesis Speaker: Bob Dennis Broadcaster: Immanuel Baptist Church Event: Sunday Service Date: 10/11/2020 Bible: Genesis 9:8-17 Length: 47 min.
A new MP3 sermon from Immanuel Baptist Church is now available on SermonAudio with the following details: Title: God's Word Opens Our Eyes Subtitle: Exposition of Psalms Speaker: Bob Dennis Broadcaster: Immanuel Baptist Church Event: Sunday - PM Date: 10/11/2020 Bible: Psalm 19:8 Length: 18 min.
A new MP3 sermon from Immanuel Baptist Church is now available on SermonAudio with the following details: Title: Noah's World After The Flood Subtitle: Exposition of Genesis Speaker: Bob Dennis Broadcaster: Immanuel Baptist Church Event: Sunday Service Date: 9/13/2020 Bible: Genesis 8:6-22 Length: 56 min.
A new MP3 sermon from Immanuel Baptist Church is now available on SermonAudio with the following details: Title: God Remembered Noah Subtitle: Exposition of Genesis Speaker: Bob Dennis Broadcaster: Immanuel Baptist Church Event: Sunday Service Date: 8/30/2020 Length: 51 min.
A new MP3 sermon from Immanuel Baptist Church is now available on SermonAudio with the following details: Title: God Remembered Noah Subtitle: Exposition of Genesis Speaker: Bob Dennis Broadcaster: Immanuel Baptist Church Event: Sunday Service Date: 8/30/2020 Length: 51 min.
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A new MP3 sermon from Immanuel Baptist Church is now available on SermonAudio with the following details: Title: The Cross And The Removal Of Guilt Speaker: Bob Dennis Broadcaster: Immanuel Baptist Church Event: Sunday Service Date: 7/5/2020 Bible: Romans 4:1-5 Length: 30 min.
A new MP3 sermon from Immanuel Baptist Church is now available on SermonAudio with the following details: Title: Noah's Ark and God's Salvation Subtitle: Exposition of Genesis Speaker: Bob Dennis Broadcaster: Immanuel Baptist Church Event: Sunday Service Date: 6/14/2020 Bible: Genesis 6:9-22 Length: 58 min.
A new MP3 sermon from Immanuel Baptist Church is now available on SermonAudio with the following details: Title: The Sin Unto Death Subtitle: 1 John Speaker: Bob Dennis Broadcaster: Immanuel Baptist Church Event: Sunday Service Date: 6/14/2020 Bible: 1 John 5:15-18 Length: 41 min.
A new MP3 sermon from Immanuel Baptist Church is now available on SermonAudio with the following details: Title: God, Sin, And The Global Flood Subtitle: Exposition of Genesis Speaker: Bob Dennis Broadcaster: Immanuel Baptist Church Event: Sunday Service Date: 5/24/2020 Bible: Genesis 6:5-8 Length: 60 min.
A new MP3 sermon from Immanuel Baptist Church is now available on SermonAudio with the following details: Title: God, Sin, And The Global Flood Subtitle: Exposition of Genesis Speaker: Bob Dennis Broadcaster: Immanuel Baptist Church Event: Sunday Service Date: 5/24/2020 Bible: Genesis 6:5-8 Length: 60 min.
SHR # 2524 :: Grumpy Science Guys: If Your Brain Gets Old Before Your Body Does, You are Screwed PLUS GHK-cu Update PLUS The Perils Of Taking Too Much Glycine - Dr. Bob Dennis, PhD – Dr. Mark Tommerdahl, PhD - In today's population we see a lot of evidence that people's brains are breaking well before their bodies wear out. This is not a good thing. We see dementia kicking in at early 40's. We see neurodegeneration like MS and Parkinson's widespread in our population. Autoimmunity is a big contributor as well as exposure to bad actors in our environment. If you ask a person suffering from a degenerative brain disorder what would you give up to halt the progression of your disease they'd say anything and everything. But discovering what's causing the problem requires adding in or removing the things you suspect are contributing to the problem. And that requires precise ongoing brain testing to determine what's working and what's not. Your insurance company isn't going to pay for that even if a lab was willing to let you test multiple times a month. And buying equipment to use at home would cost you hundreds of thousands of dollars. Until now. How's 29.95 for the cost to test your brain in the comfort of your own home, every day if you'd like? With the same accuracy as those hundreds-of-thousands-of dollars lab equipment testing for function, acuity , healing, plasticity and recovery sound? This is a Super Human Radio Exclusive. PLUS Carl discusses his current GHK-cu experiment and what happens when you take too much glycine for too long. It can be scary.
SHR # 2524 :: Grumpy Science Guys: If Your Brain Gets Old Before Your Body Does, You are Screwed PLUS GHK-cu Update PLUS The Perils Of Taking Too Much Glycine - Dr. Bob Dennis, PhD – Dr. Mark Tommerdahl, PhD - In today's population we see a lot of evidence that people's brains are breaking well before their bodies wear out. This is not a good thing. We see dementia kicking in at early 40's. We see neurodegeneration like MS and Parkinson's widespread in our population. Autoimmunity is a big contributor as well as exposure to bad actors in our environment. If you ask a person suffering from a degenerative brain disorder what would you give up to halt the progression of your disease they'd say anything and everything. But discovering what's causing the problem requires adding in or removing the things you suspect are contributing to the problem. And that requires precise ongoing brain testing to determine what's working and what's not. Your insurance company isn't going to pay for that even if a lab was willing to let you test multiple times a month. And buying equipment to use at home would cost you hundreds of thousands of dollars. Until now. How's 29.95 for the cost to test your brain in the comfort of your own home, every day if you'd like? With the same accuracy as those hundreds-of-thousands-of dollars lab equipment testing for function, acuity , healing, plasticity and recovery sound? This is a Super Human Radio Exclusive. PLUS Carl discusses his current GHK-cu experiment and what happens when you take too much glycine for too long. It can be scary.
FamilyLife Today® Radio Transcript References to conferences, resources, or other special promotions may be obsolete. The Deadly Traps of Adolescence Day 3 of 10 Guest: Dennis and Barbara Rainey From the series: Sex________________________________________________________________ Bob: If you're a parent, have you challenged your son or your daughter to wait until marriage to become sexually active? Barbara Rainey says maybe you haven't given enough of a challenge. Barbara: We've realized with our kids that the standard of maintaining their virginity is not enough, because when a young girl and a young boy get together, and they decide they like each other, and they begin holding hands and hugging and kissing and other things, what's happening is they're damaging their purity; they're losing their innocence. Bob: This is FamilyLife Today for Wednesday, July 11th. Our host is the president of FamilyLife, Dennis Rainey, and I'm Bob Lepine. As parents, how can we challenge our teenagers to a high standard of moral purity? We'll talk about that today. And welcome to FamilyLife Today, thanks for joining us on the Wednesday edition. This week we are spending some time looking at the traps that have been set for our teenagers throughout our culture and what we can do as parents to help steer our children around these traps so that they don't become ensnared. And what we're talking about comes from a book by Dennis and Barbara Rainey called "Parenting Today's Adolescent," and Barbara joins us in the studio today. Hi, Barbara, nice to have you back with us. Barbara: Thanks, Bob. Bob: Dennis, these traps that face our teenagers can be invisible to us, as parents, but they can also be deadly to our kids. Dennis: They can, in fact, I think that's why much of the scripture is warning us about snares and traps. There are more than 50 references in the Old Testament and New Testament to avoiding the snare of the enemy, or the trap of the evil person, and over in Proverbs, chapter 7, there's the warning against the adulteress, and although it's talking about a married man, I think it relates to our teenagers as we help them navigate the dangers of all the traps set before them. It's speaking of the adulteress here in verse 21, "With persuasive words, she led him astray. She seduced him with her smooth talk. All at once, he followed her like an ox going to the slaughter, like a deer stepping into a noose, 'til an arrow pierces his liver like a bird darting into a snare, little knowing it will cost him his life." Then Solomon says, "Now, then, my sons, listen up, listen to me, pay attention to what I say. Do not let your heart turn to her ways or stray into her path." Why? Because there's a snare there – there's a trap there, and it may cost you your soul. It may destroy your life. And, Bob, I think, as parents, we need to assume the responsibility that Solomon was with his son when he penned this book and sought to instruct his son in the way of righteousness. We need to help our children isolate and determine what those snares are, where the traps are being laid, and then help them understand how it happens, and he described the harlot here of persuading the young man with her words and then with her eyes, and he explained to his son how it all happened, and, you know, that's a picture of how we, as parents, are to help our children around these traps. Bob: And, Barbara, the trap that Dennis has illustrated from the scriptures for us is the one that we're going to be spending time with today and tomorrow – it's the trap of illicit or premarital sexual relations, and whether it's a young lady who is subtly enticing our sons to be sexually involved with her, or a young man who is putting pressure on our daughters to be sexually involved with him, our kids are undoubtedly going to experience, going to face this temptation, this snare, of how involved they're going to be with a member of the opposite sex. Barbara: And it starts earlier than many of us would ever expect, and that's what I think catches us, as parents, off guard, is that it begins in junior high, and our kids, our girls and our boys, our sons, are faced with this temptation very early on by children who are more grown up, who are raised in a more promiscuous background than we were, who have been exposed to more things in the sexual area than our children have been, and our kids are exposed to that, and they need to know what to do, they need to know what their standards are, they need to know how to make a decision about it. Dennis: One of the reasons why we have come up with this material, Bob, is out of our sixth grade Sunday school class. We taught that class for more than 11 years and taught more than 500 11- and 12-year-olds. Now, that's a lot of sixth graders, and when we started teaching that class, we looked out over them, and we made a wrong assumption. We thought, "They're little, they're small, they're young, they're not ready to be challenged in some of the most fundamental areas of life." And I'm going to tell you, over the 11 years we taught that, if those children taught me anything, it was that assumption was dead wrong. Eleven and 12-year-old children, and I believe even down to the age of 10, are capable of beginning to hear some very mature material around building their own convictions and beliefs and taking a stand for certain things. In fact, one of the things that shocked me was, one of the times when I was teaching about sex to these kids, and I wouldn't talk about the birds and the bees – I always talked about the character issues – your choices and what are you going to do with the opposite sex when you get alone with them? I asked them how far they would go with the opposite sex, and I'll share later on, in the next couple of broadcasts, what they said, but what shocked me was they already knew. They had already drawn some lines in their mind of how far they were going to go in terms of physical involvement with the opposite sex, and what hit me about this is that, here they are, many of them haven't even broken into puberty yet. They haven't experienced electricity, and they're already figuring out how to turn on the light bulb. What's going to happen when the electricity is turned on? What's going to happen to their standards then? And it so shocked me and so took me back that I began to restructure everything I was teaching and began to challenge them much as I would challenge a high school senior – challenging them to think through what their convictions were as they related to the opposite sex. And the bottom line for a parent right here is you need to look at that son or daughter who may be 9, 10, 11, 12 – not quite a teenager yet, doesn't have a teenage body, not gone through puberty at all – let me tell you something – you have a wonderful opportunity now – not two years from now, not six months from now – today, right now, to begin to instruct them and to shape their convictions around one of the biggest temptations a human being will ever face. Bob: Barbara, at the core of what you and Dennis have encouraged your kids to do in this area is a conviction that the standards most people are setting today are way too low. Barbara: Yes, we've realized with our kids that the standard of maintaining their virginity is not enough, because when a young girl and a young boy get together, and they decide they like each other, and they begin holding hands and hugging and kissing and other things, what's happening is they're damaging their purity, they're losing their innocence, they're getting involved with each other emotionally. They're giving away part of themselves to another person that was not intended to be done until marriage. And so we realized that we wanted to challenge our kids to a much, much higher standard of purity. We didn't want them to just end up in marriage as a virgin, we wanted them to enter marriage pure, we wanted them to enter marriage with everything that God wanted them to have intact still there to give to their marriage partner. So we began challenging our kids with the idea of not getting involved physically at all – not kissing, not holding hands, not hugging, those kinds of things, and we began to talk to them about what that does to them physically and emotionally and how that makes them feel, and what's happening, what's going on when – if they would do those things and why we feel that way and what our standards are, and it's provided lots and lots of interesting conversations, because that is dramatically, radically opposed to what the world is saying. Bob: Yeah, how long did it take, Dennis, before the word got out at the kids' school or in church that the Rainey kids are really weird, and their parents are really strange, too? Dennis: You know, it's interesting, Bob, I don't know that the word's out yet. Bob: Oh, is that right? Barbara: Not as much as we'd like, I think. Dennis: Well, you know, that may be true, too, but I think what children are looking for today are some standards that build security. When you build a fence around a playground, that enables the children to use the whole playground, and teenagers are no different. They need to learn how to establish relationships without defining those relationships physically. Teenagers, given their natural bent, are not going to define and develop relationships verbally and emotionally – they're going to define and develop those relationships romantically and physically, and so what Barbara and I had to determine was, hey, we can either take our teenager head-on and say, you know what? We're going to tell it to you like it is. We're going to challenge you with what we believe is the right standard for you, as a young person, and it's a high standard, it's a holy standard, but it's the right standard for today, and you know what? We're not going to compromise by mumbling or stuttering or stammering. We're going to step up, and we're going to tell it to you straight, because we believe, as we do that, that's going to liberate you and free you to be able to get on with what you need to be focusing in on right now, which is developing relationships and friendship on a casual basis and not on this in-depth romantic basis that all teens naturally move to. What insanity. I mean, think about it – that Christian parents would be herding their children off down this path into the gaping jaws of romance, dating, and sex. I want to tell you something, that's what a lot of them are doing as we move our children even into our Christian groups. We're encouraging these kinds of relationships. And it's the parents who need to seize the high ground. It's the parents who need to take the child by the arm and guide them through these traps. Bob: Barbara, as you have challenged your children in these areas, have they thought about it for a second and then said, "Boy, I can see the wisdom of that, Mom and Dad, and I'm with you 100 percent. No kissing for me until I get to the altar." Barbara: Never. Well, it's so different from what they're seeing and hearing that it's taken them a long time to kind of swallow, but, you know, I was just thinking of the old adage, "Rather be safe than sorry," and I would much rather battle my kids and go over and over and over this than have them have regrets someday. I don't want them living with regrets. If there's any way that we, as parents, can help them avoid making mistakes that they're going to regret for the rest of their lives, I'm going to do it, and so what it means is that we stay after it, and we go over it and over it and over it and continue to reinforce those things and continue to reteach and explain why, because they're out there in the culture all the time, and the culture has given them all these other signals, and so you're having to battle all that, and it just takes a lot of time and a lot of energy to continue to do that and guide them in the right direction. Dennis: I think if a parent who is raising an adolescent today was asked – what are you challenging your teenager to? What's the standard when it comes to sex? I think most parents would say, "Well, we want them to be virgins when they get married." And yet I think that goal, as such, sets our children up to get much closer to intercourse than if we were building a fence at the top of the cliff that is a ways away from the edge. And you may disagree with our little challenge that we've given our children, but, you know, whether or not you agree with us is not really the issue here. The issue is what do you believe and where do you draw the line? I fear today that the Christian community is being conformed to the world and doesn't want to draw any lines, and the reality is the culture is drawing the lines or it's erasing them. Really, the culture is erasing those lines, and our teens are being pressed further and further and closer to the edge. And meanwhile the parents – what are we doing? We're stepping off to the side and going, "Well, kids will be kids." God gave children to us, as parents. We're to be the protectors of our children's sexual purity, of their emotional purity, of their sexual innocence, and the issue – what are we doing with that? Are we leaving them to their own devices, or are we going to challenge them with a standard that forces them to think long and hard about the culture and about who they are and about their decision to follow Christ. And I wonder, Bob, if some of these decisions that we've made haven't resulted in our older teenagers – who have now moved on into their 20s – if it hasn't resulted in them – of them taking a stronger stand for Christ because they had to courageously begin to adopt some of these standards. Bob: Barbara, Dennis talked about not only their sexual purity, but their emotional purity as well. How far, physically, do young men and young women need to go before their heart begins to get swept away? Barbara: Well, they don't need to go very far at all, and even these junior high kids can get paired up with another guy or a girl, and just the contact that they can have in a school setting is enough for them to be giving their emotions – where they begin to feel attached to that person, where they need to talk to that person, and that's what we're talking about – it's the sense that these kids have of, "I have to be with him," "I have to have his attention, and if he doesn't give me that attention, then I feel lost or I feel insecure," and that's what begins to develop, and we don't want our children's security dependent on another kid at school. Their security needs to be in who they are as a person and who God created them to be. So it does not take much physical interaction at all for that emotional side of them to get caught up in it, and then, all of a sudden, they're hooked on this person, and they have to have that person. Dennis: The Bible is so wise. It recognizes the emotional connection that occurs when two people get involved sexually, and I think that's why it warns us over and over again to avoid it. 1 Corinthians, chapter 6, verse 18 through 20 – "Flee sexual immorality. Every sin that a man does is outside the body, but he who commits sexual immorality sins against his own body." Let me just say there – where are the emotions in our body? That's what the scripture is warning us about. "Do you not know that your body is the temple of the Holy Spirit who is in you whom you have from God and that you are not your own? For you were bought with a price. Therefore, glorify God in your body." 2 Timothy 2:22 also says, "Flee also youthful lusts but pursue righteousness, faith, love, peace with those who call upon the Lord out of a pure heart." What's God after here? He wants a pure heart. I want to read you something from our book. It's something we wanted to capture in words just to give parents a picture of what our goal ought to be – "Picture a beautiful, exquisitely wrapped package. Inside is the most delightful, untainted pleasures you could imagine. Now, wouldn't you want to be able to give that gift to your child? Wouldn't you love to give your child a gift that would be good, wholesome, something to treasure for a lifetime? That's what this gift of innocence is all about – helping your child understand who they are as a sexual creature reflecting the image of God. That's your goal, and once you make it your goal, it will begin to change the way you think about how you guide your teenager down through the dangerous, trap-infested street through Teensville." Bob, I think every parent is jealous for our children to experience all of life that God intended, and it needs to be experienced in God's timing, and I believe sex, and that is all of sex, was intended to be experienced in marriage. Bob: Barbara, I can think of two big reasons why parents are intimidated in talking about high standards with their children. The first reason is because they feel like hypocrites, because they compromised their own standards when they were young people. The second reason is because they know it may cause them to have to change some things about their own behavior today – movies they're watching, television shows, or even their interaction with members of the opposite sex, even in the context of marriage. Barbara: Well, I think parents need to just evaluate what's more important – is your child's life more important than your life and your pleasures and your interests? Is your past going to keep you from doing what's right? I mean, most of us grew up and lied, but do we ever say that we shouldn't teach our children not to lie just because we made that mistake? I mean, we've all made mistakes in different areas of our lives, but that doesn't meant that we can't teach our children what is right and hold them to a standard of godliness. I don't have a problem at all with holding my kids to a higher standard in all kinds of areas and in ways that I didn't live life the way I should have, because I know more now than I did when I was a teenager. I'm much more mature in Christ than I was then, and I want my kids to experience all that God intends for them to experience, and that is more important to me than my own interests or my own pleasures, so to speak, today. So I think parents need to pull back and say, "What is my goal? What's more important in life? Is the life of your child more important than your life or not? Bob: And if they say to you – "Well, what about you when you were a teenager? What did you do? How far did you go?" How do you answer? Barbara: If my children ask me that question? Well, I think that needs to be answered very, very carefully, because different parents are going to have different answers to that question, and I think that there may come a time when a parent may need to say to a child – but it would need to be when the child is much older – "Here are the mistakes that I made, and I am trying my best to preserve your innocence so that you don't make the mistakes that I made," but I think parents need to be very careful in what they say, when they say it, and how much they say. Dennis: Yeah, I'd be careful about ever sharing a great deal of detail around sexual failures that you may have made as a teenager, a college student, or as an adult. Children at this age need models and heroes and, emotionally, I don't think they're ready to hear the whole truth and nothing but the truth from their parents. They need you to stand strong on behalf of the standard. Now, that doesn't mean you lie to them. Barbara: Or that you act like you're perfect and never do anything wrong, either. They need a role model, but they need someone that they know that – you know – you've made some mistakes, but you don't have to enumerate them and spell them out. Dennis: I might say something to a child to the effect, "You know, that's a great question, and someday you and I will have a conversation around that, but right now here is what I want you to focus on as a young man or a young lady, and move the focus off of you back where it needs to be – on the Scripture and on the young person who is beginning to develop his or her convictions. All of these things we're talking about begin as convictions in the parent, but it can't stop there. It needs to be implanted in the heart of a child. Bob: This is a significant enough issue that you devoted two chapters in your book, "Parenting Today's Adolescent," to this subject because there's a lot for parents to think through and be alert to and be prepared for. This is one of the big traps facing teenagers today, and we want to make sure that, as parents, we address this issue in a healthy, godly, biblical way promoting the standard of purity with our teenagers and helping them see that this is a good gift from God for husbands and wives in a marriage relationship. You know, a couple of weeks ago we mentioned to our listeners a couple of classic books by Elizabeth Elliot that deal with this issue of purity. Her book, "Passion and Purity," and then the follow-up book, "Quest for Love" are books that are really timeless classics that promote a healthy, biblical view of romance and passion and intimacy and helps young people see how that can be lived out and some of the destructive things that can happen if someone violates God's standards for sexuality. In addition to your book, "Parenting Today's Adolescent," we have Elizabeth Elliot's books also in our FamilyLife Resource Center. And I just want to encourage our listeners, go to our website, FamilyLife.com, and if you click the red button that says "Go" in the middle of the screen, that will take you to an area of the site where you can get more information on recources that we have available here at FamilyLife designed to help you, as a parent, not only wrestle with your own convictions but help you challenge your sons and your daughters to a biblical standard in this area. Again, our website is FamilyLife.com, and you click the red button that says "Go." It will take you to the area of the site where you can order copies of these books that I've mentioned or get more information about them. You can also call 1-800-FLTODAY. That's 1-800-358-6329, and someone on our team will let you know how you can get copies of these resources sent out to you. And then if you're a father, let me also encourage you to consider getting a copy of Dennis Rainey's new book, "Interviewing Your Daughter's Date." It's available in our FamilyLife Resource Center as well, but this month we also want to make it available to you as a thank you gift when you support the ministry of FamilyLife Today with a donation of any amount. We are listener-supported. We depend on donations from our listeners to be able to continue this ministry on this station and on other stations all across the country, and we thought this month a good way to say thank you for your financial support would be to make available Dennis's new book. You can request it when you donate online at FamilyLife.com by typing the word "date" into the keycode box that you find on the donation form. You type that in there, and we'll send you a copy of the book. Or call 1-800-FLTODAY, that's 1-800-358-6329, and make your donation over the phone and just mention that you'd like a copy of Dennis's book, "Interviewing Your Daughter's Date," and we'll be happy to send it out to you as our way of saying thanks for your financial support of the ministry of FamilyLife Today. Well, we're going to look at this subject of sex and intimacy and how we can raise a standard of purity with our teens on tomorrow's program. I hope you can be back with us for that. 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FamilyLife Today® Radio Transcript References to conferences, resources, or other special promotions may be obsolete. The Deadly Traps of Adolescence Day 4 of 10 Guest: Dennis and Barbara Rainey From the series: Sex Bob: Parents often wonder – when should we have "the talk" with out children? Dennis Rainey says it shouldn't just be "the talk," it ought to be "the talks." Dennis: I've really found that there are different segments that we go through with our children, whether boys or girls, that I've certainly taken our boys through. First of all, it's just the ABCs of sex – it's the birds and the bees, it's the biological facts about sex, and I honestly believe today that has to be in place by age 10. If you've not had that conversation with your child, the world is having it. Bob: This is FamilyLife Today for Thursday, July 12th. Our host is the president of FamilyLife, Dennis Rainey, and I'm Bob Lepine. We'll talk today about the big talk parents need to have with their children – what, when, and how? And welcome to FamilyLife Today, thanks for joining us on the Thursday edition. We have been wandering through a field full of traps this week on the program because, as parents, we need to visit and learn where the traps are so that we can be about our job of leading our children through a field of traps that they're going to face as adolescents. Dennis: Yeah, I thought you were going to the field of dreams there – you know, adolescence is no field of dreams – it's a picture, I believe, of a parent walking through this trap-infested field with a teenager having a blindfold on and being barefoot, scooting along very closely behind the parent with his hands on the parent's shoulder, and the parent guiding him around all these traps because they're dangerous. Job, chapter 18, describes the scene, I think, beautifully – verse 8 – "His feet thrust down into a net, and he wanders into its mesh. A trap seizes hold by the heel; a snare holds him fast; a noose is hidden for him on the ground; a trap lies in his path." Now, listen to this summary – "Terrors startle him on every side and dog his every step. Calamity is hungry for him, disaster is ready for him when he falls." That's the picture of a teenager moving from childhood through those perilous adolescent years to adulthood and maturity, and it's our responsibility, as parents, to go ahead of our children and guide them through this process. Bob: Barbara, there are too many 10-year-olds, 12-year-olds, 15-year-olds, and 18-year-olds out wandering in that field with the blindfold on and nobody leading them at all. Barbara: Except the culture. Bob: Yes. Barbara: And the culture is doing a good job of it, and they're out there alone, or they're out there with a bunch of their buddies, a bunch of their friends, and they're wandering around, just looking for direction, for anybody to tell them what to do, and that's why they get sucked into these traps all the time. Bob: Where are Mom and Dad? Barbara: Mom and Dad have usually abdicated. They've just pulled back, and they've either decided they can't handle this kid, or they've decided this is too much, and he's just going to do what he's going to do, anyway, and I'm just not going to worry about it. Bob: Dennis, that's part of the reason you and Barbara sat down to spend the hours writing this book to call Mom and Dad back to their post. Dennis: I think a lot of parents are losing heart in this culture. This is not an easy time to raise a child, and especially not an easy time to raise a teenager. The culture doesn't reinforce our standards, if we have standards. In fact, the culture is attacking those parents who have standards. And so, frankly, this is a time to call parents to be courageous, and that's what we attempted to do in this book – kind of put our arms around a parent or a single parent and say, "You know what? You can do it with the Scriptures and the power of the Holy Spirit with God as the builder of your home, you know what? You can raise a child to make it through this trap-infested field, and he can make it to maturity and not be maimed or injured for life as a result." Bob: Yesterday on the broadcast we talked about the trap of sexual immorality, and you encouraged us, as parents, to raise the standard higher than the current cultural standard. Even within the Christian community, we've set the bar too low, as you see it. Dennis: That's right. I've got a letter here that was passed on to me by a grandmother who worked in our ministry here for a number of years. Her name is Pat Orten [sp], and Pat is a dear person, but she wrote about how her mother helped draw lines and boundaries around her life. Now, you can tell by the sound of this letter that this is from another era, but I don't think all of what's represented here is a bad era at all. I think we need to return to some of the standards represented in this note that she slipped me. She writes – "I remember my mom drawing the line for me when I began to date. She instructed me about how a guy should and should not touch me with his hands. For example, she said to never let a guy place his hand on my knee. I see so many dating couples with their hands on each other's knee or with his hand in her back pocket of her jeans, and I always remember my mother's words. Because that line was drawn, my husband and I remained pure in our four-year dating relationship before we were married. I can still recall more than 40 years ago the pleasure we both experienced when my husband put his hand on my knee as we drove off on our honeymoon. He laughed and said he'd been waiting for four years to do that." I love it. Barbara: I do, too. Dennis: I really do love that. Barbara: I do, too. Dennis: She concludes her note by saying, "I'm thankful to my mom for helping me draw the line for purity." Now, you know, that sounds so ancient, so fossilized, but it's … Barbara: … so healthy. Dennis: It's so pure, so good, there's something about the breeze that letter creates in our soul to say would be that our children could say on their honeymoon – "I've been waiting for years to do that." Wouldn't that be a tremendous privilege to deliver your child to their wedding altar with that purity, that innocence intact? Well, I think that's what a parent's assignment is as we raise teenagers today. Bob: Barbara, we talked yesterday on the broadcast about helping our children understand the warnings from scripture about issues of sexual immorality, but the truth is the Bible says a lot of things that are very positive about sexual relationships. It just confines them to marriage. We've got to be teaching our kids the good things the Bible says as well as the warnings, right? Barbara: I agree, Bob, and I think we need to help our kids see the good things that God designed for a man and a woman in marriage, and I think we need to help them understand that sex is for intimacy in marriage, and that God created it for that, and He created it for pleasure, and it's good, and it's good experienced in marriage, and He intended for us, as male and female, to enjoy that gift that He gave us in marriage. And He also made it real clear that anything outside of marriage – that was a sin. So I think as we paint a picture for our kids of how marriage is good, and it's healthy, and it's wholesome, and sex within marriage is a wonderful thing, it's a wonderful gift, we can build some expectancy and some hope for our kids so that they can have something to look forward to, they can understand what the goal is, they've got a model lived before them between Mom and Dad, and they know that's something that they're going to want someday, and they'll have more of a motivation to wait, more of a motivation to save themselves, because they understand the plan and what God has for them. Bob: You know, it feels a little difficult as a parent, because it's almost like telling your kids – you know this particular flavor of ice cream – it's really, really good, but you can't have any now, and you can't have any for a long time but, boy, it's really good when you have some. It's almost like you're taunting them. You feel almost cruel. Dennis: Well, but that's the mystery of sex. In our sixth grade Sunday school class, one of the ways we sought to teach this was I would walk up to the front of the class with a paper sack and an electrical cord running out of the paper sack to the wall, and I would ask the children – how many of you believe me when I tell you there's something dangerous inside this paper sack? And they would hold up their hands, and I'd say, "Now, everybody who held up their hands, stand up" – and there would always be one boy who did not believe me, and who would be seated at that point. So I would invite him to come up, and I'd say, "Now let me understand this correctly. You didn't believe me when I told you that there was something dangerous in this sack, is that right?" And he's beginning to look at me a bit suspiciously at that point, being 11 or 12 years of age, and I said, "Okay, you didn't believe me. I want you to stick your hand in the sack," and I whispered in his ear, "Young man, as you stick your hand into the paper sack, go in very slowly, because what's in there really is dangerous." And at that point he doesn't want to stick his hand in, but his hand goes in, even if I force it in, and it comes out like a bolt of lightning, because he has touched something very hot, and what I have inside the sack is a curling iron that has been sufficiently heated up – and I want our listeners to know, lest they're going to file a lawsuit on behalf of that 11- or 12-year-old, I've never scarred any kids or hurt them or anything, so don't worry about those kids, but I make the point of that young man saying he was given a chance to believe me when I told him that it was dangerous, but he didn't believe me, and so he stuck his hand in, and he learned, through experience, that he should have trusted my word. I believe God wants us to wait until marriage to experience this area called sex, and he wants us to train our children to do the very same thing in helping them trust that God's Word is true, that His warnings are healthy, that His encouragements about the healthy side of sex are positive, and to not doubt that word and not go against that word, because if they do they're liable to get burned. Bob: Barbara, help us practically here – as a mom, what did you do with your girls as they were going through pre-adolescence, right before they headed into the teenage years to help shape their convictions in these areas? Barbara: Well, with all of our girls, I took them away on a little weekend retreat, or even a one-night retreat and took some tapes and some books and some different things and just made it a real special getaway for Mom and daughter, and we'd go stay at a nice hotel or a little bed and breakfast or something that was fun and out of the ordinary, and we would listen to these tapes and read selected portions out of a book and begin to talk about the whole process of them growing up and becoming a woman and what that meant and all the changes that they would go through physically. And then we would also talk about how they were going to be changing emotionally, how they would change in their perception of boys and right now they thought, you know – and usually it was around their sixth grade year that I would do this, and they would think that boys were pretty weird and not too cool to be around, so you kind of have to convince them that this really is going to happen. But just talk to them about their interest is going to change and how the boys are going to become interested in them and what boys are going to be thinking and what they're going to be thinking in response to that and just begin to head off, by some initial preparation, some teaching that's going to help them understand the changes that they're getting ready to go through. Bob: In your book you included a list of what materials you used in those weekend getaways and, at the end of the broadcast, I'm going to let our listeners know how they can get a copy of the book if they want to. Dennis, how about you and the boys? Did you have a similar kind of weekend experience? Dennis: Well, I did, but I really found that there are different segments that we go through with our children, whether they be boys or girls, that I've certainly taken our boys through. First of all, it's just the ABCs of sex – it's the birds and the bees, it's the biological facts about sex, and I honestly believe today that has to be in place by age 10. If you've not had that conversation with your child, the world is having it. Somehow, some way, peers, music, movies, TV, magazines, Internet – all the different forms of media are coming at your kids left and right, and they are hearing some form about sex that's probably degrading, perverted, and certainly not God's way. But that really leads to an opportunity that – it probably is around ages 10 to 12, and there's a whole bunch of issues that we've talked about with our sons – puberty, what that means and what's about to happen to their body; we talk about dating and what's involved in that; about relationships and even some of the principles for dating and some of the boundaries for dating. Later on in adolescence you double back and you have some additional conversations, Bob, around all of these issues plus the things that begin to pile up about them – dancing, music, saying no to an aggressive girl who is physically coming on to you; some higher callings about how a young man is to relate to the opposite sex – manners, all those issues about touching, kissing, petting, and intercourse. These are all healthy discussions that a father and a son ought to be working through and ought to have almost a grocery list, a checklist, that he's checking them off and having these discussions with his sons because these young men need to hear it first and need to hear it second and third and fourth from their fathers – from a Christian perspective. Bob: One of the things about the checklist that we have to keep in mind is even after we check it off, all that means is that we've covered it once. That doesn't mean it's done, does it? Dennis: That's right, but that's been one of the most difficult things about teenagers, Bob, especially if you've got more than one. You can begin to assume they got it, and that's very dangerous, whether it be with a son or with a daughter. You need to assume, more than likely, they didn't get it. Don't nag them, don't harp on them, don't stay on their case, but double back and kind of see if they're hearing and beginning to develop their own convictions. Bob: There are a lot of dads who kind of wipe their brow and go, "Whew, that's over," after they've had a talk with a child, and it's not over until you've revisited the subject a half a dozen more times throughout the teenage years. Dennis: That's exactly right. Bob: Barbara, how about you and the boys? Have you felt a need, as a mom, to reinforce any particular issues with your sons? Barbara: Well, I've just been focused on trying to reinforce what they've talked about with Dad, but it's been interesting – there have been a couple of occasions with our boys, when they were teenagers, when they would go to a youth group retreat or some other kind of conference, and they would hear a talk about dating or sex or some of those issues, and we had some very interesting discussions when they would come back. I remember one – it was Ashley, Benjamin, Samuel, and I – we were all sitting in the bedroom, and they were all three telling me what they'd learned at this conference about sex and dating, and we just had this great interaction right there on the spot, talking about what they'd learned, and I asked them what they thought about it and do you feel like that's right – is that something you're going to adopt, is that something you want to choose for your own or do you think maybe you want to have a different standard? And we just interacted about all that. So there will be those opportunities for Moms to validate what Dad is teaching and to say, "You know, I really am proud of the way you're becoming a young man, and you're taking initiative, and you're becoming – you're growing up," and she can do a lot of that kind of validating and appreciating and reinforcing what Dad's been saying. Bob: Dennis, we've talked about moms and their daughters, dads and their sons, moms and their sons – I know you've had conversations with your daughters. In fact, there was one conversation you had specifically with one of your daughters where you used a water balloon as a way to illustrate what you were talking about? Dennis: Yeah, Rebecca, who is 17 right now, has a point of contention with me, because she wants a royalty off this idea. She thinks she invented this, but that's not how I remember the conversation. We were sitting out in a grocery store parking lot waiting for some friends to pick her up for a bunking party, as I recall, and there was a water balloon left over from a big water balloon fight we'd had the weekend before between the parents – us – Mom and Dad – and the other teams. And the water balloon was sitting there, and it was one of the moments where we started talking about how far are you going to go and how much of your innocence are you going to keep and preserve to be able to give to your husband on your wedding night. And I pulled that water balloon out, and I held it up, and I said, "Rebecca, it's like this water balloon contains all of your innocence. It's just a limited amount, only so much, and if you give that water balloon to a young man, and he takes a pen, and he says, "You know, I just want a little kiss. Well, at that point, Rebecca, you give away just a little bit and he just takes the pin and just ever so slightly puts a little bitty hole in the balloon and out comes a little drop of water." I said, "I'm not saying that's wrong for him to kiss you at that point, but you just given away your first kiss at that point. And then you decide to maybe kiss a little longer and a little deeper, and the young man doesn't just poke one hole, he pokes several holes in there and now instead of just a drop of water coming out, there are several drops coming out, and maybe it begins to squirt out of the balloon. And I didn't have a pin in the car there, Bob, so I couldn't illustrate this, but she was catching on. And I said, "What could possibly happen now is that you give your innocence away to enough people so that when you arrive at your marriage bed the balloon would be empty. There would be nothing to give to your husband," and I said, "How would that make you feel?" She said, "Really sad." And I said, "Yeah," and I said, "Your innocence needs to be preserved and protected by you and by us, and that's what your mom and I are doing as we walk through some very dangerous paths, and we help you as you relate to the opposite sex." And, you know, that illustration – I've gone back to that and so has Barbara with Rebecca on numerous occasions, to talk to her about standing strong and about preserving that which God has entrusted to her. And the reason I like that illustration is because, as parents, I think we're entrusted, in a sense, with protecting that water balloon. We've got to go the extra mile to protect and preserve and be the guardians and not just give it away or not just let them go and just let them go their own way but be courageous and step into a child who maybe is a teen today, and maybe you've lost control, and it's going to be harder to reel them back in but, you know what? You've got to do it. You've got to do it, because if you don't they could ruin their lives. And, Bob, I just want to encourage that parent today who is listening – no matter how many mistakes you've made in the past – and we've made many. It may sound like from time to time on this broadcast because we share some of these things that we've done it all right. We have not done it all right. We have made assumptions that our kids have been getting these points, and they haven't been getting them, and they've missed the point. And we've had to backtrack and go back and reteach, and we've had to give our kids grace when they've failed but you know what? I would rather have fought the fight and have been in there with our children helping to preserve and guard and protect than to back out and just let them go. That isn't right. God has given us these children, and we are to be their parents all the way through adolescence as they emerge into adulthood. Bob: You know, that illustration you used, of the water balloon, is one of a bunch of illustrations that you provide in the book, "Parenting Today's Adolescent," and those word pictures do stick with our children. When you do more than just talk with them, when you can use a demonstration or a word picture like that, it can make a big difference and, again, it sticks with our sons and our daughters and, in fact, that particular illustration is one that we've incorporated into the resource Passport to Purity, which a lot of FamilyLife Today listeners have used with their preteens, taking them off for a weekend where they can go through the Passport to Purity material and have their sons and daughters ready to face peer pressure and dating and sex and some of these deadly traps we're talking about this week on our program. 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FamilyLife Today® Radio Transcript References to conferences, resources, or other special promotions may be obsolete. The Deadly Traps of Adolescence Day 8 of 10 Guest: Dennis and Barbara Rainey From the series: Pornography Bob: Hi, this is Bob Lepine from FamilyLife Today. The subject matter we'll be dealing with on today's broadcast is of a sensitive nature and probably not one that you'll want to have children listening to. It's really aimed at more mature audiences, so let me encourage you to usher your children away from the radio and then join us for today's edition of FamilyLife Today. A lot of guys today think of pornography of something that's essentially a harmless indulgence. I mean, it's not hurting anybody else, right? That's how they rationalize it. Whether it's sites visited on the Internet or magazines that are kept hidden away, pornography can have an impact not just on your heart, but it can also be visited to the next generation. Here is Dennis Rainey. Dennis: I include in our book, "Parenting Today's Adolescent," a story of a young man who found pornography because his father had a stack of it in his closet, and his dad was sampling this stuff, and the boy found it, and it started a pattern in this young man's life that impacted his marriage, his family, and almost destroyed him as a man. Bob: This is FamilyLife Today for Wednesday, July 18th. Our host is the president of FamilyLife, Dennis Rainey, and I'm Bob Lepine. What can we do, as parents, to attempt to protect our children against the devastating damage of pornography? And welcome to FamilyLife Today, thanks for joining us on the Wednesday edition. Last week and again this week, we have been talking about some of the traps that have been laid for our teenagers as they walk through the teenage years and about the things that we can do, as parents, to be proactive in trying to help our teens navigate around these traps so that they don't become ensnared. And the trap we're going to be talking about today, Dennis, is a dangerous trap. It's the trap of pornography. Dennis: You know, Proverbs 4:23 says, "Watch over your heart with all diligence, for from it flow the springs of life." What Solomon is talking about there is protecting the headwaters of the soul, because once you pollute the headwaters, the stream all the way out into the life of that person is impacted by that poison. You know, Bob, you came in one day when we were working on the book, and we'd been talking around this issue about pornography, and you shared a story about how a leader in a church had been impacted by pornography that found its way into his life through Christian families. Bob: Yeah, this particular individual had grown up in a Christian home and had not been exposed to anything like this at home, but he'd gone to babysit for other families in the church and, again, his parents assumed these families were good churchgoing families. There was nothing to concern them there. But after the children were in bed, he found, hidden away in some of these homes, pornographic material, and it was his first exposure, and it grabbed hold of him and, Dennis, there is something about pornography that it just seems to get its claws on the soul of a man, and it won't let go. Dennis: And it's that curiosity, I think, that the enemy uses with men and, I believe, with women as well, that hook them and where they develop a compulsive behavior that begins to habitually get into pornography and sample it, and it poisons the soul. It poisons the heart. And what we have to do as parents, I believe, we are the guardians of our children's hearts. We are the ones who are to protect them from this evil, but it starts all the way back with our model, what we watch, what we do, what we bring into our homes. I include in our book, "Parenting Today's Adolescent," a story of a young man who found pornography because his father had a stack of it in his closet, and his dad was sampling this stuff, and the boy found it, and it started a pattern in this young man's life that impacted his marriage, his family, and almost destroyed him as a man. Bob: Barbara, that's one of the challenges that parents face today. In Solomon's day, as we read in Proverbs, chapter 5, 6, and 7, you could pretty much warn your kids, "Stay out of this part of town, don't go in establishments like this, and you'll be protected from these images and from pornography." It has been so mainstreamed today that we can hardly let our kids out of the house. Barbara: Well, we don't have to let our kids out of the house with the Internet. I mean, you know, that kind of stuff is everywhere, and that's what's so scary. But parents really need to be on guard, as Dennis was saying, in protecting our kids and watching where they are, where they're going, and even in letting them to go somebody else's house, like that story you told about that man when he was a young boy, finding it another Christian's home. We have to be so careful where we let our kids go and who we let them spend time with. Bob: Then we've got to be asking a lot of questions at the same time, like the question you asked your son Benjamin one day when he came home from school. Dennis: Yeah, and I asked him if he'd been looking at anything he ought not to be looking at, and he was about 12 or 13 years of age. Bob: That's a pretty bold question for a dad just to grab his son and say, "Hey, have you been looking at anything you shouldn't be looking at?" Dennis: Well, I think the spirit of God prompted me to do that, and I think what I want to encourage our listeners to do is when the Lord begins to burden you with something with your children, step on in there and ask the question. Benjamin had come home from school. We were in the kitchen, and I asked him that question, and it was like he was struck with lightning. It's, like, "Dad, have you been reading my mail or something?" And he said – he looked at me after he paused for a moment, and he got this little grin that he has, and he said, "Well, as a matter of fact, today at lunch I was sitting in the back of the classroom eating my sandwich, and some guys had some pornographic literature up front at the teacher's desk, and they were all huddled around it, looking at it, and they said, 'Hey, Ben, come on up and look at this.'" And he said, "I finished my sandwich, stuffed it all in the sack, and I walked up past the desk and on out into the hall and left the room." And I said, "You did what?" He said, "That's right. I didn't look at it. I left the room." Well, at that point, it was like my son had scored the winning touchdown … Barbara: … in the Super Bowl. Dennis: In the Super Bowl, there you go, and I went berserk. I mean, I started screaming, yelling, going, "Yes, way to go, son, that's a phenomenal step," and you know, I don't know to this day if he remembers his Dad going bonkers there in the kitchen over his choice, but I think if there's anything we ought to be getting excited today about, it's young men, young women, who are taking steps away from evil and toward that which is right. You know, Bob, I think what we're talking about here is parents being involved in their sons' and in their daughters' lives, because there are so many ways these images can gain entrance into our children's soul and poison the headwaters. Bob: Barbara, when my son Jimmy was about seven years old, we were driving around one day, and there are a series of stores in our community that we've just chosen not to patronize because they sell pornographic magazines. And so as we drove past one of these stores, he said, "Now, Dad, we don't shop there because of some of the magazines they sell, is that right?" I said, "That's right." And he said, "What kind of magazines are they?" And he's seven – and here's the tension for a dad – how much detail do you share in order to protect your son's innocence and keep him away from the destruction? How do parents navigate that kind of a tightrope? Barbara: Well, I think parents – again, it goes back to being involved, and it's the word we've talked about over and over again in the book, and as we've been talking through these traps – Moms and Dads have to be involved in their child's life, and that means asking questions all the time and then responding to the questions they ask us like you did with Jimmy, and saying, "You know, it's something that is degrading to what God created." Or bring it back to the scripture to God's blueprint and God's plan for marriage and family and just let them know that this material is not wholesome, and it's not healthy. But we need to be careful that we do it in such a way that we don't increase their curiosity so that they want to go find out what this is. And I think, as parents, as we continue to pray, that God will give us wisdom to answer these questions and to ask our kids questions, too, to find out what they're seeing and what they're hearing, I think the Lord will grant that wisdom. Bob: You know, a number of years ago, one of my sons had a friend come over and spend the night, and Mary Ann and I had gone on to bed and, of course, they stayed up later. I think they were watching something on TV or watching a video or something. And the next morning when I got up, I was on the computer, and I saw a site that I didn't recognize in our history file. I went there and as soon as it popped up, I went "Uh-oh," and clicked out of it, and then I realized that this had to be something that the kids had gone to while we'd gone to bed. And so I called to my son, and I said, "Son, can you come into the other room for just a second?" And I sat him down, and I said, "Did you guys look at something last night on the Internet that you shouldn't have looked at?" And he realized immediately that he'd been found out, there was nowhere to run, nowhere to hide, so he just kind of dropped his head and said, "Yeah, we did." And I said, "Well, tell me about it. What happened?" And it turned out that someone at school had given my son's friend an address for the Internet and said, "You ought to check out this site." And they didn't know what was there, they didn't know anything about it. It had been, I think, relatively innocent, at least that when we called the other young man in, and I asked him about that, that's what he told me. He said, "I didn't know all that was going to be there. Somebody told me I should look at it, and so we looked at it." And I said, "Well, I've got to call your dad and let him know what we looked at, and we've just got to be on the same page, and he allowed that that would be okay. And we didn't make a big deal out of it because I think they had come across this relatively innocently, but we did say, "Look, there is danger here. It's not just something innocent it's not harmless. You've got to be very careful. You don't want to be going to these sites. Looking at this stuff can damage your soul." And, you know, when we think about this issue of pornography, we typically think about our teenage sons and the pictures and images that they're seeing, but, I'll tell you, there is a growing trend of teenage girls going on the website to look at particular kinds of pictures or images. And even if they're not looking at what we would technically refer to as pornography, they are going to sites, or they're reading literature, or they're viewing things that can have the same kind of influence on their soul. Barbara: Yeah, I think there are two things that girls are most susceptible to. One would be magazines and the kinds of images – the way they portray women and teenagers in magazines, the kinds of things that they wear. And all of that can desensitize their perspective of who they are as young women and how they are to act and what their standards need to be. And the other thing would be novels that girls read, because there are a lot of novels out there, even Christian novels, that are romance novels that stir up all kinds of longings and passions and desires and interests along those lines that are not necessary for these girls to be experiencing. It's not something that they need at this age in their lives. They need to be doing things that are much more wholesome and relational with girlfriends and family, rather than feasting their eyes and their minds on these magazines and books that are all about things that they have no business being involved in. Bob: Some of the magazines that you subscribed to when you were in high school and had hoped you might subscribe to someday with your daughters you found were wholly inappropriate. Barbara: Yeah, I remember discovering that and what a shock it was when our oldest daughter was a teenager and I thought, "Well, I'll just subscribe to this magazine for her," and went and bought a copy at the newsstand for her to have and was just amazed at how it had changed over those years from when I was a teenager to when she became a teenager, and that was even about 10 years ago, and the content was awful, it really was. Bob: Dennis, in the same way that men are stimulated visually, women are stimulated emotionally – what they read in romance novels and magazines can gain a grip on their soul. Dennis: I think it's the wise parent who understands that this problem is not just a male problem. I think many of the soap operas today, a lot of advertising, other things, are trying to gain entrance into a woman's soul and pollute her much as diabolical forces are trying to do the same thing with men, and it's why we've got to maintain a good connection with our daughters as well as our sons and be tracking with them, asking them how they're doing. One of the things, Bob, that I think is very important to discuss with our teens and preteens, is just a good definition of what pornography is. I think a lot of times we can classify pornography at such an end of the spectrum that we fail to recognize where pornography starts, and our definition that we use is that pornography is any type of media – words, photographs, movies, or music, that stimulates sexual excitement. Now, if you start with that definition, all of a sudden, that opens the door to all types of advertisements, whether it be on TV, whether it be on the radio or in print media and, frankly, some of the advertisements that are used even in major news magazines or even in the newspaper is absolutely pornographic. And, as parents, I think we've got to start with our own basic conviction of what is pornography? What are we going to classify as pornographic literature? Pornographic images? And I believe pornography is that which perverts the beauty of what God said was very good. The sex drive and sex in marriage is all appropriate and good and blessed by God, but pornography is an appeal to the fantasy. It calls men and women away from real relationships to these fantasy relationships that don't exist. A second thing that's very important is, without being explicit, you talked about this with your son, Jimmy – we have to explain to our young people that pornography has certain steps associated with it. There's a slow, gradual, slippery slope that you start walking down, and it starts with just a little bit of curiosity, and then there has to be more stimulation to satisfy that curiosity, and it can be so powerful, so alluring that it can take an innocent encounter like I had one time of opening a trash bin to dump our garbage in the trash bin, and there was, opened in the trash bin, a pornographic magazine. Well, at that point, I could either decide to walk away or pick it up and stuff it in my trash bag and take it back into my home. I left it where it was and didn't look, but it's those types of little steps that determine who we become. Bob: We were driving along the other night with a friend of my daughter's, and they have an Internet service, one of the large, national Internet services, and we were talking about e-mail, and she said, "We routinely get e-mails sent to us inviting us to visit all these icky-sounding sites," and it's happening innocently where your children are a click away from an image that will burn into their soul and will never leave. Dennis: Yeah, and that's why parents have got to be involved, and they've got to use some of the resources that are being created to protect our families. There's an Internet service that we list in the book that is filtering out pornographic sites from ever even making it to your computer. There's software available that's mentioned in the book as well to talk about how to filter these images and words from ever making it into your home, and I think, as parents, we've got to use all these resources that help us protect and guard our children's hearts, because we've been given that responsibility, and your child doesn't have the maturity to be able to discern what to do with that Russian sex site that pops up on your screen. Bob: Dennis, what should a mom or a dad do if they come across files that they know have been downloaded onto the computer that they realize are inappropriate? Dennis: Well, first of all, you're making the assumption that they found them casually. I would empower every parent listening who is raising a teenager to take the freedom to look. I wouldn't hesitate to look in my son or my daughter's room or where they've been tracking on the computer if I suspected anything and you know what? Even if you haven't suspected anything, it might not be a bad idea if you just go and look and just check it out. Now, is that invading the child's privacy? I don't think so. That child is under your care. You are protecting that child. If you came home and were afraid somebody was hiding in your child's room, wouldn't you go look in that room first to see if somebody was in there, if there was evil in there, if there was harm going to come to him? You wouldn't think anything about that. Well, I think the same thing is true of this. I think we need to look at see if our children are sampling. Secondly, if you do find it, I think immediately you offer grace. You know, that's at the core of the Gospel. Ephesians 2, 8 and 9 says, "For by grace you have been saved through faith and that not of yourselves, it's the gift of God, not as a result of works that no one should boast." We're all sinners, we've all broken God's laws, we need grace to be able to rightly relate to God and to one another. You forgive your child, and you go armed with that grace and forgiveness, but you take a step beyond that, and you call that young man or that young lady to be accountable. You ask them to step forward and to submit to some actions like not being on the computer late at night after Mom and Dad have gone to bed; not having a computer in their bedroom with the door closed. The idea is, is bring their lives out into the light and let them walk in the light. Then, I think, third, ask your child questions – are you looking at anything you ought not to be looking at? Are you allowing your mind to feast on anything that could pollute your soul as a young man or as a young lady? Bob: I think it can be helpful for parents, too, to have software on the computer, things like on our computer at home, we use something called "Safe Eyes," that's a program you buy, and a service then you subscribe to that provides a level of safety. There is also monitoring software. We've talked before about a program called "Desktop Surveillance," that gives you snapshots of where your children have been, where anybody has been on your computer. And all of these kinds of computer programs can be helpful but, again, we have to remind ourselves that there is no computer program that will keep a teenager away from something they shouldn't be looking at if they really want to look at it. They can go to a friend's house or a cyber café somewhere, they can find a computer that's available and, I guarantee you, if they go off to college, unless they're in a situation where the college actually filters the Internet, they're going to have access wide open. You've got to make sure that you're not just dealing with the problem by putting boundaries around your teenagers, but you're helping your teenager cultivate the personal boundaries, the personal convictions, the self-discipline to stay away from these sites that we've talked about today. And to do that, you need the kind of guidance that the two of you provide in your book, "Parenting Today's Adolescent." I think you give us, as parents, a good game plan for how to address these issues, how to have an ongoing conversation with our teenagers so that we can raise this issue regularly as our children go through the teen years. This is one of the more than a dozen traps you talk about in the book "Parenting Today's Adolescent." And I think it's a particularly helpful resource for parents who have preteens. You're right on the verge of your children becoming teenagers. Maybe you're not dealing with these issues now, but they're just around the corner and now is the time for you to be engaging in these issues, developing some convictions and being ready to have some standards in place that you can interact with your teen about as they start to move into their teenage years. Again, we've got copies of the book, "Parenting Today's Adolescent," in our FamilyLife Resource Center. Go to our website, FamilyLife.com. In the middle of the home page, you'll see a red button that says "Go," and if you click that button, it will take you to an area of the site where you can get more information about the book, or you can order a copy online, if you'd like. Again, the website if FamilyLife.com, click the red "Go" button so that you can get a copy of Dennis and Barbara's book, or call 1-800-FLTODAY, that's 1-800-358-6329, that's 1-800-F-as-in-family, L-as-in-life, and then the word TODAY, and someone on our team will make arrangements to have a copy of this book sent to you. You know, a common theme that we've had throughout this week as we've talked about the traps that are facing our teenagers is the theme of how important it is for parents to be proactive, to be involved, and to make sure you have a relationship in place with your teenager as you move into the teenage years so that you can have some of these challenging conversations. I was just thinking about the book that you wrote recently, Dennis, called "Interviewing Your Daughter's Date," and if a dad is going to step up and take on that responsibility, he needs to do it on the foundation of a healthy relationship with his daughter. This month we wanted to make a copy of your new book available to any of our listeners who could help with a donation of any amount for the ministry of FamilyLife Today. We are listener-supported, and so we depend on those donations to be able to continue the work of this radio ministry and the other outreach ministries of FamilyLife Today. And if you can help us this month with a donation of any amount, we want you to feel free to request a copy of the book, "Interviewing Your Daughter's Date." If you're donating online at FamilyLife.com, when you come to the keycode box on the donation form, just type the word "date" in there, and we'll know to send you a copy of Dennis's book as a thank you gift. Or if you call 1-800-FLTODAY to make a donation over the phone, just mention that you'd like Dennis's new book, "Interviewing Your Daughter's Date." We're happy to send it out to you. It's our way of saying thanks for your partnership with us in this ministry. We appreciate your financial involvement, and we're also glad you listen to FamilyLife Today. Now, we hope you can be back with us tomorrow for FamilyLife Today. We want to talk about one of the other issues that faces teenagers today – it's the issue of drug use, substance abuse, alcohol, marijuana – what can we do, as parents, to try to proactively deal with this issue and help our teen avoid that trap? We're going to talk about it tomorrow, I hope you can be with us for that. I want to thank our engineer today, Keith Lynch, and our entire broadcast production team. On behalf of our host, Dennis Rainey, I'm Bob Lepine. We'll see you next time for another edition of FamilyLife Today. FamilyLife Today is a production of FamilyLife of Little Rock, Arkansas, a ministry of Campus Crusade for Christ. _____________________________________________________We are so happy to provide these transcripts for you. However, there is a cost to transcribe, create, and produce them for our website. 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Brain Gauge is a new groundbreaking device that allows you to precisely measure brain function. It is so sensitive that it can detect subtle changes in brain function before you even feel it. It is exciting because we can use Brain Gauge to measure the effects of different foods or diets, supplements, and lifestyle changes on cognitive functions. In addition, it allows doctors to detect and track the progression of mild traumatic brain injuries that would be difficult and expensive to do with existing medical imaging technologies. It may even have an application as an objective way to measure pain. In this episode, Joe Cohen discusses his Brain Gauge test results with Bob Dennis as well as the scientific principles that allow it to be such an amazing biohacking tool. To see Joe using the Brain Gauge, see: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=feKBwnVs6g8
Bob Dennis answers audience questions on the ICES next-gen PEMF device. * Does ICES help with autoimmunity, injuries, brain fog, chronic pain, and many other conditions? * An update on how the ICES works to support healing * How to use the ICES and try out to see if it is for you * Contraindications for ICES use
Dr Dennis is a top inventor and original pioneer of the PEMF technology for NASA. We discuss how you should be leery of other PEMF devices and what you need to know about it.
Dr Dennis is a top inventor and original pioneer of the PEMF technology for NASA. We discuss how you should be leery of other PEMF devices and what you need to know about it.
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