It's a fact. Your children will fail. And when they do, How do you respond? Today we'll discover why God promises that failure is never final. And the way he responds to your failure is the way he wants you.
to respond to theirs. Do you know how?
Well, that's today. Thanks for listening to this Edition of Living on the Edge with Chip Ingram. We are an international teaching and discipleship ministry that motivates Christians to live like Christians.
Well, we're in the middle of our empowering series on Invited Guests, Recognizing and Resisting the Attacks on Your Family. Last time, Chick walked through the three biblical practices our children need to know and explained how our kids can use these truths, like stones in a slingshot, to bring down the giants they'll encounter in life. Today, he'll give us the final two lessons, so let's get started. Grab your Bible and notes as we join Chip for the remainder of his talk, How to Prepare Your Kids to Win Life's Biggest Battles. Let me give you some ways to teach your children how to handle money.
So they'll be faithful in a little thing. One, teach your children the three purposes for money.
Okay? And again, since I'm going fast, there's Longer material, small group, but For today, here's just Thumbnail sketch. When my children were small, there's only three purposes for money, actually only five things you can ever do with money. But three purposes is you can give money. You can save money.
You can Spend money. Actually, you can invest money and you can pay taxes with money. But let's, I think for a three to five-year-old, let's just go with the first three. And so we took, you know, those mason jars. All my kids on their dresser, by the time they were even about two years old, they'd have a jar and printed real clearly, Giving.
Jar number one.
Next jar, saving, jar number two. Spending, jar number three. And you know, they would make their little bed and help out with this and do that. And okay, you're a part of the family. The house is God's.
Everything is God's. We're a team together. Thank you. And so here's 10 dimes. And they put a dime in the giving.
Well, why do we do that one, Daddy? Because everything belongs to him. But we as humans, we forget that. We start thinking it's ours.
So we give the very first and the best of your ten dimes to him just to remind us. And then we're going to use that to help people.
Okay. This dime goes into savings.
Well, why do we do that?
Well, because you don't know what the future holds. And so God says, always save because life is what goes up and down, and you always need. They have a backstop. And we get eight of these. Yeah, well, what's that for?
Well, just God loves you so much, you spend that, and he loves you, enjoy it. Oh, okay.
Well then they get a little older and it's a dollar, a dollar, and eight. Then they get a little older, it's ten and ten and 80 and then Now can you imagine What would happen? To your kids, in terms of a mind, a worldview of stewardship, if from the time they were small up through about 25 years old, they did that. If you don't suffer well, your kids won't. If you don't work into the Lord, they won't.
If you don't manage your life wisely, they won't. Can you imagine, I mean, I don't know your situation, but I know the statistics. If just, let's say at age 15 to where you're at right now, if you didn't do anything with your financial planner except those three things, and 10% of anything you earned, you gave to God to align your priorities, and 10% you saved. With all the bubbles and ups and downs and layoffs, and you lived on 80% and didn't go into debt for anything other than, say, maybe the mortgage on a home. Do you realize where you'd be right now?
Do you realize where you'd be financially? You'd be like super well off. It would just take a lot of time. But see, the world says you've got to have it now, and the way to get it now is you put it on this credit, you do this, you do that. And see, when you do it like that, you don't have much.
I was pastors of little churches. We didn't have hardly any money. But by the time my kids were 13, 14 years old, I never had to. put a car on time. I'd saved.
And even though I didn't have a lot, you say for six, eight, nine years that I paid for the car. Then as soon as I paid for that car, I started saving. In eight, nine years, I paid for the next car. You know what happens when you don't have any debt and no bills other than your house? You actually end up pretty well off financially.
It's just slow. That's what you want for your kids. To manage their finances wisely. The message is your life. is a sacred stewardship, not just your stuff.
Your life is a sacred stewardship. By the way, it got very quiet after that last point. Are you all doing okay here? You know, it was just, if I wish you could have seen you guys, I'd like, oh no, shut up, please, please. You know, you told me way too late.
It's never too late. In fact, the last one we're going to talk about is a grace-filled lives. You know how God treats people that make really stupid decisions, even selfish decisions, even sinful mistakes, and totally mess up their life the moment they say, Oh man, why did I do that? Will you please help me? You know what God does?
Come. I long to help you. We can turn things around. Yeah, there's some stuff to work out of and some consequences maybe a little restitution, but wow God is loving. He's good.
You want your kids to learn that. Fourth thing you want them to learn Is teach them to make wise choices. Write this one in. Teach them to make wise choices.
Now, the way you do that is by helping them learn to discern the difference between good and evil. I mean, we're living in a day Where good is called evil. And evil is called good. You want your kids to make wise decisions.
Now you understand. You make a decision. And my good Marine dad would say, son, let me tell you something. You make a decision and then they make you. And they do.
You make a decision, I'm going to go out with this guy and get involved in this relationship, and it makes me. I make a decision about my money. I make a decision about where I'm going to go to school. I make a decision about how I'm going to respond to someone who hurt me. I make a decision about.
whether I'll forgive someone or not, you make a decision and the decisions make you. You know, when kids understand life is difficult, but I'm going to walk with God and suffer well. When I learned that, you know, working isn't bad, I'm actually gonna discover what I'm made to do and work. And when I begin to manage and realize God owns everything, and the only pressure is just to be a good steward. And then you start making wise decisions.
Do you understand how this blesses him? This is like marriages that work and relationships that work and decisions that are good. But the key behind wise decisions is a theology of holiness. Theology of holiness, God is holy. He's totally other.
It just means he's separate. He's totally other. He's different. He's not like an enlarged, ideal, perfect picture of the best human you've ever known. In heaven at this moment, the angels are crying, Holy, holy, holy is the Lord God Almighty.
Heaven and earth are full of your glory. And they're doing that, covering their eyes. He's an unapproachable light. He's absolutely unmitigated pure love. And pure holiness, and just and kind, and sovereign, and all-knowing, and all-powerful.
And just words come out of his mouth, and galaxies come into being. He is awesome. You want your kids to know he's holy. As Tozer says, the great An amazing conflict with God is that We are to fear him because of his greatness and his holiness. And yet not to be afraid because He is the most loving being.
And he invites us to be his friend. The theology of holiness is not only is He holy, but God is absolute truth. Jesus said, I'm the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except by me. God's Word defines absolute truth.
He says it's not relative. It's not this is right today and wrong tomorrow. It's not what the culture says. Jesus prayed on the very last night. Father, sanctify them or set them apart by your truth, your word.
is true.
So your kids need to learn that. God's laws or morals are for our protection. In other words, When God says don't have sex before marriage, when God says don't go into major debt, when God says here's how you make a decision, when He has rules and laws, it's not like this angry God trying to get fun, it's like these are guardrails. The Old Testament calls it the highway of holiness. And he says, You know what?
This, I long for you, I love you. I created you. My son died for you. I want you to get the very best.
So here's the guardrails: Don't do that because that takes you over a cliff. Don't do that, that destroys relationships. Don't do that, that'll destroy your body. Don't do that. That'll destroy your soul.
That's why David would say, his law is my delight. If your law had not been my delight, I would have perished in my affliction. David loved the law of the Lord. Why? Because he knew these are boundaries for a good God that as I stay in between them, I get the highest and the best.
And that's what God wants for you and for your kids. God's ultimate aim is to make us whole. Holy. But don't think holy as in you know some of those pictures in our mind like holy is Big black robes. There's a candle over here.
People wear hoods. And sing funny songs, oh, holy, holy. Or it's holy is a very big black Bible, a praise the Lord sticker, and a self-righteous attitude. That's not holy, that's stupid. Holy is pure, blameless, winsome.
Yeah. Patient. sexually pure. pure in your thoughts. motives that aren't manipulative.
Holy, write this in there. is Christ-likeness. He is working every circumstance, every relationship, every issue, every school, every heartbreak. For the good of them that love Him, in order to conform your son, your daughter, me, and you to the image of Christ. That's God's agenda.
The Old Testament roots we find Moses. And there's a bush that's burning, but it's not consumed. And out of curiosity, he gets close. And remember what God says out of the bush? Moses, you're on holy ground, take off your shoes.
And he bows down. And he gives His personal known. I am that I am. He reveals himself. You want your kids to understand the fear of the Lord without being afraid.
New Testament-wise, 1 Peter would say to a group that had been through all kinds of things, I mean, the world that they lived in was so immoral. I mean, it was just, it's so crass.
so corrupt in the Roman Empire and they were being persecuted. And he would write in 1 Peter, as obedient children, do not be conformed any longer to the former lusts that were yours in your ignorance, but like the holy one who called you, be holy in all your behavior. Why? Be holy, for I am holy.
Now, here's the application I want you to get. This is so encouraging for me. You want your child to learn to think biblically and critically. to develop personal convictions and character. You want them to make great decisions, but you want them to watch TV and watch a movie and watch a situation and friends that are going through a difficult time.
You want them to learn to think biblically, to discern evil from good, what's right, what's best. And what you really want to do is you want them to build convictions. As a parent, the issue is not, well, I got him to go to a youth group every week, and I made him do this, and I made him do that. What you want is you want from the inside out. You want them to catch a heart for God because they see it in you.
And then you want them to see it's not like, oh gosh, what a prudish God. No sex before marriage, and all my friends are having it.
Well, yeah, honey, but here's what you need to understand: this is what happens to them. And all my friends are living together. Why can't I?
Well, this is what happens to them. God loves you so much. This is what he wants for you. And by the way, we now have the research empirically from secular sources that basically says. God's way.
God's way in all those areas is what works. Let me give you a couple ways to maybe develop this. One is start when they're little. Give them a really high view of God. Get on your knees when you pray with your little kids.
Read to them. Read Bible stories early. I read the chronicles of Nardia. Just introduce great, rich literature. All the bombardment that they get.
We have kids living in a video culture. More and more kids are ADD now because the brain actually gets changed when all they get is video images. The third thing you need to do is monitor what goes into their mind. Monitor how much time on the screens, monitor the movies, monitor. They're friends.
What goes into their mind and the people they hang out with will be the biggest factors of how they're going to live and the decisions they're going to make. And so they need to see your example. God's word, great things in their mind. And by the way, when I say monitor, this isn't like, oh, I'll never expose them to anything. There's times where you need to sit down and watch things together.
What's wrong with this? Don't be afraid of the world. Empower your son or daughter to make a difference in the world. And help them to see through it. Help them to see, they're just trying to sucker you into this.
That's not true. Does that work? But do you know what all this takes? It takes intentionality. It takes focus.
Yeah, and it's easy to say, oh, I'm going to put my kid in this, and I'll put him in school here, and someone else will learn here, and we're really busy, and we can't eat together, and we don't have time to really pray together, and I really like to, and I want to, but I hope everything will be okay. And then they get involved in a relationship, and oh, I hope it's just a phase. You know, it's all that's called denial, denial, denial, denial, denial. The hardest job you'll ever get, the most important job you'll ever have, is being a mom or a dad.
So you think it's going to be easy? And by the way, if you do quote everything right, here's the deal: there's still no guarantees. They had these little things inside their souls called choosers, right? Right?
So they get to be 15, 14, 13, 16, 18, 20, 21, 22, 29. And you can say, we created this, we modeled this, we did this, we did this, we did this. You know what they say? Great. But guess what?
You're not held responsible for the outcomes. You're held responsible for Did I model for my kids? what I wanted them to become. And did I do what I know to create this kind of environment? And then if you're starting to feel, oh my.
I didn't do it perfectly. No one has, ever. See, part of what your model is, what do you do when you mess up?
So they understand they can be forgiven. Like you, God, love covers a multitude of sins. And so finally the uh The life message is obedience is the only way to get God's best. Obedience. Is the only way to get God's best.
You want them to make decisions, and as they get older, here's the question: as they get older and older: what do you think God wants you to do? What do you think God wants you to do? Don't make it all a power play. force them to process where they start making decisions on their own while they're with you. Final one, and I think it's the most.
Encouraging. Because I don't know about you, those first four are hard to pull off. Stone number five is teach them to live grace-filled lives. A theology of grace. Grace is one of those words that is kind of slippery, you know?
Crace It's a nice girl's name. Hi, Grace. But you know, what's it really mean? Let me give you a quick theology of grace. Grace is the unmerited, unconditional love of God toward us.
Unmerited, you can't earn it. Unconditional. God doesn't love you or your child if they do this or because they did that. Grace is the opposite of performance mentality. It's the opposite of earning.
Second, grace is freely to us but costly. to God. The scripture clearly says, do you not know that your body is the temple of God? and the Spirit of God dwells within you, that you've been bought with a price. Christ's blood is the cost.
for your salvation and your children's. You're listening to Living on the Edge with Chip Ingram. We'll get back to today's message in just a minute. But quickly, throughout this series, Chip's emphasized the fact that great marriages require a lot of work. And that's where we come in.
Keep listening after this message to learn more about a helpful new resource we've created that couples can use to grow and strengthen their relationship. Stick around to get all of the details. For now, here again is Chip to continue our series, Uninvited Guests. The cross is God's greatest act of grace. When you look at the cross, God says that God demonstrated or proved His love toward us, and that while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us or in our place.
Salvation is a free gift from God. Scripture says it's not by works of righteousness that we have done, but according to his mercy he saved us by the washing of regeneration and renewing of the Holy Spirit. It's free. It's grace. But it needs to be received by faith.
If you've ever watched an NFL game, What's in the back of the end zone, John? Three Yeah. For God so loved the world, he gave grace. That whoever Believes in him. would not perish.
but have everlasting life. God the Son lived a perfect life. He died upon a cross. to pay for the sins of all people of all time. It's like everyone's ticket is paid for a relationship with a holy God through what Christ has done.
And God says, I invite you to be. My son or my daughter? But I won't force you. If you want to stiff arm me, If you want to be the captain of your own ship, If you want to say, you know, I don't want the Creator or God or anybody else telling me what to do, God says to you, in the words of C.S. Lewis, thy will be done.
God doesn't force How can there be love if he just dictated, you must love me? But what he says is, I've provided a way that whosoever would come and humble yourself Turn from your sin and with the empty hands of faith say, Will you forgive me for all that I've done? And would you come into my life, make me your son, make me your daughter? I want to follow you. 100% of the time, he promises to answer that prayer and forgive you.
Not if, not because, but because of what Christ has done. Every ism, every religion can be. Two letters. Do, do, do. You name the religion, you need to do, do, do.
Different religion, do, do, do. Ism, do, do, do, do, do, do. Pray, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do. Christianity isn't even a religion. It's four letters, done, D-O-N-E.
God has done for you what I can't, you can't do for yourself. Your sins are forgiven. And the moment you turn to Christ, you receive Him, His Spirit comes to live inside of you, and it's a relationship. And His Spirit will then take His Word in the context of this community, and He will create the very love and life of Christ in His presence within you. That's what it means to be a follower or a Christ one.
And it's grace. Grace produces gratitude towards God and love toward others. It's just not some ooey-gooey feeling. When you have that inside of you, I will tell you what, you'll start acting the way Jesus acted toward people. You'll be thankful, you'll love them.
The Old Testament roots are in Genesis chapter 3. When the first sin occurred, a free gift, blood was shed prefiguring Jesus. Skins covered our first parents. The word is they atone for. In the New Testament, it's Ephesians 2, 8, and 9.
For by grace. You are saved through faith. That is not of yourself. It's not a result of your works or performance. It's the gift of God, lest any men should boast.
It's powerful. It's amazing. Help your children realize that failure is never final with God. Can I say that again? Help your child realize failure is never final with God.
The world is telling them when they fail, they're done. It is final. You're a loser. There's no hope. You didn't even make the traveling team.
You messed up with the recital. You can't dance with a flip. You can't get in college. Your SAT scores didn't measure up. You got yourself pregnant.
I don't want to have anything to do with you.
Son of mine, what are you doing getting logging on that internet stuff?
Okay, you wanted to marry that non-Christian, you go ahead and marry him, and now your life's messed up. Two and a half years he leaves you.
Well, good luck. That's what the world tells them. You screwed up, you live with it. God says You mess up. And you find yourself in a 10-foot hole, there's an 11-foot rope coming down.
If you repent and say, I need help, will you forgive me? And there's a little loop at the bottom of the rope. And you put your little foot in the loop, and then you hang on, and he'll pull you up. If you have a 100-foot hole, because you think, oh man, 10-foot, I got two abortions, two marriages, haven't quite killed someone, but I tried. Man, I got a hundred foot.
There's no hope for me. Oh, no, no, no. You gotta understand. Here's grace. A hundred and one-foot rope goes down.
It has a loop on it. You stick your foot in, and he brings you up. Is there consequences? Of course. Is there stuff to deal with?
Yes. Maybe restitution? But he'll heal you. He'll change you. And you say 100 feet, that's not even close.
You have no idea. I can't even believe why I'm even here. I've blasphemed God. I've said things about Christians. I'm so far away from God.
There is absolutely no way. I'm in a thousand foot hole. A rope is going to be lowered that will be one thousand in. Your kids need to know that. And you know how they learn it?
They learn it by getting grace from you. They learned that not just with your words saying the right things, you know, say, oh, it's okay, son, and the body language is, my lands. You couldn't hit a ball off the Sticking on a stool. Oh yeah, that's okay, honey. I mean for a loser non-academic like you.
We send a lot of messages that are nonverbal that say to our kids, you don't measure up. And then they perform pretty well and it's Oh, my lands, and then we tell up our friends, and here's their stories, and here's this, and here's that, and here's that. You know what the kid says? Oh, I'm loved when I do good, but I'm not loved when I don't measure up. That's called non-grace.
You want your kids to understand their behavior is one thing, their value is something else, and nothing changes the value. Nothing changes the value. You love them no matter what. And not just with your words, but with your action. How to do that?
be a safe place for your kids. where they can come for help. Let them know that verbalize it early on and then model it the best you can, and when you don't. Yeah. Make it right.
My son was a senior in high school. I mean, sometimes, you know, you hear me saying these things, and you know, by God's amazing grace, I have four grown kids that, despite ups and downs, and rebellion here and problems there, they all walk with God. And, you know, you talk about wealth. Greatest wealth I have on the earth. Not even close.
But you hear someone talking, sort of, this: like, oh, yeah, you're a pastor, it probably is pretty easy, you never really messed up. Senior in high school, third son. He uh Something pops up on the internet. He has a year-long private secret addiction to pornography. I find out about it.
Pastor in the church. My son's hooked on pornography. He's leading worship on Sunday morning in the high school group. He's led four of his volleyball players to Christ. He has a Bible study in my house every Wednesday night, and he's hooked on pornography.
And he denied it for about 12 seconds. And then he He fell into tears. In repentance. God, Dad, I'm so sorry.
So glad you finally found out. I'd been a prisoner. And we were preparing, he's a pastor now, and he was helping a group of young people deal with this issue. Um I heard him say something that You know, as a dad, I'm... Um most of us, we're probably a little hard on ourselves.
I'm I'm I'm pretty hard on me. But now and then you hear a little window of, you know, I think I did something right. You know, yay, you know. And I heard him share with the group, he said, you know what? The reason I was able to break the pattern when I got confronted was since the time I was a little boy, I remember my dad saying, no matter what you do, it can't change my love for you.
And he said, I messed up as a little boy lots of times, and there were consequences, but I knew my dad loved me. And when that big thing happened, I knew it was safe. And we went through it together. Do your kids know that? Are you a safe place to come to?
when they really fail. When there is an addiction. when they went through rehab and they've relapsed. when they've run off and done something that just breaks your heart.
Now does it mean there's not boundaries and consequences? No. But it means that they They know you love them. And nothing can change that. One of the ways they learn that is they need to see you repent.
Right?
I mean, how do people learn to get forgiveness from God? They need to see you get forgiveness from God and. I remember um When actually, the same son was very, very small. We were visiting my parents, and my dad, great, great guy, but I mean, you know, he. A Marine Marine, you know?
And so my son did something, and it was really trite, and I blew up and yelled, Ryan, what are you doing? You don't, you know, like that. And, you know, I started to walk away. And have you ever had a parent just realize, you know, the person who needs help is me, not my kid? And the spirit convicted me and I thought, oh, that was, man, that's about the worst dad.
And so I I went over and you know he's like four years old or something. I said, come here, Ryan. I said, I'm I just went I'm sorry, son. And I I'm I I that was that was wrong.
Okay, I just... I don't have any excuse. Will you forgive me? Fine little son, puts his Sure, Dad. He runs off, right?
My my dad. the marine What in the heck you doing? Yeah. I said, what do you mean? You're the parent.
You don't ask your kids for forgiveness. Where'd you learn that? Stuff. And I said, well, dad, um, Yes. I want my kids to understand that when they mess up, When your heart is broken over it, and you come to your Heavenly Father.
You get forgiven. And I figured they'll never. know how to do that unless they see me do it. And um I appreciate him. He kind of looks at me and he goes, Is it pretty young Christian then?
Hmm.
Okay. Can I ask you something? Can you Impart grace. Because you've received it. I mean, is there something in your life that you just, it's like, wow, man, it's.
Hope nobody finds out that you just need to come to God this morning and say, You know, I can't be a gracious parent. Because so much of my value is how my kids do this or that. I just need forgiveness so that I could give it. And I just wouldn't be at all surprised if There's not at least a handful or more of people who Fact is, you kind of came for whatever reason, and you realize I've never received grace for the first time. I'm not a follower of Jesus.
This is kind of new to me. But if there's a place to be forgiven and have new life and eternal life, I really want it. But I'm not sure how. Then I would tell you that The offer is, if you will believe, If you will turn from your sin, and raise the empty hands of faith The God who made all that there is will forgive you and cleanse you. His Spirit will come inside your life.
And he'll give you a new beginning. And by the way, it won't all be roses. You know, you probably won't get a Mercedes or a Cadillac in the mail tomorrow. Everything's not gonna But you'll never be alone. You will be certainly on your way to heaven.
And the very power of the living God will live inside of you in the person of Jesus, and He will make you like Him. And I cannot think of anything your kids need more than a mom or dad that's a lot like Jesus. I want to pause before we do anything else. On our time together, and that is to ask you a very personal question. and that is, do you know for sure?
that you have a relationship with Jesus Christ. I just clearly explained what it means to receive Him as your Savior, to turn from your sin. and accept that His work on the cross has paid for your sin, invite Him into your life, and began to follow him. Scripture is very clear. It's by grace that we're saved through faith.
It's not of ourselves. It's not a result of our works. But it is a gift of God. and I want you to know that the greatest gift you'll ever give to yourself and even more to your children, is a mom or dad that not only receives Christ as Saviour, but follows Him with all your heart. You know, life is really hard.
It's hard for you, it's hard for me, it's hard for all of us. but when there is the supernatural power of the living God inside of you, He can give you patience. He can give you endurance. He can help you weather through a difficult time in your marriage. He can help you be the mom or dad that you long to become.
And so let me invite you right now just to pray a very simple prayer. Lord Jesus, I admit that I need you. I admit that I have sinned and I fall short of being perfect. And to day I ask you to forgive me for all my sins. I ask you to come into my life and save me.
and live inside of me. and be my Saviour. and be my Lord. Thank you very much that you promised if I would ask. you would respond.
Thank you for forgiving me. Thank you for coming into my life.
Now help me to walk with you. In Jesus' name. Amen. And let me just tell you right now that the greatest thing you can do is call or text or tell the greatest Christian you know. I'm not sure about all of this, but I just prayed and asked Christ to come into my life, and I know we need help.
And the second thing is to find an easy-to-read Bible that you can start on the book of John and just say, God, I want to get to know you. And then this weekend, find a Bible teaching church and just walk through the doors. And it'll be a little scary for some of you, but God's got a brand new home for you somewhere. Find a great church and get plugged in. Thanks, Chip.
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Well, Chip's still with me in the studio, and Chip, back in your basketball playing days, you dedicated a lot of blood, sweat, and tears to earn a college scholarship. You couldn't just say you wanted to be better. You had to work at it. And that same principle applies to our marriages and how we parent too, right? Dave, you're spot on with that analogy.
And even in my own marriage, there's been times where we weren't working very hard on our relationship. Work is busy, and then pretty soon the kids have all these activities. And you talk about better communication and resolving conflict and putting each other first, and all that begins to fade away. What I realized was I needed a tool. I mean, when I wanted to be a better basketball player, I had dribbling drills.
I had passing drills. I had very specific things that I did each and every day for hours with that clear-cut goal in mind. And what we've developed at Living on the Edge is a practical tool. It's called the Marriage That Works Truth Cards to help regular couples begin to work at their marriage as they take those cards and review a few each and every day. And as you do that, what I can tell you, because I've done this with literally hundreds and hundreds of couples, your mind changes about your marriage.
Your desires change. A great marriage is possible for all of us as we follow God's design. And that's the goal of these cards. We want to help couples really go to work in a good way to have a deep and great marriage that will disciple them and their children.
So Dave, take a minute now, if you will, and share with people how they can get these cards. Sure, Chip. It's actually really simple. Throughout this entire series, for anyone who chooses to become a monthly partner with Living on the Edge, we'll send you these new Marriage That Works truth cards as our way of saying thanks.
So please pray about supporting us. Your gifts have an eternal impact as we fight for marriages and families everywhere. To learn how to become a monthly partner, visit livingonthege.org or call us at 888-333-6003. That's 888-333-6003, or go to livingonthege.org. App Listeners Tap Donate.
Well, thanks for listening to this Edition of Living on the Edge with Chip Ingram. I'm Dave Druy, and I hope you'll join us again next time.
