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Alright, last week I laid down the gauntlet on humor. Actually, it was laid down the rubber chicken on the jokes told by Truth Network's own Robbie Dilmore. He tells these jokes on this show, on Truth Talk Live, on Kingdom Pursuits, on the Christian Car Guy, and he's well known for them. And it just made me laugh just to be able to talk about his sense of humor. And he was getting text in real time.
while I was doing the show, that he was texting me while I'm doing the show. And he said, prepare for retaliation.
So I don't know what Robbie has planned, but it will be, I'm sure, hilarious and the jocularity will ensue. I will give you a couple of jokes. That are Robbie-esque, because we're talking about humor and keeping a sense of humor. The scripture says there's a time to laugh, there's a time to cry. Do we laugh?
And We certainly cry a lot, but do we laugh? And if not, why not? And so I've got a couple jokes before we get into today's topic. I've got a couple of jokes that are Robbie-esque, that are indicative of the kind of jokes that Robbie likes to tell. And the first one is, and I'll let you weigh in on it, see if you think it's funny.
Why does the Swedish government push? Put barcodes on their ships. Why does the Swedish Government put bar coats on their ships. And the answer is when they make port, they can scan the navy in. When they make port they could scan the navy in.
Okay, so that's the standard.
Okay, and then I have one more that Robbie would like, and he can use this one if he wants to. I he may have already used it. Who is the smartest man in the Bible? Who's the smartest man in the Bible? May I have the envelope, please?
The smartest man in the Bible is. Abraham because he knew A lot. He knew a lot.
So Yeah. He knew a lot.
Okay, switching to today's topic we're going to get into, and I'd love to hear your thoughts on it: marriage. Marriage. What do you think of marriage? And our country, there's a new push right now to overturn the Supreme Court allowing for gay marriage. And I don't know how well that's going to fare.
We have a lot of churches that have embraced this. and actively promoting it. We have a lot of people in clergy. Who are embracing this and actively promoting this?
So I don't know what that's gonna happen. I've been writing about this a lot for this month. I've got an article in Mature Living, which is, A publication by Lifeway, and you can get it in this month's issue. I write for them every month. And then I also have an article out in Blaze Media.
And you can see that as well. Go out to Blaze Media and just look under my name. But it's I have several articles out there, and this one is titled. Weddings cost money. Marriage costs everything.
Weddings cost money, marriage costs, everything. And the reason I'm doing this is this week is our anniversary.
So, this topic is on my mind. Did you know, by the way, that the average cost of weddings? What do you think? Before I tell you what the answer is, I did some research on this. What do you think the average cost of a wedding?
How much did your wedding cost? Those of you who are married, how much did your wedding cost?
Now we've been married thirty nine years. And It's, you know, you adjust for inflation. Things were different back in the 80s, but The cost of weddings has just skyrocketed. And it is, according to one study I just read, thirty thousand dollars. for the average wedding.
Did yours cost that much? Thirty five. thousand Dollars. And yet are we preparing people for marriage. Because marriage cost everything.
cost everything. If you don't believe me, look in Scripture. Ephesians 5, 25. And this is, to my knowledge, the only direct Command that Scripture gives to husbands: Husbands, love your wives as Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her. That that's the model right there.
And if you, you know, yes, there is a direct command to wives to be submissive to their husbands, but it starts with husbands loving your wives as Christ loved the church. Do you think that we would have the divorce rate that we do. If husbands took that verse more seriously. What are your thoughts on that? I I um Did you know what the divorce rate, by the way, is in a couple with a disability in the family?
Not just. in one of the spouses, but in the family, like a child or so forth. It's almost ninety per cent. It's almost ninety per cent. That's according to research from Johnny Erickson Tata's group, Johnny and Friends.
You're looking at an astounding divorce rate. when there is a serious physical or mental challenge going on in the family. And it causes such a strain on marriages. Are we. preparing people for this.
Because, you know, if I maintain this, you know, I do a radio show for caregivers. That's what I. Am I a caregiver for a wife with severe disabilities? And I maintain that if you love somebody, you will be a caregiver one day. And if you live long enough, you're going to need one.
So, this is going to affect all of us, and there's something about the pressure that comes when this relentless challenges that won't necessarily get better. puts on a marriage and then the marriage crumbles.
Well, why? Why does it crumble? And I think Part of it is we need to step back and say, well, what is marriage? Wh why do we have marriages? Where did this come from?
This Ceremony of wedding. Where are the roots of this? And what does it mean? Is this just a civil business agreement between two consenting adults? Or is there something more going on?
And Scripture says there's something more going on. And if Scripture says there's something more going on, guess what? There's something more going on. And are we preparing people for this?
So it's not just something, well, you just love each other, we're going to get married. We got people out there marrying themselves. I saw a thing on the news the other day.
Some guy was, half of him was dressed in a tuxedo and half of him was dressed in an evening gown, I mean, in a white wedding gown. And he was marrying himself. We got people out there wanting to marry a tree, an animal. We have allowed the world to co-opt this sacred institution that God established. God established this And we've allowed the world to co-op it.
And are what are we saying? to congregations? What are we saying to the world? The church is called to be Salt and light. Do you think That the church, the American church, let's just talk about the American church right now.
Do you think the church in the United States of America? is effectively being the salt and light. About marriages and about the sacred institution of marriage. Do you think when the world looks at the church, they see a different standard. And if they do, why?
And if they don't. Why not? And what can we do about it? What does scripture command us to do about it? And this is what I've been writing about, and I opened up this conversation.
In one of my articles, based on my conversation I've just had with Jay Leno, who is married for 45 years, his wife now has dementia. And Jay said, This is where you find out: do I really love her, or was it just easy when life was easy? And it sparked this article that I've written, and I hope you'll take a look at it. You can go out to my website and see this and see how to link to it, and all my social media channels and so forth. But at PeterRosenberger.com.
But I'd like to hear your thoughts on this. What do you think? Does the world look at the church and say, boy, they have a different standard for marriage? They are modeling that. Or does it not?
What are your thoughts on that? 866-348-7884-866-34-TRUTH. If you want to weigh in, and if you've got a joke for Robbie Dilmore, you can do that too. This is Peter Rosenberger. This is Truth Talk Live, and we will be right back.
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Share your thoughts. We're talking about marriage. Not a easy topic for so many people. It's been a... Painful journey for some.
Where do we stand on it as the church? Where do we stand on it as individuals? You know, what are our thoughts on this? How do we equip people? And this is sparked by, well, it's my anniversary this week, so I'm thinking about this.
And I've got an article that I wrote in Mature Living. It's published by Lifeway, and it's a subscription-based magazine. But you can get those, and you can go online and see more about that. But this article is titled, Do You Really? And it was about my conversation with my future father-in-law.
when I asked if I could marry Gracie. And I looked at him and I said, Jim, I love your daughter. And Jim was a very successful businessman, had a voice like... you know, gravel and a face that looked like carved out of granite. And here I am, this young kid, and my wife.
Now, you gotta remember, Gracie was hurt before I even met her. And she'd already had 21 surgeries that I could count. Gracie this exceptionally beautiful Woman, and don't take my word for it. Googler, I was Googling her that day. We didn't have Google back then.
She is a beautiful woman. And I was head over heels. I heard her sing, and it just It I I was it was over, it was done. I I knew that I was captivated by this woman.
So I said to her dad, you know, Jim, I love your daughter. And he had this voice, Do you really? And I was like, Yes, sir. I really believe that I did. To the best of what I understood love, I thought I did.
And so I really resonated when I did this interview with Jay Leno, who said, you know, this is when I find out: do I really love her? or is it just easy when life was easy? And Gracie and I we've never had it easy. We've started off our entire marriage has been framed by surgeries, which has gone to number ninety eight now that I can count, not to mention the smaller procedures. And even earlier today, I had to remove a drain from her leg.
Her doctor gave me the instructions and the permission, and I had to do this. That's been in for three months. They put it in in Denver, and we came home with three drains. I've taken out two of them. And they didn't teach me this in music school.
and I certainly didn't have that in my mind when I asked her father if I could marry his daughter. And I tried to the best of my abilities. to take care of this woman. And I found out very quickly that my abilities were not up to the task. And A lot of things had to change in my life.
I j I just wasn't up to it. And I think one of the things that I struggle with is that nobody really. knew what to say to me. I had a pastor that told me years later, he said, Peter, you do yourself a disservice. You make what you do look easier than it is and people don't realize what you carry.
And he was right, but I'm going to change that. I want to be able to ring the bell to say if you see somebody who is in a relationship with somebody who is chronically impaired. They are struggling. whether that impairment is Alzheimer's. or any type of dementia.
Whether that impairment is mental illness, whether that impairment is trauma, as in my case with my wife, whether that impairment is Alcoholism or addiction, wherever the impairment is, if you see somebody in a relationship with a spouse. And that spouse is chronically impaired. I promise you they're struggling. Do not accept for one moment that they're not. They are.
And what does it look like to help them? What does it look like to rush to their aid? When they are very, very capable people. Most caregivers are, I found. I call us high-functioning multitaskers.
And we're extremely capable, but it doesn't mean we're not hurting. Doesn't mean we're not lonely.
Sometimes we don't even have the vocabulary to express that. And somebody said, Well, how do you talk to a caregiver? What do you say to him? And I gave them the words that I simply said this: say this to somebody, I see you. And I see the magnitude of what you carry.
And I hurt with you. Start with that. But they don't end with that. Recognize that in order to love that person well. They need to be equipped.
To have a sustainable marriage if they're in a relationship, particularly the spouse is disabled. How do you equip a husband to take care of his wife when his wife is a supreme disadvantage, when it's not a level playing field anymore? You know, and I wrote in this article that's in Blaze Media, and I talk about how much weddings cost versus what marriage costs. Marriage costs, everything. But are we preparing couples for that moment, especially men, in a culture that rewards detachment?
more than devotion. We have a nation filled with boys. Are we raising men?
Somebody told me this the other day who raised two boys. And she went on to explain how much she detests video games. And There is a growing concern that video games have stunted the growth. of males. And yes, we have a lot of males, but are they turning into men?
Men who can accept responsibility. And we have a society where even those at the highest level of authority, a Supreme Court justice, refused to. What a woman is.
So do you see the problem that Marriage is about sacrificially loving your spouse, particularly for men to lay down their lives as Christ laid down his life for the church. This is what the text says. If you don't like it, take it up with God. I didn't write it, he did. And how do you prepare men in this world Given this kind of culture we are in.
To sacrificially love a woman when you have a Supreme Court justice and so many others who refuse to define what a woman is. And then we have a world obsessed with sex and gratification. Are we preparing men to lay down their lives rather than taking up their desires? Because this is what marriage means. It's not what a wedding means, it's what marriage means.
Weddings cost, like I said, the last block, $30,000 is the average cost. And it's a big party, and we want to have these destination weddings. We want to get a good band, we want to get this. I'm a pianist. I've been playing for a very long time, and I've played a lot of weddings, but I don't do them anymore, and I won't do them.
There's just too much drama. I'll play for a funeral. If I can, I will be there because that's where I can play in a way that ministers to the family as they're going through these things and be able to minister to them. But in a wedding, it is all about the party. It is all about the gown and this and that.
And, you know, it's just like the. the preparation for what lays ahead seems almost lost. And a friend of mine's son got married, and he had to speak at his son's wedding. And he said, Would you help me with this? He said, I'm not a very good public speaker and I don't want to say something stupid.
Would you help me with this? And I said, sure, I'd be happy to. I don't remember the exact quote, but it was something to this effect. And he got up and he delivered this, and he said to his son and his new daughter-in-law, he said, congratulatory remarks and so forth. And then he said, and he got very quiet when he said this, Life has a way of throwing curve balls.
And sometimes In the blink of an eye things can happen that can overwhelm us. In that Event when it happens to you all, would you promise before this group here? That you will not try to shoulder this burden alone, but will give us the privilege of walking with you in this. and reach out for help. And everybody got real quiet and big tears.
It was in a moment, he told me later. And I would love to take credit for being wise and a good Wordsmith and all that. That had nothing to do with it. It had everything to do with my own life because life is hard. And if we don't equip people to deal with it and give them permission and help them understand to reach out for help and give the church that shared responsibility of walking into the sufferings of others, the difficulties to point each other to Christ, we're not going to make it.
We're going to unpack that a little bit more and hear your thoughts when we come back. 866-34-TRUTH-866-348. Seven eight This is Peter Rosenberg and this is Truth Talk Live. We'll be right back. To the top.
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866-348-7884. We're talking about marriage. We the average cost of a wedding is thirty thousand dollars. Right now.
So think about What are you buying for 30,000? Beautiful pictures and all that kind of stuff. But How long does a wedding last? you know roughly thirty to forty five minutes. You know, depending on the wedding.
Sometimes I go an hour and a half, sometimes they're 15, 20 minutes. But think about how much money you're putting into that moment. But think about a marriage and what it costs. Are we preparing people? Are we putting resources into that?
So that's what we're talking about today. Michael in Indiana. Michael? Good afternoon. How are you feeling?
Fantastic. How are you? Oh, I'm just Peachy. Tell me what's on your mind. What's your thoughts?
Well, I'm actually the other side of the spectrum. I was uh My brother was molested from nine to eleven. And the person that molested him um raped me at nine before he moved away. And my brother was nervous, so he never spoke a word of it. And I've just Liv this False dichotomy, I suppose.
I literally put myself in a survival mode. Yeah. Luckily God has been with me. And doubt. How do you What can I do to benefit my spouse?
From To help her. Because sadly I have been pushed into Pass unmanned. And I'm willing and ready. And I'm as deep as I'm going to go. tormenting my wife sometimes.
Yeah. I just would ask Is there any insight? All right. Help me understand a little bit more here because you had a truck or something going by, and it was a little hard to hear you. What exactly are you wishing to help your wife with?
Honestly, just uh She has no clue of Mm-hmm. what's going on in my head, how I struggle, how I Have you told him? Yes, sadly she just doesn't grasp it. And I just What what would it look like for her to grasp it, in your opinion? The passion.
And she doesn't show any compassion towards you? I've never wanted compassion. In the last three years, I have started fasting. And I've done several things to bring my mind in more in line with God. Yeah.
This has just been given to me. I still haven't had anyone tell me what's happened to me, but I I know it's true. I think we lost Michael. Did we lose you, Michael? Did we lose you, Michael, for a moment?
Maybe from that. Pilot. Hang on, we lost we're losing you for a little bit, Michael. Are you in a bad cell area? It's where I live, yes.
Um You're looking for compassion for your wife. But she's not showing it to you? Is that what I understand? That's the only way I feel like I could describe it, yes. And I just, I want to let her understand that compassion is needed in this scenario.
Let me say it that way. All right. And if you're not. knows no better than to fight. And if you guys bid to attack I think it's What about the her?
With with you. You can lead a horse to water, sir, but you can't make him drink.
So she doesn't want to go to counseling with you. She hasn't. It's free. I won't drag anyone. Right, but she but she doesn't want to go, is that correct?
She hasn't used those words yet. She hasn't showed up.
Okay. Actions speak louder than words to me, so I. Yeah. I just speak from everyone.
Sometimes, Michael, Sometimes with folks it's like buying bread at a hardware store. They may not have it. They may d they simply just may not have it. But here's that's the bad news. But here's the good news.
You do have a Saviour. who is compassionate towards you. who is close to the brokenhearted. And I don't understand why these things are allowed to happen. I really don't.
And these are things that are way beyond my my grasp. of why God allowed this. I don't know why He allowed my wife to slam into a concrete abutment. I don't know why a lot of things happened. But his word tells me he is ever present.
And he reaches into the Most horrific of things and pulls out something that gives glory. And beauty And you, even if your wife is not showing you the compassion you want. Scripture does not absolve you from laying down your life for her. You recognize that, correct? Correct.
So Would would it stand to reason? Would it stand to reason? that your marriage is better served. By you being as healthy as you possibly can spiritually and emotionally. No matter what she does.
Manchena. And I feel like I'm well on my way. That and And you have a working plan towards that. You feel like. Yeah.
Absolutely. I have children. You know, there are some wounds that are just not going to heal this side of heaven. And unfortunately, I got the pleasure of watching my mother pass away whenever I was 14 of cancer. And I say the pleasure just because I know one day I'll see her again.
Yes, you will. And You know, I look at certain things in life and I see these things, and I'm thinking, Lord. And the only place you go back to at that point. is scripture. And what does your scripture tell you?
Lamentations three. And that's where the hymn comes from. When the hymn writer wrote, All I have needed, thy hand has provided. And the question we have to ask ourselves, Michael, is: Do we believe that? Do we believe that what you need, he has provided?
And if we do believe that, what's our next action step? You tracking with me? I am tracking. Sadly, I've always, I feel like I believe that now more than ever, but as a young child, I've just believed in me. I was the only person dependent, I was the only person present, I was the only person that cared, it seemed like.
And I set myself on a trajectory of success in my own eyes, and now I realize that I have a Jesus take toll in my heart. And what are you doing about that? And what are you doing about that? Everyone, all our family goes to church now. I Get up.
I've been praying while I work out, while I do the day. I've been listening to ministry all day. I've turned out radio. stopped with all the political stuff. Just turn to God and just Ask how can I help you?
Where in Scripture are you reading right now? I'm all over. I can't. Uh yeah. Where's the last one?
Where's the last place you read in Scripture? That stood out to you, and that's a good place. You know, I heard something not too long ago. To read one proverb a day corresponding to the day of the month. There's 31.
Uh Proverbs. And so, some months would be a little different. But, like, you know, today is the 13th.
So, read Proverbs 13. I've heard that. And that was a good place to start. Just kind of a. A nice way to organize it and go through and start getting some wisdom.
But what about in Psalms? Are you spending your time in Psalms? I am not. Sadly I have a full house, so Yeah. I get in what I can.
I'm just trying to be directed further.
Well, I'm directing you to the Psalms. And go slow. Read it slow. You know, what did Jesus cry out when he was on the cross? from the Psalms.
And that's one pastor explained that the Psalms are really the emotions of Christ. And you'll see these things, and you'll see things. Start today as Psalm 13th.
So read Psalm 13. Today's the 13th. Read Psalm 13 tonight. Put a Bible by your toilet if you have to. Read Psalm 13.
I will. It's a very short psalm. and read it. And but read it slowly. Read it very slowly, Michael.
And don't be in a hurry. You don't need to race through the entire book of Psalms. You don't need to race through anything. You don't need to race through Psalms. I've never been a reader.
I've been a doer.
So I've learned to slow down in life.
So I will. What it. What does Scripture say about knowing the word of God? Thy word I have hid in my heart that I. May not sin against thee.
Thy word is a lamp unto my feet and a light unto my path, not a searchlight. A lamp. Just a light to sometimes you only see the next step. Your wife is going to be what she's going to be. She has a savior, you're not that savior.
You're called to love her as your Savior. Loves his bride. The church? Lay down your life. But right now your wife would be much better served.
For you being in a healthy, I think we could agree on that. Is that fair? Great. Start with Psalm 13. Proverbs 13 may not seem applicable right at the moment for everything you're going with, but just chew on it.
Just. Slowly go through it. And I'd like to hear back, if you wouldn't mind. Brian. And just spend some time with it.
Just spend some time with it. Slow down. You d you know when you get into a fog, what do you do when you get into a fog? You slow down. Do you turn on your high beams or your low beams?
Right and low gaming. Why? Because it'll just glare back at you. Don't try to see too far ahead. Just.
Look at the light that you have for right in front of you and do the next right thing. And the next right thing may be for you to spend a little time with Psalm 13. The next right thing may be for you to just spend some time gathering your thoughts. Go into counseling yourself. And if your wife doesn't go, you go because you're going to be healthy.
You go to the gym, right? Does she go to the gym with you every day? Yeah. Within You know, but but you're not going to stop going to the gym, are you? I can't, no.
You're doing that for you so that you can be physically healthy. You do what is necessary for you to be spiritually and emotionally healthy. And if she shows up, great, but if she doesn't, guess what? You're still healthier. Fair enough?
Thank you. Thank you so much for taking the time to call, Michael. Thank you for trusting me with your pain, and I appreciate it very much. This is Peter Rosenberger. This is Truth Talk Live, 866-30348-7884-866-34 Truth.
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This is Peter Rosberger. Glad to be with you today, 866-34 Truth. If you want to be on the program, we're going to get back to the phone lines here. Nick and Spartanberg. Nick, good afternoon.
How are you feeling? I'm doing well. How are you? And you know, for the shape I'm in, I'm in pretty good shape. Tell me what's going on, we've been blessed.
Yeah. To the man, I hope that the man that just called into the station is listening. The Lord was really speaking to me while he was talking, and I was listening, you know. Jesus promised he would be near to those who are brokenhearted. He would comfort those who mourn.
But you know, in order to be comforted, we need to mourn. And he was talking about the things he went through a younger in his life and in his walk. You know, those are situations where the Lord is present with us. at all times. He promised he would never leave, he would never forsake us.
But we have to go to him with our mortar. Because if we try to do it on our own or if we run away from those things, they almost attach themselves to us. And we walk through life with them.
So I just want to say to him, man, you know, the Lord loves you and he sees your work. He sees your struggles. He knows your heart deeper than anybody else or even you know it. And you know, we're in a spiritual battle. There's a devil.
And he's seeking to devour anybody that he can. And anything that we don't surrender to the Lord, we give him a foothold. But man, I'll just say You know, go to the Lord with what you're struggling with, and also with the authority that Jesus has given us. You know, we speak to the spirits that may be causing this torment in this man, and we tell them to back off. You know, and let this man go to Jesus and be healed that way that he can walk with the Lord in the way the Lord intends him to.
Um And yeah, the Lord just laid that on my heart, and I hope that he's listening. But yeah, you know, God's word, you know, all of his word. Yeah. There's nothing in his word that's ever going to contradict itself. Nothing.
So, you know, when you find a place that that um that you can relate to. Go to the Lord with it. Let the Lord heal you. You know, He may do it through people, He may do it through reading your word, He may do it through counseling. You know, but he will heal you.
Um Yeah, we just love Jesus, man. Jesus is the man. I appreciate that, Nick. I really do. And I hope that Michael was able to hear that and listen to it as well.
It's a You you touched on something about mourning. It's very difficult to mourn if you're despairing or raging. Morning means accepting it. This is what happened. This is what it is.
We have to look at it and recognize this really happened. This is really what it is. And now what do we do? You know, what is my next action step? What do we go from here?
And When you go to the Lord, what does that look like? For you, what does that look like when you say go to the Lord? What does that look like to you?
So I'm a person who was a drug addict. And Um I went I was minister deliverance too, and I had a lot of things that were Keeping me from my destiny in the Lord, and I'm still walking, and I'm still walking, you know, with the Lord. I haven't reached my full destiny, of course. None of us have, but. There's a lot of things in my past.
You know, the devil, he's always trying to get us to slip up. And a lot of times we don't even realize that we are slipping up. You know, when morning comes and we have things to mourn about, my outlet. at the time, you know, was drugs.
So I went to drugs instead of Jesus. And you know. I still believed in Jesus. I still believe, you know, he's there with me and all this, but those drugs latched themselves onto me. And, you know, that was the way the devil got the foothold.
And but thank God, you know, even in my mistakes, he had grace for me, and he always put people in my life to guide me back on the right path. But if you let. If you continue to let If you continue to rely on the wrong things, to help you in your grief, it's going to lead you down a path of destruction. You know, grief. in a way, Greece is a way is a grace of God for us.
You know, when we go to him for it, in my opinion, You know, because it helps us to overcome the pain that's in us. Because God is not. Let me jump in here, Nick, just because in the interest of time here. But if you got somebody who's listening to this program who's not a believer, has no idea what you're talking about, just no clue, to just happen to just flip the channel and they're hearing you say these things. When you say go to the Lord with it Help them understand that.
In a way that they have no idea.
So we believe that the Bible is God's word, and we believe that God is bound to his word.
So, whatever he has written in his word or says in his word, that he must do.
So the Bible says That God is not far from any man. And anyone who calls upon the name of the Lord will be saved. But you have to have the faith behind that to call upon the name of the Lord. Because a lot of times, you know, in some situations, the Lord may come to you in a way that you see Him and a way that you hear His voice, but a lot of times He's going to send people to you. But you have to have the faith to say, Lord, I.
I'm coming to you. Maybe I've never come to you before. Maybe I have no idea who you are, but I heard a man tell me that you are good and that you rescued him from a very dark place that he could not find any way out of.
So, Lord, I call upon you, Jesus. You know, Jesus is the name that the devil fears. The name that depression is terrified of, the name that anxiety flees from, he's the name above all names. Call upon the name of Jesus. He knows your heart.
You don't have to know the words to say. Just say, Jesus, I need you. And believe that he's going to come to you. He will. He said.
He said he would come and make his abode with you. He will he will manifest himself to you, and he is so good. He's so much better than anything this world will offer you. And what he offers you is eternal. It's not just temporary.
You know, like those drugs and stuff. You know, when you do drugs, You might be high for a little while, but you're going to come down. With Jesus, he keeps you on a plane that's better than any high you'll find on this earth. Even when depression, anxiety try to creep up on you, you have a name that it fears, and you trust in that name, and the Lord will lead you out of that. I appreciate you sharing that, Nick.
I really do. And I hope Michael was listening. I think that's a good word for him. And I really thank you for calling. And plus, it's always great to hear somebody from my home state of South Carolina.
So I appreciate that. God bless. All right, bud. Thank you so much for calling. Mike in Dayton, Ohio.
Mike In Dayton, Ohio. Mike, how you feeling?
Well I'm I'm I'm apo I'm speechless now after all those callers and I just stayed on the line just to hear them. I'm praying for Mike. Mike, if you're listening, I'd be praying for you, buddy. Uh I care. I'm a Christian man.
I've been married thirty-eight years. And it seems like the closer I get to God, the closer I get to my wife. Um That is for sure. Because when I got closer to God, God told me what I need to do to get get closer to my wife. And by getting closer to my wife, helps me to get closer to my God.
And uh Peter, I was going to tell you a joke, but it's not timely. You can call Robbie Dilmore for that. You can call Robbie Show. He'll be on here tomorrow or so, and you can tell him your Robbie Dilmore jokes. Based on what we talked about at the first block and second block, do you remember how much your wedding cost?
Was it $30,000 like they are today? Uh no. I had ham sandwiches at my wedding and Um and uh we were pretty poor and uh It it was uh it was a wonderful wedding. Um, I had you know, um, we w it was at a church. But um, yeah, uh, I my son, I made him get married.
He wanted me to have grandkids with the thing, and real quickly, I said I didn't make him, but I encouraged him to make him. Yeah, I needed a little bit of clarification on that. Yes, I needed some clarification on that. Yeah. I encourage you to get married and and then he got married and uh uh we we have a wonderful family with uh with his marriage and and uh and grandkids.
I'm encouraging him to get closer to God as well with his marriage. And um, you know, it was it was it was wonderful. Uh I'm sus um yeah, I y it's it's Marriage is so important to the relationship with God and a man and a woman and the relationship with God. Man can't get closer to God without a good marriage. And I prayed for my wife before I got married.
And she was a godsend.
Well, let me back you up. Let me back you up on that because I don't want to set her up. I want to be speak very clearly on this. You can get closer to God. You can have a healthy relationship and a very deep, intimate relationship with God, even if your marriage is not what you'd like it to be.
A man's relationship with God is not contingent on what his wife does. Her relationship with God is not contingent on what her husband does. It may make it more uncomfortable in the marriage. It may make it unpleasant, it may be one-sided sometimes. But we are not absolved from seeking God with all our heart.
based on what our spouse does. I don't wake up and ask my wife every day what kind of day of am I going to have. And so it's really important that we speak with clarity to that to know that even because there are a lot of people listening that are in a troubled marriage that are going through some very painful things. And you're making a lot of racket there, Mike. I'm going to get you to back off on the phone there just a hair.
But that's okay. But we need to remember. that we're called to seek God. As an individual, And to love our wives as men as Christ loved the church. We're not called to results, I can't make anybody do anything.
All I'm responsible for is my own thoughts, words, and deeds, and we bring those under the submission of God through Christ, through the power of the Holy Spirit, and watch Him work. And that is. Truth Talk Live. Mike, thanks so much for the call, and thank you all for listening. This is Peter Rosenberger, PeterRosenberger.com.
We'll see you next time.
