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February 20, 2025 9:25 am

Peter Rosenberger shares his experiences as a caregiver for his wife, who has undergone multiple surgeries and is recovering from her injuries. He discusses the importance of maintaining one's own physical, emotional, and spiritual health while caring for others, and how this can impact one's ability to minister to others. He also shares about his ministry, Standing With Hope, which provides prosthetic limbs to amputees in West Africa and offers support to caregivers.

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This is Peter Rosenberg. And I am so glad to be with you today. Here that we're getting some snow in certain parts of the country. And maybe you're there where the snow is hitting. I understand the plight in the Rockies. And right now at our home, and we're not in our home right now, but right now at our home, we have over two feet of snow. I hope that's not what you're getting right now. We're in Denver still where my wife is now in month two of her lengthy journey of recovering from these two surgeries, number 87 and number 88. It's been quite a haul.

And I did get a text. I was listening to that commercial coming into this program about the DAV, about the guy learning to snow ski. He was disabled and my wife learned to snow ski. She trained for years with a program up in Montana and she was going down basically blues and one black slope over at Big Sky and did amazing things. Amazing.

And I've got the pictures proven. We hope we can get her back to doing that. She skis without rigors, which are kind of like crutches with little skis on them. And they call it four tracking.

Some people will sit in a chair. They call it a mono ski. But in her case, she wanted to do it with her prosthesis and she's a double amputee. And she did great. The whole family, I remember having just time when the whole family was skiing, all four of us, our two sons at the time.

Well, they're still our sons. And watching her ski was incredible. And we're hoping that that can happen for her again. She's planning on it.

I'm not so sure, but we'll see. But I did get a text just a few minutes ago. I stayed at a hotel across the street from the hospital where I do this program and work. And then I will go over there and check on it. But I got a text from the physical. Hey, it's Mary. Would you please bring at least her left leg over?

You don't get a text like that. Would you please at least bring her left leg over? And I've had both of her prosthesis over here because she was still in ICU following the surgery. She didn't need them. And she was moving around in rooms and carrying legs around the hospital. It gets to be cumbersome.

So I just left them over here. And so now I'm being asked to bring at least her left leg. You ever got a text like that?

Bring at least her left leg over to the hospital. Years ago, I did a PSA with Jeff Foxworthy on You Might Be a Caregiver If. And I asked him, I said, Would you like to do this? And he said, Sure, write out some jokes.

I said, These aren't jokes. And don't mock it. But we did a whole bunch of it. It was pretty funny.

And we did. There were some outtakes of it. And one of the outtakes was Jeff looking right at the camera and said, If anybody's ever seriously asked you, baby, have you seen my left leg? And I just lost it.

I mean, this was 10 years ago. This text from this physical therapist, at least bring her left leg over. And so I sent that to Jeff just a bit ago.

And he thought, you know, most people go through their entire life without being asked that question. But not you. So I'm going to make sure I bring her left leg after this program today. By the way, 866-34-TRUTH. If you want to be on the program, 866-34-TRUTH. The number is 348-7884.

866-348-7884. If you want to be on the program, if you don't, I'd still like to hear from you. Let me know where you're listening from and you can go out to my website.

Channels that are out there. PeterRosenberger.com. And that's R-O-S-E-N-B-E-R-G-E-R if you want to be a part of the program and tell me what's going on. Most of you all know I do a radio show on this network for family caregivers on the weekend. And that's a big thrust of pretty much everything I do is to speak to those who are caring for those. And it's been a real opportunity here at this hospital because this is a huge teaching hospital where my wife is.

And there's a children's hospital adjacent to it. So there are a lot of families going through some pretty brutal times and unsettling times. And the question is are we prepared to be able to speak to them even while dealing with our own stuff? Are we able to walk into those situations with the confidence of the gospel? And people are struggling.

I've been writing about this lately. Now a lot of people say mistakenly that people are seeking for God. And they're just seeking. They're searching.

Well, not really. Scripture says no one seeks after God unless the Father draws them. They're not going to do this on their own. We don't come to Christ on our own. Otherwise we're taking credit for our salvation.

We can figure this out. But they are seeking for the benefits of God, for the peace of God that is offered. But they don't want necessarily God.

They just want His benefits. There are a lot of people clawing at the ark after the door was shut saying, God save me. But there's a difference. And the question is as we see people who are in turmoil, can we clearly point them to the Savior? And we think that they're somehow looking because we have found that peace in our walk with Christ and we think, oh, they're looking for the benefits thereof. But it's our job to be able to clearly communicate the reality of the gospel, the plan of redemption.

Can we do that? Are we prepared even in our distress? And I go back to Paul and Silas in the book of Acts and they were in prison around midnight. They were singing hymns. Now they'd been beaten. And this is late at night and this was not a nice prison like we have here. And they'd been beaten. You know, they were hurting. And yet they were singing hymns. And when the earthquake came and this jailer was going to kill himself because he thought his life was forfeit. And Paul said, no, no, no, we're here. Put your sword down. It's going to be all right. And what an amazing moment of clarity to be able to do that even in his own distress. And I look through this time that I've had out here, a lengthy time, and it's been excuse me, I've had a bad cold and I don't have a cough button, so I apologize for that. But we have that opportunity as Christians to be able to look around us.

The fields are white with harvest. And one of the things I always admire about Stu Epperson who's Garrett Truth is that he does this on a regular basis. And the zeal he has is amazing for it. We're going to talk more about this and so many other things. Take your calls as well.

866-348-7884. This is Peter Rosenberger. We'll be right back. Welcome back to Truth Talk Live. This is Peter Rosenberger. Glad to be with you today.

866-348-7884. Did you catch the interview last night that Sean Hannity did with Trump and Musk? I don't know if you haven't watched that or not. It was fairly fascinating because we've never seen anything like this before. And I know that there's dialogue about this.

I'd be interested to know what your thoughts are. It's happening so fast, things are happening so fast, it's kind of hard to zero in on one thing. And there was a great story in the Babylon Bee that talked about how the media is just begging Trump to take a day off because they can't find any traction. They're getting worn out from going from outrage to outrage. Not everything can be outrage. You can't maintain that kind of outrage for 24-7. But he's moving at such a blistering pace.

And you've got RFK Jr. I'd certainly love to hear your thoughts on that. Do you think America needs what he's talking about?

Do you think that America needs to be healthy again? For me, one of the saddest things that I saw as a caregiver, because I notice a lot of my fellow caregivers are dealing with health issues. Because what happens is caregivers tend to put their life on hold while taking care of someone else's needs. And they put it on hold financially, physically, professionally, emotionally, all kinds of things. They just stuff or delay or procrastinate.

But we've got to get mama to Jesus or something to that effect and then we'll deal with whatever. But it doesn't work that way because this thing can go on for a lifetime. I mean, I've been doing this now for four decades.

How long can I put my health and my finances on hold? And I remember at a doctor's office, by the way, I am treating my cough. I am getting better.

I've been working on that, but it's just that time of year. But I was at a doctor's office and I was noticing a woman there who was being called up to the front desk. Now, the HIPAA laws apply greatly when you're filling out forms and talking on the phone to people. But when you're in the doctor's office, they don't care. They're just going to call out your name. They're going to call out whatever you're being treated for, you know, treatment, please come to the front desk kind of thing.

They're going to do it. And anyway, this woman came up to the desk in a wheelchair that the woman, another woman was pushing her. And she was an elderly woman in a wheelchair and she looked emaciated. And this was she was in pretty bad shape. But what struck me was the woman that was pushing her. And she was morbidly obese. I mean, not just heavy, not even plump. I mean, morbidly fat. And it was so tragic because this woman in a wheelchair who's on oxygen and has clearly some health issues and certainly age related, but.

Looked pretty, pretty sick. But her caregiver who identified herself as her daughter to think, I mean, I'm right there at the counter. You can hear everybody's business. But she's saying, you know, this is her daughter and she's the one that's taking care of her mother. But she's incredibly overweight. Now, you think about blood pressure, joint. All the above and what what it's doing to her heart and all that kind of stuff. And caregiving is hard enough without adding the physical infirmities that we deal with. I mean, I've often said to my audience and my readers and so forth, we're sometimes just one sprained ankle from this thing turning into a Greek tragedy. And we have to be careful. We have to maintain our own health physically, emotionally, financially, spiritually. I am no good to my wife if I am fat, broken, miserable.

I mean, how does that help her? And so I watch this and I'm thinking. Gone with make America healthy again, and we're listening to RFK Junior talk about this, and I subscribe that we have a lot of chemicals that we're putting in our bodies. With our food, with our medicine, we're quick to throw things at it. I mean, we want to just immediately start throwing antibiotics at things or whatever, painkillers. I've been watching this and dealing with my wife on this thing because she has such a broken body. And we're trying to keep her healthy and do things for her that are going to help her, but not. Sometimes they put so much medicine in her chemically that it's going to cause even more problems. So it's a very delicate balance.

Can't do a lot about something of that extreme, but I could do something about my life. And I did that starting last year. We spent two months in the hospital last year, and I got home and I put on some weight.

I don't want to say how much, but we lived back up to a forest in Montana, up in the mountains, and the bears were hiding there. That's how much weight I put on. So I decided, you know, I'm going to lose this weight. And I had a friend of mine coach me through that process, and you can go follow that along on her website and see what I've done.

But I've really maintained that, and I've kept this weight off. And I'm going to continue to do more, and I'm getting in steps. I've got an app on my phone that's doing steps as I walk back and forth through the hospital and everything else. They say you want to do 10,000 steps.

I don't know. Can you do 10,000 steps? I haven't been able to get that yet, and I've been walking a lot, but I'm usually around anywhere from 6 to 7,500 a day. But I'm trying to push myself to do these things. Put down sodas. I don't drink sodas.

I just drink water and things like that. Are we doing what is necessary for us to be healthy? Are we being good stewards of our body, particularly if you're taking care of somebody?

The stress on you is enormous. It's for two people. Let's make good ones. We look at women who are pregnant, and if you see somebody who's pregnant who's smoking or drinking, they're harming that child. And yet I look at somebody who's taking care of a sick loved one.

Are they harming two people with their lifestyle choices? And these are things that we can do for one another, to encourage one another, to be healthier, to make those steps today. A lot of people mistakenly think, you know, I'm not happy. I want to be happy, happy, happy.

We hear that a lot. You want to be happy. Do you feel happy? I don't do that.

I don't really pursue that. The happiness thing has to—things have to happen to make me feel better. I've been in the hospital now with my wife for over a month, and she's certainly not feeling better, and we're back and forth with this. We're not going to find things that feel better here, dealing with all these other things.

But you know what? I can find things that will make me better, make me healthier, and I can start being healthy right now. I don't have to wait until she gets out of the hospital for me to be healthier, to make healthier decisions. I can do that now. What are your thoughts on that?

That's 866-348-7884. Do you feel healthy? Are you making healthy financial decisions? Are you making healthier spiritual decisions about growing and putting into your life that which will sustain you? My father passed away last fall, and he had spent his entire life—he was a minister—he spent his entire life consumed with the Word of God. And Parkinson's took him down a tough path where so much was taken from him except the Word of God. And even in the later stages of this, he could still bring to mind and say with me scriptures that he had memorized a lifetime ago. It endures beyond everything else. That's what scripture says. That's what it does. That's the path to healthiness. That's Truth Talk Live. 866-348-7884.

This is people. Welcome back to Truth Talk Live. Glad to be with you today. This is Peter Rosenberger, and if you want to be a part of the program, you're welcome to call in.

866-34-TRUTH, 866-348-7884, or let me hear from you at PeterRosenberger.com. By the way, if you go out there, there's a link out there to my Substack page, and I put out a lot of things on Substack, and I'd love for you to check it out. There's a link just simply because of what's going on so much with airlines right now, and we're having some challenges, which that Delta flight in Toronto, that is just the fact that everybody walked away from that. I've been on that flight to Toronto and going into that airport, and when I'm thinking about traveling with Gracie, that's a bit unnerving to consider what would happen if we were on a plane that had something like that.

But that said, it brought to mind something I had done some time ago, and I put this out on my Substack page about the Delta doctrine. What putting on the mask first really means to us as caregivers. And I coined this a long time ago because I was sitting on a plane one time, and I heard the familiar words, put on your mask first in case we lose, in the unlikely event that we lose oxygen pressure, these masks will drop down, put yours on first. We've all heard it. Now, I've got to tell you, they say this on every flight.

Did you know that? I've flown quite a bit, and every flight, without exception, they've said this. And you think about all that happens on a plane before the passenger experiences or hears it.

All the rules, all the FAA guidelines, everything. So around tables, marketing tables, brochures, everything, everybody has said, we've got to tell these passengers, put your mask on first. Why? Why do we have to say that every single time? Because it's intuitive for us not to do so. We don't think that way. If you've got a child or somebody who, an older person, whatever, you're going to try to hold your breath and put it on them first. That's what we kind of default to that. And they know that. That's why they say it every time, to remind us, because I'm no good to somebody. How long can you hold your breath? You know, how long can you do this? But you are in a much better situation to help somebody if you're able to breathe.

And this is something I talk about a lot with my fellow caregivers and a friend of mine. And that's what I wrote about out here in this article on Substack. And it's a you can get to it off of my website. There's a link at the top says Peter Substack page.

But this. At a friend of mine who was struggling and I think you could be some help to him, would you meet with him? And I said, sure. So I went and had some coffee with this gentleman and he was a retired physician. And the first thing that I noticed when I saw him was that he was pretty portly. Now, he wasn't as obese as I was mentioning in the last block about that lady pushing her mother, but he was he was pretty chunky. And he was stirring his coffee and, you know, ask him, you know, how are you doing?

And he's and he just said you could see it all on his face. And he said, I miss playing golf with my friends. I miss playing golf with my friends. And his wife had Parkinson's and they were in their late 60s, early 70s.

And there are three eyes that every caregiver deals with three eyes. It's become isolated and they lose their identity. And so he said, I miss playing golf with my friends. He's lost his independence. He's become isolated. And I asked him, I said, OK, do you have the resources to hire part time help? And his response. She's not comfortable with that.

Not, yes, I have the resources or no, I don't have the resources or I hope to be able to have the nothing first person singular, third person singular. She's not comfortable. And I said very gently, but I did say it directly.

I didn't ask what she was comfortable with. That kind of startled him a little bit. But that loss of identity, we start saying we, our, he, she, but not I. And he had a long pause there as he struggled to see the reality of what he was dealing with, that he was losing himself in this.

And I, I said to him, I said, look, how would you like to be able to play on Tuesdays, for example, around the golf with your buddies and have lunch at the clubhouse? And your wife's had a bath. Bed's been changed.

There's the house is straightened up and there's a dinner made in the kitchen. Big tears filled his eyes. He said, I can't imagine. I said, you're one phone call away from that.

And I had a service that I knew of and we'd use the same one. And I said, make the phone call. I said, let's pry your hands off of the wheelchair and put them on the golf clubs where they belong. Not every day, not 24 seven, but the man's got to get out and just breathe for a moment, catch his breath.

He's got to get his, his mask on first. So. And that's what I'm sitting on the plane. I just call that the Delta doctrine. You know, I mean, a lot of people say that you've heard that before, but, you know, Delta, duh, everything leaves through Atlanta. That's what Delta stands for, you know.

And but but the thing is, are we doing that? And the reason we do it is because healthy caregivers make better caregivers. Again, I'm no good to my wife if I'm fat, broken, miserable or if I can't breathe. You know, I was sick for a couple of days and I couldn't get around her very much in the hospital. That was not a good thing for me to do.

I didn't want her to get it. So all of a sudden she's alone because I'm sick. Well, you can't help get a cold sometimes.

I'm in a city here in Aurora, Colorado, and and I'm used to the clean mountain air where I live and hotel living is a little bit different. However, you know, I'm better and I can be around her now and it's OK. But are we good to folks if we're unhealthy? What if we're unhealthy spiritually?

What if we're unhealthy emotionally? Where does it? How do you make that work? How do you reconcile that? What do you do about that?

And if we're not daily invested and growing and becoming stronger, becoming more keenly aware of the things of God, we're not going to be able to speak to this world that is floundering. Think back to that large woman trying to push her mother in a wheelchair. This doctor who's let himself go a bit and he's feeling so cut off and isolated. What kind of relationship are they going to have if he continues down that path? He wrote me several years after that, sent me a text. And to his credit, he called the service and was able to get somebody in there two days.

Take a break and go play golf and just be able to kind of breathe. His wife died a couple of years ago, several years ago. And he wrote me and he said, you saved my life. And the last three to four years of her life, we were able to have meaningful moments. You helped save my life, which is very gracious for him to say.

All I did was give him the same advice that people have given me. That I'm no good to my wife if I'm a burnout husk. And that's the point of this. Is that we are basically, I'm just one beggar showing another beggar where to find the food. But we have that responsibility. And we have that stewardship opportunity to be able to go into other people's lives and give them clarity. And most importantly, the clarity of the gospel. Not to go over there and slap around with it.

I don't even use the word need or should. I don't want to hear it from other people. And I certainly don't want to have that put on me, so I'm not going to do it and try to inflict that on other people. I just want to tell you what I have experienced and seen and witnessed. And as Paul says in Corinthians, you comfort one another with the same comfort that you yourself have received.

And the comfort that I have received is knowing that he who began a good work in me is faithful to complete it to the day of Christ Jesus. That's comforting to me as I look at my wife in the hospital and I see her struggling. The comfort that I'm able to offer her, I can't take away her pain. I can't make her legs grow back. I can't make her body heal from these surgeries any faster. But what I can do is remind her of the great news of Christ that God has saved her from something far worse than this. And that his magnificence will sustain her in this. And I'll groan with her and I'll pray with her.

I can't fix it, but I can offer the same comfort that I depend upon. And that is truth talk life. That is the truth. This is Peter Rosenberger, truth 866-34 truth. If you want to be a part of the program, we'd love to hear from you. Don't go away, we've got more to go. Welcome back to Truth Talk Live.

This is Peter Rosenberger. Very glad to be with you today. 866-34 truth.

We're 878-84. Hey, we just had something really kind of cool here. And I'd like for you to just continue to lift it up in your prayers. We have right now a shipment heading over to West Africa of used prosthetic supplies. What does that mean?

Do several things. When Gracie lost her legs, she had a remarkable vision to be able to put quality prosthetic limbs on her fellow amputees and point them to Christ. Really astonishing vision that she had. And part of that is we collect used prosthetic limbs from all over the country. Literally from Alaska to Miami. And they go to a prison being run by an outfit out of Nashville called CoreCivic. And this prison has faith-based programs in it. And inmates volunteer to help us disassemble the limbs.

Pretty cool. And they love doing it. In fact, the comments that I've gotten from the inmates have just been extraordinary. One guy said, I never did anything positive with my hands before doing this program. Another one said, I never even thought of people with disabilities until I started doing this. Another guy was incarcerated and his wife was an amputee.

And he signed up for this just because his wife was an amputee and he wanted to be a part of the program. And what they do is these limbs come in and sometimes they'll come with just the limb. And sometimes they'll come with one shoe on the limb. We always ask people, please send the other shoe if it's just a single limb. And then sometimes they'll come with the prosthetic socks or the liners, the sleeves and other attachment belts and so forth.

And we can recycle all of that. Except the socket. The socket is for the patient. They have to mold and do that out of carbon fiber and acrylic resin laminate. And we do that on site in West Africa and in Accra. And so we purchase those materials to be able to build that on site. But the pylon and the foot and the knee and the adapters and the screws and all those kinds of things, we can recycle them. Prosthetic socks and liners and sleeves if they're still in pretty good shape. And those things all get inventoried, sent over, and then they are used to build custom fit legs on site in West Africa.

So three things. We welcome your prayers for what we're doing here. The shipment gets there safely because sometimes things can get a bit gnarly when you're shipping things over. It's a pretty big shipment we just did. We collect these things about every quarter or so we try to ship big boxes and packages and things.

So they've got to get there. And then just for the work that we're doing, if you know somebody who is an amputee, who may have, particularly children and adolescents, if they've outgrown it, they don't know what to do with it, we'll take it. The name of the ministry is called Standing With Hope. You can reach it from my website, PeterRosenberger.com. And you can just click on the Standing With Hope links and you can see the patients that we're treating.

And you can see the faces of those. We've been doing this for a very long time. And next month is our 20th anniversary of doing this. I'll never forget the first patient we treated. He was a great guy, Jonathan. And then I think of so many faces of lives that have been changed because Gracie was lying in a hospital bed after losing her own legs and said, this is what I'm going to do.

And I thought, you know, we really don't have an excuse to not be involved in the ministry of the gospel in whatever way God opens up that opportunity. I got to tell you a story about two women. One of them is my wife and she's laying in the hospital last week after this surgery and she's in a great deal of pain. Recovery room.

I get a FaceTime video from our dear friend, Joni Eareckson-Tada. Now, between Joni and Gracie, the two of these women, they've got 100 years of disability between the two of them. Both have been suffering for a very long time. And Joni was just singing to Gracie in the recovery room. You could hear Joni's voice over the phone as Gracie was struggling post-op and she was hurting quite significantly. And Joni just sang to her.

And Gracie's returned the favor and done the same for her. And I thought, these two women whose bodies are broken beyond anything this world can repair. Joni's with quadriplegia, she's had two rounds of cancer. Gracie, 88 surgeries, both of her legs gone and she's in constant pain. Nothing that medical science can do to fix that.

It can mitigate it, but it can't fix it. That's going to be done in heaven. But in the meantime, both these women serve.

They serve their savior, who they recognize has saved them from something far worse. And Joni's got massive wheelchair ministry around the world. And you know her books and so forth. You hear her on this program. And the two of them, by the way, they have a couple of duets they've done together that are just exceptional. You can hear that website as well. Wherever you stream music, you can listen to it. They did a cover of Through It All, the old Andre Kraus tune.

That'll just tear you apart. It is really something. The two of them and what they've done. And so I think, you know, what is my excuse?

What is my excuse? And I thought about this work in the prison. And you've got a woman with a broken body who is enlisting the help of broken lives in a prison to take used components of other broken lives who've had to have amputations. And she takes all that and then sends it over to West Africa to use to help with other broken lives. So that they can go walking and leaping and praising God.

It's a pretty powerful moment to watch. And I'd love for you to tell somebody about it. If you know somebody who's, like I said, we're always looking for pediatric components. So kids outgrow legs pretty quickly.

You go through a lot of legs. Don't throw that stuff away. We'll take it. We will take it. And if we can't use it, nobody can. But we'll strip it to the screw level and reuse these things.

And please tell somebody about it. And if you want to get involved in what we're doing, we'd welcome the help. It's an exceptional work and I'm incredibly proud of what Gracie envisioned. We have two programs at Standing With Hope. One is for the wounded, which is the prosthetic limb outreach. And for those who care for them, which is the caregiver outreach. And most of you probably in this audience are not amputees. But you probably know someone who is. But I would imagine most of you are a caregiver or going to be one. If you love somebody, you will be a caregiver.

If you live long enough, you're going to need one. And that's just the way it works. And so we have this opportunity to be able to give out of where we've been met. That's the whole point of ministry. You minister out of your wounds, for that's where you meet the healer. And so I'm asking you, what wounds are you carrying? And have you met the healer in those wounds? And are you wanting to be a good steward of what you've learned through that and share it with others?

This is how we do it. Look around. Look around. Just spend five minutes looking at the niche.

And you will see so many opportunities. I remember a guy called up one time on this program, I believe, and was bemoaning the fact that he wasn't being able to minister to anyone. He said, I'm not able to have opportunities to minister.

I said, what do you mean? Well, he wasn't looking for opportunity to minister. He was looking for opportunity to be paid to be minister. And I said, you want to minister to somebody, just go sit at Waffle House and look around. There are plenty of people there that you can minister to.

I'm walking to this hospital every single day. There's no shortage of ministry. Now, if you want to get paid to do it, well, you deal with that with God. But right now, God is calling all of us to minister where we are. And there is somebody around you today who would benefit from you being able to share your journey, somebody who is struggling on some level with something.

Thoreau said that all men lead lives of quiet desperation. And sometimes you can look out over a church and on every pew, there's somebody going through something. Are we prepared to talk to them and to point them to the Savior? Can we do that with clarity? Can we do that with passion and excitement? Can we groan with them? Can we rejoice with those who rejoice? Can we mourn with those who mourn? These are things that just weigh heavy on me.

I mean, like I said, I'm doing this from a hospital here and dealing with that reality. And yes, Gracie and I have learned to have laughter in it and we cut up and we do all kinds of things. And she's lived to sing about it. She's lived to talk about it and lived to be able to put legs on her fellow amputees.

But it's still difficult. And yet, in that, I still go back to Paul and Silas sitting in prison after being beaten and they're singing hymns around midnight, ready at a moment's notice to share the gospel. I think I told you this last night, the first time we did the Today Show, and I did a foot washing service for Gracie. And when I wash her feet, it's usually in the sink with a comet and a brush. And then on the bottom of her feet in a Sharpie, I wrote John 3.16 so that her feet were shod with the gospel. She's ready at a moment's notice to share the gospel. You know, you don't have to put John 3.16 on the bottom of your feet in a Sharpie.

In her case, it kind of works because, you know, they're prosthetic feet. But are we prepared to do that? Are we ready at a moment's notice to share with a world that is desperate? Let's not let them settle for the world's peace. Jesus said He came to give peace, not as the world gives. God's peace. They're looking for peace. Let's point them to the Savior. This is Peter Rosenberger. This is Truth Talk Live. We'll see you next time.

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