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S2: It's Cody Carnes. Take you at your word. Well, when
S2: you were growing up, did you actually ever have one
S2: of those kind of clubhouse treehouse type of things that said, like,
S2: no girls allowed or no boys allowed?
S3: I don't think I put a no girls. Well, the
S3: problem at not not the problem, but at my house
S3: there was only one girl and it was mom. And
S3: so there really wasn't a no girls allowed sign because
S3: there were barely any girls around to begin with.
S2: I feel like always in those movies, like The Little
S2: Rascals or any sort of kid movie, it seems to
S2: perpetuate this idea that this is a regular thing where,
S2: like boys or girls grouped together and create spaces, treehouses, forts, etc.. Yeah.
S2: Where the opposite gender is excluded. Does this happen? Yeah.
S3: I never ran into that. Yeah, it's a real thing. My, my, is.
S2: It a.
S3: Real thing? My niece has a sign on her door
S3: that says no boys allowed. And then in little words
S3: it says, accept, dad. So really? Yeah. Because. Because dad
S3: has to be able to be able to go in there. So.
S3: But her brother can't.
S2: So her brother. Interesting. This is excluding you. One person. Uh,
S2: somebody any any experience with that? No.
S4: See, that doesn't ring a bell for me. I mean,
S4: I know of it, like you said, movies and things
S4: like that, but, yeah, I never, never accounted that at
S4: at all. How about yourself? I mean, now, you had
S4: the three sisters and the one brother.
S2: And we, you know, we happily welcomed him into all
S2: of our shenanigans. There you go. He. And and even
S2: when he didn't want, I think he probably would have
S2: put a sign on his door. Although he never had
S2: his own room as the fourth kid. So he definitely
S2: always had to tag along with his sisters. But I
S2: feel like he was always included. You know, we would
S2: there when he was little. We did try to dress
S2: him up a couple times, and my dad was like,
S2: absolutely not. You can't put a bonnet on him. You
S2: can't treat him like he's a little baby doll. But
S2: as he grew up, I feel like he. He was
S2: okay being the the one boy in the in the
S2: midst of three.
S3: Oh, sure.
S2: Older girls. You know, I I'm asking this because coming up,
S2: we're going to, we're going to feature a conversation that
S2: for women only things that men need to know for
S2: men only things that women would want men to know.
S2: And so I was just thinking about that, that sort of.
S2: Do you like the idea of, of of now I
S2: will say, let me interject here, because in our current climate,
S2: we absolutely need to be protecting spaces that are for
S2: women only.
S3: Oh, goodness.
S2: Definitely.
S3: So, absolutely.
S2: I'm just going to put that out there because that
S2: should honestly that should could should go without saying.
S3: I think.
S2: So there are some spaces that should be absolutely for
S2: women only, but I digress. But you know, there are
S2: Conversations and things that I think happen among women that
S2: may be surprising to men and vice versa. You know,
S2: if you get a bunch of women around talking, I
S2: think men would sometimes be surprised at what we're talking about,
S2: or maybe what we're not talking about.
S4: Yeah, that's why I was thinking.
S2: I don't think they assume.
S4: And it's like, no, no, we don't go down that road.
S2: I at least in my context, I'm not in a
S2: lot of environments where I think people think that women
S2: like to bash men. I actually don't think that happens
S2: nearly as often as men might think.
S3: I think that that's probably fair. I think that the
S3: opposite is probably true, too. I think that, you know,
S3: the the scenario where all the guys just get around
S3: together and complain about their wives. I mean, it's not
S3: good when it happens. And sure, sometimes it happens, but
S3: I don't think it happens as much as people would think.
S2: We might think. Well, you know what's better than speculation?
S2: Cold hard facts, research and expert. Let's talk about that
S2: coming up. Freedom Friday here on Karl and crew.
S1: He's a sports fanatic with a stat for anything you
S1: can think of. Young Thunder is in the crew. It's
S1: Karl and crew on Moody Radio.
S5: Well, one thing you know that we love around here
S5: is some good hard data points.
S3: You do love data points.
S5: I love numbers don't lie, baby.
S3: If you can come in with a sheet in front
S3: of you that says, you know, I got the numbers
S3: on this, you are pumped up more than I've ever.
S5: That's why I love you. Young Thunder, not only you.
S5: Great synthesizer of truth. You are stat man.
S3: I do love a good stat. Stats are fun, man.
S5: We got an incredible guest with us right now. Shante
S5: Feldhuhn is a researcher big time. From when she was
S5: a little kid. Obviously she aspired to get to Harvard
S5: and she did it. Formerly an analyst on Wall Street,
S5: she uses these analytical skills in a powerful way. Has
S5: some groundbreaking Breaking research that was uncorked a number of
S5: years ago, and it's still living today. Shanti, how are you?
S6: I'm good. It's great to be with you guys.
S5: Great to have you with us today. Let's break it down.
S5: We're steaming toward Mother's Day. And, I mean, it's in
S5: two days here. And I just want to ask you,
S5: what in the world do we miss? Like, the broad
S5: side of a barn about women that your research proved.
S6: I am so glad you are asking that question. And
S6: can I just tell you that when you talk about
S6: loving numbers, you are speaking my love language?
S5: I knew, I knew it. She's a data girl.
S6: Yep, exactly. I will tell you. And I will tell
S6: especially all the men out there who are listening to this,
S6: that one of the most important things that you miss
S6: about your wife, or perhaps your girlfriend, is that you
S6: think that once you got married that she feels permanently
S6: loved and that is not the case. There is no
S6: switch in her brain that gets flipped to the Ow.
S6: I feel permanently loved now. Sort of position. And instead
S6: we found 82% of women. And by the way, this
S6: is not a Facebook poll. This is a big, expensive,
S6: nationally representative survey of women. We found 82% of women,
S6: even in the best relationships, have that question in the
S6: back of their head that does he really love me?
S6: Kind of question.
S5: So one first question is where did where did we
S5: begin to buy that lie? And number two, how in
S5: the world do we dig out of that and begin
S5: to really get proactive with that information? Because that's good information.
S6: Well, the most important thing I think for men, honestly,
S6: this is this is one of the other things that
S6: we found in the research as well, is there's something
S6: that starts when you're like kids, honestly, or teenagers and
S6: you're talking in the locker room and you kind of
S6: roll your eyes and you laugh about how women are
S6: so mysterious and they're never going to be understood. It's true.
S6: And you kind of have this idea that there's something
S6: in women that's just kind of random. And so, you know,
S6: you can try all you want, but you're never going
S6: to quite understand her. And that is a lie. It's
S6: a lie from the pit. Honestly. Yes. Because what it
S6: does is it sets up every man with this myth that,
S6: you know what, some part of me is never going
S6: to be able to make it, you know, figure her out.
S6: And so if something is confusing, I just kind of
S6: throw up my hands and say, okay, it's that random
S6: part of her. Move along. And so you wouldn't do
S6: that in any other part of your life if something
S6: happened at work and your boss said something and you
S6: didn't understand, let me tell you, you're not going to
S6: just assume he's being random. No, you're going to try
S6: to figure out why it happened, and so you can
S6: figure out how to handle things better and how to
S6: actually sort of become in step into that role that
S6: you've been given and do it well. And it's the
S6: same thing with being a husband. Your wife may seem mysterious,
S6: but I can promise you, when women can be systematized
S6: and understood just like you men can. So that's the
S6: first step.
S5: That's beautiful. You know, Shanti, this has been a phenomenon
S5: that I have lived through. I lived in the locker
S5: room education kind of model. And that's what most men had.
S5: But now we've got this crazy cultural phenomenon where culture
S5: is screaming. Throw men and women into a blender, and
S5: you get this gender amorphous, weird dysfunction thing where there's
S5: no distinction celebrated in everybody's the loser. Shanti, what are
S5: we going to do? You've got not only got data points,
S5: your research leads to the bigger. Yes. How do we
S5: elevate and separate without denigrating man and woman?
S6: Well, one of the most important things for especially men
S6: to recognize is that most people, including most women, know
S6: that there are differences, right? Like, it's only a really
S6: small number of people that have bought that kind of
S6: cultural sort of extreme concept. So let's sort of set
S6: that aside and just say, okay, people are going to
S6: believe what they want to believe. Everybody else knows the truth.
S6: And so for men to not be afraid of saying, okay,
S6: my wife or my girlfriend is different from me, it
S6: doesn't mean that there's any kind of discord that has
S6: to happen. It doesn't mean that there's any kind of defect.
S6: It's just different. And so this is something I can
S6: work with. As long as I understand it, I will
S6: tell you, here's what my my prayer is for all
S6: the men listening to this we found in our research
S6: over the last 20 years, 20 plus years now that
S6: most of the time when you have discord, you've got
S6: a couple who really cares about each other. You've got
S6: a husband and wife who really love one another, and
S6: they are both trying really hard. But because they don't
S6: know some of these differences, these little things that are
S6: going on inside the life of the person that they're
S6: married to, they're trying hard in the wrong areas and
S6: they're missing each other, or even worse, they're trying hard
S6: and they're actually hurting their spouse's feelings, and they would
S6: never intend to know. And so what we find is
S6: that if you learn these little things, you can try
S6: hard in the right areas, and suddenly there is so
S6: much more hope and so much more peace, and everything
S6: just seems to flow.
S5: Dynamite. Shaunti Feldhahn is my guest right now. She. We've
S5: got links coming to you soon with even stories of
S5: hope that are going to fire you up. But coming
S5: up here, let's talk about those little things, because the
S5: one thing that I know as a pastor for many
S5: decades now, or at least several, and being on radio,
S5: we've got empirical data that comes in here and anecdotal stuff,
S5: but the fact is, it's usually not the big things.
S5: Remember when Howard Hendricks used to say, shanty, that there's
S5: never such thing as a blowout? It's always a slow
S5: leak in marriage. It's true. So coming up, let's talk
S5: about the little things so that we aren't building walls
S5: between husband and wife, men and women, one little cinder
S5: block at a time. Hang on.
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S5: Shanti Feldhuhn. She is a best selling author, podcaster, blogger,
S5: great communicator, speaker. I heard her a number of years
S5: ago down at Saint Pete Beach. My goodness. With Family
S5: Life Weekend to Remember Speakers Retreat and what you were
S5: sharing then and even today. So liberating. Let's dig into
S5: the data a little bit. Shanti. What are the little
S5: things that men can do that can reclaim that At
S5: that ongoing courtship really care for the needs of a
S5: woman in the way she's made.
S6: The most important thing. Okay, let's hearken back to what
S6: I said, that 82% of women have this question. This
S6: does he really love me? Kind of question in their head.
S6: So the first thing is to recognize, okay, there's something
S6: in the heart of a woman. And this is. By
S6: the way, I need to say this out loud. Obviously,
S6: this is not 100% right. There's everybody's an individual. If 82%
S6: said one way, that means 18% didn't. So use this,
S6: by the way guys, as a starting point, not an
S6: ending point. This is a starting point for your conversation.
S6: But what that usually means is that most women have
S6: in their heart an am I lovable question. It's not
S6: just do you love me? The reason they're asking that
S6: is because you got to back up. It's because of
S6: the am I lovable question in her heart. And so
S6: if you look for ways to answer that question. Every
S6: day you are going to be her hero. And here
S6: are some of the little things that we found that
S6: answer that question for her every day. Because you're you're
S6: looking to send her that message every day. We found
S6: statistically that things as simple as, like reaching across and
S6: taking her hand. When you're walking across a parking lot
S6: that says all the things her heart is longing to hear, right?
S6: Like that says, I'm so glad I married you. That's
S6: what she's looking for. Things like putting your arm around
S6: her at church, or when you're, like, sitting with a
S6: couple at a, you know, at a dinner out or whatever,
S6: and you put your arm around her or you put
S6: your hand on her knee that says, I would choose
S6: you all over again. That says, I love you so much.
S6: Little things like texting her during the day, even if
S6: it's just this little tiny thought of how grateful you
S6: are for her. If you will take 30s and send
S6: a little text message saying, man, this has been a
S6: really rough day. I can't wait to see you tonight.
S6: I love you so much. I'm so glad you're mine
S6: and you press send. She will screenshot that text message,
S6: I promise you.
S5: Yeah.
S6: That's powerful. These little things we found statistically make a really,
S6: really big difference.
S5: Let's hear a story. You must have a story of
S5: someone that went from, you know, because. Because men, men,
S5: we are great hunters. We are horrible at taking care
S5: of that game. And I'm being very hyperbolic here, but
S5: if you go into the hunting metaphor, we're great at
S5: going out. We can get in disguise. We can, you know,
S5: get that girl, and then we throw her over our
S5: shoulder and think that it's done. It's just begun. You
S5: must have a story of a man that's gotten this right.
S6: Many? Yes. Well, I will tell you. Something happened not
S6: that long ago. Jeff and I were doing a marriage event,
S6: and we, you know, we speak at marriage conferences and
S6: date nights and that kind of thing. And a guy
S6: came up to us who had kind of like, you
S6: had heard us at an event, I don't know, like
S6: a few years back, we had been at his church,
S6: at a different church, and he came up with this
S6: kind of bemused expression on his face, and he was like,
S6: you're not going to believe this, he said. We literally
S6: were shaking towards divorce. Like, that's how hard it was.
S6: He was like I was working to provide. I was
S6: trying so hard and, you know, trying so much to
S6: be the man that she wanted me to be. And
S6: she was always unhappy and saying, you know, that I
S6: never listened to her and, you know, all the things.
S6: And he said, you told us that listening to a
S6: woman means not listen for the problem I want to solve,
S6: but listen to my feelings, listen to my upset and
S6: my hurt about what happened at work today. And he said,
S6: I started doing that, and I started doing what you
S6: told me to, which is to ignore the problem for
S6: a minute, like make that step to. And he said
S6: she started just like would start bawling. She would start crying,
S6: but like in a good way. Like, I'm so grateful that,
S6: you know, you care about me in this way. And
S6: he's like, I always cared about her. He's like, I
S6: just didn't realize that this is like one key shift,
S6: one little thing that could actually show her in the
S6: way she needed to be shown. So anyway, we we
S6: constantly have couples coming up to us with tears in
S6: their eyes, telling us, I had no idea that I
S6: was hurting my spouse's feelings. I would never have wanted to.
S6: And this is basically giving me the tools. It's like
S6: tools in a toolbox to okay, now I know how
S6: to do it right. And it's so simple.
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S2: Well, some of my best memories when my kids were
S2: little was being a part of a mom's ministry. Our
S2: initial gatherings were very informal, folding chairs in a room
S2: where the kids were right next door. They were trying.
S2: A couple of babysitters were trying to keep them quiet,
S2: but inevitably kids would run in and out or fall
S2: or there'd be crying. But you know what? It was
S2: a lifeline for me as I tried to navigate those
S2: early years of motherhood. We need each other. I know
S2: our special guest would wholeheartedly agree. Mandy Areata joining us
S2: right now, she's the president and CEO of the Mom Co,
S2: formerly Mops or Moms of Preschoolers, but now rebranded moms
S2: absolutely need each other and the stats prove that out, right?
S7: Absolutely. What we're seeing is that moms are experiencing an
S7: epidemic of loneliness, and there's so much better when they
S7: have one another to support and guide and say, yes,
S7: me too. I'm going through the same thing.
S2: You know, one of the I think unique challenges of
S2: motherhood for this generation is the ability to see or
S2: to feel like you're seeing into the lives of so
S2: many different moms through social media. So the mom blogs
S2: and the mom influencers and the mom YouTubers. I feel
S2: like we've never been more inundated with what feels like examples,
S2: sometimes unattainable standard of what it looks like to mom. Well,
S2: how are you seeing that impact the women, Christian women
S2: in general?
S7: Absolutely. I think we get to see a lot of
S7: people from afar, from a distance. And then when we
S7: come together in community and we're actually face to face
S7: and eyeball to eyeball and sharing our real stories, we recognize,
S7: oh my goodness, everybody else is going through the same
S7: things I am. And so there's this camaraderie when we're
S7: in proximity with each other. And the other thing that
S7: we're recognizing is that as moms, we're inundated with so
S7: much information that we are starting to lose our intuition,
S7: our gut feeling and trusting that intuition that we know
S7: what's best for our kids and that we don't have
S7: to constantly be consuming more information, but that we can
S7: trust that God has given us the ability to parent
S7: our kids well.
S2: Tell me a little bit more about the mom co.
S2: It used to be called mops and many will know
S2: it as that. I know you reaches over 10 million
S2: women globally, but tell us for those who are hearing
S2: of it for the first time.
S7: Yeah, we're the mom community mom co for short. And really,
S7: we gather women together because we recognize that moms are
S7: some of the most powerful influencers on the planet. You know,
S7: lots of times as society, we think if we want
S7: to change the world, where do we start? We start
S7: with politics or education or the economy. But what we
S7: forget is that moms are the ones behind the scenes
S7: influencing every single one of those things. And so we
S7: gather moms together. We help remind them that the work
S7: they're doing is significant. We provide practical training and resources
S7: and mentoring, and we work in 109 countries and 30
S7: different languages, because motherhood is this common denominator that bonds
S7: us all together.
S2: Tell me about your own journey as a mom. What
S2: did you feel like you needed most that maybe you
S2: weren't able to grab hold of? I don't know how your.
S2: you're if you still have littles or if you're further
S2: on in your parenting journey.
S7: Yeah, I have three kids and they are all heading
S7: off to college now. And I just recognize, you know,
S7: I thought I needed my mom community when my kids
S7: were little, and I absolutely did. And now, as I'm
S7: parenting teenagers and young adults, I recognize I still need
S7: that mom community just as much now as I did
S7: when they were little. And so I think it just
S7: follows us throughout our whole lives, our whole mothering journey,
S7: that having those friends to support us and, you know,
S7: just speak life and hope and give practical resources is
S7: just a lifeline that we all need at every stage
S7: of our mothering.
S2: What context are you seeing mom co flourish the most?
S2: Is it in the local church? Is it in homeschool groups?
S2: Where are you seeing these groups really thrive?
S7: We have mom co groups in churches and that is
S7: absolutely a phenomenal place where we see moms thriving. But
S7: we also have groups that meet in homes and, you know,
S7: around the world in community centers, libraries all over the place.
S7: And really, it's not the location that matters. It's the
S7: women coming together and being honest and vulnerable and getting
S7: real about their stories and talking about the things that
S7: really matter most, because that's how we help each other
S7: thrive and grow, not only as followers of Jesus, but
S7: as moms and as wives and in every aspect of
S7: our work and relationships. When we're together and honest and vulnerable,
S7: that's what's most important.
S2: You know, at the heart of this is the gospel
S2: of Jesus Christ, because anybody who's you never feel maybe
S2: more vulnerable than when you're tasked with raising a child
S2: and you and you realize how little control you have.
S2: You never had control, but you had the illusion of it.
S2: But then you have a child and you realize, my goodness,
S2: the things that they go through that I can't take away.
S2: And your dependence on God absolutely has to be at
S2: the forefront. The power of the Holy Spirit to even
S2: allow us to be the kind of moms we were
S2: called to be. I know that's your heart as well.
S7: 100% what we recognize is motherhood is just this opportunity
S7: that opens us to God in a new way and
S7: helps us recognize, just like you said, our vulnerability and
S7: our reliance on him to raise kids and what we
S7: found at the mom Co and what we see every
S7: day is that moms are some of the most powerful
S7: evangelists on the planet. Like, you want to spread the
S7: message of Jesus far and wide. You start with moms
S7: because it's exponential evangelism, because when she meets Jesus, so
S7: do her kids and her husband and her friends and
S7: her community. And so word of mom is this powerful
S7: thing that it's like latent potential in the church's hands
S7: that when they resource moms, the kingdom grows and multiplies
S7: in exponential ways.
S2: You have a new podcast that just released. It's a
S2: limited edition podcast called Bloodline and Backbone, talking about the
S2: spiritual legacy of motherhood. Give us a thought on that.
S7: Bloodline and backbone is really this unconventional podcast about motherhood.
S7: It's gritty and honest and well researched, and it talks
S7: about the history of motherhood through the ages, and how
S7: moms have influenced medicine and wars and politics and finances.
S7: And it's this fascinating look at the way that moms
S7: have foundationally changed the fabric of society. And so it's fascinating.
S7: And it really points back to the truth that Jesus
S7: has mobilized moms throughout the centuries to be purveyors of
S7: his word, and to pass it down from generation to generation.
S2: I want to make sure that you can get Ahold
S2: of this, that you can get connected to the mom co,
S2: you can see if there's a group in your area
S2: or even about starting one. Just text mom Co to
S2: 800 555 7898 mom Co just like it sounds. Mom
S2: Co to 855 five 7898. We'll throw the link for
S2: the podcast in there as well.
S1: A basketball mom who's mastered the dad joke. Ali is
S1: in the crew. It's Carlin crew on Moody Radio.
S2: You know, God often uses uses moms to help you
S2: find your place in the world.
S3: Oh yeah. Absolutely.
S2: The moms who love and who encourage and who serve.
S2: And oftentimes it's not. If you're privileged to have your
S2: own mom who does that for you. Awesome. You still
S2: need other moms to do it.
S3: No doubt.
S2: And how much more? So if you don't have that right.
S2: And so on this Freedom Friday, I want to ask
S2: you this question. I want to hear your story of
S2: a mom who had a pivotal influence in your coming
S2: to faith in Christ. Tell me about the role a
S2: mom played in your freedom story. Could be your mom
S2: or grandma or aunt. It could be a Sunday school teacher,
S2: a neighbor, a friend. I didn't even think about when
S2: I first was thinking about this question. But sometimes it's
S2: a it's a it can be a peer.
S4: Yes it.
S2: Can. It doesn't even have to be someone older than you.
S2: It could be a mom who was younger than you.
S2: But that woman that mom played a pivotal role in
S2: your coming to faith in Christ, and that's what I
S2: want to hear about on this. Heading into Mother's Day weekend,
S2: they prayed, spoke truth, discipled, shared the gospel. One of
S2: those things. Maybe something else. Maybe all of the above.
S2: 855 five 7898 855 five 7898. You know, I was
S2: going to a church at a time, and I there
S2: was a young woman who had a difficult family situation
S2: going on, and there was a mom at the church
S2: who took it upon herself to kind of become a,
S2: a mom figure for this young woman.
S4: I love that.
S2: Brought her into her home, discipled, mentored, walked her through
S2: some really tough stuff. And it wasn't just her, though.
S2: She kind of assembled sort of a mini network of
S2: other of other women who could kind of co-mother this
S2: young girl who had been through some really tough stuff.
S4: That's inspiring.
S2: It. I mean, it was it was pretty remarkable to see.
S2: And and so the growth and the development of this
S2: young woman, because of the love of a mother who
S2: wasn't her own, and then the love of other women
S2: who stepped in to fill in where there were even
S2: more gaps. And she was sort of collectively mothered by
S2: the group.
S4: That is going to cheer me up. That's actually beautiful
S4: and inspiring. And even on this day, going into Mother's Day,
S4: you know, whatever your background may be, maybe take that
S4: into heart, into this weekend. Really look around your church
S4: this Sunday. You can tell by faces. You can tell
S4: by who's there and what's going on. Maybe it's something
S4: within your church that you can take the lead on.
S2: Yeah. And so phone lines open now if you've got
S2: a story. What role did a mom play in your
S2: freedom story. And you're coming to faith in Christ? 800
S2: 555 7898. I want to keep reiterating maybe it was
S2: your own mom. Maybe it wasn't. Both are awesome and needed.
S2: 800 555 7898.
S8: My coat of many colors that my mama made for
S8: me made only from rage. But I wore it so proudly.
S2: What is this, Jonathan?
S3: Oh, Dolly.
S8: Parton. I had no money. Interesting. I was rich as
S8: I could be in my coat of many colors my
S8: momma made for me.
S2: Yes, this is Moody Radio.
S4: It's a story. When she was younger.
S2: Okay, tell me.
S4: What's the.
S2: Story?
S3: So the whole song is is a progressive story, but it's. They.
S3: She grew up really poor, and her mom took a
S3: bunch of different fabrics of a bunch of different colors
S3: and sewed it all together. And as she was sewing it,
S3: she told Dolly about the story from the Bible, where
S3: Joseph had a coat of many colors. And and then
S3: she made this coat for for her. And although they
S3: had no money and it wasn't worth anything, her mom
S3: made it for her.
S4: And initially she didn't want to wear it. She actually
S4: didn't wear it. At first she was a little embarrassed
S4: because she was getting kind of ridiculed at school, but
S4: then it turned around and was very pivotal. And just
S4: talking her, her father actually spoke into her in like
S4: the love that was behind the patchwork and what was
S4: built within this coat. Wow. So it really was pivotal
S4: for her and her heart and her faith.
S2: Okay. Okay. Wow. How did you both just know that story?
S3: Well, I read the lyrics of the song, and then I.
S3: So I learned it as I'm.
S2: Going to say. Is this just like, commonly a commonly known.
S4: Story or a little of her story? I know a
S4: little of her story. Wow. So. Well.
S2: That's awesome. Well, we're celebrating moms all this week. Um,
S2: I want to take you to second Timothy one five.
S2: This is Paul to Timothy, and he says, I am
S2: reminded of your sincere faith, a faith that dwelt first
S2: in your grandmother Lois and your mother Eunice. And now
S2: I am sure, dwells in you. Timothy had a rich
S2: Spiritual legacy through a grandma and a mom who served
S2: the Lord. Maybe that was the case for you, but
S2: maybe it was another mom who spoke into your life
S2: who was a part of your freedom story. I'm asking you,
S2: what role did a mom play in your journey with Christ?
S2: Sharing the gospel. Praying for you. Discipling you. 800 555 7898.
S2: Let's go to Don calling in this morning from Illinois. Don,
S2: tell me, what role did a mom play in your
S2: freedom story?
S9: My future mother in law. I wanted to date her
S9: daughter in high school and her daughter was a Christian.
S9: I had not been raised in the church, was not
S9: a Christian. And so she would she invited me to church.
S9: She said, why don't you come to church and then
S9: come to our house after church for for dinner every
S9: every Sunday? She'd do that. Wow. And so then I
S9: started to come, come under the hearing of the Word
S9: of God. And by the time I was a college
S9: student at age 22, I came to know Christ because
S9: of the great impact of my mother in law. I
S9: know she was praying for me, and she would talk
S9: to me about the Lord all the time. So I've
S9: always hated mother in law jokes because I had the
S9: best mother in law.
S2: Oh.
S3: That's so.
S4: Sweet.
S2: Wow. I love that story. Thank you so much, dawn
S2: from Illinois. Man, that's what I'm talking about. That's great.
S2: That's incredible. Let's keep it going. John from Illinois, tell me,
S2: what role did a mom play in your faith journey
S2: with the Lord?
S10: Oh, hi. Good morning. Yeah. Um, our mom is. She's
S10: just really was always a blessing. Her name is Barb,
S10: and she raised seven children in Chicago. My parents are
S10: actually still together, been married over 50 years, and just
S10: really lived out the love of Yeshua of Jesus to
S10: all of us, you know, which is, you know, I
S10: believe that's so important. Like like in the Hebrew Shema Israel.
S10: It's like, uh, action. You know, James says, be doers
S10: of the word and just that the love of a mother.
S10: And of course, fathers too, and all.
S2: Absolutely.
S10: It was just really special. I just always kept our
S10: family together and, uh, appreciate it so much.
S2: Thank you. John calling in this morning from Illinois. Yes, we're.
S2: This is definitely not to diminish the role of dads
S2: by any means, but.
S3: It's mom.
S2: It's moms. It's Mother's Day weekend. So we're going to
S2: cheer for the moms and the mom figures who stepped
S2: in and played a pivotal role in your journey of
S2: faith with the Lord. Uh, Aaron calling in from Illinois.
S2: Tell me. It was a it was a woman in
S2: your in college?
S11: Yes. Um. Good morning. I, uh, went to school about
S11: six hours away from home. And, um, in my senior,
S11: junior or senior year of college, I went through what
S11: felt like the biggest thing that had ever happened to me,
S11: just personally. Yeah. Um, I was away from my own
S11: mom and this woman. I had gone on a mission
S11: trip with her. She invited me into her home with
S11: her family almost nightly because of what I was going through,
S11: and she just can vividly remember her opening her Bible
S11: and writing in the margins of her Bible. What we
S11: were praying for, writing the date down. And, um, I
S11: would sit on her bed with her. She had just
S11: been diagnosed with cancer, and just like the ways that
S11: she poured into me, even when she was going through
S11: the darkest time of her life, was just so inspiring
S11: to me.
S2: Wow. Aaron, thank you so much for that story. It's
S2: so incredible. I mean, you think about the impact that
S2: that you can have in a person's life and and
S2: sometimes I wonder if that woman even knows years later that,
S2: that that Aaron would call in this morning because she
S2: had that kind of an impact. What's your story? Who
S2: is the mom in your life? The mom figure in
S2: your life who played a pivotal role in your journey
S2: with the Lord? Uh, maybe coming and helping you come
S2: to faith. Sharing the gospel, discipling you, encouraging you. 800
S2: 555 7898. We'll take a couple more phone calls here.
S2: 800 555 7898. Freedom Friday here on Carl and crew.
S1: Your shot of hope to help you through the day.
S1: This is Carl and crew on Moody Radio.
S2: Want to get right back to the phones? We've been
S2: asking you this question on this Freedom Friday ahead of
S2: Mother's Day. What role did a mom play the pivotal
S2: role of mom played in your freedom story? Your maybe
S2: coming to faith in Christ. You're being discipled. There was
S2: a mom who prayed for you. You tell me what
S2: that looked like for you. What role did a mom
S2: play in your freedom story? 800 555 7898. Let's go
S2: to Rosa calling in this morning from Chicago. Tell me.
S12: Hi. Um, well, it was my mother in law. I
S12: did not grow up in a Christian home, and she
S12: did invite me once to church. And I did go.
S12: And she told me, you know, if I died right now,
S12: I know I'd go to heaven. I said, well, how?
S12: Just because Jesus lives in me. And she went on
S12: to explain that, and because of that and her taking
S12: me under her wing, I was a single mom when
S12: I met her son. And through her I became a Christian,
S12: my family and even my grandparents.
S2: Wow.
S12: I was blessed.
S2: Wow. Rosa from Chicago. What a spiritual legacy.
S3: And I love the I love the continuing kind of
S3: aftershock impact of that. Yeah. You know where this this
S3: woman who now is her mother in law, invested in her,
S3: brought her to Christ, and now she's bringing people from
S3: her family, her grandparents, to Christ. I mean, that's that's incredible.
S2: Yeah. You know, I never want to miss an opportunity
S2: to tell you what it looks like to follow Jesus.
S2: We we never assume that everyone listening to this radio
S2: station already knows Jesus. You may be listening. And you
S2: hear something like. Or her mention that a mother in
S2: law said, I know I'm going to heaven, and sometimes
S2: that can rattle your cage a little bit because you think, well,
S2: what does that mean for me? If I don't know Jesus,
S2: do I not spend eternity in heaven? That's that. That biblically,
S2: that's absolutely true, that it is those of us who
S2: are in a relationship with Jesus Christ because of the
S2: blood of Jesus Christ, we are made new. We're declared
S2: perfectly righteous in his sight, and therefore we are welcomed
S2: into eternity with the father and the. For those who
S2: do not know Christ, we can't get around the fact
S2: that hell is a real place, and those who are separated,
S2: separated from God will spend eternity separated from God. So
S2: here's what you need to know today. You need to
S2: admit that you are a sinner. It's. Most of us
S2: think of ourselves as good people as those who try
S2: to do the right thing. But the Bible says that
S2: all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God.
S2: So every single person is born into sin. That is
S2: our condition from the very beginning. Once you recognize that
S2: you're a sinner, you need to acknowledge that as sinners,
S2: we deserve death. When you when you stand before a
S2: holy God, sin cannot, has no place with God. So
S2: our sin deserves death. Which sounds really harsh, right? Because
S2: we underestimate the power of sin.
S3: Yes. We think it's just a little thing here or
S3: a little thing there.
S2: Holy God, you think about. I mean, you think about
S2: the fact that you know, how in on the solar
S2: eclipse they're a big deal is made of the fact
S2: that you you cannot look directly at the sun? Yes.
S2: That like there's a physical blinding that can happen if
S2: you were to try to look directly at the sun. Well,
S2: who do you think made the sun? So how much more?
S2: So think about the the holiness of God. Infinitely more
S2: powerful than looking or trying to look directly into a
S2: solar eclipse. We We cannot stand before a holy God
S2: in our sin and live. There had to be a
S2: price that was paid for us to be reconciled to God.
S2: And the good news, the absolute good news is that
S2: Jesus Christ paid that sin, paid that price rather for
S2: our sin. He died. He rose again so that we
S2: could have new life. And so what do you do today?
S2: You put your trust in Jesus Christ as your Savior.
S2: You acknowledge that he's not just it's not just that
S2: there's something bigger out there. It's that you say, Jesus,
S2: you are the way and the truth and the life.
S2: And today I put my trust in you as Savior.
S2: I confess that I'm a sinner, I turn, I repent,
S2: I go a new way. Today I follow you. And
S2: if by the power of the Holy Spirit that you
S2: see it now, maybe you've never seen it before. But
S2: today is the day that the Holy Spirit is making
S2: that clear to you. I don't want to miss this
S2: opportunity to tell you that today you can be made
S2: right with God. And if that's you in the quiet
S2: of your house or your car or wherever you happen
S2: to find yourself, maybe you're on the train listening right now.
S2: You can have that quiet moment with God where you say,
S2: I am a sinner. I need a Savior. And today
S2: I turn and I follow Jesus. I confess that I
S2: need you, that I now see that there is no
S2: life apart from you. Jesus, today I want to make
S2: you not just my Lord, my Savior, and my friend.
S2: I want to pray for you, Lord, for the person who.
S2: Maybe there's just one. Maybe there's many who today are
S2: seeing it for the first time. That there's no life
S2: apart from you. Lord, I pray that you would just
S2: flood their soul with such joy in your presence, God,
S2: that as they're being made new Lord, that they would
S2: experience that refreshment. The burden being lifted, the sin that
S2: they've been carrying, being removed, becoming a new creation. Lord,
S2: all of those things we know are happening right now
S2: because of Jesus. So, Lord, would you would you bless
S2: and cover and protect this person? Lord, would you bring
S2: them quickly to a place where they could be connected
S2: with other believers? Lord? Um, this word that's been deposited
S2: in them. God, would you protect it? Lord? Let them
S2: have roots that go down deep in you. Lord, I
S2: thank you, Lord Jesus. I thank you for what you're
S2: doing right now in my brother or sister, in Jesus name, Amen.
S2: And today I can call you a brother or sister,
S2: because now you are welcomed into the family of God.
S2: So if that's you, just text the word new to
S2: 800 555 7898. Text new to 805, 55 7898. Want
S2: to send you a resource that's going to give you
S2: some encouragement, some practical next steps?