My father's line was always the same. I said, Dad, can I go to this? And in certain cases he would say,

yeah, sure. Other cases he would say, well you can go, but without my blessing.

And looking back on it, it was genius really.

But he could only play that card if I cared about his blessing. Welcome to family life today where we want to help you pursue the relationships that matter most.

I'm Shelby Abbott and your hosts are Dave and Ann Wilson.

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This is Family Life Today. family life today. All right, we got Alishabag in the studio and we're going to make him do something that we didn't even

prepare him for. We're going to have him coach us on how to deal with the culture

pressures that we are raising our families in. We are facing the win. Our face is being pushed

against in the wind right now as... Meaning our families. Families, individual

believers as Christians in the world we're living in right here right now.

Yeah. We're fighting through the wind. What do you mean by that?

The Christian is an alien and a stranger, we know that.

I used to read that, you know, in First Peter and say,

I wonder what it feels like, you know, to be an alien and a stranger.

Because my growing up years were in a

Scotland that still hadn't gotten crazy and my early years in America were

still there was still the sort of residual impact of some of those

great days. I mean when's the last time you saw a hundred thousand people in the cotton

ball in Dallas as saying there's only one way one God one book and it's the

holy Bible I mean yeah there's a lot of good things going on but life has changed the

fabric of the culture has just frayed dramatically and so the children that we are

...