Hey, everybody. This is Heidi St. John. Welcome to the Heidi St. John podcast today is Friday, April 17th. This is episode number 912.

It's meet my friend Friday. You guys know one of my favorite days here at the podcast. And I've got a new friend on the show with me today who's going to resonate with you and you guys going to be want to take notes.

So get ready. My friend Renton Rathbaen is here today and we're going to talk about biblical world view and why it's so important that we pass one on to our children.

Stick around. I think you're going to be encouraged.

So thanks for tuning in today, everybody. I know because I'm getting a lot of emails from you guys and thanks for filling out the form over at mailbox Monday. That's helping me a lot.

I know that a lot of you are starting to feel the frustration that sort of set in, you know, when Renton came on earlier today, he said, how are you doing? And I said, you know, great for a cage, animal.

I'm starting to feel that way because we've been kind of in this lockdown mode for a while.

And I'm going to just encourage you the way that we have been for the past several weeks here to really lean into communities of believers. And we need to be

really leaning into God's word and what God says about fear and what God says about authority.

And at the same time, we're trying to keep our eyes open, right? This is why Mike Ferris was on this past Monday. And I've heard from a lot of you already who are really encouraged and quieted. I think he did a really good job of quieting your spirit. And so

we're going to do that again today before I get started. A couple of things I wanted to let you guys know about.

First of all, we really appreciate hearing you. If you've got questions that you want to send for mailbox Monday, you can do that by going to Heidi St. John.com

forward slash mailbox Monday, you'll see if form will come up and you can just fill that out. Remember, you guys, please keep it short and sweet and to the point. It actually

doesn't help when there's, you know, 16 pages of stuff I got to get through to figure out what your question is. So

if you can just introduce the question and then give me a little bit of background, that helps my team put together the questions that we're going to answer in any given week. Also,

you may have seen I've been having a little bit of trouble over at Facebook because Facebook doesn't like me. So if you I have a feeling just kind of a gut check about this.

And I kind of think maybe the time is drawing very, very close when Facebook will completely censor Christian voices and anybody who doesn't conform to the world view that Facebook has. And so I'm trying to move people off of their not off like don't come back. But, but away so that if there comes a point when I actually lose my voice over there.

You guys know where to find me. And so the best place to do that obviously is at the podcast and over at the blog. Also, we're doing a lot of information about homeschooling and you can find out more at learn at home.today. So keep praying. I mean, I think our world is definitely there's something going on. And we want to just lean into the Lord and be wise. Remember, we said this couple weeks ago, like preparation for trouble is good panic is sent. So we're not panicking.

We're just keeping our eyes open and ask the Lord to direct us. So speaking of asking the Lord to direct us. I had the opportunity. I guess it's been a couple of months now to hear my guest speak at a leadership summit that Bob Jones University press hosted in Greenville, South Carolina. And my friend Zan Tyler, who's been on the show with me several times was telling me you're going to love this guy. It's right. You know, right up your alley. And so my expectations are pretty high. And I got to tell you, rent did not disappoint.

I couldn't I was right and so fast. He had me laughing. He had me thinking. Renton has been a classroom teacher for over 22 years. And his teaching expertise includes both secular and Christian institutions ranging from high school to college.

He and his wife of homeschooled their son, who's now in college himself. And I think you guys can be really encouraged. Renton has spoken for homeschool venues such as the foundation summit, which is where I first heard him. And also homeschool summits.com.

And also like all the guests lately, he's really smart. So I'm going to try to keep up with him. He's earning his PhD right now. Renton, Rathman, welcome to the podcast.

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