As a parent, you have a huge effect on the emotional temperature of your home.

Here's Israel Wayne.

When my children are behaving badly, they are really like a thermometer.

And when I don't like the temperature in my children in our home,

the thing that I come back to is reminding myself that in many ways, I'm a thermostat.

So if I don't like the temperature, I actually can do something about it by changing me.

This is the Revive Our Hearts podcast with Nancy DeMoss Walgamoo, author of A Place of Quiet Rest for Monday, April 17, 2017.

I've been so encouraged and blessed over recent years to get to know a couple who live not

too far from where our ministry is located here in southwest Michigan.

And I'm so thrilled after months of trying to coordinate our schedules that Israel and Brooke

Wayne are able to be with us here in the studio today and to talk about a subject that I know

is going to be a great interest to a lot of our listeners.

So Israel and Brooke, thank you for being here. And welcome to Revive our hearts. Well, thank you, Nancy. It's so good to be with you. So good to be on the air with you. Thank you, Nancy. We're really grateful to be here. And you all are, I don't know how you landed in our neck of the woods, but I'm so glad you did. We've become friends. I've gotten to know your family. I think when you first moved to the area, you had how many children?

Six, eight. Eight. And we're on to nine now.

On to nine. And I've watched your children grow up over the last few years. You have still some very little ones.

And nine so far is, I suppose, what the answer is as to how many you have.

But I've loved watching your family, and I've loved hearing your heart for creating a climate in the home where Christ is honored and where children can grow to know the Lord and to love him.

And you've been involved in that kind of family ministry for years.

In fact, Israel, I remember first reading some of what you wrote and hearing about you,

before you were married, probably, when you were writing about Christian worldview and you were a product of home education.

So this is something you've had a heart for for a long time.

It is. In fact, my very first public speaking event was 21 years ago when I was about 19 years old at Life Action Camp. If you can believe that, it was.

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