When you have something valuable, you protect it, right?

One of the most valuable things you have is your mind.

Are you protecting it?

Here's Anne Ortland.

Ask the Lord to purify our minds and as far as we are able to keep from our minds in our eyes,

those influences that would degrade us or make us less Christ-like.

This is Revive Our Hearts with Nancy Lee DeMaz for Friday, July 25th.

It's tough to raise children in a hostile culture,

but there are things we can do to protect our kids and ourselves from harmful influences.

We'll hear about some of them today from Nancy and our guest.

Today's society is an impending avalanche sliding toward hell.

Well, those are pretty strong words, and they come from the book of my friend Anne Ortland.

She goes on to say, is your family caught in the slide, and how can you gather up your loved ones and make a drastic leap to solid ground?

And welcome back to revive our hearts and thank you for coming and sharing with us insights God's given you about the disciplines of a godly home.

Well, Nancy, may they be God's insights into his word because what I say doesn't mean much, but if it comes from his word, then it's worth saying, isn't it? It is. And, you know,

your life and your marriage and your family have demonstrated such a great role model, and I'm sure

not perfect, but a great role model of what it means to have a family that is energized by the grace of God and that is based on the principles of God's word.

For those of you who don't know, Anne Ortland is an author.

She's written over a dozen best-selling books, and some of which influenced my life 25 years ago when I was a college student.

She's written a wonderful book called Up with Worship, a book on children called Children Are Wet Sement, a book on marriage. Tell me the title,

Ann, I've forgotten that. Building a great marriage. Building a great marriage. She's a speaker.

She's a musician. She's a hymn writer. And she's written a book that we're talking about this

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