You're listening to the Allender Center podcast with Dr. Dan Allender.

This week, Dan and his wife, Becky Allender, continue their series on story.

They dialogue about how their own particular upbringings and life events form distinct themes in their

lives. The episode presents a challenge to us. Have we taken time to consider the themes of our

own stories? And have we considered how these themes affect those around us?

Last week we talked about the importance of not letting your heart be irritated toward those whom you are a relationship with.

And oftentimes what will keep us from mere irritation is the intrigue in understanding something of the of the roots, the historical

process by which certain elements of how we relate to one another seem to come to the

surface. So we also began to talk about a conference that I'm doing in Manasha, Wisconsin on October 13th and 14th.

And a couple questions have already come about that.

Let me go back to say that we're doing a simulcast.

And that simulcast means you can see this conference live anywhere in the country.

Actually, I guess it wouldn't be live if it's later. But nonetheless,

you can see the conference on the 13th and 14th live or in your Bible study or church or a community group. You can bring a group of people together if you have an internet connection

and a screen of some sort to be able to show that.

And it's really, frankly, fairly inexpensive, about $199 for the hookup, which gives you

eight tickets, and then any additional folks after eight will be $25 a person.

If you'd like to learn a bit more about the simulcast, all you need to do is to go online

to the website, To Be Told, simulcast.com, and put your name and at email address in and you'll get an

inquiry form that will give you so much more data. But Becky, thank you for joining me again to

talk about your odd themes of life. Oh, I've got the odd ones, huh?

Well, I would say the initial impression most people would have of us is that I am,

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