The Value of Object Lessons
Focus on the Family Equipping Parents Podcast
Focus on the Family
4.4 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 16 December 2025
⏱️ 11 minutes
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Summary
When your kids are little, sometimes it's best to teach them spiritual principles through visuals. Tim Shoemaker joins Jim Daly to talk about how he electrocuted a pickle to teach his kids a powerful lesson. Also, Danny offers some thoughts for helping your son or daughter who's not a visual learner.
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, this is Jim Daly. A Merry Christmas to you and your family. I'm so grateful you've joined us today, |
| 0:07.4 | and it's my hope you will listen every day because we're here to offer you Bible-based practical help for your marriage, |
| 0:14.7 | your parenting, and your daily walk with Christ. Today, I'm inviting it to join us in ministry. |
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| 0:22.9 | programs or resources, can you help pay it forward by donating to focus on the family now before |
| 0:29.4 | the end of the year? Right now, your giving will have the most impact because some generous friends |
| 0:35.4 | are willing to match your giving dollar for dollar up to $8 million. |
| 0:40.9 | Isn't that amazing? |
| 0:42.3 | God is so good. |
| 0:44.2 | Just imagine the ministry impact we can have, working together to strengthen and save families in the days ahead. |
| 0:51.5 | Help us meet this match. |
| 0:53.2 | Give today by calling 800 a family or go to |
| 0:56.7 | Focus on the Family.com slash family. When your children are little, it's pretty good to use |
| 1:06.5 | visuals and object lessons to help them understand things. Now, this is a podcast, so I can use this |
| 1:13.3 | illustration. We were driving along. We had a car full of kids, and we were down somewhere in Texas, |
| 1:19.5 | and we're going through this field, or by this field, and there are two out of a big herd of cattle, |
| 1:26.3 | two cows, and they are mating. |
| 1:29.3 | And as we drive by at 35 miles an hour or whatever it was on this country road, we all looked at it. |
| 1:35.8 | You observe it. |
| 1:37.3 | And my wife made some matter of fact comment about, oh, look, this is how God designed things. |
| 1:43.4 | And it became an object lesson for all the children in the car, |
| 1:48.9 | even some who were probably a little too young to really understand. |
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