Vacation Bible Style

This is good Truth Network figures on the goals not in the ground where the rail gonna sell the 67 rooms stuck facing the boat to want to get that order venture to target our radio show and vacation Bible style vacation Bible so you I personally think builders may have been my best intro did you know you certainly than July. I met intro. I can imagine vacation Bible you got admit that cars and vacations go together. So welcome to Lombard. I gloats I like boats a lot in the earplug while cars can pull boats and airplanes.

You know all those things and if you are listening carefully the very beginning of that you heard, you know, as a clip from never cry Wolf a mirror in an airplane which were to talk about that here in a minute but you know vacation Bible style. It is that conjure up in your mind might just surprise you today with what I have on vacation Bible style but in navigating this year's vacation plans occurs to me that there are three basic questions that we all face with this annual blessing number one. Who is going number two where we going to number three. What are we going to do only get there so you know just simple tip or two here. You know God always seem to like large groups to go on adventure so you know, think about all the Israelites in the desert of the 70 that Jesus sent out and you know you must always hung around at least 12 so personally to me. As far as vacation. You might expand your horizons will be at the more the merrier know some of my very favorite vacation memories were we brought along nieces or nephews or grandchildren, family, friends, you know, most of all a course you want to bring out along the big three bill that would be the father in Jesus and the Holy Spirit to same bring those guys you're gonna need him when you get to that a second so the next question is where we go, and so to Robbie adventure is the name of the game like he said have you beat boredom adventure Tyler and so God likes to take us out of our comfort zone. Unless you ever notice this over talking vacation Bible style right God loves an adventure.

Think about it. Abraham he took him out of his comfort zone and a Paul oh my goodness he was all over the place on many an adventure, you know, shipwrecked. You name it and I about Jacob sleeping on the rock little camping trip well.

A fascinating study that Gary Smalley did. He's a Christian. I guess psychologist and he did a study on what he could find in common was a common denominator between couples that stayed married and it didn't turn out that they went to church together or that they prayed together. What it turned out, the only thing that he could find was a common denominator among couples that would stay married over 30 years, was they camped us. They camped why would that why would that help a marriage well bump into as many lawyers camping brings adventure it brings beauty, but also it brings struggle because you know you don't bring the temples like I didn't one year and have forgot how to get the tent up without any poles. I did it I but it took a while. Or, you know, it rained and you have to sit in the tent watch movie player but watch movies and play cards and stuff like that because you're not coming all that stuff but that little clip that you heard is from the movie never cry Wolf and there's a guy by the name of Tyler and he's sort of a nerdy guy that never really is been taught to camp and those kind of things and so my mother he signs up to go to Alaska to watch these Arctic wolves during the winter and is good have to stay there for like three months and Rosie asked of his family sign him and Rosie the guy who's speaking to the mayor and the plane were to play this clip a couple more times during the show to get used to it, but Rosie the guy. He was explaining to Tyler is the bush pilot and they are flying in the mountains and he's, you know, it's kind of terrifying and peeved things that Tyler is gone gold hunting organelle and so that's why he starts up at clip by saying you know the gold isn't in the ground. Tyler it's below 16 is talking about the 60 of parallel it's all the people down United States that are sitting behind the boom tube watching TV, bored to death because all the think of all the kingdom possibility of all of us that are bored to death, and so he says Howdy what's that's what's a solution for boredom.

Tyler excitement the time the engine stops on the plane and the plane starts crashing towards the mountain and you know in the middle, he holds up her ranch and shows Tyler know what's the solution to boredom adventure. Adventure Tyler and actually if this is the best Sinaloa movie.

The only thing to me in all moving worth watching as he climbs outside of the plane goes and beats on the engine with the with the ranch. If the motor started the course makes his illustration that there's nothing like struggle so where we actually going today Robbie here's the CISC. This might surprise you but it is vacation Bible style okay so what are we gonna do when we get there and my answer has been through you. At this point my life I've been on a lot of vacations and 64 years and one of things I can almost count on if you want to do more family vacation is we are going to fight me. Oh yeah family struggles once we all get vacation expectations in close quarters and people gets tired the battles they get intensive to get five or more Gilmore's together all cooped up in a tent or cabin or motel room wherever you go.

It's a recipe for fireworks of the temper contract and the more I processed this over the years, the more I see that God rigged it that way. I really think so and this is one of the important things about vacation I believe is the fighting. I can't relate IPU to I'm sorry but there are some of us again and I cannot guarantee out of you. Enjoy.

I I gotta tell you that if King Arthur were here he would tell you there's a peace that only comes on the other side of war. You see, there is a peace that only comes on the other side or seek vacation as a tendency to wear you out so the mask has to come down in a you get hot you get tired you been walking around in your sister has been saying that same thing to bug you for the last 20 and now all of a sudden you're to let her know exactly how you feel is just it's a natural thing and that's actually good for intimacy because now the truth comes out. The thing that everybody was afraid to say because you want to hurt anybody's feeling now get said, and now we got something to deal with it now.

Actually it's over our paygrade and working to be way out of our comfort zone and it's going to require God.

That's why said I think he's the one that rigged it that way is now working to need forgiveness, and now are going to need some understanding and working to meet some stuff that we don't necessarily again I'm talking about a deal more family about you know the Nixon family so you know you guys are calm and I know nothing like that. I don't know I don't, you'll have to speak to it, but I know what it's like. If you're with us and and actually to me there is a peace that only comes on the other side of the war, when people really do understand that I do need forgiveness for the way I act sometimes and sometimes I need to forgive you for the way that you act and the really cool thing is all this fighting through your family. The cracks right God's love shines through those cracks we take each other off the pedestal we see each other for what we really are because were in close proximity to one another and then all the sudden we can really love the real person, not the person that's been hiding behind the mask, but the real one, so this year when it breaks out on your vacation. You know, start praying for forgiveness because were all surely going to need it. But what if you think Robbie what you talk about well those families in the Bible.

If you paid any attention.

I don't remember too many of them that didn't fight like cats and dogs right and so vacation Bible style. Actually, if you think of Jacob and Esau. You know, Joseph and his brothers in a you have to go far. Even Moses and Aaron and his sister know they had their struggles. So I would love to hear about your vacation battle maybe battle the weather maybe you you battled your brother, but I bet you it ended up in a Good Pl., God was there and we would love to hear that story. 866-34-TRUTH 87884 866-34-TRUTH vacation Bible style Bible guys show him as we pointed out to me segment that may include a great deal of conflict gives if you read the Bible.

I'm sure you've noticed there was a lot of conflict.

The cool thing is that God somehow or another is rigged the world so that we can learn so much through conflict and vacation Bible style may have to do with that.

So I'm hoping that you will think about what I'm trying and tell us your family legend of Ira whenever the struggle was in Collison at 866-348-7884 866-34-TRUTH. So when my children were Mike Mike two older children when they were about six and seven Chrysler had come out with the new minivan.

I think this was 1993. Maybe, and they had the. The big car show at Disney World because they were bringing out this new minivan and it was our best selling thing so we had tickets to the parks and we had all this stuff and it was a big conference and all Chrysler was there and we are in a usually we stay in someplace little bit bigger but we are in one single motel room with two beds so I had my I think there were six and seven, at the time and my wife and I were in the bed and we were in a place called the dolphin there at Disney World and the way that my family is left but we play hard. I mean, if this if the parks are open till 1 o'clock. We are going to stay till 1 o'clock. If they're open to whatever I mean that's how that's how long were going to go so we would go to whatever Chrysler thing and so we would come back to the room and now you're you are dead you been out it's this July or August whenever it was a crispy critter crispy critter and so I am exhausted and when I'm exhausted.

I sleep, but my wife and kids they didn't like that and so is I would attempt to sleep, they would begin to tease their dad now somehow or another they had determined that dad's bark was much, much worse than their bite than his bite and so I would know stand up please… You'll get get what was good and you didn't think about getting to admit.

I would lay down and then it wouldn't be long and then they would start well this went on probably for an hour and 1/2 or something like that. But the part that I wanted to relate that I find absolutely fascinating is if my kids start talking about vacation memories that one will always come up to remember that you remember the time that dad was in the dolphin and we would just bug him until he considered it because he shared all those stories about your your family get-togethers.

When you were small see that. I think the point is, your kids can't relate to a perfect dad they'd like a dad that has crack I just solidified a crack at this ticket so I know the stories bring up something in your mind that you think and well in the years cars had to do a vacation where talk about vacation ready and those kind of things, but I would love to hear your story, you know what I'm talking about being courageous and share that hey you know what my family isn't just like peace and calm all that stuff to 866-348-7884 bill you know you went to the Bahamas one time had to get back when we had absolutely no money and I just wanted so bad to take my family on a vacation in the just come out with the Internet, but they just God just discovered eBay and there is this outfit called Laker a year that I think was based in Miami and they flew to the Bahamas as I always wanted to go to the Bahamas. So I did and this this package and I thought it was just the best deal in the world, but he had to leave from Raleigh like it need not. So I packed up the family and we go to Raleigh we get on the plane and we get over this little place. I think it was called island pump. My daughter still calls it sketchy.

He was downtown Freeport and they had about a 12 foot wall that when all all around the compound. I like because you can get.

You can get would have a really inexpensive meal at Burger King and they had these not shows and they had this lady that was eating fire and my little side admit he's just Matthew is something she says I want to volunteer that will eat fire so he got up and walked to the head. He put his little heads that is hit that he stuck his head back and he closed his it's the letters think that they griped that her eyes got huge. She didn't know what to do, but we had to get on the shuttle bus to go to the other resort that was in the ocean.

I had put all my stuff in the lockbox and I had the skis zipped up in the back pocket of my my bathing suit at Gideons we pass at these little Bibles that I'd taken about 60 or 70 little Bibles and I got my wife likes to get up late. I get up with the sunrise and I'm sitting around the pool at sunrise and one of the maintenance people comes over to hand in the Bible and he just lights up and he brought every single employee at that you resort over to sit down and we talk and we cheered. I gave out Bibles so we get to the ready to fly out and I can't find the key. I can't find the key to the lockbox and with looked in with looked and I said go into the office and I say pardon me, but I've lost the key to the lockbox she says will go look again and I wanted to mean I was hot me that I was. I Say I cave all these people Bibles I can't show my son. I said yes ma'am and I come back 45 minutes almost an hour later and I say look, I don't know what is going to cost out appear with the fee is I lost the key to the lockbox. Would you please open the lockbox. She says we don't have spare keys to the lockbox and I mean who lobby I could feel the flame for my feet fill it up to ask it will I'm sure I'm not the first food Losey key. What do you do this is Sunday afternoon we have to call a locksmith unit to hang out locksmith 2 1/2 hours before the plane takes off.

I said we you need to do whatever you need to do please will we bought the ticket from the offeree. I had no idea who to call and I'm going over to the two that the fund-I'm looking hour.

I will have to leave their yes basically leisure story that legend of the struggle, the family will remember forever. That makes it adventure Tyler 866-34-TRUTH 7884 11 PM I'm looking for something 866-34-TRUTH 8788. The goal is not in the ground anywhere going to sell the 60 rooms stuck facing the Lord that vacation Bible style vacation Bible style on the Christian Car Guy show which may be a little bit different Bible style.

The new month but if you read the Bible, you'll see there's a lot of conflict certainly amongst families vacation that way requires God because there may be some conflict involved and we would love to hear your story. It 866-34-TRUTH 87884 I realize that so hard to be courageous to talk about how you know God shine through when sometimes we didn't shine through so well but Bill and we left our hero.

You are in the Bahamas. Waiting on a locksmith on weight, not a locksmith who actually got there and I'm pretty sure he was hired because he was the best thief in the island had never actually been called because he was fiddle in a way that I was praying God. How hard would it be formed, at least get the tumblers to fix right I'm on the phone and I've called the airlines in this wonderful trip that was going to cost very little money turns that there was this nice big hotel tax that nobody told you about and it was $600 per person to get another flight back to to Winston and I'm think so a couple comes up in their call and they bought that the Laker airplane tickets directly for Laker so I got the phone number from the amount been praying and I called the lady at my said looking I'm supposed to fly out in an hour from the from Freeport and they the key in the tickets and unit.

She says will we only fly out of the year twice a week to it that the next time we fly out scooted the Wednesday and yet a get maybe we can get you in the flight Wednesday for free, but the closest work the land is airport south of Charlotte so absent college get a cost base 600×4. She says I'll get back to you so I go in and I said to the young man, son.

It looks to me like you don't have something that you need he says yeah when I came, I didn't bring my saw that's really how we've got to get these since it is really no way that you go to possibly open this thing and he says that I said will said just don't worry about it, you just come back tomorrow and I said you got it you are funny.

It's your money, it's not my money. If this is the way you will be to spend your money, then that unit. I'm not gonna talk to the hotel and the hotel cut since it unbelievably great deal and that did the hotel taxes the same whether we were there for four days a with a whit where there for the whole week and my daughter had just become a scuba diver. She wasn't going to be able to go scuba diving because if you gotta wait so long after site we got to stay three more days almost nothing extra had the most wonderful time and we got to fly back for free. It was interesting because we had a full plane into we got to like Cincinnati and then we were out of playing with just that that's all the way down to South Carolina and I rented a car for next to nothing. It was like they paid us to take the car from there leave it in the Winston-Salem Europe. This was back with the Winston-Salem airport was still running but it was one miracle afterward. Eight was the neatest thing to see how God worked and I just came so close to just blow it.

It just be in the I wanted to just yell at the poor little girl.

That said, go back and search for you. Kiki had said he never did find never did find the key.

They had to cut, cut into the lock. I think it ended at cost to be an extra 200 bucks for us to stay until Wednesday course, my wife got all kinds of grief at work. They thought we planned on staying it out to alright so you can see, God can work through struggle in a miraculous way. You know if there is no struggle in open it you know then it's boredom, right and and and there's no doubt that I think throughout many many many vacations that it was the big struggles that became the point of family legend so I would love to hear yours 866-34-TRUTH 87884 866-34-TRUTH and so in the idea of struggle, you know, we have the Jesus labor love their Christian Car Guy.com which I should point out that a Christian Car Guy.com. If you miss private showing. You want to hear what we talked about earlier.

You have to go somewhere and you want to hear what we say later you can listen to the podcast on demand anytime you want to you can actually just tell your iPhone Siri play the Christian Car Guy podcast and often will go just right on your phone almost automatically. So that's always available as well as Christian Car Guy theater, but because of Jesus labor love a course we deal struggle after a quick peak last week I had mentioned that we had this woman is actually a widow lost her husband.

I think you're in 1/2 ago and she lost her car, and so we were trying to find her car and we actually found somebody to donate that and that we needed some extra money to get the registration and so I mentioned that last week and I also mention these new T-shirts that we got coming out with a big Christian card I logo shield on the front.

This can look like Superman are very excited about that and all my goodness were people generous. I mean that we got all the money for that registration. Unfortunately we got some extra besides that, because talk about struggle when we went we thought we had the car already tell all the sudden the check engine light came on and emphasis was a car that was donated so it's got in a couple hundred thousand miles on it and all that in the next thing you know we need an evaporator and we need this and I was hoping to get her in the car yesterday actually drove the car home on the survey and myself. I was really hoping to but it just seems like, and I was praying you know God you must have a reason that you're delaying this because it is best to crawl out and beat something with a writ adventure. Robert, I thought about it, you know what if this method middle-of-the-road but anyway it didn't. But it did check that set the check engine light again and some were still work with that, but I'd I just wanted to ask for your prayers for these many in fact I had small applications come in yesterday for these single moms widows families in crisis and am so grateful for the generous donations that were enabling and and and believe me when I shared with this widow on Monday that all that it come in to help her.

She was you know I get a chance to talk to him and and the people she is so grateful and interestingly to Bill I had another application come in this week and when I called her she was like oh Mr. Robbie Mr. Robbie you don't remember me I was like well and on because we got a Catholic and she said well you gave me a van two years ago and I gotta tell you, that was a great man and it it serve our purposes, hesitant it was yeah it didn't last forever because you know we got cars that are little older and she has a new car. Now that needs help, but I was just blown away at how she had felt God really came to her need in that moment and and she wasn't given Mr. Robbie the glory she was given the glory to the person that obviously provided the van, it wasn't me. And just like the van is common for this new widow is not coming from. It's coming from people that hear about the Jesus labor love go to Christian Car Guy.com offer to donate offered certainly all the prayers that are the foundation of the whole thing and buttoned in on some who were generous enough to offer a car so we don't want to skimp on that it all in and tell you to go to Christian Car Guy.com we got this T-shirts I hope will be here next week and will get that stuff up there as well. But getting back to our vacation Bible style. I hope that your kind of see and what I'm talking about that those conflicts that seem like at the time, Satan is going to rob the joy of your vacation may end up being the stuff of family legend right. We believe a number years ago. I even did a show on it. We rented a sailboat out of Tampa Bay my wife and now my older two kids are now gone out and I just had my younger daughter there was, she wasn't a big sailor by any means, but at one point a horrible storm came up, like you know if you remember Gilligan's Island.

The weather started getting rough. The tiny ship was tossed in the way you started coming over the bow and oh my goodness, my daughter had. Should I call my friends and tell them I'm not bitter taste 866-34-TRUTH 87 how you waited to the last segments I can hear your memory 866-34-TRUTH 87884. Don't let me down. The goal is not in the ground rules anywhere on the rail gonna sell the signaling segment and living room. Facing the Lord order and chipmunks. But when you think about vacation Bible style. There may be a little conflict in there somewhere, and we would love to hear your story. We still have time. 866-34-TRUTH 87884 is a number to call in and share. When we were left our hero. This time out on the sailboat in the middle of the storm.

The waves are coming over the bow, you literally couldn't see the Billy it was, you know, the waves were in a 1015 feet, with about the sailboat. My daughter was terrified of course I knew that sailboats don't seem to mostly get broken in half or something.

But you know, and it takes a pretty amazing storm to have done something like that. But when II kinda knew where to find but she did. My wife certainly didn't and of all the vacation memories. You know that they would talk about it Mattie or guess which one they usually come back to the know when God saved us through the storm. I mean it's just how it goes. This is the that's the deal is that God shows up in a when the going gets tough, so we got Sarah.

Linda is in Port Orchard, Washington Sarah Linda. I can hardly wait to hear your story today talking about it long ago right when my parents. The realtor and I really can't go and anyway went down there and we went with another family.

We are going to go door and well lately got out before dawn and to drive up to where this place blessed and okay let's get Don in an weekly ghetto lately.

Got date unloaded the big trailer behind you.

Don't all at put that boat in the water and we went.

We had a nice time thinking and coming back and the family and a ban in that you know the other family. Anyway you want to drive the boat to get me care whatever you call it, and so I thought okay I get and I would do it put pretty good and we got to where we were going. It ghetto docket that only that the charter was about a mile and it there was a mile away at where the dog led because that tided out and and and so I had a character. The good it back to him and so anyway God adapted to area so streamlined and and they both my and other gentlemen it is to go the bathroom till they got out and and and still in his life, and I week that we had to guide that Lockley block that I'll never forget that she and I and a lack together. Greg and Matt will be out of my life. Take and now that I'm not a widow. It my sweetheart passed away two years ago I I know I you can really lift the Lord help handle reticulated but I remember the feeling I haven't to do that anyway. God bless you and that it is clear that that's a great observation yeah it's amazing what you can handle when you when you willing to take the risk and go out on the adventure and the next thing you know your mile from shore and you know it is very My neighbor had locked sure we had to do it I doubt will good job and praise God because now you here to share the story so thank you sir. Go appreciate you call very much very much. I bless all right you got just a couple more minutes to get your calls in the 866-34-TRUTH 87884 in a bill it's been a week. I was sure couple vacation tips along the way to but what you are memories in my family was my father was a world class nor he was in the Olympics under snoring that we were camping in a national forest. One time you couldn't see the next campsite from where we were set up at 2 o'clock in the morning. That night the people in the next campsite packed up their gear lay.

I think that is a quality snow work with the unit. If you taken a long road trip you know you get to be put in a lot of miles on the car. It might be worth a phone call to your insurance company and say look, we want to drop our deductible.

We want to zero deductible for fire, theft, vandalism, storm damage and you might want to consider a lower deductible on the collision for that. The time that you at cruising around here for a couple bucks if you have a problem is also a good time to do a review and make sure that you got towing and labor and understand under most insurance policies through different levels. And if I were going to take a long trip. I would get the best package they have that would allow you to be towed as far as possible and then rental reimbursement is a good thing. The other thing is if you rent something on vacation cars.

They ends yet private passenger vehicles are often covered very worthwhile to get a collie and you don't normally need to pay extra from the place that you rent the car, but you do need to make sure you understand what the coverages but if you go to the Bahamas. If you go out of the United States.

None of your insurance as far as liability goes transfers so if you rent a vehicle you rent a car in the Bahamas are in Mexico you want to be really sure that you got the right coverage. A lot of times, your credit card some of the credit card cover plans will give you coverage that you car insurance doesn't, but you want to have all that emailed to you had a time you stuff. A lot of times you got worldwide coverage for your belongings if you go on a vacation and in some circumstances, it's not a bad idea to drop that homeowners deductible down if you take a lot of expensive stuff with you on a vacation and then you can call them when you get back and said I want you to put the deductible it back up where it's the cost-effectiveness. So what are you saying that if you had a bunch of stuff with you on vacation and I got stolen that that's part of your homeowners policy party your home and is not part you car. Yeah, lots of stuff in the car. The car stolen with the your car policy covers your car but your belongings.

Generally, in most states travel with you wherever you go, as long as it's not a second vacation home that you own. So if you go to Disney for two weeks and you've taken all this electronic stuff with you and you've got all your iPads and somebody breaks and instills that he can turn that into your homeowners get you. Here's a couple Ravi tips number one if you can arrange it, especially with small kids. You can drive at night while they sleep and get better gas mileage as they rested and get that done and also consider not taking all those drinks and stuff that way.

So much burns a lot of gas. You can buy when you get there so couple quick tips the course. We just are praying that you'll have an amazing vacation megastore mom to come along a fighter to somewhere. God can show you, you know some really cool stuff about his character vacation by yes.

Remember slowdown. Jesus walked everywhere he went, got it all done in 33 years and we are so grateful that he spent time with us today. Really it is wonderful to have you here in the Christian car cash