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I will never forget when Pastor Greg Laurie spoke at KKLA’s 25th Anniversary celebration. About 3200 KKLA listeners and friends gathered for the event. Since KKLA broad-casts Christian programming, the assumption many had is that everyone who would attend the radio station anniversary would be believers in Jesus. Yet when Greg gave the invitation that night 140 people came forward to accept Christ!

Jesus said the fields are ripe for harvest and Greg truly believes this. It is what fuels his message to his congregations, in his stadium crusades around the world and on his daily radio program A New Beginning (weekdays at 5:30am and 12:30pm.)

Speaking of the Harvest Crusdaes, the southern California crusades this summer were particularly fruitful with 12,281 decisions for Christ over the three nights of the Ana-heim Stadium Crusade and the 5934 people who responded to the invitation at the first ever Dodger Stadium Harvest Crusade!

What I have learned from Greg is never assume. Never assume who may be a believer in Jesus. Even if they attend church regularly or listen to Christian radio.

It is amazing that so many around us who have heard the gospel and think they are Chris-tians do not have this assurance of eternal life. Why not? Either they have never been personally invited to receive Christ, they don’t know the Scriptures or they have become a forgetful hearer and not a doer of the word.

Two good questions to ask are: 1. “Are you confident that when you die you will go to heaven?” 2. “Would you like to gain that assurance now?”

If they want assurance of salvation walk them through these Scriptures:

May the Lord give us boldness to invite our friends and loved ones to be a part of God’s family with full assurance!

Yours in partnership for the gospel,

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1John 1:9 If we confess our sins, He is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.

Acts 2:38 Repent (turn from your life of sin) and let every one of you be baptized in the name of Jesus Christ for the forgiveness of sins; and you shall receive the gift of the Holy Spirit.

1John 4:15 Whoever confesses that Jesus is the Son of God, God abides in him and he in God.

John 1:12 But as many as received Him, to them He gave the right to become children of God, to those who believe in His name.

1John 5:13 These things I have written to you who believe in the name of the Son of God, that you may know you have eternal life.

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04 | Never Assume: Lessons from the Harvest Crusade

06 | Race to Win! 16 | Exchanging Our Expletives

26 | True Education: A Letter to my Grandson

32 | Seeing the World in 3D: Standing Firm Against the Conflict

37 | Why We’re Drawn to Television Parenting

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/// KEEPING OUR PERSEVERANCE UNTIL THE END


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I AM ALWAYSwhen I watch the start of the marathon dur-ing the summer Olympics. All the runners appear to be in top physical shape, excited to represent their countries and determined to win the gold medal.

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However, it’s an entirely different story when I watch them 15 or 20 miles later. They look exhausted from the hot sun that beats down on them or miserable because of rain that makes their road slippery. Some have trouble breathing when the race takes them over a moun-tain, and others struggle to keep up with the fast pace.

Although everyone, no matter how long it takes them to cross the finish line, is cel-ebrated with cheers and applause, some

runners will never get there. Somewhere along the route they drop out of the race due to exhaustion, injury or discourage-ment.

In the marathon race and in our Chris-tian life, persevering until the end is what it’s all about, not just starting well. What do I mean? Don’t give up your walk with Jesus; endure in the call He gave you to win this lost world and build His kingdom.

Like the marathon runners, we, too, will encounter adversities along the way that could cause us to quit the race. What are some of these adversities?

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I have served the Lord full-time for the past 40 years. From my own life and experience, I can tell you this: The godli-est Christian leaders I have met, the most challenging sermons I have heard and the

best books I have read on evangelism and discipleship have not been enough to help me survive in the race!

Only one thing has kept me in the min-istry and following Christ, and that is learning and practicing what the writer

of Hebrews said: “Let us run with endur-ance the race that is set before us, looking unto Jesus, the author and finisher of our faith” (Hebrews 12:1–2).

The secret of our survival is fixing our eyes on Jesus and making Him alone our focus. Then our walk with God and our commitment to serve Him will no longer depend on whether or not people treat us right or circumstances are in our favor. We will no longer rely on our emotions to

Relationship problems with other Christians that severely threaten •our treasured self-life.

Physicalandfinancialsetbacksthatcauseustolosehope. •

LackofapparentfruitandthusfulfillmentinourservicetotheLord. •

Facing our latent failures and sins that expose our unbrokenness, •pride,selfishness,stubbornnessorcriticalspirit.

Frustration when serving the Lord becomes hard work and the •feelings are gone.

Feeling inadequate and overwhelmed by the expectations of others. •

Spiritual dryness that comes when God tests us to see if we will still •walk with Him by faith, even when there is nothing within or without to support us.

Losing sight of our priorities—shifting from serving the Lord to •protecting our self-interests.

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The secret of our survival is fixing our eyes on Jesus and making Him

alone our focus.


support us or on our successes to keep us going. Jesus alone will become our goal and motivation—our prize—and we will live for Him, run our race for Him and cross the fin-ish line for Him.

My dear friend, unless you learn to fix your eyes on Jesus alone, you will have no stability in your walk with God or in your service to Him.

Jesus Himself said, “Follow Me.”

Therefore, meditate on Him, consider Him and think about Him so that you may not grow weary in your heart. The answer to enduring until the end is not self-effort or a rational attempt to figure

out the answers, but rather to stop and look into His eyes.

If we do this, all the things that surround

us in this world will become shadows in the light of Him. After all his struggles, Job found the answer he was searching for when he fell on his face and worshiped the Lord.

Look to Him. He’s waiting for you.


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/// MAYBE IT’S TIME WE THINK ABOUT THE WORDS WE BLURT OUT IN A TIME OF FRUSTRATION

he dictionary defines “expletives” as “words with no meaning.”

They are those words we blurt out as our impromptu expressions of pain, joy, frustration, or surprise. They are words fueled by our emotions and not our intellect. They may not “have meaning,” in the sense that they don’t intelligently add to the conversation, but they sure do speak volumes about us.

Jesus said, “out of the overflow of the heart the mouth speaks” (Mt.12:34). And it’s not hard to see what fills the heart of the average per-son in our culture. The world’s expletives in-clude a range of foul, de-grading, crude and rude verbal belches which, the Bible says, have no place among God’s people (Eph.5:3-4). Clearly in the world “the evil man brings evil things out of the evil stored up in his heart (Lk.6:45), but we are called to not allow “any unwholesome talk [to] come out of our mouths” (Eph.4:29). A new heart makes this possible. For most followers of Christ, the absence of such obscenities is a basic characteristic of repentance and a new spiritual life.

But the world has another set of exple-tives. They are religious. They are words of great importance to the Christian faith which have been hijacked for people’s emotional outbursts. They are weighty words originally designed by God to stir the hearts and minds of his children to

worship and service. Of course, when they are used as expletives (expressions “with-out meaning”) they do just the opposite of what God intended. These words include the title of our Creator, Judge and King – “God.” They also include the name of his Son who suffered and died for our re-demption – “Jesus Christ.” And interest-ingly, they include one of the fundamen-tal motives for Christian service – “Hell” (cf. 2Cor.5:10-11; Heb.10:30-31).

When the world punctuates their sen-tences with expressions like “Oh my God!” or “What the Hell?” they are doing far more damage than we might first imag-ine. Stubbing one’s toe and blurting out the words “Jesus Christ” could hardly

be more offensive to our holy God. This “name above every name” (Phil.2:9) is a call to contrite and humble worship (see Phil.2:10-11), and not a colorful way to express one’s pain and anger. So con-cerned was God that people never heap up the condemnation that will inevitably come with using his name “in vain” (i.e., “without meaning” – the very definition of an “expletive”), that he placed it as “rule #4” on his list of Ten Command-ments (Ex.20:7). And consider the use of the word “Hell.” Here is the very thing that should cause every human to stop and soberly evaluate their relationship with their Maker, but instead the word has been made trite and inane because you can hear it as the verbal garnish with

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By the way, can you see the spiritual battle against the truth of Christianity in all of this? You’ll be hard pressed to find the words “Buddha,” “Allah,” “Nirvana,” “Muhammad” or “Joseph Smith” used as expletives. These words are carefully avoided. While the verbal pacesetters in our culture will say “they never gave it any thought” you can be sure it is no coin-cidence that the favored religious exple-tives are aimed at Christianity and not some other religious move-ment. It’s true, “our battle is not against flesh and blood” (Eph.6:12).

While many Christians would be quick to say they don’t use such terms, we would be wise to rethink our use of “sound alike” euphemisms that are so rampant among God’s people. A “euphemism” is defined as “a less offensive synonym.” While we may feel we have sidestepped offending God because we write “OMG” or say “Oh my Gosh” instead of “Oh my God” I suspect our Creator may not be as tolerant as we would hope. With such a concern from God regarding the “without meaning” use of his name, perhaps we should seek to get as far away from such usage, rather than attempt to get as close as possible without actually saying it. What really compels us to say “Oh my Gosh” or to write “OMG”? Is it our insatiable desire to “fit in” and sound as much like “every-body else” as we can without technically breaking the rules? What’s the point?

Can’t we as God’s people drop the “Jeeezz” and the “Gosh” and thoughtfully

consider some entirely different expletives that express our surprise or amazement? It’s understandable when Ty Pennington remodels your house that you want to “ooouuu” and “ahhhh”, but wouldn’t we be better off (and avoid every form, mode or appearance of evil – 1Th.5:22), if we chose to blurt out the name of our fourth grade teacher, our tax preparer or our pet Rottweiler? Wouldn’t we do better if, instead of sounding like we are using our God’s name in vain, we were using any of the other thousands of words or sounds that could be used in such a setting? Do

we really have to mindlessly follow the world’s bad and sinful habits in our verbal practices?

For those who say, “I just never thought about it,” maybe it is time we do. There is so much in Scripture about the ac-countability we will face regarding the use of our words. Not the least of which is Christ’s poignant reminder: “But I tell you that men will have to give an account on the day of judgment for every careless word they have spoken” (Mt.12:36). I un-derstand it is very difficult to change our verbal patterns (Jms.3:1-12), but I believe we are making a stand for holiness and propriety when we do (1Pt.1:15-16).

So the next time you stub your toe, or find yourself overwhelmed with surprise or disgust, if you must say something, be in-novative. It would be better if we blurted out our own names, than spurting forth an obscenity or something that sounds like one of the names of our Triune God!

You’ll be hard pressed to find the words “Buddha,” “Allah,”

“Nirvana,” “Muhammad” or “Joseph Smith” used as expletives.


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/// A LETTER TO MY GRANDSON

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Dear Michael, My first grandson… you’re only two as I write this, but I imagine by the time you get around to actually reading this – and hopefully taking my advice seriously – you’ll be a young man well on his way to

adulthood. These are things that your Papa wants you to hear early in your in-tellectual life, when you’re just beginning to ask the important questions about the important things.

Oh, how I hope and pray that I’ll get the chance to do this in person with you in the coming years, to spend hours and hours with you talking about these big things! But, I may not be able to. Indeed,


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the Lord may have

already called me home by the time you read this.

You haven’t even started school, yet I’m anxious and worried that the quality and type of education you’re going to receive will be one that is simply incomplete and therefore inadequate. This isn’t to criti-cize your parents, your teachers, or your schools – you may have even spent many years in great Christian schools, or you received a great Christian education on-line, I hope so! – it’s just that I know the edu-cational trend of the West these past few centuries has been away from the truly impor-tant things and towards the simply trivial things. A mile wide, but an inch deep. And, it’s only become worse with the Internet, then the

Cloud, and now, with whatever you have there in the future. Access to informa-tion has not led to acquisition of knowl-edge, and certainly not to the attain-ment of wisdom – that takes intentional effort.

The two most important things man can ever talk about is politics and religion – “how to live together,” and “what’s important” – which is why there is always pressure not to bring them up in polite company for fear of offending people – as though it were better to treat mere symptoms rather than the underlying disease. Nonsense. You can’t really solve a person’s, or a culture’s problems unless you get to what’s causing those problems, unless you get to the level of worldview. A world-

view is simply the answers we have for life’s biggest questions. And, by the way, one’s politics should grow out of one’s the-ology. Beware of people who create their theology from their politics. To be “educated” today usually means you’ve done the requisite coursework to get a piece of paper with all kinds of let-ters on it. And yes, a person can know a whole bunch about their particular dis-cipline, craft, or profession. But grand-son, that’s not what it truly means to be educated. That just indicates they’ve

spent some time in one sliver of knowl-edge. There’s a whole lot more out there to become familiar with, to learn how it

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all fits together, which is where the name “university” came from, it was the place you went to study a bunch of things in order to get a grasp on how it was all unified, how it all fits together. Which is, also by the way, why the highest degree in every discipline is a “Doctor of Philoso-phy of…”, because it’s philosophy – the love of wisdom – that places your specific discipline within the superstructure of knowledge itself. Think of it this way. You used to get a “Bachelors” degree because you were familiar with but not yet married to the discipline. A little more study and you had perhaps Mastered that one discipline. Yet, further study, where you would study how your one discipline fit into the Academy with all of the other disciplines, and you were awarded the Ph.D. Once upon a time, if you had a Ph.D., you knew the boundaries and limits of your

discipline, there was a humility in that, but no longer. Some of the most intel-lectually arrogant people you’ll ever meet have Ph.D’s, and yes, they may know a lot about one specific area of knowledge, but they don’t know the limits of their own knowledge or discipline, and they don’t know how what they do fits in with all the other fields of study. Today’s Ph.D.’s are for the most part, just extended Masters degrees. Don’t be awed by the letters after someone’s name. They may have clocked lots of classroom time, but it cer-tainly doesn’t mean they’re wise.

Ah, wisdom. Now that’s why I’m writing this letter. That’s what I want for you, grandson. I want you to learn to love wis-dom, and to become as wise as possible as soon as possible. I wish someone had told me what I’m about to tell you thirty years ago, I would be so much further along on my own journey!

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I wasted so much time reading things that were entertaining but trivial, when I could have been investing that time read-ing things that were truly important and significant. And obviously, I don’t mean that these are the only things you should ever read, but they may be the most important things you ever do read. So, sure, continue to read for fun and enter-tainment when the mood strikes you, but when you want to really learn about the most important things, when you want to expand and deepen your worldview, there’s just two places I’m going to point you to.

These two volumes are just the launching points on your journey to Wisdom, by the way. Think of them as maps that tell you where you are, point you to where you think you want to go, and show you how to get there. Return to them often, because we often get lost among the trees and we forget what forest we’re in.

The most important volume you will ever read – and read it regularly – is the Bible. At times, read one of the sixty-six books in its entirety in just one sitting. At other times, read and medi-tate on just a chapter, or a passage, or a verse. God will talk to you as you do. All wisdom begins with theology – start with the wrong theology, and you’ll wander forever. It really is all about Him.

The other volume is a long-lost jewel that so few people are even aware of anymore, but in it’s day, it was The Introductory Text to the really important things, liter-ally. It’s called The Great Ideas: A Syntopicon of Great Books of the Western World, by Mortimer Adler. It was the introduction to the 52-volume set he edited, Great Books of the Western World, put out by Encyclopedia Britan-nica that sits on my shelf in the study.

For two thousand years, what it meant to be “educated,” was to be familiar with the greatest thoughts of the greatest minds as found in the greatest books. And that’s what Adler did. He compiled the greatest books, and then crafted an introductory guide to them. It was like he introduced me to the greatest thinkers in history. So, I can’t think of anything better to do to enhance your intellectual life than to introduce you to the guy who will intro-duce you to the smartest people who ever lived. I wish someone had done this for me when I was a young adult.

So Michael, meet Mortimer. Start with his Syntopicon, find a topic that inter-ests you, don’t worry about starting at page one, and enjoy the journey through the Great Books as you pursue Wisdom.

Along the way, you’ll encounter all kinds of fascinating people, all taking part in The Great Conversation. Become a part of it.

And grandson, if I can’t be there to jour-ney along with you, the entire set is yours. Enjoy!

All wisdom begins with theology – start with the wrong theology,

and you’ll wander forever. It really is all about Him.


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Seeing the World in 3-D

How ingenious our Creator! He designed the human eye with a lens that can view everything in colorful three-di-mensional reality. The eye only weighs a fourth of an ounce, but it can distinguish 10 million colors. It constantly readjusts its focus, refracts light, and enables us to see in width and depth. Our most advanced engineers can’t come close to duplicating the 3-D effect. But it’s inter-esting to watch Hollywood keep trying with those funny sets of plastic glasses.

Perhaps you’ll be surprised to learn that the first 3-D movie was made more than 100 years ago in 1894. A man named William Greene filed an application for a patent for putting two screens side-by-side while viewers watched through a cumbersome stereoscope designed to unite the images to create three-dimen-sional traces. Another producer, Edwin S. Porter, developed a similar process in the early 1900s.

The first 3-D movie was introduced to a paying au-dience in the 1920s. Entitled, “The Power of Love,” cinematographer Robert F. Elder shot it, but the only copy has been lost.

After World War II, there was a boom of 3-D movies; and that’s where some of us entered the (motion) picture. Are you old enough to remember going to

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the Saturday talkies, donning those odd glasses, and watching Vincent Price ply his horrors in three-dimensional, black-and-white resplendence?

With the newest 3-D technology, we’re wondering what’s next. TV in 3-D? Magazines and newspapers with 3-D pictures? Imagine everything on your computer and phones showing up in 3-D reality. For better or worse, those technologies are on the horizon. The use of 3-D gives us a greater sense of di-mension. Everything is more real, more vivid, and more immediate.

Today as Christians, we need to live in 3-D reality. We’re representatives of Christ in vivid and urgent times. Ad-vancing technologies, coupled with the loss of spiritual values, has created an age of peril and constant challenge. We never thought we’d see a day of such rapidly crumbling foundations or such brazen evil. Here are the 3-Ds we need for viewing life through the lens of eter-nity and standing firm amidst a deterio-rating culture.

DeterminationBefore all else, we’ve got to live with determination as young Daniel did in pagan Babylon. He and his friends were enrolled in a godless educational system, given secular names, clothed in Babylo-nian garments, and fed a royal diet. But Daniel had boundaries in his life.

He knew the lines he would not cross. The Bible says, “Daniel was determined not to defile himself” (Daniel 1:8, NLT). The New International Version uses the word “resolved.” The New King James Version says he “purposed in his heart.” The New American Standard Version says he “made up his mind.”

I like those terms. Every portable elec-tronic device, used incorrectly, is an

invitation to evil. Every screen in your home is potentially lurid. Every conver-sation in the workaday world has the po-tential to be profane, rude, or ill advised. Every meal is a temptation to gluttony. Every motive that propels our actions is suspect. The shifting values of the world leave us defensive and uncertain. In a time of moral confusion, family break-down, church marginalization, economic uncertainty, and rising secularism, we’ve got to be determined to stand firm for Christ, to be resolved, to purpose in our heart, to make up our mind. DevotionWe’ve also got to live with devotion to our Lord Jesus. Devotion is different than determination. I may be deter-mined to remain true to my wife, but it’s another thing to be devoted to her. The word “devotion” conveys wholehearted love. As it relates to Christ, this means strong and consistent fellowship with Him.

It’s important to have the right convic-tions, but deep convictions without di-vine fellowship turns us into mere zeal-ots. If we hold the truths of the Gospel without spending time with the Giver of the Gospel, we’ll lose the internal sweet-ness of our faith. Christianity is not just a cause to which we are dedicated; it’s a Christ to whom we are devoted.

I think it’s important to have a little desk somewhere, a table, a chair, a quiet spot, a private place, a closet—and there to meet with the Lord every day in devoted Bible study and prayer. It’s not simply a routine, but a relationship. It’s a shelter from the storm, the shadow of a mighty rock within a weary land. If we’re going to be dedicated to the truths of Christ, we must be devoted to the time we spend with Him.


DemonstrationThat leads us to a life of demonstrat-ing Christ to the world. Some years ago, Ralph Carmichael wrote a wonderful little song called “A Quiet Place.” It is about our daily devotional life, that time when we find “a quiet place, far from the rapid pace, where God can soothe my troubled mind.” I like the way the song ends. Carmichael wrote:

When we are dedicated to our convictions and devoted to our Lord, we leave our qui-

et place of fellowship to demonstrate His love to those we meet during the day. We become active and vibrant examples of the children of God. Let your light shine before men that they might see your good works and glorify your Father in heaven.

Today the foundations are crumbling, and we’re seeing evils we never thought we’d see. But we can stand firm in the conflict

and flourish in our testimony if we’ll live a 3-D life—full of De-termination, Devotion, and Dem-onstration. That means looking at our world through the lens of eternity…but at least we don’t have to wear those silly plastic glasses.


Whether a garden small,Or on a mountain tall

NewstrengthandcouragethereIfind.Then from this quiet place I go

prepared to face A new day with love

for all mankind.

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On June 19th 2011 I went on a horse ride alone. Little did I know that this simple horse ride just outside my backyard would change the course of my life. I was bucked off my horse and shattered my right leg. My busy life as a business owner, host of a Christian radio show, mother, and active participant on numerous council boards, and competitive dancer was suddenly altered.

From a running pace, to a dependant halt, I was humbled by being reliant upon my husband and daughter to assist me in activities I took for grant-ed each and every day. Things as simple as taking a shower, driving, carrying anything or even put-ting on my socks.

This is not a distant trial I have faced as I am currently enduring this radical shift as I will now soon begin to drive and walk within the next few months, Christ has taught me, and is teaching me the meaning of endurance through humility, faith, hope, and love.

The writer of Hebrews tells us that faith is the assurance of things hoped for, the certainty of things unseen. We all hope for things we do not see, whether it’s a better job, marriage, healing of an illness or injury, or countless other aspira-tions. Where does our assurance come from? The answer is Jesus Christ.

Does this assurance imply health, perfect mon-etary success or marriage? No. Our assurance is that Christ rose from the dead and we do not need to suffer for our wrongs in separation from God.

That God causes all things to work for the good of those who love him and are called according to His purposes. That He promises to take care of our needs if we seek His righteousness and His kingdom and not our righteousness or our pride-ful pursuits.

This hope gives us confidence, which develops faith, which gives us endurance and persever-ance, knowing that any trial we may be going through cannot be compared to the glory we will have with Him when he calls us home. That He wants to showcase us as His personal ambassa-dors to show the world who He is, and this is seen most in our hope, joy, confidence, and assurance of our hope in and through these types of trials.

We will receive the crown of life if we finish strong in this race. Our minds and attitudes drive our behavior. Going from, “I’m broken,” to “I’m heal-ing everyday”, is a matter of perspective through God’s eyes. Only God has complete control of our lives and the timeframe of events.

These are just a few of the things I am pursuing to not only know, but to live in the reality of. Join me each Saturday from 4-5pm on KKLA to learn and explore all that God has for us to walk in.

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ho’s your favorite television mom or dad?

Is it Bill Cosby as Cliff Huxtable? Flor-ence Henderson as Mrs. Brady? Or per-haps the sweater wearing Fred MacMur-ray as Steven Douglas?.”

Given the endless challenges facing the state of the faith, the family, the country and even the world, you might not think I should be spending my time writing about television parents, but please hu-mor me, won’t you?

Late last year the always elegant Bar-bara Billingsley, that supermom of the 1950s iconic television program, Leave it to Beaver, passed away. Mrs. Cleaver cooked and cleaned the house in a dress and pearls and was always there to welcome home the boys, Wally and Theodore, and her faithful husband, Ward. Mrs. Billingsley was 94 and died in Malibu, California. Just a few days later, we learned of the death of Tom Bosley. He was 83. Best known as “Mr. C” on Happy Days, the

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character of Howard Cunningham was the quintessential Midwestern middle-class father. He owned a hardware store, loved baseball, was always mildly an-noyed at Fonzie’s antics, served as the Grand Poobah of Leopard Lodge No. 462 in Milwaukee, and regularly dolled out wise advice to his two kids, Richie and Joanie (and Chuck before he mysteri-ously disappeared in season one). We loved these two characters and in fact, for many people, even the mere mention of their names still conjures up a warm and nostalgic association.

Why? After all, it’s just fictional television: simple and unrealistic plots, each punc-tuated by a problem and a solution, all served and wrapped up neat and tidy in 22 minutes.

At the risk of stating the obvious, I think many of us were drawn to these characters because we didn’t have at home what we saw on our televisions. By watching each week, we lived vicariously in the towns of Mayfield and Milwaukee. The Cleavers and the Cunninghams weren’t portrayed as perfect families - but they contained a mom and a dad whose life revolved around the kids. The respective families were sane, sensitive and sensible. No problem was too big for dad, who always seemed able to laugh

his way through even the toughest of times. Mom might have been a bit zany, but she was always gentle and a loving touch. Both Billingsley and Bosley regularly pushed back when critics suggested the plot lines and dialogue weren’t realistic. At the time of the filming of Beaver, Bar-bara Billingsley was a widowed mother of two boys. “I think the show had an awful lot of truth to it,” she said. “A lot was written about things that had hap-pened to our writers or the children.”

I found it interest-ing that Tom Bosley originally turned down the offer to play the role of Howard Cunning-ham. But he had second thoughts, reread the script and decided to do it for one reason and one reason alone: he was drawn to the gentle

and nurturing relationship between the father and the son. It is “sophisticated” to lampoon television families of old, to mock the idealism of a happy home, qualifying them as hokey. Yet, the very thing that people made and make fun of, is the same thing so many of us from dysfunctional homes craved as kids. Of course, however positive and uplift-ing a portrayal of parenting as Leave it to Beaver and Happy Days might have been, it can’t hold a candle to the Scrip-tures, nor should it. One might suggest the writers of these respective shows were influenced by a biblical under-

Of course, however positive and uplifting a portrayal of

parenting as Leave it to Beaver and Happy Days might have

been, it can’t hold a candle to the Scriptures, nor should it.



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standing of childrearing and discipline. That wouldn’t surprise me, especially given the era. After all, when Ward and June sat down with Beaver and Wally and reminded them that “When you make a mistake, admit it. If you don’t, you only make matters worse,” they might have been indirectly ref-erencing Proverbs 12:13-14: “An evil man is trapped by his sinful talk, but a righteous man escapes trouble. From the fruit of his lips a man is filled with good things as surely as the work of his hands rewards him.” But this reflection isn’t my shot at developing a Beaver Bible study...just a few thoughts along the way in light of two deaths of two people who many of us watched for many years. Incidentally, we’ve been talking about Tom Bosley and Barbara Billingsley, but the aforementioned Ward Cleaver, played by Hugh Beaumont, was actu-ally a practicing Methodist minister. He died in 1982. He had strong feelings about modern TV morals: “No money that I can earn as an ac-tor can accomplish so much good that I would feel justified in violating my ide-als to earn it,” he said. “If the question ever arises in a serious way, of course, I would have to give up my acting.’’ There’s one dad who appeared to be solid both on - and off - the set. After reading that, I like him even more than I did before.

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