 Hey brother, it's great to be in the studio and great to have an opportunity to talk to our WTLN listeners. And today I wanted to give our listeners an opportunity to hear about a conference that we're putting on May 29th through May 31st this year. It's a Friday night, all day Saturday and Sunday morning conference. And it's our 2015 call for discernment conference entitled A Call to Arms. And during that conference, we're going to be discussing how to protect your children and family from media's menacing dark side. And we have with us a guest speaker for that conference, Trace Embry. And Trace is a nationally syndicated radio host of Licensed to Parent. He's also the founder of Shepherds Hill Academy in Georgia, a residential counseling program for troubled teens. And Trace is an expert in this field, has been working in this field for 25 years and grateful to have Trace with us for the conference. Trace, how are you doing today? I'm doing wonderful brother. Oh, fantastic. Well, we look forward to this conference. It's something that our parents and even our kids are anticipating and they want to hear more on this subject. And I know our folks, our listeners out there on WTLN are interested in what the conference is going to be about. And I guess with respect to that, I wanted to ask you a question and let you talk for a little bit and give our folks an introduction to what we're going to be talking about on that day. And the question is this, you know, many parents today appear to be little concerned with the impact that our culture is having on our kids. So what kind of negative influence do you see that our culture is having? And how is that affecting how our kids are growing up today? Well, the culture is the other parent. And when you've got Solomon Gamorra on your hip pocket 24 hours a day, seven days a week, 800 channels of ancient Roman and Greece, and it's not only piped into our homes, but even into our kids' bedrooms, you've got a major problem there. And so our kids are being indoctrinated with a worldview that is anti-Christ. It's a postmodern worldview. And so they redefine terms differently, and their whole value system is different than ours is. And, you know, they will use godly terms. They'll use the word love and freedom and grace and things like that, but they're defining those things with the devil's dictionary. And a lot of parents assume that their kids are doing the right things and having the right attitudes and thinking the right thoughts because they go to church every Sunday. But when you look at George Barnes statistics and others, and of course we have a proving ground at Shepherd's Hill Academy to know that it's not that way. And kids are very, very good at compartmentalizing not just their lives, but their faith as well. So you can have a kid who's attending church services every Sunday, maybe even raising his hands in worship to God. Maybe dealing drugs out of the church parking lot that evening. So this is a real problem, and it breeds a lot of insecurity, and of course it makes the church look hypocritical and what it's doing to our culture. It's a vicious cycle. It's like a dog chasing its tail. And so the bottom line is, is we've got to come to determine where we're going to take our cues from life, from, are we going to take it from our little digital devices, are we going to take it from one another to the public school system, or are we going to take it from where Christian had taken it from the beginning and that's the war to God? Amen. Yeah, it appears to me, Trace, that in my experience with parents and in talking to kids that often parents can be really naive to these things. They don't see the influence that's out there. They're not aware of what their kids are involved in. What's your experience with that? How can parents assess what their kids are doing, or the environment that's influencing them? I mean, what's the best way for a parent to really understand what's going on? Well, they're going to have to pull their heads out of the sand and pull their noses out of their own devices as well. And we live in a society where parents have worked themselves to death, trying to pursue the American nightmare, and our kids have entertained themselves to death. And the bottom line is that the devil can't make you bad, he'll make you busy. And we all kind of go like monkeys on a vine. We don't turn loose for this activity until we have another one in our hands. And so consequently, there's no margin in life to really assess anything. And again, in the postmodern world, we live our lives by feeling. So as long as I'm feeling good, things must be good. But you know what? Drunks feel good. Drug addicts feel good. Anyone addicted to whatever they're addicted to feels good as long as they have what they're addicted to at their disposal. And we become addicted to digital technology and it's come upon us so fast and hard in the last 20 or so years, particularly, that we have just kind of morphed into this addiction. And it is an addiction. China considers video games alone. They're number one public health threat. And we have not come to realize that yet, but I see it every day here at Shepherd Hill Academy and in the churches I go to when I share some of these things. It's amazing. And the thing is, the addict never knows they're addicted. It always takes an outside objective source to say, hey, you've got a problem with this. You're spending too much time in this area. You've devoted all your energies in this area. And who gets neglected? It's the kids. And so the kids are going to go, they're going to find security somewhere. They're going to find identity somewhere, belonging, purpose, meaning and all that. And unfortunately, it's too often in sex, drugs, rock and roll, gangs and guns. Oh, thank you for that information, Trace. And yeah, maybe a first step, obviously, for parents to begin investigating this would be to look up information from you and your website. Can you give our listeners, Trace, where they can go to find more information about your ministry and maybe more information about how they can protect their family? Sure. I'd say the first thing you need to do is get ready to go to the call of arms conference. But our website is license2parent.org, license2parent.org. They can go to our residential program website, helpmytroubledteam.org, helpmytroubledteam.org. Oh, thank you, brother. This has been guest speaker Trace Embry, again, nationally syndicated radio host of license2parent. And you can find more information by going to our website to sign up for the conference. We'd love to see you there. It's protectthefamily.net, protectthefamily.net. That conference is May 29 through May 31. It's a ministry of Cornerstone Baptist Church at cornerstoneorlando.org. And we want to help you protect your family, protect your kids from media's menacing dark side. It's a call to arms our 2015 call for discernment conference. We hope to see you there. God bless you.