Saving Souls | Richard Roberts and Lindsay Roberts Ministries

 

RR: The conference is coming up

LR & RR: October 9, 10, and 11.

RR: It’s especially for ladies, but I understand you’re having some men who want to come.

LR: Yeah, you’re going to be one of the speakers, so you get to be there.  Isn’t that exciting?

RR: Harry and Cheryl Salem will be

LR: Harry and Cheryl Salem.

RR:  speaking.  Vicky Jamison-Peter will be

LR: Yep.

RR: speaking.

LR: Sandi Redmond will be.

RR: Sandi Redmond.

LR: Lindsay Roberts.

RR: Are you the opening night speaker?

LR: Ahh, yeah.

RR: You know, we’re going to be live on the air that night as you begin your conference, 8 to 9 Central time.

LR: Ahhh, yep, we can do all things

RR: And we’re going to have

LR: through Christ

RR: your conference

LR: who strengthens us.

RR: and have the program.  We may just have to bring the two together in some way.

LR: That will be fun.

RR: Ladies, if you’d like the experience of your life, consider Lindsay’s upcoming women’s conference, October 9, 10, and 11.  We believe

LR: It is definitely an experience.

RR: it is going to be fantastic.  And if you want to bring your husband, I’ll be there and it will be just fine.  I’ll take good care of him, okay?

LR: That’s a scary thought.

RR: I want you to meet award-winning author and longtime friend of ORU, of this ministry, and of our family, Cliff Taulbert.  Give him a good welcome.  Clifton, God bless you for coming and sharing. Here is the newest book, Eight Habits of the Heart, the timeless values that build strong communities within our homes and our lives.  Now your first book, Once When We Were Colored

CT: Right.

RR: has become a national bestseller.  I know

CT: I just got an Email this morning

RR: Oh, did you?

CT: in Belgium that it is now showing in Belgium.  He said and I was really happy to hear that.

RR: It’s been made into a major motion picture starring?

CT: Felicia Rashaad and Al Freeman, Jr.

RR: It’s being seen all over the country.  We’ve seen it.  It’s been shown locally, nationally, and now around the world.  You received a prestigious award from the NAACP recently for their.

CT: For the 27th annual Outstanding Contribution to American Literature.

RR: Then your Pulitzer nominee, the second book .

CT: Yeah, The Last Train North.

RR:  The Last Train North, has been read all across this nation and literally around the world, and now you’re being called on to travel all over the world to speak.  Haven’t you just come from the Mississippi.

CT: Just from.

RR: Humanities

CT: Yeah, in Jackson, Mississippi, they celebrated the 25^th anniversary of the Mississippi Humanities Council, and that to me was a real move of God as it relates to me as a writer because twenty-five years ago I probably would not have been invited to give that keynote address.  But it shows you exactly what God does, how He does it, when we let Him do it.

RR: What is this book all about, Eight Habits of the Heart?

CT: Well, Richard, I was trying to think, how could I explain this to this wonderful audience that you have.  But in the 133rd Psalm, David said, “How good and pleasant it is for brethren to dwell together in unity.” Now that’s a place.  What does it take to get to that place?  The Eight Habits of the Heart, which are nurturing attitude, responsibility, dependability, friendship, brotherhood, high expectations, courage, and hope when those eight ideals are practiced daily by individuals such as ourselves, we will find that place that David talked about, that place of unity and peace where brethren dwell together.

RR: Well, you’re also talking about the possibility of race relation healings.

CT: You can’t have unity, you know. You can’t have all that God wants you to have unless you’re thinking about, “How can I share that with my brother?” whomever that brother or sister might be.

RR: I noticed on the news this morning that today is the 40^th anniversary of the desegregation of Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas, and I understand President Clinton has been in Arkansas today marking that historic event.  What word do you have to say …  With what you went through as a child and, of course, you’ve written about it extensively, you’ve talked about it all over this campus a number of times and literally all over the world, and now here you are talking about relationships and how people can be one.  And Jesus said that we all might come into the unity, that we might come into harmony and unity.  What word do you have to people who are having difficulty with relationships?