THE FLOT LINE

1 FLOT LINE hosted by Rick Hughes TRANSCRIPTS 2019 Volume 2 May August2019 V2 RICK HUGHES, founder and President of Rick Hughes Evangelistic Ministries, Inc., communicates clear and concise Biblical principles for hearers to choose to use in their lives. For over 50 years, Rick has presented the truth to thousands of students and spoken at hundreds of schools and churches. He authored several books and hosts a weekly radio broadcast and podcast, The FLOT Line, all available, for free, on his website, A native of Birmingham, Alabama, Rick was raised in a modest, single-parent home. He distinguished himself through excellence in athletics being named to the High School All American football team and set state records in the shot put and discus. The University of Florida signed Rick to a full football scholarship, but his SAT scores were too low.

2 Challenged by a coach to overcome this failure, Rick applied himself in the classroom as he had done on the field. He seized the challenge, got a second chance, entered the University of Alabama as a football player under the training of prestigious coach Paul Bear Bryant, and the team won a national championship that year. After just one successful year, however, Rick quit school and drifted down the my way highway. Rick emphasizes bad decisions limit future options, and God gave you two ends: one to sit on and one to think with. Success in life depends on which end you use. Heads you win tails you lose. Many of Rick s personal experiences help to vividly teach these s turning point came when he accepted the Lord Jesus Christ as his Savior, by faith alone in Christ alone. This is the most important decision in your life, also.

3 Rick s decision opened a new path, not of football, but one personally designed for him by God. Through the ministry of berachah Church in Houston, Texas, and its pastors, R. B. Thieme, Jr. and now R. B. Thieme III, Rick learned principles and promises of God s Word that directed him into a life of Christian ministry. Rick s life is proof that when you leave your own agenda behind and walk into God s plan, you can have fulfillment and happiness beyond your imagination. For with God, nothing will be impossible (Luke 1:37). BOOKS by RICK HUGHES The FLOT Line Transcripts God s Problem-Solving Devices Bookmark Bible Promises & Principles Life s Toughest Years A Divine Pardon Understanding Your Soul Practicing Your Christianity Christian Problem Solving WorkbookPODCAST The Flot Line podcast can be found on: Anchor, Apple, Spotify, Google, Breaker and RadioPublic RICK HUGHES EVANGELISTIC MINISTRIES 800-831-0718 PO Box 100 Cropwell, Alabama 35054 Rick Hughes Evangelistic Ministries, Inc.

4 Was founded for the purpose of communicating the Word of God to students and administrators in private schools and churches across the United States. This ministry is non-denominational in its thrust and is conducted freely without charge or obligation. No material is sold and no offerings are taken. THE FLOT LINE hosted by Rick Hughes Transcripts 2019 Volume 2 (May-August) I ve been doing The FLOT Line radio show since July 2005. Every Sunday it airs on radio stations across our nation, and in autumn 2019 we made it available as a podcast. Want to know how it all began? I had done a radio ad for Bass Pro Shops. A radio producer heard it and contacted me, Big Rick, you ve got a great radio voice - you should take your ministry to the airwaves. And that was the start of The FLOT Line. FLOT is an acronym for Forward Line of Troops.

5 The FLOT Line teaches principles from the Bible and focuses on God s ten unique problem-solving devices. If you choose to learn and apply them, they will act as a main line of resistance in your soul, a FLOT line, preventing the outside sources of adversity from becoming the inside pressure of stress in your soul. My intent is to give you information to help you identify the plan of God for your life. If you will choose to orient and adjust to God s plan, you will have a truly amazing future. My ministry, presenting the Gospel and communicating clear principles from the Word of God, is possible only because of God s grace. I am grateful to my heavenly Father and to my Savior, the Lord Jesus Christ, Who have provided the means and direction for me; and thankful for the Lord s provision of servants whose talents and resources made this book a reality.

6 Remember, adversity is inevitable in life but stress is optional. You can prepare for adversity by knowing and using God s problem-solving devices. Take note of Psalm 62:1-2, King David s testimony to the power of having a FLOT line in his soul: My soul waits in silence for God only; From Him is my salvation. He only is my rock and my deliverance, My strength; I shall not be shaken. If you have listened to any of my broadcasts, this intro is familiar: Welcome to The FLOT Line with your host, Rick Hughes. For the next thirty minutes you will be inspired, motivated, educated, but never manipulated. Now you can read the content of those episodes without charge or obligation. Welcome to Transcripts of The FLOT Line. Rick Hughes RICK HUGHES EVANGELISTIC MINISTRIES Box 100 Cropwell, Alabama 35054-0100 800-831-0718 Having a Relaxed Mental Attitude Transcript of FLOT Line Episode 715 aired on May 5, 2019 Good morning and welcome to the FLOT Line.

7 I am your host Rick Hughes and for the next few minutes please stick around. We are just trying to give you accurate information. Information that will hopefully help you verify and identify the plan of God for your life. If you want to orient and adjust to the plan, you have the privilege and the honor to do so. Let us remember this, God gave you two ends - there isn t any doubt about that, you can look in the mirror and you can see them both. God gave you two ends, one to sit with and one to think with. Success in your life depends on which one you use. If it's heads then you will win, if it s tails then you will lose. This show is about getting you to think properly and orient to the grace of God. In 2 Peter 3:18 the Bible says, Grow in the grace and in the knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ. The FLOT Line is about developing grace orientation - biblical orientation - doctrinal orientation - so that you build in your soul a main line of resistance that is based on ten unique problem-solving devices.

8 If you learn these ten unique problem-solving devices and apply them into your soul then it is possible you could stop the outside sources of adversity before they ever become the inside source of stress. That's why repeatedly I say stress is optional, adversity is inevitable. Adversity is what those circumstances do to you and stress is what you do to yourself. You do not have to worry, you do not have to be angry, you do not have to be disillusioned, you do not have to be bitter - these are things you do to yourself. The Bible mandates, if you are a believer in Jesus Christ, that you grow and understand God's grace purpose for your life, get some knowledge and understand His plan and how His plan works. If you are not a believer in Jesus Christ, I cannot imagine you listening to the radio show but let me encourage you that the single greatest decision you could ever make is to accept Christ as your Savior.

9 It's a simple act of faith. You don't have to join up, show up, fess up, give up - you just have to believe. That s why the Bible clearly says, God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son so that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have everlasting life (John 3:16). Jesus Himself said, This is the will of the One that sent Me that you believe in Me, whom He has sent (John 6:40). Believing in the Lord Jesus Christ means you recognize that He's the anointed Son of God. You recognize that He died as a substitution for you, He took your place, He paid the penalty for your sin. And you are willing to receive the forgiveness that He offers in love and grace. The Bible says, Whosoever shall call upon the name of the Lord shall be saved (Romans 10:13). That s anybody. You can go to God the Father, and you can simply say, I believe that Jesus Christ is Your anointed Son.

10 I believe He died and paid for my sin and I want to accept Him as my Savior. That simple act of faith, three short lines there, will guarantee you eternal life forever. The Bible says, For by grace are you saved through faith; it's a gift from God; not of works, lest someone would brag about it (Ephesians 2:8-9). It s an amazing thing to know Christ and to begin your life all over again. To reboot your life. The Bible says, "If any man is in Christ, he s a new creation; old things are passed away; behold, all things become new (2 Corinthians 5:17). The day you believe in Jesus Christ is the day you are born again. It's your second birthday. That's why the 1 Lord Jesus Christ told Nicodemus he needed to be born again. He couldn't go to heaven unless he was born-again.