"Look For God In It"

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It's fine.

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We're back today.

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This is living up in the town world and we have a special guest today back in the studio

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with us.

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Who might that be?

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That would be Chevy.

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Mr. Chevy.

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He's so excited.

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He is so happy to be here.

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It's so funny.

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He knows.

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He's the smartest dog we've ever had.

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Yeah.

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It's like he knows we're going up to the church.

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We didn't come in earlier today.

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We came in just to do the podcast because we've been traveling and he knew.

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He just went to the door and he was so excited.

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We let him out of the car.

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He said, oh no, you didn't bring his leash.

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I said, he doesn't need his leash.

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He doesn't need it.

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He went right to the door.

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I know.

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He went right to where he's supposed to and he did.

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He went right to our studio.

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He's pretty predictable.

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He's cute.

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Yes.

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But anyway, it's good to have him.

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He's chilling out.

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He's laying down.

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As long as I don't snap my fingers, he'll be fine.

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Please don't.

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I know.

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It's the weirdest thing.

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I know.

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I don't understand that.

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That's because that's how I get his attention at home.

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Don't do it.

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No, I'm not.

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I'm just going to put it in my hands.

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Oh, I see.

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Welcome to the show, family.

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It's good to have everybody.

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Again, I said it earlier, but this is Jimmy and Annette Pruitt.

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We are lead pastors at Bridge Church in Fredericksburg, Texas.

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That's our day job and our night job and our weekend job.

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It's our job.

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24-7.

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It's our 24-7 job, but we love doing the podcast.

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We just enjoy having a different format to share our hearts and our thoughts and what

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God's doing in our lives and in the world.

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It's just a different angle, a different way of saying what we say.

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It's not formal like a service, like a church service.

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We can be relaxed and silly and make mistakes and fumble and stumble over our words and

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it doesn't matter.

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But all that, I love podcasting and I love it.

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I love the whole premise of podcasting.

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Spending time with Adam Curry is always such a blessing because he has such a heart for

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podcasting.

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The guy invented it, so that's pretty cool.

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What, 20, 19 years ago and nearly 20 now coming up on 20.

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Really?

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Yeah, yeah, it was 19.

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So anyway, when we talk about podcasting, what he loves about it, first of all, it's

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decentralized.

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Nobody owns it.

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You can't control it and it'll never be regulated by the government.

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It can't be.

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The only thing it gets regulated by is like if you're being paid by Spotify or you have

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paid sponsors.

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Which we don't.

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We have Zilch.

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Yes.

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And we're not trying to either, but we're not doing it for that.

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We're doing it because we want to share good news and help people live up in a down world.

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And really, it's no different than us sitting in our living room or in our hot tub or whatever

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and talking.

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And we just talk about issues and things that are going on in the world, in our church,

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in our family.

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And it's really no different.

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We just get on a microphone and air it out to the world.

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I know.

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It's just a different approach.

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And what we hope is that the things we do air out to the world, that it'll be life-giving

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for people and it'll be helpful, especially for people who are on the journey of faith.

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Maybe they're coming back to it.

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Maybe you're exploring it.

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And we also want to show you another side of pastors that we're real people too.

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There's not like a separate category for like male, female pastors.

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They're so weird and it's always funny.

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Now through the years, I've been in this 40 years, you've been in it 30 years.

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And what's funny is how when you're around people that don't know you and they find out

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you're a pastor, they change how they act around you.

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They get all...they try to clean up their act, so to speak, which is comical to me.

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We were on the airplane last night and we were visiting with another man named Jimmy

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from Bernie and he was talking.

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We never told him what we did for a living.

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He heard us talk about being a podcaster, but he didn't ask us what we did for a living.

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And I thought, you don't want to tell him, do you?

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Because he's going to clean up his mouth because he had a mouth on him.

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And he was a great guy.

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Super nice guy.

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Great guy.

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And yeah, it was cool sitting there, but I was waiting to see if you were going to say...

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And I was waiting to see if he was going to ask us, but we didn't ask him either.

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Here's why I don't do it.

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Because if someone's already dropped the F-bomb a few times, or they're being themselves...

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They'll feel ashamed.

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They'll feel terrible.

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I don't ever want to make anyone feel that way or try to create some false atmosphere

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of righteousness and holiness.

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Well, think about it.

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When you first met Adam Curry and he said the F-bomb a few times, but he didn't know.

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I didn't flinch.

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Well, and when I worked at a dental firm...

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Speaking of, he just texted me.

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Everybody.

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It was F this, F this, F this.

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And to them, it wasn't derogatory.

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It's just, that's the way they talk.

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To me, I was like, oh, I finally had to get to a point where I said, can you please not

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say that?

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It really...

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It's just a word I don't really care for.

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They got better.

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I won't say they completely cleaned up their language, but it got better.

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But they knew around me, I just didn't...

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It wasn't something that I...

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It's a little different because it's an ongoing work environment where you're around people.

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You know them and they know you.

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I'm always trying to be considerate of where other people are.

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I'm not talking about cussing per se, just life in general.

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You want to be aware and socially savvy and be in the zone when you're with people.

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Because the last thing I want to do is create discomfort.

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Exactly.

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But what's funny is, is a lot of times I'll be in these conversations, whether it's on

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a plane or standing in a line somewhere, and they'll be going on and running their mouth

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off and saying all kinds of stuff.

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And I just smile.

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I don't...

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Again, I'm not going to try to make them feel anyway.

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And then they finally ask, oh, what do you do?

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And then that's when I have to go, I'm a motivational speaker.

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Right.

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Or a laugh coach.

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I've done that in the past.

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I've done that in the past.

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I don't anymore.

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I'm proud.

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I'm so proud that I'm a pastor.

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In a day where pastors are very vilified, because there's been a lot of people spin

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out.

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I mean, there have been a lot of mistakes made and church has come an aberration of

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what it used to be.

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I know.

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So sad.

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Our hearts to keep this community, this sense of community and family and be humble.

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And we're not trying to do anything.

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I won't be buying an airplane anytime soon.

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You know, anything like that.

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No, you won't.

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But just living in humility and really walking out the teachings of Jesus.

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But a lot of churches have moved towards kind of a, I don't know what to say, cookie cutter

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almost like they all have the same formula.

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We're not trying to do that.

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Well, and we don't have all the answers, but we know the person that does.

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There you go.

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And it's the person of Jesus Christ.

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If we can point people to Him to get to know Him, then we've done what we're supposed to

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do.

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But we don't have all the answers.

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No, we don't.

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If there's ever a pastor, anyone that says they know it all, run, forest run.

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Because I'm always learning.

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Every day there's some lesson.

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Also, I mean, and I love this about us together as a couple, we're teachable.

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Some people get to the age we are, they're really young, you know, little past teenagers.

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But you get to an age where you kind of get this sense of, hey, I've been there, done

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that.

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And then, you know, people come up and they're excited about something.

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You go, oh yeah, I did that 30 years ago.

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You know, I don't, we don't think like that with people.

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We go, hey, that's great.

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Celebrate the win, celebrate what they're learning.

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And I don't like to throw cold water on people's fires either.

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You know, even if I see that it may be a little over the top or outside the bounds, like, hey,

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you go get them.

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I always say this.

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I say run with a vision.

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Run with a vision.

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We'll see where it goes.

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Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't.

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And when it doesn't, we're there to help clean it up, you know, and help them and navigate

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things and navigate life.

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Absolutely.

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So, we've had a busy couple of weeks.

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Wow.

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We just got back from the K-Love Awards show.

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It was a whole weekend.

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It wasn't, we went to the show on Sunday night, but the weekend started Friday night.

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And it was, we took Adam and Tina along.

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That was their first experience.

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We went last year, came back and said, you have to go with us next year because this

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is going to be an annual event.

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And it was amazing.

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I mean, we're kind of tired, as you can tell.

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We don't have the skip in our step.

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It's only because we have a major jet lag too.

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It's 4 11 p.m. and I need coffee.

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Well, and yesterday, our plane got delayed and delayed and delayed.

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We didn't get home until-

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A lot of weather stuff.

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Yeah.

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We didn't get, it was late, late, late last night, early in the morning, really before

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we got to sleep.

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We had to cancel all of our appointments today.

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We needed to just relax and really take in everything that God did over the last few

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days.

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Processing everything.

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Gosh.

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It was so much.

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So much.

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We're going to add songs that we heard that we added to our playlist.

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We're going to have our worship pastor add them to our church playlist.

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Right.

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And, but they bring, they have so much more meaning because we heard from the artists

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themselves who wrote the songs, who gave context of the song, where they were.

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Most of the songs, I noticed again, last year they said most of the songs were written out

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of COVID.

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I believe the same thing as this year, a lot of them were written out of the experience

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of COVID.

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Yeah, COVID inspired.

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Yes, totally.

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Because of the trauma and the uncertainty that it all brought, especially for musicians.

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Think about it.

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Yes.

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Certain jobs were like, oh yeah, you're necessary.

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Oh, you're not necessary.

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Yes.

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And they got put in that category of not essential, which I would beg to differ.

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But anyway, they got put in that category and so they're stalled out for a while.

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But they had, the good thing is, is they wrote the most amazing songs because they had the

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time and they're powerful.

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I've noticed more of the songs that are coming out are worshipful songs.

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Very much so.

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More so than Christian pop.

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And I appreciate that.

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It was very refreshing.

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They have a lot more depth.

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Yes.

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There's more depth.

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There's more angst, you know, in a sense, wrestling with things.

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I love it.

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They sound like a lot of Psalms.

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The Psalms can start off pretty negative.

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I mean, like, oh God, why do my enemies overtake me?

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You know, I used to walk to go to the temple with them and now they've turned on me.

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Nobody cares.

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Nobody, I mean, and then the Psalmist, whether it's David or the other Psalmist, they have

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these but God moments where they pivot and they begin to say, but your goodness follows

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me all my life.

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Your goodness chases me.

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I see the evidence of your goodness all over my life.

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That's a great song.

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No, Josh Baldwin.

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No, no.

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I see the evidence of your goodness.

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Jeremy Camp, honey.

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Can we bet?

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Can I?

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What do you want to bet?

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Okay, I'm going to look it up.

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$100 bill.

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$100.

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I saw one in your purse.

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I want that.

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Okay.

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$100 bill.

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Okay.

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It's mine.

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Thank you very much.

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Oh, right.

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Hey, I'm all on.

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I'm all in this.

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I can't wait.

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This is going to be fun.

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Oh my gosh.

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I'm going to look it up.

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We were just listening to it in the car coming over here.

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Yeah, and it was Jeremy Camp.

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This is fun.

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I don't win often in these kinds of things.

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You're not going to win.

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But I won this one.

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I'm going to do a victory dance.

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No, I want to probably hurt myself.

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You're so funny.

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Are you still?

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Is it taking you that long to look it up?

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I've got it right here.

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I'm looking it up.

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I've got it right here.

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Okay, you look it up because my phone is...

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Oh, this is going to be rich.

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This is going to be fun.

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Let's see.

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It is Josh Baldwin.

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No, it is not.

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I have it right here.

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Let's see.

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Oh, I actually turned it on.

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I wasn't going to play it.

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I didn't mean to play it.

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All right, here it is.

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Evidence, Josh Baldwin.

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This is the radio version we were listening to.

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No way.

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It's on the live album as well.

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Honey.

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There's no way.

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Well, I get the hundred because it's in my billboard.

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We bet $100 bill.

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You owe me.

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It sounds just like Jeremy Camp.

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They must sound too much alike.

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Voice-wise, yeah.

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I could see how you could get that, but it's not.

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That feels really good.

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What am I going to get with $100?

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No, nothing.

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A steak dinner.

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Tina is the same way I am.

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We know the songs, but putting the artist with it is so hard.

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They do sound so much alike.

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You were willing to go to the mat on it right here in front of God and everybody in podcast.

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It's for the show.

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It's for the show.

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Wow.

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Tina and Adam do everything that... I had to tell them, please don't put this on your

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show, a little faux pas you and I had, because I don't want all of our dirty laundry aired

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out.

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Well, let's tell our faux pas anyway.

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No, I don't want to do it.

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It's funny.

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Let's talk about... No, no, no.

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Let's just talk about the theme.

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The theme.

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This is what we were going to talk about.

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This is what we want to encourage you with, because we've got some friends that are going

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through a... Everybody does, and everybody's going through stuff, but this particular couple

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is going through a truly life-changing, trajectory-changing moment.

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I mean, everything in their life literally just changed.

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Just changed.

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And not for the better, although God can redeem all of that.

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Yes, He can.

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But right now, in the short term... Turn what's bad for good.

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Yeah.

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In the short term, it's scary and hard.

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And they've been shaky initially, because it just took the breath away, because it was

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unexpected, and there was actually a different outcome expected.

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Well, you can talk about it.

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Just don't talk about who it is.

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No, I don't want to do that.

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Okay.

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There was just a different outcome that we all thought...

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They already put it all over Facebook and everything, all the way.

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Okay.

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Well, they all thought it was going to go one way.

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It went another way.

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It went totally the other.

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And this is the challenge with Christians, is we think that if we pray, pray, pray, we

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say all the right things that we're always going to get the best outcome.

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But the outcome may be different than what we think, because God's got a bigger plan

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than we know.

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So that's exactly what happened.

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They were expecting one thing.

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They were praying, believing.

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All of us were standing together as friends and community and standing for them.

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And when it went the other way, now you have a massive choice.

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You're presented with an option, with an opportunity for growth.

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And Annette and I, you and I have talked about this back early in the shows, in our earlier

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episodes that when we got fired, we went through a hard, hard thing where... And it wasn't

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just me getting fired.

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It was us.

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We got fired.

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And it was completely out of our controls because I took a stand for what I thought

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was righteous and true.

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And we paid the high price of losing everything.

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We lost our savings, we lost our retirement.

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I mean, it just... We lost it because we had to use it quickly.

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Yeah, to live.

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Because everything was so unexpected.

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But anyway, we went through that.

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But here's the thing that we knew immediately.

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We had these conversations in the car and faith was 13, 14, 15 during that time.

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And we had these conversations and said, we have a choice to make here.

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We can get bitter and angry or we can choose to be better by trusting God no matter what

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the temporary circumstances look like.

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Because what we're facing, if you'll remember these conversations, I said it this way, because

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here's what happened.

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When the bottom drops out of your life and you preach every Sunday of your life, your

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adult life, you're going to have to work out the messages you preached.

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Exactly.

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You're going to have to live them out.

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You're going to get tested first.

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Yeah, you have to walk it out.

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And we had to make a decision, are we going to believe the facts or are we going to believe

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truth?

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There's a difference between truth and facts.

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Facts are temporary and subject to change.

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So you may be in a circumstance and the fact is it's painful.

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The fact is you're confused.

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The fact is it hurts.

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Or you're wrongly accused of something.

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Or maybe you got caught doing something.

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You got busted.

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I mean, it can be whatever got you there, you're there.

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Whether it was your doing or not.

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At the end of the day, you're there.

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You are where you are.

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Facts are it hurts.

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Facts are a lot of things in your life are going to have to change.

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Your comfort, everything you've known that's familiar may be taken away.

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And that's what we experienced.

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We lost everything and we had to move.

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It was humiliating.

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It was embarrassing.

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I mean, so many pieces of that.

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But we made a decision early on.

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We said we're not going to worry about the facts.

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We're going to stand on the truth of what we know about the character and nature of

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God.

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And we're going to stand on the truth of God's Word.

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And that's what we did.

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We leaned into the Word of God and we leaned into Him in prayer.

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Now, some of our prayers weren't pretty.

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I mean, some of our conversations weren't pretty.

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They were hard.

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Because it was hard.

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You lose everything that you've worked for and there doesn't seem to be a clear path.

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I mean, it is devastating.

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And you grieve it.

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And we were in our 50s, which was really hard because it's not like...

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If you're looking for a job, especially as a pastor, they're looking for the young ones,

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the ones that are starting out where they can be paid less.

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I was going to say the ones that don't have to pay their experience.

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And so when you have an experienced pastor and then they see you aren't at a church anymore

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and it wasn't your day, it's like, what is it about that person?

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It looks suspect.

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It does.

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It does.

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Whether it was into your control or whether you did the right thing or not is irrelevant.

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It just looks bad on your resume.

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So we had to go through that.

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So our friends are experiencing something dynamically the same.

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And so our encouragement to them has been stay the course, don't give up, don't quit.

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God's in control.

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Look for God in it.

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Yes.

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He is not abandoning you.

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I love that, Annette.

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Look for God in it.

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Because Jesus was in the storm.

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He didn't just show up and still the storm.

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He was asleep in the storm.

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I mean, he was on the boat crashed out in dreamland and they were freaking out.

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The disciples, the storm blew up and they went down to...

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They're like, how can you sleep during this storm?

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We're about to perish.

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We're going to die.

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And Jesus said, how long must I bear with you?

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Oh, you have little faith.

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And then he spoke to the storm, peace be still.

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Why could he speak to it?

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Because he was in it with them.

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Right.

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He didn't speak from the outside in, he spoke from within.

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And that's the thing, look for God in it.

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We want to encourage you, whatever you're going through.

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I know we have listeners who have cancer issues and going through, have gotten terrible diagnoses

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that are getting treated.

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Family issues.

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Family issues or they've gotten away from God.

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Life happened and they're trying to get, find their way back, you know, and get back on

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the path.

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And for whatever, wherever you are and wherever you find yourself, look for God in it.

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He's there.

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He's not left.

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And that's the thing I think you and I never let go of that worked is that we never believe

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that God left us.

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We never wavered on that.

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We had a very strong foundation and we questioned where we're going to go from here.

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Of course.

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What's next?

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But we never lost our faith, which was, you know, just basically because we had had a

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long, we had a lot of experience with God.

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And so we knew because of our past that he had never, he won't leave us.

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The thing is, is we're going through this with this family and then we go to K-Love

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and it's happening.

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The continual effect of it was while we were at K-Love and we're trying to enjoy and get

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out what we can of that experience while we're grieving for a family.

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Right.

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What we noticed was that the whole theme at K-Love was that very thing we were sharing

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and trying to help this couple as they're going through the worst time of their whole

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entire life.

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And that is, he will never leave you.

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He will never forsake you.

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He will come.

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He's with you in the storm.

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You will overcome this and that God's going to show you something that you have to go

513
00:21:54,560 --> 00:21:58,280
through things for God to get something to you sometimes.

514
00:21:58,280 --> 00:22:00,160
Failure is not final.

515
00:22:00,160 --> 00:22:01,160
No, it's not.

516
00:22:01,160 --> 00:22:02,160
Nor is it fatal.

517
00:22:02,160 --> 00:22:03,160
No, it's not.

518
00:22:03,160 --> 00:22:07,640
And you know, we've talked about this too in the past as hard as that was for a year.

519
00:22:07,640 --> 00:22:08,640
It was hard on our whole family.

520
00:22:08,640 --> 00:22:09,640
Oh, it was rough.

521
00:22:09,640 --> 00:22:10,640
Really it was longer than a year.

522
00:22:10,640 --> 00:22:14,360
It was a year that we were unemployed but then it was another two years of still being

523
00:22:14,360 --> 00:22:20,440
in the wilderness because we weren't in our full destination that we knew God had for

524
00:22:20,440 --> 00:22:22,760
us eventually.

525
00:22:22,760 --> 00:22:27,200
But what, I don't, we've said this over and over.

526
00:22:27,200 --> 00:22:34,000
We don't have regrets because we learned so much in that and we needed to learn how to

527
00:22:34,000 --> 00:22:36,920
be better pastors for a church.

528
00:22:36,920 --> 00:22:40,680
We needed to learn how to minister to people out of their hurt based on what-

529
00:22:40,680 --> 00:22:41,680
How to forgive.

530
00:22:41,680 --> 00:22:43,220
Yes, how to forgive.

531
00:22:43,220 --> 00:22:46,800
How to forgive betrayal when no one's saying, I'm sorry.

532
00:22:46,800 --> 00:22:48,160
When no, yes, and they weren't.

533
00:22:48,160 --> 00:22:49,400
Nobody was saying that.

534
00:22:49,400 --> 00:22:54,280
And so we had to learn a lot of lessons that you can't learn if everything is always going

535
00:22:54,280 --> 00:22:55,280
your way.

536
00:22:55,280 --> 00:22:56,280
That's right.

537
00:22:56,280 --> 00:22:57,280
That's right.

538
00:22:57,280 --> 00:22:58,280
That's true.

539
00:22:58,280 --> 00:23:04,800
And I don't like this dynamic, but it's just true.

540
00:23:04,800 --> 00:23:05,800
Not a fact.

541
00:23:05,800 --> 00:23:08,240
It's the truth.

542
00:23:08,240 --> 00:23:14,600
And my old boss, Dave Ramsey said it this way, the pain of staying the same has to outweigh

543
00:23:14,600 --> 00:23:17,100
the pain of change.

544
00:23:17,100 --> 00:23:22,160
People do not change until there's a high degree of pain.

545
00:23:22,160 --> 00:23:24,760
For example, our culture.

546
00:23:24,760 --> 00:23:32,760
Recently Donald Trump did a thing out in the Bronx in New York and had a massive showing.

547
00:23:32,760 --> 00:23:34,880
Tons of people, thousands and thousands of people that were-

548
00:23:34,880 --> 00:23:36,320
Was it like a hundred thousand people?

549
00:23:36,320 --> 00:23:37,720
No, that was in New York.

550
00:23:37,720 --> 00:23:38,720
This is a little bit different.

551
00:23:38,720 --> 00:23:43,560
This is not quite that number, but still it was staggering because that is a completely

552
00:23:43,560 --> 00:23:49,800
blue democratic area, mostly African American and various minorities and immigrants and

553
00:23:49,800 --> 00:23:54,160
whatnot, which is a beautiful dynamic there.

554
00:23:54,160 --> 00:23:57,400
But they've been classically Democrat, big time.

555
00:23:57,400 --> 00:24:00,160
Well, there's been a massive pendulum swing.

556
00:24:00,160 --> 00:24:01,160
Well, why?

557
00:24:01,160 --> 00:24:06,800
It's because the pain of staying the same now outweighs the pain of change.

558
00:24:06,800 --> 00:24:09,520
And the change that needs to happen is we need to get our economy back.

559
00:24:09,520 --> 00:24:11,840
We need to get our national security and defense back.

560
00:24:11,840 --> 00:24:13,720
We need to get our borders back.

561
00:24:13,720 --> 00:24:16,680
All these things that need to happen, we've got to get integrity back in the White House

562
00:24:16,680 --> 00:24:19,240
and politics, not that it's ever been total.

563
00:24:19,240 --> 00:24:21,440
We need to get the Bible back in the White House.

564
00:24:21,440 --> 00:24:24,920
We've got to get back to God's Word and the foundations of our nation.

565
00:24:24,920 --> 00:24:28,940
So now I'm not going to wax along on that, but it's an important point and it makes the

566
00:24:28,940 --> 00:24:36,240
point that if people just say, oh, it's getting worse.

567
00:24:36,240 --> 00:24:37,640
I can't afford groceries.

568
00:24:37,640 --> 00:24:39,040
I can't fill my car up anymore.

569
00:24:39,040 --> 00:24:41,240
Well, I can't even afford two cars.

570
00:24:41,240 --> 00:24:45,200
And God forbid I try to buy a house right now with the interest rates at seven plus

571
00:24:45,200 --> 00:24:46,200
percent.

572
00:24:46,200 --> 00:24:49,560
You know, there are so many things have been locked down.

573
00:24:49,560 --> 00:24:53,840
And how can I build a house at $380 a square foot?

574
00:24:53,840 --> 00:24:55,760
You know, everything is just gone.

575
00:24:55,760 --> 00:24:59,840
We were just talking about grocery prices and even articles out this last couple of

576
00:24:59,840 --> 00:25:06,280
weeks on fast food prices like at McDonald's and Water Burger and all these.

577
00:25:06,280 --> 00:25:08,000
They've just gone insane.

578
00:25:08,000 --> 00:25:12,760
And people are like, people are beginning to groan under the weight of that.

579
00:25:12,760 --> 00:25:18,480
And all of it's starting to touch people's pain points, which now even people who were

580
00:25:18,480 --> 00:25:21,280
classically Democrat, I'm not knocking.

581
00:25:21,280 --> 00:25:22,800
It's beyond the red and blue anyway.

582
00:25:22,800 --> 00:25:24,920
So don't hear what I'm not saying.

583
00:25:24,920 --> 00:25:29,440
I'm not pro pushing anything other than let's get back to God's Word, get our country back

584
00:25:29,440 --> 00:25:30,440
to its foundation.

585
00:25:30,440 --> 00:25:35,160
Now, however that gets, I'm going to be with that platform, which are the one that's closest

586
00:25:35,160 --> 00:25:37,960
because there's not any perfect platform.

587
00:25:37,960 --> 00:25:44,960
But the pain point now, people that were classically blue, Democrat are saying, you know what?

588
00:25:44,960 --> 00:25:47,160
We got to be able to afford, we got to be able to raise our kids.

589
00:25:47,160 --> 00:25:49,360
We've got to be able to afford food and gas.

590
00:25:49,360 --> 00:25:50,360
We've got to be able to live.

591
00:25:50,360 --> 00:25:55,680
We've got to be able to heat our home, our apartment, our dwelling this winter, this

592
00:25:55,680 --> 00:25:57,240
next winter when it rolls around.

593
00:25:57,240 --> 00:25:59,940
And right now it doesn't look like we'll be able to do that.

594
00:25:59,940 --> 00:26:01,960
And I can't afford to go out and buy an electric car.

595
00:26:01,960 --> 00:26:03,720
I've got a car that's running fine.

596
00:26:03,720 --> 00:26:05,960
It's been going well for 15, 20 years.

597
00:26:05,960 --> 00:26:09,400
I'm not going to go buy a new car because the government's going to make me.

598
00:26:09,400 --> 00:26:15,720
So people are beginning to feel the pain points and that pain is causing change, which really

599
00:26:15,720 --> 00:26:17,640
will result in a better outcome.

600
00:26:17,640 --> 00:26:20,200
But it's going to be painful to go through it.

601
00:26:20,200 --> 00:26:22,200
And that's what we're doing right now.

602
00:26:22,200 --> 00:26:24,480
That goes, that's also true in our life.

603
00:26:24,480 --> 00:26:27,660
Normally it takes pain to wake us up.

604
00:26:27,660 --> 00:26:31,620
It takes pain, suffering to get our attention.

605
00:26:31,620 --> 00:26:36,840
People that I have known that have had like a cancer diagnosis, I'm thinking of my friend

606
00:26:36,840 --> 00:26:41,560
Mark Berry, you know, life's been good for him in terms of he's successful.

607
00:26:41,560 --> 00:26:43,400
He's made a good living.

608
00:26:43,400 --> 00:26:44,400
He's sharp.

609
00:26:44,400 --> 00:26:48,280
He's a smart guy, a musician, loves the Lord.

610
00:26:48,280 --> 00:26:49,280
Entrepreneur.

611
00:26:49,280 --> 00:26:50,280
Entrepreneur for real.

612
00:26:50,280 --> 00:26:53,040
I mean, really doing it at a high level.

613
00:26:53,040 --> 00:26:58,920
Now he's doing this great ministry with VR stuff and going into hospitals and giving

614
00:26:58,920 --> 00:27:04,240
people that are at the end of their life, just a treat, just a life changing event.

615
00:27:04,240 --> 00:27:09,920
So he's doing these amazing things and then he gets a cancer diagnosis and it's scary.

616
00:27:09,920 --> 00:27:12,960
And the doctors are saying, you're going to have treatment, blah, blah, blah.

617
00:27:12,960 --> 00:27:14,600
It goes down the list.

618
00:27:14,600 --> 00:27:18,480
And we pray, reaches out to me, we pray, we believe God, we had our church pray, put him

619
00:27:18,480 --> 00:27:20,720
on our church prayer list.

620
00:27:20,720 --> 00:27:23,880
And he had a turnaround.

621
00:27:23,880 --> 00:27:28,160
But what it did, it changed his perspective.

622
00:27:28,160 --> 00:27:31,640
The pain of staying the same outweighed the pain of change.

623
00:27:31,640 --> 00:27:32,640
He wanted to change.

624
00:27:32,640 --> 00:27:36,640
And so what he's done, he's developed these VR glasses and this program where he goes

625
00:27:36,640 --> 00:27:43,320
into palliative care, hospice, and treats people to an experience.

626
00:27:43,320 --> 00:27:45,260
Somebody who's at the end of their life.

627
00:27:45,260 --> 00:27:47,200
What is something you've always wanted to do that you can't?

628
00:27:47,200 --> 00:27:50,680
Well, I always thought it'd be cool to go to outer space.

629
00:27:50,680 --> 00:27:52,080
I can make that happen.

630
00:27:52,080 --> 00:27:59,520
They put on the VR goggles, family's in the room, and they get to watch their loved one

631
00:27:59,520 --> 00:28:05,080
fly through space via a digital world, a virtual world.

632
00:28:05,080 --> 00:28:07,720
But what brought that about?

633
00:28:07,720 --> 00:28:08,720
Pain.

634
00:28:08,720 --> 00:28:09,720
Scaring.

635
00:28:09,720 --> 00:28:15,300
I may be at the end of my life and now he has compassion for those who are.

636
00:28:15,300 --> 00:28:21,680
So anyway, tell us about how these songs ministered to us and how we kept looking at each other

637
00:28:21,680 --> 00:28:24,000
going, oh my gosh, this is exactly what we're talking about.

638
00:28:24,000 --> 00:28:27,560
It's just, you could tell they were written out of pain.

639
00:28:27,560 --> 00:28:38,040
And like we just said is that these artists, especially in COVID, when they couldn't perform,

640
00:28:38,040 --> 00:28:40,080
they couldn't go in and.

641
00:28:40,080 --> 00:28:43,640
They couldn't do concerts.

642
00:28:43,640 --> 00:28:44,640
They couldn't do concerts.

643
00:28:44,640 --> 00:28:46,200
They couldn't do anything.

644
00:28:46,200 --> 00:28:48,340
They were stuck at their home.

645
00:28:48,340 --> 00:28:51,960
And so they spent their time rotting out of their pain.

646
00:28:51,960 --> 00:28:57,040
And I wonder if some of the songs were written partly.

647
00:28:57,040 --> 00:29:04,240
And then when we came out of it and they were able to perform again, get in the studios,

648
00:29:04,240 --> 00:29:10,200
if they were able to write the end of their songs during that time where there was a turnaround.

649
00:29:10,200 --> 00:29:12,120
And I don't know.

650
00:29:12,120 --> 00:29:16,360
I see that happening because of what happened.

651
00:29:16,360 --> 00:29:22,520
Or it could, or just those that knew had enough of a foundation that they were writing their

652
00:29:22,520 --> 00:29:27,040
songs out of pain, but said, I know God's going to get me through it because they have

653
00:29:27,040 --> 00:29:28,120
history in God.

654
00:29:28,120 --> 00:29:29,560
And that's the thing.

655
00:29:29,560 --> 00:29:33,780
Once you have history in God, you know, he's going to get you through it no matter what.

656
00:29:33,780 --> 00:29:35,240
It just won't.

657
00:29:35,240 --> 00:29:42,080
It probably most likely will not look like what you think because I, you know, when we

658
00:29:42,080 --> 00:29:48,520
were going through the darkest times in different times of our life, we never ended up where

659
00:29:48,520 --> 00:29:50,080
we thought we would end up.

660
00:29:50,080 --> 00:29:51,080
Ever.

661
00:29:51,080 --> 00:29:54,080
Ever in life.

662
00:29:54,080 --> 00:30:02,160
Even my darkest times being alone after my divorce, I would have never in a million years

663
00:30:02,160 --> 00:30:07,960
imagined myself remarrying someone like you.

664
00:30:07,960 --> 00:30:17,120
And then my whole trajectory of my life changed spiritually, physically, just in what God

665
00:30:17,120 --> 00:30:20,280
was going to do with me, how he was going to use me.

666
00:30:20,280 --> 00:30:21,440
I was in banking.

667
00:30:21,440 --> 00:30:24,020
I was in real estate for years.

668
00:30:24,020 --> 00:30:28,400
Never thought that God would move me into a pastor role.

669
00:30:28,400 --> 00:30:36,880
And so it's just amazing because what he has for us is so much more than what we can ever

670
00:30:36,880 --> 00:30:46,480
imagine or think because he is, we just need to see him for who he is.

671
00:30:46,480 --> 00:30:47,480
He's God.

672
00:30:47,480 --> 00:30:48,480
He's God.

673
00:30:48,480 --> 00:30:49,480
And he's good.

674
00:30:49,480 --> 00:30:56,160
And he's a good God no matter what, even when our circumstances don't look good, he's still

675
00:30:56,160 --> 00:30:57,160
good.

676
00:30:57,160 --> 00:31:02,440
And I think that's one of the things that we really had to learn through all of our

677
00:31:02,440 --> 00:31:06,800
challenges in life is he's got a better plan.

678
00:31:06,800 --> 00:31:08,780
We think we have a better plan in our head.

679
00:31:08,780 --> 00:31:13,040
We think, oh, well, if he'll do this for me, I'm going to do this.

680
00:31:13,040 --> 00:31:14,120
It's going to be greater.

681
00:31:14,120 --> 00:31:16,080
And sometimes don't we pray like that?

682
00:31:16,080 --> 00:31:17,080
Yes.

683
00:31:17,080 --> 00:31:18,840
Hey, God, I need your help on this.

684
00:31:18,840 --> 00:31:20,720
In fact, let me go ahead and give you how to do that.

685
00:31:20,720 --> 00:31:24,680
And if you do this, I will do this for you the rest of my life.

686
00:31:24,680 --> 00:31:31,000
And then 10 minutes later after he does it, we go back to who we were.

687
00:31:31,000 --> 00:31:33,360
And he's just, he's a better God.

688
00:31:33,360 --> 00:31:34,760
It's because we want the relief.

689
00:31:34,760 --> 00:31:35,760
We want the quick fix.

690
00:31:35,760 --> 00:31:36,760
Yes.

691
00:31:36,760 --> 00:31:37,760
He's into crafting character.

692
00:31:37,760 --> 00:31:43,040
He's into sanctification where he wants to walk us through a process.

693
00:31:43,040 --> 00:31:45,240
We think the miracle is instantaneous.

694
00:31:45,240 --> 00:31:51,560
I think the miracle is someone who can endure and persevere through a process and come out

695
00:31:51,560 --> 00:31:54,200
on the other side better.

696
00:31:54,200 --> 00:31:55,200
That's the miracle.

697
00:31:55,200 --> 00:31:56,200
It is.

698
00:31:56,200 --> 00:32:00,720
We want to think, I'm not going to snap my finger because he'll go nuts.

699
00:32:00,720 --> 00:32:02,920
Shebi's doing great.

700
00:32:02,920 --> 00:32:05,040
Thanks for joining us today, Shebi.

701
00:32:05,040 --> 00:32:07,880
But here's the thing, people want a finger snap miracle.

702
00:32:07,880 --> 00:32:10,640
They want God to show up and just fix it.

703
00:32:10,640 --> 00:32:11,640
Why?

704
00:32:11,640 --> 00:32:12,640
Because we want relief.

705
00:32:12,640 --> 00:32:13,640
Because we want relief.

706
00:32:13,640 --> 00:32:14,640
We want relief in the moment.

707
00:32:14,640 --> 00:32:20,960
And yet God says, I love you so much that I'm not going to ruin your opportunity to learn.

708
00:32:20,960 --> 00:32:22,960
There is a process.

709
00:32:22,960 --> 00:32:25,200
Progress always comes with a process.

710
00:32:25,200 --> 00:32:29,200
We heard a sermon on that by Tarrin Wells who killed it and knocked it out of the park

711
00:32:29,200 --> 00:32:30,200
on Sunday.

712
00:32:30,200 --> 00:32:31,200
Oh my gosh, that was a great sermon.

713
00:32:31,200 --> 00:32:36,040
They hosted a church service basically with Elevation Worship and Tarrin Wells, who is

714
00:32:36,040 --> 00:32:42,600
his own musician, who is amazing, but he is also pastoring a church now in Austin.

715
00:32:42,600 --> 00:32:46,480
He brought a message called, process.

716
00:32:46,480 --> 00:32:47,480
To progress.

717
00:32:47,480 --> 00:32:49,920
No, progress is a process.

718
00:32:49,920 --> 00:32:50,920
Something like that.

719
00:32:50,920 --> 00:32:52,240
I'm getting that exactly right.

720
00:32:52,240 --> 00:32:55,240
But the principle is that.

721
00:32:55,240 --> 00:32:59,320
That if you want to progress and you want to grow and you want to move forward and develop,

722
00:32:59,320 --> 00:33:01,640
there is a process to go through.

723
00:33:01,640 --> 00:33:05,040
And it is a lot longer than we think it will be.

724
00:33:05,040 --> 00:33:06,040
Isn't it though?

725
00:33:06,040 --> 00:33:07,040
My goodness.

726
00:33:07,040 --> 00:33:10,800
Tina and I just kept looking at each other throughout his message, throughout all the

727
00:33:10,800 --> 00:33:15,220
different songs, the different artists when they would share about their songs.

728
00:33:15,220 --> 00:33:16,960
We would just look at each other and go, what?

729
00:33:16,960 --> 00:33:17,960
I know.

730
00:33:17,960 --> 00:33:18,960
God just.

731
00:33:18,960 --> 00:33:19,960
It was the same message over and over.

732
00:33:19,960 --> 00:33:22,280
It was the same message.

733
00:33:22,280 --> 00:33:25,280
It was quite remarkable to be a part of that.

734
00:33:25,280 --> 00:33:26,920
It reminded, okay, I want two things.

735
00:33:26,920 --> 00:33:29,520
Number one, I want to share Romans 8 28.

736
00:33:29,520 --> 00:33:32,640
Because we were talking, I was like, what is the scripture that really captures the

737
00:33:32,640 --> 00:33:33,640
heart of what we talked about?

738
00:33:33,640 --> 00:33:34,640
It is this one.

739
00:33:34,640 --> 00:33:35,640
It is Romans 8 28.

740
00:33:35,640 --> 00:33:39,640
If you have a Bible, I would love for you to jot that down or remember that.

741
00:33:39,640 --> 00:33:41,440
Romans 8 28.

742
00:33:41,440 --> 00:33:46,920
And it says this, and we know that in all things, God works for the good of those who

743
00:33:46,920 --> 00:33:51,440
love him and who have been called according to his purpose.

744
00:33:51,440 --> 00:33:54,280
It doesn't say works for the good for everybody.

745
00:33:54,280 --> 00:33:58,560
It says for those who love him and those who have been called according to his purpose.

746
00:33:58,560 --> 00:34:03,120
In other words, those who he has wooed to himself and we've said, yes, Jesus, yes, I

747
00:34:03,120 --> 00:34:04,120
want to be a Christian.

748
00:34:04,120 --> 00:34:07,840
I want you to change my life, change my heart, change me from the inside out.

749
00:34:07,840 --> 00:34:09,400
I give you my life.

750
00:34:09,400 --> 00:34:10,400
I'm now saved.

751
00:34:10,400 --> 00:34:11,400
I'm now born again.

752
00:34:11,400 --> 00:34:12,400
I'm yours.

753
00:34:12,400 --> 00:34:19,080
And he says that all things, we know that in all things, God works for the good.

754
00:34:19,080 --> 00:34:23,000
That's what we have to understand that his goodness is chasing us.

755
00:34:23,000 --> 00:34:24,920
His mercy is chasing us.

756
00:34:24,920 --> 00:34:29,320
I want to quote the words to that song by Josh Baldwin.

757
00:34:29,320 --> 00:34:31,040
The one I thought was Jeremy Camp.

758
00:34:31,040 --> 00:34:32,040
It's okay.

759
00:34:32,040 --> 00:34:33,120
I'm not going to razz you on that one.

760
00:34:33,120 --> 00:34:37,400
It's so crazy because literally they sound identical.

761
00:34:37,400 --> 00:34:42,720
If Jeremy Camp sang that song, I would think it was, I mean, you would think it was Josh

762
00:34:42,720 --> 00:34:43,720
Baldwin.

763
00:34:43,720 --> 00:34:44,720
I know.

764
00:34:44,720 --> 00:34:45,720
I know.

765
00:34:45,720 --> 00:34:46,720
So listen to the lyrics to the song.

766
00:34:46,720 --> 00:34:47,720
And as you're listening to the show.

767
00:34:47,720 --> 00:34:48,720
We were listening to it on the way here.

768
00:34:48,720 --> 00:34:51,600
Yeah, we were listening to the song and we're like, we need to do that as a church.

769
00:34:51,600 --> 00:34:53,720
We need to bring that in.

770
00:34:53,720 --> 00:34:55,520
The lyrics are all throughout my history.

771
00:34:55,520 --> 00:34:58,400
Your faithfulness has walked beside me.

772
00:34:58,400 --> 00:35:04,360
The winter storms made a way for spring in every season from where I'm standing.

773
00:35:04,360 --> 00:35:05,360
And here's the course.

774
00:35:05,360 --> 00:35:06,360
Listen to the course.

775
00:35:06,360 --> 00:35:11,880
I see the evidence of your goodness all over my life, all over my life.

776
00:35:11,880 --> 00:35:18,840
I see your promises in fulfillment all over my life, all over my life.

777
00:35:18,840 --> 00:35:24,400
And it's just such a poignant reminder that we see the evidence of God's goodness.

778
00:35:24,400 --> 00:35:26,760
It's not just that you bought a new car last year.

779
00:35:26,760 --> 00:35:29,600
It's not just that you got a promotion at that job.

780
00:35:29,600 --> 00:35:32,600
I'm not opposed to saying, Hey, that could be God's blessing.

781
00:35:32,600 --> 00:35:34,480
I'm not opposed to that.

782
00:35:34,480 --> 00:35:37,480
But there are bigger, more important things and it's your growth.

783
00:35:37,480 --> 00:35:38,480
It's your development.

784
00:35:38,480 --> 00:35:40,680
It's your maturity.

785
00:35:40,680 --> 00:35:43,880
It's how you handle pain and disappointment.

786
00:35:43,880 --> 00:35:45,840
And here's the thing.

787
00:35:45,840 --> 00:35:47,680
It's okay to waver at first.

788
00:35:47,680 --> 00:35:48,680
Absolutely.

789
00:35:48,680 --> 00:35:51,040
It's okay to question God and be human.

790
00:35:51,040 --> 00:35:52,040
He can handle it.

791
00:35:52,040 --> 00:35:54,560
It's don't stay there.

792
00:35:54,560 --> 00:35:56,200
And that was our friends.

793
00:35:56,200 --> 00:35:57,200
Say that again.

794
00:35:57,200 --> 00:35:58,200
That is so good.

795
00:35:58,200 --> 00:35:59,480
It's okay to waver in your faith.

796
00:35:59,480 --> 00:36:03,600
It's okay to question God, but don't stay there.

797
00:36:03,600 --> 00:36:10,000
And our friends that were going through a tough time, there was a few days that it was

798
00:36:10,000 --> 00:36:12,720
tough, but they didn't stay there.

799
00:36:12,720 --> 00:36:14,680
And that was my whole prayer for them.

800
00:36:14,680 --> 00:36:15,680
That was my prayer for them too.

801
00:36:15,680 --> 00:36:22,560
It's God, please get them to the place that you can work.

802
00:36:22,560 --> 00:36:23,920
You can stay bitter.

803
00:36:23,920 --> 00:36:24,920
You can.

804
00:36:24,920 --> 00:36:28,400
I really believed that it was just an emotional cry because they just took a hit.

805
00:36:28,400 --> 00:36:30,920
They just took a life-changing hit.

806
00:36:30,920 --> 00:36:32,720
And that's why I had a lot of patience about it.

807
00:36:32,720 --> 00:36:34,920
When I heard, I got the text, I've lost my faith.

808
00:36:34,920 --> 00:36:37,080
And I said, no, you didn't lose your faith.

809
00:36:37,080 --> 00:36:38,080
Your faith's right there.

810
00:36:38,080 --> 00:36:39,080
You just can't see it.

811
00:36:39,080 --> 00:36:40,080
You're numb.

812
00:36:40,080 --> 00:36:43,360
And I just tried to give counsel here and there.

813
00:36:43,360 --> 00:36:47,280
And not being preachy, but I am a preacher, so what do you expect?

814
00:36:47,280 --> 00:36:48,280
Well, they wrote you.

815
00:36:48,280 --> 00:36:49,280
They wrote you.

816
00:36:49,280 --> 00:36:50,280
So yeah, exactly.

817
00:36:50,280 --> 00:36:55,760
But I love this family so much that I didn't want to so enter into empathy that I didn't

818
00:36:55,760 --> 00:36:56,760
give them truth.

819
00:36:56,760 --> 00:36:57,760
That's true.

820
00:36:57,760 --> 00:37:00,280
And they need to hear truth in the middle of all that because there's going to be a

821
00:37:00,280 --> 00:37:03,760
lot of people patting them on the back going, you should be mad.

822
00:37:03,760 --> 00:37:06,040
You should respond.

823
00:37:06,040 --> 00:37:08,240
You should retaliate.

824
00:37:08,240 --> 00:37:09,240
You should get revenge.

825
00:37:09,240 --> 00:37:10,640
Which is not the right thing to do.

826
00:37:10,640 --> 00:37:15,280
There are people around them that have that voice and I'm like, no, no, no, no, no.

827
00:37:15,280 --> 00:37:16,280
We're bigger than that.

828
00:37:16,280 --> 00:37:20,640
We're followers of Jesus and we have to respond accordingly to what we're learning.

829
00:37:20,640 --> 00:37:21,640
And so you know what?

830
00:37:21,640 --> 00:37:22,920
They turn the corner.

831
00:37:22,920 --> 00:37:25,000
She said, I love the text.

832
00:37:25,000 --> 00:37:26,000
I did not.

833
00:37:26,000 --> 00:37:27,080
I never lost my faith.

834
00:37:27,080 --> 00:37:28,080
He never left.

835
00:37:28,080 --> 00:37:29,560
I'm like, ah, there it is.

836
00:37:29,560 --> 00:37:31,040
After how many scriptures we had.

837
00:37:31,040 --> 00:37:32,040
But that's okay.

838
00:37:32,040 --> 00:37:33,040
But you know what?

839
00:37:33,040 --> 00:37:34,040
There's only a few days.

840
00:37:34,040 --> 00:37:35,760
It was quicker than I thought it would be.

841
00:37:35,760 --> 00:37:38,640
And it doesn't mean that they're not going to have more bad days.

842
00:37:38,640 --> 00:37:39,640
More bad days.

843
00:37:39,640 --> 00:37:41,080
It's going to happen.

844
00:37:41,080 --> 00:37:45,680
But for those of you that are listening today and you're hearing this and you're going,

845
00:37:45,680 --> 00:37:49,960
I so relate to this because I'm in pain right now.

846
00:37:49,960 --> 00:37:55,040
What would you say to somebody right now who's listening going, but you don't understand

847
00:37:55,040 --> 00:37:56,040
my circumstances.

848
00:37:56,040 --> 00:37:57,040
Look for God in it.

849
00:37:57,040 --> 00:37:58,040
I love that.

850
00:37:58,040 --> 00:37:59,040
You have to.

851
00:37:59,040 --> 00:38:01,400
That's one of the wisest things you've said maybe ever.

852
00:38:01,400 --> 00:38:02,400
Wow.

853
00:38:02,400 --> 00:38:03,400
In it.

854
00:38:03,400 --> 00:38:04,400
Wow.

855
00:38:04,400 --> 00:38:05,400
Look for God.

856
00:38:05,400 --> 00:38:06,400
It's so simple.

857
00:38:06,400 --> 00:38:07,400
It just came to me.

858
00:38:07,400 --> 00:38:08,400
Wow.

859
00:38:08,400 --> 00:38:09,400
Because he's in every detail.

860
00:38:09,400 --> 00:38:12,360
He's numbered every hair on our head.

861
00:38:12,360 --> 00:38:16,400
I have so many hairs that fall out, but he knows those numbers that are left.

862
00:38:16,400 --> 00:38:17,400
I mean, it's so hilarious.

863
00:38:17,400 --> 00:38:18,400
I don't know.

864
00:38:18,400 --> 00:38:20,400
They may get a point where maybe too much.

865
00:38:20,400 --> 00:38:21,400
No, I'm just kidding.

866
00:38:21,400 --> 00:38:31,200
But he knows, if he knows every hair and he says, I delight in every detail of your life.

867
00:38:31,200 --> 00:38:32,200
Every detail.

868
00:38:32,200 --> 00:38:37,200
And because he does that, we have to put our big girl panties on.

869
00:38:37,200 --> 00:38:38,960
Wait, I'm a boy.

870
00:38:38,960 --> 00:38:39,960
Well, I'm a girl.

871
00:38:39,960 --> 00:38:41,320
And she's a boy.

872
00:38:41,320 --> 00:38:43,640
And thank God I'm still a female.

873
00:38:43,640 --> 00:38:44,640
I am a female.

874
00:38:44,640 --> 00:38:45,640
There's male and female.

875
00:38:45,640 --> 00:38:47,440
I'm a female.

876
00:38:47,440 --> 00:38:53,640
And God says, look up to me.

877
00:38:53,640 --> 00:38:55,400
Look up to the heavens where I am.

878
00:38:55,400 --> 00:39:01,800
Colossians 3.2, set your mind on things above and not on things on the earth.

879
00:39:01,800 --> 00:39:13,280
If you can just get a hold of that God is for you and not against you and he loves you

880
00:39:13,280 --> 00:39:20,560
and he's more, what is it that you say?

881
00:39:20,560 --> 00:39:28,320
You say he's not interested in your comfort as he is your character.

882
00:39:28,320 --> 00:39:36,600
So, let's work on our character and let's be the best character witness that we can

883
00:39:36,600 --> 00:39:37,600
for God.

884
00:39:37,600 --> 00:39:38,600
Thank you.

885
00:39:38,600 --> 00:39:44,640
You really nailed that and it's inspired another thought is that we need to ask the Holy Spirit

886
00:39:44,640 --> 00:39:46,560
to help us respond rightly.

887
00:39:46,560 --> 00:39:47,560
Yes.

888
00:39:47,560 --> 00:39:48,560
So, okay.

889
00:39:48,560 --> 00:39:50,240
So what just happened to me is a terrible thing.

890
00:39:50,240 --> 00:39:51,720
I might have got a cancer diagnosis.

891
00:39:51,720 --> 00:39:53,520
I might have lost a loved one.

892
00:39:53,520 --> 00:39:55,760
I mean, there's a lot of hard things.

893
00:39:55,760 --> 00:39:59,800
I mean, I can't pay my bills anymore because of what's going on in culture right now.

894
00:39:59,800 --> 00:40:02,200
And the answer is not going to be voting for somebody else.

895
00:40:02,200 --> 00:40:08,480
Although we need to get out, we get involved, but our Savior is not a president.

896
00:40:08,480 --> 00:40:11,280
That is not going to fix everything.

897
00:40:11,280 --> 00:40:17,020
It's actually all of this is highlighting the fact that no one human can fix everything.

898
00:40:17,020 --> 00:40:18,020
We need God.

899
00:40:18,020 --> 00:40:19,600
Yes, yes, don't we?

900
00:40:19,600 --> 00:40:25,560
If anything, this is highlighting for me is how much we need God and how we need to be

901
00:40:25,560 --> 00:40:28,080
not silent when you shout it from the rooftops.

902
00:40:28,080 --> 00:40:29,080
Exactly.

903
00:40:29,080 --> 00:40:34,880
But I love what you said because that really spawns this thought of look for God in it.

904
00:40:34,880 --> 00:40:35,880
He's there.

905
00:40:35,880 --> 00:40:36,880
He hasn't quit.

906
00:40:36,880 --> 00:40:37,880
He hasn't abandoned.

907
00:40:37,880 --> 00:40:40,760
Listen to this out of Hebrews chapter 13 verse 5.

908
00:40:40,760 --> 00:40:44,520
God has said, never will I leave you.

909
00:40:44,520 --> 00:40:45,840
Never will I forsake you.

910
00:40:45,840 --> 00:40:48,440
That's Hebrews 13, 5 in the NIV.

911
00:40:48,440 --> 00:40:50,940
I never, never will I leave you.

912
00:40:50,940 --> 00:40:51,940
Never will I forsake you.

913
00:40:51,940 --> 00:40:53,640
That is a promise.

914
00:40:53,640 --> 00:40:59,120
The only time it seems like he's gone is when we've grown numb because we're in pain.

915
00:40:59,120 --> 00:41:00,120
We're grieving.

916
00:41:00,120 --> 00:41:01,120
We've lost something.

917
00:41:01,120 --> 00:41:04,400
The thing is, he's sad for us.

918
00:41:04,400 --> 00:41:05,400
Absolutely.

919
00:41:05,400 --> 00:41:09,600
He doesn't want us to hurt.

920
00:41:09,600 --> 00:41:13,160
He's hurting with us because he loves us so much.

921
00:41:13,160 --> 00:41:16,760
He's got the most empathy of anybody is God.

922
00:41:16,760 --> 00:41:25,440
His love is so pure that he cares more about crafting our character, which means how much

923
00:41:25,440 --> 00:41:31,680
do you have to love somebody to not stop the pain knowing the outcome is going to be better

924
00:41:31,680 --> 00:41:35,040
and then they'll be better for it.

925
00:41:35,040 --> 00:41:36,980
That's the best kind of father.

926
00:41:36,980 --> 00:41:38,320
That's the best kind of parent.

927
00:41:38,320 --> 00:41:40,320
He says, I love you so much.

928
00:41:40,320 --> 00:41:43,800
I remember my dad, my mom would freak out when we got on the monkey bars when we were

929
00:41:43,800 --> 00:41:44,800
little kids.

930
00:41:44,800 --> 00:41:49,480
I said, nope, they've got to learn and sure enough, one of us would crash, fall off.

931
00:41:49,480 --> 00:41:50,480
Did you break your arm?

932
00:41:50,480 --> 00:41:51,480
I never broke my arm.

933
00:41:51,480 --> 00:41:52,480
Jerry broke his hand.

934
00:41:52,480 --> 00:41:56,120
I broke my hand, but we had broken bones.

935
00:41:56,120 --> 00:42:01,920
All of us had broken bones, but I learned, don't do that.

936
00:42:01,920 --> 00:42:05,160
But my dad had the presence of mind to say, no, no, no, let him.

937
00:42:05,160 --> 00:42:06,600
He's got skin in his knees.

938
00:42:06,600 --> 00:42:08,640
He's going to have to make a mistake.

939
00:42:08,640 --> 00:42:12,000
And so anyway, but we hope this encourages you.

940
00:42:12,000 --> 00:42:17,040
We came out of this obviously with our buckets overflowing, but really it wasn't as much

941
00:42:17,040 --> 00:42:22,320
for us and talking with Adam and Tina about it, it was more for our friends and more for

942
00:42:22,320 --> 00:42:28,640
what some others are going on around us to give us insight into how to give them sound

943
00:42:28,640 --> 00:42:32,240
biblical counsel and a biblical perspective.

944
00:42:32,240 --> 00:42:37,920
And it's hard because even while we were at K-Love, Tina and I, the first comment she

945
00:42:37,920 --> 00:42:42,640
made and I told you that she was going to make this comment because I knew it, but how

946
00:42:42,640 --> 00:42:46,760
can I have a good time when our friends are hurting so much?

947
00:42:46,760 --> 00:42:48,560
Yeah, she said that out loud.

948
00:42:48,560 --> 00:42:50,400
Yeah, she said it.

949
00:42:50,400 --> 00:42:57,560
And it was, and I agree, it's hard, but God brought us there for a reason.

950
00:42:57,560 --> 00:43:03,560
And it was to learn how to navigate the pains of life that other people go through.

951
00:43:03,560 --> 00:43:06,040
That became very clear, very quickly too.

952
00:43:06,040 --> 00:43:11,480
I mean, like the first thing we sat down at, we started getting these very clear messages

953
00:43:11,480 --> 00:43:12,480
from God.

954
00:43:12,480 --> 00:43:13,480
It was really beautiful.

955
00:43:13,480 --> 00:43:17,600
I have a feeling that might be Tina's God shot tomorrow night for their show, Currying

956
00:43:17,600 --> 00:43:18,600
the Keeper.

957
00:43:18,600 --> 00:43:19,600
If it's not, it should be.

958
00:43:19,600 --> 00:43:20,600
Who knows how many she has.

959
00:43:20,600 --> 00:43:21,600
It'll be something around that.

960
00:43:21,600 --> 00:43:22,600
Who knows?

961
00:43:22,600 --> 00:43:29,360
Yeah, but we hurt for people, but we pray that God will get the last word no matter

962
00:43:29,360 --> 00:43:30,360
what.

963
00:43:30,360 --> 00:43:31,360
No doubt.

964
00:43:31,360 --> 00:43:35,000
We want to encourage you, first of all, just to ask a favor, would you go to our website,

965
00:43:35,000 --> 00:43:38,760
LivingUpAndAdownWorld.com and subscribe to our newsletter?

966
00:43:38,760 --> 00:43:43,240
What we do, either on the day we do the show or a day before, hopefully, just depending

967
00:43:43,240 --> 00:43:45,840
on our crazy schedule right now, we get it out.

968
00:43:45,840 --> 00:43:48,360
And it's just a heads up, say, hey, it's coming.

969
00:43:48,360 --> 00:43:54,040
And if you want to get other people, we talk about value for value, and it's not just about

970
00:43:54,040 --> 00:43:55,840
finances, money, or anything like that.

971
00:43:55,840 --> 00:43:57,800
It's about value.

972
00:43:57,800 --> 00:43:59,080
What kind of value can you add?

973
00:43:59,080 --> 00:44:03,520
If we're adding value to you and encouraging you, there's easy ways to add value to us.

974
00:44:03,520 --> 00:44:07,000
And one is just to share our podcast with others and get it.

975
00:44:07,000 --> 00:44:08,880
Because hopefully, this is going to help somebody.

976
00:44:08,880 --> 00:44:12,600
I believe this message, look for God in it.

977
00:44:12,600 --> 00:44:14,680
He'll never leave you or forsake you.

978
00:44:14,680 --> 00:44:16,800
He works all things for your good.

979
00:44:16,800 --> 00:44:17,800
He's not left.

980
00:44:17,800 --> 00:44:19,040
He's not abandoned.

981
00:44:19,040 --> 00:44:22,920
These are messages that people need to hear right now in the moment, especially in our

982
00:44:22,920 --> 00:44:26,040
culture and the way things are so out of control right now.

983
00:44:26,040 --> 00:44:28,320
We need to know God's there.

984
00:44:28,320 --> 00:44:32,280
But also that He cares more about our character than our comfort.

985
00:44:32,280 --> 00:44:33,760
He's crafting us.

986
00:44:33,760 --> 00:44:35,640
He's building something beautiful.

987
00:44:35,640 --> 00:44:37,520
He's building a masterpiece.

988
00:44:37,520 --> 00:44:44,000
So if these words, these messages, this podcast encourages you, you can encourage us back.

989
00:44:44,000 --> 00:44:46,480
One of the ways you can do that is drop us a note.

990
00:44:46,480 --> 00:44:48,080
Let us know you're listening.

991
00:44:48,080 --> 00:44:51,080
Let us know it's helping, it's you're finding encouragement in it.

992
00:44:51,080 --> 00:44:54,480
You can do that on our website, livingupinadoworld.com.

993
00:44:54,480 --> 00:44:56,400
There's a place you can just send us a note.

994
00:44:56,400 --> 00:44:57,480
You can leave a review.

995
00:44:57,480 --> 00:44:58,480
That's always helpful.

996
00:44:58,480 --> 00:45:02,680
Or you can, through PayPal, you can donate and support.

997
00:45:02,680 --> 00:45:04,560
It's just whatever it is.

998
00:45:04,560 --> 00:45:05,560
Value is value.

999
00:45:05,560 --> 00:45:07,600
We're not putting any kind of stipulation on that.

1000
00:45:07,600 --> 00:45:09,440
It's whatever you think is valuable.

1001
00:45:09,440 --> 00:45:10,440
And we love to hear from you.

1002
00:45:10,440 --> 00:45:11,880
And we do enjoy.

1003
00:45:11,880 --> 00:45:16,640
Never think you're, we talk about being so busy, but don't ever think we're too busy

1004
00:45:16,640 --> 00:45:19,800
to read your note because your notes of encouragement are what?

1005
00:45:19,800 --> 00:45:20,960
They're life to us.

1006
00:45:20,960 --> 00:45:22,960
That's like the air we breathe.

1007
00:45:22,960 --> 00:45:24,800
And so we'd love to hear from you.

1008
00:45:24,800 --> 00:45:26,200
And hope you've been encouraged today.

1009
00:45:26,200 --> 00:45:28,400
This is, I didn't even say it, but this is episode number six.

1010
00:45:28,400 --> 00:45:29,400
You did.

1011
00:45:29,400 --> 00:45:30,400
You did.

1012
00:45:30,400 --> 00:45:31,400
But technically it's not.

1013
00:45:31,400 --> 00:45:32,400
Oh.

1014
00:45:32,400 --> 00:45:33,400
I know.

1015
00:45:33,400 --> 00:45:34,400
I made a mistake.

1016
00:45:34,400 --> 00:45:35,400
You missed a day.

1017
00:45:35,400 --> 00:45:36,400
I missed an episode.

1018
00:45:36,400 --> 00:45:39,400
I skipped 64?

1019
00:45:39,400 --> 00:45:40,400
One of those.

1020
00:45:40,400 --> 00:45:41,400
Five, four, three.

1021
00:45:41,400 --> 00:45:42,400
You missed one.

1022
00:45:42,400 --> 00:45:43,400
One of those.

1023
00:45:43,400 --> 00:45:44,400
So we're just going to keep it at 66.

1024
00:45:44,400 --> 00:45:45,400
We're just going to keep going.

1025
00:45:45,400 --> 00:45:48,760
So we're going to pretend there's a phantom, phantom episode and people are going to go,

1026
00:45:48,760 --> 00:45:51,400
wait, I was listening to your episodes and there's one that's been skipped.

1027
00:45:51,400 --> 00:45:52,400
Yeah, I know.

1028
00:45:52,400 --> 00:45:53,400
I know that in retrospect.

1029
00:45:53,400 --> 00:45:56,240
It's because you're not a numbers person.

1030
00:45:56,240 --> 00:45:57,240
That is true.

1031
00:45:57,240 --> 00:46:00,080
So we're going to keep it at 66 and welcome to Living Up In A Down World.

1032
00:46:00,080 --> 00:46:01,080
We'll help you have an amazing week.

1033
00:46:01,080 --> 00:46:06,080
And we want you to live up in a down world no matter what's going on in this crazy world

1034
00:46:06,080 --> 00:46:07,080
you're in.

1035
00:46:07,080 --> 00:46:08,080
God bless you.

1036
00:46:08,080 --> 00:46:09,080
One last word in that other word.

1037
00:46:09,080 --> 00:46:10,080
Look for God in it.

1038
00:46:10,080 --> 00:46:11,080
Look for God in it.

1039
00:46:11,080 --> 00:46:12,080
Great word.

1040
00:46:12,080 --> 00:46:13,080
God bless you.

1041
00:46:13,080 --> 00:46:32,080
We love you.