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Don't get down when you're seeing the worst,
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because the last will be the first.
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What a day, I'm telling you,
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all things will be new.
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Living up in a down world.
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Yeah, we're living, yeah, we're living,
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living up in a down world.
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Oh!
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This is Jimmy Internet.
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We are coming to you now from our news studio,
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and this is episode number 47.
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News studio, wow.
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I like the way that sounds.
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I know, I like the way it smells.
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I know, okay, so, our son-in-law came in here to help us.
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We're still unboxing things.
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Thank you, Brandon.
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And he and I were putting together the lamps,
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and he said, is this freshly painted,
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because it smells like it?
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I said, well, it is, although it's been a few weeks,
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but it's the carpet that smells.
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Yes, and the carpet is gorgeous.
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I think I did a good job with all the furniture.
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It makes me want to take my shoes off, though.
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You know.
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It's pretty.
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I love furniture.
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I love solid, good furniture.
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We love leather.
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Yes.
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So, we bought new leather furniture for our house last year.
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This year, new leather furniture.
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Is that leather?
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Is that real-deal leather?
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Oh, yeah.
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Is that real-deal?
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No, no, no.
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It's not Naga-hide.
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I don't do that.
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I don't do that.
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It looks fantastic.
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I actually unboxed that and put it together today.
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I'm shocked.
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I'm shocked.
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Well, I was seeing it out in the hall, and I'm like,
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that's bugging me.
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It needs to be...
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Well, there's two mirrors that need to be unboxed,
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and there's a monitor that...
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Right.
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We'll do that tomorrow, because we'll have some time tomorrow
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to do that.
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So, it's looking great.
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It is.
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Super excited.
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We shot our first video in here, or my first video,
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which was for the church.
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For the church.
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So, we've got new lighting.
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We've got a new table and chairs.
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We've got new mic stands.
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Couch is coming in the morning.
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Couch is coming tomorrow.
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Oh, it's in the morning?
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You got the notice?
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Between 8, 30 to 12, 30.
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Oh, yay.
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That's great.
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We'll be here.
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And so, that'll...
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Well, not quite, but almost complete.
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The biggest thing...
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The only thing we'll lack is the acoustic wall that we're having built,
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and that's going to be, I'm hoping, next week.
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It comes in Monday or Tuesday.
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It comes in Monday.
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Monday.
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So, just...
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We want to give you guys a heads up.
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If you hear a little bit of an echo in here,
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we're still not done.
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We're doing the sound panel,
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and the sound panel is an entire wall,
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and we'll be up against that wall.
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It's also the backdrop for our set.
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So, for videos...
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Are we going to be doing YouTube...
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Now, we do YouTube channel.
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We will be doing that.
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Right.
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Called...
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Meet Pray Love.
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And someone said, is it Meet M-E-E-T?
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I said, no.
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Meet M-E-E-T.
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Me, carnivore.
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Because we're carnivore.
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But are we going to be doing video podcasts in the future?
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Is that in our future?
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It's absolutely possible.
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I mean, we could do that sitting here, talking back and forth.
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We've got this great table.
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And then it can be on here too.
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I mean, it's interesting.
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Yeah, yeah.
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It's all kind of...
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We can do anything in here.
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That's what the beauty of having a dedicated studio space.
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Studio.
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Interesting.
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And, of course, we'll have a big cup of coffee on each of our sides.
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We have a new addiction, don't we?
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Oh, my gosh.
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And this is the Curry's fault.
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And this is the Curry's fault.
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It is.
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They introduced us to Black Rifle Coffee.
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Oh, my gosh.
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And then Rick Green from the Patriot Academy said that they have a new coffee that they
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developed.
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And I'm open to trying it.
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I'm open because I like Rick.
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I will try it.
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I will try it.
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I'm open to trying Rick's coffee.
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But I went off coffee for two stinking months and thought, I'm done.
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I'm done.
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I'm no longer addicted.
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And then it starts to get a little chilly.
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And here I am.
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Yeah, it's hard not to.
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I'm more addicted now than I was.
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Oh, my gosh.
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That is the best coffee I've ever tasted.
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It is.
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It's so smooth.
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It's strong and bold, but it is smooth.
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It has no bitter, no bitterness.
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Tina says it does, but I don't taste the bitterness.
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I don't either, at least not in the cups, the K cups we're doing.
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We did the K cups.
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This is so quick and easy for us.
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I bet his is so strong because he uses ground coffee and they put a lot in the carafe or
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whatever.
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That's probably why.
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Yeah, it could be.
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I can't do that.
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He does a French press.
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Right.
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So yeah, you can make that stronger if you want.
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But anyway, that's our new addiction, our new love.
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Oh, my gosh.
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So back to the studio.
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We'll have that done next week.
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So there may be a little bit of an echo in here because we still don't have all of our
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furniture, which will break up the sound.
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So it's a big, big, nice box.
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I mean, we're in this box, but...
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But we have carpet, which helps.
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We didn't have carpet at our house.
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So speak into your mic.
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Just make sure.
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That'll help.
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Okay.
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I'm getting as close.
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We even bought new mics.
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You're doing good.
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We bought new equipment.
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No, not new mic stands.
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Stands.
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We did buy a camera.
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That's going to be a full frame camera for really high def and like 4K and all that stuff.
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Yes.
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And one of the reasons why we did that, I have to let our audience know, when Pastor
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Jimmy did a YouTube channel, when you were being interviewed, one gentleman wrote in
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and said, I couldn't listen.
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I couldn't watch because the quality was so bad.
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And we were like, okay, we got to do something.
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But we didn't.
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It was our first time.
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Not just because some dork did that.
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That wasn't it at all.
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I know.
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But still, we want to be excellent in everything we do.
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But we were, I was doing this favor for Adam Lacey on his Carnivore Today channel.
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So I had to just grab the thing I had.
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It was, you made do.
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Yeah, I made do.
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But, oh, it's going to be nice.
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It's going to be super nice.
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Got lighting too, studio lighting and everything.
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So we got that set up today and shot our first video.
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So it'll be interesting.
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It's fun.
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This is fun stuff.
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It's really enjoyable.
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You know, when you talk about the things you love, you want to talk a lot about them.
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Exactly.
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So steak, meat.
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I mean, I love meat.
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You girl have turned into a lioness.
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I know.
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I mean, like I'm a meat snob.
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You are.
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Yeah.
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Because you have to have filet mignon while I'm over there eating a chuck eye.
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Poor man's rib eye.
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I've always had a champagne taste.
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Always.
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I grew up that way.
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That is the truth.
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I'm glad that I had the money to have.
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I just had that.
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Exactly.
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Exactly.
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It came from my mother, I believe, because she wanted the best of everything.
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And yeah, it's pretty crazy.
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Oh, well, hey, you're worth it.
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You're worth it.
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It's so tasty.
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You are worth it.
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And you look stunning today.
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Oh, thank you.
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I like the shirt.
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I like the jacket.
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What do you call it?
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It's not a jacket, is it?
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It's a cardigan sweater.
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Oh, thank you.
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Yes.
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Thank you.
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Technical stuff.
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Oh my gosh.
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You're funny.
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I like the vibe in here.
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I do, too.
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We need to bring those lights on down.
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Oh, we have a dimmer.
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Do you want me to trot over there and do that?
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Trot over there.
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Okay.
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Let's go see.
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You keep going.
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You keep talking.
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Well, okay.
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You're so funny.
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I'll be right back.
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It's going to be nice.
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Can you hear it?
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Yes.
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One of the reasons why we felt like it's...
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That's good.
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That's good.
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One of the reasons why we felt like it was good to move our studio here is because we
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want to...
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We'll be spending more time at the office.
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We're getting busier and busier.
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We're going to three services in January.
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But we felt like after we have some meetings on a Tuesday morning, we can come right in
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here and record, rather than go home and then go, oh, do we even have anything in us?
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And I always want to...
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Sometimes we're tired.
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Yeah, sometimes we're tired because we've been meeting with people all day.
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And I want to...
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We may even do it first thing in the morning before we have a staff meeting or something.
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We can kind of plan it however we want.
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But we want to be excellent in that and we want to have good energy and not be so tired.
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And lately...
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Oh my goodness.
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Well, life got crazy after we got off of sabbatical.
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Okay.
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What did we do?
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Oh my gosh.
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We have like increased...
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I know.
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I think...
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Well, part of it is...
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Okay.
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I mean, this is just the reality of it.
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We focused on mind, body, spirit.
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So that trifecta, taking care of our mental health, our spiritual health, our physical
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health, it energized us.
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It did.
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So we came back strong.
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I mean, like when we talked about going to three services, I looked at our staff, whom
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I love and adore, and I could see the terror in their eyes.
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Mainly in Leslie's case because she has to deal with volunteers, more volunteers.
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Because their mind just goes into overdrive of how are we going to staff it?
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How are we going to do it?
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Do we have a worship team to do it?
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There's a lot of moving parts to it.
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But I'm the one who carries the ball on preaching three services when I play guitar.
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I'll play guitar and preach three services.
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But I didn't bat an eye.
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I mean, I literally...
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If you would have said this last year, we brought it up some last year and I was resistant
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because I was like, I can barely make two right now, but I feel so amazing.
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And it's not just carnivore.
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It's not just the diet.
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It's actually my heart and my spirit and my mentality.
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You got rejuvenated.
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I did.
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You got so rested that you're able to put on more on your plate, put more on your plate.
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And so that's what we're going to do.
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But we're going to space it out.
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We've decided that we're going to do podcasts every two weeks.
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Yeah, big announcement right there.
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Because we...
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For now.
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Right.
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It may be a season.
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It could change.
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It may not, but for now...
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But we don't know what it's...
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Right now, we're going into the holidays.
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Yeah.
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Then we start our three services.
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We're going to be with energy everywhere that we need to.
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Yeah, exactly.
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And so I feel like we'll have more content.
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We'll be refreshed.
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I think so too.
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I mean, because we have a whole lot going on.
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We've had things every other night.
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We've had dinner dates and all...
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It's all good.
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It's all people we love.
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It's church families who want to spend time with.
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So these are things, but they do tend to pile up sometimes.
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I mean, we had a big staff Christmas party with what?
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40 people there.
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40 people.
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And older staff and their wives and husbands and spouses.
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So yeah, so I mean, we've been going and blowing, but we still feel fantastic.
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And today, the weather kind of turned and it feels more like Christmas.
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It really does.
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I mean, I walked out.
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I didn't even wear...
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I didn't bring a coat.
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I've got a sweater on, but it's a light...
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Well, I have a sweater on.
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No, this is a super light sweater.
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And I walked out and man, the wind was blowing.
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It was raining like that misty drizzle.
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And I was like, whoa, it is actually cold out here.
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It switched on us.
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Wow, okay.
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That caught me off guard.
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But I was just going straight to the car.
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So I hung out with a bunch of pastors today who have become friends.
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Pastor Lance from Brady, Texas, small town America, Pastor Tim and Pastor David, they're
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two pastors from Mason, Texas.
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So those are smaller communities in our area.
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And then we're a small community here in Fredericksburg, even though God's given us a massive footprint.
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It's a small town.
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So it's really neat getting to know guys that are in similar situations in terms of being
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in a small town and supporting each other.
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Like-mindedness.
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Yeah, like-minded support, encouragement, prayed for each other.
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They gathered around me and prayed over me because we met at my church.
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And then when we meet at somebody else's, we'll gather around them and pray over them.
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It's just a way to encourage and build each other up.
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Super cool.
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Super encouraged by that.
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I love that.
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I love that.
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Yeah, it was neat.
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So even though it's a bit premature that we're in our studio, it's either that or we wouldn't
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have been able to do a show today.
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And we don't have-
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Chevy.
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That's my only sad moment right now.
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We can bring him.
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We were very busy today.
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Yeah, we can on Tuesdays.
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We didn't today because we knew we had a lot of outside things going.
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But Chevy's been really sick and we had to take him to the hospital bed yesterday.
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To the puppy doctor yesterday.
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Almost $400 later after all the x-rays, everything.
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Did we really need that?
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I was like, what?
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That sounds like us.
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It's more than what happens when we go.
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I know, exactly.
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Yeah, it was.
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But he's okay.
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He has allergies, really bad ear infection.
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But he scared me.
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Now, okay, Chevy's a dog.
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Hello.
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But he's keeping us up with his coughing.
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It sounds like that's something a toddler would do.
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And he's keeping us up at night because of his coughing.
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And then yesterday he woke up, he was coughing, but then he seemed to be gasping for air.
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And that scared me.
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That's why we ended up having to take him in because we didn't want there to be...
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We were afraid there could be an obstruction.
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Right, right.
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Or he had swallowed something maybe that we didn't know about.
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So yeah, so I took him in yesterday.
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I stayed home from the office while you guys had staff meeting.
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I was zoomed in or I just did a conference in.
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So I was still with you, but I was taking care of him.
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But you know what was so cool?
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I took him to this great place called Lindner over in Comfort, Texas, right off the I-10.
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And three girls in the office there, I walk in, we start chatting.
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They're just in a good mood.
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I mean, I was like, you know, they're happy.
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I could tell it was a good atmosphere.
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I said, hey, I got a question for y'all.
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Can you imagine what I just asked?
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Oh, so you did your question.
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I said, I got a question.
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I'll start with you.
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And I pointed to the one girl and I said, first thing comes off top of your head, what
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are you thankful for?
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And she went, oh, oh, my family.
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Everybody says family.
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I said, you know what?
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That's the number one answer by far.
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And I said, how about you?
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And she said, my dog.
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Oh, of course.
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She works at a...
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She better say that.
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She works at a veterinarian office, her dog.
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And then the other one was family as well.
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And they just, they started laughing.
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We got us laughing and talking.
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I said, I've been surveying dozens of people.
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And in fact, I did our waiter today, Steve at Hill and Vine.
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You're doing it everywhere.
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And he and I had a great visit, great chat.
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And he said, I'm just happy to be here to serve you.
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I said, oh, your tip just went up, bro.
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Oh, wow.
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You're working it.
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I remember, I remember we had a friend and every time we would go to a restaurant, they
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would say, your tip is going to depend on...
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They would start off the meal.
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You take care of us, you're going to get a big tip.
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He did that everywhere we went.
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Now, I can't remember who it was, but I remember that distinctly, that that person said, your
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tip will depend.
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If you take care of us, you keep us with sweet tea or whatever.
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You will get a great tip, but it worked because I don't know if it would work these days.
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This was more like 15 years ago.
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God, it's a little different.
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But it was different.
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I had never heard anything like that.
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My approach is kindness.
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I treat them with dignity and respect.
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But he didn't say it in a mean way.
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He was just saying...
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Yeah, but still laying the law down a little bit.
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It's like, yeah, don't cross over this line or else kind of thing.
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It feels like a threat.
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It can work, bro.
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Of course, the waiter could go, you know what, I'll find someone else.
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I always look for a contact point.
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If it's a dude, I don't do females, but always looking for a contact point.
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He was wearing a watch similar to mine.
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Oops, sorry.
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Oh, so there's your conversation.
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So I said, hey, how do you like your Apple Ultra?
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And he's like, oh man, I love this thing and blah, blah, blah.
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I used to have a Garmin.
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And then we started talking about triathlons and working out.
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And then he hung out for a while with all four of his pastors.
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He had no idea standing over the table full of pastors.
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Wow.
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It's cool.
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That's good.
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I like Steve.
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He's a neat guy.
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So yeah.
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Hey, so one of the things we were talking about is the power of what we say and do.
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It's interesting to me how things come back to you.
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Yes.
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Like, you know, you can say, for me, even on this podcast, we could say something and
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it may be something we've said in other arenas, but for whatever reason, God takes that one
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thing, that one little ism, that little truth, and he zeros it in on somebody on the other
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side of the world.
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That's the beauty of podcasting is that you can literally impact somebody in another country,
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in another nation.
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And speaking of that, we got a beautiful note from Iris.
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Remember Iris from Holland?
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And she gave us a boost, 35,000 sats.
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She says, Hi, Jimmy and Annette, I loved your past episodes.
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Thank you for the reminder to be grateful.
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Trust in God to help us on our path and to please God before people.
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I am always very inspired after listening to you and more confident in my faith.
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Lots of love, Iris.
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Isn't that beautiful?
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That's beautiful.
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And I just thought about how the power of this, we had a conversation and we talked
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about gratitude, which I talk a lot about because I talk about a lot about the things
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I love.
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And we were talking about that.
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And we were also talking about, you know, we need to, God's who we need to please,
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not everybody else.
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And sometimes we sacrifice pleasing God for pleasing others.
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And so she just cued in on that.
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And so to think that right here in Fredericksburg, Texas, that message got over to Iris across
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the world and she was encouraged and blessed by it.
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That's beautiful.
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Isn't that amazing?
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Technology is amazing to me.
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If you leverage it for good, it's fantastic.
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I remember there was a day when you were so excited when it was when technology was just
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coming very apparent and I wasn't very happy about it because I was thinking about all
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the negative aspects of it.
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But as we've matured and we've grown and technology has grown, I mean, obviously there's
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a lot of negative, but there's a lot of positive.
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We wouldn't be able to do what we're doing if we didn't have technology.
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And so, you know, and doing this podcast, this isn't just I mean, it's not just little
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old Fredericksburg people that are hearing us.
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We have the opportunity to affect people in Japan, of which we're going hopefully next
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year.
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We we affect people in all different parts of the world.
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And what we say matters.
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And it's I love the fact that we can.
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I mean, this is to me part of the gospel of Matthew 28 and go into all the world and preach
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the gospel.
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That's beautiful.
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And this is what we're doing.
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And we're able to get it to places that we normally could never get it to because we're
531
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you know, we're not going to be able to travel to every place in the world that needs a gospel.
532
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But you can through the airwaves.
533
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And I love that we have this opportunity and have the opportunity through video as well.
534
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You know, we video our services.
535
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I love that churches are now becoming able to be able to video their services.
536
00:19:00,200 --> 00:19:03,920
People that probably thought they would never have the opportunity to do that.
537
00:19:03,920 --> 00:19:08,800
Maybe a small church doesn't have a lot of money, but it doesn't take much.
538
00:19:08,800 --> 00:19:11,280
Do you remember when we used an iPad?
539
00:19:11,280 --> 00:19:14,240
And we was an old iPad, four years old, out of date.
540
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Yes.
541
00:19:15,240 --> 00:19:17,840
And I gaff taped it to a pole.
542
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And that's how we recorded our services.
543
00:19:20,320 --> 00:19:21,720
This was just four years ago.
544
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All we had four years ago.
545
00:19:23,760 --> 00:19:24,760
Yeah, four.
546
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And now look at it.
547
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Yeah, that was when we were a campus of another church.
548
00:19:30,000 --> 00:19:34,840
And so we didn't have a lot of resources and they wouldn't really help us with any resources
549
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to do technology.
550
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So we're like, we'll figure it out.
551
00:19:38,480 --> 00:19:41,080
You get resourceful when you have to.
552
00:19:41,080 --> 00:19:44,880
But we felt so impressed that we needed to get the message out.
553
00:19:44,880 --> 00:19:47,120
I love the word good news.
554
00:19:47,120 --> 00:19:51,800
When we use the word gospel, the gospel of Jesus Christ, and there may be listeners who
555
00:19:51,800 --> 00:19:52,840
don't know what that means.
556
00:19:52,840 --> 00:19:54,600
It literally means good news.
557
00:19:54,600 --> 00:19:58,880
It's the good news of Jesus Christ, not the bad news.
558
00:19:58,880 --> 00:20:01,560
Sometimes people think Christianity is bad news.
559
00:20:01,560 --> 00:20:02,880
No, this is good news.
560
00:20:02,880 --> 00:20:05,000
Or a bunch of rules of do's and don'ts.
561
00:20:05,000 --> 00:20:06,000
Right, right.
562
00:20:06,000 --> 00:20:07,000
Yeah, that's, I don't know.
563
00:20:07,000 --> 00:20:10,800
I remember I got over that real quick as a new Christian and realized, no, this is, there's
564
00:20:10,800 --> 00:20:11,800
a lot of do's.
565
00:20:11,800 --> 00:20:13,640
Like, man, we got a lot to do.
566
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This is amazing.
567
00:20:14,640 --> 00:20:18,680
And I found out that living for Jesus was like being on an adventure.
568
00:20:18,680 --> 00:20:23,040
Like you're in a, you know, C.S. Lewis Chronicles of Narnia movie or something.
569
00:20:23,040 --> 00:20:25,480
It was life-giving and good.
570
00:20:25,480 --> 00:20:29,000
And so, you know, you were talking about the power of podcasting, the power of getting
571
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our voice out.
572
00:20:30,400 --> 00:20:35,360
We called this podcast, Living Up in a Down World, because that's our goal.
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We want to be positive.
574
00:20:36,760 --> 00:20:40,520
We want, there's too many negative voices out there in the world.
575
00:20:40,520 --> 00:20:46,760
You know, I love what Adam Curry and John Dvorak are doing with, you know, media deconstruction.
576
00:20:46,760 --> 00:20:49,960
They're saying, look, this is not true, or this is actually a lie.
577
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This is false information.
578
00:20:52,080 --> 00:20:57,920
And they're deconstructing that because we don't need to give energy to bad news or fake
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00:20:57,920 --> 00:20:58,920
news.
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00:20:58,920 --> 00:21:02,480
And when you've got good news, you want to tell people about it.
581
00:21:02,480 --> 00:21:07,420
And I feel led to challenge our listeners right now.
582
00:21:07,420 --> 00:21:09,640
Maybe you thought, well, maybe I should do a podcast.
583
00:21:09,640 --> 00:21:11,760
I got things to talk about.
584
00:21:11,760 --> 00:21:14,000
I would encourage you to do it.
585
00:21:14,000 --> 00:21:16,960
You know, we took the plunge and we didn't have anything.
586
00:21:16,960 --> 00:21:18,280
We didn't have a microphone.
587
00:21:18,280 --> 00:21:19,640
We didn't have a mic stand.
588
00:21:19,640 --> 00:21:21,800
We didn't have anything.
589
00:21:21,800 --> 00:21:26,240
And it was actually Adam and Tina challenged us to do a podcast.
590
00:21:26,240 --> 00:21:29,440
And we were like, we don't know where to start.
591
00:21:29,440 --> 00:21:30,660
We don't know what to do.
592
00:21:30,660 --> 00:21:34,200
And then here we're 47 episodes in.
593
00:21:34,200 --> 00:21:38,880
And then we were challenged to do a YouTube channel, you know, in particular for our health,
594
00:21:38,880 --> 00:21:40,640
you know, journey.
595
00:21:40,640 --> 00:21:46,240
And I thought, OK, we can wait until we get all the right equipment.
596
00:21:46,240 --> 00:21:48,360
We can wait until we've got a studio.
597
00:21:48,360 --> 00:21:49,720
We can wait until it.
598
00:21:49,720 --> 00:21:51,200
And instead, I just did it.
599
00:21:51,200 --> 00:21:53,360
I pulled the trigger.
600
00:21:53,360 --> 00:21:58,520
Because I've realized that you can sit around with good intentions and never do anything.
601
00:21:58,520 --> 00:21:59,720
It's true.
602
00:21:59,720 --> 00:22:06,400
But there's something that's exciting about jumping into the unknown and in knowing it
603
00:22:06,400 --> 00:22:13,200
could fail, knowing it may not work, knowing that it may be a miss, a swing and a miss.
604
00:22:13,200 --> 00:22:17,720
But there's also something exciting when you do it and someone writes you a note back and
605
00:22:17,720 --> 00:22:20,000
says, this really helped me.
606
00:22:20,000 --> 00:22:21,120
This changed my life.
607
00:22:21,120 --> 00:22:25,440
I'm now walking with Jesus and I walked away.
608
00:22:25,440 --> 00:22:30,600
I'm now going back to a church because I walked away because I was hurt.
609
00:22:30,600 --> 00:22:32,560
Those are the things I want to hear.
610
00:22:32,560 --> 00:22:36,040
And we are hearing those constantly.
611
00:22:36,040 --> 00:22:38,860
And that's what keeps me going.
612
00:22:38,860 --> 00:22:46,760
If one person says what you're saying is making sense to me, it's I feel like it's time for
613
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me to make a change in my life.
614
00:22:49,000 --> 00:22:50,000
It's worth it.
615
00:22:50,000 --> 00:22:52,680
And just know we're not fishing for compliments.
616
00:22:52,680 --> 00:22:55,960
This is actually we're asking for testimonies.
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If what we're doing matters and if what we're doing is helping you, I've learned I gave
618
00:23:01,660 --> 00:23:03,880
up my right to withhold encouragement.
619
00:23:03,880 --> 00:23:10,120
So when I'm in a given situation, for example, Steve, our waiter today, I mean, or the girls
620
00:23:10,120 --> 00:23:13,960
at the veterinary clinic, you know, these are kids.
621
00:23:13,960 --> 00:23:17,080
I just have given up the right to withhold encouragement.
622
00:23:17,080 --> 00:23:22,000
And so any environment I'm in right now, it's like my antenna is up, my eyes are open, my
623
00:23:22,000 --> 00:23:24,840
radar is on, and I'm looking for an opportunity.
624
00:23:24,840 --> 00:23:26,960
I don't force anything because that's weird.
625
00:23:26,960 --> 00:23:28,720
I guess weird.
626
00:23:28,720 --> 00:23:34,120
But it's amazing how natural these things come up if you're aware and if you're kind
627
00:23:34,120 --> 00:23:37,240
of looking for that opportunity to encourage.
628
00:23:37,240 --> 00:23:39,360
The word encourage simply means to inspire courage.
629
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It's to build another person up.
630
00:23:42,760 --> 00:23:48,440
And the reason I do it is because I know how I feel when people build me up.
631
00:23:48,440 --> 00:23:51,240
And it is interesting how when you throw things out there, they come back.
632
00:23:51,240 --> 00:23:53,200
You do need a lot of encouragement.
633
00:23:53,200 --> 00:23:58,640
You have course always number one love language.
634
00:23:58,640 --> 00:23:59,640
Words of affirmation.
635
00:23:59,640 --> 00:24:00,640
Words of affirmation.
636
00:24:00,640 --> 00:24:01,640
Yep.
637
00:24:01,640 --> 00:24:03,120
And so that's why you love doing that.
638
00:24:03,120 --> 00:24:08,080
Not because you want them to do it back, but because it's something that you desire so
639
00:24:08,080 --> 00:24:09,080
much.
640
00:24:09,080 --> 00:24:10,080
So you just give it to others.
641
00:24:10,080 --> 00:24:11,080
So I give it to others.
642
00:24:11,080 --> 00:24:12,080
You just give it to others.
643
00:24:12,080 --> 00:24:13,080
I love that.
644
00:24:13,080 --> 00:24:14,080
Give what I want.
645
00:24:14,080 --> 00:24:15,080
And sometimes it does come back.
646
00:24:15,080 --> 00:24:16,080
Sometimes it doesn't.
647
00:24:16,080 --> 00:24:17,080
That's okay too.
648
00:24:17,080 --> 00:24:20,360
But there's something powerful when we build other people up.
649
00:24:20,360 --> 00:24:24,080
So the whole idea of living up in a down world, the whole idea of doing a podcast, the whole
650
00:24:24,080 --> 00:24:31,680
idea of doing a meet, pray, love, health journey YouTube channel is to build people up because
651
00:24:31,680 --> 00:24:33,640
there's so much bad news in this world.
652
00:24:33,640 --> 00:24:36,680
We want to live up in a down world, not live down in a down world.
653
00:24:36,680 --> 00:24:38,880
The holidays can be very tough for some people.
654
00:24:38,880 --> 00:24:41,280
Oh, thank you for bringing that up.
655
00:24:41,280 --> 00:24:42,280
Very tough.
656
00:24:42,280 --> 00:24:43,280
Wow, talk about that for a second.
657
00:24:43,280 --> 00:24:50,940
And so to me, people need encouragement right now because they may be going into situations
658
00:24:50,940 --> 00:24:56,800
and you know, into a family situation that's uncomfortable, that brings on anxiety, depression.
659
00:24:56,800 --> 00:25:05,240
And we want you to be able to go in to those situations and have the strength that God
660
00:25:05,240 --> 00:25:07,680
wants to give you to get through that.
661
00:25:07,680 --> 00:25:13,600
And to go in with eyes and a heart that's softened, that's different because you're
662
00:25:13,600 --> 00:25:19,200
different and not go into those situations as you always have in the past.
663
00:25:19,200 --> 00:25:23,280
And I know for me, it was hard.
664
00:25:23,280 --> 00:25:26,680
Every Christmas was hard because my dad was so mean.
665
00:25:26,680 --> 00:25:29,360
And so he hated the name of Jesus.
666
00:25:29,360 --> 00:25:35,740
And every time we brought it up, you know, it was, there was carnage, honestly.
667
00:25:35,740 --> 00:25:38,720
And every Christmas, my mother would do this.
668
00:25:38,720 --> 00:25:44,080
She would buy him a Bible every Christmas for years.
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00:25:44,080 --> 00:25:48,680
And my sister and I were married, you know, we're bringing our family and we know what's
670
00:25:48,680 --> 00:25:50,600
going to happen.
671
00:25:50,600 --> 00:25:52,400
And she continued to do that.
672
00:25:52,400 --> 00:25:54,960
It was so hard.
673
00:25:54,960 --> 00:26:00,880
And so we had a lot of anxiety going in to Christmas knowing what my mom was going to
674
00:26:00,880 --> 00:26:08,080
do until finally we got her to, mom, this is not the way you win him to Christ.
675
00:26:08,080 --> 00:26:13,720
You win him by loving him, by treating him the way you want to be treated.
676
00:26:13,720 --> 00:26:22,440
You win him by showing how you love one another and how, you know, showing the love of Christ
677
00:26:22,440 --> 00:26:25,520
but not throwing it down his throat, so to speak.
678
00:26:25,520 --> 00:26:31,360
And it was just, the great thing is, is he ended up coming to know the Lord right before
679
00:26:31,360 --> 00:26:32,360
his death.
680
00:26:32,360 --> 00:26:33,360
That was so powerful.
681
00:26:33,360 --> 00:26:39,440
But the anxiety we felt just going every Christmas was very difficult on us.
682
00:26:39,440 --> 00:26:46,080
And so I know there are people out there that have family members that maybe mistreated
683
00:26:46,080 --> 00:26:49,680
them when they were younger and they have to see them again.
684
00:26:49,680 --> 00:26:50,800
And those are hard things.
685
00:26:50,800 --> 00:26:54,300
But, you know, God wants to redeem and restore.
686
00:26:54,300 --> 00:26:55,480
And that's who he is.
687
00:26:55,480 --> 00:26:59,080
He is a God that restores.
688
00:26:59,080 --> 00:27:03,680
He restores us back to the way, he restores us better than we were.
689
00:27:03,680 --> 00:27:08,920
And I know that because I know what I've gone through in my past and how I needed to be
690
00:27:08,920 --> 00:27:11,160
redeemed and restored.
691
00:27:11,160 --> 00:27:15,320
And so to me, that's, you know, that's the message.
692
00:27:15,320 --> 00:27:21,440
The gospel is when he can come in and he can restore you and you don't feel those things
693
00:27:21,440 --> 00:27:22,440
anymore.
694
00:27:22,440 --> 00:27:24,560
You go in with a different heart.
695
00:27:24,560 --> 00:27:27,360
You see through a different lens.
696
00:27:27,360 --> 00:27:31,960
And to me, it can make Christmas so much more delightful.
697
00:27:31,960 --> 00:27:39,680
When you put the emphasis on Christ-mas, not Christmas as in commercial holiday.
698
00:27:39,680 --> 00:27:47,560
And so this Christmas, I pray that as we've, if you've listened to us and hopefully gotten
699
00:27:47,560 --> 00:27:51,960
into the word that you're going to go in and have a different type of Christmas than you've
700
00:27:51,960 --> 00:27:52,960
ever had.
701
00:27:52,960 --> 00:28:02,480
I know like for instance, Adam and Tina, they last Christmas, it was their, I don't know,
702
00:28:02,480 --> 00:28:08,560
it was their really first Christmas last year when they were getting to know God.
703
00:28:08,560 --> 00:28:09,560
Okay.
704
00:28:09,560 --> 00:28:11,760
Let's just say getting to know him.
705
00:28:11,760 --> 00:28:18,080
This Christmas, they have matured so much that, and they're having family come in.
706
00:28:18,080 --> 00:28:22,880
And I guarantee you this Christmas is going to be so different because they are so different.
707
00:28:22,880 --> 00:28:29,040
They're approaching this Christmas season as a child of God, not as just someone who's
708
00:28:29,040 --> 00:28:31,120
just been informed of who God is.
709
00:28:31,120 --> 00:28:32,120
Do you know what I'm saying?
710
00:28:32,120 --> 00:28:36,360
And I know that it's going to be special for them.
711
00:28:36,360 --> 00:28:42,920
And I pray that for everybody that's listening that let's not go in with commercial eyes
712
00:28:42,920 --> 00:28:45,400
of the best presents.
713
00:28:45,400 --> 00:28:48,120
I got to have the best food.
714
00:28:48,120 --> 00:28:51,160
It's all about retail.
715
00:28:51,160 --> 00:28:54,240
Let's go into it with what is the true reason?
716
00:28:54,240 --> 00:28:57,160
Why is it that we even have Christmas?
717
00:28:57,160 --> 00:29:00,040
Why do we even celebrate Christmas?
718
00:29:00,040 --> 00:29:05,440
We didn't even do many decorations this year.
719
00:29:05,440 --> 00:29:10,480
We chose, well, sorry, we chose to kind of go a little bit more minimalistic this year
720
00:29:10,480 --> 00:29:16,120
and not put so much emphasis on our, on that in our home at this point, just because we
721
00:29:16,120 --> 00:29:17,720
were busy.
722
00:29:17,720 --> 00:29:22,440
But it was, it's, I mean, it's kind of creeping up on us.
723
00:29:22,440 --> 00:29:24,080
It's in less than two weeks.
724
00:29:24,080 --> 00:29:25,080
It's here.
725
00:29:25,080 --> 00:29:29,040
And you know, I love what you're saying because there are people even listening that have
726
00:29:29,040 --> 00:29:30,040
been traumatized by family.
727
00:29:30,040 --> 00:29:31,040
That's what I said.
728
00:29:31,040 --> 00:29:32,040
Yes.
729
00:29:32,040 --> 00:29:35,960
Just lived in real trauma and real terror like you did.
730
00:29:35,960 --> 00:29:41,080
And then the thought of going back into those environments can be really harsh and very
731
00:29:41,080 --> 00:29:42,080
triggering.
732
00:29:42,080 --> 00:29:43,080
Yes.
733
00:29:43,080 --> 00:29:44,080
And I agree with you.
734
00:29:44,080 --> 00:29:49,000
And I think the prayer for those who listen to our show and really for everybody is that
735
00:29:49,000 --> 00:29:53,680
they will realize how much they've changed, how much they've grown.
736
00:29:53,680 --> 00:29:55,320
They're not that kid anymore.
737
00:29:55,320 --> 00:30:01,200
They're not that sad, lonely, broken teenager anymore.
738
00:30:01,200 --> 00:30:02,560
They're a child of God.
739
00:30:02,560 --> 00:30:05,360
They're a son of God, a daughter of God.
740
00:30:05,360 --> 00:30:09,600
And they carry that identity now back into those environments.
741
00:30:09,600 --> 00:30:15,360
And I have to say, you know, I remember when I got in my twenties, especially in here,
742
00:30:15,360 --> 00:30:20,240
I was married now, I was going to college, I was working full time and going to college
743
00:30:20,240 --> 00:30:23,120
and being, it was crazy, crazy life.
744
00:30:23,120 --> 00:30:28,160
And I remember when I would go back home, because we moved away from to another community,
745
00:30:28,160 --> 00:30:31,880
would go back home over the holidays and I would almost revert to a 12 year old in my
746
00:30:31,880 --> 00:30:32,880
mind.
747
00:30:32,880 --> 00:30:34,160
Now I was blessed.
748
00:30:34,160 --> 00:30:37,720
I didn't have abuse and all those things.
749
00:30:37,720 --> 00:30:43,320
But still there's dysfunctional family dynamics that you deal with, even if there's not trauma
750
00:30:43,320 --> 00:30:47,440
or abuse, there's still dysfunction because we're all humans, right?
751
00:30:47,440 --> 00:30:48,520
Being human.
752
00:30:48,520 --> 00:30:54,120
So I would go back and I would catch myself relating to my grandmother like I was 12 again.
753
00:30:54,120 --> 00:30:58,280
And it wasn't until I got like through my twenties and starting to get in my thirties
754
00:30:58,280 --> 00:31:03,380
where I began to really embrace my identity as a child of God that I'm not that 12 year
755
00:31:03,380 --> 00:31:05,060
old kid anymore.
756
00:31:05,060 --> 00:31:09,360
And so it may not even be that you had abuse, but it may just be there was a dysfunctional
757
00:31:09,360 --> 00:31:11,100
family dynamic.
758
00:31:11,100 --> 00:31:12,100
And I don't blame my family.
759
00:31:12,100 --> 00:31:15,920
I had a great family, but hey, we were weird like everybody else.
760
00:31:15,920 --> 00:31:22,800
It's no blame or anything on anybody, but we just had odd dynamics sometimes.
761
00:31:22,800 --> 00:31:31,920
And so you may be going back into a hard situation or a hard dynamic where your mom or your grandmother
762
00:31:31,920 --> 00:31:38,160
still knows how to push every button you have and that turns you back into a teenager in
763
00:31:38,160 --> 00:31:39,160
a nanosecond.
764
00:31:39,160 --> 00:31:43,720
And so we want to encourage you in that, that as you go back, first of all, you should take
765
00:31:43,720 --> 00:31:50,240
a moment and literally out loud say to yourself, I am not who I used to be in the name of Jesus.
766
00:31:50,240 --> 00:31:54,280
And because of Jesus, I am now a child of the King.
767
00:31:54,280 --> 00:31:57,000
I'm a child of the ancient of days.
768
00:31:57,000 --> 00:32:00,840
I'm a child of God and I'm not that person.
769
00:32:00,840 --> 00:32:09,880
And I can walk upright knowing that God is who I look to, not anybody else, not man,
770
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but God.
771
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The word righteous, for example, when the Bible says that we are the righteousness of
772
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God in Christ Jesus, it literally means we are able to stand upright.
773
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In other words, we're not cowering.
774
00:32:22,400 --> 00:32:23,400
We're not in fear.
775
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We're not cowering out of a loss of esteem or identity.
776
00:32:28,340 --> 00:32:29,720
We're actually bold.
777
00:32:29,720 --> 00:32:31,520
We're actually strong.
778
00:32:31,520 --> 00:32:35,120
And we are because Christ makes us that way, not because we can just rev it up or make
779
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it happen, but it is.
780
00:32:36,920 --> 00:32:43,840
And so to encourage you as you go back into odd family dynamics, maybe not abusive now,
781
00:32:43,840 --> 00:32:49,440
but maybe still triggering, walk in like you're different because you are.
782
00:32:49,440 --> 00:32:53,760
Remind yourself when you're out in the car before you walk in and carry all your goodies
783
00:32:53,760 --> 00:32:55,280
and stuff in there.
784
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I am not who I used to be.
785
00:32:57,000 --> 00:32:58,960
This will not be the same.
786
00:32:58,960 --> 00:33:03,020
And we've encouraged people to do that for years as pastors and kind of right before
787
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Christmas we'll always talk about family dynamics from the pulpit and say, hey, you're about
788
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to step back into some could be awkward situations.
789
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You're not who you used to be.
790
00:33:12,200 --> 00:33:15,520
You're not even who you were a year ago when you were there last year.
791
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And so I just want to encourage our listeners to really embrace the truth that you are God's
792
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child, you're God's son, God's daughter.
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You're not that insecure teenager anymore.
794
00:33:28,200 --> 00:33:30,040
You're not that insecure adult anymore.
795
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You're secure in Jesus.
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And let the truth of God's Word bring out the book and let the truth of God's Word change
797
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your mind about things.
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Love that.
799
00:33:40,560 --> 00:33:44,480
You know, I was just now looking at the calendar.
800
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Our next podcast, Christmas will be over.
801
00:33:47,680 --> 00:33:48,680
Oh, wow.
802
00:33:48,680 --> 00:33:49,680
Wow.
803
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That's why I wanted to bring that up.
804
00:33:50,680 --> 00:33:51,680
Merry Christmas, everybody.
805
00:33:51,680 --> 00:33:55,080
Because literally Christmas is in a week and a half.
806
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And I thought...
807
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It's hard to believe it's here.
808
00:33:57,400 --> 00:33:58,400
I know.
809
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And I thought that was important that we share that because we definitely want you to have...
810
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We want this to be the best Christmas you've ever had.
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And especially if you're embracing Christ, maybe for the first time or coming back, we
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00:34:13,640 --> 00:34:17,320
want this to be a time where you're so different.
813
00:34:17,320 --> 00:34:19,720
People go, I want what you have.
814
00:34:19,720 --> 00:34:20,760
What's changed about you?
815
00:34:20,760 --> 00:34:21,760
What did you do different?
816
00:34:21,760 --> 00:34:22,760
Yeah, you're different.
817
00:34:22,760 --> 00:34:23,760
Yeah.
818
00:34:23,760 --> 00:34:24,760
Something's different.
819
00:34:24,760 --> 00:34:25,760
Yeah.
820
00:34:25,760 --> 00:34:26,760
And we're not going to have that opportunity.
821
00:34:26,760 --> 00:34:29,480
We're going to have our daughter and son-in-law are coming.
822
00:34:29,480 --> 00:34:32,920
We are going to Tina and Adam's on Christmas Day.
823
00:34:32,920 --> 00:34:35,880
So we're not going to be around people this time.
824
00:34:35,880 --> 00:34:36,880
Our typical family.
825
00:34:36,880 --> 00:34:39,640
Well, but it'll give us a good time to rest.
826
00:34:39,640 --> 00:34:41,960
Oh, it'll be really needed.
827
00:34:41,960 --> 00:34:42,960
Many times.
828
00:34:42,960 --> 00:34:45,440
But we're around people all the time, almost daily.
829
00:34:45,440 --> 00:34:46,440
It is true.
830
00:34:46,440 --> 00:34:47,440
So it'll be a nice rest.
831
00:34:47,440 --> 00:34:54,440
But I still really encourage you to draw near to Jesus.
832
00:34:54,440 --> 00:34:58,160
He says, when you draw near to me, I'll draw near to you.
833
00:34:58,160 --> 00:35:01,080
And draw near to Him in this time.
834
00:35:01,080 --> 00:35:04,640
Don't forget who He is and what He's done in your life.
835
00:35:04,640 --> 00:35:06,640
So what are our plans for the holidays?
836
00:35:06,640 --> 00:35:08,240
What are we going to do with all this downtime?
837
00:35:08,240 --> 00:35:09,240
Nothing.
838
00:35:09,240 --> 00:35:10,240
We talked about this already.
839
00:35:10,240 --> 00:35:11,240
I cannot wait.
840
00:35:11,240 --> 00:35:14,280
We're going to carnivore like to the end of the world, and then we're going to go to the
841
00:35:14,280 --> 00:35:15,840
gym almost every day.
842
00:35:15,840 --> 00:35:16,840
And rest.
843
00:35:16,840 --> 00:35:18,520
I'm looking forward to it.
844
00:35:18,520 --> 00:35:21,720
It's funny because people don't think going to the gym is restful, but it is for us.
845
00:35:21,720 --> 00:35:22,720
It's therapeutic.
846
00:35:22,720 --> 00:35:23,720
It is.
847
00:35:23,720 --> 00:35:27,160
And we always listen to preaching, teaching, or some good music.
848
00:35:27,160 --> 00:35:30,640
It's spiritually therapeutic for us, honestly.
849
00:35:30,640 --> 00:35:35,880
Because that's the time that we really spend more time in His Word.
850
00:35:35,880 --> 00:35:41,540
Not that we don't every day, but we really increase our time when we get to rest.
851
00:35:41,540 --> 00:35:43,560
So who do we have to thank today?
852
00:35:43,560 --> 00:35:48,800
Well, not a lot today because we didn't do our show last week, and so it gets really
853
00:35:48,800 --> 00:35:49,800
quiet.
854
00:35:49,800 --> 00:36:00,400
But I do have to say that one Mr. Adam, the Podfather Curry at 77,777 sats.
855
00:36:00,400 --> 00:36:01,400
That's a striper boost.
856
00:36:01,400 --> 00:36:05,960
And he says, my word for 2024, because we've been talking about my one word.
857
00:36:05,960 --> 00:36:06,960
What is your one word?
858
00:36:06,960 --> 00:36:08,640
He says, my word will be encourage.
859
00:36:08,640 --> 00:36:11,080
I just said that.
860
00:36:11,080 --> 00:36:14,120
And he says, another excellent episode.
861
00:36:14,120 --> 00:36:16,440
Adam is already like an over the top.
862
00:36:16,440 --> 00:36:18,600
He's one of the most encouraging people I know.
863
00:36:18,600 --> 00:36:21,160
One of the most positive people I've ever met.
864
00:36:21,160 --> 00:36:22,160
For real.
865
00:36:22,160 --> 00:36:23,160
Yes.
866
00:36:23,160 --> 00:36:24,680
And so that'll be a great word for him.
867
00:36:24,680 --> 00:36:27,480
This may be the first year he's ever done that.
868
00:36:27,480 --> 00:36:31,880
So for those of you listening, Annette and I, years ago, we used to do, I used to try
869
00:36:31,880 --> 00:36:32,880
to do resolutions.
870
00:36:32,880 --> 00:36:33,880
Remember that?
871
00:36:33,880 --> 00:36:35,160
And I'd go, here's top 10.
872
00:36:35,160 --> 00:36:36,160
You never did that?
873
00:36:36,160 --> 00:36:37,160
I did.
874
00:36:37,160 --> 00:36:38,160
I brought them down.
875
00:36:38,160 --> 00:36:39,160
Oh yeah.
876
00:36:39,160 --> 00:36:40,160
No, I did.
877
00:36:40,160 --> 00:36:41,160
But then I'd forget them the day after.
878
00:36:41,160 --> 00:36:42,160
I would lose them.
879
00:36:42,160 --> 00:36:43,160
I forgot where I stuck them.
880
00:36:43,160 --> 00:36:44,160
I stuck them in a Bible somewhere or a book and I can't find them.
881
00:36:44,160 --> 00:36:45,160
Never looked at them again.
882
00:36:45,160 --> 00:36:46,160
I know.
883
00:36:46,160 --> 00:36:47,160
I was like, ah, I can't remember.
884
00:36:47,160 --> 00:36:48,840
I can't remember again, but I don't remember.
885
00:36:48,840 --> 00:36:53,840
So then we stumbled on, it's been years ago, this thing called My One Word.
886
00:36:53,840 --> 00:36:56,280
And I thought, oh, what a great idea.
887
00:36:56,280 --> 00:37:03,840
Instead of having 10 resolutions that I'll forget in two weeks or less, or I'll misplace,
888
00:37:03,840 --> 00:37:06,000
pick one word that is a theme.
889
00:37:06,000 --> 00:37:08,680
It's thematic for the year.
890
00:37:08,680 --> 00:37:10,920
And so I've had several.
891
00:37:10,920 --> 00:37:15,840
I'm revisiting, I'm revisiting a word right now.
892
00:37:15,840 --> 00:37:17,400
And the word is engage.
893
00:37:17,400 --> 00:37:19,280
Which we've had in the past.
894
00:37:19,280 --> 00:37:20,280
Back when we were in Tennessee.
895
00:37:20,280 --> 00:37:21,280
But it's a good word.
896
00:37:21,280 --> 00:37:22,280
Back when we lived in Nashville.
897
00:37:22,280 --> 00:37:23,280
Yes, it's a good word.
898
00:37:23,280 --> 00:37:27,360
It was actually the word that I gave for the year that we came here.
899
00:37:27,360 --> 00:37:29,560
It was a, I'm ready to engage.
900
00:37:29,560 --> 00:37:30,560
Was that really?
901
00:37:30,560 --> 00:37:31,560
I'm ready.
902
00:37:31,560 --> 00:37:32,560
That year.
903
00:37:32,560 --> 00:37:33,560
I was stepping into a new place.
904
00:37:33,560 --> 00:37:34,560
I love that.
905
00:37:34,560 --> 00:37:35,560
So that was 2016.
906
00:37:35,560 --> 00:37:36,640
So we're revisiting that one.
907
00:37:36,640 --> 00:37:40,880
And usually we embrace the same word just because it's easy for us to encourage each
908
00:37:40,880 --> 00:37:41,880
other.
909
00:37:41,880 --> 00:37:44,080
Well, I used to have a separate one and then it got confusing.
910
00:37:44,080 --> 00:37:46,520
And we decided, which you came up with engage.
911
00:37:46,520 --> 00:37:47,520
So I'm just going along with it.
912
00:37:47,520 --> 00:37:48,520
Are you cool with that?
913
00:37:48,520 --> 00:37:49,520
You like it?
914
00:37:49,520 --> 00:37:50,520
Yep.
915
00:37:50,520 --> 00:37:52,680
I figure it fits where we're at right now is we're praying for revival.
916
00:37:52,680 --> 00:37:53,840
We're believing for it.
917
00:37:53,840 --> 00:37:58,360
We're being more engaging with people by asking them what they're thankful for every day,
918
00:37:58,360 --> 00:37:59,800
everywhere I go.
919
00:37:59,800 --> 00:38:02,120
So do what?
920
00:38:02,120 --> 00:38:03,120
He has youth in a minute.
921
00:38:03,120 --> 00:38:05,120
So we need to get, I'm looking at the time.
922
00:38:05,120 --> 00:38:06,120
Oh, 425.
923
00:38:06,120 --> 00:38:08,000
That's why I'm like, yeah, we need to wrap it up a minute.
924
00:38:08,000 --> 00:38:09,000
Okay.
925
00:38:09,000 --> 00:38:10,000
Yeah.
926
00:38:10,000 --> 00:38:12,000
I've got student ministry about to fire up on the other side of the wall.
927
00:38:12,000 --> 00:38:14,920
We don't want them to interrupt our podcast.
928
00:38:14,920 --> 00:38:15,920
What's time to land the plane?
929
00:38:15,920 --> 00:38:17,360
Listen, we love you guys.
930
00:38:17,360 --> 00:38:21,560
And we want to say thank you for being patient with us as we get the studio built.
931
00:38:21,560 --> 00:38:22,560
It's getting there.
932
00:38:22,560 --> 00:38:25,160
I'll take some pictures in two weeks when we come back.
933
00:38:25,160 --> 00:38:26,160
It should be done.
934
00:38:26,160 --> 00:38:27,160
It'll be done.
935
00:38:27,160 --> 00:38:28,160
Oh, totally.
936
00:38:28,160 --> 00:38:29,160
Actually.
937
00:38:29,160 --> 00:38:30,160
Yeah.
938
00:38:30,160 --> 00:38:33,080
Before then, but we wanted to have a small one just right before we get going.
939
00:38:33,080 --> 00:38:34,800
So, Hey, we love you guys.
940
00:38:34,800 --> 00:38:36,160
And Hey, Merry Christmas.
941
00:38:36,160 --> 00:38:37,480
Can you believe it's here?
942
00:38:37,480 --> 00:38:39,960
Go watch some Hallmark movies or something.
943
00:38:39,960 --> 00:38:42,120
You guys have a great week.
944
00:38:42,120 --> 00:38:43,120
Merry Christmas.
945
00:38:43,120 --> 00:38:44,120
Merry Christmas.
946
00:38:44,120 --> 00:38:45,120
We'll talk to you the next time.
947
00:38:45,120 --> 00:39:12,520
Bye bye.
