"No Perfect People Allowed"

0:00 This is Jimmy Nanette and of course Chevy is with us and he is hanging out with us. He is super excited. He's asleep. That's what I mean. This is him excited. Last week he wouldn't even get in my lap. I know he was having a moment.

0:43 He's totally chilled out. He got super excited. So for those of you don't know and it's funny because people want to know well what does it look like where y'all do your show? Like it's not this fancy studio. It's my, well it's kind of a studio I guess. I've got your office slash studio. Five, six, seven, eight guitars hanging around. Hanging and how many are in the closet? Only a few. A few. Not enough. Every guitar player will tell you. I had to move you out of my closet. Not enough. You moved cases in our closet. I was not happy about that. I'm not gonna put them in the attic because the glue it ruins the cases. The heat. Well you know what? You need to find a place. You married a musician. I know it.

1:24 Wait are you regretting it now? I love it but. Though these three decades later. Take up a lot of space. Three decades later. 30 years of wow. Right. Those are your words. Whoa whoa whoa. It's alright. Wow. Okay. Speaking of. Ouch. That's gonna leave a mark. Let's talk about the wedding. The wedding. First of all we want to welcome our listeners. Oh I guess we need to do that. Wait we're Jimmy and Annette and Chevy of course our dog and he's on the last podcast cover and I'll put a picture of him up on our website. So you can find us at livingupinadownworld.com. And our heart in this whole thing is to help you live up in a down world. The world's crazy. I don't know if you've noticed lately. It's getting worse. It's insanity out there. It is. And yet because of Christ in us the hope of glory we have the potential, the ability, the empowerment to live up in a down world. That's what we're about. The whole thing is about that. Live life to the full. Come on. John 10. You better preach girl. I know. John 10 10. Jesus said this. I've come that you may have life and life to the full. Life abundant.

2:31 And so that's our heart. We chose to live like that. Exactly. It's a choice. You have to make the choice to live above your circumstances not below them. You are so preaching right now. I love it. You're hot when you do that. I'm not going to lie. Honey, let's keep going with the podcast. The wedding. So this is big news. We got to do our youngest child's wedding. I've had the privilege of course and it's always right there with me. It's Jimmy and Annette. Never Jimmy or Annette. And we have together have done officiated all three of our kids weddings. Well when you've been in the ministry 40 years. I mean it makes sense. I know Chris and Casey. We got to do their wedding way way back. 90 no 2000 I believe. Was it about 2000. I think so.

3:25 A long time ago. A long time ago. We did their wedding and then we got to do Mark and Alicia's wedding what two years ago. Two years ago. Time is passing and I have a gap year with COVID. It throws me completely off. I know. Well and everything kind of revolves around COVID. So yeah pre-COVID after COVID. Oh my God. Then you got a gap year that you can't account for. It's crazy. So anyway and so we did that in Tennessee and outside of Nashville which is totally cool. That's where they live. And then this week this weekend on Saturday. Just tell us. Our youngest daughter Faith married Brandon. Brandon is a great guy. We're super happy. We love Brandon. Brandon is an Okie from Oklahoma City but we're going to love him anyway. Oh my goodness. Wow. We're not going to hold that against him.

4:10 I know. Others in Texas Oklahoma thing. Everybody knows that. That's more around college football than anything. But anyway we're thrilled to have Brandon in our family and it was a beautiful wedding. People came up to you and said this was one of the best weddings they've ever been to. Tell them why. That was really sweet. Tell them why. Well I didn't even tell you I was going to do this. No you didn't. You surprised me. So here's the cool thing. Not only was I officiating the wedding which I do a lot of these. I mean I've done tons of weddings through the years. I lost count. And I love doing them actually. But this time not only did I officiate but I got to give away my daughter. Which you did with Alicia as well. I know. This one was a little bit different. Well it was a little bit different because she's the youngest. And it kind of came to me the morning of. On Saturday morning.

5:02 I got a meltdown moment. I got up. I cried like a baby. It's very early. So I had not cried any tears this whole thing because really the week leading up to the wedding. We're moving. Oh my gosh. We moved them on Wednesday. So I mean my back was sore. I was tired. And then I was working in between all that and getting ready for Sunday. And it was just like one of those convergence weeks. We keep having those. Have you noticed that lately? They're happening a lot. I keep thinking we're going to rest next week. No wait. No not maybe next. No. Anyway it's not happening and I'm OK. I'm good with it. But anyway so we moved them. So it was a crazy week. I got up very very early Saturday morning and was going back over the wedding. I sort of rewrote the vows and different pieces to really personalize it for Brandon and Faith. And I was in my office by myself. A cup of coffee and Chevy. Where was I?

5:57 What do you think? OK I was in bed. You were sawing logs. So you were in bed. Chevy was in here with me. And I was topping through some of that and I started crying. I mean it was just. It hit me hard. Daddy watching and knowing their little baby girl. It's the last one. It's the last one is getting married. Maybe those were tears of joy. No I'm just saying. I think so. They were. It's a mixed bag right? Yes. I mean because it is kind of a big accomplishment when you have three children and your last one's getting married. It's it's a it's kind of like you come across the finish line in a sense. But also just because she's adopted and we've had such a she's been such a miracle child all along the way. Man it just overwhelmed me. And I sat here as I was trying to type my eyes got fuzzy. I couldn't even see my computer screen. I was like oh here it comes. And I was sort of wrecked the rest of the morning. And then when you got up to officiate. Oh my goodness. So I was like.

6:55 Oh my goodness. So here's what here's how it goes. So how do you officiate a wedding and walk your daughter down the aisle. I had to be. It's really comical. So what did I walk yelling at her faith. Are you there. Just like what. Well because she was supposed to go up the stairs. I couldn't see her. Would she. Hey we're family right. She doesn't need to be seen yet till you go. I know but I know she's back there. So well anyway all that aside all the silliness aside. So I walked Brandon and I walked in like you. Normally would in a wedding where the pastor or the officiant walks in with with the groom. And so we were standing there. And then since I'm also the daddy I just walked straight down the aisle. Everybody's looking at me like where's where's Pastor Jimmy going down the aisle. And then I walk up the back stairs and you told everybody I'm going to go get my daughter.

7:44 Nobody does that. But you got her and it was all family and friends. There was intimate and small which she wanted it that way. We could have invited the whole church and probably packed the house. Yeah she really wanted a small element. So I went and got her. We walked back and as I'm walking her down it's hitting me. It's like here we go again. Did you know what you were about to say to everybody. Not totally but I thought through just a little bit so I didn't have like a plan speech or anything like that. So I walk in. I walk in. I walk up and I'm standing where the father stands with the bride and normally you say who gives this bride and marriage and you say you're her mother and I. So I'm standing there and I said normally I would say that. And then I said but I want to say some things to you.

8:30 Boy you did. And she was standing there going what is he going to say. She said she was she had a little bit of a hard time because she does not like to be the center of attention. It's her wedding. She's that well. She's that way. But she said she was trying to keep from crying because she didn't want to mess up her makeup. I saw her tearing up. And what I did is I talked about about the power of identity the power of covenant and marriage. And I just talked about her adoption talked about her adoption. I talked about how she. She's special. She really was a miracle child to us. Now as I'm doing this her birth mother who is our oldest daughter there's a big beautiful story about that which we've told that in one of the episodes early episode or fourth podcast.

9:15 We're number 18 by the way. You believe that 18. So anyway I'm telling the story and I looked down at Alicia our oldest daughter and she is crying and I'm like don't do this over. I said Alicia you're killing me. I started crying. I lost it. Then the whole church was crying. A lot of people cried. So what happened though. Another special thing is there we had a men. We were hosting a men's retreat at the church in the room next door to the wedding. And we were hosting a men's retreat at the wedding. And Tommy Hayes Todd Wilman were hosting this and leading this and they were talking about covenant in relationships but particularly in marriage. It was geared towards marriage and intimate relationships.

9:57 And we were actually been talking about that on Friday night all Saturday morning. Tommy and Todd and I talked the day before and they said what if we bring would it be OK to bring the men into the wedding ceremony. I said absolutely. I would love to have them. The seat fillers are good anyway. It is but it was really special. It was very special. Man you see all these guys come in in t-shirts shorts and flip flops. 30 men. They had 30 men at this and they had been talking about covenant marriage relationship and guess what I talked about covenant marriage and they got to see it in a wedding ceremony. They were crying. A lot of them were really teared up and crying. You said something that was really powerful. You talked about the Ephesians 5 scripture. Yeah. Oh my goodness. I feel like it was really important to unpack that.

10:49 Yes. So for those of you listening first of all we welcome you to the show. We just so appreciate you and we're doing this for you. We want to encourage you. So I want to unpack something very brief. This will take but a moment. But it didn't take but a moment in the ceremony. But it's probably the most powerful thing I've ever heard in a wedding ceremony. So there's a scripture passage and churches through the years. I'm not I don't want to bash on churches at all. I'm a pastor. I pastor a church. But there has been some some bad things that have happened through the years. Bad teaching. Erroneous teaching context is king. So you all who are listening I mean I'm all about the context. So I never try to just lift things out of scripture without talking about the setting the historical setting the historical context because that's primary first then secondary is the application for us.

11:46 We sometimes flip that around. We just take scriptures out of context. It's called very dangerous. It's called Isagesis is what it is. It's a term. There's exegesis which is you're studying the scripture. I said Jesus means you isolate one scripture out of context which is dangerous. It's split churches. It's split marriages. It's caused trauma set up full doctrines on erroneous teachings and build the domination error. So this passage here is one that has bothered me for years because I've heard it done so terribly that I wanted to kind of just set the record straight on this. It really helped those men too that were there for that for the retreat. And here it is. It's in Ephesians chapter five. And typically even even the Bible division. So just so you know when you read a new Bible if you go to the store buy a Bible in the new international version.

12:41 New King James whatever whatever version there's always these little breaks in there and then they'll have headings like I'm looking at the NIV and it says wives and husbands. The problem is they did the break in the wrong spot in the Greek language the way that New Testament was written. There is no punctuation. There's only context. All the punctuation you see in the Bible the paragraph breaks and breaks have all been added after the fact. And that's only because from our Western mindset we have to have we have to do it for our own grammar our own English. So when you read the Bible you need to sometimes think think like an Easterner and realize there are no paragraph breaks no exclamation points context does all of that.

13:27 So the by a lot of the modern translations have added a break in there between verse 21 verse 22. That's wrong. Verse 21 says here's where we usually start and you'll hear this preached with boldness wives submit to your husbands as to the Lord and every woman in the place goes into trauma. She's triggered. She's like yeah man that's just so hard that didn't even make sense. And then it says for the husband is the head of the wife and it sounds intense and it sounds very patriarchal. It's all about the man. Exactly. However well let me go to the next part. Did you go down to verse 25 and it says this husbands love your wives just as Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her.

14:12 The problem is we don't unpack that verse right. And we also miss something up front. The passage actually starts earlier and and you can go to verse 21 one passage up from the break that's man made and it says this submit to one another out of reverence for Christ. This is talking about equal submission me submitting to you and that preferring you. And that's literally what it means is to prefer you and you submitting to me. When we do that mutually it says submit to one another out of reverence submit mutually is what that literally means. We do it together and when we do it together. Oh my gosh that's like an engine running on all eight cylinders. It's running like it's supposed to. Back in the day we'd say it's an engine that's balanced and blueprinted that means it runs and its top peak performance.

15:04 That's how a relationship is supposed to be submitting to one another out of reverence for Christ. Then it says wives it gives instruction to the wives to submit what has been done. This has been so abused because it's been taken and used as a weapon against women. Sure has and it's beaten down women into this idea you must submit and I've actually heard of men saying in a fight or in a scuffle with their wife or just in counseling with you saying they're not submitting to me. She's supposed to submit to me and I'm like dude you're a jerk. I wouldn't submit to you in a million years. I mean come on. So but here's the thing. That's not what it says something different.

15:45 It actually puts the weight on the men not the women. The women have the easy part submit to your husband as you would to Christ. Okay. The harder part is what the men have to do. Here's what the men's role is. Husbands love your wives just as Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her. What did Jesus do for the church. He died. He died on a cross. He took nails in his hand nail through his feet a spear in his side spit on abused a crown of thorns not only placed on his head but beat into his head into his skull.

16:25 And he died a bloody horrible. He took forty nine lashes beaten to a bloody pulp literally for the church. And that is the requirement. The man has to die. All the woman has to do is submit and it's easy to submit to a man who has died. His selfishness should do a marriage flesh series. You're right. I should do. We should do it. We need to unpack that for the church together. And you may be out there listening and maybe even you were in a church that taught taught it the other way. It's all about the woman submitting to the man even if he's a dork. And I'm telling you that is off. It's not biblical. It's not Jesus and it's not God's heart.

17:12 It says submit one to another. It's mutual mutual mutual. But yes and out of reverence out of reverence out of all for Christ. So that's what I shared with the with the folks that were there which was life changing for sound to Brandon and faith. Yeah you're right. It was a game changer. I had a lot of a lot of people and men come to me and say I never heard this before. And they and now that you've had the sort of the it's like you get a lens for it and now you see it and go oh my gosh that's exactly what it says. Well we counseled a couple last week who remain unnamed precious couple that we love dearly love. And I shared that with him and he came to me and said Pastor Jimmy that that is a game changer for me. I was raised in a church that taught where is all male and dominant.

18:05 The wife is supposed to submit and keep her place in the home. And he said I was taught wrong. I was taught wrong. I said you know how hard it is though to just make that switch. He said he actually got depressed. I mean not clinically depressed situationally. He said it really hit me hard and I realize how I've been. And so hopefully this is going to be a real help for him as well. Maybe for you listening it'll be a help for you. I mean and that I can tell people this but you tell them I mean do I help you make the bed. Every day. Do I help you with dishes. Every day. Do I help you with laundry. No I don't do laundry. I'm terrible. You bring the laundry to me though. I do that part of it but you're good with the machine and stuff. I'll mess stuff up. You fold it with me. You do everything with me.

18:52 It's because of verse 24. Submit to one another out of reverence for Christ. That's it. And what does it do? It makes us have an amazing marriage where we're living up in a down world for real. For real. And we've been through a lot. We've shared some of our stories. Not all of them but we've shared some of our stories. We've been through some rough stuff. We've been fired. We've been rejected. I mean it's abandoned. It's just a lot. However we've been able to overcome not because we're amazing but because God's amazing. That's right. Because we read the Bible and go wait what does it really say? Not how has it been taught by some man who didn't know what he was talking about. So anyway we hope that's helpful for you. Beautiful wedding. Oh my gosh. And then we had ladies from our church that stepped up to the plate. Cooked an amazing meal for everybody. We went back and had that. Is somebody texting you? No I'm just. My phone was going out and I'm trying to get it to work.

19:47 My phone was going out and I'm trying to keep the show notes in front of me. Keep this on task here. These show notes are for Adam Curry. He told Tina don't talk about the show notes on the show and she's like next show note. It's so funny. She's like well you know here's the next one. And I told Tina I said I love you talking about the show notes. We need to know what we're talking about. We don't want to keep this on track. Exactly. I do want to say just big kudos to Tommy Hayes. And Todd Wilman for leading our men in that retreat. Jason Banks was supposed to be a part of that. He literally fell off a scaffold and broke his femur and his wrist the day before the retreat started. He was painting a two story home on the outside.

20:33 What I heard I heard that it skidded off of the sidewalk and it tipped over. But actually what it was he had said his ladder on one side to go down it and he forgot he stepped off thinking was stepping onto his ladder and he fell. He literally stepped off of it. I think he hung his legs in the scaffold. That's what snapped the femur. I know. He was supposed to also be a part of leading that. So you know prayers out to Jason Banks. We just wanted to get well. Quick recovery. He's strong. He's young. He's fiery. He's going to be good. And then also we had one of our pastors sing a song.

21:15 Jeff Weiner. It was so beautiful. You know the name of the song? Oh gosh. You would ask me that. I know. I was trying to remember the name of it. He and his wife were watching a Hallmark movie and a song came on I think at a wedding scene and she said this is the song you should sing for Faith because he was going to sing an old song. He's going to do the classic There is Love. It's a classic from way back. It's beautiful. It's a beautiful relevant song. What he did was he took the song from Hallmark, listened to it, rehearsed it, never had sang it before, never heard of it and then changed some of the words to fit their wedding.

21:55 Beautiful. He did it with an acoustic guitar. Jeff is a phenomenal singer, a great worship leader. He's got one of those. Adam Curry says man he would be a hit machine. He's got a record voice. He's got that voice. A radio voice. Yeah radio voice. He's got it. We don't want him to know that. We need to keep him as our worship leader. So Jeff, he can't go anywhere. We love Pastor Jeff. So he sang and played. It was absolutely beautiful. Then what did we do after that? We ate this amazing meal. Then we brought the whole crew, all the young people that are Faith's friends and our kids. We had Mark and Alicia. We flew them in from Nashville to be a part. So good having them. God I love those guys. They're doing great.

22:39 Tina was the photographer. When I asked her, it was just going to be in our backyard. She was going to take a few pictures. She was like sure I'll do it. Then when we moved it to the church and it became a bigger affair, she was like, you really want me to do this? I'm not a professional. She, every picture she took, now I haven't seen the pictures, but the way she was taking the pictures, she literally looked like a professional. She did. She looked like the real deal. I'm sure they're amazing. She's prancing around just like a total miracle. I said you may have a side gig here. She's probably going, no. Adam put her to work. They're going weekly now. Big news for Hurrying the Keeper. They're going to a weekly podcast and they're going to do it live. Okay, they're brave. I'm all in. I know you want to do that, but twice we've had to cut. Only two times.

23:35 Cut the show. Start all over because we said things that we were like, we probably shouldn't have said that on there. Yeah, we want to be careful with things. I don't know if I'm ready for that. I'm ready. I know. I'm not sure. We'll go to school on them. We've done everything else. We'll go to school on them on everything. Right? They came over afterwards. They were part of our family. The whole day and evening. It was just beautiful. It was. We literally leftovers. We sat around the kitchen. We had some great food. Adam got to tell his amazing stories. MTV stories. That was hilarious. My oldest daughter, Alicia, was on Cloud 9. She was giddy listening to Adam because he knows all the bands that she grew up with.

24:23 He's interviewed Tina Turner, Michael Jackson, Prince, the Scorpions, Def Leppard. He was the guy on MTV in the 80s and 90s. Those stories are great. I was just getting a kick out of how giddy she was. Do you think she was a little starstruck? I think so. She had a little fangirl thing going. I get it. I was starstruck the first time I met him. When we had dinner. I just didn't say anything. I was trying to keep my composure. You're hilarious because you had a crush on him in the 80s. I had a crush on him. What do I say? You did. Every woman had a crush on him that watched MTV.

25:03 What's funny is Alicia was watching MTV with me. When I said, who are our friends now? Adam Curry and Tina. She's like, what? Literally. She went online and showed her a picture. I said, go online and look at this picture. She goes, oh my gosh. I watched that with you. When I see Adam Curry, I see my best friend. I know. I see Tina as my best friend. I just see my best friend. He's genuinely one of the kindest individuals I've ever met. So is Tina. He's got the heart. Both of them. You put two of the kindest people you've ever met together.

25:46 That's a dynamic duo. Guess what we're about to do. Big announcement. Nice segue. I know. You did that like a pro. I'm trying. Wow. I'm proud of you. More texts? No, I'm trying to keep losing. Tina texting you. No, not yet. So big announcement. Do you want to make the big announcement? How did we roll it out? When they were over at our house. No, we were at their house. On Wednesday, we ended up hanging out all afternoon. You and I had an idea. We did. We had a brainstorm. We had a brainstorm. We said, what do you think it would look like if we all had a crossover show at some point? So I brought it up to them. I said, we have...

26:29 I was shy about bringing it up. I didn't want to be pretentious at all. I know. You were afraid they would go, no, that might not work. I was thinking how much fun that would be. Right. But you didn't know how they would feel. So I brought it up. Adam said, I know what you're going to say. I know what you're going to say. He said, I know what you're going to say because it's what Tina and I have been talking about. When we brought it up, let's have a crossover show. He said that's exactly what I want to do. I was like, what? This is a God thing. It is. It's going to be fun. So, Curry and the Keeper, Living Up in a Down World. I'm going to ask... Here's what I'm going to do. I'm going to give Adam my file for Living Up in a Down World, the music. I'm going to say, make a mashup. Put them together. I think that would be really cool.

27:12 So anyway, that's the big announcement. We all chatted about it. We are all in. It will just be a one-time deal. But I don't know. We'll probably do it every now and then. So we'll probably go to his studio. He's got the better equipment. He's a lot more professional than we are. He's got a real studio. We have a mock studio, a wannabe studio. So we're going to go to his place and we'll plug in all four microphones. We'll sit down. We're going to talk about our faith journey, talk about our life journeys, and just talk about our friendship. But also just talk about what we think God's up to in terms of living up in a down world, Curry and the Keeper. We just feel like God is... Tell me it's not going to be live. I'm not... Okay, I'm hoping that it's not live at this point.

27:52 I'll let you talk to Adam about that. I will. I will talk to Adam. You know, they really are an interesting couple. They've lived an interesting life. I know. Tina said, no, not me. Mine is just... I grew up in West Texas around motorcycles and hot rods and football. And I grew up in Odessa, Texas. Come on. Really? The only thing that is known in Odessa is Friday Night Lights. Football. Football came from there. I was there when... It's huge. They were a power. Yes. It was a big deal. Not so much now, but anyway.

28:32 So, yeah. So that's it. We're going to do a crossover show where we're going to do a show together. And I'm telling you, it'll be a chat fest. I can tell you. We're all talkers, right? What are you doing? I'm looking at the next note. So I'm ready for it. You keep looking down at your phone. No, quit. No, no. Seriously. Are you texting Tina again? No, I'm not. She's going to show me a picture of her rug she got in, but it's not here yet. Wow. Big news. There's a big news. So anyway, that's going to be cool. And this week... I'm super excited. Yes. You got a call from the office of... What is it? What do you call it? I've got a note here. It is from the secretary of the Senate. Secretary of the Senate. You got asked to open up in prayer this Thursday.

29:15 And so we'll be driving to Austin for you to do that. Yeah. So during the House and Senate sessions, which they're in session right now, they invite different people. You have to be... You can't just ask to do it. Somebody from the Senate has to put your name in a line. But we have no idea. We don't know who did it. This is your second time to do this, but we have no clue. And they had to find you because you were part of Oak Hills. Yeah, we were with Oak Hills. Now we're Bridge Church. I have no idea who put your name in the head. I don't either. I don't know who... Before we thought it was someone on the House side, but he's not even there now. And so anyway, pretty cool. I'm going to go and so on. I'll open the Senate session in prayer. You have to pre-write your prayer.

29:56 They got to approve it. I mean, they got to make sure you're politically correct. I'm totally cool with that. And so anyway, I'm looking forward to it. It's an honor. It really is an honor. Yeah, I mean, it really is. And two, I mean, I just... I believe in praying and I believe in the power of prayer. And so I do. I believe that God will be on that prayer. And I sort of wrote it all out and sent it to them. So hopefully they'll send it back. This is a big week. Okay, so we just... It is a big week. We had a wedding on Saturday. We had church on Sunday, and that was amazing. Talking about Abraham, Sarah, and Isaac. Yeah, the series is called No Perfect People Allowed. It was great. And then now you're at the Senate on Thursday.

30:37 And then Saturday, you get to do a meet-up. Oh, I'm so pumped. I know. I told Adam and Tina what an honor it was for you to be asked to go. Oh, I'm stoked about it. I'm stoked about it. Adam knows I don't like to do things on Saturday, and neither does he because we're both prepping. I'm prepping for church. He's prepping for his show, No Agenda. So we get it. We get each other. But he was like, hey, I'm going to invite you to this. And it's okay to say no. He said, there's going to be a meet-up for No Agenda in Austin on Saturday. Would you want to go with me? I said, dude, I'm in. I mean, he is really? He said, I said, no, I'm serious. I would love to meet. Because what's happened is Tina and Adam have talked about us so much on their show that a lot of those that follow Curry and the Keeper, and many that follow No Agenda as well, have listened to our podcast.

31:27 And so we feel like we're sort of a part of the family. We're sort of like the stepchildren or the adopted kids or whatever. The adopted kids. We're the adopted kids. And so we feel like we're a part of that family. And I was like, I would be honored to meet people at a meet-up. And Tina typically goes with them. And she said the next time they have one, they wanted us all to go. Oh, that would be awesome. Because she's leaving for New York on Wednesday. She's not going to be flying back in until Saturday. So I'm going to go to San Antonio. Can you believe it? Which is a big deal for you to go drive to San Antonio and pick her up. Drive to San Antonio and pick her up. Because you love her. I do. It's a love thing. Because I do not enjoy driving in San Antonio. When you told me that, I was like, you wouldn't do that for me.

32:07 But you would do it for Tina. I would. I would tell you to leave your car there. I would tell her. Maybe Uber or something. I would. Anyway, yeah. So I am really. So if any of you are listening that are part of the Gitmo Nation, No Agenda World, and Curry and the Keeper, I, man, I'm looking forward to meeting folks in Austin with Adam. So I'm just going to be tagging along and having fun. See, this could just be your show. Don't read me. Don't you ever do that. It's you, me, and Chevy. Oh, gosh. It could be you and Chevy. So my sister-in-law, Patty Pruitt in Lubbock, Texas, wrote today, said, hey, I want to give you some feedback on the show. It was really cool what she wrote. Super sweet. And, but she said, I've never heard Chevy do or say or bark or anything.

32:50 Nothing. Because he doesn't do that unless someone's walking him. But we should. She said poke him or something. I said, if I poked him, he'd just roll over on his back so we could scratch his belly. I mean, that's Chevy. So right now, he's literally. You can't make him do anything. He's totally. He's a big fluff ball right now. He's getting a haircut this week. So anyway, yeah. So that's a big Saturday. It is a big week. I got that. And, man, I'm just so honored to do that. And then you have to preach again Sunday. Get to preach. Are you going to preach on Sunday? I'm not sure yet. Man, there's so many great characters. No, no. I don't know in the Bible. Yeah, don't say characters. People in the Bible are not cartoon characters. There's so many interesting people in the Bible. And just so those of you that are listening, I think if you're looking for a sermon series, I mean, if you want to listen to some preaching that's not preachy, go to bridgefbg.com.

33:39 All of our messages are there. You can go to YouTube. We're all the same stuffs there. But I'm doing a series called No Perfect People Allowed. And the whole point of it is to help people understand that God uses us in the middle of our messed up lives. A lot of times our biggest mess ups are how God uses us to help other people. Talk about that. That is huge. Yes. If you learned from them, you've grown from your mistakes, you see that it's something that can help other people to keep them from making those same mistakes. Because you've been there, done that, got the t-shirt. Yes. So it was a great message. I love the grafting in.

34:20 That was a good illustration. There's a couple of pieces there. First of all, I've started all the sermons in this series with Humpty Dumpty sat on a wall. And I have the whole congregation do it. We all do it together. Humpty Dumpty sat on a wall. Humpty Dumpty had a great fall. All the king's horses and all the king's men couldn't put Mr. or Mrs. Humpty Dumpty together again. And then I say, but God can. And that's the thing is that it's true. No men can sometimes come back. No people, no person can come back and fix us. We can't even fix ourselves. We need help. And that help comes in the form of Jesus Christ.

35:02 And so He's here to walk with us and help us and love us on our worst day and in our darkest moments. And I want to encourage you, He will never love you any less on your worst day and your worst moment, in the middle of your worst decision, than He does on your best day on the mountaintop in your most epic, glorious moment. He loves you the same because He's a good Father. That's right. And so I want to encourage you in that because that's been kind of the core message of this, is to help people understand because a lot of people don't feel like they can be used by God. Right, because they've made too many mistakes. But look at Abraham. OK, you talked about Abraham. OK, he made a huge mistake when God told him that he was… Yeah, he went and slept with somebody.

35:46 He was going to bear a son, or Sarah was going to bear a son, and nothing was happening for 25 years. And so she says, here, just take my maiden. Go sleep with my servant. And have a son with her. They both messed up. And he just goes, OK, and goes on. He's like a dude, just, oh, you're telling me to have sex with her? OK, I'll do that. Oh my gosh. Well, yeah, anybody would do that if their wife said, yes. Oh my gosh, yeah, it was a massive mistake. But who is He? The Father of all nations. I know, He became that. Yes. So God did not derail His destiny. He didn't derail His destiny. That's what's so important for people to understand is they feel like, oh, I made mistakes, so now I'm unworthy.

36:27 And it's still not perfect. Oh my gosh. Well, neither are we. Well, here's what I told our folks, and I say this to anybody, that the day that only perfect people are allowed to be in a church will be the day there'll never be another church again. Right. That's true. They won't exist. No. Including me. Exactly. I'm out. All of us are. So I want to encourage you. And if you think this is something that might help you, it is helping our people. I mean, just people are coming to me and saying, this is so helping me because I just felt like I was disqualified, like I wasn't good enough. And that goes for your worship. Sometimes people won't worship in a worship service because they feel like I'm unworthy.

37:08 Unworthy. Not even worthy to worship God because He's perfect and I'm not. Well, welcome to the human race. You're in the club. I worship God out of gratitude. Oh, man. Where we are now. It's like, God, thank you. Thank you for bringing me out of the miry clay. I'm just like, my prayers are gratitude. I don't hardly pray for anything anymore. I pray for people, but it's really short. But for yourself, you're not praying, you're just thanking. Thank you, thank you, thank you. For your mercy. If we could change our prayer from thank you or from help me, I need this, I want this, to thank you for this, this, this. Oh, my goodness. That changes everything. This girl is on fire.

37:49 You're on fire. I love it. We do live a life of gratitude. Doesn't mean everything's always perfect. Oh, no. But we try to look at the positive things that have happened in our life or are happening or will happen. That's right. Because if you put your mind on those things that can happen, those great things that can happen, that it doesn't look like it's going to happen, but you make your eyes see the best in something, it will happen. Colossians 3.2, set your mind on things above, not on things on the earth. There is good coming. It's right around the corner for you if you'll just hold on. Right. Literally. Sometimes it is a hold on. It is.

38:29 It's hang on for the ride. We've had a hold on for years. Oh, we've had to strap our seat belts in and hang on. God still came through. And continues to. Because we were faithful. That's the key. We didn't quit. We didn't quit. We didn't quit. Man, if there's anything we have to credit to our lives. We have tenacity. Tenacity, persistence, endurance. We just don't quit. We're stubborn. And that's not a bad thing. No, I think that's a good characteristic to have. Because we knew God wouldn't quit. So we couldn't quit. No doubt. We trust Him. We did. Yeah. Still do. Huge. Trust is massive. So yeah, I don't know where I'm going to go next. I'm kind of leaning towards David. Well, I was going to say you need to do David.

39:09 Because this new song we're doing talks about David and Goliath. Oh, it does. And so if we're singing that song this week as well, which we always do. I love his story. Then you need to use that. Yeah. I had a guy who has a prophetic edge. I mean, he just really hears God's voice. And he said, you're such a David. Because I've got the poet side of me. I'm a tinder, but I'm also a warrior. I'm a fighter. So it's like, I was like. I was told I was Joan of Arc. That's huge. Your compliment might be better than mine. Because David, that's a massive failure. It's pretty accurate. Well, we all have. Lay it out there. Let's just lay it out there.

39:49 It's true. Well, you have had some massive failures. Indeed, I have. Oh, but God. We all have. But God. So when we tell our story, just for you that are listening, maybe you're new or newer. We always, we tell our gory stuff. We tell the hard things. We tell the failures. We tell of our embarrassments, our shame from the past. We don't live there anymore. But we tell that. But we always end with a but God. But God, He didn't let us down. He hung with us through it all. And He didn't let us down. He stayed with us. And He loved us. He says He'll never leave us or forsake us. We're the ones who leave.

40:29 And we say, but God was not there. Now we left. We moved. He never, never leaves us. It's always one step back, family. I always say if you swim out to an island, it's 12 miles. If you swim back, how far is it? 12 miles. But when you fall from God or walk away, it feels like 12 miles, but it's literally one step. It's called repentance. That's where you simply turn around. You don't have to backtrack 12 miles. You turn around and He's right there because He never left you. He never forsake you. He's there, literally. Exactly. More text? No, just checking. How's Chevy? Oh my gosh. How's Chevy over there?

41:09 At least he's... Oh, you just woke him up. I did. Hey buddy. I wish I could get him to bark or something, but I can't. So yeah, so that's been our week. We got a lot going on, fun stuff happening, exciting things happening with Curry and the Keeper. I'm super pumped about that. And then our big announcement is we're going to start going live, right? No, I'm not ready for that. I want to stream. I love the spontaneity of it. I mean, we never hit pause anyway. We just keep going. But see, we already do it basically. We'll see. Let's just see. So a couple of things I just want to encourage our people. First of all, I want to thank all of you who've been writing in, those of you who've been sending us Satoshis on Fountain and Cast-O-Matic and others.

41:55 First of all, Fountain, man, what a great platform for listening to podcasts. I want to encourage you to download the Fountain app. It's super simple to find. Go under your iOS or your Android store and just type in Fountain podcast and it'll pull up. Pull up that. You can literally earn Satoshis, which is Bitcoin, tiny Bitcoin. You can earn them just by listening. You can listen to us there and then you can bless those Satoshis forward and support. And I do want you to know we're able to, particularly through Fountain, and we're setting up PayPal as well for our website. We haven't done that yet, but we're in the process of it. But it helps. It helps to have support.

42:35 We put a lot into this. We care about you. We're writing. I'll write you back. If you ever write us, we want to correspond with you and help you and encourage you. And so whatever we can do to do that, we're all in with that. And so I'm noticing my time is running short here. So we'll see if I can run out. So we're going to land the plane right here. We love you. Till next week, have an amazing week on purpose, living up in a down world. Anything to say to that on the way out? Thank you so much for all your support. We love you. You're amazing.