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There Has to be More Than This · Crusade with Me

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  Welcome back to Crusade with me. Our world moves
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  quickly. Our minds rarely rest. We consume more
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  information than any generation before us and
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  yet many of us struggle to find wisdom. So for
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  the next... not an hour, but... It might be an
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  hour, not today. Let's slow down. Let's pay attention.
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  Let's ask better questions. And together, let's
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  listen for the voice that has been speaking since
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  the beginning. You know, we're getting ready
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  to start a series. Haven't done a series since
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  we brought back Crusade with me, but I think
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  it's time. The title of the series is gonna be
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  called Attention. I haven't even figured out
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  all the episodes, but it looks like it's gonna
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  be about six episodes, maybe more. Focusing on
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  Attention, and today, Title of this episode is
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  There has to be more to this You know everyone
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  has said it It doesn't matter who you are in
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  this life, I mean the wealthy have said that
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  there has to be more than this The addict has
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  said it Teenagers have said it. The retiree has
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  said it. The CEO has said it. The single mom
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  has said it. The atheist has said that. And Christians
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  have said that. Everyone. Why is that? I mean,
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  I think we can all say we've had that moment,
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  have we not? You know, when you finally accomplish
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  something that you've worked for for years or
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  thought about or planned, you know, you buy the
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  truck or you buy the gun or you buy the you buy
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  the whatever or You finally get that promotion.
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  You finally take that vacation. You know, you
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  raise your kids and you and your spouse sit there
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  and you look at each other. Or you finally retire.
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  And somewhere in the quiet, A question sneaks
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  into our minds. Is this it? It's not because
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  life is bad necessarily, but because there's
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  something within us or something inside that
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  whispers There has to be more to this Last episode
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  we looked at Romans chapter 8 And Paul had written
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  there that I want to remind you of that This
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  is what led to this series Romans chapter 8 When
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  Paul writes that creation groans, we groan, the
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  world groans for more. So then that makes me
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  wonder. Where does that feeling come from? You
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  know, evolution can't really explain it. And
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  materialism can't satisfy it. Consumerism absolutely
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  exploits it. advertising depends on it politicians
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  promise to fix it pornography counterfeits it
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  success distracts from it and technology and
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  it synthesizes it. One of my favorite books of
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  the Bible is the book of Ecclesiastes, written
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  by Solomon, professed to be the wisest man that
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  ever lived. In chapter 3 verse 11, Solomon writes,
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  He has set eternity in our hearts. You know,
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  I've spent nearly 40 years in manufacturing.
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  And I've learned over the years, you know what?
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  A good operator is a person that operates a line
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  or operates a machine every day. And when he
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  hears a strange sound, he knows that's different.
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  That's not noise. It's a sound. And then he reports
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  it or he investigates it himself. You know, we
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  could simply kind of turn up the radio, right?
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  Nah, it's just noise. Until we have a catastrophic
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  failure. Because if we can stop and investigate
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  and say, hey, this thing's just not getting enough
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  lubrication, we can either one, fix it so it
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  gets the proper lubrication, or we can manually
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  lubricate it just to get it by till we have more
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  time and schedule the fix. But stopping to investigate
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  is kind of important. Because noise is telling
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  us something. And I think that that longing inside
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  of each one of us is noise. And it deserves to
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  be investigated. So what do we do instead of
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  investigating the noise that we sometimes hear?
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  Scroll, or we go buy things that we think we
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  want or need. Got to double down on my career,
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  got to make that happen. Sometimes I just get
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  a big old jar of peanut butter and a spoon and
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  just eat. Sometimes drink just coffee today.
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  Sometimes people drink stuff much harder so they
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  can not hear the noise. Sometimes we dive into
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  politics and we say, Oh, we've got to, we've
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  got to join this movement to drown out that noise.
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  Sometimes people turn to pornography. Sometimes
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  people turn to any type of achievement. They
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  look at what I have achieved. Then we can do
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  more scrolling for more noise. You know, maybe
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  the feeling that whisper, that there has to be
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  more than this, it isn't depression. It isn't
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  weakness. It isn't failure. Maybe it's the sound
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  of a heart that remembers that it was made for
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  more. You know, every civilization I've ever
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  studied tried to explain the groaning that Paul
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  wrote about in Romans 8. You know, evolution
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  can describe survival, but it can't explain longing.
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  Materialism can measure matter, but it can't
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  measure hope. Consumerism profits from our dissatisfaction,
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  and technology distracts us from it. Politics
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  promises to fix it. What if your attention has
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  been captured by everything except the one thing
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  trying to get your attention? And that's what
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  I want to talk about for the next several weeks.
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  That's what we need to investigate. I want to
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  be clear, not because I have any answers. but
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  because I've spent the last 60 years discovering
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  that the deepest questions are worth asking slowly.
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  So maybe the question isn't, is there more than
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  this? Maybe every one of us already knows there
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  is. Maybe the better question is, what is the
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  more trying to point us toward? The noise is
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  real. Don't silence it. So stay with us. And
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  together let's investigate what it's trying to
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  tell us.