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Celebrating 100 Years: Remembering 9/11 · Karl and Crew

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  S1: Broadcasting from Chicago, across North America and beyond. It's Carl
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  S1: and crew.
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  S2: Come as you are an experienced guide, overcome what seems
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  S2: impossible and live as you never imagined.
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  S1: Delivering the truth daily.
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  S3: If it were possible to have every worldly gain available.
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  S3: And you're forfeiting your soul. There's no amount of gain
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  S3: that would make it worth it.
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  S4: Our own way never ever works. Because it's apart from
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  S4: the life source, which is God.
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  S5: For me, growing up, love was always conditional and can
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  S5: be taken from you. Christ's love can't. And he went
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  S5: to the cross with my mind and my heart that night.
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  S1: Now from the call of Hope Studios, this is Carl
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  S1: and crew.
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  S2: Freedom Friday. And all we want freedom from is the
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  S2: particulates that are in the air. We're speaking for Chicago
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  S2: because we're broadcasting from Chicago, but it's affecting.
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  S4: A lot of the a lot of the US.
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  S5: I was going to say.
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  S2: Yeah, it's it's all over. I saw I was watching
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  S2: some broadcasting from New York and I guess they're getting hit.
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  S2: They are, but it's pretty rough here. I'm not a
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  S2: big alarmist. I wasn't a big face mask guy. I
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  S2: had a hunch that those suckers weren't working really well
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  S2: back in the day anyway, so I wasn't a big
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  S2: face mask dude when Covid was around here, but I
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  S2: am now.
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  S4: Yeah, well.
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  S2: As it is, it's it's dicey out there, guys.
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  S4: Chicago's air quality yesterday was the worst in the world.
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  S4: Not in the US, in the world. So yeah, it
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  S4: was bad.
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  S2: When you're beating out Beijing you're doing something man. You
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  S2: really are. It's it's kind of rough, isn't it, Ali?
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  S3: It is. I mean, you can't really take a deep
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  S3: breath a minute. I couldn't even see the skyline this
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  S3: morning as I was driving in, the skyline was totally
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  S3: obscured by, by smoke. And so and just there's a haze.
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  S5: You could smell it.
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  S3: It smells everything smells like a fire. So it's definitely
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  S3: to be taken seriously. I saw quite a few masks
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  S3: this morning as people were still, you know, moving out
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  S3: and about starting their, their Friday, but it's definitely, uh,
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  S3: take some precautions.
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  S2: Yeah, it's, it's dicey. So I was thinking back to
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  S2: when in my childhood, when we took trips through the
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  S2: Yukon Territory and they burned off, they allowed to burn
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  S2: off back in the day because it. Canada is a
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  S2: vast land and you when forest fires kick off. And
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  S2: that's what's happening in Canada right now. The ability to
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  S2: control these things is about nil. I mean, you know,
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  S2: you want to control them when they get near populations
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  S2: of people. but for the most part, people that live remotely,
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  S2: they're kind of on their own to make sure that
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  S2: their house doesn't burn down, and they build things in
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  S2: such a way that they're near rivers or firebreaks, natural firebreaks,
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  S2: different things like that. But we drove the Alcan in
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  S2: that VW Squareback and and did we do it in
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  S2: the Green Rambler? I'm kind of forgetting, but it was
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  S2: we made several round trips on the Alcan, couldn't afford
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  S2: plane tickets, so we got in cars and drove and wow.
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  S2: We drove through some massive forest fires like through them.
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  S2: So it wasn't dangerous. A couple of times I think
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  S2: it was dicey. We could see big licking flames not
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  S2: too far away, but there was pretty intense smoke. I'll
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  S2: tell you right now. Would you believe I did a
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  S2: deep dive on this because of the particulates that have
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  S2: kind of filtered out and have drifted our way. Some
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  S2: of the density of this smoke that's landing on our
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  S2: doorstep is almost more dangerous than driving through a firefight,
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  S2: a a legit fire for a stretch. Really? Yeah. And
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  S2: for crying out loud, my dog blaze understood that he
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  S2: wanted to get back in. Like, the minute I take
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  S2: him out, he's like, let's get back in. This isn't good.
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  S2: So if you live anywhere near this smoke, I would
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  S2: encourage you. I'm not an alarmist. They do say get
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  S2: an N95 mask, which is a little bit higher quality
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  S2: than your typical mask, I think, and try to try
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  S2: to get that stay indoors unless you gotta move. Right.
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  S2: And if you're in your car, put the recycling interior
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  S2: air on. Don't bring an air from the outside. And
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  S2: if you're at home, I'm going full dad mode here. Sorry, Ali.
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  S2: It's okay. Um, if you're at home, turn your fan on.
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  S2: Don't leave it on auto to kick on when the
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  S2: AC comes on, keep the fan cycling because that'll keep
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  S2: cycling your air through the home and through your filtration system.
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  S2: So that's all I got today on fires.
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  S3: Do we know when this is going to start?
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  S2: That part is it's looking like it's going to go
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  S2: through Saturday.
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  S4: Yeah.
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  S3: Because I thought I had initially heard that today we
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  S3: might get some relief.
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  S4: But might clear a little bit with some rain that
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  S4: comes in. Uh, we were.
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  S2: Supposed to get a downpour at one and two, but
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  S2: that went bye bye on the screen.
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  S4: So and so it's, it's just going to cycle back through.
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  S2: Yeah. And for all of our friends in Florida with
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  S2: the cool breeze and 72 degrees coming off the coast
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  S2: today and no smoke around you, God bless you.
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  S4: Enjoy it. Go outside and have some fun.
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  S3: Yeah.
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  S2: Yeah. So what do we do with anxiousness on this
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  S2: Freedom Friday? We're talking about the anxious generation. All week long.
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  S2: We've been tackling this from a lot of different directions.
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  S2: It's been a blessing, hasn't it guys?
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  S3: It is, it is. And you know, the interesting thing
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  S3: is we've been talking about nine over 11 and Moody
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  S3: Radio's kind of seat front seat of broadcasting during that
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  S3: morning show that morning. I remember after nine over 11,
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  S3: for me personally, how much my anxiety levels spiked for
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  S3: quite a while. And it was, and I started watching
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  S3: the news obsessively. I couldn't get enough updates, not because
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  S3: I needed to know I was a college student. It wasn't.
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  S3: It didn't hit me personally, but I couldn't stop consuming
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  S3: news because I felt like things are happening. We're vulnerable.
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  S3: I need to see this. So, I mean, that's one
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  S3: big contributor to anxiety is when something big happens in
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  S3: your life, whether it's personally or corporately, and all of
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  S3: a sudden you feel way more vulnerable than maybe you
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  S3: did before.
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  S2: Yeah, yeah, you're right about that. We're going to go
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  S2: to a cool passage of scripture that, and I don't
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  S2: want to save it for you because some of you
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  S2: are feeling anxious right now about something. And in fact,
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  S2: I'm going to go here. I'm going to take it
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  S2: in first Peter chapter five. Now, this this book was
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  S2: written to a group of people who were feeling anxious.
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  S2: They were under the gun of persecution guys. So I
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  S2: think it's good to understand the context of this letter, right?
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  S3: Yes.
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  S2: And in first Peter chapter five, verse six, it says,
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  S2: humble yourselves therefore under the mighty hand of God, which
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  S2: is always a good place to be, isn't it?
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  S4: Can't let go of that place.
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  S2: Yeah. So that at the proper time he may exalt you.
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  S2: And then we often leave off that next verse, casting
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  S2: all your anxieties on him because he cares for you. Now,
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  S2: can we get a vision of that casting? This is
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  S2: not just setting down, this is casting. Now, I know
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  S2: a little bit about casting. I've casting is a is
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  S2: actually a fishing term. It's used by Jesus castanets on
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  S2: the other side, right? And in order to cast a net,
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  S2: you know what you got to do?
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  S4: Throw it.
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  S2: You got to willfully throw that sucker.
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  S5: I mean, whip it out there.
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  S2: You gotta throw.
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  S5: It. Yeah.
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  S2: Isn't that cool?
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  S4: I like it because taking the the metaphor even further, uh,
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  S4: I mean, a net is really heavy. So and the
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  S4: things that we hold on to are burdens are really heavy.
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  S4: We gotta throw them overboard. We can't just drop those suckers.
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  S4: Let's throw them. Get them away from us.
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  S2: Yeah. Commercial fishermen in Alaska love that. Her followers of
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  S2: Jesus love that their commercial fishermen in Alaska. You know why?
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  S2: Almost everything we do every day relates to the scriptures,
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  S2: the rough seas, the anchor that holds in the storms.
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  S2: You know what I'm saying? The safe harbor. And this one.
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  S2: Casting all your cares on him because he cares for you.
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  S2: And it's a visual boom crew. I want you to
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  S2: hear me now. It's a visual that you will truly
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  S2: grab up those anxious things that are in your heart
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  S2: right now and just go, I'm, I'm. I'm throwing them
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  S2: on you. You care for me. Here. Take this.
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  S3: And I love that it's linked to humility. I mean,
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  S3: humbling yourself under the mighty hand of God, casting your
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  S3: anxieties on him. You can't really cast your anxieties on
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  S3: him until you humble yourself and acknowledge that I don't
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  S3: have this. I don't got this.
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  S2: Yeah, I don't get this. I love that it's really true.
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  S2: It takes an act of the will because nature, our
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  S2: human nature, the flesh says, I gotta hold on to this.
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  S2: I gotta sort it out. Sometimes in lieu of casting,
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  S2: it will ignore it. We'll set it down. I don't
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  S2: know about you, but I've noticed every time I try
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  S2: to set that thing down, it's that thing follows me around.
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  S3: Room to room, just like a little puppy.
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  S2: We gotta throw it on to the Lord. So I
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  S2: just have a question for you today that I want
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  S2: to get text response to, and then we're going to
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  S2: pray about it. What are you anxious about today that
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  S2: you need to throw down at the feet of Jesus?
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  S2: What do you what do you need to throw down
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  S2: at the feet of Jesus? This metaphor is one that
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  S2: my bride uses all the time. Just throwing it down,
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  S2: throwing it down, throwing it out because he can handle it.
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  S2: I don't know if there's some super spirituality that makes
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  S2: us think, boy, I better. Oh, I can't give this
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  S2: to God. He's. We're commanded to cast our anxious thoughts,
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  S2: our anxious situations on him because he cares for us.
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  S3: It's. We're commanded to and we're invited to. Yeah, it's
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  S3: an invitation.
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  S2: We can do it. So what are you anxious about?
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  S2: That you really need to just grab it off the
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  S2: deck and throw it on him. Think about that. It's
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  S2: a pretty cool picture. You're not throwing your anxious thoughts
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  S2: into the ocean. You're throwing them right onto the Savior.
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  S2: Cast them on him because he cares for you. What
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  S2: are you anxious about today? Text us. We will not
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  S2: shout out your number, but just text us and let
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  S2: us know. And we're going to pray for you in
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  S2: this half hour. What are you anxious about today? And
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  S2: we're going to pray for you. 800 555, 78, 98.
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  S2: He is the Waymaker. What are you anxious about today?
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  S2: That we can pray for you. That you can, in fact,
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  S2: cast those things on him because he cares for you. 805, 55, 78, 98.
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  S2: What we find in First Peter five is that out
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  S2: of humility, and I'm glad you highlighted that, Ali. It's
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  S2: in verse six. Humble yourselves therefore under the mighty hand
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  S2: of God, so that at the proper time he may
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  S2: exalt you. You know you can't do verse seven without
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  S2: a humble posture. Think about that. Verse seven then says,
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  S2: casting all, not some, all your anxieties on him because
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  S2: he cares for you. And then it's linked to this.
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  S2: Verse eight be sober minded, be watchful. Your adversary the
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  S2: devil prowls around like a lion seeking to devour. And here's.
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  S2: This is why I love contextual analysis of Scripture so
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  S2: much better than just grabbing a verse. What do we
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  S2: find here? Humility is really gives you the energy to
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  S2: cast your anxiety on God who cares for you. And
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  S2: what's implied here is that if we're not sober minded
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  S2: with regard to these things that we're anxious about, Satan
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  S2: himself is going to try to use those things to
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  S2: derail us in a significant way. Have you ever noticed
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  S2: that when you're anxious, it seems to be fodder for demons?
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  S3: Yes, because because of what it does to your overall mindset.
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  S3: I mean, we we use the word catastrophizing a couple
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  S3: of times this week. That's become kind of a buzzword
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  S3: where it's pretty common for people to take a really
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  S3: a mundane scenario and make it in their mind the
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  S3: absolute worst possible thing that could ever happen. Like, oh,
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  S3: I got a paper cut on my finger. What if
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  S3: this gets infected? What if my finger has to get
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  S3: cut off? What if then I lose and you go
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  S3: down the whole line so quickly, and that can become
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  S3: such a demonic thing, because your thoughts are not fixed
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  S3: on what's true and what's lovely and what's honorable. It
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  S3: is fixed on what is dark, what is what represents death,
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  S3: and that can really derail you.
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  S2: It can. It really can. So again, in just a
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  S2: couple of minutes here, we're going to pray for all
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  S2: of you. We'll get through as many as we can.
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  S2: There are some heartfelt, anxious things that you are going to,
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  S2: by the power of the Holy Spirit, cast these anxious
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  S2: things on God because he cares for you, and you're
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  S2: going to pick him up through prayer, and you're going
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  S2: to say, God, here, I humbly give this to you.
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  S2: And here's the power. The fact that our God cares
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  S2: for us that much. Why would we not cast them
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  S2: on him? And we're going to do this through prayer.
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  S2: What are you anxious about today? We're not going to
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  S2: shout out your phone numbers. We're just going to cite
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  S2: some of these things. We will leave names out. But
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  S2: what are you anxious about today that you would love
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  S2: some prayer? So you don't carry this anymore? Wow, what
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  S2: a privilege. 805 557898 give them to us. Try to
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  S2: be as brief as you can. I know some of
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  S2: these have a big story, but try to be as
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  S2: brief as you can. God knows the whole situation. 800 555, 7898.
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  S1: It's Carl and Crew on Moody Radio.
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  S2: The kind of suffering the audience was going through that
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  S2: first Peter is a letter to was real Man. The
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  S2: amount of persecution was significant. No doubt a lot of
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  S2: their anxiousness revolved around AM I going to live? AM
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  S2: I going to die? AM I going to be without food?
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  S2: Will I be without shelter? Will I be able to
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  S2: care for my kids? But God sees your anxious thoughts
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  S2: right now. And what an amazing invitation. What an amazing command.
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  S2: What an amazing God that he's able to care for us.
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  S2: And so we're called in verse seven of first Peter,
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  S2: chapter five, casting all your anxieties on him because he
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  S2: cares for you. We're going to go through here and
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  S2: just highlight some of these. We're going to try to
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  S2: get as many as we can here, but God sees
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  S2: them all. And then we're going to spend a couple
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  S2: of moments in prayer in a pending lawsuit, anxious about war.
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  S2: And my children, will they come to know the Lord,
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  S2: my finances, health concerns, and wanting a spouse. Paycheck to paycheck.
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  S2: Financial insecurity. These are real. Uh. It looks like someone
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  S2: they love. Test results coming back. Uh, adult son with
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  S2: long Covid, um, adult daughter needs salvation. Settling into a
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  S2: new job, remembering it's a gift and an answer to prayer.
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  S2: Job change coming. My kids safety. When they're not with me.
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  S2: I worry something's going to happen. My mind goes to
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  S2: the worst, worst, extreme possible scenario. My kids future money. Uh,
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  S2: being tempted, uh, with lust all day and losing focus
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  S2: on God. That's a great anxious thing to throw at
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  S2: the feet of Jesus, man. We go on here. My
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  S2: relationship with my wife, letting go of past hurts. I
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  S2: don't know how I'm going to take care of both
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  S2: of my aging parents myself. Boy, those are real prayers
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  S2: for a place to live for my family and foreclosure
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  S2: right now. Woo! Ali, why don't you pick it up, sister?
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  S3: Yeah. A daughter who is, uh, they fear is into
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  S3: something demonic. A child, an adult child in a same
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  S3: sex relationship, anxious about marriage, a son's spiritual condition, a
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  S3: son's addiction, having problems, making a decision about a position
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  S3: that pays the bills, or to keep a job. Having
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  S3: anxiety about division within a family, starting a new job, money,
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  S3: strife in relationships, bad character traits. Anxious about a divorce,
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  S3: anxious about a grandson. About a family member lost to suicide.
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  S3: About a husband who has walked away and anxious about
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  S3: a new job. Anxious about grown children for possible heart surgery.
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  S3: Anxious about my marriage, my worth, work, family, salvation, not
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  S3: being married, my son's OCD and addiction. A financial salvation
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  S3: for family members, water damage. Boy oh boy. There's a
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  S3: lot here.
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  S2: There's a lot. And it keeps going on here. A
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  S2: son in prison. An impending divorce. I mean, the list
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  S2: goes on and on. And the Lord knows every one
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  S2: of these, whether we read them out or not. He
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  S2: knows everyone. Jonathan, I'm going to ask you to bow
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  S2: before God right now and pour out your heart that
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  S2: these could be cast upon the Lord, these anxious things,
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  S2: because he cares for us.
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  S4: Yes, God, you are near to the brokenhearted and you
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  S4: save those who are crushed in spirit.
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  S2: Amen.
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  S4: God, you are a trustworthy God to throw our cares
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  S4: upon and you ask us to do it, Lord. Give
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  S4: us the strength to be willing to let go of
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  S4: these things that we hold tightly onto God. They make
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  S4: us so anxious and. They freeze us up and they.
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  S4: They debilitate us. God, you are the only person who
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  S4: can hold these things. Yeah. So God, we give them
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  S4: to you. We cast them, throw them off of ourselves
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  S4: and into your arms where they. We know they are
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  S4: in your control and they have to bow before you. Yeah.
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  S4: We recognize your power and we recognize your love and
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  S4: how infinite those two things are in these situations. We
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  S4: ask you to be in control of them now. And Lord,
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  S4: do not let us come and try to take them
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  S4: back from you.
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  S6: Yes.
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  S4: We ask you these things today in Jesus name. Amen.
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  S2: Amen. And let it be. What a privilege, guys.
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  S4: Amen.
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  S2: He's got a deep sense, as you were praying that
• 20:19
  S2: the Lord is at work here, there's tears flowing. There's
• 20:22
  S2: hearts that are being made alive in Christ Jesus reminded
• 20:27
  S2: of the fact that he cares and we can cast
• 20:29
  S2: him there.
• 20:30
  S3: Ali and I mean, the privilege is right. Like what?
• 20:33
  S3: Where else do you find a privilege like this?
• 20:36
  S2: Oh, what an amazing thing to be found in Jesus.
• 20:41
  S2: And then to realize not only are we in Christ Jesus,
• 20:46
  S2: we can cast our anxiety on him because he cares
• 20:50
  S2: for us. Amazing. Let it be. Let the peace of
• 20:55
  S2: God guard your hearts today.
• 20:59
  S1: He was running from God, but God's love brought him home.
• 21:03
  S1: Carl is in the crew. It's Carl and crew on
• 21:07
  S1: Moody Radio.
• 21:08
  S2: There are times when I am humbled, to a point
• 21:13
  S2: where I wonder if I'm going to have the right words,
• 21:15
  S2: and I really mean that. I'm sitting in this seat
• 21:18
  S2: is an interesting position because for 100 years on the
• 21:23
  S2: 28th of this month, Moody radio has been pumping out
• 21:27
  S2: Hope gospel, encouraging people, helping them take their next step
• 21:31
  S2: with Jesus. We're just filling a seat here for a
• 21:33
  S2: little while.
• 21:34
  S3: And it's one of the most amazing parts of this
• 21:38
  S3: role is getting to hear from people and what Moody
• 21:41
  S3: Radio has meant to them over the years. And it's
• 21:45
  S3: never about a person, even though people may have their
• 21:48
  S3: their favorites over the years. But it's always about what
• 21:52
  S3: the message of the gospel, how that's impacted their lives,
• 21:56
  S3: their family's lives. You have people who go, my grandma
• 22:00
  S3: always had it on, and now I listen with my
• 22:02
  S3: kids and my grandkids. It's always about the gospel.
• 22:06
  S2: It's true. Doctor Joe Stowell is with us right now,
• 22:09
  S2: former president of Moody Bible Institute and Moody Radio 100 years. Doc,
• 22:15
  S2: what do you think?
• 22:16
  S7: Well, Carl, what a joy to be able to to
• 22:19
  S7: be alive, right? To celebrate this great day. One thing
• 22:23
  S7: I think about, I think way back when it first started,
• 22:25
  S7: I was reading some of the, uh, intricate interchanges that
• 22:30
  S7: people were having with Moody about opening a radio station.
• 22:33
  S7: And one of the things was, you shouldn't do this
• 22:36
  S7: because Satan is the prince of the power of the air.
• 22:41
  S8: It's it did that with the printing press too. Yeah.
• 22:46
  S7: Yeah, exactly. So, so thankful that our forefathers ignored that.
• 22:51
  S7: Maybe they knew that greater is he that is in
• 22:53
  S7: you than.
• 22:53
  S8: He.
• 22:54
  S7: Is in the air. Thank you. And so, and I think,
• 22:59
  S7: you know, we're going to have a lot of great
• 23:01
  S7: stories when we get to heaven. But the moody radio
• 23:04
  S7: story of faithfulness for 100 years that have impacted lives,
• 23:08
  S7: believers being discipled, challenged, convicted, sinners coming to know Christ.
• 23:14
  S7: It's going to be a great story. I can't wait
• 23:16
  S7: for the unfolding of it.
• 23:17
  S2: Yeah, it's going to be great. All right, doctor Joe
• 23:20
  S2: stole our guest right now. Um, Joe, you had a
• 23:24
  S2: tough 1911 hit, and we are taking some time today
• 23:29
  S2: to just go back down memory lane. I want to
• 23:31
  S2: get your response to this, but Wayne Shepherd and you
• 23:35
  S2: were interacting around this horrific tragedy that struck not only
• 23:40
  S2: the nation but the world. And here's a little clip
• 23:43
  S2: of that.
• 23:43
  S9: Well, live from Chicago, this is Moody Broadcasting's special coverage
• 23:47
  S9: of an incredible day in America. America seems to be
• 23:51
  S9: under a terrorist attack on several fronts. I'm Wayne Shepherd
• 23:55
  S9: in Chicago. We'll be getting a news update in just
• 23:57
  S9: a moment. Joining me here is Doctor Joe stole the
• 23:59
  S9: Moody Bible Institute.
• 24:01
  S10: Hey, Wayne, what a horrid day. What a horrid day.
• 24:03
  S10: You know, historically, America has always been spared the ravages
• 24:07
  S10: of war and terrorism. First world war, second world war.
• 24:10
  S10: We've never known anything like this. And the scale is
• 24:12
  S10: so huge. I just heard that AP is now reporting
• 24:16
  S10: that a car bomb has gone off in the State Department.
• 24:18
  S9: We're going to get a report on that in just
• 24:20
  S9: a moment. There's a fire at the Pentagon. One of
• 24:23
  S9: the two World Trade Centers has collapsed. Now, the second
• 24:28
  S9: tower is now going down in New York City. The
• 24:31
  S9: World Trade Center is no longer. Think of the human
• 24:35
  S9: devastation involved here. So stations, we're going to keep it
• 24:39
  S9: right here. We're going to switch to Washington DC and
• 24:42
  S9: SRN news for periodic updates. I'm joined by Doctor Joe Stoll.
• 24:46
  S9: Mark strand, A WMBI. Our flagship station in Chicago will
• 24:49
  S9: be joining us. So our commitment to our stations and
• 24:51
  S9: to our listeners, Doctor Stoll, is to provide as much
• 24:54
  S9: coverage of this as we can throughout the day.
• 24:56
  S3: That was a obviously a clip from the morning of
• 24:59
  S3: nine over 11. It was live at that time. The
• 25:01
  S3: information was coming in and our our hosts were trying
• 25:05
  S3: to get it to you along with hope as quickly
• 25:08
  S3: as possible. Doctor Stoll, what do you remember about that morning?
• 25:12
  S7: Well, I remember a lot actually. I'll never forget hearing
• 25:16
  S7: that this was happening. And the closest TV screens to
• 25:19
  S7: my office were in the radio studios, so I immediately
• 25:22
  S7: ran down to the radio station and I couldn't believe
• 25:26
  S7: what I was seeing. And I realized that as the
• 25:30
  S7: president of Moody, you know, it was very important for
• 25:32
  S7: me to play a role in putting this into a biblical,
• 25:36
  S7: God focused perspective. But we were so caught by surprise
• 25:40
  S7: here on my leadership playbook. I didn't have a chapter
• 25:43
  S7: on if the world power, you know, get terrorized and
• 25:47
  S7: knocked out by planes. Here's what to do and what
• 25:49
  S7: to say, right? So all of a sudden it was like, wow,
• 25:54
  S7: this is not just an important day historically, but an
• 25:58
  S7: important time for us to see this from a biblical
• 26:01
  S7: point of view and to bring peace and comfort and
• 26:04
  S7: courage and to help waylay the fear that was in
• 26:07
  S7: people's lives. So I'll never forget that morning.
• 26:10
  S2: You know, it's an interesting thing. Doctor Joe stole our
• 26:14
  S2: guest right now, former president of Moody Bible Institute and
• 26:17
  S2: was here during nine over 11 and on air helping
• 26:21
  S2: console and comfort people. Yeah. Moody radio, whether it's a
• 26:27
  S2: personal crisis, a a neighborhood crisis, a family crisis, a
• 26:33
  S2: national crisis, an international crisis, we know that our numbers
• 26:38
  S2: tick up exponentially when these things happen. What's going on there, Joe?
• 26:45
  S7: Yeah. Well, I'm very thankful that our numbers still tick
• 26:47
  S7: up because we had a unique voice, didn't we, Carl? Yeah.
• 26:51
  S7: And in analyzing this and trying to see this from
• 26:55
  S7: a godly perspective. So I'm thankful for that and that
• 26:59
  S7: people have confidence in Moody Radio that we just don't
• 27:02
  S7: bend the truth or do half half news, but we
• 27:06
  S7: bring the truth of Jesus Christ. And I not only
• 27:10
  S7: realized that I had a radio constituency, but I also
• 27:14
  S7: had a whole staff on campus. And maybe more importantly,
• 27:17
  S7: I had a whole campus full of students. Young people. Yes.
• 27:21
  S7: That somehow we had to play into their lives. And
• 27:23
  S7: we had a special chapel. And my theme, basically Carl
• 27:28
  S7: and Ellie was to turn to go vertical. Right. Get
• 27:32
  S7: off the horizontal. Go vertical. This from God's point of view.
• 27:37
  S7: And the theme was his sovereignty. He wasn't caught by
• 27:39
  S7: surprise in this and his supervision of all of history
• 27:44
  S7: toward his glorious ends, that all of these things played
• 27:48
  S7: a part. And to call on our people, on the
• 27:51
  S7: radio and on campus to pray for those who are traumatized.
• 27:55
  S7: Just think of of women kissing their husbands goodbye, or
• 27:59
  S7: vice versa, as they went to work in the Trade Center,
• 28:02
  S7: realizing they'd never see them again, and the horrendous way
• 28:05
  S7: to die. I mean, it was just gripping. And to
• 28:09
  S7: call on the Church of Jesus Christ to be in prayer,
• 28:12
  S7: that uh, from a compassionate heart that God would bring
• 28:15
  S7: people around, these people who could hear about the love
• 28:18
  S7: of Christ and bring comfort to them. And then also
• 28:22
  S7: to celebrate the heroes, right? We'll never forget Todd Beamer,
• 28:25
  S7: who in great courage with a few other guys, actually tackled, uh, uh,
• 28:31
  S7: the terrorists in the plane as it was headed for
• 28:34
  S7: the Pentagon, gave their lives to spare many other lives.
• 28:38
  S7: And so it was a it was a multifaceted reality.
• 28:41
  S7: And thankfully, I had a great partnership with Wayne Shepherd
• 28:45
  S7: and Mark Hillstrand and radio. Um, and I think that, um,
• 28:50
  S7: I'm thankful that we had something important to say. I'm
• 28:52
  S7: not sure the rest of the world had that important
• 28:55
  S7: to think to say as we did.
• 28:57
  S2: Yeah. We're so grateful for you. Grateful for God, uh,
• 29:01
  S2: prompting you, giving you wisdom in that crisis. You know,
• 29:05
  S2: we don't have an overt terrorist attack on our country,
• 29:08
  S2: but we do have some significant slide with regard to morality. Um,
• 29:15
  S2: there's so many things that are showing their head right
• 29:18
  S2: now that my dear dad who's gone to be with
• 29:21
  S2: the Lord now, goodness sakes, nearly a decade ago, uh,
• 29:24
  S2: he would be dumbfounded at where we are today, but
• 29:29
  S2: Moody Radio is still standing strong. That's a testimony to
• 29:33
  S2: the transcendent truth of God, his word and his love,
• 29:37
  S2: is it not, Joe?
• 29:38
  S7: For a hundred years, Carl. That's the real story. You know,
• 29:42
  S7: because things tend to slide. Drift tends to happen, unfortunately.
• 29:47
  S7: But Moody Radio has stayed firm and true and faithful
• 29:51
  S7: to the Word of God and to his message of
• 29:53
  S7: the glorious gospel. And I think that's really what we celebrate.
• 29:58
  S7: You know, the people who through 100 years supervised Moody Radio,
• 30:03
  S7: who were committed to the gospel and the truth and
• 30:05
  S7: the Word of God, and to discipling and loving into
• 30:09
  S7: people's lives through radio. There are heroes, really. And, Karl,
• 30:14
  S7: may we get a good lesson from that? That then
• 30:16
  S7: that becomes our responsibility in our season as well.
• 30:19
  S6: Amen.
• 30:20
  S3: Doctor Joseph Stoll, former president of Moody Bible Institute, joining
• 30:24
  S3: us this morning, as we remember nine over 11 and
• 30:28
  S3: Moody Radio's role that day and offering the hope of
• 30:30
  S3: the gospel. Celebrating 100 years of the unstoppable gospel here
• 30:34
  S3: on Moody Radio.
• 30:36
  S1: Take your next step with Jesus today. You're listening to
• 30:40
  S1: Carl and Crew.
• 30:41
  S2: It's Carl and crew, and we're really looking at the
• 30:45
  S2: issue of anxiousness all week long. And it brings something
• 30:49
  S2: to mind. And that is the question where were you
• 30:51
  S2: when nine over 11 happened? I remember exactly where I was.
• 30:56
  S2: My bride remembers where she was. Allie, you remember where
• 30:59
  S2: you were?
• 30:59
  S3: Absolutely. I was a college student. It was it was
• 31:03
  S3: one of those moments that if you're old enough, you remember.
• 31:06
  S2: Yeah. You do. Bruce Everett is with us here right now.
• 31:10
  S2: He's at a lot of hats here at Moody. He's
• 31:12
  S2: a tremendous man of God. I love this guy a lot.
• 31:15
  S2: He's got a heart as big as a bucket. I'll
• 31:17
  S2: tell you something. When when we're in the middle of
• 31:19
  S2: shear or any kind of something where he's teamed up
• 31:22
  S2: with us, raising money to the glory of God and
• 31:25
  S2: the furtherance of the gospel, he'll get choked up and
• 31:28
  S2: start crying. And I'm like, that's the kind of man
• 31:31
  S2: I like to partner with in ministry right there. Bruce Everhart,
• 31:35
  S2: you were the manager here at Moody Radio at that
• 31:38
  S2: time when nine over 11 hit. Where were you?
• 31:41
  S11: Yeah. Well, you know, as a station manager, I had
• 31:44
  S11: 14 years as a station manager back in the heyday
• 31:47
  S11: of the 90s. Mark and Dave and, um, Chris and
• 31:50
  S11: Greg and the morning. I am the number one fan
• 31:53
  S11: of mornings on WMBI and Moody Radio. I tune in
• 31:56
  S11: every day. I love what you guys do and I'm
• 31:58
  S11: a champion for you. But but I happen to be
• 32:01
  S11: around during nine over 11 a station manager and, um,
• 32:05
  S11: you know, with station managers. You know, guys like us.
• 32:08
  S11: You guys show up every day and we show up
• 32:11
  S11: every day. But not much exciting happens as a station
• 32:15
  S11: manager until things go wrong. You know, everything is just moving.
• 32:22
  S11: I was actually out of town at a conference. I
• 32:25
  S11: was at the National Religious Broadcasters Regional Conference in Muskegon, Michigan. Wow. And, um, actually,
• 32:32
  S11: Doctor Erwin Lutzer was speaking at this conference and it
• 32:36
  S11: was at a board meeting inside, I think the Skinner
• 32:38
  S11: room of Maranatha. And real quick, I mean, Doctor Lutzer
• 32:42
  S11: broke up our board meeting. He came in, doctor Lutzer,
• 32:45
  S11: Erwin Lutzer comes in and says, um, ladies and gentlemen,
• 32:48
  S11: I think you should stop your meeting. There's been a
• 32:50
  S11: there's been an attack at the World Trade Center. And
• 32:53
  S11: we shuttled out of there and got around the TV,
• 32:55
  S11: just like all of America. Yeah. And I, you know,
• 32:58
  S11: I made a call back to the radio station. Things were,
• 33:01
  S11: you know, chaotic, but in control here and Mark strand
• 33:07
  S11: was on the mic that morning. And as it has
• 33:10
  S11: been told before, and I just heard Joe Stowell talk
• 33:12
  S11: about it because Joe was instrumental in making an important
• 33:15
  S11: decision that day. And I was I was a part
• 33:18
  S11: of it. But, you know, I was several layers down.
• 33:21
  S11: Let's just say that. Um, and a very important decision
• 33:27
  S11: happened about 915 this morning. That morning. You know, at
• 33:31
  S11: about 730, I think it was 745 that morning. Central
• 33:36
  S11: time was when the first, uh, Trade Center tower was attacked.
• 33:40
  S11: And then, you know, like 20 minutes later, the other
• 33:43
  S11: one did. And then, you know, it all happened during
• 33:45
  S11: the morning show. It all happened during the morning show.
• 33:48
  S11: And then you went off the air at 9:00. Right.
• 33:50
  S11: And an important decision, Doctor Lutzer running to win started
• 33:55
  S11: at 9:00. And Doctor Stoll and, um, Bob Neff, our
• 34:01
  S11: vice president of broadcasting, made a really good decision to
• 34:05
  S11: break into programming. About halfway through running to win about
• 34:09
  S11: 915 Central Time and said we need to to bring
• 34:14
  S11: the microphones back local and national. And that became a
• 34:18
  S11: prayer meeting. A national prayer meeting started at 915 on
• 34:23
  S11: Moody Radio, and I think it was one of the
• 34:25
  S11: best decisions, really, of the decade, if not the century. Um,
• 34:31
  S11: a defining moment, I think, for Moody Radio.
• 34:33
  S3: Yeah. Talk about what made Moody Radio different that morning.
• 34:38
  S11: You know, you said it earlier, um, Ali, when you
• 34:43
  S11: said the world was watching CNN, they tuned into CNN
• 34:48
  S11: and the headlines became nauseating. You know, it's like everybody
• 34:52
  S11: was searching for answers and couldn't find them. There was
• 34:55
  S11: really no answer to the why. And people started to
• 34:59
  S11: kind of trickle back into Moody Radio, and it was
• 35:04
  S11: completely a 180 from the programming content of what you
• 35:08
  S11: were getting on CNN and Fox News and all the sources, MSNBC,
• 35:12
  S11: Moody Radio was different, 180 degrees different. And what it was,
• 35:17
  S11: was a prayer meeting. It was prayer. It was scripture.
• 35:20
  S11: It was perspective reporting the news. But, you know, not
• 35:23
  S11: not much changed after that morning. There was a lot
• 35:26
  S11: of unanswered questions. But there was like host after host
• 35:30
  S11: Crawford Leritz was on the phone, Tony Evans was on
• 35:34
  S11: the phone. Uh, Chuck Swindoll was on the phone. We
• 35:38
  S11: brought these national leaders on to pray with us and
• 35:42
  S11: give perspective and give thoughts from from God's Word. Wow.
• 35:46
  S11: It was amazing that a defining moment for Moody Radio. Certainly.
• 35:52
  S2: How did that shape you as a manager and as
• 35:54
  S2: a man?
• 35:55
  S6: Um.
• 35:56
  S11: You know, we sit on top of a platform here
• 36:03
  S11: that we take for granted. And that platform is these microphones,
• 36:07
  S11: these transmitters. And now YouTube, you guys, man, this place
• 36:12
  S11: has changed. Holy cow. I come in here, it's like,
• 36:14
  S11: get out of the way of the camera.
• 36:15
  S12: Lots of equipment.
• 36:16
  S11: But, you know, it's escalated to the point that we,
• 36:20
  S11: we have, um, Moody has a voice, a unique voice
• 36:25
  S11: in the midst of all the other cacophony of voices.
• 36:29
  S11: And I think on nine over 11, it woke me up.
• 36:32
  S11: It woke me up to say, we got to really
• 36:36
  S11: redefine who we are and be able to just focus
• 36:41
  S11: on that distinctive that people are looking for. And they
• 36:45
  S11: this is what they love about Moody Radio. You know,
• 36:47
  S11: what happened cascading out of that nine over 11 was
• 36:51
  S11: a series of prayer meetings, national concerts of prayer that
• 36:56
  S11: actually cascaded and where we Recaptured. You know, that defining
• 37:00
  S11: element of our of our brand, whatever you call that. Um, and,
• 37:05
  S11: you know, moody radio listeners became to expect this from,
• 37:10
  S11: from Moody and for me, man. One of our proudest moments,
• 37:14
  S11: one of our proudest moments for me as a manager
• 37:16
  S11: was how we responded to nine over 11. And, you know,
• 37:19
  S11: I would even say Ali and Carl, you know, I've
• 37:22
  S11: been here just 38 years. I just celebrated 38 years.
• 37:26
  S2: Congratulations. It's good to have you here.
• 37:28
  S11: You know, I used to be a moody. It used
• 37:30
  S11: to be a radio guy. And I still am. 25
• 37:32
  S11: years in radio before I got this assignment as chief
• 37:36
  S11: development officer. And I'm. I'm so proud, so proud of
• 37:40
  S11: those years. But, you know, 38 years of the hundred.
• 37:44
  S11: I mean, I feel like, you know, I could tell
• 37:45
  S11: a few stories, you know, I could. But every morning
• 37:48
  S11: show team all the way back to Bob Murphy. Diana
• 37:51
  S11: is the one that can tell you the stories because
• 37:53
  S11: she's been with every morning show host since, you know,
• 37:57
  S11: the the 90s. And I would say Bob Murfin had
• 38:01
  S11: a defining moment. Who makes your morning Chicago Tribune? Um,
• 38:06
  S11: I think Chris and Greg had a moment that was probably,
• 38:09
  S11: I think it was Promise Keepers and Soldier Field being packed.
• 38:13
  S11: And we we provided coverage of that. I think Mark
• 38:16
  S11: and Dave, Mark Strand and Dave. This was their defining
• 38:20
  S11: moment as a. And I think, what do you guys think?
• 38:24
  S11: You have a defining moment. Yeah, I do think. Yeah.
• 38:26
  S11: What do you think that was?
• 38:27
  S2: I think it was the morning I brought on Erwin
• 38:30
  S2: Lutzer and we. I'm going to cry. Yeah. Uh, we
• 38:35
  S2: gave a call to salvation, and we've never stopped since.
• 38:39
  S4: It was after Billy Graham's passing.
• 38:41
  S11: I totally believe that. That's exactly what I thought about. Yeah. Mhm.
• 38:45
  S11: And every Friday since. Yeah. And every day. Every day. Evangelism. Yeah.
• 38:50
  S11: There's no more important question to ask our audience. Who?
• 38:55
  S11: Thank you. Praise God.
• 38:57
  S2: Love you Bruce. Love you Bruce.
• 39:00
  S11: Love you guys, too. I'm a big fan. Yeah.
• 39:03
  S2: A lot of history here, huh, Ali?
• 39:05
  S3: Man, it's incredible when you really just march through it.
• 39:09
  S3: And that's what we've been doing. And we're going to
• 39:11
  S3: do as we lead up to the 100th birthday of
• 39:14
  S3: Moody Radio. July 28th is the day we'll celebrate with
• 39:18
  S3: a big party. But today's a day of reflection. I mean,
• 39:21
  S3: a defining moment for Moody Radio, where people were looking
• 39:24
  S3: for yes, they wanted to know what was happening, but
• 39:26
  S3: well beyond that, they wanted to know what does it mean?
• 39:30
  S3: What does it mean for me all of a sudden,
• 39:32
  S3: questions of eternity, of life and death were at the
• 39:35
  S3: forefront for people. And as Diana said earlier, people who'd
• 39:39
  S3: never listened to Moody Radio were calling. They were. They
• 39:42
  S3: found us not because we were giving some sort of
• 39:45
  S3: exclusive news updates, but because they were hearing prayer. They
• 39:48
  S3: were hearing the hope of the gospel. They were hearing
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  S3: answers to help them make sense of the world that
• 39:52
  S3: they weren't hearing anywhere else.
• 39:54
  S1: Your spiritual pit stop to keep you going in the race.
• 39:58
  S1: You're listening to Carl and crew.
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  S13: You say you will never forget where you were when
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  S13: you heard the news on September 11th, 2001. Neither will I.
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  S13: I was on the 110th floor in a smoke filled
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  S13: room with a man who called his wife to say goodbye.
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  S13: I held his hand steady as he dialed. I gave
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  S13: him the peace to say, honey, I'm not going to
• 40:26
  S13: make it. But it's okay. I'm ready to go. I
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  S13: was with his wife when he called as she fed
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  S13: breakfast to their children. I held her up as she
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  S13: tried to understand his words, and as she realized he
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  S13: wasn't coming home that night. I was in the stairwell
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  S13: of the 23rd floor when a woman cried out to
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  S13: me for help. I've been knocking on the door of
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  S13: your heart for 50 years, I said. Of course I
• 40:52
  S13: will show you the way home. Only believe on me now.
• 40:58
  S13: I was at the base of the building with the priest,
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  S13: ministering to the injured and devastated souls. I took him
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  S13: home to tend to his flock in heaven. He heard
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  S13: my voice and answered. I was on all four of
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  S13: those planes in every seat with every prayer. I was
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  S13: with the crew as they were overtaken. I was in
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  S13: the very hearts of the believers there, comforting and assuring
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  S13: them that their faith has saved them. I was in Louisiana, Montana, London.
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  S13: I was standing next to you when you heard the
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  S13: terrible news. Did you sense me? I want you to
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  S13: know that I saw every face. I knew every name,
• 41:38
  S13: though not all know me. Some met me for the
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  S13: first time on the 86th floor. Some sought me with
• 41:45
  S13: their last breath. Some couldn't hear me calling to them.
• 41:48
  S13: Through the smoke and flames. Come to me this way.
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  S13: Take my hand. Some chose for the final time to
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  S13: ignore me. But I was there. I did not place
• 42:00
  S13: you in the tower that day. You may not know why,
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  S13: but I do. However, if you were there in that
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  S13: explosive moment in time, would you have reached for me?
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  S13: September 11th, 2001 was not the end of the journey
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  S13: for you. But someday your journey will end and I
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  S13: will be there for you as well. Seek me now
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  S13: while I may be found. Then at any moment you
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  S13: know you are ready to go. I will be in
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  S13: the stairwell of your final moments. You don't know who
• 42:33
  S13: I am or I think you do.
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  S14: Be still and know that he is God. Be still
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  S14: and know that he is holy. Be still or restless.
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  S14: All of mine bowed before the Prince of Peace. Let
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  S14: the noise and clamor c. Be still.
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  S13: He still seek me now while I may be found.
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  S13: Then at any moment you know you are ready to go.
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  S13: I will be in the stairwell of your final moments.
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  S13: You don't know who I am, or I think you do.
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  S2: Mike Kellogg, reading that incredible poem just after nine over
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  S2: 11 and quoting from Isaiah 566 through seven. Seek the
• 43:45
  S2: Lord while he may be found. Call upon him while
• 43:48
  S2: he is near. Let the wicked forsake his way. Let
• 43:53
  S2: the unrighteous man his thoughts. Let him return to the Lord,
• 43:57
  S2: that he may have compassion on him, and to our God,
• 44:01
  S2: for he will abundantly pardon. Jesus wants to do that
• 44:06
  S2: for you today. We do not know how much time
• 44:11
  S2: we have. We don't know. I don't know what your
• 44:16
  S2: day holds. I don't know what this week holds. I
• 44:18
  S2: don't know if next year will come for you or me.
• 44:21
  S2: We don't know. Seek him while he can be found
• 44:26
  S2: and seek him with your whole heart. One of the
• 44:30
  S2: defining moments here for Carl and crew was a number
• 44:33
  S2: of years ago, the passing of Billy Graham. I asked
• 44:35
  S2: Erwin Lutzer to come on air, and it was the
• 44:39
  S2: first time that we gave a gospel with a response
• 44:43
  S2: helping you take your next steps with Jesus. I want
• 44:48
  S2: to do that right now. Some of you have heard
• 44:52
  S2: the gospel many times and yet not yet surrendered to him.
• 44:56
  S2: His name is Jesus. He's the Savior of the world.
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  S2: There is nothing good enough in us to get us
• 45:05
  S2: squared away with God only by the shed blood of Jesus.
• 45:09
  S2: Acknowledging that we are a sinner and declaring that Jesus
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  S2: is Lord, the authority, the ruler of every square inch
• 45:17
  S2: of our lives. Can we experience the abundant life and
• 45:20
  S2: be found in Jesus? Both life here on earth and
• 45:24
  S2: life eternal with God? I want that for you. I
• 45:29
  S2: urge you to not let the pride of your spiritual
• 45:32
  S2: activity in the past, or all the stuff that you've
• 45:35
  S2: done that you think might earn merit with God, dilute
• 45:38
  S2: you into thinking that somehow you're going to be okay
• 45:41
  S2: because you won't. All of our works are as filthy rags.
• 45:48
  S2: I'm not going to be graphic about that illustration that
• 45:51
  S2: Jesus shared. But it's a very vivid understanding that we
• 45:58
  S2: bring nothing to the table. Jesus did it all. He
• 46:03
  S2: went to the cross to take your sin. And he
• 46:08
  S2: walked away. That he invites you to turn away from
• 46:11
  S2: the broad path that you're walking on. The broad path
• 46:13
  S2: can be filled with spiritual activity, but not being born again. Today,
• 46:20
  S2: he wants to save your soul. You say, Carl, how?
• 46:23
  S2: If you confess with your mouth Jesus as Lord and
• 46:27
  S2: once and for all say, I give you control of everything.
• 46:32
  S2: I no longer am the highest authority in my life
• 46:35
  S2: around my finances, my family, my future. I give it
• 46:38
  S2: all to you, Jesus. He will save you through and through.
• 46:44
  S2: Some of you have wondered why the gospel, the good
• 46:48
  S2: news seems elusive for you. The good news is only
• 46:53
  S2: good when you know the bad, and that is, you're
• 46:55
  S2: a sinner who needs a Savior. There is nothing you
• 46:58
  S2: can do to make your heart right with God. But today,
• 47:02
  S2: everything changes. If you'll humble yourself under God's mighty hand.
• 47:09
  S2: He will save your soul. In just a moment, he's
• 47:13
  S2: going to give you a link. But I just want
• 47:15
  S2: to walk through something really practical. Will you cry out
• 47:18
  S2: to God today for the first time in your life
• 47:20
  S2: and say, I am the problem? I'm a sinner. I
• 47:24
  S2: need a Savior. Oh God, I embrace it fully today.
• 47:30
  S2: And by the power of the spirit, will you change
• 47:33
  S2: your mind? Will you step away from that broad path?
• 47:37
  S2: I know you've tried to add Jesus Maybe to your life,
• 47:42
  S2: thinking good thoughts, trying to do good things. No amount
• 47:48
  S2: of spiritual activity can save you. Jesus warns of that
• 47:51
  S2: in Matthew seven. Many will say on that day, Lord, Lord,
• 47:54
  S2: he's going to say, I never knew you, but today
• 47:56
  S2: you can be known by God and you can know
• 47:59
  S2: him personally. Will you cry out today and say, I'm
• 48:02
  S2: a sinner, I am repenting, I am turning around and
• 48:06
  S2: turning everything over to you. Father, in this moment we pray.
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  S2: Bring in a harvest of souls right now. Save men
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  S2: and women from themselves and give them life eternal in today.
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  S2: In Jesus name, Amen. There's cries of souls out there
• 48:32
  S2: right now. People are recognizing I'm a sinner. I'm the problem.
• 48:37
  S2: I need a Savior. Jesus died for me today. I
• 48:40
  S2: declare him for the first time ever as the supreme
• 48:44
  S2: authority of my life. I am by the power of
• 48:46
  S2: the spirit, repenting, turning around, and walking this narrow path.
• 48:50
  S2: And we want to help, don't we?
• 48:52
  S3: If you if that's you and you are surrendering your
• 48:55
  S3: life to Jesus Christ today we want to help you.
• 48:58
  S3: Just text the word new NEW to 805 557898. That's
• 49:05
  S3: one word new to 805 557898. We're going to send
• 49:11
  S3: you a link that's going to get you to just
• 49:13
  S3: some next steps. You can get a Bible. You can
• 49:15
  S3: get a follow up from someone here at Moody Radio.
• 49:17
  S3: Just text new to 805 557898. Welcome.
• 49:24
  S1: She's a choreographer extraordinaire and everything is Greek to her.
• 49:29
  S1: Super di is in the crew. It's Carl and crew
• 49:32
  S1: on Moody Radio.
• 49:34
  S8: This is a treat. And you know what? In a
• 49:38
  S8: really healthy, cool way, it makes me just a little
• 49:41
  S8: bit nervous. Isn't that something? Yes it does. Mark Strand,
• 49:46
  S8: 14.5 years, right in this seat at Moody Radio. He
• 49:51
  S8: was the host and executive producer of The Morning Ride.
• 49:54
  S8: And when you're looking back over 100 years, you got
• 49:58
  S8: a guy like Mark around healthy as can be. You
• 50:00
  S8: better bring him on air and go, man, let's go
• 50:03
  S8: down memory lane, my man.
• 50:05
  S15: Well, it is like a memory lane. And unfortunately, as
• 50:08
  S15: you get older, as you may start to figure out
• 50:10
  S15: the memories, uh, start to shift a little bit. So.
• 50:15
  S8: Mark, it's just a joy to have you here as
• 50:18
  S8: you look back at your tenure here, 14.5 years at
• 50:21
  S8: Moody Radio, what's the thing that gives you the greatest joy?
• 50:26
  S15: I think the way that listeners, uh, tend to own
• 50:29
  S15: you after a period of time, you've been there now for, what,
• 50:32
  S15: 13 years? Just about.
• 50:34
  S8: Yeah, it's coming up on that.
• 50:35
  S15: Yeah. And so because of that, people are now accustomed
• 50:39
  S15: to you and they've taken ownership of you in a sense,
• 50:43
  S15: within the Christian faith. That's a unique thing. I mean,
• 50:46
  S15: there were legends at WGN, for example, and people loved
• 50:49
  S15: the relationships that they had with their radio personalities. But
• 50:52
  S15: it's different on Christian radio. You have a eternal kind
• 50:56
  S15: of relationship going on at the same time. So that's,
• 51:00
  S15: I think, one of the treasures of my time at Moody.
• 51:03
  S3: Mark Strand is a familiar voice to so many of
• 51:06
  S3: you who have been listening to Moody radio over many years.
• 51:09
  S3: I want to look back, as we have been all
• 51:11
  S3: morning to September 11th, 2001. Mark was hosting that day.
• 51:16
  S3: Dave Mitchell was in the newsroom. Let's take a listen
• 51:19
  S3: to a clip from that morning. And again, I want
• 51:21
  S3: to give a little bit of a warning. This is
• 51:23
  S3: going to have some description of the events of that
• 51:26
  S3: morning with the context of this was nine over 11.
• 51:29
  S16: Very, very serious story. We are looking at unbelievable pictures.
• 51:33
  S16: Now an airplane has collided at the top of the
• 51:36
  S16: World Trade Center in downtown New York. It is absolutely
• 51:39
  S16: punched a hole through two sides of the World Trade Center.
• 51:41
  S16: I'm looking at it now.
• 51:42
  S15: Big airplanes, small airplane.
• 51:44
  S16: That by the size of the gash, it covers easily
• 51:46
  S16: 7/8 of the width of the floor, 7/8 in height,
• 51:49
  S16: up to top of one of the World Trade Center
• 51:51
  S16: towers in downtown New York City. 854 their time. This
• 51:54
  S16: is at the height, the beginning of the height of
• 51:56
  S16: the workday. So oh my God, there's a situation to
• 51:59
  S16: keep in your thoughts this morning.
• 52:00
  S15: Wow. And prayers this morning.
• 52:01
  S16: Thank you.
• 52:02
  S15: Thank you Dave. Uh. 754. Of course, we'll keep you
• 52:04
  S15: updated on that throughout the morning as you travel in.
• 52:06
  S3: What you just heard was a clip from the morning
• 52:09
  S3: of nine over 11. Mark Strand was the morning show host,
• 52:12
  S3: host of The Morning Ride on Moody Radio for 14.5 years. Surely,
• 52:16
  S3: mark one of your most memorable mornings as you processed
• 52:19
  S3: in real time? Personally, what was happening while hosting this show?
• 52:24
  S3: Talk about your memories from that morning.
• 52:27
  S15: Uh, we had just moved into our home in Plainfield
• 52:30
  S15: the day before, literally. So I was coming back to
• 52:32
  S15: work my first day. And, you know, it's just kind
• 52:35
  S15: of your normal day, normal start to the day. And
• 52:37
  S15: then Dave Mitchell comes on with those announcements about these planes.
• 52:41
  S15: And I was trying to process this as a listener
• 52:43
  S15: would process it, like, what is really happening here? I mean,
• 52:47
  S15: is it an act of war? And how is the president,
• 52:50
  S15: President Bush, going to respond to something like this? So
• 52:53
  S15: you're trying to navigate those thoughts yourself and what's going
• 52:56
  S15: on in the mind of the listener as well. Coincidentally,
• 52:59
  S15: the board of trustees was meeting at the time upstairs
• 53:03
  S15: on at that time, it was in Kroll Hall, and
• 53:05
  S15: it was on the 10th floor. And they stopped their
• 53:08
  S15: meeting completely and came downstairs. We had what was then
• 53:12
  S15: the center studio, and we had a big television in there,
• 53:15
  S15: and they were just sitting around watching the television and
• 53:17
  S15: these things unfold. So providentially, it just worked out that
• 53:21
  S15: President Joe Stowell was available to come in and give
• 53:25
  S15: some comfort, some input. And, you know, everybody was just
• 53:29
  S15: changed their focus, and it would be one of the
• 53:32
  S15: main points of that day that anywhere there was in
• 53:36
  S15: the city of Chicago, around the world, I suppose, but
• 53:38
  S15: especially in America, people's attention now was totally refocused. And
• 53:44
  S15: so we had to help try to process that for
• 53:47
  S15: listeners to Moody Radio.
• 53:49
  S2: A terrific work you did. Our guest right now, Mark strand,
• 53:52
  S2: former host and executive producer of The Morning Ride, who
• 53:56
  S2: was heard here in Chicago for 14.5 years. You know,
• 54:00
  S2: super di Diana Berriman was in studio that day as well.
• 54:05
  S2: And Super Di, you were mentioning that you had a
• 54:07
  S2: lot of people calling in and some who were just
• 54:11
  S2: tuning in here for the first time. That's no accident.
• 54:14
  S2: That must have been something.
• 54:16
  S5: That was very emotional, right? I mean, we had callers, listeners. Yes.
• 54:19
  S5: Just thanking you so much for the prayers for Mark,
• 54:21
  S5: for Doctor Stoll, how they were handling it and just
• 54:24
  S5: being a beacon of hope at the time. But the
• 54:25
  S5: calls that came in, people didn't even know who Moody
• 54:28
  S5: was turning into the radio stations or having friends say,
• 54:31
  S5: you must listen here. And they were staying with us
• 54:34
  S5: because they were getting hope and they were just getting
• 54:37
  S5: a lighthouse with all the chaos that was happening.
• 54:40
  S3: Mark, what changed for you that day? I mean, everybody
• 54:43
  S3: was impacted differently. Those obviously, who were closer to it
• 54:47
  S3: in proximity. But for you, what did you walk out
• 54:50
  S3: that day? And in those days that followed, that changed you?
• 54:54
  S15: Well, the first thing do you think about is, is that,
• 54:57
  S15: you know, I came to work just expecting to have
• 54:59
  S15: a normal, what I would just call a fun day
• 55:01
  S15: on the air. And everything changed in that moment. In fact,
• 55:06
  S15: after 9:00, I was asked by Bob Neff to stay
• 55:09
  S15: on the air along with Wayne Shepherd and then Dave
• 55:12
  S15: Mitchell in the newsroom. And then I think you were
• 55:14
  S15: probably running messages back and forth. Yes. In the center
• 55:17
  S15: studio at that point. And so everything became serious. So
• 55:22
  S15: you recognize that even day to day, there are things
• 55:25
  S15: happening in the world. And while we're just having fun
• 55:28
  S15: and Carl, you're probably having fun most days yourself. Yeah.
• 55:31
  S15: And then you suddenly realize that there's other serious events
• 55:35
  S15: going on in people's lives. And so we tend to
• 55:38
  S15: kind of look past that because our jobs just tell us, oh,
• 55:41
  S15: go to the next thing. And it's never quite like
• 55:44
  S15: that for some people. And the letters that you get
• 55:46
  S15: and the cards and the things like that, that reinforce
• 55:48
  S15: this to you, just change the significance of what we
• 55:52
  S15: do for a living.
• 55:53
  S2: Mark Kjellstrand has been our guest. Mark, we want to
• 55:55
  S2: tell you we love you. We're grateful for you. 14.5
• 55:59
  S2: years in this seat and you did a wonderful work
• 56:03
  S2: and we're grateful to you. Thank you for being used
• 56:06
  S2: so powerfully of the Lord, my friend.
• 56:08
  S15: Well, it was a calling. I refer to these things
• 56:11
  S15: in jobs as assignments. And so for 14.5 years, that
• 56:14
  S15: was my assignment. And then I had a follow up
• 56:17
  S15: assignment that, oddly enough, just kind of related to you.
• 56:20
  S15: So isn't that weird in life?
• 56:22
  S6: Yeah.
• 56:23
  S2: It's amazing how things dovetail a bit for sure. Mark
• 56:26
  S2: Strand everybody.
• 56:28
  S1: He's a sports fanatic with a stand for anything you
• 56:31
  S1: can think of. Young Thunder is in the crew. It's
• 56:35
  S1: curl and crew on Moody Radio.
• 56:38
  S2: It's Carl and crew, and we are looking back and
• 56:41
  S2: in order to look back, we bring in some voices
• 56:43
  S2: that are near and dear to us. I mean this voice. Yes.
• 56:48
  S2: What a man of God. Wayne Sheppard with us right now. Wayne,
• 56:53
  S2: how are you, young man?
• 56:55
  S15: Well, good morning. When they call you, young man, you
• 56:57
  S15: know you're in trouble, right?
• 56:59
  S2: No, you're in good shape. Oh, great. Ali, this is
• 57:03
  S2: the bio to beat all bios here. You want to
• 57:05
  S2: tackle it?
• 57:06
  S3: We are going to give you the high points. Wayne Sheppard,
• 57:08
  S3: known to many of you. He was the network voice
• 57:11
  S3: for Moody Radio. He. In 1974, he joined the staff
• 57:16
  S3: of WMBI, which were the local call letters for Chicago
• 57:19
  S3: Moody radio as an announcer soon became assistant manager of
• 57:22
  S3: the station, 1981, he was named satellite manager, so he's
• 57:26
  S3: worn a lot of hats during his time.
• 57:29
  S2: Yeah, yeah. And you can hear his voice on a
• 57:32
  S2: lot of programs, including Bold Steps. Wayne, it's so good
• 57:35
  S2: to have you with us. We're looking back. Take us
• 57:38
  S2: to 911 Network Voice. What was where were you when
• 57:42
  S2: you first heard this news about nine over 11?
• 57:45
  S15: Well, I was on the 10th floor of Carroll Hall
• 57:47
  S15: in my office. It was just an office day. I
• 57:50
  S15: don't recall having any on air assignments that day, but
• 57:53
  S15: I was the program manager for the network of stations.
• 57:57
  S15: And of course, Mark L strand, who was on just
• 58:00
  S15: a few moments ago, was the morning host in Chicago,
• 58:02
  S15: along with his partner, Dave Mitchell, and they were doing
• 58:05
  S15: a great job locally. And then, like everyone, I was
• 58:08
  S15: stunned when someone said, you need to see what's going
• 58:12
  S15: on going on in New York right now. And it
• 58:15
  S15: was only a couple of minutes later that the staff
• 58:17
  S15: encouraged me to go down to the studio and a
• 58:20
  S15: couple of floors below and go on the air with
• 58:22
  S15: a whole network of stations. The Moody Satellite Network have
• 58:25
  S15: been in existence for a little under 20 years at
• 58:28
  S15: that point. And by the way, when when the when
• 58:31
  S15: Moody went on the network, we prayed at that time
• 58:34
  S15: that God would use it to to bring the church
• 58:38
  S15: together and to unify us in some way. And we
• 58:42
  S15: thought it might come through revival. And it did many
• 58:44
  S15: times through programs like Promise Keepers and many others. But
• 58:48
  S15: this tragedy of happening that day was just something that
• 58:51
  S15: we didn't anticipate. But we responded to it. Not just me.
• 58:55
  S15: I mean, the whole team, every producer, every staff member
• 58:59
  S15: in broadcasting that day jumped into action. They were mobilized
• 59:02
  S15: that day, and they all did their part, you know,
• 59:04
  S15: to book guests and to research what was going on
• 59:08
  S15: to feed us information in the studio so that we
• 59:10
  S15: could do a better job of going, going nationwide with
• 59:13
  S15: the story.
• 59:14
  S3: Talk a little bit about some of those quick shifts
• 59:16
  S3: to be able to provide the programming, the ministry, because
• 59:20
  S3: it was way more than about those news updates which.
• 59:23
  S3: Which you couldn't. There was nowhere you could go where
• 59:26
  S3: you weren't hearing news updates, but Moody Radio was able
• 59:29
  S3: to provide something richer. Talk about that shift.
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  S15: Yeah, well, I think it's best explained through one listener
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  S15: who said to me, look, you know, when I heard
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  S15: what was going on, frankly, I tuned to the all
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  S15: news station because I wanted the details of what was happening.
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  S15: But I soon realized I needed to hear from God.
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  S15: I needed to hear of God's perspective on what was
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  S15: going on. I needed to be comforted. And so they
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  S15: tuned in to Moody Radio at that time. And I
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  S15: think that better than anything explains what was going on.
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  S2: You know, Wayne, more broadly, there's been a lot of
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  S2: there have been a lot of prognosticators over the years
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  S2: that have said, uh, I think of one great social
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  S2: thinker who 25 years ago said, you know, radio's run
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  S2: its course and it's done. And it'll be I think
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  S2: he predicted at that time, it's going to be five
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  S2: years and you won't hear about radio anymore. Boy, the
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  S2: longevity of radio and the fact that it is still
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  S2: as relevant today. I mean, there's some diminished numbers because
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  S2: of podcasting, but it's still reaching into the hearts of people.
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  S2: What's your perspective on that, Wayne?
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  S15: Well, you might expect to hear from us that we
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  S15: think radio is alive and well. Actually, I think it's running.
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  S15: I think it's running neck and neck with online listening
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  S15: at this point and all things digital. Um, but you
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  S15: know what content is content and we are all about
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  S15: the gospel and we're going to, we're going to put
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  S15: it on radio and we're going to put it on
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  S15: podcasts and we're going to digitize it and we're going
• 1:00:57
  S15: to put it on video. We're going to use every
• 1:00:58
  S15: means possible, but radio still is very viable. Um, there, there's,
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  S15: the story is not written when television came about. Now
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  S15: that was a little bit before my time, if you
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  S15: can believe that when television came about. Um, everybody said, well,
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  S15: that's the death of radio. You know, radio is no longer, well,
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  S15: radio adapted and radio is a relationship. You know that
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  S15: better than anybody, Karl. Radio is a relationship with a listener,
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  S15: a bond with a listener, and we capitalize on that.
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  S15: And I think that's what's going to help radio survive.
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  S3: You talk about those defining moments. And certainly nine over
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  S3: 11 was was one of them. What changed for you
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  S3: that day going forward, even beyond just those, the immediate aftermath?
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  S15: Well, as I mentioned a moment ago, Ali, I just
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  S15: think the lesson as the one responsible for leading the
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  S15: programming effort of the network, it just solidified in my
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  S15: mind that there was value in tying the stations together.
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  S15: You know, we believe in local radio and, you know,
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  S15: it has its place, but there's also a place for
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  S15: a network voice. And many of these radio stations at
• 1:02:07
  S15: that time and today don't have the resources to do
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  S15: what needed to be done that day. You know, they
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  S15: don't have the staff to, uh, to jump into action
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  S15: like we did in Chicago. So suddenly, you know, we
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  S15: had a role to play. And with God's help, we
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  S15: we got it done that day.
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  S2: You know, Wayne, a lot of people hear your voice
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  S2: on different spots throughout the day on Moody Radio. A
• 1:02:33
  S2: lot of people may wonder, and I think they wonder
• 1:02:35
  S2: about us at times, you know, what are you people
• 1:02:38
  S2: like anyway? What's, you know, what's Wayne Shepherd really like?
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  S2: And at the end of the day, you're a disciple
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  S2: of Christ, just like just like us. What's the fresh
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  S2: thing God's doing in your life? Wayne Shepherd?
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  S15: Well, let me preface by saying I'm I'm extraordinarily ordinary. Um, there's,
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  S15: there's nothing special about me at all. I always wanted
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  S15: to be in radio and God gave me that, uh,
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  S15: that the privilege of serving him in radio all these years.
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  S15: But I, I just as I think back on, you know,
• 1:03:09
  S15: a long time doing what I'm doing, it always comes
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  S15: back to Proverbs 169. You know you planned your way,
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  S15: but God determines your steps. I couldn't have planned what
• 1:03:19
  S15: I do today, and I'm so grateful for it. And
• 1:03:21
  S15: I am not only grateful for the exposure, that's minimal.
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  S15: You know, that's not the important thing. No, the important
• 1:03:28
  S15: thing are the relationships along the way. And, you know,
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  S15: I was employed at Moody for over 30 years, and
• 1:03:35
  S15: my voice has been on Moody for 52 years. But
• 1:03:38
  S15: it's the people that I think of most, you know,
• 1:03:41
  S15: the people that I serve alongside even today. And they're
• 1:03:44
  S15: very special to me. They're family to me. And that, uh,
• 1:03:48
  S15: that's just an inspiring thought that keeps me going each
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  S15: and every day.
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  S2: Wayne Shepherd, you are loved and we are grateful for you.
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  S2: And thank you for stepping in here today. Wayne Shepherd
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  S2: and hearing these voices. What a treat, huh?
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  S3: I know it is for us, and I'm sure for you,
• 1:04:03
  S3: especially those of you who have a long history with
• 1:04:07
  S3: Moody Radio and have listened over the years as the
• 1:04:09
  S3: voices have changed. What a privilege to be able to
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  S3: bring some of those voices back.