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Brian's Story: How A Bowhunter Built A Jerky Brand And A Bible Community · Get The Hell Out of Your Life with Ron Meyers

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  Announcer: It's time now to get the hell out of your life.
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  Announcer: A weekly broadcast with real people, sharing real struggles, and offering real hope.
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  Announcer: Today's show will encourage, inspire, and empower you to face life's challenges with a bold confidence and renewed hope.
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  Announcer: Now let's join our host, Ron Myers, the promoter.
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  Brian Ducharm: Well, I am originally from Alabama.
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  Brian Ducharm: Uh if you know where Waynesboro, Mississippi is, if you're coming from the coast, you cut straight across the state line there and you can go about 20 minutes and slam on brakes, and you're in downtown Silas, Alabama.
• 0:36
  Brian Ducharm: You might not know that's where you are, but that's where you are, and that's where I'm from.
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  Brian Ducharm: Silas, Gilbertown, Choctaw County.
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  Ron Meyers: And you were in the Air Force.
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  Brian Ducharm: Joined the Air Force to see the world and got two hours from home.
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  Brian Ducharm: Went from Silas and Gilbertown to uh Keesler Air Force Base here in Biloxi.
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  Ron Meyers: So how did you get into cooking, whether it'd be beef jerky, seasoning?
• 0:57
  Ron Meyers: How did you get into that?
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  Brian Ducharm: You know, I'm a bow hunter.
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  Brian Ducharm: I love to hunt.
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  Brian Ducharm: And my cousin by marriage would make jerky.
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  Brian Ducharm: And he would dehydrate it on these little round dehydrators that you see at Walmart or whatever.
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  Brian Ducharm: And so he introduced me to making jerky 10 or 12 years ago.
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  Brian Ducharm: And so back then I had a company where we were had a medical oxygen company, and I would make jerky and give it to doctors and nurses and hospice administrators.
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  Brian Ducharm: You know, it was kind of our little marketing thing, right?
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  Brian Ducharm: And so, anyway, I sold that company and I bought myself a little smoker.
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  Brian Ducharm: I told them, I'm gonna teach myself barbecue.
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  Brian Ducharm: I always wanted to learn how to barbecue.
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  Brian Ducharm: So I'm doing that, doing ribs, doing chicken wings, that kind of thing.
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  Brian Ducharm: And I decided one day, instead of dehydrating jerky, I was gonna smoke some.
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  Brian Ducharm: So I smoked some jerky, and to me it was 10 times better smoke than it was dehydrated.
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  Brian Ducharm: And Ron, it became an obsession.
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  Brian Ducharm: I smoked jerky around the clock for five months working on my marinades, you know, my seasonings and that kind of thing.
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  Ron Meyers: And now this has turned into a business for you, right?
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  Brian Ducharm: Yeah, we've shipped jerky to all 50 states, man.
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  Brian Ducharm: We uh, you know, it started with a $169 Cajun injector smoker on our back porch, and now we're partners in a USDA facility in Pickyune, Mississippi.
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  Brian Ducharm: So we've we've gone the whole gamut, you know.
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  Ron Meyers: So that's one of your talents that uh God has given you.
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  Ron Meyers: Do you give God the credit for all your knowledge of cooking?
• 2:25
  Brian Ducharm: Oh man, the Lord has put so many people in my path.
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  Brian Ducharm: You know, we were talking earlier about Terry Welch.
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  Brian Ducharm: He was a barbecue mentor to me.
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  Brian Ducharm: He's probably if I had to think it up, but I think I'm probably friends with five world champions when it comes to barbecue, you know.
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  Brian Ducharm: So yeah, God's definitely put a lot of people in my path that's helped me along the way.
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  Ron Meyers: And that's a great thing to kind of segue into a conversation with someone.
• 2:49
  Ron Meyers: You're giving them jerky, and I would imagine, like me, a lot of times, God becomes part of the subject.
• 2:56
  Brian Ducharm: Yeah, as you're out and about, man.
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  Brian Ducharm: And you know, especially if you develop a talent that people recognize, oftentimes, and I would tell anybody listening, that's your platform right there, man.
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  Brian Ducharm: Isn't there a verse in the Bible that says something about a man who is really skilled will go before kings?
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  Brian Ducharm: So, man, develop a skill skill.
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  Brian Ducharm: The Lord will use that in your life.
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  Brian Ducharm: It could be anything from beef jerky.
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  Brian Ducharm: Like I did if you'd asked me when I graduated high school, uh, what are you gonna do when you grow up, it wouldn't have been owned a beef jerky company.
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  Brian Ducharm: I can tell you that.
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  Brian Ducharm: You know, Lord.
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  Brian Ducharm: But the Lord gives you different talents.
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  Brian Ducharm: I mean, you might be the elect best electrician around.
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  Brian Ducharm: Yeah, I don't know, but God will open doors if you hone a skill, he will definitely use that.
• 3:38
  Ron Meyers: Well, absolutely.
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  Ron Meyers: And now I want to talk a little bit about your social media platform.
• 3:43
  Ron Meyers: You have something very unique.
• 3:45
  Ron Meyers: You have something called Read the Bible with Pawpaw.
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  Brian Ducharm: That's right.
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  Ron Meyers: Uh, and it's on TikTok and YouTube.
• 3:52
  Ron Meyers: What is Read the Bible with Pawpaw?
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  Brian Ducharm: Well, I tell you what, this started July 1st, 2024 on TikTok.
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  Brian Ducharm: And I had come in, I have another channel on TikTok.
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  Brian Ducharm: It's called Smokehouse by You.
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  Brian Ducharm: And there's probably, you know, 500 videos on how to cook this, how to smoke that, that kind of thing.
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  Brian Ducharm: Well, I'd walked into what we call headquarters on the 1st of July, 2024, and the Lord, I knew, man, Ron, it was like he told me in one second what he wanted me to do.
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  Brian Ducharm: There was no question, right?
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  Brian Ducharm: It was you're gonna start a channel called Read the Bible, Paw Paul.
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  Brian Ducharm: I want you to read two or three minute segments of the Word.
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  Brian Ducharm: I'll tell you what to do, right?
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  Brian Ducharm: And so I started that day.
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  Brian Ducharm: And I would do one, sometimes up to three videos a day.
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  Brian Ducharm: If I missed a day, it was very rare.
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  Brian Ducharm: It was mo mainly every day.
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  Brian Ducharm: I put out videos for quite a while, and you know, the the growth of the channel went, I think over the next five to six months, it grew to maybe 1,200 followers, right?
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  Brian Ducharm: Very niche kind of thing.
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  Brian Ducharm: You know, you either want to hear the Bible or you don't, you know, that kind of thing.
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  Brian Ducharm: And so anyway, after the first of the year, though, you know, they were going to shut TikTok down.
• 5:10
  Brian Ducharm: You remember if you remember that, you know, so they actually shut it down for maybe 12 hours or something like that.
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  Brian Ducharm: Renee said to me when it came back up, Brian, TikTok's back up.
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  Brian Ducharm: So I did a video, like I was probably one of the first people that put a video up on TikTok statistically, anyway.
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  Brian Ducharm: I'm sure there was thousands that went up, but I got like 900 followers in a day.
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  Brian Ducharm: Boom.
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  Brian Ducharm: Just like that.
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  Ron Meyers: Reading the Bible with pawpaw.
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  Brian Ducharm: Reading the Bible with Pawpaw, right?
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  Brian Ducharm: And so I was like, man, this is really cool.
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  Brian Ducharm: And so, you know, that's that's always exciting.
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  Brian Ducharm: Although I don't do this to gain followers, it's not that.
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  Brian Ducharm: I I tell people I'm gonna do this whether there's just me and you in here, you know.
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  Ron Meyers: You just want to share the word.
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  Brian Ducharm: I just want to share the word, right?
• 5:53
  Brian Ducharm: And so after after that, it was like January 6th of last year, felt like the Lord told me, I want you to go live, read the Bible live.
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  Brian Ducharm: And I'm like, okay.
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  Brian Ducharm: It was very awkward, Ron, at first, you know, because I would read and then somebody would come in.
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  Ron Meyers: Are you on film too?
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  Ron Meyers: Are you seeing your face?
• 6:17
  Brian Ducharm: Yeah, yeah, they see your face, man.
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  Brian Ducharm: You're interacting with people, you know.
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  Ron Meyers: So you become a a celebrity on TikTok.
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  Brian Ducharm: Well, you start reading like that very first time I was reading, and and you'll have trolls come in, if you will.
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  Brian Ducharm: You know, they have a they call them trolls, people that are just they're just out to give you a hard time, so to speak, right?
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  Brian Ducharm: And so, yeah, I had to had to get my feet wet and muddle through that and and but the the audience started growing because I decided I'm gonna lock down a time slot and be consistent.
• 6:49
  Brian Ducharm: So Monday through Friday, 6 30 central time, I would get on and read the Bible.
• 6:55
  Brian Ducharm: Well, it wasn't uncommon.
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  Brian Ducharm: I'd start getting a hundred followers a day, you know?
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  Brian Ducharm: And so we we did this for I've done this for almost exactly one year as a live.
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  Brian Ducharm: Before it was doing videos, but now it's it's a live and on TikTok.
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  Brian Ducharm: And anyway, we're very close to thirty thousand followers now, and it's not uncommon to do a live in the mornings and average, you know, six five to six hundred people that come in there and and do Bible with me, you know.
• 7:31
  Brian Ducharm: Let me just read them the word and share with them.
• 7:34
  Ron Meyers: Well, and part of the reason I do this show and interview people like you, my guest, is you're not a preacher, are you?
• 7:42
  Ron Meyers: You didn't go to seminary.
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  Ron Meyers: And it's to let people know that when God puts something in our hearts to do part of our purpose that He will make sure everything falls into place.
• 7:57
  Ron Meyers: Was everything falling in place and now you've grown?
• 8:00
  Ron Meyers: Have you had feedback?
• 8:02
  Brian Ducharm: Well, let me share with you, let me step back just a minute because you're exactly right.
• 8:06
  Brian Ducharm: I don't I didn't go to seminary, I don't have a degree in ministry or anything like that, a background in ministry.
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  Ron Meyers: You just have a love for the Lord.
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  Brian Ducharm: Man, look, I I'll just I'll I'll tell you this.
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  Brian Ducharm: I grew up and I had the ability to charm my way through life.
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  Brian Ducharm: Deceiver, okay?
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  Brian Ducharm: I'm a deceiver.
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  Brian Ducharm: I was a deceiver, I should say.
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  Brian Ducharm: I was somebody that, you know, looked good on the outside kind of thing.
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  Brian Ducharm: And so about five years ago, I'm living for myself.
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  Brian Ducharm: You know, if you knew me, you would say, Oh, that's a nice guy, right?
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  Brian Ducharm: But I'm living for myself, and a friend of mine named Troy, we were talking about him earlier, invited me to a sunrise resurrection service at this golf course.
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  Brian Ducharm: I love to play golf, you know.
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  Brian Ducharm: And so I said, Okay, I'll go.
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  Brian Ducharm: So there's six six o'clock in the morning.
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  Brian Ducharm: I lean up against the back of the clubhouse, watching Guy German and his his family sing, and I lean up against the back of the clubhouse, and I'm about 49 at the time, 53 now.
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  Brian Ducharm: The Lord spoke to me and he said, The last part you're about to be 50.
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  Brian Ducharm: The last part of your life's not gonna be anything like the first part of your life.
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  Brian Ducharm: You're an evangelist.
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  Brian Ducharm: And I'm telling just like I heard it in my head, just like me and you were talking.
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  Brian Ducharm: So I go home and I'm contemplating this because I'm not living for the Lord at this point.
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  Brian Ducharm: I'm living for Brian, you know.
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  Brian Ducharm: And I say something to my dad, who is one of the most spiritual men I know, and I said, Dad, I know what an evangelist is, but what do you think?
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  Brian Ducharm: Am I gonna go into the I mean am I gonna go into the ministry?
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  Brian Ducharm: Am I gonna be on the church staff?
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  Brian Ducharm: What is he saying?
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  Brian Ducharm: And uh my dad says, I tell you what he's saying, baby.
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  Brian Ducharm: He's saying, take one day at a time.
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  Brian Ducharm: That's what he's saying.
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  Brian Ducharm: And so I did that, and I started slowly, it wasn't like a snap of the finger, and all of a sudden I'm completely serving the Lord, but the Lord started putting people in my life, and I gradually changed over time.
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  Brian Ducharm: And then when I walked into work that day, and the Lord said, You got I've got an assignment for you.
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  Brian Ducharm: It's called Read the Bible with Paw Paw, and he told me exactly what he wanted me to do all within a second, then my whole life changed.
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  Brian Ducharm: And I became because it wasn't just Brian was reading the word for others, it changed me.
• 10:43
  Brian Ducharm: Those every day, getting in the word every single day.
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  Brian Ducharm: That's what I would encourage anybody in here, whether you do a TikTok live or you share the you're in the ministry, whatever, if you're never in the ministry, read the word every day because God's word has power in it.
• 11:00
  Brian Ducharm: And I tell people on my live, I can get on here and read two verses and give you 40 minutes of my opinion.
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  Brian Ducharm: Okay.
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  Brian Ducharm: And it'll get you about that far down the road.
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  Brian Ducharm: It'll inspire you.
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  Brian Ducharm: But if I get on here and I share God's word and it penetrates your heart, it'll change your life.
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  Brian Ducharm: God's word will change your life.
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  Brian Ducharm: My opinion won't, it might change your mind for a minute, but God's word will change your life, you know?
• 11:27
  Ron Meyers: Amen.
• 11:28
  Ron Meyers: So um are you having fun?
• 11:31
  Brian Ducharm: Heck yeah.
• 11:31
  Ron Meyers: Heck yeah.
• 11:32
  Brian Ducharm: Ron, this thing has grown from now.
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  Brian Ducharm: I know that there's people in other countries that have listened to read the Bible Paw Paw, because I get some of these stats, but mainly it's the United States, and but it is it's so fun sometimes because it's all interactive, right?
• 11:47
  Brian Ducharm: When I'm doing this, people are commenting and all type, you know, and it's grown to where I probably have about seven or eight moderators.
• 11:55
  Brian Ducharm: I have to.
• 11:55
  Brian Ducharm: It would be chaos if I didn't because so many things.
• 11:58
  Brian Ducharm: But we do two things in there.
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  Brian Ducharm: Three things, three or four things happen, but we do two things.
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  Brian Ducharm: We read the word.
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  Brian Ducharm: And I tell people all the time, I'm reading the Bible.
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  Brian Ducharm: I'm not trying to turn you into a Baptist, an Episcopalian, a Methodist, a Catholic.
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  Brian Ducharm: No.
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  Brian Ducharm: I'm just reading the word and let God's word speak for itself.
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  Brian Ducharm: The Lord doesn't need this little old sawed-off country boy's commentary, right?
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  Brian Ducharm: He just wants his word spoken.
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  Brian Ducharm: And in Isaiah 55, it says his word will not return void.
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  Brian Ducharm: It is powerful.
• 12:30
  Ron Meyers: And I've always subscribed to the belief with Jesus that if we turn it over to him and we're obedient to what he's called us to do and our purpose, we don't have to worry about the people that hear what we do because then it becomes his responsibility to do what he needs to do in their life.
• 12:50
  Brian Ducharm: That's right.
• 12:51
  Ron Meyers: But each of us, and there are listeners right now, Brian, that feel that they need to be doing something for God.
• 12:58
  Ron Meyers: They have a hunger for God.
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  Ron Meyers: God has touched them, but they do not know where to begin.
• 13:03
  Ron Meyers: They don't have the maybe the courage or they don't know what to do.
• 13:07
  Brian Ducharm: What would you tell that person?
• 13:08
  Brian Ducharm: Well, I encourage people now in the platform that I'm on on TikTok, is I'll tell them, you don't have to be a Bible teacher, but can you read God's word?
• 13:20
  Brian Ducharm: Do you have a love for God's word?
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  Brian Ducharm: And one of the things, Ron, that I'm so excited about is it started with me reading.
• 13:27
  Brian Ducharm: Now there's other people that do ministry on TikTok.
• 13:29
  Brian Ducharm: I'm not, you know, exclusive that, but it started, this whole community started with me reading the word.
• 13:35
  Brian Ducharm: And then after a while, I start encouraging people, can you read the word?
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  Brian Ducharm: And it has grown to like 25 people now are on TikTok in our little TikTok community, if you will, that get on at different times of the day, different times of the week, and read the word.
• 13:52
  Brian Ducharm: We also have a program called Rooted, which is a discipleship that they there's like four guys, uh a gal and or excuse me, four people mixed that uh they do a discipleship every Saturday.
• 14:06
  Brian Ducharm: So they have a subject and people come in through like a 13-week program.
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  Brian Ducharm: So it's just kind of grown beyond me, you know.
• 14:14
  Ron Meyers: And what I find so fascinating, Brian, hearing your story, I've always said, like I buy time on non-Christian radio that we've got to start, people've got to start thinking outside the box.
• 14:29
  Ron Meyers: We can do a church, we can talk about Jesus outside of a building.
• 14:36
  Ron Meyers: People ask me where my church is, and I said, Well, Walmart, Car Wars, the radio, the podcast.Anywhere I go, if I can breathe and brag on Jesus, that's really what this podcast is about.
• 14:49
  Ron Meyers: Bragging on Jesus.
• 14:51
  Ron Meyers: He wants each of us to walk in to our purpose and our destiny.
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  Ron Meyers: Because I would ask you, Brian, if you did not become you and did not be obedient to do and read the Bible with Paw Paw, who would?
• 15:07
  Ron Meyers: No one.
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  Ron Meyers: That void, you have something that no one else has.
• 15:12
  Ron Meyers: I'm doing something no one else is doing.
• 15:15
  Ron Meyers: Somebody listening has something the Lord wants to promote, wants to encourage and inspire them.
• 15:22
  Ron Meyers: Don't give up.
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  Ron Meyers: Just because the world sometimes tells us no, Jesus' promises are yes and amen.
• 15:31
  Ron Meyers: That's right.
• 15:31
  Ron Meyers: So give a little pep talk to someone out there that's sitting on the fence.
• 15:35
  Brian Ducharm: Look, man, John 15, he says, I'm the vine, you're the branch, right?
• 15:40
  Brian Ducharm: All life, all uh adequacy, everything, sustenance, resource comes from him.
• 15:48
  Brian Ducharm: You know, we talk about this a lot.
• 15:50
  Brian Ducharm: You don't need a healing, you need the healer to show up, right?
• 15:53
  Brian Ducharm: You don't need a resource, you need the provider to show up.
• 15:57
  Brian Ducharm: When the provider shows up, everything is handled, right?
• 16:01
  Brian Ducharm: Well, if you're a Christian and you're out there and you want, man, look, the platforms that are available now to share the gospel, it's just amazing, right?
• 16:13
  Brian Ducharm: All this social media, and it's just a tool.
• 16:16
  Brian Ducharm: You can use it for good or bad, right?
• 16:18
  Brian Ducharm: You can use it for good or bad.
• 16:21
  Brian Ducharm: There's plenty of podcasts out there today that they're not honoring the Lord, but here comes Ron, he's got a podcast that's honoring the Lord, right?
• 16:29
  Brian Ducharm: It's just a tool.
• 16:30
  Ron Meyers: So Well, I I tell people this, Brian, that if you're restless out there, folks, and you have no understanding why you're restless, that might be the Holy Spirit nudging you into something that God wants you to do.
• 16:49
  Ron Meyers: People ask, Ron, how long are you going to do this podcast?
• 16:54
  Ron Meyers: Until I feel the Lord is telling me not to.
• 16:57
  Ron Meyers: But Brian, if I didn't have a way to release my faith, share stories with you and other guests, I'd be like that little tea kettle sitting on a back burner.
• 17:08
  Ron Meyers: I'd eventually just explode.
• 17:10
  Brian Ducharm: Right.
• 17:10
  Ron Meyers: I've got to get this out.
• 17:12
  Ron Meyers: And when we get Jesus in us, Jesus comes out in different ways and purposes and and things that each of us have.
• 17:20
  Ron Meyers: So right now, there's someone sitting, maybe they're driving, they're all alone, they're a little fearful about life, maybe they lost somebody, maybe they had a bad medical report.
• 17:31
  Ron Meyers: They're becoming a little kind of pessimistic about the future.
• 17:35
  Ron Meyers: You can encourage them.
• 17:37
  Ron Meyers: What would you tell that one person that's having a tough time right now in life?
• 17:43
  Brian Ducharm: Man, okay.
• 17:44
  Brian Ducharm: I I I really revert back to my opinion will get you this far down the road, but when the when the word gets in you, right?
• 17:54
  Brian Ducharm: And Psalm 91, I would encourage every person reading or listening, excuse me, to this podcast to read Psalm 91 every day.
• 18:05
  Brian Ducharm: Every single day.
• 18:06
  Brian Ducharm: He said, He who dwells in the secret place of the Most High shall abide in the shadow of the Almighty.
• 18:13
  Brian Ducharm: It starts talking about proximity.
• 18:15
  Brian Ducharm: You've got to be close to the Lord, right?
• 18:17
  Brian Ducharm: Well, how we were talking earlier, how much closer can he be when he lives inside of you?
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  Brian Ducharm: Amen, brother.
• 18:22
  Brian Ducharm: Right?
• 18:23
  Brian Ducharm: But we we give our attentions to what we give our attentions to.
• 18:27
  Brian Ducharm: And you're either giving your attentions to the Lord or you're giving your attention to something else.
• 18:32
  Ron Meyers: You know, I often ask people if I'm speaking, I'll hold an apple up, and I said, now if I squeeze this apple, what will I get?
• 18:40
  Ron Meyers: And people say, Well, apple juice.
• 18:42
  Ron Meyers: Well, if I squeeze this orange, what will I get?
• 18:45
  Ron Meyers: Orange juice.
• 18:46
  Ron Meyers: Well, we as believers, when we get squeezed, what comes out?
• 18:50
  Ron Meyers: That's right.
• 18:51
  Ron Meyers: See, we want Jesus to come out because that will give us the peace that surpasses all understanding.
• 18:56
  Ron Meyers: We want some wisdom how to solve that problem in front of us.
• 19:00
  Ron Meyers: But a lot of times, if we're not grounded, like you said, in the word or the promises of Jesus, when we get squeezed, what comes out is, oh, maybe he's punishing me.
• 19:10
  Ron Meyers: Maybe he doesn't like me.
• 19:12
  Ron Meyers: Maybe he's grounded me for a month because I didn't do something.
• 19:17
  Ron Meyers: No, God wants you to get to know him more.
• 19:19
  Ron Meyers: It's a relationship, just like we have with our families, our wives, our business partner.
• 19:25
  Ron Meyers: Jesus is a relationship.
• 19:28
  Ron Meyers: The word helps grow that relationship because, like you said, the word is truth and it's powerful.
• 19:36
  Brian Ducharm: Powerful.
• 19:36
  Brian Ducharm: Wow.
• 19:36
  Brian Ducharm: If you're not getting the word in you, I mean, think about it this way Jesus is the word.
• 19:42
  Brian Ducharm: In the beginning was the word.
• 19:44
  Brian Ducharm: The word was with God, the word was God, and the word became flesh and dwelt among us.
• 19:49
  Brian Ducharm: Jesus is the word.
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  Brian Ducharm: And in Psalm 91, it says, His truth is your shield and your buckler, right?
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  Ron Meyers: Well, and the one thing with you as you see this.
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  Ron Meyers: World on the news, or you hear about things, how are you gonna have hope for this world if we don't have Jesus in us?
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  Ron Meyers: Because otherwise, I tell people you'll hide under your bed, you'll go home and sit in a recliner and just watch I Love Lucy shows the rest of your life because you're afraid to leave the house.
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  Ron Meyers: But when you see the troubles out there and hope begins to bubble up in us, we know that we don't have all the answers, but God has a plan.
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  Ron Meyers: God has a plan for the world, God has a plan for these politicians, and God has a plan for each of the people listening to this.
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  Brian Ducharm: Well, if you look at the world, like you said, you look at the world today, you know, he says, His truth is your shield and your buckler.
• 20:44
  Brian Ducharm: And right after that, he says, You will not be afraid of the terror by night or the arrow that flies by day.
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  Brian Ducharm: You won't be fearful of the pestilence that walks in darkness or the destruction that lays waste at noonday.
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  Brian Ducharm: Then he says, a thousand may fall at your side and ten thousand at your right hand, but it won't come near you.
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  Brian Ducharm: See, that all comes from Jesus being your shield and your buckler.
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  Brian Ducharm: You gotta be close to him.
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  Brian Ducharm: You gotta walk in his word, and then all that'll change.
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  Brian Ducharm: You know, the enemy wants to deceive you.
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  Brian Ducharm: If he can't deceive you, he'll distract you.
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  Brian Ducharm: If he can't distract you, he'll try to intimidate you, shame you, right?
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  Brian Ducharm: You know, that's why the enemy is the accuser of the bread.
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  Brian Ducharm: He's always coming to accuse.
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  Brian Ducharm: And I believe this there's one reason.
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  Brian Ducharm: He wants to keep your mouth shut.
• 21:33
  Brian Ducharm: Because our spiritual warfare is our words.
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  Brian Ducharm: When we're declaring God's word, he's gone, man.
• 21:40
  Brian Ducharm: If you submit yourself to God, resist the devil, he's gonna flee.
• 21:45
  Ron Meyers: And I found out, and I wonder if you have, that the more I'm promoting and bragging about what Jesus wants to do, it's almost to me like the fountain of youth.
• 21:57
  Ron Meyers: I feel good, I look good.
• 21:59
  Ron Meyers: Yeah, I go out there, it's not me, but it's when you have that living word just manifesting in you and you're telling people about it.
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  Ron Meyers: There's something about stress, it just melts off of you, and you are optimistic.
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  Ron Meyers: You have hope, you have faith.
• 22:16
  Ron Meyers: You're ready to charge hell with a water pistol because you know that you can't do anything by yourself, but with God, it's amazing the things that we can do in life.
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  Brian Ducharm: You know, what you just described is in Psalm 34.
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  Brian Ducharm: So they looked to him and their faces were radiant, and there was no shame.
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  Ron Meyers: Amen.
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  Brian Ducharm: You know, they the Lord gets rid of shame.
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  Brian Ducharm: He walks with you, man.
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  Brian Ducharm: There is a few.
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  Brian Ducharm: And if you're walking and you're got your eyes on him, I'm telling you, the world will see it.
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  Brian Ducharm: They will.
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  Brian Ducharm: Yep.
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  Ron Meyers: Fix your eyes on Jesus, and the world is looking for something right now.
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  Ron Meyers: They don't know what it is.
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  Brian Ducharm: Yeah.
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  Ron Meyers: But when they get around us, I tell people, we have this aroma, this aroma.
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  Ron Meyers: Now, I'm not talking about body odor.
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  Ron Meyers: I'm talking about the aroma of freedom, of life.
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  Ron Meyers: And they'll ask me, I'm sure they do you, what do you do?
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  Ron Meyers: How come you're always happy?
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  Ron Meyers: How come you're glowing like that?
• 23:17
  Ron Meyers: What's going on?
• 23:18
  Ron Meyers: Well, I'm so glad you asked.
• 23:20
  Ron Meyers: Yeah.
• 23:20
  Ron Meyers: Let me tell you about myself.
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  Brian Ducharm: What does it say too?
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  Brian Ducharm: It says they boast in the Lord and the humble hear it and are glad.
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  Brian Ducharm: You know?
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  Brian Ducharm: And I've never run, I've never heard, I've never seen somebody boasting that wasn't running that mouth.
• 23:34
  Brian Ducharm: Yeah.
• 23:35
  Brian Ducharm: Right?
• 23:35
  Brian Ducharm: But they were running that mouth about the Lord.
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  Brian Ducharm: Amen.
• 23:38
  Brian Ducharm: And it says the humble hear it and are glad.
• 23:40
  Brian Ducharm: I love that.
• 23:40
  Ron Meyers: That's why I call myself the promoter.
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  Ron Meyers: People say I'm promoting Jesus.
• 23:45
  Ron Meyers: I'm promoting destiny and purpose.
• 23:48
  Ron Meyers: And that, yes, there is a better day tomorrow, and it's never too late for a new beginning.
• 23:55
  Ron Meyers: And I hope you've been encouraged by listening to Pawpaw.
• 23:58
  Ron Meyers: Reading the Bible with Pawpaw.
• 24:01
  Ron Meyers: Now, it's heard every day.
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  Ron Meyers: How can people find you on TikTok and what time do you do it?
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  Brian Ducharm: All right.
• 24:06
  Brian Ducharm: So the channel is Read the Bible with Pawpaw, P-A-W-P-A-W.
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  Brian Ducharm: And we I have a live Monday through Friday, 6 30 a.m.
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  Brian Ducharm: Central Time, and it goes about an hour.
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  Brian Ducharm: So they can join us there.
• 24:20
  Brian Ducharm: Now, before we go.
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  Brian Ducharm: And I'm on YouTube as well, Ron.
• 24:23
  Brian Ducharm: I just want to say that.
• 24:24
  Brian Ducharm: I'm on YouTube.
• 24:25
  Ron Meyers: Yeah, that's awesome.
• 24:26
  Brian Ducharm: Yeah.
• 24:26
  Ron Meyers: Before we go, will you pray for my listeners, please?
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  Brian Ducharm: Absolutely.
• 24:31
  Brian Ducharm: Lord, we just thank you for another day.
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  Brian Ducharm: We thank you how good you are to us, Lord.
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  Brian Ducharm: We we love you and we bless you today, Father.
• 24:40
  Brian Ducharm: And Father, I just ask that each person out there, Father, understands that you have an adventurous assignment for them, that you have a plan for their life, Lord God.
• 24:50
  Brian Ducharm: And that you said that God did not send his son into the world to condemn the world, but that the world through him might be saved.
• 24:59
  Brian Ducharm: So, Father, I'm asking that you would go and confirm your word in people's lives, Lord God, and give them a hunger for you so they can call out to the Lord, be saved today, but also just walk in their life with you, Father.
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  Brian Ducharm: Bless their families.
• 25:15
  Brian Ducharm: I know there's people out here that need a healing touch, but Lord, you said in Psalm 103, you forgive our iniquities, you heal our diseases, and you deliver our life from destruction.
• 25:25
  Brian Ducharm: So I just declare that over every single person that's listening to this podcast in the name of Jesus by the blood of Jesus.
• 25:32
  Brian Ducharm: Lord, bless my brother Ron as he continues to share your word through his podcast and through his the things that he promotes, Father.
• 25:41
  Brian Ducharm: Just continue to bless him and his family.
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  Brian Ducharm: We love you, Lord.
• 25:44
  Brian Ducharm: Jesus' name.
• 25:44
  Brian Ducharm: Amen.
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  Speaker 3: Are you frustrated when you see your friends climbing the corporate ladder?
• 26:06
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  Speaker 3: There is a person who understands exactly what you're going through.
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  Announcer: How to get the hell out of your life?
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  Announcer: Well, you replace it with Jesus.
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  Announcer: We gotta be born again, born of the Spirit, and that's by trusting Jesus Christ, turning from our sins and trusting Jesus.
• 26:42
  Announcer: How do you get the hell out of your life?
• 26:44
  Announcer: Oh gosh.
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  Ron Meyers: Jesus.
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