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FRONT PORCH FRIDAY’S - SOMEWHERE OUT THERE · THIS IS THE LIFE PODCAST

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  Speaker 1: Welcome into our Front Porch Friday edition of our This
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  Speaker 1: is the Life podcast and our Morning Moments with Jesus.
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  Speaker 1: So glad you could join.
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  Speaker 2: Us this morning.
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  Speaker 1: Grab yourself a good cup of coffee and get into
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  Speaker 1: your favorite place. Everybody may not have a front porch
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  Speaker 1: view this morning, but wherever you are, if you can
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  Speaker 1: just kind of settle in this morning and spend time.
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  Speaker 1: take a little time to spend some time with Jesus
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  Speaker 1: this morning to see what He has for us. You know,
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  Speaker 1: we've been talking all week about influences that really come
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  Speaker 1: in and out of our lives, whether they be interruptions
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  Speaker 1: or people that God has placed into our lives for
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  Speaker 1: a certain season. So, as I got before the Lord
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  Speaker 1: this morning, I kind of want to wrap this week
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  Speaker 1: up with a question for our Front Porch Friday family
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  Speaker 1: that has gathered this morning. Who has made a difference
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  Speaker 1: in your life? If you could think of one person
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  Speaker 1: or maybe a couple of people who have made a
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  Speaker 1: huge impact in your life. The Apostle Paul writes to
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  Speaker 1: the Philippians in chapter 1 and verse number 3, a
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  Speaker 1: verse that I believe could really speak to us this morning.
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  Speaker 3: He says, I.
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  Speaker 1: Thank my God upon every remembrance of you. So I
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  Speaker 1: want to begin today by sharing something that one of
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  Speaker 1: our listeners had sent me. It simply says this, Eddie,
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  Speaker 1: there was a man in my church years ago who
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  Speaker 1: always seemed to know when I needed encouragement. He was
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  Speaker 1: not a preacher. He never stood before a crowd. He
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  Speaker 1: simply had the ability to notice people. When I was
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  Speaker 1: going through one of the hardest seasons of my life,
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  Speaker 1: he would often call and check on me, send me
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  Speaker 1: a card or tell me that he had been praying
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  Speaker 1: for me. He passed away a few years ago, but
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  Speaker 1: I still remember his kindness. I wish I had told
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  Speaker 1: him more often how much he meant to me. He
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  Speaker 1: may have thought that what he was doing was something
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  Speaker 1: very small, but God used him to help carry me
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  Speaker 1: through a very difficult time in my life. Your song
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  Speaker 1: that I play often while there's still time always reminds
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  Speaker 1: me of how fleeting our time on earth is, so
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  Speaker 1: I just wanted to share that with you Thank you,
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  Speaker 1: Brent from Nebraska. I believe most of us can think
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  Speaker 1: of someone like that, can't we? Maybe it was a
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  Speaker 1: parent or a grandparent. Maybe it was a teacher. Maybe
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  Speaker 1: a pastor or just a close friend. Maybe it was
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  Speaker 1: just someone who simply, as we talked about this week,
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  Speaker 1: someone who just crossed your path at the right time
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  Speaker 1: and in the right season. They may not have done
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  Speaker 1: anything that the world would consider extraordinary, But somehow their kindness,
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  Speaker 1: their prayers, maybe their wisdom and encouragement, it's helped shape
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  Speaker 1: your life. Paul said, I thank God upon every remembrance
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  Speaker 1: of you. Some people leave us with memories. Memories that
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  Speaker 1: remain a part of us for all of our lives.
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  Speaker 1: Their words, they continue to guide us. Their prayers seem
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  Speaker 1: to still be bearing fruit in our lives. And their example,
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  Speaker 1: it remains with us. So Even if they're no longer here,
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  Speaker 1: the effects that they had on our life are. And see,
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  Speaker 1: these thoughts are closely connected to what prompted me to
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  Speaker 1: write a song that is very dear to me. This
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  Speaker 1: one is very dear to me because it is one
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  Speaker 1: that began to develop a couple of years ago. And
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  Speaker 1: it's called Somewhere Out There. And the lyrics came to
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  Speaker 1: me as I pondered these thoughts that somewhere out there,
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  Speaker 1: is the last breath I'll ever take, the last hand
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  Speaker 1: that I will ever shake, and the last promise I
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  Speaker 1: will ever make. Beyond where I can see is the
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  Speaker 1: last I love you I will ever say, and the
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  Speaker 1: last tear I'll ever wipe away. See, we do not
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  Speaker 1: know when that final moment will come, and we should
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  Speaker 1: not assume there will always be an opportunity to say
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  Speaker 1: thank you, to offer forgiveness, to speak encouragement, or to
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  Speaker 1: simply say, I love you. Just like there are those
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  Speaker 1: that have blessed our lives, never underestimate the blessing you
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  Speaker 1: have been to other people's lives. So for this Front
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  Speaker 1: Porch Friday moment, I want to ask you two simple
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  Speaker 1: questions as we go into this weekend. Number one, who
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  Speaker 1: has made a difference in your life? And number two,
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  Speaker 1: Are you making a difference in other people's lives? Perhaps
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  Speaker 1: they are still living and today would be a good
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  Speaker 1: day to let them know just how much their life
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  Speaker 1: has meant to your life. If they have already gone
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  Speaker 1: on to be with Lord, this could be a way
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  Speaker 1: of honoring the difference they have made in your life.
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  Speaker 1: Leave your comment as a testimony to their memory. Because
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  Speaker 1: somewhere out there is the last opportunity we will ever have.
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  Speaker 1: Let's not allow that opportunity to pass unnoticed. Today you
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  Speaker 1: be safe. You be strong. And you be blessed. And
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  Speaker 1: somewhere out there is the last breath we will ever take.
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  Speaker 1: So make sure we take the opportunity today to say
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  Speaker 1: thank you and to be a blessing. Have a great weekend.
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  Speaker 1: Look forward to seeing you back here again on Monday.
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  Speaker 1: And until then, I sure hope you have a great day.
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  Speaker 4: There's a morning waiting somewhere I will never wait to.
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  Speaker 5: See The road that keeps on winding but no longer
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  Speaker 5: carries me. There's a clock already counting, though the hour
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  Speaker 5: is unrevealed. So I don't want to waste today on
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  Speaker 5: wounds that could be healed.
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  Speaker 4: Somewhere out there is the last breath.
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  Speaker 3: I'll ever take.
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  Speaker 2: The last hand I'll ever shake.
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  Speaker 4: The last promise I'll ever make. Somewhere out there is
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  Speaker 4: the last I love you I'll ever say. The last
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  Speaker 4: tear I'll wipe away before heaven calls my name.
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  Speaker 3: I don't know where and I don't know when.
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  Speaker 6: There there's a doorway i'll walk through someday that i've
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  Speaker 6: never crossed.
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  Speaker 2: Before when all the things i gathered here won't matter
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  Speaker 2: anymore Only.
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  Speaker 4: Kindness will go with me.
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  Speaker 3: Only love will leave a.
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  Speaker 2: Trace in the lives of those who knew me and
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  Speaker 2: the memories they embrace.
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  Speaker 4: Somewhere out there is the last breath I'll ever take.
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  Speaker 2: The last hand I'll ever shake and the last promise.
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  Speaker 4: I'll ever make.
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  Speaker 2: Somewhere out there is the last I'll ever say. The
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  Speaker 2: last tear.
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  Speaker 3: I'll wipe away before heaven calls my name.
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  Speaker 2: I don't know where and I don't know when, but it's.
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  Speaker 4: I gave them.
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  Speaker 7: All the love I had So they could pass it
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  Speaker 7: on Somewhere out there Is the last breath I'll ever take.
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  Speaker 4: The last hand I'll ever shake And.
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  Speaker 2: The last promise I'll ever.
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  Speaker 4: Make Somewhere out there is the last I'll ever say
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  Speaker 4: The last tear I'll wipe away.
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  Speaker 3: Before heaven calls my name I don't know where and
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  Speaker 3: I don't know when But.
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  Speaker 5: It's somewhere
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  Speaker 2: Somewhere out there is the last I love you I'll
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  Speaker 2: ever say The last tear I'll wipe away song