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Parable of Wealth with Dr. Nicholas Comninellis & Duck Dynasty: The Revival with Sadie and Christian Huff · Karl and Crew

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  S1: Broadcasting from Chicago, across North America and beyond. It's Carl
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  S1: Delivering the truth daily.
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  S4: All of my attempts to, you know, prop myself up
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  S4: with achievement in good works. Well, God wasn't impressed by that,
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  S4: even if other people were.
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  S2: The gospel changes everything.
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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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  S6: Yeah. I feel prompted by the spirit to kick off
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  S6: this hour with a just another big thank you. I'm.
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  S6: you know, we spent Monday doing a lot of thank
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  S6: yous for share last week, but there's so many people
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  S6: with a vested interest in this. I get blown away.
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  S6: How many responses I get to via text message or
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  S6: email people that I mean, they're, they're in it with
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  S6: us here. Ali.
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  S4: Oh, totally. I mean, people who gave people who prayed
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  S4: and reported back about how God used it.
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  S6: Yeah. No, it's a it's a big deal. And and
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  S6: we're so grateful for your participation. I want to tell
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  S6: you what happened here. Uh, if you weren't with us
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  S6: during share or if you want a more recent update,
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  S6: we were really battling on that first Tuesday. As a
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  S6: matter of fact, the forecast. Randy, we've got a guy
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  S6: that's a number crunching data. Crazy man. And he's awesome.
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  S6: And I love Randy. Oh man. Because numbers matter. It's
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  S6: good to give you a point of reference. And he's
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  S6: crunching numbers. He's a very soft spoken guy. That's an understatement. Right, Alan?
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  S4: Oh, yeah. I mean, he's a.
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  S6: Soft spoken guy.
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  S4: And we sometimes don't even see him until share, right?
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  S6: And then there's Randy. He's popping in. But it's it
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  S6: was Tuesday night. He was a little bit crestfallen. I
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  S6: think that's the right word. Crestfallen. What a great word
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  S6: term that is, by the way. Um but it was
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  S6: he wasn't worried. It was just like. In fact, he
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  S6: told me, as animated as Randy gets, he said, this
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  S6: could be a long week. And I thought, yeah, Randy,
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  S6: you're right about that. But one thing that we were
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  S6: reminded of, both of us when we were talking is
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  S6: God has been so faithful. And I just want to
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  S6: report that what happened on Tuesday of last week was
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  S6: one thing. But then Wednesday picked up. And for us
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  S6: in the morning hours, I got to tell you, we
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  S6: really saw you guys move. You were the boom crew.
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  S6: There's no question that you are the some of the
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  S6: finest people on the planet. We're so grateful for you.
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  S6: But Wednesday picked up and then Thursday picked up more.
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  S6: And then Friday was a huge day. And then we
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  S6: came in for a few hours on Saturday. And that
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  S6: was like, what in the world? It actually started slow
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  S6: because nobody's awake when we were on the air that
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  S6: first hour, and then it picked up and picked up.
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  S6: But I want to tell you, out of a $4
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  S6: million effort where we started, even pre share way behind guys,
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  S6: would you believe we might get there because there's still,
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  S6: I mean, mail gifts coming in and all that. And
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  S6: it's it's been amazing hasn't it. Super day.
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  S7: I mean it's so humbling. It almost it does. I
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  S7: shouldn't say it almost. It does bring tears to my eyes. Yeah.
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  S7: It really, really does. People just rallying together to know
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  S7: that yes, it is the light of the gospel. And they,
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  S7: they just want somebody to hear the gospel to be saved. Period.
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  S8: Yeah. It's just, it's just a cool thing.
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  S6: And so I really did feel prompted of the Holy Spirit.
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  S6: They asked us to say thank you on Monday and
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  S6: they don't have to ask us to do that. My goodness,
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  S6: we come in here joyfully and say, hey, we're exhausted,
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  S6: but we're fired up and grateful for you. But I
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  S6: just want to say on this big old hump day
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  S6: here Wednesday, after a thank you from the bottom of
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  S6: my heart. Uh, we appreciate the partnership in the gospel
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  S6: and we look at what's going on. You know, I,
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  S6: I mean, here in Chicagoland, it was a big voting
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  S6: day yesterday. So my bride and I went and voted,
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  S6: but I walked out of there going, man, the answer
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  S6: for this nation is not pulling levers, baby. It is
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  S6: seeking the face of God and asking for awakening. I
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  S6: am more convinced of that than ever. I'm absolutely solid
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  S6: on that one. That you can't push me off that dime.
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  S6: I will not get into culture wars on social media.
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  S6: I am aiming at championing Christ and Him crucified and
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  S6: that the tomb is empty. Our God is alive. We
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  S6: get the best message on the planet. I heard this
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  S6: this preacher on a short the other day, and I'm like, go, brother.
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  S6: I don't know who this guy is. Young dude. I mean,
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  S6: preaching it up. And he's just I mean, he's got
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  S6: sweat pouring off his forehead and he wasn't even dabbing
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  S6: it up. And I'm like, let it drip. No, I'm serious.
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  S6: I'm like, let it drip, brother. Let it drip. And
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  S6: he and he just looked and he says, I want
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  S6: to ask all of you here, what, what name one
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  S6: thing better than salvation. One thing and you online. And
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  S6: these steers in the online camera. I mean, like connecting
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  S6: with you like I saw it after the fact. And
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  S6: I'm sitting alone. I'm going, yeah, he's in my lap.
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  S6: And he said, tell me one thing. Just one thing
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  S6: that's better than salvation. Now tell me one thing that
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  S6: even comes close to that. And he began to explain
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  S6: the power of God unto salvation. And I'm like, yes, man,
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  S6: this is so cool. And that's what we're talking about here, guys.
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  S6: I mean, at the end of the day, uh, old
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  S6: time Christianity ain't going to cut it no more. It ain't,
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  S6: it ain't. It's going to church stuff resting on the
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  S6: laurels in this, uh, supposed notion of Christian nation and
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  S6: all that kind of stuff. Come on, man, we got
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  S6: the numbers. Numbers don't lie. We didn't get them from Randy.
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  S6: We got them from George Barna. He's like, there's 4%
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  S6: of our nation that have a Christian worldview that directs
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  S6: their private and public lives. But here's my other contention
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  S6: on this. Sorry, I'm going to get on a soapbox
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  S6: here for a second. I have I have really been
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  S6: drilling down on something lately, and I haven't talked with
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  S6: you about this much at all, even off air. But,
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  S6: you know, there's this term called prevenient grace. And it's,
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  S6: it's an interesting thing. And it's about God basically bumping
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  S6: the cup of people before they've even heard about who
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  S6: Jesus Christ is. You find that with Lydia, you find
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  S6: it with Cornelius. They were God fearing people, and when
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  S6: they heard the message of the gospel, boom, it it hit.
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  S6: And I believe that the reason we need to stay
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  S6: on point with the gospel, not only into salvation, but sanctification,
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  S6: is that prevenient li there are unreached peoples across America
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  S6: and there's varying different numbers, but some would say 6,070%
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  S6: have not had a fair shot at the full gospel
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  S6: of what Jesus wants to do to invade your life,
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  S6: to transform your soul, to reorder your priorities, to give
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  S6: you contentment with the cup of coffee and the presence
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  S6: of God. And I'm telling you guys, the only answer
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  S6: for any Nation, any community, any home is the gospel.
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  S6: It's the only answer. Full stop. Whoever my brother is
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  S6: that was preaching. I gotta track this guy down. Get
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  S6: him on here. I gotta find him. You just keep
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  S6: that sweat on your brow, bro. You just keep sweating
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  S6: and don't dab that. Those sweat beads. Because what you're
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  S6: preaching is right. Because there is nothing better. And there
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  S6: isn't even a close second to salvation. And there's some
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  S6: people in our culture today. This is why you don't
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  S6: get caught up in culture wars that are prevenient prompted
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  S6: by God. They're God fearing. They just need to hear
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  S6: the name of Jesus. They just need to hear the
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  S6: name of Jesus. That's all the way around Mccready's barn
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  S6: to tell you. Thank you for for your participation and share.
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  S6: We love you guys. And I'm going to unapologetically put
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  S6: it out there. If you didn't participate and you want to,
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  S6: because you do believe that the gospel changes everything. They
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  S6: didn't ask us to do this. I just feel prompted
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  S6: to do it. Nothing. We don't get a cut off
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  S6: the top, I don't know. Ali, do you get a
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  S6: cut off the top?
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  S4: I do not.
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  S6: Just text the word share to our number and all
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  S6: the links are in there. I think they're still there.
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  S6: Are they still there? We killed it. Oh, good.
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  S7: We're good to.
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  S6: Go. Text share to (800) 555-7898. Be part of a miracle. And, uh, man,
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  S6: it's it's cool. You ever see those races where, um,
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  S6: someone's lagging way back? In fact, I saw one here
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  S6: probably six months ago where someone had fallen down. A
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  S6: girl had fallen down in like a I don't know what,
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  S6: what it was 5000 meter race. And they're like, called
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  S6: her out, man because she was she was she really
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  S6: did a face plant. Somebody clipped her ankle when she
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  S6: was running past him and she went down. She was
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  S6: so far back. And then here she comes. And you're like, no,
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  S6: here she comes, here she comes, here she comes. And
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  S6: you're like, whoa, this is crazy.
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  S4: I love those videos.
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  S3: And she.
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  S6: Won the picking.
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  S4: Thing. It's unbelievable.
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  S7: That's so.
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  S4: Good. It's unbelievable.
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  S6: I mean, I was like, go girl, go girl. I mean,
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  S6: this race is already long done and I'm cheering like
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  S6: I'm going crazy in my chair. Go go go. And
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  S6: then boom, she breaks it. And I'm like, yeah, now
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  S6: I'm going to go up and do some chores for
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  S6: my wife. I felt so good. So thank you to
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  S6: those of you even responding this morning. Wow.
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  S4: I mean, seven gifts given that just this morning in
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  S4: the overnight hours and into the the 5:00 hour.
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  S7: What a blessing.
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  S4: I mean, so encouraged by the number of people who
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  S4: intended to give missed it for whatever reason on our
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  S4: are still giving faithful gifts last night. This morning? Thank you.
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  S6: Yeah. From the bottom of our heart. Thank you. We
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  S6: love you. So if that's you. One word. Share to
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  S6: 800 555, 78, 98. One word share to 805 five, five, 78, 98.
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  S6: We won't be able to shout out your name or
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  S6: anything like that, but you know what? God sees and
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  S6: he's grateful. And you know what? It's it's such a
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  S6: joy to partner with God in the gospel. Holy smokes.
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  S6: I want to get up and do some victory runs.
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  S6: That's just a sweet thing. Well, we're talking get it
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  S6: together all week long. So I got a crazy one
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  S6: for you. I want to shift gears radically here. I
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  S6: want your best life hack for organization. We're going to
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  S6: open up phone lines.
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  S4: Like actual organization of your space. Physical organization. Okay. Yeah.
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  S7: Okay.
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  S6: Yeah. I don't I don't want to die. I don't
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  S6: want to dive into organizing minds this morning. That's too deep.
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  S4: I mean.
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  S6: That's, I don't want to get their.
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  S4: Organize calendars, you can organize your day, but you're talking about.
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  S6: Yeah, I'm talking about space.
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  S4: Okay.
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  S7: Office home.
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  S6: And I'm going to prime the pump. So I want
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  S6: to give you a phenomenal seasonal garage organizing hack. Are
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  S6: you ready? Ali.
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  S4: I'm ready.
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  S6: Okay. I'm going to give it to you right now. Okay.
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  S6: You got a call in, guys, with your organizational hack
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  S6: 800 555 7898. So I'm into organization, I love it,
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  S6: I love organization. So we've got these bins numbered one
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  S6: through seven. There are these big old grey Tupperware tubie things,
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  S6: but they're big for Christmas. And I'm like, yeah, you know,
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  S6: I just use those once a year, pull them out,
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  S6: take them down, put them back up. That's it. Two
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  S6: movements a year. That's all they do. That's it. So
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  S6: I'm like, I gotta get that. Gotta get that out
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  S6: of the way because I like floors cleared. You know,
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  S6: you don't want to stack those suckers in a corner
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  S6: I measured down from the ceiling in my garage, the
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  S6: exact height of those tubs, plus a half inch, and
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  S6: I put brackets up and some shelving. And oh boy,
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  S6: was that satisfying. So when I drive into my garage.
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  S6: Bing bing bing bing bing bing bing bing bing. All
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  S6: seven of those are up there high up in the
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  S6: top and they're out of the way. They're organized. And
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  S6: when Christmas comes, I have great joy to climb a
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  S6: little ladder and go, yep, I got him, I got him.
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  S6: But it's some I know it sounds small, but it's
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  S6: a big deal because stuff gets in our way and
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  S6: we talk. Look, we know there's stuff you got to
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  S6: get rid of, but the stuff that you got to
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  S6: keep an organization around the home. That's a life hack
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  S6: I'm looking for. We've already got calls coming in here.
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  S6: This is awesome. 800 555, 7898, 800 555 7898 and
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  S6: I know Ali is loaded with these things.
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  S4: I've got a couple. I would say loaded.
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  S6: She's loaded. Guys, I'm telling you, she's holding back on us. 805. Five. Five, 78. 98.
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  S1: The gospel changes everything.
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  S4: Where else am I gonna find peace? Joy? Eternal life
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  S4: not found in anyone else.
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  S1: You're listening to Carl and crew.
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  S6: Asking you something crazy. We're having a little wing nut
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  S6: segment here just because Ali insists on it. Actually, it
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  S6: was my idea.
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  S4: Wait a.
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  S6: Second. Yeah. Hold on.
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  S7: She came in, man. It was.
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  S6: She's like, man, when Ali has an idea, I just
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  S6: salute her and keep moving. So here's the deal. I
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  S6: got a crazy idea, and that is. What are those
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  S6: crazy life hacks? Our whole week is get it together.
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  S6: And we're having a lot of discussion around getting it together.
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  S6: When you think about organizing space, what are those life
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  S6: hacks you got to call us? Burn. These phone lines
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  S6: should be jammed. You've got some of your organizational nut cases.
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  S6: You need to go to organizational rehab. You got the
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  S6: disease so bad 800 555, 78, 98, 805 five, five, 78, 98.
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  S6: Before you go to rehab, call us with your tip here.
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  S6: What's an organizational hack? 800 555 7898 James first time caller,
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  S6: Dade City, Florida. What's your life hack, man?
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  S9: Good morning, boom crew, can you hear me all right.
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  S6: Oh, yeah. We got you loud and clear all the
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  S6: way from Florida. How are you, man?
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  S9: Oh, not too bad. God bless you guys. I just
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  S9: wanted to share, uh, for you guys and everybody listening,
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  S9: if you need real help organizing your space, if you
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  S9: don't know where the local landfill is at, you're already
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  S9: behind the curve.
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  S3: Same way.
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  S9: The same, the same way that God looks in your
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  S9: life to root out the secular crud that he expects
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  S9: you to get rid of. You need to be doing
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  S9: that around the house if you have to start moving
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  S9: things out of your way to get the things that
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  S9: you need, those things are moving out of the way.
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  S9: You need to be moving to the bed of your
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  S9: truck and sending it off, because that stuff will gather
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  S9: up and before you know it, you're going to look
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  S9: like the folks you see on TV that have stuff
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  S9: stacked to the ceiling.
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  S6: Yeah. Jamie. That's hilarious dude. Your first call to us
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  S6: is about finding the landfill.
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  S4: Dude, that's a little bit of a shocker.
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  S9: The same way that God looks in your life and
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  S9: every once in a while and he says, hey, you
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  S9: better get rid of that. And he does it to
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  S9: me and I'm struggling with it now. But I'll tell
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  S9: you what, the same way he does it to you,
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  S9: you need to do to your space with your family. Hey,
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  S9: we don't need that. Pack it up. Hey, we don't
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  S9: use that. Pack it up. And if it's worth something,
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  S9: give it to somebody who can use it. Because if
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  S9: it's just sitting there collecting dust, it's in the way.
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  S9: It doesn't need to be there. Get it out.
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  S6: Oh, Jamie, I'm going to give you a boom, brother.
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  S6: You're in the boom crew. Find the nearest. Find the
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  S6: nearest landfill, says Jamie, first time caller from Dade City, Florida.
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  S6: That's hilarious. His first call here is find a. Find
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  S6: a landfill. Landfill are hilarious. All right, we're going to
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  S6: go lightning round. Somebody jump in here. Behind him right now! 805. Five. Five, 78. 98. Maybe.
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  S6: Maybe your hack for organization is there is actually stuff
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  S6: that's usable around your home and you want to organize it.
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  S6: Find a landfill. That's his first call. I don't know
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  S6: why that is.
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  S4: There's something there's some truth to that.
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  S6: Oh, there's a whole lot of truth to it. I
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  S6: don't know where my landfill is. I don't know, but
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  S6: but I but I, I've got a big old green
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  S6: monster that's.
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  S4: A funny like Chicago hack. And I don't know if
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  S4: this is like true other places, but there are I
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  S4: have routinely because I have, uh, I live in a
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  S4: single family home with a detached garage. So the, the
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  S4: trash pickup is in the alley. So all of the.
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  S4: So almost without fail, anything that I put in the alley,
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  S4: it either gets picked up by scrappers, people who come
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  S4: along and just collect old things to sell them. People
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  S4: who dumpster dive. So I can literally put out anything
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  S4: and just sit it next to my trash can in
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  S4: the alley. And usually within 12 hours it's gone. So
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  S4: that's kind of that's not really a life hack because
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  S4: I don't know if that's going to work where you live.
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  S3: Yeah. But you know, for city.
• 18:01
  S6: Dwellers, it is.
• 18:02
  S4: For if you're a city dweller, put it in the
• 18:04
  S4: alley and it gets taken care of somehow.
• 18:07
  S6: Now, Ali does drive by her neighbor's homes and sees
• 18:10
  S6: those things hanging off the big C's, the blue tarp
• 18:14
  S6: hanging out over the shed.
• 18:16
  S4: But it's kind of like, understood. If it makes it
• 18:18
  S4: to the alley, it's fair game. You want to go
• 18:20
  S4: and you want to go and dumpster dive and find
• 18:22
  S4: something that's new to you. Take it.
• 18:25
  S6: All right. Call in with your life hack. We got
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  S6: to get you in here fast, though. 805 555 7898
• 18:31
  S6: 800 555 7898.
• 18:35
  S1: This is Curl and Crew on Moody Radio.
• 18:39
  S6: So hilarious. We got a theme to the landfill. I
• 18:41
  S6: put my stuff that's usable. This is usually combined with
• 18:45
  S6: our caller from Florida. I put my stuff that's usable
• 18:48
  S6: to the end of the yard by the road. Within
• 18:50
  S6: 24 hours, someone's come along and got it. Yeah.
• 18:53
  S4: I mean, some people really love to collect things and
• 18:57
  S4: repurpose them. And I mean, I think that's a great
• 19:00
  S4: skill if you have it, if you can see a
• 19:02
  S4: busted up chair and have a vision for how you
• 19:05
  S4: can make it into something beautiful. Yeah. Love it.
• 19:08
  S6: Yeah. It's great. It is great. Oh boy. This is hilarious, guys.
• 19:13
  S6: Hang on. We got people freaking out over where our
• 19:16
  S6: allies jokes. They're coming, they're coming.
• 19:20
  S4: It's been a little bit of a dry, dry.
• 19:23
  S6: Literally someone said this. I'm having Ali joke withdrawals. Part
• 19:28
  S6: of our sheer gift was to support Ali's jokes.
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  S3: No kidding.
• 19:32
  S6: That's what they.
• 19:33
  S3: Said. Oh, that's so great. Okay. Oh, boy. Okay.
• 19:38
  S6: That's crazy right there.
• 19:41
  S3: That's a.
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  S6: Crazy fan. I promise we're getting there. It will. It
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  S6: will happen, right, Ali?
• 19:49
  S4: It will.
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  S3: I will not disappoint.
• 19:50
  S4: Right? Locked and loaded.
• 19:51
  S6: Because. No joking. We've gotten at least 15 texts in
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  S6: the last little while.
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  S4: They're coming.
• 19:58
  S6: They're coming.
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  S1: This is Carl and crew on Moody Radio.
• 20:03
  S6: It's Carl and Crew. And guess what, guys? We. Yeah,
• 20:07
  S6: we had a little glitch, a Rooney in here. We've
• 20:10
  S6: got these high tech systems that sometimes blow up in
• 20:13
  S6: our face. But it is time right now. Right now.
• 20:18
  S1: Making herself laugh no matter who joins her. It's time
• 20:21
  S1: for Ali thinks it's funny.
• 20:25
  S4: It's been a minute, So I hope you're ready for
• 20:29
  S4: a couple a couple of new jokes.
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  S3: We're ready.
• 20:32
  S6: The fans are ready.
• 20:33
  S4: I don't know how closely you follow the news. A
• 20:36
  S4: lot going on in the news, so it's easy to
• 20:38
  S4: miss certain stories. Did you hear about the cheese factory
• 20:42
  S4: that exploded in France? No injuries. Thankfully it was. It
• 20:48
  S4: happened during the overnight hours. Nobody was injured. The building,
• 20:52
  S4: though there was nothing left but debris.
• 20:59
  S3: Okay. It's outstanding. That's outstanding. Oh that's outstanding. Okay.
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  S4: Next up, um, back to the farm because, you know,
• 21:11
  S4: that's the place where all good jokes originate. Chickens are
• 21:16
  S4: pretty simple creatures. I don't know if you've ever owned
• 21:18
  S4: a chicken.
• 21:19
  S6: I have never owned a chicken.
• 21:21
  S4: I'm actually kind of surprised by that. I feel like
• 21:23
  S4: you've I.
• 21:24
  S7: Know, right.
• 21:24
  S4: A little bit of everything.
• 21:25
  S6: I have, but I've never owned a chicken.
• 21:27
  S4: They're pretty simple, easy to please. They don't want for much,
• 21:32
  S4: but chickens only make one sound. If you realize that
• 21:37
  S4: they really are not very creative with their vocalizations, they
• 21:42
  S4: only make one sound. It really comes down to this.
• 21:46
  S4: They don't know how to think outside of the box.
• 21:51
  S6: Oh.
• 21:52
  S7: Wow.
• 21:58
  S6: Okay, that one's really got you going. If you want
• 22:02
  S6: Ali's jokes, let me tell you where to get them
• 22:03
  S6: while she's laughing at her own material.
• 22:05
  S4: Here. That's. That's. I always laugh at my own material.
• 22:09
  S6: And it's great, and I love it. And that one
• 22:10
  S6: was especially good. Sex jokes to 800 555 7898. Text
• 22:18
  S6: jokes to 800 555 98. Oh my goodness. Enjoy guys.
• 22:27
  S6: Coming up here. In a moment. I had a chance
• 22:28
  S6: to sit down with a doctor, turned, turned into a
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  S6: guy who says God has given you so much as
• 22:40
  S6: you are. Don't always look over your shoulder or for
• 22:43
  S6: that next thing and utilize what God has given you.
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  S1: Celebrating the unstoppable gospel.
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  S2: It's not that I've got to fill in these check boxes,
• 22:53
  S2: so he's okay with me, but it's that I get
• 22:55
  S2: to stand close to him so that I can experience
• 22:58
  S2: the life that he has for me.
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  S1: You're listening to Carl and Crew.
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  S6: You know, I read this and I thought, boy, that's
• 23:05
  S6: good news. God holds us accountable for what we have,
• 23:09
  S6: not for what we don't have. We have time. We
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  S6: have talents, we have spiritual gifts, and there's encouragement to
• 23:17
  S6: use that wisely and strategically. The question is, how do
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  S6: we do it? I think oftentimes we look around going, man,
• 23:23
  S6: I don't have this. I don't have that. But what
• 23:26
  S6: if we've got bags of gold? Five specifically, Doctor Nicholas
• 23:32
  S6: Comnenus is with me right now. He is president and
• 23:36
  S6: professor of Inmed. It's an institute for Internal Medicine. Wow.
• 23:41
  S6: What in the world. Let's go. First off, how did
• 23:44
  S6: you get into medicine? And then how did you make
• 23:46
  S6: this shift into five bags of gold? I got to
• 23:49
  S6: hear the story, Doc.
• 23:50
  S10: I really love biographies. And as a new follower of Jesus,
• 23:55
  S10: I read the biography of Tom Dooley. He was the
• 23:58
  S10: US Navy physician doing refugee care at the outset of
• 24:02
  S10: the Vietnam War, and people were cold and hungry and
• 24:06
  S10: sick and couldn't find their kids, and Dooley was providing
• 24:10
  S10: care for them in the name of Christ. And I thought,
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  S10: that is so amazing. That's what I want to do.
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  S6: That's so cool. Nicholas, give me this, man. When were
• 24:19
  S6: you born again?
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  S10: I came to Christ through a ministry in Kansas City
• 24:23
  S10: in around 1973 called youth for Christ.
• 24:29
  S6: Right on. Yes. Powerful ministry. So were you raised in
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  S6: a Christian home, or was that your first exposure to
• 24:36
  S6: the good news that led you to repentance?
• 24:39
  S10: I was raised in a very traditional Christian system where
• 24:44
  S10: there wasn't a whole lot of life. And I, at school, I,
• 24:48
  S10: I had classmates who carried their Bibles and they were
• 24:50
  S10: excited about Jesus. And, and I thought, whoa, what is this?
• 24:54
  S10: And that's really what introduced me to the life giving
• 24:57
  S10: approach to faith in Christ.
• 24:59
  S6: That's beautiful. I want to get into all that you've
• 25:02
  S6: done here in this great writing, but I want to
• 25:05
  S6: I want to ask you some crazy questions. You're in
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  S6: internal medicine. Do you see the hand of God in this?
• 25:13
  S6: My goodness, my friend, I love to talk to you
• 25:15
  S6: brainiacs and go, give me your perspective. What do you see?
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  S10: Well, I see the hand of God two ways. Especially
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  S10: one is simply in creation. The marvel of the human body,
• 25:27
  S10: the marvel of our internal chemistry and genetics and how
• 25:31
  S10: it all works together. And then I also see it
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  S10: in people who are doubtful and suffering. And how in
• 25:39
  S10: those moments of need, offering to pray with someone can
• 25:43
  S10: be so powerful and life giving.
• 25:45
  S6: Yeah, you aren't kidding. The power of prayer and a
• 25:49
  S6: hand on a shoulder while you pray. Uh. Do you
• 25:51
  S6: get patients that ask you to pray for them?
• 25:55
  S10: Well, not that so much as when I see someone
• 25:58
  S10: who's really suffering and I say, can I pray with
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  S10: you right now?
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  S6: You do that.
• 26:02
  S10: And they always say, yes. I'm sure somebody has been offended,
• 26:07
  S10: but they've never said it to me. They always want
• 26:09
  S10: to be prayed for. They realize that life is short,
• 26:12
  S10: life is vulnerable and the power of God. They want
• 26:16
  S10: that in their lives.
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  S6: Yeah, I love this. Yeah, I've been saying it here.
• 26:21
  S6: For how long? Super Dai, have we been saying it
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  S6: here that every. I mean, I have never been turned
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  S6: down one time when I've offered to pray for someone.
• 26:31
  S7: You have emphasized that.
• 26:32
  S6: Never, never. And I'm talking at dry cleaners. Check out
• 26:36
  S6: clerks and I don't put them in a weird spot. Uh, because,
• 26:40
  S6: you know, I don't wait. If there's a line there
• 26:42
  S6: and get weird about it. But if you offer up
• 26:44
  S6: prayer to people that are visibly hurting. I've never been
• 26:47
  S6: turned down, I love that. Okay. Um, I am so intrigued.
• 26:51
  S6: How do you go from internal medicine to writing a
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  S6: modern day parable on how to use your wealth and
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  S6: responsibility and internal investment, and really taking what God's given
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  S6: you with time, treasure, and talents and leveraging it to
• 27:07
  S6: kingdom stuff. How do you how do you go from
• 27:09
  S6: medicine to that?
• 27:10
  S10: I think that all of us, regardless of our career
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  S10: or background, are going to be faced with a day
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  S10: when we give an account to Christ about what we
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  S10: have done with the treasure we possess. And that day
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  S10: described in Matthew 25, is what we need to be
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  S10: thinking about as we as we plan our lives, organizing
• 27:29
  S10: our lives. And all of us have got some treasure.
• 27:32
  S10: We all have got some skill, some time, some talents
• 27:36
  S10: that we can invest on, the part of the work
• 27:40
  S10: of our churches and reaching people in need.
• 27:43
  S6: I want to use the word demonic, but I don't
• 27:45
  S6: throw that around. I really mean it. I mean it
• 27:47
  S6: from a standpoint of temptation and deception. How demonic is
• 27:52
  S6: it that we have a tendency to think, if I
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  S6: just had that, I would have something to give?
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  S10: Yeah. That's right. Yeah. It's always a little bit more
• 28:03
  S10: give me a little bit more. And trying to move
• 28:05
  S10: beyond that and saying, okay, I need a plan for
• 28:07
  S10: the future. I have hopes and aspirations, but right now,
• 28:11
  S10: what do I have? Do I have a day, a week.
• 28:14
  S10: Do I have an evening a week? Do I have
• 28:17
  S10: a little bit of discretionary time where I can help
• 28:20
  S10: someone who is in need, a child who has trouble reading,
• 28:25
  S10: a non-English speaker who needs a little bit of tutoring,
• 28:27
  S10: someone who needs to learn a skill that I already have,
• 28:31
  S10: that I can share with them. And as we do that,
• 28:34
  S10: especially in union with other followers of Jesus, it's a light.
• 28:38
  S10: People want to know the source of our motive as
• 28:42
  S10: we are addressing the the felt needs of people around us.
• 28:46
  S10: It also gives us opportunity to speak about what motivates
• 28:49
  S10: us about Christ.
• 28:51
  S6: Beautiful doctor Nina Ellis is with me right now and
• 28:55
  S6: coming up here in a moment. I want us to
• 28:58
  S6: uncork this modern parable about five bags of gold, a
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  S6: modern parable of wealth, responsibility and eternal investment. Hang on.
• 29:09
  S1: Walking closer to Jesus every day. You're listening to Carl
• 29:13
  S1: and crew.
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  S6: With me right now, Doctor Nicholas Comninos, and he is
• 29:19
  S6: an author of a brand new work, Five Bags of Gold,
• 29:22
  S6: A Modern Parable of wealth, responsibility, and Eternal investment. I
• 29:26
  S6: don't want to get into the details of this yet.
• 29:29
  S6: I want to get to why in the world would
• 29:32
  S6: you write something like this when you're a doctor in
• 29:36
  S6: internal medicine? What drives you here?
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  S10: I want all of us to be prepared for. For
• 29:43
  S10: the day when we give an account of our lives
• 29:45
  S10: to Christ. And the parable of the bags of gold
• 29:49
  S10: is an illustration of this event, this coming.
• 29:53
  S6: What do the five bags of gold represent in the parable?
• 29:57
  S10: Our talents and I refer to these as our our possessions,
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  S10: our position of influence, our relationships with people, our projects, undertakings,
• 30:10
  S10: even our pleasures. The five P's position, possession, projects, pleasure, people,
• 30:15
  S10: all of these kind of treasures that we possess can
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  S10: be used to honor Christ, can be used to address
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  S10: the needs of people around us. And in that way
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  S10: we fulfill the model of the bags of gold that
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  S10: what God has given us, we are going to use
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  S10: and multiply.
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  S6: One of the things that you focus on is setting
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  S6: priorities in our lives that honor God and open us
• 30:40
  S6: up for his blessings. When we get focused on what
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  S6: we do have, not what we don't have, and we
• 30:48
  S6: begin to see, boy, that skill that I have of
• 30:51
  S6: I'm just going to shoot from the hip here, uh,
• 30:53
  S6: sweating together. Copper. I'm a plumber. Um, somebody else might
• 30:58
  S6: need that. And I can use my skill set as
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  S6: a witness for Christ. How do we make that shift
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  S6: from thinking, boy, I don't have what I need to know.
• 31:08
  S6: I do have some things to share here.
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  S10: Yeah. And it makes me think of the example in
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  S10: scripture where Jesus and the disciples are watching the people
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  S10: put gifts into the treasury, and the wealthy people put
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  S10: in a lot of money. And the widow comes and
• 31:23
  S10: she puts in a couple of copper coins. And Jesus says,
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  S10: that's more than the wealthy people gave. Similarly, if we
• 31:30
  S10: can teach someone how to do plumbing, give them a
• 31:33
  S10: skill so they can earn some money, use that skill
• 31:36
  S10: in order to benefit a ministry, a housing ministry, a
• 31:39
  S10: church congregation. You know, we are investing what appears to
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  S10: be small in the eyes of the world, but is
• 31:47
  S10: magnificent in value in the eyes of Christ.
• 31:51
  S6: Give me a story from your life about how this
• 31:54
  S6: is practically working its way out right now.
• 31:57
  S10: I cared for a man in Angola. A farmer who
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  S10: stepped on a land mine, blew off his foot, and
• 32:04
  S10: he was left for dead. Somebody found him, brought him
• 32:08
  S10: into our to our little church hospital, and I was
• 32:11
  S10: sure he would never survive from his wound. He was unconscious.
• 32:15
  S10: He had no blood pressure. And yet the next day
• 32:18
  S10: I came back after operating on him and he was
• 32:21
  S10: sitting up looking around the room and he said, what
• 32:24
  S10: are you doing here? We got a war going on.
• 32:27
  S10: And then he turns around and he looks at all
• 32:29
  S10: the all the Angolan African nurses around him. And he says,
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  S10: you know, the reason I'm alive is because these people
• 32:35
  S10: treasured me. And similarly, as we treasure people in any
• 32:40
  S10: number of ways, it's a powerful witness for Christ. It
• 32:44
  S10: is what Jesus expects us to be doing right now
• 32:47
  S10: with our resources.
• 32:48
  S6: Yeah, I love that. You know, one of the things
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  S6: we want to do here constantly, boom crew, is give
• 32:53
  S6: you guys a big, holy, audacious vision of what God
• 32:56
  S6: can do with the life and the life that you
• 32:58
  S6: now have. What is the most overlooked of these P's
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  S6: that you write about?
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  S10: I think that usually people focus on their possessions, but
• 33:09
  S10: rather let's turn around and look at our at our position.
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  S10: You know, all of us have got certain responsibilities. We
• 33:17
  S10: have skills. We have people under us, we have people
• 33:20
  S10: over us. And that is a perfect opportunity to demonstrate
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  S10: the character of Christ. We do our work well. We
• 33:27
  S10: respond compassionately, and people begin to trust us. And so
• 33:31
  S10: when we say, come to my come to Easter, you know,
• 33:35
  S10: two weeks from now, you know, well, if we have
• 33:37
  S10: a relationship with them, they're going to be far more
• 33:40
  S10: likely to respond to that because we're using our positions
• 33:43
  S10: responsibly and people will respect that and respond to an invitation.
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  S6: Yeah, I love it. You know, it's interesting. I've got
• 33:52
  S6: a dear friend. His name is Scott Powell. He shared
• 33:55
  S6: his testimony on both of our church campuses here in
• 33:58
  S6: Chicago in the last couple of weeks. Very moving story.
• 34:02
  S6: And he was, he was, um, what he would call
• 34:06
  S6: just not living out the Christian life. He believes he
• 34:09
  S6: was born again, but saved as by fire. He was
• 34:12
  S6: making money hand over fist, doing really well. But when
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  S6: he came to me, he came to our church. We
• 34:21
  S6: started giving a little vision by way of how we
• 34:24
  S6: lived that there could be more. He is now campus
• 34:28
  S6: director and he feels like his life counts for more
• 34:31
  S6: now than ever before in his life. And he says
• 34:33
  S6: it with tears to the to the person that really
• 34:38
  S6: wants their life to count. Give us a final word.
• 34:41
  S6: What do you say to them right now?
• 34:43
  S10: Be part of a community of faith that can help
• 34:47
  S10: guide you as you talk with people that that know
• 34:50
  S10: you well and you say, I want to be more
• 34:53
  S10: focused in serving Christ with the resources I have. You know,
• 34:57
  S10: where do I start? You know, having a community of
• 35:00
  S10: people who says, well, you're good at this and you're
• 35:02
  S10: not so good at that. And why don't you try
• 35:04
  S10: this kind of ministry? This kind of of helps. Then
• 35:08
  S10: that can really help to guide us in making wise
• 35:12
  S10: use of the treasures that we all possess.
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  S6: I love it. Guys, I want you to get a
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  S6: link here. I want you to simply text the word
• 35:20
  S6: gold to (800) 555-7898. And there's some of you that are
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  S6: in a season of life when you're shifting gears, and
• 35:30
  S6: this might be a huge moment for you as well.
• 35:33
  S6: Text the word gold to 800 555 7898. Gold to
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  S6: 800 555 7898.
• 35:45
  S1: Want to hear that again? Just download the Kernel and
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• 35:51
  S6: Well, we got a treat for you today. Her name's Sadie.
• 35:54
  S6: His name's Christian. Didn't you know for sure that Sadie
• 35:58
  S6: would be marrying a Christian? Dude, I just didn't know
• 36:00
  S6: that he would be Christian in name. Sadie Robertson Huff
• 36:05
  S6: and Christian Huff. Sadie, I got to tell you something.
• 36:08
  S6: Having your grandpa on here. Did you call him grandpa?
• 36:11
  S6: What was the name you had for your grandpa?
• 36:13
  S11: Yeah, we called him Pepa, and it's so special. He
• 36:16
  S11: was on your show. And I'll tell you, it is
• 36:18
  S11: funny that I married a Christian. But what's even better
• 36:22
  S11: is I married a Christian who's from Niceville. I mean,
• 36:25
  S11: you can't make this up.
• 36:26
  S6: Is that for real?
• 36:28
  S12: The funny thing was, I was almost named Hunter instead
• 36:31
  S12: of Christian, so either way, uh, it would have technically
• 36:35
  S12: worked out, so.
• 36:36
  S6: That's beautiful. Uh, it's so good to have you guys here. Uh,
• 36:39
  S6: you know, I just go as the Spirit of God leads.
• 36:42
  S6: So I want to ask you, what's the fresh thing
• 36:44
  S6: God's doing in your life? And, Christian, I'm going to
• 36:46
  S6: start with you.
• 36:48
  S12: The fresh thing for me would be I've been fascinated
• 36:51
  S12: by King David lately, um, and so many aspects of
• 36:54
  S12: his life. Uh, I watched, uh, House of David and
• 36:58
  S12: it just sparked something in me creatively to think about
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  S12: David's life. Just thinking about the tension of him being anointed,
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  S12: playing the harp for King Saul, the Psalms, him being
• 37:08
  S12: a poet, a worshipper, and a warrior. King David, for
• 37:12
  S12: me has been who I've been binge studying lately.
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  S6: It's beautiful. Christian Huff right there. Sadie Robertson Huff. All right,
• 37:20
  S6: I got to pitch it to you. Sadie. What's the
• 37:22
  S6: fresh thing God's doing in your life?
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  S11: I love that. Well, it has been really cool to
• 37:26
  S11: see Christian, um, studying. David. And one thing that's been
• 37:29
  S11: cool for both of us is he's been watching, you know,
• 37:32
  S11: the House of David series. But then also our kids
• 37:34
  S11: have been loving the David series for kids, which has
• 37:38
  S11: been really sweet. And so it's cool because he's studying
• 37:41
  S11: this for himself and then also like learning it at
• 37:43
  S11: a kid level. And I'm kind of doing the same
• 37:45
  S11: thing because I'm reading the Bible recap in a year
• 37:48
  S11: right now, but I'm also reading the kid's Bible with
• 37:51
  S11: my kids each night. And so there's been something interesting.
• 37:54
  S11: You know, Jesus says like, have childlike faith and that's
• 37:57
  S11: key to entering heaven. And so it's really beautiful as
• 38:01
  S11: we're learning something on like an adult level to also
• 38:03
  S11: learn it at a child level. And there's the revelations
• 38:07
  S11: that God gives you in the midst of those two
• 38:09
  S11: things has been super, super cool. So leaning into that
• 38:12
  S11: childlike faith and studying things in a simple way that
• 38:16
  S11: are really profound about the nature of God has been
• 38:19
  S11: a beautiful, fresh thing.
• 38:21
  S12: So funny too. Our daughters are four and two. Their
• 38:23
  S12: birthdays are coming up and they both want to be
• 38:25
  S12: David for their birthday party. And they want me to
• 38:28
  S12: be Goliath. Uh. Pretty funny.
• 38:30
  S6: I love that, you guys. That's tremendous. You know, I
• 38:33
  S6: want to talk to you a little bit, and we're
• 38:35
  S6: going to get into some of your podcasts and a
• 38:38
  S6: new season in dynasty, Duck Dynasty. And we're going to
• 38:42
  S6: have a link here, boom crew to all this cool resources.
• 38:44
  S6: But you know, we live in a culture today that
• 38:47
  S6: is so stinking divided, man. It's breaking my heart. I'm
• 38:50
  S6: watching Twitter wars and crazy X wars. I guess I
• 38:53
  S6: should call it, you know, and I want to I
• 38:56
  S6: want to cheer for you the little bit that I
• 38:58
  S6: know about you, too. I want to thank you for
• 39:01
  S6: not being angry evangelicals, but for standing up with God's
• 39:05
  S6: grace and mercy and love. Sadie, how do you stay
• 39:09
  S6: on that high ridge of loving the world around you
• 39:12
  S6: when you must be taking shots for the gospel at times?
• 39:15
  S11: I think it's really important to keep a pure heart,
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  S11: you know, from the heart so the mouth shall speak.
• 39:21
  S11: That's something that has been a great accountability verse to me.
• 39:25
  S11: Something that's really convicting me is like, okay, from my heart,
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  S11: my mouth will speak and I'm on a lot of
• 39:31
  S11: microphones and I need to make sure my heart is pure.
• 39:34
  S11: And so to be honest, I don't really look at
• 39:36
  S11: a lot of, uh, things on social media. For someone
• 39:38
  S11: who's well known on social media, you would be surprised
• 39:41
  S11: how much I don't look at social media for you.
• 39:43
  S11: I have a team that help me with social media
• 39:46
  S11: so that I can do my job and do what
• 39:48
  S11: I feel called to do. And I when I look
• 39:50
  S11: at social media, I always want it to be like
• 39:52
  S11: an overflow of my heart. I want it to be
• 39:54
  S11: something I give to, not take from. I don't necessarily
• 39:57
  S11: need the comments, need the likes, need the clutter, need
• 40:00
  S11: the noise. I want to give light. I want to
• 40:02
  S11: give life. I want to speak life to other people.
• 40:04
  S11: And so I think that's been a huge thing for
• 40:06
  S11: me is just keeping my heart pure in it. Because yeah,
• 40:09
  S11: you can get so angry, you can get bitter, you
• 40:11
  S11: can get frustrated, you can get hurt, you can get insecure,
• 40:13
  S11: you can get all these things and you have to
• 40:15
  S11: guard your heart. We're all responsible for that. And guarding
• 40:18
  S11: your heart looks different for some people. Some people can
• 40:20
  S11: handle it and some people you got to know yourself. No,
• 40:23
  S11: I don't need that. And so for me, that has
• 40:26
  S11: certainly been a huge thing. And then again, like back
• 40:28
  S11: to scripture, be quick to listen, slow to speak. You know,
• 40:33
  S11: I think those kind of things, Scripture guides you in
• 40:36
  S11: how to appropriately speak into what's happening in our culture
• 40:40
  S11: and how you can, you know, be a light and
• 40:42
  S11: be relatable. And sometimes you're not always on trend or
• 40:46
  S11: maybe necessarily the most relevant when you go about it
• 40:48
  S11: that way. But God, I think God honors those things
• 40:51
  S11: and it's amazing.
• 40:53
  S12: Yeah. And there's a verse in Timothy where Paul is
• 40:55
  S12: writing to Timothy and he says, avoid foolish controversies. I
• 40:59
  S12: just love the thought of that because there are so
• 41:01
  S12: many things that that we love to argue about.
• 41:04
  S11: Yeah. I just say we have such a unique opportunity
• 41:07
  S11: with the show, like Duck Dynasty, where we have a
• 41:09
  S11: large audience of people following us who aren't believers. And
• 41:12
  S11: then because we love God and, you know, use our
• 41:15
  S11: platform to speak about God, we have a large part
• 41:17
  S11: of our audience are believers. And that's been one of
• 41:20
  S11: the sad things to me when I see in the comments,
• 41:23
  S11: like when believers start tearing our family apart for maybe
• 41:26
  S11: what we didn't say or what we did say or what,
• 41:28
  S11: whatever it is. And then people are like, wait, why
• 41:31
  S11: are Christians so mean? And that breaks our heart because
• 41:34
  S11: we're like, no, like, that's not the heart of Jesus,
• 41:37
  S11: you know? And so I think that even just our
• 41:39
  S11: worldview and like that perspective of having influence in the
• 41:42
  S11: world and influencing the church, we've gotten to see like
• 41:45
  S11: that's why Jesus says, like the two greatest commands, sum
• 41:48
  S11: it up to this. Like, love the Lord your God
• 41:50
  S11: with our heart, soul, mind, and strength and love your
• 41:52
  S11: neighbor as yourself. Like love needs to be the centerpiece.
• 41:55
  S11: And it's loving God and it's loving people well. And so, um,
• 41:58
  S11: you know, we don't always do this perfect by any means,
• 42:01
  S11: but we have learned a lot from just reading the
• 42:03
  S11: scriptures and looking at what's happening online and trying to
• 42:06
  S11: do our best to bring scriptures to life in our
• 42:09
  S11: day to day life.
• 42:10
  S6: You guys are radiating, man. Keep it going. By the way,
• 42:13
  S6: angry evangelicals or angry Christians have never turned anyone on
• 42:17
  S6: to the Savior. So you guys are on the right
• 42:19
  S6: high ground. Stay there. Listen, big deal going on. Duck Dynasty,
• 42:23
  S6: the revival. All right, Sadie, give us the lowdown on this.
• 42:26
  S6: What's happening?
• 42:28
  S11: Yeah. Super exciting. So this is season two of Duck Dynasty,
• 42:31
  S11: the revival. Uh, for those who haven't tuned in yet,
• 42:34
  S11: it's Saturday nights on A&E, 9 p.m. central. Yeah, if
• 42:37
  S11: you watch the OG Duck Dynasty, it's a little bit
• 42:40
  S11: different than the OG Duck Dynasty because we're a new generation,
• 42:43
  S11: but it's my dad, my mom and our families. And
• 42:46
  S11: following along this kind of new generation of the dynasty
• 42:50
  S11: of the Robertson family, and it's still the heart of faith.
• 42:53
  S11: Family and ducks might not always fall in the third
• 42:57
  S11: row like it did for my grandfather, but we're certainly
• 43:00
  S11: thankful to carry on his amazing legacy of faith and family,
• 43:03
  S11: and it's been super fun to do as a family.
• 43:05
  S11: This season is full of what the show has always
• 43:08
  S11: been about family and funny competitions and, um, a lot
• 43:13
  S11: of just things that I think people will look at
• 43:15
  S11: and see their own family in our family. And we
• 43:17
  S11: hope people feel that it's very relatable to them and
• 43:20
  S11: bring some joy to their households.
• 43:21
  S12: And if you were somebody that watched the OG Duck Dynasty,
• 43:24
  S12: it was only 30 minutes. So if you were like, man,
• 43:26
  S12: I just wish the show was longer. Well, now it is.
• 43:28
  S12: It's an hour, but it's a different spin on things. But, um,
• 43:32
  S12: you have double the family time.
• 43:34
  S6: Yeah. That's awesome. You guys, each of you have a podcast.
• 43:37
  S6: And by the way, I got word from, uh, I
• 43:41
  S6: affectionately call him Young Thunder. He's on our team and
• 43:43
  S6: he says his bride tunes into your CD all the time.
• 43:47
  S6: Give us a quick spike on your podcast. Christian, why
• 43:49
  S6: don't you start? What are you doing with that man?
• 43:51
  S12: Yeah, that's about four years. I was running a podcast
• 43:53
  S12: called For Eight Men. It's based off of the verse
• 43:55
  S12: first Timothy four eight. Physical training is of some value,
• 43:58
  S12: but godliness has value for all things. So trying to
• 44:00
  S12: encourage men to train physically, but challenge them to train spiritually,
• 44:03
  S12: and kind of exploring those parallels between training your body
• 44:07
  S12: spiritually and also training it physically to be a good husband,
• 44:10
  S12: good father, just a good, a good follower. And then
• 44:12
  S12: we started filming the show. It was kind of too
• 44:14
  S12: hard for me to juggle. So took a break from that.
• 44:17
  S12: And then lately, me and my brother in law, John
• 44:19
  S12: Luke have actually been on the unashamed podcast. Every Friday
• 44:22
  S12: you can tune in to unashamed. We're going through, uh,
• 44:25
  S12: ancient Christianity right now. We've been through Genesis, Exodus, the
• 44:29
  S12: David story, uh, C.S. Lewis and it's been a ton
• 44:32
  S12: of fun. I've learned a lot.
• 44:33
  S6: That's so cool. Podcasts, so powerful, getting good platforms. Sadie,
• 44:36
  S6: tell us quickly about yours. What's God doing with you?
• 44:39
  S11: So my podcast is called whoa. That's good. And we're
• 44:42
  S11: coming up on almost eight years of podcast. It's all
• 44:46
  S11: centered on good advice. Being a good sister and a
• 44:49
  S11: friend to those who don't have one, and receiving advice
• 44:51
  S11: from other people who we see are living life well.
• 44:54
  S11: And so every episode, uh, typically starts with what's the
• 44:57
  S11: best piece of advice you've ever been given. And then
• 44:59
  S11: we go into a great conversation from there and we
• 45:01
  S11: cover all topics of life. Um, truly, there's probably not
• 45:05
  S11: a topic we haven't touched. If we haven't, someone send
• 45:08
  S11: me a DM on what we haven't talked about and
• 45:09
  S11: we'll talk about it, but it's just centered around helping
• 45:12
  S11: people live a better life in their day to day
• 45:14
  S11: and feeling seen by a sister and a friend.
• 45:16
  S6: I got to tell you guys, you guys are dynamite
• 45:19
  S6: and I love you and I'm proud of you, I
• 45:21
  S6: really am. And it's with joy, I tell you. Boom.
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