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We Get To Do This - Who Owns Your Future? · Providence Voice

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Holy Spirit, Lord Jesus, Abba Father, we come
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to you today grateful, grateful that we get to
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do this. It's not just the name of a show. It's
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a mantra for who we are and it's a declaration
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of gratitude to you. So Lord, as we talk today,
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we consecrate our words to you, pray for our
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listeners, so thankful for them. May they find
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encouragement and hope and inspiration in what
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we do today. In Jesus' name, amen. It's Wednesday,
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July 22nd, 2026. We get to do this. This is episode
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number 42. How you doing, brother? I'm doing
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great, actually. Yeah. Apologies up front to
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our listeners who were like, I've been waiting
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all day for the show. How come we didn't get
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the show yet? Oh, there you go. Yes. There were
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reasons. The main reason being we had a death
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in the family, and that would be the Noagenda
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family, but also the Curry family and the Dvorak
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family as John C. Dvorak passed two days ago.
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And I wanted to make sure that you heard it from
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no agenda first before we just started discussing
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it here. Fully appropriate. And wow, this is
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a good time to have a pastor as a friend. Because
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it has been just the wildest week with the arrival
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of our granddaughter. Huge celebration. I mean,
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just insane. Of course, we had you know, left
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Holland. So we had, we had missed the barely.
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Um, how many days was it? It was five days, five,
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six days. Yeah. That's still relatively close
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in time terms, but we were living in a socialist
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country in a hotel room for two weeks. You know,
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I couldn't take it. Couldn't take it any longer.
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Now we, we had stuff to do. Yeah. And, uh, and
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so Sunday, um, Did the show with with John C
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Dvorak no agenda great show mm -hmm I listened
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to over half of it and the energy was there everything
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was there It was it was man both of you were
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in full form yeah, and then for you know and
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when we when we end the show we We don't really
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say, we don't really talk much. It's like I'm
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looking for opening clips, that little opening
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bit. And then we go through the credits and usually
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would be laughing about, because I've set my
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robot up to do the clips and like, well, let's
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see if that stupid robot got the credits right.
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And we went through that and then we select the
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art, which is sometimes a discussion, but we
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both agreed. Yeah, that's a good one. We'll use
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that one. Do the title and then, you know, wait
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until everything's published. We check and make
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sure it's on the website. Okay. All right. We'll
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talk to you on Thursday. Yeah. Adios. Yeah. And
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that was it. And you've done this for 19. Almost
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in October. It'll be 19 years in October. Yeah.
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And for a majority of that twice a week. So I,
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this is my work wife. No kidding. Yeah. And so,
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um, was it, uh, yeah. Monday. right Monday, I'm
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on my way to go play chess with Willie. You know,
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that's my Sabbath and as part of the, part of
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the joy of, you know, not really doing any work
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and just resting. And I see John's wife, Mimi,
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pop up on my screen calling, you know, like,
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and she's in, on the West coast. I'm like, this
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can't be good. And, and, and she told me, I mean,
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I had to pull over the side of the road. I just,
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what? I flabbergasted so I literally went from
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that super high from you know not even 24 hours
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before that to just oh oh wow and it was now
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the the thing that I Love and by this this is
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in the newsletter John had done the show and
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Mimi was at the house because you know they have
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a place in Washington so it was nice that she
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was there and you know they had dinner and they
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were joking and laughing and then sitting on
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the couch watching an old NCIS and John was typical
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fashion grousing about the actor and an obvious
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hole in the plot and as Mimi describes it, it
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was just lights out. Wow. Complete lights out.
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That was it. There was no, there was nothing
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to do. Everything just, everything turned off
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like he was unplugged. And I'm thinking, brother,
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sign me up for that one. I know. I said the same
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thing to Annette. That's how I want to go. Sign
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me up. But I want to be watching When Calls the
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Heart. But that's how I want to go. Not anytime
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soon, but yeah, when it's time. And so now this
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just started this whole process. Oh, gosh. Now,
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there were very few. We kept it within the close
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family because we wanted to just make sure. really
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no agenda is, you know, it's hundreds of thousands
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of people worldwide and they need to hear it
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from us first. And, you know, the obvious question
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is what now? And so this is kind of the place
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where I'm at now is, well, what now? That's a,
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you've been in a cascade. I mean, like a, like
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Niagara falls coming over the ridge, you know,
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of just, okay, there's a lot of decisions that
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need to be made in a relatively short time. Yes.
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And What's interesting is that it's as if, well,
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and that's not as if, but the devotionals that
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pop up, the things that in my own devotionals
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book, it's like, did you, God, did you put these
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on this date for all this to coincide, for me
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to read this right now? And I just want to go
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through a couple of the scriptures. I have not
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sought out Scripture. They have literally come
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to me, you know, through the YouVersion app,
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through my Study Bible app, through things people
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have emailed me. I mean, literally just—I should
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read this—just before I got into the car to come
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over here, I got an email just out of the blue
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from John Doe—I have no idea who he is—and he
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says, praying for peace for you and everyone
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this morning, Adam. He has no idea what's going
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on. Wow. Just out of the blue. And I, okay, right,
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thank you. You know, that is, thank you. I needed
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that more than you even know. Holy Spirit knows.
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Holy Spirit does know. So the scriptures that
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have been popping up for me, Psalm 37 23, which
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is, I mean, it's a Pastor Jimmy Pruitt classic.
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That's my go -to. But it wasn't from you. It
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popped up elsewhere. Beautiful. And this is the
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NLT. The Lord directs the steps of the godly.
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He delights in every detail of their lives. Because
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we hear it more like the Lord orders your steps
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and delights in the details of your life. And
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this is how I'm taking it, because I am just
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trying to listen and praying. Lord, what am I
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supposed to do? Where am I supposed to go with
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this? What is the next step? Are you opening
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doors? I've just been asking, asking, asking.
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As well as the details of just handling the immediate.
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Oh, that's a good point. Talking to the family,
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the grief wave that hits. So, this is the devotional
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that went with that Scripture. The person whom
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God delights is one who follows God, trusts Him,
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and tries to do His will. God watches over and
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makes firm every step that person takes. If you
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would like to have God direct your way, then
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seek His advice before you step out. And before
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I ask you a question, it goes into Proverbs 19
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.21. Also just came up, you know, there's no
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coincidence in the kingdom. There are many plans
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in a man's heart. Nevertheless, the Lord's counsel
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that will stand. Wow. And that's the new King
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James version, which I kind of like that. Do
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you know an NLT version or how would you? Yeah,
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the NLT is a little more casual, colloquial,
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conversational, narrative style. New King James
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version takes the Elizabethan English spin out
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of it, but still holds that same classical face.
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For some reason, I'm an NLT. NASB guy, not a
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new King James version guy. So here's the one
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that really, and I think I shared this with you.
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This came from my daily devotional for men, which
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my daughter gave me for Christmas, Boyd Bailey.
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And it was a little bit longer than this, but
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there was multiple parts with the scripture in
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the middle. God's will is a continuous journey
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of discovery and faith. True obedience requires
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stepping into the unknown without being paralyzed
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by uncertainty, trusting Jesus as our guide while
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staying flexible to the Holy Spirit's direction
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rather than locked into our own rigid plans.
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Then they break it up with the scripture, Hebrews
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11, 8. By faith, Abraham, when called to go to
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a place he would later receive as his inheritance,
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obeyed and went even though he did not know where
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he was going. And so this the devotional closes
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out by saying Are you inspired or intimidated
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by your faith adventure? Do you anticipate or
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dread doing the next right thing as you fulfill
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God's calling on your life? Yes, Christ must
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come to you in clarity before you venture out
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for him in obedience But once you are sure of
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the Lord's leading do not let up until you have
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arrived at his destination Go on your great adventure
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with God like a visit to a new country enjoy
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the new sites and people. I love that. You sent
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that piece to me and I said, that will be a next
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week sermon. It was such a good statement. It's
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good. So the question, because I've always felt
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like I When I'm asking God, is this what you
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want me to do? It's not like it appears in the
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clouds, yeah, Adam, that's the thing to do. But
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after asking and praying, okay, I feel confident
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now. This is new for me because now I'm in a
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scenario that is not the same as my other times
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talking to God and asking Him. Is it just? grief
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speaking, you know what I'm saying? It's like,
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how can I trust what I'm hearing? I'm hearing
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things for sure, but now I'm doubting. Is this
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the right way to go? Is this the right thing
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to do? This is a situation that's new for me.
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So if you have any counsel or words on that,
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that would be probably appreciated. There's a
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great scripture that says, I'm paraphrasing because
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I don't have it in front of me, but A matter
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is established out of the mouth of two or three
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witnesses. I'm laughing because I wrote that
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one down as well. That's a good one because to
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me it gives us an insight into how God speaks
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to us and establishes a matter in our heart,
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in our mind, in our spirit. So, you'll hear something
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and you go, is that God, me, or the devil? It's
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one of the three, right? But it'll be established
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out of the mouth of two or three witnesses. You'll
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hear it again from somebody else, like some of
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these scriptures that just seem to come randomly,
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but they're all thematic. They all fit in the
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same flow. That's God speaking to you. So, I've
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learned to trust multiple anchors, multiple…
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God speaks in multiples to me. So I'll hear something,
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I'll go, man, that is so good. But I used to
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say, that must be God, and I'd run off with it.
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And then it wasn't. It was just a good idea.
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Maybe not a God idea, but a good idea. I've learned
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as I've gotten older to when I get something,
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I think is a clearer word from God, to not just
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act immediately, but to wait for those two or
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three witnesses. And it may come in a scripture,
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it may come as a lyric in a song, it may come
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as a in a conversation, somebody says something,
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I go, whoa, there it is. And I always have this
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thought, this is that, this is that, this is
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that. And that's based out of scriptures where
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Jesus said, this is that, which was said by the
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prophets, this is that. So out of the mouth of
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two or three witnesses, so I listened for multiples
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for confirmation before I just go. I've learned
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the hard way because I tend to go ready, fire,
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aim, instead of ready, aim, fire. And so I've
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learned to, you talked about my pauses. Those
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pauses are there and they've been hard learned.
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So that's just one of the things that helps me
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establish, is it God, me or the devil? It'll
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bring clarity. Yes. So there are multiples that
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that is happening for sure. But also it hasn't
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all come at once. Right. It doesn't. And this,
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and I will say that when I heard all this, when
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this happened, I turned around, I called Willie,
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I said, Willie, you're not gonna believe this,
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and you know Willie, he's like, oh, oh, oh, oh.
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What a beautiful man. I said, Willie, I'll make
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it up to you. Don't worry, don't worry, okay.
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And I told Tina, and she just melted, because
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she's known John forever, too. Yeah, he's family.
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He is family. And then I said, you know, I'm
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just gonna go to the car wash. There's a good
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way to oscillate. And our car wash, I've learned
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now, we've got a nice car, so you've got to wipe
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it down and do all the little bumpers and everything.
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So I'm just taking my time. Mindless work. It's
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95 degrees, I'm sweating. And that's when the
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first thing started coming. And I wasn't even
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asking for something. It was just like, okay,
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here's one, here's one, here's one. Gosh, I was
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telling you just before we started recording,
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speaking of multiples, that Tina and I have been
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re -watching West Wing. I'm not even sure why,
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but it's actually quite an entertaining show
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when it was back in kind of wholesome television
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days and a dream that your president would be
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as cool as President Bartlett. And there's this
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scene where he has to make a decision about pardoning
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a guy on death row and, you know, to go through
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a longer story to make it short, the reference
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to him being indecisive came from his pastor
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and he told the story of... the guy who was drowning,
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and then a guy comes by in a boat and says, hey,
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you want to get in my boat? And the guy says,
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no, no, the Lord will save me, and a helicopter
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comes over, and here's the ladder. No, he will
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pick you up at the helicopter. The guy says,
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no, no, I'm waiting for the Lord to save me.
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And then a guy comes to the ladder. He says,
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climb up the ladder. No, no, no. And so he drowns,
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and he's at the pearly gates, and God says, what
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were you doing, man? I gave you a helicopter,
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a boat, and a ladder. And so that's three. And
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there's your multiples. That's very helpful,
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Jimmy. That's very helpful. And hopefully that'll
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help others, our listeners, because we're all
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trying to hear God, right? I mean, those of us
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who name the name of Christ, we want direction.
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We honestly don't want to make a mistake, so
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we're asking God, show me what to do. But then
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there's the waiting game, the in -between, the
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in -between what you need and when it's coming.
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Like you said, it doesn't always come all at
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once. But I always recognize it because it resonates.
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Wait, that's just a different way of saying the
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same thing. That's the second time I've heard
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that. So that's when it starts to really get
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my attention when I've heard it twice. And then
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basically, I'm just listening for the next...
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For the third time. Yeah. And when that happens,
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it's green light go. Yeah. Thank you. That's
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very helpful. I hope that helps. I want to say
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that no agenda is not just ending tomorrow and
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there's lots of stuff to work on, lots of things
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to think about, lots of praying to do. We get
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to do this is fresh and new and building. And
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so, regardless of anything, you and I are going
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to continue on this. Bro, we have a website now?
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Yeah. We're legit now. We got a newsletter out.
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Thank you, Tina, the keeper. We so appreciate
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that. What does she sign off as? Back office
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worker? Back office management. Management, right.
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In a little closet. Hey, Tina. Little closet
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for an office. So you can go to WGTDT .com. We
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get to do this .com was taken. I like WGTDT,
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once you get used to it. It doesn't exactly roll
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over your tongue. You just go WGTDT. There you
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go. Once you split it, WGTDT. OK, that helps.
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And it's a substack, which we had discussed.
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Yeah, I love substacks. Actually, we already
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got a comment. Yay. We got a comment from Jody
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White. Of course. I don't know, Jody. Yeah, you
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do. The Pickle Princess. Oh, the Pickle Princess.
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Okay. Yes, I do. She says, just sending more
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encouragement your guys way. I look forward to
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the pod podcast. I know it's your favorite word.
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Every week and can't wait to see what great things
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you are doing for the glory of the Lord. Thank
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you very much. Oh, so cool. Hey, we got another
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thing. Okay. Let me look it up though. I got
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to find it because it's from Brett Hahn, the
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Amrev. Oh, yeah. Yeah, yeah. American Revolution
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guy. He writes some fantastic stuff. He wrote
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this. Oh, why does it do that? Okay, here it
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is. Thanks for... That's not it. There it is.
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Hey, Pastor Jimmy, love the new, we get to do
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this newsletter. If you guys need help with anything
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else, website set up, just let me know. Happy
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to give back with my time, talent and treasure.
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My wife and I run a marketing consulting and
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custom AI development firm. So happy to help
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support you both in any way we can. Spread the
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news of the show. That's the number one thing
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you can do is tell people about the show. We're
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going to do show notes with every episode now,
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which will be a post. I really like this experiment
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of using Substack for everything because it's
19:07
so different. Look, we can easily put together
19:11
a website, but now everything just kind of happens
19:13
in this Substack world. It's easy for people
19:16
to comment. Easy to subscribe. Everything is
19:20
easy about it. And I like the vibe of the community
19:24
that hangs out there. Me too. And we can always
19:28
change if we want to, but right now I think it's
19:31
a great way to experiment with trying to figure
19:33
out how to get... PayPal links in there because
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we do like TimeTown and Treasure. We got Stripe
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stuff and everything. But we'll get to all that
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right now. Just people signing up to the newsletter
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and then you'll also automatically be notified
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when the new show comes out. Every episode will
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post the links in there. Hopefully it'll go to
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the to the Godcaster app as well. This is where
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platforms get kind of interesting like, well,
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Yeah, you can post that you can't really do something
20:04
from somewhere else, you know. We'll see how
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we work that out. We'll figure it out. Yeah,
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we will. But people should get the Godcast rap
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regardless. Absolutely. Because that is where
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you can get a lot of great podcasts and live
20:16
streams and music streams. So I was in... It
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kind of came... Man, this was also perfect. Yesterday
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I had a long -standing appointment for my hair
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in Austin, which... I like for a number of reasons.
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One, I've known Johanna for, oh man, 15 years.
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She's been doing my hair. We became friends.
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Right, of course. Just kind of comparing notes
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about, and she's very kind of down the middle
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on political issues and she doesn't really go
20:53
one way or the other, but she's a very loving
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kind of... holistic, crystal type girl. Austin.
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She's an Austinite. Yeah, pretty much. And I
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don't mean that in a disparaging way. No, no,
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no. It's spot on. There's a vibe. There's a culture.
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And she'd actually moved to Taylor, Texas with
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her partner. And they recently decided to, it's
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funny how she says it, to consciously uncouple.
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So he stays there and she now got her own place
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back. It's so Austin. But, you know, and I've
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been very old. Of course, she's witnessed my
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faith journey. And I've prayed for her dad when
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he was in hospital. And I've prayed over her.
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And, you know, she's never had any issue. You
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have to know that Taylor, Texas, that whole community
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got ripped apart right down the middle. because
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a whole lot of Austinites moved out there, particularly
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when Samsung was going to build this huge chip
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fab out there. And so you had a lot of Austinites
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moving in. You had the old school Taylor people.
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And to coin the phrase, it became the pride people
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against the churchies. I mean, literally, and
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it splits that community in half. It's just,
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you know, you either had an American flag in
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your coffee shop window or a pride flag, and
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people wouldn't go to one or the other. But that's
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how Johanna would characterize it. You know,
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the churchies versus the pride. Anyway, neither
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here nor there, I love her just for who she is.
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And she would always give me the canary in the
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coal mine, like, oh, man, you won't believe what
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the women are saying. Because, you know, she
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has the clients who are - She's got her thumb
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on the pulse of the culture there. Right on the
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pulse of everything. In fact, she had to Tell
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me quietly about things because you know, they
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kind of got a little worried. She might be turning
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MAGA I'm not kidding. I'm not kidding. So anyway,
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so that girl deprogrammed well, so I'm sitting
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there and And so she first she says are you reading
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the book that everyone's talking about? Yes,
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I got to be honest, you know, I haven't had a
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lot of time to read what what is this book that
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everybody's when I hear everybody's talking about
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everybody's reading okay, it's called Theo of
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Golden and Turns out that yes Tina's heard of
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it many of her friends are reading it and Johanna
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gives it to me and she says She shows me on their
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phone, it's about religion and faith and belief.
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I'm like, and everyone's reading this? Oh yeah.
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Oh, it's a huge shit. Everybody's talking about
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it. And okay, okay. Well, that's interesting.
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Coming from her and that everybody's reading
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it. And I later confirmed, Tina says, oh yeah,
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Theo of Golden. Yeah, I want to read it. Everyone
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saw all her church friends are reading it. I'm
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not sure what exactly, I have started reading
23:58
it. So I'll get back to you on that. Thank you.
24:01
But then, about maybe half an hour later, she
24:08
says, Adam, I want to come out to Fredericksburg.
24:12
She's come out several times with her friends,
24:14
you know, because she loves wine and yeah, I'm
24:17
going to come out to Fredericksburg and I would
24:18
love to come to your church one Sunday morning.
24:21
Wow, beautiful. I mean, this is literally my
24:25
mouth went, what? She says, you know, cause I,
24:28
you know, I talk about you and I talk about,
24:31
she's sound like you have such a lovely community.
24:34
And she said, you know, I would really come to
24:36
church. I'd love to come to your church with
24:37
you on a Sunday morning. And she says, I don't
24:40
want to be the person that says no. Wow. Wow.
24:45
And I have never. pushed or encouraged or I've
24:49
just been myself and just told her you're just
24:51
leaking you're leaking yes and it was I mean
24:54
I could not wait to get home to tell Tina that
24:57
I'm looking forward to meeting her oh no you
25:00
will of course sure of course I want to meet
25:02
her of course let me see Theo of Golden by Alan
25:07
Levi We see a stranger named Theo arrives in
25:11
the small southern city of Golden at the local
25:14
coffee house pencil portraits of the townspeople
25:16
hang on the walls Theo begins buying the one
25:18
at a time giving each portrait back to the person
25:20
that depicts Asking only for their story in return
25:24
portrait by portrait secret secret surface regrets
25:27
are shared and ordinary lives are quietly transformed
25:30
a novel about generosity being seen connection
25:33
and small miracles of kindness number one New
25:36
York Times for three weeks Well, it's interesting
25:39
that Johanna said it's a religious book. That
25:42
was her exact words. It's a religious book. So
25:44
we'll have to see what that is. It's, I mean,
25:47
I love the premise. Love that. That's creative
25:49
premise. So anyway, so how about all these things
25:54
that are happening in this? It's only Wednesday.
25:59
We just were not, we were not even the hump day
26:01
hardly. Got a note from Jim McCaslin. Adam, love
26:06
the new or to me new podcast. It's really helped.
26:10
This is, you know, I guess he's a no agenda guy
26:12
listening to we get to do this. It's really helping
26:14
me on my walk with Christ, which honestly has
26:17
been stagnant for most of my life, but God uses
26:21
a lot of people when they're older. Look at Moses
26:23
and Abraham. What are you saying? He's talking
26:26
about me. He's going to send us some challenge
26:29
coins. So very cool. When I hear these things,
26:32
man, I just melt. This is why we do this. Yes,
26:35
this is why we get to do this. Absolutely. I
26:40
love that. Appreciate that. What do you got,
26:43
brother? There's a lot of things that you had
26:45
to welcome back. From from you know, you you
26:49
you did the message on Sunday. Yeah, I came back
26:52
two weeks ago and both Sundays I didn't do the
26:54
message right people like are you okay? What
26:57
are you up there? What's going on? You ain't
26:59
got a long time and it's because we had the 250
27:01
So we had Rick Green right get up and do that
27:04
cock couldn't have anybody else No, and and then
27:07
last the last time we had Todd McDowell from
27:10
Caleb global talking about Israel and just the
27:14
Why I Bless Israel kind of thing was so, so rich.
27:17
We're having him back in August, by the way,
27:19
the 26th evening, two 45 -minute sessions, and
27:23
it's on world revival. Nice. And so he's going
27:26
to lay that out. Super excited about that. World
27:28
revival. I like that. Yeah, yeah, the global
27:30
revival. Brother, I'm telling you, I don't know
27:34
what this Theo of Golden is, but I'm sure this
27:37
is related to revival somehow. Could be. It has
27:40
to be connected. tiny bit leery when I hear things
27:42
like this. When somebody passed along the secret
27:46
to me, I was like, calm. Well, yes. No, I understand.
27:49
This is different. But the way I took it in the
27:51
sequence of, she talks about this book and then
27:54
she wants to come to church. Right, right. That
27:56
was the sequence that I received that in. I'm
27:58
looking forward to diving into a little bit on
28:00
that. I'll have to look at it. Of course, of
28:04
course. I'm a shepherd. Yes, you are. Yes, you
28:07
are. Yes, you are. Yes, you are. Yes, you are.
28:08
And protect the sheep if need be. Amen. So I
28:11
stepped up into the pulpit back in the saddle,
28:13
so to speak, for the first time in weeks. I don't
28:16
even know how long it's been. And, oh, it felt
28:18
good. It's like putting on an old catcher's mitt
28:21
that you've played with for years, you know,
28:23
and somebody gives you a new one and it's like,
28:25
ah, I got to break this in. But man, when you
28:27
step into it, all the leather's right, it fits
28:30
right. So it just felt like being home. And I've
28:34
just been Since our break, our vacation, I've
28:38
just been so gushing with love, gratitude, and
28:43
appreciation for our church family. I know I'm
28:48
the pastor, so of course I'm going to brag, but
28:51
truly it's exceptional. Everyone who visits our
28:54
church, for example, Todd McDowell and Papa Don
28:57
Finto from Nashville, Todd several times to me
29:01
off little one -off conversations. He said, Jimmy,
29:03
this is... We've got we go to hundreds of churches.
29:07
This is different This is the community you have
29:11
here the graciousness and the people here He
29:15
said the openness. He said this is not normal
29:18
and I looked at him I said, thank you and I'm
29:21
aware of that and I'm very grateful. Can you
29:24
define that? Because, you know, obviously you've
29:29
pastored at churches, you've planted a few churches,
29:32
you've been around, as we say. What can you pinpoint
29:36
it to? Well, when Annette and I came here, one
29:40
of the things, we came off of what I would call
29:43
our wilderness wandering first season, about
29:46
three or four years. And we learned a lot from
29:50
that. We also, the Lord in a good way, stripped
29:53
a lot of things from us, a lot of things that
29:55
our agenda, our way of doing, what we want to,
30:00
our vision of success, those kinds of things,
30:05
and stripped all those things away. And we came
30:08
back into the church ministry after working in
30:11
the world for a season in the business sector
30:14
with just a new appreciation for what we get
30:16
to do, but also an understanding that people
30:19
are tired, people are working hard, a new love
30:22
for people, and a lot of compassion. for where
30:26
people are in this world and the brokenness in
30:29
this world. We step back into the pulpit with
30:31
strong vision, but a vision that we only want
30:35
to align with God's heart. If it's not in alignment
30:39
with his heart, it's gone. We've been here 10
30:42
years sowing into that mentality, also with the
30:46
idea of we have the pleasure and the privilege
30:50
of living in a small town in America. And there's
30:54
something about small town community that is
30:58
unique and beautiful in Americana. And we're
31:02
like that in Fredericksburg. I go to the grocery
31:06
store, H -E -B, it's over. I cannot just go get
31:10
a gallon of milk and walk out. Not without stopping
31:14
and talking. And it's not because people are
31:16
stopping me necessarily. I may be stopping them
31:18
and going, man, it's so good to see you. How
31:20
are you doing? How are your calves doing? I had
31:24
a guy talking to me about his beef yesterday.
31:26
And I'm just like, yeah, we had a great conversation
31:28
about beef. But it's living in a small town.
31:33
And I've lived in Los Angeles. I was nearly born
31:36
in Los Angeles. I've lived in Kansas City. I've
31:39
lived in Dallas, Fort Worth, Nashville. I've
31:42
lived in some big cities, but there's something
31:45
about a small town culture. But Fredericksburg's
31:49
unique too, because it's not just small town
31:51
culture. People move here because they want to
31:55
be here. And there's a different spirit behind
31:58
that. Or they're led to be here. They're led
31:59
to be here. and there's a different spirit behind
32:02
that as well, and it's a spirit of gratitude.
32:05
So when you get a bunch of people together who
32:08
are happy to be where they are and thankful that
32:10
they get to live here, we get to do this. I didn't
32:14
just make that up on the fly. It's an atmosphere
32:17
that we live in here in Fredericksburg. It is.
32:19
It is a bit like living on a cruise ship, honestly.
32:24
Without the norovirus. Yeah, exactly. All the
32:28
good parts of it. The food, the drink, the culture,
32:32
the fun. It's really a fun town, but it breeds
32:36
this community that I'm just so thankful for.
32:40
And not all the time. Can you believe we get
32:42
to live here? and that we've had the privilege
32:45
of doing the thing we love the most, and that's
32:48
teaching, preaching about Jesus, making disciples,
32:51
growing in our faith with others in a community.
32:54
And we get to do it in Fredericksburg, Texas.
32:56
So it is special, this town. And so that is conveyed
33:02
through the culture of our church as well. That's
33:05
why almost everyone who visits here ends up either
33:08
moving here or they really want to move here.
33:11
And it's not just because of the church, it's
33:13
the community itself. So we were representative
33:16
of that. We're a fun bunch. We are, man. Our
33:21
old people are fun. Yes, our old people are great.
33:24
They're a little scary. It's the Woodstock generation.
33:27
They're still wild at heart. It's still there.
33:30
I love how everyone's always coming together
33:32
and like, hey, so -and -so's got a baby. Let's
33:35
do a food train. So -and -so's wife is having
33:39
a procedure. We're all helping each other. The
33:42
floods once again. We've got our church jumps
33:46
in. A lot of churches, of course, jump in. We
33:49
also have like 25 churches around here, which
33:52
is also... And they're active. They are active.
33:54
They're engaged. But as I was telling Johanna,
33:57
I said, you know, you love our church because...
34:00
It's not just a church. It's like a clubhouse,
34:04
man. There's stuff going on there. There's stuff
34:06
happening all the time. How many people in our
34:10
youth group now? Do we have 70, 80, 90s getting
34:12
up there? We have a big youth group. We took,
34:13
I think, 80 to camp. But also, we're doing a
34:17
cool thing. We're doing a backpack drive. For
34:18
the kids and teachers? So they start off saying,
34:21
we want to get 150 backpacks. And then they said,
34:24
we want to get 175. It kept going up. Oh no,
34:27
it keeps, because we don't want to disappoint
34:28
anybody. We got 200 back to back. Backpacks.
34:31
And they're full of school supplies. So we get
34:33
to bless 200 families, 200 kids with backpacks,
34:37
full, you know, everything for free. Then we're
34:40
doing, we're raising money for, for 18 teachers
34:43
who we're going to pay their help, give them
34:46
their supplies that they otherwise pay for themselves.
34:49
You know, gift cards for restaurants, for stores.
34:52
and we get to bless that. I think this is the
34:55
thing that, well, it's not the thing I like most,
34:59
but something I really enjoy about our church
35:01
is how when the the congregation ties and blesses
35:07
the church. And the church does things with that
35:11
in the community. Like, didn't we pay off all
35:15
the school lunches and the deficit, which was,
35:18
I don't know, $11 ,000 for kids who just weren't
35:23
able to pay for it. struck that record. I mean,
35:26
this is amazing to me. This is what family does,
35:30
right? We take care of our own. I love that spirit
35:33
in a small town. We take care of our own. Instead
35:36
of leave them be, it's we take care of our own.
35:38
And I love that. So that makes it special. So
35:41
we've got the best of both worlds. We've got
35:45
a big church, large church, anywhere from sick
35:49
with nearly 700 last Sunday, that's in the middle
35:51
of the summer. So think about the fall. And we're
35:54
building an overflow space right now that's about
35:56
to be done. We're right in the middle of that.
36:01
So we get the accoutrements of a large church.
36:04
We got a sound system, ACDC could do a concert
36:07
here. I mean, we've got the full meal deal. We
36:11
got all the accoutrements of a large church and
36:13
yet we still have that. small town heart and
36:17
soul. Yeah. Yes. And I just love it. I mean,
36:20
we still wave at people when we drop down the
36:22
street, man. This doesn't mean that people can't
36:25
have this sense of community in a city. Oh, no,
36:28
I agree with that. Because you can. You do that
36:30
around a church community. That's community.
36:33
Yeah. All these people, you know, and people
36:36
say to me all the time, like, you know, you know
36:38
what you're talking about is very lonely out
36:39
here. I said, you know, could I just recommend
36:42
go to a church? That's it. You may not be ready
36:46
to cross the line yet. Go meet some people at
36:48
the church. In Nashville, when we were working,
36:51
I was working for Dave Ramsey and it was working
36:53
for a dental practice. Our community became our
36:58
church, Grace Chapel, which is phenomenal. Sounds
37:00
like a little tiny country church with 15 ,000
37:02
people. But you find your community in that larger
37:08
community. And you tend to sit in the same spot.
37:11
You tend to go to the same classes. And then
37:13
somebody says, hey, let's start a small group.
37:15
So you start a small group, which we did, called
37:17
Deep End. And they asked me to lead it. But we
37:19
did it at a mansion of a Nashville producer.
37:23
We did it at their house in Brentwood. we created
37:29
community within the larger settings. So that
37:31
can be done anywhere. But I must say, I'm a little
37:35
partial to small town America. Oh, yeah. I mean,
37:38
I've lived in cities most of my life. When I
37:42
was younger, we did live outside of Amsterdam,
37:45
which was kind of cool in a very small village.
37:47
So I had kind of a dual situation going on there.
37:51
But when we were in Austin and we just said,
37:53
nah, now it's time to get out. And then Tina
37:56
just said, How about Fredericksburg? Spin the
37:58
globe. Literally. I'm like, okay. I've been there,
38:03
but it really didn't matter because I have no
38:05
business in Austin. I don't have to be there.
38:08
We live wherever we want. I've been there. It's
38:11
kind of a cool town. And then we open up Zillow
38:14
and boom. Oh, well, that's exactly the house
38:17
we like. They bought it the next day under contingency
38:21
of selling our home in Austin, which we sold
38:23
in 24 hours. Now, there's all kinds of moves
38:28
there. There's nothing like driving up in the
38:30
parking lot and seeing 120 F -154 pickups. But
38:34
it's Wednesday morning, and there's 25 cars in
38:38
the lot today. There's always something going
38:39
on. And there's Tommy waving at me, hey, Adam,
38:41
how you doing? And he's got to come talk to you.
38:43
Of course. He's got to come tell him what's going
38:45
on. I'm glad I came early. Don't you love that?
38:48
Every day, I walk into this building, and you've
38:51
got to stop and talk to the staff. Hey, how was
38:53
your day? How was last night? We had some stuff
38:55
going on. We had 46 people come to Blair and
38:58
Evans class on Experiencing God. Oh, yes. 46
39:01
people last night. Wow. Wow. Isn't that cool?
39:03
On a Tuesday night. Man, I wish you could have
39:05
met my grandfather. I mean, too. Eugene, Gene
39:09
Curry, who, you know, he and… I will someday.
39:14
Well, yes, and you will love him. So they, for
39:17
all intents and purposes, lived in small town.
39:20
Well, Armok, New York, which is, you know, borders
39:22
on Connecticut. And he was originally a real
39:27
estate guy, but then he went to war and he became
39:31
the guy that sat up all night on his Corona typewriter,
39:36
writing letters to the president, to congressmen.
39:40
voicing his opinion. He would write op -eds.
39:43
Many got published in the New York Times. Not
39:45
all. Beautiful. He was engaging his leadership
39:49
before it was cool. Completely. I love that.
39:53
But also on Saturdays, he would go to the...
39:57
I forget the name of it. a home for elderly ladies,
40:05
and he'd bring flowers for every single one of
40:07
them. And he'd say, oh, I'm just off to visit
40:09
the ladies. I think he also liked visiting the
40:11
ladies, honestly. He liked chatting with them.
40:15
And when the family came over, oh, let's go to
40:17
Hanker's, go get some corn. And Hanker's corn,
40:20
they'd be ready. And then it was all St. Stephen's
40:23
Church. I was baptized there as a young child.
40:30
I think we have a family plot. Yeah. Although
40:33
I don't know. Look at the seeds that were sown.
40:35
So I'm feeling all these things that I saw but
40:40
didn't get from my parents, got from my grandparents.
40:43
And so now I'm feeling like, oh man, not only
40:47
do I need to give my granddaughter all the little
40:49
cookies she's not supposed to have, but I got
40:51
a lot of other things I got to instill into her.
40:54
So I'm looking forward to that very much so.
40:57
Beautiful brother. Just to talk about the And
41:01
thank you for reading the briefing on Sunday.
41:05
Oh, so good. Because this, and I just want to
41:08
tell everybody who's listening to our podcast
41:11
about what President Trump was really saying
41:14
in his address to the nation. I know it seems
41:16
like 5 ,000 times the straight -up Hormuz open
41:21
and shut since that speech. But the whole point
41:24
was we need to fix the plumbing of our voting
41:28
system. And it's not necessarily about, you know,
41:32
voting machines and all. It's really about, we
41:35
need to identify who we are when we vote, when
41:39
we register to vote, there just needs to be a
41:41
check. You got to use your ID for everything
41:43
else. The continuous noise of, well, it's racist
41:47
and it makes voting difficult is of course nonsense
41:51
and everybody knows this, but it's not just Democrats
41:54
that don't want this. This mail -in by ballot.
41:59
I used to vote. by absentee ballot is what it
42:02
was called. I was overseas and my mom would make
42:05
a big deal of it. We're going to go talk to the
42:07
embassy. We want our ballots and you get your
42:09
ballot and then you send it back because we want
42:11
our vote to be counted. And it's important. And
42:14
so we would always do that. You know, this has
42:16
become basically a scam over the years where
42:19
in some states, every resident gets a ballot
42:21
whether you want it or not. And, you know, there's
42:24
no real check and balance of who signed it, who
42:27
sent it. Who's alive, who's dead. who's eligible.
42:31
It is not just Democrats who have used this.
42:34
I totally agree. So it's not a partisan thing,
42:37
but it is bipartisan on them not wanting to sign
42:41
it. And that's my point. It's not just Democrats
42:44
saying no, it's Republicans and Democrats alike
42:47
slow walking it in the Senate. So I called my
42:52
Senator. I called my representative, federal
42:56
and regional, local, and left messages. I talked
43:00
to one of the aides and just said, hey, I'm a
43:02
pastor of a church of a thousand plus people,
43:04
and I want you to know we appreciate this bill,
43:07
the Save America Act. And he was blown away.
43:11
He said, man, we'd love to get these calls. He
43:14
was like, thank you for taking the time to call
43:17
and support because most of the calls they get
43:19
are negative. But it also matters because then
43:23
they get encouraged. They know it's important
43:26
to their constituents. It's springing their step
43:27
when they step back into the halls. And it has
43:30
to be a call. Emails doesn't work. It doesn't
43:33
work. It goes into a big bin. It doesn't get
43:35
seen. Calling works every single time. And it's
43:38
easy. Nine times out of 10, you're going to get
43:40
a voicemail. And then you get two. And it takes
43:42
you over to their... Voicemail. Hopefully their
43:46
aide listens to it and passes the good word along.
43:49
Well, they have to because eventually the voicemail
43:51
box gets full. So I think they do listen to it.
43:53
I do too. It's part of their job. Again, our
43:57
voice is heard with both our vote and our call,
44:00
our voice. So we need to do that. Be diligent.
44:03
And it's an important one. And that's what President
44:05
Trump was saying. He's like, I'm not doing anything.
44:07
You got to pass this act. It's important. We
44:10
got to do it. coming up with reasons not to,
44:14
is, in my book, un -American. They're hiding
44:17
something. They're in somebody's pocket. It's
44:21
not good what you're doing. Now, simultaneously,
44:24
this was what was interesting. The State Department
44:28
did an entire symposium, like a whole day, on
44:34
international terrorism. uh, our treasury secretary,
44:38
I love general patent is what I call him. Um,
44:41
he, uh, Scott Besson, you know, it seems like
44:45
such an obvious thing that our treasury who runs
44:48
the real financial networks knows how money moves
44:51
from point A to point B that they would be looking
44:53
at stuff. You know, it seems like no one ever
44:56
did or they didn't want to or told not want and
44:59
he's like shut off so many different avenues
45:02
of illicit money flows. It's crazy. He's making
45:06
Doge look like a kindergartener. And now they're
45:10
going through the Smithsonian Institute. The
45:15
Smithsonian Institute is not necessarily keeping
45:17
to their mission anymore. And there's also money
45:20
that flows through that. Exactly. That's what
45:21
I'm thinking. But our Secretary of State Rubio,
45:25
man, he had just a firebrand speech and I had
45:28
already clipped this and you sent this morning,
45:30
you said, hey, look at this speech. Brother Jimmy,
45:34
I literally have this stack up for the show today
45:37
and I'll play this and didn't just want to talk
45:40
about it briefly That was the wrong one shows
45:46
over I Love that we don't edit this stuff. Here
45:53
we go. This is what radical leftism is It may
45:57
wear various different slogans and ideologies
45:59
across place and time They can call themselves
46:01
anti -capitalists, or anti -imperialists, or
46:05
communists, or anarchists, or Marxists, but the
46:08
fundamental character is always the same. It's
46:10
always the same. It is a poisonous resentment
46:13
cloaked in the language of equality and justice
46:17
and liberation, an overwhelming need to tear
46:20
down what greater men have built, to wreck what
46:23
is beautiful and what is right on behalf of people
46:26
who are only filled with ugliness. and have nothing
46:29
else to offer the world. Through violence and
46:32
through terror, they once again seek to impose
46:35
their ugliness on all of us. The old dogma was
46:39
wrong. The old dogma was wrong. None of this
46:42
is driven by idealism. It is not utopian. In
46:46
fact, it is the opposite. One of the criticisms
46:51
you sometimes hear of communism, for example,
46:54
is that it sounds good in theory, but it never
46:56
works in practice. That's actually not true.
47:02
Communism does not sound good in theory. The
47:04
world that envisions for all of us is small,
47:08
flat, gray, leveled of all exception, drained
47:12
of all that is good and noble in the human soul.
47:15
The world that envisions is a world without courage,
47:17
a world without creativity or ambition, a world
47:21
without heroes or glory or great causes to strive
47:24
towards, a world without miracles. without myths,
47:29
without men who rise above the rest to do incredible
47:32
and extraordinary things. And the world communism
47:35
envisions is a world without God. For these architects
47:39
of revolutionary violence, the towering achievement
47:41
of our civilization, for them it's an unbearable
47:45
humiliation, a reminder of what they cannot do
47:49
and a reminder of what they cannot be. And this
47:52
is, I mean, this is a powerful statement. And
47:57
I'm so happy it's coming from our existing administration.
48:02
Because what he's saying is, and it's going to
48:05
be very interesting in the midterm election and
48:08
into the next general election. Of course, you
48:10
and I will be all over it. When you see these,
48:15
the DSA candidates, Democrats, Socialists of
48:18
America, they literally are saying we need to
48:20
break apart the system from within, revolution
48:23
from within. That's rarely the way it actually
48:29
goes, funny enough, with socialism. But Secretary
48:36
Rubio is so spot on. And yes, the ultimate truth
48:40
about socialism and communism is no God. That's
48:46
the basic bottom line. I've probably participated
48:51
in ignoring God, ignoring the roots of even of
49:00
European countries. I mean, the churches, if
49:04
they're not being burned down, they've been turned
49:06
into Airbnbs and WeWorks to the point where,
49:09
you know, we went to a church in a school auditorium.
49:15
But you see how... It's almost felt like we're
49:19
hiding out here. Okay, it's just us Christians
49:23
here in this school auditorium. I'm glad they
49:26
need a school auditorium instead of a home. They're
49:30
growing. That's what's exciting. Absolutely.
49:34
He said without God, without miracles. Without
49:37
miracles. Without heroes. Without creativity.
49:40
And great men doing things above and beyond.
49:43
So much in a very short amount of time. Pack
49:45
that in. Let me read to you what Jillian Michaels
49:48
said. Okay, right. Yes, because she played this
49:51
clip. She did. And I was like, what? But I like
49:53
what she said. She said, Marco Rubio just exposed
49:55
what the political elite never wanted you to
49:58
hear in a moment that is sending shockwaves across
50:01
the internet. He completely dismantled dismantled
50:04
radical leftism live on air, tearing down decades
50:08
of political propaganda in under 60 seconds.
50:11
Everyone thought he was going to give a typical
50:13
politician response, but what he revealed at
50:16
the very end changed the entire conversation
50:18
forever. Yeah. Brilliant. Yay, Gillian. Well,
50:23
there's more people who are starting to see this.
50:25
And as much as, you know, I'm like, hey, you
50:28
know, let's all calm down about A million mosques
50:31
built in the last 24 months in Texas, et cetera,
50:34
et cetera. What we are seeing is Islamists teaming
50:38
up with the socialists. This is where the danger
50:43
comes from. And it's not just danger for our
50:48
country and our republic. It's actually dangerous
50:51
for the socialists because they're the ones that
50:55
get killed first. And the weak brothers and sisters,
51:00
oh, bring in your LGBTQ. You are the first ones
51:04
who are gonna get killed. That's exactly right.
51:06
It's historical. So, you know, I pray that people
51:10
will snap out of it. Snap out of it. Couple things
51:15
before we go. We got prayer requests from Ian
51:20
Cummings. His dad has not been doing well, suffering
51:25
cytokine release syndrome, CRS. It's from chemo.
51:31
And so just want everybody to pray for his dad.
51:35
Heard from my friend Pete, Pete in quotes, who
51:42
was very brave and prayed through what actions
51:48
he had to take for his addiction, his alcohol
51:50
addiction. You know came clean with his wife.
51:53
He said hey man. I just want to let you know
51:56
I was in the ICU for three days. I'm out now
51:59
and now the hard work begins Yeah, and so, you
52:02
know, I'm praying for him and I hope everybody
52:04
else will as well It's just I'm so proud of that
52:07
guy for Wow for doing that and then without even
52:11
asking we got two donations already with our
52:15
quest for a value for value, which, of course,
52:18
this is a value for value podcast, which means
52:20
the best thing you can do is tell people about
52:22
the podcast. That's very valuable to us right
52:26
now. But as we grow and as we move and spend
52:29
more time on this, all parts of value for value
52:32
become important. And why does it not surprise
52:35
me that right away we get Steve and Stephanie
52:40
in Las Vegas supporting us with $33 .33. I really
52:46
appreciate that. Yeah, Steve and Stephanie. And
52:49
$75 from The Pickle Princess. Oh my goodness.
52:53
Aka. She's awesome. Jody White says, I love you
52:56
guys. Keep up the good work. Thank you so much.
52:59
That is so appreciated. WGTDT .com is our...
53:04
website and that's where you're going to find
53:07
real show notes this time. I'm going to put something
53:09
in the show notes so people can go, oh, they're
53:12
talking about something here. We're legit. We're
53:15
getting legit. We're getting legit. Yes, man.
53:19
Working on it. Working hard on it. It's fun,
53:21
brother. I love doing this. This is so different.
53:24
How long has it been since you've built one from
53:26
the ground up like this? Has it been a while?
53:28
Because I mean you do several podcasts 2 .0 you
53:32
know facts It's everything's different. Okay
53:36
2 .0. I mean all of all podcasts are communities.
53:40
Mm -hmm. That's the bottom line Yeah, the the
53:42
biggest community is the no agenda community
53:44
and that's just been built up over right over
53:47
almost 19 years Mo facts was a part of the no
53:52
agenda community podcasting 2 .0 is a very small
53:57
It's only a couple thousand. Well, it's because
53:59
you all speak another language. Totally. I tried
54:01
listening. No, no, no. And we also call it the
54:04
board meeting because we're, you know, we're
54:07
technology. We are a bunch of, we're misfits.
54:11
We're a misfit. It's like someone said, Hey,
54:13
let's put this band together. And some dude comes
54:16
up with the banjo. We got a guy playing spoons,
54:19
someone on the, you know, on the theremin and,
54:22
you know, but all of this together is working
54:24
to. make podcasting better, and podcasting is
54:28
owned by no one. So we're just trying to help
54:31
keep it open free. And that's for selfish reasons
54:35
too. I want to make sure that I can continue
54:38
to create podcasts. Now, Korean The Keeper really
54:43
started because we didn't know anybody out here
54:46
and we were just going to... check out some wineries
54:50
and talk about wine, and we thought maybe some
54:52
people send us some wine and we can, you know,
54:54
we'll drink the wine. We did that for seven episodes.
54:56
Seven episodes. And then, you know, then it turned
54:58
out that this was really about us and our faith
55:01
journey. And, you know, so all of this, I think,
55:04
led to what this is. And now there's a new community
55:07
that we're going to build together. I'm very
55:09
excited about it because when I see these notes
55:12
saying, hey, I'm coming back to my faith, or
55:16
it's been a long time. This is the success. This
55:20
is the reason why we've been asked to do this,
55:23
I feel. Well, it's not about clicks, likes, and
55:26
sponsors. It's about people. And a true community
55:30
is about people. And the success is the community,
55:34
the people. Always. The interactions. I love
55:36
interaction with some of the guys on X and Substack.
55:40
And I'm excited about that growing. I've been
55:43
to a few of the no agenda meetups and I just
55:46
always leave going, this is so cool to have this
55:49
community and people not content to just stay
55:52
on their computers or their pods, but come together
55:55
and hang out and get to know each other. Man,
55:58
I've enjoyed that so much. Every time you ask
56:01
me, I go, okay, I'm there. Well, it's on a Saturday.
56:03
I'm there because I get to meet people that I'm
56:07
going to somehow build some level of a relationship
56:10
with. Isn't that real riches in life? To me,
56:15
real riches isn't getting a sponsor by row or
56:18
some of these different big sponsors. It's about
56:21
people and it's about holding each other's arms
56:26
up through the tough days and celebrating the
56:28
wins together. We'll take that as the plane sticking
56:32
the landing, man. I love that. Perfect. We get
56:34
to do this and we will get to do it next week.
56:38
WGTDT .com. We've been blessed