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69 | Echo of My Days · Sermons on the Side

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  SPEAKER_00: Welcome to Sermons on the Side.
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  SPEAKER_00: I'm Brad.
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  SPEAKER_00: And I'm Richard.
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  SPEAKER_00: And life can move pretty fast.
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  SPEAKER_00: So we're here to slow down, dig deep, and find the story hidden in everyday moments.
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  SPEAKER_01: With years spent in ministry, friendship, and navigating real life together, we're all about blending humor, honesty, and faith into conversations that meet you right where you are.
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  SPEAKER_00: So whether you're brand new or you're back for more, we are so glad you are here.
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  SPEAKER_01: So relax, listen in, and let's discover meaning together.
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  SPEAKER_00: In the ordinary, the messy, and everything in between.
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  SPEAKER_01: Sermons on the side, finding meaning in the everyday.
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  SPEAKER_01: And then I go on in this journal entry with my prayer.
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  SPEAKER_01: And I say, Lord, I was and I still am overwhelmed at your work in my life and your steadfast love for me.
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  SPEAKER_01: At Starbucks before church, so clearly I'm at I'm Starbucks twice on this day.
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  SPEAKER_01: There's no denying it because it's in on paper that I was at Starbucks before church.
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  SPEAKER_00: Hey man, you keep reading the German entry and you're gonna say Starbucks thrice.
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  SPEAKER_02: Oh Lord, help me.
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  SPEAKER_01: Welcome, welcome, welcome, everyone, to another episode of Sermons on the Side.
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  SPEAKER_01: That's right, you are thrice welcome.
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  SPEAKER_01: Welcome.
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  SPEAKER_00: That's a pretty cool word.
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  SPEAKER_00: Thrice blessed.
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  SPEAKER_00: I'm gonna use thrice the rest of this episode.
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  SPEAKER_00: I'm gonna use it thrice more times, by the way.
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  SPEAKER_00: Go for it.
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  SPEAKER_00: Go for it.
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  SPEAKER_00: And speaking of thrice, yeah, let me just go there immediately.
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  SPEAKER_00: Folks, I I need to apologize mainly to Richard because, first of all, it's been a crazy week, and I was we have already recorded this entire episode in its entirety.
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  SPEAKER_00: Okay.
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  SPEAKER_00: And I edited it.
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  SPEAKER_00: Oh, and it was so funny.
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  SPEAKER_00: It was ready to go.
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  SPEAKER_00: It was ready to go.
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  SPEAKER_00: I was trying to export it to send it to you earlier today, which is, oh, by the way, Wednesday before Thursday drop day.
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  SPEAKER_00: And long story short, oh my goodness, I deleted the episode by accident.
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  SPEAKER_00: We are at the church at our studio with like literally three hours, three, four hours until this episode goes live.
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  SPEAKER_00: Exactly.
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  SPEAKER_00: And so this is our thriced time of recording the entire anyways.
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  SPEAKER_00: But thank you, Richard, for being gracious with me.
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  SPEAKER_00: Thank you, listeners, for joining us on this awesome Thursday for this incredible episode.
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  SPEAKER_00: I have no doubt that this message is absolutely for probably for several of us, and that the enemy has just tried to throw grenades.
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  SPEAKER_00: Exactly.
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  SPEAKER_00: Exactly.
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  SPEAKER_00: Succeeded, by the way, at least in my uh storage device.
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  SPEAKER_00: Uh, but he will not win the war.
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  SPEAKER_00: Amen.
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  SPEAKER_00: Come on.
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  SPEAKER_01: God will prevail.
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  SPEAKER_01: That's right.
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  SPEAKER_01: He will do his thing.
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  SPEAKER_01: And speaking of God doing his thing, just thinking about last week's episode, the interview with the soldier, the poet, the husband, and the girl dad, Jacob.
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  SPEAKER_01: Kelly, yes, dude.
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  SPEAKER_01: Oh my god.
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  SPEAKER_01: It was so good.
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  SPEAKER_01: And we got so much good feedback from it.
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  SPEAKER_00: We did.
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  SPEAKER_00: We got awesome feedback.
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  SPEAKER_00: And uh there was lots of people that liked the posts that we had, that shared the post, got their names in.
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  SPEAKER_00: And so I think are we, do you?
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  SPEAKER_00: I mean, because if you recall, uh, we are giving away two signed books of Spurs, the Spurs of Service, uh, which is obviously the book of poetry that Mr.
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  SPEAKER_00: Jacob P.
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  SPEAKER_00: Kelly has written.
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  SPEAKER_00: And so, do you have the names?
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  SPEAKER_00: I do.
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  SPEAKER_00: I do.
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  SPEAKER_00: Here we go.
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  SPEAKER_01: I'm excited.
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  SPEAKER_01: There are two winners as promised.
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  SPEAKER_01: And the first one, we're I'm actually gonna let you uh say this man's name out loud because he happens to be somebody that you spend time with every single Sunday, pretty much.
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  SPEAKER_00: That's right.
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  SPEAKER_00: One, Mr.
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  SPEAKER_00: Jerry Price.
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  SPEAKER_00: Jerry! Round of applause, ladies and gentlemen.
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  SPEAKER_00: This is uh this is Lisa and I's church drummer.
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  SPEAKER_00: He is a part of our worship band, he is part of our church.
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  SPEAKER_00: He and his wife, Tammy, are an incredible part of our church.
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  SPEAKER_00: And more than just being a drummer, he and Tammy are just servants and they love God and they're just so incredible.
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  SPEAKER_00: So, anyways, Jerry, thanks for interacting with us on social media.
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  SPEAKER_00: I'll bring you this book on Sunday, brother.
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  SPEAKER_01: There you go.
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  SPEAKER_01: There you go.
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  SPEAKER_01: All right, ready for the second name?
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  SPEAKER_00: I need it.
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  SPEAKER_01: All right, here it is, and that name is Trisha Anders Jones.
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  SPEAKER_01: Oh, this is a a uh an extended family member of your bride Lisa.
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  SPEAKER_01: That's exactly right.
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  SPEAKER_00: And fun fact, second winner from the city of Knoxville that we've ever had on the sox Vegas is alive and well for servants on the side.
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  SPEAKER_00: That is so cool.
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  SPEAKER_00: Uh something else is cool, by the way.
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  SPEAKER_00: You you'd appreciate this.
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  SPEAKER_00: Her um grandmother name, her her auntie name.
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  SPEAKER_00: Oh, I love the I love these names.
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  SPEAKER_00: It's Batman.
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  SPEAKER_01: Okay, okay, Batman.
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  SPEAKER_01: I'm full of questions.
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  SPEAKER_01: Uh now I'm I support it.
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  SPEAKER_01: Right, but I you know, gone to my head.
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  SPEAKER_01: I would not have guessed that.
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  SPEAKER_00: The kids the kids that were growing up that she wanted to be nana.
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  SPEAKER_00: Nana.
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  SPEAKER_00: And so it was nana, nana, nana, nana, nana, nana, nana, nana, nana.
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  SPEAKER_00: No.
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  SPEAKER_00: I promise you.
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  SPEAKER_01: Nana Batman.
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  SPEAKER_01: Oh.
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  SPEAKER_00: So Batman and Sherry.
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  SPEAKER_01: Oh, yeah, dude.
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  SPEAKER_00: When I see her, I come up and give her, I don't call her Aunt Trisha.
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  SPEAKER_00: I say, hey, Batman.
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  SPEAKER_00: I give her a hug.
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  SPEAKER_01: So good.
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  SPEAKER_01: So we're excited that we get those two copies of Jake's book.
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  SPEAKER_00: That's exactly right.
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  SPEAKER_00: Thank y'all so much for listening and supporting Sermons on the Side.
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  SPEAKER_00: We're excited to get these books to you.
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  SPEAKER_00: So Jerry will get it to you on Sunday.
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  SPEAKER_00: And uh Aunt Trisha, Batman, we got one coming in the book.
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  SPEAKER_01: Batman in the mail to you.
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  SPEAKER_01: There you go, man.
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  SPEAKER_00: So cool.
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  SPEAKER_00: Well, dude, man, I'm so excited to sit through the sermons on the side.
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  SPEAKER_00: Again.
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  SPEAKER_00: Again.
• 6:39
  SPEAKER_00: But it's just so good, it's so rich.
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  SPEAKER_00: And I think there's absolutely a message here for all of our listeners.
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  SPEAKER_00: Let's dive into it, man.
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  SPEAKER_01: Boy, I hope so.
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  SPEAKER_01: We go back about five years, uh, four or five years.
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  SPEAKER_01: My granddaughter Blakely, and we also know Blakely as The Divine Miss B.
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  SPEAKER_01: Mm-hmm.
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  SPEAKER_01: And that that name was given to her by her aunt Laura, who, by the way, her auntie name is Pinky.
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  SPEAKER_01: Don't know it just is something my kids came up with.
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  SPEAKER_01: Pinky with a pinky.
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  SPEAKER_01: Pinky.
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  SPEAKER_01: Pinky.
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  SPEAKER_01: Yes.
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  SPEAKER_01: Like the pinky finger or the pink color.
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  SPEAKER_01: Yes, I don't.
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  SPEAKER_01: You like that reference?
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  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, bro.
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  SPEAKER_01: Deep cut.
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  SPEAKER_01: Deep cut right now.
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  SPEAKER_01: But anyway, so Blakely, she is eight years old at the time of this recording.
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  SPEAKER_01: I mean, please.
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  SPEAKER_00: Sorry, I'm a little sensitive to those disclaimers at the time of this recording.
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  SPEAKER_00: At midnight.
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  SPEAKER_00: We got 50 minutes until we gotta get this thing live.
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  SPEAKER_01: I started twitching when I said that phrase.
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  SPEAKER_01: But uh anyway, so it was several years ago.
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  SPEAKER_01: She Blakely just finished second grade.
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  SPEAKER_01: I promise I'm gonna stop talking about Blakely, but it's hard because she's so awesome.
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  SPEAKER_01: She's great, as is her brother Bennett, Benny Boy.
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  SPEAKER_01: Love it.
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  SPEAKER_01: And uh, so anyway, Blakely just finished second grade, about to go into the third grade this fall.
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  SPEAKER_01: I just need a moment.
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  SPEAKER_01: Okay, I'm back.
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  SPEAKER_01: So, but several years ago, it's probably about four years ago, she and I had a conversation.
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  SPEAKER_01: She came home from preschool.
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  SPEAKER_01: She was all excited because they had learned about echoes.
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  SPEAKER_01: Right?
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  SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
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  SPEAKER_01: And this is the way she described it.
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  SPEAKER_01: She said, Poppy, did you know that in some places you can make sound and it'll come back to you?
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  SPEAKER_01: That was her understanding of echo.
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  SPEAKER_01: And it was so sweet, right?
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  SPEAKER_01: And so I said, Oh, that's awesome.
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  SPEAKER_01: So we talked about echoes in the different places you can go, like uh in different valleys or canyons, sometimes uh around the water, you know, in some lake or or around hills.
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  SPEAKER_01: And she said, it was so sweet.
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  SPEAKER_01: And she said, and so she said, super sweet.
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  SPEAKER_01: She goes, Poppy, can we go somewhere and do echoes?
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  SPEAKER_01: Oh and I'm like, you know, my backyard, there's no echo opportunity.
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  SPEAKER_01: You know, we went to one of the bathrooms in our house.
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  SPEAKER_00: You know, you got the tiles and two six feet better there and true echoes.
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  SPEAKER_01: And we got an itty bitty kind of uh reverb, really, is all it was.
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  SPEAKER_01: But but for her, in her mind, she was like, Oh, we made an echo, and it was really cool.
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  SPEAKER_01: Really sweet.
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  SPEAKER_01: All right.
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  SPEAKER_01: So that so I want to take that Blakely story and I want you to pause on the echo idea.
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  SPEAKER_01: Okay, and now I need to share with you another story that took place, as it turns out, probably within a year of me and Blakely having the echo conversation.
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  SPEAKER_01: Okay, something really cool happened.
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  SPEAKER_01: Okay, and I'm gonna try to set this up and explain uh how God spoke to me in the middle of a Sunday morning church service at Liberty Church in Birmingham.
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  SPEAKER_01: I talk about this church a lot because it was my home church when I lived in Birmingham.
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  SPEAKER_01: My sister Laura and my dad, Pops, uh Papa, he he they still go there.
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  SPEAKER_01: And uh one of our great listeners, Heath Goodson.
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  SPEAKER_01: Heath, a man.
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  SPEAKER_01: Uh Heath is uh is one of the leaders there, one of the uh he's not on staff, but you know, he's he just serves that church.
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  SPEAKER_01: He and his family do.
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  SPEAKER_01: So it as it turns out, the date of this particular story of how God spoke to me pretty strongly during a worship service, it was, and I am going to look it up because I uh have it logged in my journal, and it was March 5th, 2023.
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  SPEAKER_01: So just over three years ago.
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  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, right.
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  SPEAKER_01: And again, I had this cute little echo conversation sometime in the year in the previous year with the divine Miss B.
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  SPEAKER_01: So I'm at this church service at Liberty Church on Sunday morning, and there's this we have this wonderful event planned for later in the evening honoring my sister, uh Lisa, who had served for 20 years as the as the children's minister there.
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  SPEAKER_01: And uh she she had gotten so sick she was no longer no longer able to play that role in the church.
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  SPEAKER_01: And so they were just gonna have this wonderful gathering that honored her.
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  SPEAKER_01: It was a phenomenal night.
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  SPEAKER_01: That was taking place later in the day, okay.
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  SPEAKER_01: So that Sunday morning, as I've said, I'm sitting there in Liberty Church for just a regular Sunday morning service.
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  SPEAKER_01: But check out who is on the row with me, sitting on a row at Liberty Church for the Sunday morning service.
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  SPEAKER_01: A lot of us have come in for that special thing that's gonna happen later.
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  SPEAKER_01: And so here's what who here's who's on this row is myself, my dad, my mom, oh wow, both sisters, and uh my daughter Carly, my son Derek, they both come into town for this event, and their mom, Janet, who is my ex-wife.
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  SPEAKER_01: Wow.
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  SPEAKER_01: Because she loves my sisters and wanted to be there to honor my sister Lisa at that special event later in the day.
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  SPEAKER_01: And I just, you know, I just looked down the row and it made me remember that I used to attend that, I used to sit in that very sanctuary every Sunday during the early 2010s, which were the first few years of my recovery journey.
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  SPEAKER_01: And so as you know, that was a really tough time, a really difficult time for my family because of the divorce and and me beginning, you know, to face my own issues and and work through the addiction recovery process.
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  SPEAKER_01: So that was the place I went on Sunday mornings all those years ago.
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  SPEAKER_01: And now here I am in 2023 and I look down this row at all these people and I thought, God, this is a miracle.
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  SPEAKER_01: Right?
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  SPEAKER_00: So later that afternoon, as I'm waiting to meet up with uh my wife Rhonda, who is coming over from Columbus to attend that special event, I'm just sitting by myself in a coffee shop, the rest of the family's out piddling and doing fun things, and and I'm which I must say, you alone in a coffee shop, look out because the Holy Spirit is moving, brother.
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  SPEAKER_01: So I start journaling.
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  SPEAKER_01: And I know this is probably poor podcast etiquette, but I want to read straight out of a journal entry.
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  SPEAKER_01: Oh no, Lord help us.
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  SPEAKER_01: Oh, I love it.
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  SPEAKER_01: It's about to happen.
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  SPEAKER_01: Okay, okay, and so this is from that day, that very day, and it literally says Birmingham, Starbucks, between church and Lisa's reception.
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  SPEAKER_01: Right?
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  SPEAKER_01: This is how I like log this stuff, March 5th, 2023.
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  SPEAKER_01: And here's what it says what a day today has been.
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  SPEAKER_01: Driving to church this morning, I flashback, I flashed back to all those days during early recovery in the early 2010s.
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  SPEAKER_03: Yeah.
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  SPEAKER_01: When I would travel those roads and I would be wrestling with my painful emotions and my dark thoughts and my deepest fears.
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  SPEAKER_01: And then I'd just start writing a prayer.
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  SPEAKER_01: And I say, Lord, you are always so faithful to help me struggle through it all.
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  SPEAKER_01: Pause here.
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  SPEAKER_01: That wording matters.
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  SPEAKER_01: I didn't say, Thank you, Lord, for helping me get through my struggles or bailing me out of my or rescuing me from my struggles.
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  SPEAKER_01: I said, because this is what I believe, I said, you're so faithful to help me struggle through it.
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  SPEAKER_01: Because I know that just in my heart, I know that pain is my teacher, and difficulty is actually the pathway to peace of mind.
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  SPEAKER_01: And I'm I've learned that through my recovery and through the years.
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  SPEAKER_01: So I'm like, thank you for helping me struggle through it.
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  SPEAKER_01: And then I go on to say so so many times, Lord, you helped me vent my emotions, you kept me from hiding or avoiding.
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  SPEAKER_01: You showed me patience, you revealed your heart to me, and you spoke to me through the pain.
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  SPEAKER_01: And then I go on in this journal entry with my prayer, and I say, Lord, I will I was and I still am overwhelmed at your work in my life and your steadfast love for me.
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  SPEAKER_01: At Starbucks before church, so clearly I'm I'm Starbucks in twice on this day.
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  SPEAKER_01: There's no denying it because it's in on paper that I was at Starbucks before church.
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  SPEAKER_00: Hey man, you keep reading that journal entry and you're gonna say, Starbucks thrice.
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  SPEAKER_02: The thrice is back.
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  SPEAKER_01: Oh Lord, help us.
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  SPEAKER_01: So I I mentioned that at Starbucks before church, the Lord showed me Psalm 89, and there are some verses that I mentioned.
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  SPEAKER_01: In verse 1, it says, I will sing of God's steadfast love forever.
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  SPEAKER_01: I will sing of his steadfast love forever.
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  SPEAKER_01: This is all before church, right?
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  SPEAKER_01: On that day.
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  SPEAKER_01: Verse 8 says, Who is as mighty as our God?
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  SPEAKER_01: No one.
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  SPEAKER_01: Verse 9 says, You subdue the storm-tossed waves.
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  SPEAKER_01: And then my interpretation is the raging emotions that violently surge in me can be calmed by you.
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  SPEAKER_01: All right, and here's the punchline.
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  SPEAKER_01: Then at church, this is me putting down my thoughts, as I sat with mom, pop, Lisa, Laura, Derek, Carly, and Janet, I realized that I sat in this very room during the early difficult years dealing with stinging pain, regret from my past, and fear of the future.
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  SPEAKER_01: And all along, you were gradually working in me, Lord, and I had no idea the future could include a moment like this.
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  SPEAKER_01: It was as if, Lord, you could have said to me back then, you just wait and see what I'll do.
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  SPEAKER_01: Now that is huge for me, and I hope everybody listening will just listen, hear these words.
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  SPEAKER_01: Whatever battles you're going through now, keep going.
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  SPEAKER_01: Keep talking with God, keep struggling with God through it all.
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  SPEAKER_01: Because He is trying to say to us all right now, just keep going and watch what I do.
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  SPEAKER_01: Watch what I can do.
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  SPEAKER_01: Ephesians 3 20, he's able to do far more, exceedingly abundantly beyond what we could even imagine.
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  SPEAKER_01: And I promise you, I never imagined that I would sit in the same sanctuary that I was just riddled, you know, 10, 13 years before, I was just riddled with what's gonna happen in my life, and now here I am.
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  SPEAKER_01: Do you feel me on that, man?
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  SPEAKER_00: I do, man.
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  SPEAKER_00: I feel you.
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  SPEAKER_00: I'm like really trying not to get emotional over here because I'm I'm just realizing while I'm listening to you that this is for me right now.
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  SPEAKER_00: Um you know, we have had such a such a crazy week.
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  SPEAKER_00: Um we closed on our new home last Friday, Monday morning.
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  SPEAKER_00: Uh there was a busted pipe in the front yard.
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  SPEAKER_00: The front yard was underwater.
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  SPEAKER_00: Of your new house.
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  SPEAKER_00: Um refrigerator that got delivered, had a big old dent, you know, to take it back, the eleven blinds that were delivered to the house with the wrong sizes and about I mean it's you know, two steps forward, one step back.
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  SPEAKER_00: And my mom, my sweet mother, was over at our house and just serving us and cleaning something.
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  SPEAKER_00: And she said, you know, this past Sunday, her worship leader from the stage was talking about how, you know, when when you have struggles, you know, time and time again, we find ourselves maybe asking God to remove the storm or to remove the situation.
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  SPEAKER_00: But time and time again in the Bible, you know, Daniel didn't ask for for God to take away the lion.
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  SPEAKER_00: Moses didn't ask God to take away the Red Sea.
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  SPEAKER_00: David didn't ask God to take away Goliath, Shadrach, Meshach, and Bednego didn't ask God to take away the fire.
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  SPEAKER_00: They trusted God through all of those circumstances.
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  SPEAKER_00: My mom's telling me this, and I'm going, who is she goes to my church?
• 19:55
  SPEAKER_00: What is she?
• 19:56
  SPEAKER_00: She's talking about me.
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  SPEAKER_00: What?
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  SPEAKER_00: My mom, Jedi, mind-tricked me and used me against me, dude.
• 20:02
  SPEAKER_00: And I'm sitting here and I'm hearing you've things that I've heard you say for years now in my own personal recovery journey is that the growth takes place in the struggle, in the pain, that pain is a pathway to peace.
• 20:22
  SPEAKER_00: Oh and I'm just first of all, I'm realizing now that the Lord intended for me to delete that episode so that I could sit here tonight and just rest in this peace.
• 20:37
  SPEAKER_00: And anyways, so thank you all.
• 20:39
  SPEAKER_00: Thank you for but dude, I I love this, how it's just it it circles back to this concept of echoing.
• 20:47
  SPEAKER_01: It does because, and I'm not joking with you, and it's it was written in my in my journal this way that after that moment, as I was in the worship service, that's the band is singing songs, and it's awesome.
• 21:02
  SPEAKER_01: And I'm looking down and I am worshiping with all these people, and I say, God, only you could do this.
• 21:08
  SPEAKER_01: Yes, and I used to sit here wondering if anything good was gonna come out of my life and my craziness and the struggle and the pain.
• 21:17
  SPEAKER_01: And here I saw it.
• 21:18
  SPEAKER_01: And the instant, I'm telling, I'm telling you, right as I was thanking the Lord for that, the band starts a new song, and it's the song King of My Heart.
• 21:30
  SPEAKER_01: All right, now the Bethel people do that song, but my favorite version of it is from the band Cutlass.
• 21:36
  SPEAKER_01: You guys have got to check that with a K?
• 21:39
  SPEAKER_01: Mm-hmm.
• 21:39
  SPEAKER_01: Cutlass with a K.
• 21:41
  SPEAKER_01: Come on.
• 21:41
  SPEAKER_01: And uh so the song King of My Heart.
• 21:45
  SPEAKER_01: Now you you know it, right?
• 21:47
  SPEAKER_01: It uh it sort of uh let the King of My Heart be the mountain where I run, the fountain I drink from.
• 21:59
  SPEAKER_01: Oh he Is my song.
• 22:02
  SPEAKER_01: Oh, it's so good.
• 22:03
  SPEAKER_01: And then all the lyrics are about what we aspire and hope our relationship with God to be in our lives.
• 22:11
  SPEAKER_01: This mountain we run, you know, the shadow where I had the anchor in the winds, and you know, all these great lyrics, right?
• 22:19
  SPEAKER_01: But the chorus, you know.
• 22:21
  SPEAKER_03: You are good.
• 22:23
  SPEAKER_03: That's right.
• 22:24
  SPEAKER_03: Good.
• 22:26
  SPEAKER_03: Oh, you are good.
• 22:30
  SPEAKER_03: Come on, bye.
• 22:33
  SPEAKER_01: Oh, oh, and it's so good.
• 22:35
  SPEAKER_01: Then there's this bridge in there that they throw.
• 22:38
  SPEAKER_03: You're never gonna let, never gonna let me down.
• 22:44
  SPEAKER_03: You're never gonna let, never gonna let me down.
• 22:49
  SPEAKER_03: Because you are good.
• 22:51
  SPEAKER_03: Hey.
• 22:52
  SPEAKER_03: Good.
• 22:55
  SPEAKER_03: Oh, bro.
• 22:55
  SPEAKER_00: Man, you're getting it right there, man.
• 22:57
  SPEAKER_00: I was about to get loose.
• 22:58
  SPEAKER_00: It's because you were jumping an octave.
• 23:00
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
• 23:01
  SPEAKER_00: The oxygen has just left this room into your mouth.
• 23:04
  SPEAKER_00: I was like, here we go.
• 23:05
  SPEAKER_01: And then I thought better of it.
• 23:06
  SPEAKER_01: Okay.
• 23:07
  SPEAKER_01: And I think everybody is grateful for that.
• 23:09
  SPEAKER_01: But this song is what the band starts playing at this powerful moment.
• 23:14
  SPEAKER_01: But here's where it all kind of comes together with this conversation.
• 23:18
  SPEAKER_01: There's this line kind of hidden and tucked into the second verse of that song, talking about what we hope the king of our heart and our relationship with God will be.
• 23:28
  SPEAKER_01: And he says, I hope that the king, may the king of my heart be the, and here's the phrase, the echo of my days.
• 23:38
  SPEAKER_01: The echo of my days.
• 23:40
  SPEAKER_01: And I'm sitting there, and I've sung that song many times by then, but I never paid attention to that phrase.
• 23:48
  SPEAKER_01: And when I heard that phrase, it hit me.
• 23:51
  SPEAKER_01: And and and here's what I wrote about it the echo of my days.
• 23:55
  SPEAKER_01: When I heard that lyric, I thought, that's it.
• 23:58
  SPEAKER_01: What if my life and my story and my days on this earth could echo God's goodness?
• 24:08
  SPEAKER_01: What if that, what if that, I mean, that's what I want.
• 24:11
  SPEAKER_01: Lord, make it so.
• 24:13
  SPEAKER_01: Because our lives make a sound.
• 24:15
  SPEAKER_01: Come on.
• 24:16
  SPEAKER_01: While we're here, but they leave a sound.
• 24:19
  SPEAKER_01: That's right.
• 24:20
  SPEAKER_01: After we're gone.
• 24:22
  SPEAKER_01: I mean, when we move on from this earth and to be in God's presence, the what our life leaves an echo.
• 24:29
  SPEAKER_00: I love that.
• 24:30
  SPEAKER_00: And you know, thinking about that conversation with the divine misbeam, you're sitting in a bathroom and you I mean you're barely getting uh an echo.
• 24:37
  SPEAKER_00: But well, even if you go to like the Grand Canyon and you and you yell out, and it maybe even takes a full second or two to kind of come back at you, that that's not lasting days.
• 24:49
  SPEAKER_00: An echo of my days, you know, that's a that's a really impactful kind of concept.
• 24:56
  SPEAKER_00: It reminds me a lot of Hebrews chapter 11, you know, where it just goes.
• 24:59
  SPEAKER_01: That's called the Hall of Faith.
• 25:01
  SPEAKER_01: The Hall of Faith.
• 25:02
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
• 25:02
  SPEAKER_00: And it just goes through all of these people in the Old Testament and how they are remembered and and what they did and and and the faith that they exist.
• 25:10
  SPEAKER_00: In the very last, one of the last verses of this chapter, I said, and all of these people were commended for their faith.
• 25:21
  SPEAKER_01: They were commended for their faith.
• 25:25
  SPEAKER_00: Commended for their faith.
• 25:27
  SPEAKER_01: Well, it's like even though their their the deeds that they did, the the actions and activities of their life, they get this mention in scripture.
• 25:36
  SPEAKER_01: That's a big deal.
• 25:37
  SPEAKER_01: Huge but the bottom line seems to be that the real echo of their days was their faith in a God whom they believed was good.
• 25:50
  SPEAKER_00: Amen.
• 25:52
  SPEAKER_01: And they believed that He would never let them down, even if it felt kind of at the moment like we were being let down.
• 26:01
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah.
• 26:01
  SPEAKER_01: This is the God that we put our faith in.
• 26:04
  SPEAKER_01: He is good, and He will not let us down.
• 26:07
  SPEAKER_00: They allowed the struggle, they allowed the pain to spur them on.
• 26:13
  SPEAKER_00: It didn't waver their belief, their faith into the goodness of God.
• 26:19
  SPEAKER_00: It only reinforced it and they pressed in even further.
• 26:22
  SPEAKER_00: I mean, you think about some of these Abraham.
• 26:25
  SPEAKER_00: I mean, yeah, we could go on and on and on.
• 26:27
  SPEAKER_01: Absolutely.
• 26:28
  SPEAKER_01: Hey, listen, when you guys go listen to the cutlass version of this song.
• 26:33
  SPEAKER_00: When you guys.
• 26:44
  SPEAKER_01: And so there's this voice, as they're just singing, You Are Good, You Are Good, there's this voice that says these two lines.
• 26:50
  SPEAKER_01: It says, When the night is holding on to me, God is holding on.
• 26:58
  SPEAKER_01: When the night is holding on to me, God is holding on.
• 27:01
  SPEAKER_01: And that's just something I want to put out there for our listeners.
• 27:05
  SPEAKER_01: That I'm telling you, when we're in a dark, dark moment, and it feels like darkness and night is surrounding us, God is holding on to us.
• 27:17
  SPEAKER_01: It's not the night that is and the darkness that is owning us.
• 27:22
  SPEAKER_01: God is surrounding us.
• 27:23
  SPEAKER_01: So be encouraged with that.
• 27:25
  SPEAKER_01: And really, the last thing we'll say about this idea, the beauty of it, is we get to decide now.
• 27:31
  SPEAKER_01: We get to choose what our echo will be, what the echo of our days will be.
• 27:37
  SPEAKER_01: We get to decide.
• 27:39
  SPEAKER_01: And just the way I journaled it just over three years ago, pray that to the Lord.
• 27:44
  SPEAKER_01: I encourage everybody, just say, God, make that true of me, that the echo my life leaves is that you are good and that you will never let us down.
• 27:54
  SPEAKER_01: And even when the darkness is engulfing us, you're the one that's holding us.
• 28:00
  SPEAKER_01: Let that be the echo of our days.
• 28:03
  SPEAKER_01: Woo! Come on, brother, man.
• 28:06
  SPEAKER_01: All right, so see, I think God planned this.
• 28:08
  SPEAKER_00: I love it, man.
• 28:09
  SPEAKER_00: Thank you.
• 28:13
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, T minus two hours until this thing comes out now in the beginning.
• 28:16
  SPEAKER_01: Exactly.
• 28:16
  SPEAKER_00: All right, well, hey, hit us with a segment here because uh we need it.
• 28:20
  SPEAKER_01: Well, here it is, man.
• 28:21
  SPEAKER_01: I have I have reached the age where when I'm watching TV, a TV program, or maybe uh or maybe a movie.
• 28:31
  SPEAKER_01: See, I think I I must have used the wrong word.
• 28:34
  SPEAKER_00: TV program.
• 28:35
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, right.
• 28:36
  SPEAKER_01: So I'm watching my programs.
• 28:40
  SPEAKER_01: So anyway, when I'm watching television, I need the subtitles on the screen.
• 28:46
  SPEAKER_01: I need the words because I is it my hearing, is it my age?
• 28:51
  SPEAKER_01: Is it my just my ability to comprehend things?
• 28:56
  SPEAKER_01: I am lost if I don't have the subtitles on there.
• 29:01
  SPEAKER_01: Where's Rhonda at?
• 29:02
  SPEAKER_01: Is she a subtitle?
• 29:03
  SPEAKER_01: She can't function without them either.
• 29:06
  SPEAKER_01: We are unified on this point.
• 29:09
  SPEAKER_00: See, this trips me out.
• 29:10
  SPEAKER_00: I mean, uh first of all, I'm not a subtitle guy.
• 29:12
  SPEAKER_00: Oh, you're anti-subtitle.
• 29:14
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, because I like to watch the movie.
• 29:16
  SPEAKER_01: You don't want to read the movie.
• 29:17
  SPEAKER_01: I want to I want to watch.
• 29:18
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, I want to read the deck.
• 29:20
  SPEAKER_00: At that point, you're just reading a book.
• 29:22
  SPEAKER_00: It's just like the Star Wars intro.
• 29:25
  SPEAKER_00: Just bum bum.
• 29:27
  SPEAKER_00: I'm like, if I wanted to read a book, can I have somebody narrate this at least?
• 29:31
  SPEAKER_00: I mean, what are we doing here?
• 29:32
  SPEAKER_00: No.
• 29:33
  SPEAKER_00: That's me, man.
• 29:34
  SPEAKER_00: I'm sorry.
• 29:35
  SPEAKER_00: That is the way it goes.
• 29:36
  SPEAKER_00: I just I we need to hear from people.
• 29:38
  SPEAKER_00: I hold on.
• 29:39
  SPEAKER_00: Before we say I must I gotta um apologize for something, actually.
• 29:43
  SPEAKER_01: All right, bring it.
• 29:45
  SPEAKER_00: So uh just a little moment of confession here.
• 29:48
  SPEAKER_00: So I've got a buddy.
• 29:49
  SPEAKER_00: He will remain, he will remain anonymous.
• 29:52
  SPEAKER_00: He uh I don't know if he even knows that I still have his username and and login information for a streaming site.
• 30:00
  SPEAKER_01: Oh, this is quite a confession.
• 30:02
  SPEAKER_00: Okay, but I utilize it all the time.
• 30:04
  SPEAKER_00: Well, and every time I log on, this the subtitles are on, and I turn them off.
• 30:14
  unknown: Oh no.
• 30:15
  SPEAKER_00: Whenever I come back, they're back on.
• 30:20
  SPEAKER_02: So what's he thinking?
• 30:23
  SPEAKER_02: Is he like, where's my default setting?
• 30:25
  SPEAKER_02: What happened?
• 30:26
  SPEAKER_02: Oh my god.
• 30:27
  SPEAKER_02: That's a true story.
• 30:29
  SPEAKER_00: This happens.
• 30:30
  SPEAKER_00: Oh my goodness.
• 30:31
  SPEAKER_00: So Robert, I'm sorry.
• 30:35
  SPEAKER_01: Hey Robert, I want to be your friend because we are in uni, you we are unified on this on this situation.
• 30:41
  SPEAKER_00: Dog, it just takes up the whole screen.
• 30:43
  SPEAKER_01: I can't even see the soccer game because the subtitles are oh no, listen, live sports, no way.
• 30:50
  SPEAKER_01: No, I cannot watch live sports.
• 30:52
  SPEAKER_00: Because at that point you would miss this, you'd miss the sport if you had the subtitle.
• 30:56
  SPEAKER_00: You're missing the show.
• 30:58
  SPEAKER_01: But man, I'm telling you, it's just the way it is.
• 31:01
  SPEAKER_01: And yes, we do want to hear from our listeners.
• 31:03
  SPEAKER_01: I like uh who's a subtitle person who's not?
• 31:06
  SPEAKER_00: Mock me, stand with Brad, or vice versa, whatever it may be who who who doesn't like uh subtitles and then who are the psychopaths?
• 31:17
  SPEAKER_00: That's what that's what we've we've got to figure out.
• 31:21
  SPEAKER_01: Oh no.
• 31:22
  SPEAKER_00: Just kidding.
• 31:23
  SPEAKER_01: Oh my goodness.
• 31:24
  SPEAKER_01: Hey, this was great.
• 31:25
  SPEAKER_01: I thank you for enduring this uh difficulty.
• 31:29
  SPEAKER_00: Thank you.
• 31:29
  SPEAKER_00: We're gonna hit stop on this in just a second, and I'm gonna pray that I do this correctly.
• 31:34
  SPEAKER_00: But you know, you're gonna be none the wiser because you're going on vacation next week.
• 31:37
  SPEAKER_00: Yes, that's right, Elliot.
• 31:39
  SPEAKER_00: He's going on vacation again.
• 31:42
  SPEAKER_01: Yes, we are me and the divine uh Gigi.
• 31:46
  SPEAKER_01: Uh Rhonda, that's her her uh the divine Gigi?
• 31:50
  SPEAKER_01: No, I just her name is Gigi, and I think she's divine.
• 31:53
  SPEAKER_01: Okay, boom.
• 31:54
  SPEAKER_00: There you go.
• 31:56
  SPEAKER_00: There you go.
• 31:56
  SPEAKER_00: Points scored.
• 31:58
  SPEAKER_00: Folks, I really, really hope that this works because if we don't have any more time.
• 32:04
  SPEAKER_00: So I I'm in faith.
• 32:06
  SPEAKER_00: In faith.
• 32:07
  SPEAKER_00: Okay, in your commending.
• 32:10
  SPEAKER_00: Leaning into the struggle, and as pain is a pathway to peace, I'm wishing you a fantastic Thursday, or whenever you're listening to this, thank you guys for joining us for another episode of Sermons on the Side.
• 32:39
  SPEAKER_03: Oh my goodness, dude.
• 32:41
  SPEAKER_01: Gosh, what do you think Robert's uh response is gonna be to this revelation?
• 32:46
  SPEAKER_00: I love that he is dropping little nuts carrying you on the streaming service.
• 32:52
  SPEAKER_00: Well, I love um I love mentioning friends on the podcast, right?
• 32:58
  SPEAKER_00: To just to see how checked in they are on the, you know, because I'm not gonna say anything to him.
• 33:04
  SPEAKER_01: Okay, and if it's months, we'll go, bro, where's the love?
• 33:08
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah.
• 33:09
  SPEAKER_00: Be like, oh man, I meant to tell you this when he first came out.
• 33:12
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, alright.
• 33:14
  SPEAKER_00: Just catch.
• 33:15
  SPEAKER_00: I'm just kidding.
• 33:16
  SPEAKER_00: No, he it's one of two things.
• 33:18
  SPEAKER_00: Number one, he either forgot that he gave me the password and he's tripped out every time he logs on because he thinks it like it defaults to no CC.
• 33:27
  SPEAKER_00: Right, bro.
• 33:28
  SPEAKER_00: Or he, and this is the more likely, he is a gracious friend that puts up with me turning off those settings.
• 33:35
  SPEAKER_01: Ah, there you go.
• 33:36
  SPEAKER_01: I think you know what, my money's on the gracious friend.
• 33:40
  SPEAKER_01: Come on, Robert, we're counting on you, buddy.
• 33:43
  SPEAKER_00: Hey, now that the Premier League season is over, he can have the login season back.
• 33:48
  SPEAKER_02: Go, Arsenal.
• 33:49
  SPEAKER_02: It matters.
• 33:50
  SPEAKER_00: Come on, you gotta try to edit this thing.