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- 0:00S1: Broadcasting from Chicago, across North America and beyond. It's Carl
- 0:06S1: and crew. Come as you are an experienced guide, overcome
- 0:10S1: what seems impossible and live as you never imagined delivering
- 0:16S1: the truth daily.
- 0:17S2: If it were possible to have every worldly gain available
- 0:21S2: and you're forfeiting your soul, there's no amount of gain
- 0:25S2: that would make it worth it.
- 0:26S3: Our own way never ever works. Because it's apart from
- 0:29S3: the life source, which is God.
- 0:32S4: For me, growing up, love was always conditional and can
- 0:36S4: be taken from you. Christ's love can't. And he went
- 0:39S4: to the cross with my mind and my heart that night.
- 0:44S1: Now, from the call of Hope Studios, this is Carl
- 0:48S1: and Crew. Well, here he is. The man, the myth,
- 0:51S1: the legend.
- 0:51S5: Only three guys fit into that category nowadays.
- 0:54S6: Only three.
- 0:55S5: One of them is.
- 0:56S3: Whittling it down.
- 0:57S5: Michael Riedel. Nick, I can't just go to everyone.
- 0:59S3: Well that's true.
- 1:00S4: True. True.
- 1:01S5: Which one do you think he would tip on most? Legend.
- 1:04S5: Myth or man? Young thunder.
- 1:08S3: I guess he would probably have. Myth seems a little
- 1:11S3: like mysterious. I don't. I think he's got enough out
- 1:14S3: there to where no one's questioning whether he exists or not. Yeah.
- 1:17S5: So let's go. Legend.
- 1:18S3: Did I say legend? Legend. Man. Myth.
- 1:21S5: Yeah. Boy, that's. That's. We gotta keep him humble, too. Hello, Michael.
- 1:25S5: How are you today?
- 1:27S7: I'm. Well, until that. Until about a minute ago.
- 1:32S8: Until about me.
- 1:33S5: You're a good man, Michael, I love you. Uh, Michael,
- 1:37S5: we're going on a cruise in June. Can you believe it, friend?
- 1:40S7: Well, I can't believe it. It's pretty exciting, you know,
- 1:44S7: and I have no idea anything about. I know nothing
- 1:47S7: about Alaska. You know, that's not going to be my
- 1:49S7: job to be a guide. No, my job, you and I,
- 1:52S7: we you can be a guide because, you know Alaska.
- 1:54S5: Well, I don't know the inside passage. See, we're sailing
- 1:57S5: out of Seattle. We were going to Skagway and Glacier Bay.
- 2:00S5: I've been to Glacier Bay. I've been to Juneau, where
- 2:02S5: I've been to some of these stops. But I flew
- 2:03S5: in on bush planes and the like. But my understanding is,
- 2:07S5: from people that have cruised a bit, they say this
- 2:10S5: is the top cruise they've ever been on. Truly.
- 2:13S7: I'm looking forward to that. But here's the thing that
- 2:15S7: we both know that we're not tasked to be the
- 2:17S7: guides and lead the excursions. No, our task is to
- 2:20S7: teach the word yes. And so when we gather on
- 2:22S7: this cruise, we're going to have time in the word
- 2:24S7: together and worship. And that's what you and I can do.
- 2:27S7: And I'm happy that I get to do that.
- 2:29S5: So let's talk about the Beatitudes. You know, there was
- 2:32S5: a guy years ago that that actually was a bit derided.
- 2:37S5: He called them, uh, the B happies and he did
- 2:41S5: a book to that end. Actually, he's closer than some
- 2:44S5: may like on that one. There's a real joy in
- 2:47S5: these Beatitudes, isn't there, Michael?
- 2:49S9: Yeah, it's the.
- 2:51S7: Word Makarios translated blessed could mean happy, but I think
- 2:55S7: it's a different kind. It's a spiritually deep kind of happiness.
- 3:00S7: It is not. Oh, I have a really great schedule
- 3:04S7: this semester. Happy? It's it's it's not.
- 3:07S5: I've got a new car with new car smell.
- 3:09S7: Yeah, exactly. It's not that kind of happy. It's a deep,
- 3:13S7: abiding joy and contentment in the Lord, regardless of circumstances.
- 3:19S7: That's what the word means.
- 3:21S5: And isn't that the essence of faith? Michael? I mean,
- 3:24S5: when push comes to shove, I, you know, I'm going
- 3:27S5: to Paul, whether I have suffering need or I have much,
- 3:30S5: I can do all things through him who gives me strength.
- 3:33S7: I'll go to Paul someplace different. He's in acts 16.
- 3:35S7: He's in Philippi. He's thrown in jail. He's locked up.
- 3:39S7: He's sitting there with Silas, and he has enough macarios, uh,
- 3:44S7: blessedness that what do they do? They start singing.
- 3:47S5: Loudly.
- 3:48S7: That's it. It's not just a contentment, but a joy.
- 3:52S7: Wherever God puts me, I know that this is his
- 3:54S7: plan for me. It's it's going to be best for me,
- 3:57S7: even if it's hard for me. I'm you know, there
- 3:59S7: are people who will be on this cruise. I guarantee
- 4:02S7: you there may be on chemotherapy. They're dealing with cancer. Yes.
- 4:06S7: They suffered the loss of a of a husband or
- 4:09S7: a wife or a child or a parent. And they're
- 4:12S7: going to be on this cruise. And it's not that
- 4:14S7: they're not grieving or struggling or, but they have that
- 4:17S7: deep joy or they're longing for it from the word
- 4:21S7: and the spirit to bring it to them. That's what
- 4:24S7: the the sermon on the Mount is about.
- 4:26S5: Yeah. So we're going to be breaking through that. We've
- 4:28S5: got numbers of sessions, and it won't interfere at all
- 4:31S5: with seeing God's creation. That's going to be truly amazing.
- 4:34S5: And then Micah Tyler, let me tell you, I have
- 4:37S5: not met him, but I've heard him speak. He's a
- 4:40S5: pastor that really went into, well, moved to Nashville and
- 4:46S5: went all in on recordings. But he's got a pastor's heart, Michael.
- 4:50S5: And that's tremendous, isn't it?
- 4:52S7: You know, the first time I heard him, he he
- 4:53S7: did a really sweet song. This is a number of
- 4:56S7: years ago, he did a song about millennials pray for millennials,
- 4:59S7: and I don't know if you've ever heard it. I
- 5:01S7: don't think that's when he was a pastor. And that's when,
- 5:04S7: you know, he really wasn't known for his music, but
- 5:06S7: he did this song. It exploded across YouTube and I
- 5:10S7: didn't know that. Yeah. And that's how he kind of
- 5:13S7: became well known and moved more into worship. But the
- 5:16S7: thing is, it's kind of funny. It's laughing at millennials, right?
- 5:19S7: But then it says, pray for millennials because they've got struggles.
- 5:24S7: It showed his pastor's heart. And I really appreciated the song.
- 5:27S7: You should Look it up. But he's going to be
- 5:29S7: leading our worship. He's got a he's a great musician,
- 5:31S7: great worship leader, great pastor, dynamite.
- 5:34S5: Okay. Super guy. Why don't you do the favors here?
- 5:37S5: Letting everyone know, by the way, we're well over half
- 5:40S5: filled on this thing. Room for 800 passengers for our
- 5:44S5: portion of the ship, which is a big chunk. But
- 5:47S5: how do they get signed up here?
- 5:48S4: Super real simple. You text that word cruise CRUISE, the
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- 6:03S4: Carl be there, Doctor Michael as well as Micah Tyler,
- 6:07S4: Texas cruise for all the details 800 555, 78, 98.
- 6:13S5: It's going to be great coming up here in a moment.
- 6:15S5: Christian anti-Semitism, isn't that an oxymoron? Isn't that holy inconsistent? Well,
- 6:22S5: it should be, but it's not. Michael Ray, don't think
- 6:25S5: we're going to be spiking the Moody summit opposing the
- 6:29S5: new Christian anti-Semitism. Straight ahead.
- 6:33S1: It's Carl and Crew on Moody Radio.
- 6:36S5: With me right now, a dear friend. I love this guy.
- 6:39S5: The more we talk, the more I love him. And
- 6:41S5: he's got a heart as big as a bucket for
- 6:43S5: the things of God and the people of God and
- 6:45S5: the Jewish people. Michael, you're a messianic Jewish young man
- 6:51S5: back in the day. Weren't you?
- 6:52S7: Well, I'm still a messianic Jewish, but I'm not so
- 6:54S7: young anymore.
- 6:55S8: Well, I'm. We'll go with it.
- 6:57S5: How did God call you? Out of darkness?
- 6:59S7: Well, it was really my mom who was a Holocaust survivor.
- 7:02S7: She was a secret believer for many years. She went public.
- 7:06S7: My dad divorced her over it. And this is in
- 7:08S7: the early 70s. And I was a high school student
- 7:11S7: and got totally hostile with her. Wouldn't even talk to her.
- 7:16S7: And then I thought, I'm going to pull her out
- 7:18S7: of this. I'm going to go see this Bible teacher
- 7:20S7: that has been disrupting our family life. And I argued
- 7:23S7: and argued and argued with this woman, this Jewish woman.
- 7:27S7: And I always felt that her explanations of these messianic
- 7:31S7: passages made a lot more sense than my explanations. And
- 7:35S7: it's actually I got invited one time I went to
- 7:38S7: a film thinking, I'll never have to go back. I'll
- 7:40S7: go this one time, say, I hated it, and I'll
- 7:42S7: go to the service of this messianic congregation. And, uh, sure,
- 7:46S7: it was a Chosen People Ministries planted congregation in Brooklyn,
- 7:50S7: I went. The film was His Land by Billy Graham,
- 7:53S7: and it was at that film that when the Billy
- 7:56S7: Graham associate gave the invitation, I said, I'm not going
- 7:59S7: to raise my hand in front of 200 people. And
- 8:02S7: he said, everyone, bow your head and bow your heart,
- 8:04S7: which I didn't even know how to do. But then
- 8:06S7: he said, if you want to trust in Jesus as
- 8:08S7: your Messiah, raise your hand. I said, I'm not going
- 8:11S7: to do it. And I was shocked to see my
- 8:12S7: hand going up and I thought, I'll never tell a soul,
- 8:15S7: and I'll put it down as fast as I can.
- 8:17S7: And the guy said, I see that hand. And my
- 8:20S7: mom's friend, she said she peeked, actually, while she did,
- 8:24S7: her friend Claire in the front row, looked into the
- 8:27S7: back and said, It's Michael in front of 200 people,
- 8:29S7: and I was completely busted.
- 8:31S5: So you know what? You know what's interesting about that?
- 8:33S5: Because a lot of people raise hands and it doesn't
- 8:35S5: change anything. But the Spirit of God drug your hand
- 8:38S5: in the air.
- 8:39S7: Oh, yeah.
- 8:40S5: You didn't put your hand in the.
- 8:41S7: Air like C.S. Lewis says, dragged kicking and screaming into
- 8:44S7: the kingdom of God, you know?
- 8:45S5: So, hey, real quick, before we get into the summit,
- 8:48S5: what was your go to line of argumentation to try
- 8:52S5: to deconstruct Jesus as the Messiah? What did you use?
- 8:55S5: What did I use? Yeah.
- 8:56S7: I used the classic Jewish argument. If Jesus is the Messiah,
- 8:59S7: where is the peace, the Messiah, to bring peace to
- 9:02S7: the world and justice and the world is unjust and
- 9:05S7: full of war. And so where is the peace? Yeah.
- 9:07S5: And so circumcised heart and the peace. Yeah. That's.
- 9:11S7: And what, what? Hilda Kozar, the woman who I was
- 9:13S7: meeting with. She said he is the Prince of Peace.
- 9:16S7: You could have peace in your heart. Now you can
- 9:18S7: have peace with God. And one day when he returns,
- 9:21S7: he will establish peace on earth.
- 9:23S5: Beautiful. Michael. He called that anti-Semitism. I think you got
- 9:29S5: it going. I'm sure someone else did first, but boy,
- 9:32S5: it's everywhere. Even in the mainstream. There is Jewish hatred.
- 9:36S5: And here's what's crazy about it. He always used to
- 9:39S5: be on the left wing of the political aisle. Now
- 9:41S5: it's on the right wing of the political aisle, and
- 9:44S5: it seems like the land in between is getting more
- 9:47S5: narrow by the day.
- 9:49S7: Yeah, and I'll tell you what's not wrong, but what's
- 9:52S7: scary about it is that many of the most of
- 9:56S7: the online anti-Semitism or Jew hatred, I like calling it
- 10:00S7: that the Jew hatred that I encounter online on social media.
- 10:06S7: It's coming from people who profess to be followers of Jesus,
- 10:10S7: and they're using Bible verses to justify it. They're taking
- 10:13S7: those verses out of context, or they're cutting them up
- 10:16S7: and not having the whole verse. One pastor actually wrote
- 10:19S7: a really hostile statement about how we should hate the
- 10:22S7: Jewish people because they are enemies of the gospel. Romans
- 10:24S7: 1128 and he was actually saying, we're called to hate
- 10:27S7: the Jewish people because they're enemies of the gospel. You know,
- 10:30S7: if you read the whole verse, it says that, yes,
- 10:32S7: Jewish people are enemies of the gospel, but they are
- 10:35S7: chosen and beloved for the sake of the forefathers. Read
- 10:40S7: the whole verse, man. The verse says they are loved
- 10:43S7: by God, you know. And so we are certainly not
- 10:46S7: called to hate. In fact, in Romans 11, it says
- 10:49S7: that the branches that are grafted in. What are they
- 10:52S7: called to do? They're called not to be arrogant toward
- 10:56S7: the branches. The original branches, they're called not to be
- 10:59S7: ignorant of God's plan for the Jewish people, and yet
- 11:02S7: they are.
- 11:03S5: All you have to do is read Romans two four
- 11:05S5: and don't presume on the riches of the kindness of God,
- 11:08S5: that it's his love and mercy and kindness that led
- 11:13S5: us to repentance. I mean, my goodness. So where's all
- 11:17S5: this hatred coming from other than demonic sources that you can't.
- 11:21S5: There's no we've been hitting this a lot. This is demonic, Michael.
- 11:24S7: I think it is. But I think those demonic bots
- 11:27S7: got going right after 2023. October 7th, 2023. I mean,
- 11:32S7: the evidence is strong that social media was inundated with
- 11:36S7: bots from the Islamic world and from Russia. You know
- 11:40S7: what bots are. They're not real people. And and they
- 11:43S7: are just promoting all sorts of lies about Israel, about
- 11:46S7: the Jewish people. And then what happens is once those
- 11:49S7: things get connected, they get forwarded, they get adopted. And
- 11:52S7: then there are people here in America who say, oh,
- 11:55S7: it's I'm safe now to say these things that I've
- 11:57S7: always thought. And I think that explains some of the
- 12:00S7: media personalities who are not known for hatred of Jewish people.
- 12:04S7: And then all of a sudden started. It's not that
- 12:06S7: they changed. Oh, no, no, no, they always thought it,
- 12:08S7: but now they're free to do it. They're safe.
- 12:11S5: Michael, this is not just an information issue though, because
- 12:16S5: I'm thinking of I'm going to call it out. I'm
- 12:19S5: thinking of Tucker Carlson on the far right. He's got
- 12:23S5: all the all the information. He's not. He distorts it.
- 12:27S7: Listen, he I think what happened when the bots hit.
- 12:31S7: That's when he realized I got permission. No one's going
- 12:33S7: to get mad at me for doing this.
- 12:34S5: Oh, so you think it was in his heart to
- 12:36S5: begin with?
- 12:36S7: Always. Yeah. And he's a disingenuous person. And what happened
- 12:41S7: is he began to say these things and got a
- 12:45S7: greater following for it, because Doctor Arthur W Kak, a
- 12:49S7: moody author from the 50s, and 60s, an old Jewish
- 12:52S7: believer medical doctor who I met when I was a
- 12:55S7: new believer, Doctor Kak wrote. That hatred of the Jewish
- 12:58S7: people is endemic. That's the best way that he could
- 13:02S7: describe it.
- 13:03S5: It's embedded in you.
- 13:04S7: It's under the surface. It's always there. And then periodically,
- 13:08S7: it explodes like an epidemic. And that's what we're seeing now.
- 13:13S7: And I, I think that that's what the big problem
- 13:17S7: is here. And we need to do something. We need
- 13:20S7: to motivate, bring together believers who will stand for the
- 13:24S7: Word of God and God's heart for the people of
- 13:27S7: Israel and the Jewish people who will take a stand
- 13:30S7: for the truth. And and that's what we're doing at
- 13:34S7: the Moody Summit opposing the new Christian anti-Semitism, which, by
- 13:37S7: the way, if you look at the old Christian anti-Semitism
- 13:40S7: sounds a lot like the new Christian anti-Semitism. It's just
- 13:42S7: been under wraps.
- 13:43S5: Rebranded. Rebranded. Michael, I have a thought on this one.
- 13:46S5: I did a deep dive yesterday on some history. The amount.
- 13:50S5: Here's what's crazy about this. So you might say, well,
- 13:54S5: we're kind of insulated from this Jew hatred will be
- 13:58S5: quickly followed by Christian hatred. It's true in communism, socialism,
- 14:03S5: anywhere you see moral relativism. So there might be a
- 14:08S5: sense in which Christians say, boy, isn't that so bad?
- 14:11S5: That's happened. Jewish people. Michael, these are paired. You do
- 14:15S5: not avoid this persecution that's coming even as a Christ follower.
- 14:19S5: That's why I think we need to get our feet
- 14:21S5: on the rock with regard to this issue.
- 14:23S7: Michael, the Jewish people are the canary in the coal mine.
- 14:26S7: When they attack them. Just look for the attack on
- 14:30S7: Christians coming soon. Think about the Nazis. They came for
- 14:33S7: the Jews first. But then what happened? Bonhoeffer, Niemöller, others,
- 14:37S7: anyone who stood for the gospel became targets for the Nazis.
- 14:41S7: They didn't want Christians either. You know what the Nazis
- 14:44S7: were doing? They were replacing the Bible in the churches
- 14:47S7: with Mein Kampf.
- 14:48S5: Yeah.
- 14:48S7: They were. They were replacing the hymns of the faith
- 14:52S7: with Nazi political songs. They were trying to turn the faith,
- 14:58S7: the true faith, and the churches into Nazi messages. And
- 15:04S7: this is what people don't understand. They want to destroy
- 15:06S7: the church, but they started by destroying the Jewish people.
- 15:10S7: When we buy into the hatred of the Jewish people,
- 15:12S7: believers were next.
- 15:14S5: Or when you are passive, not even buy into. If
- 15:17S5: we passively sit back, it's going to get dangerous. So
- 15:21S5: this can get. A lot of people freaked out. But Michael,
- 15:24S5: this summit real quick, we got 30s spike it. What
- 15:27S5: do you hope to achieve with this?
- 15:29S7: Well, we want to mobilize motivate. We want to give
- 15:32S7: people some content that they can promote. We're looking for
- 15:36S7: a way of getting believers to influence others to oppose this.
- 15:42S7: And that's what we're doing there. It's to inform, to motivate,
- 15:45S7: to transform those around us with the truth.
- 15:49S5: So here's what you do. Boom crew. I want you
- 15:50S5: to be at this. It's November 7th right here in Chicago.
- 15:55S5: And I'm asking you to check it out right now.
- 15:59S5: And if you plug into your registration radio 20, you
- 16:03S5: get 20% discount on registration. So you've got every motivator
- 16:08S5: you need right now. Text summit to 800 555 7898,
- 16:14S5: one word summit to 805 557898.
- 16:19S1: You're listening to Carl and Crew on Moody Radio.
- 16:23S5: Okay. Lot going on in the world today. In fact,
- 16:25S5: we don't normally jump in on all the breaking news
- 16:29S5: because some of it's just nonsense. Crazy. My goodness, if
- 16:37S5: it bleeds, it leads, right?
- 16:38S2: Journalist oh.
- 16:40S10: That was always how it went.
- 16:42S5: I don't think it changed.
- 16:43S3: You know, it's funny that that is how that goes.
- 16:45S3: I have, you know, my news aggregate where I have
- 16:47S3: lists of stories. And obviously those ones are always find
- 16:50S3: their way to the top. And then I have also
- 16:53S3: the McRib is back at McDonald's. Like, wow. Like of
- 16:58S3: the of those stories I have, you know, the really
- 17:01S3: like awful ones. And then I have the McRib is
- 17:04S3: back at McDonald's.
- 17:05S5: McRib back.
- 17:06S3: Yeah, it is back. It's what I've heard. And so
- 17:09S3: I'm saying that because that was a story that popped
- 17:10S3: up in my thing yesterday that I, I neglected to
- 17:13S3: read on air for obvious reasons.
- 17:16S5: I don't want to sound snooty because I'm not, but
- 17:19S5: I don't think I'm going to Max lounge for ribs.
- 17:21S3: In all honesty, I used to, I, I'm not I
- 17:24S3: never had them. I've never tasted them. I used to
- 17:26S3: work at McDonald's and I'd see them and they did
- 17:29S3: not look very appetizing to me and so I would
- 17:31S3: not eat them. Uh.
- 17:33S5: That's a crack.
- 17:34S3: Yeah.
- 17:34S5: I mean, what in the world? How are they selling
- 17:38S5: something for $2.19? That's going to look anything close to
- 17:42S5: real ribs?
- 17:43S3: It doesn't look like anything close to real ribs. It's
- 17:44S3: like pork that is shaped in the form of ribs.
- 17:49S3: There's no.
- 17:50S5: Bones.
- 17:52S3: The McRib is back, but everyone loves it. And it
- 17:54S3: becomes a news item every time it's back.
- 17:56S10: It's really it's really interesting. It's got quite the following.
- 18:00S3: It does.
- 18:00S10: Did you call it Max lounge?
- 18:02S3: Max lounge.
- 18:03S5: Max lounge.
- 18:04S10: That's what you call McDonald's.
- 18:05S5: Yeah. Max lounge, Mickey D's.
- 18:07S3: That sounds like Mickey D's.
- 18:08S10: I've heard.
- 18:08S3: Mickey D's.
- 18:09S5: Max lounge is even better.
- 18:10S3: Max lounge sounds like a shady cigar bar.
- 18:14S5: Like Max lounge. Cigar bar. That's hilarious.
- 18:21S11: Oh that's funny. Stick with Mickey D's Max lounge.
- 18:24S5: Yeah, it's a new decor they're doing kind of like
- 18:27S5: Taco Bell. They're going to have couches in there, and
- 18:29S5: you can sit down with your McRib and postulate on
- 18:32S5: the things of the earth.
- 18:33S10: I think could be like chick fil A and put
- 18:35S10: fresh flowers on the table. That's all.
- 18:37S5: That's chick fil A is putting fresh flowers out there.
- 18:40S10: They have they owe a.
- 18:41S3: Lot of them.
- 18:41S10: They do have like a little vase and like a
- 18:43S10: little carnation on the table. Yeah. I mean, like, come on.
- 18:47S5: I don't think I've ever been inside a chick fil A.
- 18:49S10: Really?
- 18:50S3: That's pretty good. And as far as I mean, it's
- 18:52S3: a fast food joint, but as far as they go, it's.
- 18:54S5: I did a drive through in honor of you and
- 18:56S5: young Thunder here. The like.
- 18:58S10: Chick fil A inside is.
- 19:00S3: Is.
- 19:00S10: Pretty by far the nicest.
- 19:02S3: I would say.
- 19:03S10: So fast food joint that you're going to experience.
- 19:05S5: Well, here's the ultimate test. What are the toilets look like?
- 19:08S5: Are they clean?
- 19:09S10: Yes.
- 19:10S5: Really?
- 19:10S10: Yes. I remember going into one chick fil A, I
- 19:13S10: think it was. I was out at a moody event
- 19:15S10: and we were out somewhere and we stopped at a
- 19:18S10: chick fil A. They had, like, the bathrooms stocked with
- 19:20S10: like supplies, like you need a diaper because you got way. Yes.
- 19:24S3: Good stuff.
- 19:25S10: They had it stocked with stuff that you might have forgotten.
- 19:27S3: Go on, chick fil A.
- 19:29S5: They have the pens.
- 19:31S10: That I don't know.
- 19:32S5: I'm just.
- 19:32S3: Curious. Probably not.
- 19:33S5: Because they've got a lot of elderly people that go
- 19:36S5: there for sure. I mean, that's that's a large part
- 19:38S5: of their demographic.
- 19:39S3: I could imagine.
- 19:41S5: I don't know what kind of supplies they got.
- 19:44S3: I got a serious conversation about.
- 19:46S10: Going to pass on that. I don't know where this
- 19:48S10: is going.
- 19:51S5: Here's what's funny. When she started with this show, that
- 19:55S5: was her common thing is like, I'm out. She'd even
- 19:57S5: wave like, like, give me the cut sign. Like I
- 20:00S5: ain't going there.
- 20:00S3: Yeah.
- 20:01S5: You would.
- 20:01S3: You used to not put your voice and you just
- 20:03S3: shake your head. No.
- 20:04S5: Now it's now today she's back to her old self.
- 20:07S5: But lately she's been a little bit on the wild side.
- 20:10S5: There were a couple of them. I'm like, whoa, I
- 20:12S5: don't even know if I'm in on that one.
- 20:14S10: Really?
- 20:15S5: Yeah.
- 20:15S3: What was that? One really thinks it's funny.
- 20:17S10: Oh yeah. There was yeah. I mean, I had a
- 20:19S10: I had a memorable joke.
- 20:20S5: About tear gas. Tear gas.
- 20:22S10: I know I've heard about that one.
- 20:27S5: When I heard you say that on air, I couldn't
- 20:29S5: even laugh. I was so shocked.
- 20:31S3: Oh, how we change. It's almost like, uh. Living near Chernobyl.
- 20:35S3: Like the environment changes you the longer you stay here.
- 20:39S10: Okay, now, that took a real wild left turn.
- 20:42S5: Oh. That's wild. I thought you were going to say
- 20:44S5: her being around you so much is rubbing off.
- 20:46S3: Well, no, it's kind of like the same thing. Like
- 20:48S3: this is almost like a this is this is home.
- 20:51S3: This studio is almost like a radioactive area. It changes
- 20:54S3: you the more you're exposed to it, I have.
- 20:57S5: Well, when Henry says you're glowing, it's got a whole
- 20:59S5: new meaning. Now.
- 21:02S10: Uh, where are we going? Because I feel like we
- 21:04S10: got to get back on track.
- 21:05S3: No one.
- 21:05S12: Knows. We don't know.
- 21:07S5: Pretty fun. Um. Oh. So. Breaking news. Yeah. Uh, gives
- 21:11S5: really quick update.
- 21:12S3: Yeah, yeah. So so this came out recently, the UK.
- 21:16S3: Kind of has this, uh, initiative that they're, uh, they're,
- 21:19S3: they're getting a campaign going with their public that they're
- 21:22S3: encouraging people to have three days worth of supplies stocked
- 21:26S3: up inside their house, food, water, other perishables that they
- 21:30S3: may need. And, uh, they're not the only ones. We
- 21:33S3: looked around and there's a bunch of countries that are
- 21:35S3: starting these initiatives France, Japan, Canada, Mexico, the Netherlands, the
- 21:39S3: US actually started this up as well. And in an
- 21:42S3: interesting way for them, the Pentagon has ordered us bases
- 21:45S3: to plan for 90 days without the grid. That's a
- 21:48S3: big one.
- 21:48S5: That's the big.
- 21:49S3: One. And their thought on this is, you know, preparedness
- 21:51S3: for wars, cyber security threats, natural disasters that would cut
- 21:55S3: us off from the grid.
- 21:56S5: M PS man.
- 21:57S3: Yeah.
- 21:57S5: More dangerous. They speculate most geopolitical war analysts say emps
- 22:03S5: electromagnetic pulse bombs that detonate over regions that take the.
- 22:08S5: I don't think they kill anyone.
- 22:10S3: No they don't. They're they're they're.
- 22:11S5: They debilitate the electrical. They shut down anything that is
- 22:16S5: on an electrical grid or electric in nature.
- 22:19S3: Exactly.
- 22:19S5: So totally shot.
- 22:20S3: If an EMP went off, you know, just out on
- 22:23S3: the street, uh, all the cars would shut off because
- 22:26S3: they use batteries, uh, chips, lights, you know, any anything? Uh,
- 22:31S3: it doesn't have to be connected to a thing to
- 22:33S3: turn it off. It's just an electric device that operates
- 22:36S3: within the, uh, kind of blast radius would then just
- 22:40S3: shut off.
- 22:41S5: How wild that like my brothers and our brothers and
- 22:45S5: sisters in Burundi and my friends in Burundi, they're pretty
- 22:49S5: immune to this stuff because they live off the grid. They're,
- 22:51S5: they're hand to mouth.
- 22:52S3: Lifestyle wouldn't change all that much. But we're very grid dependent, obviously.
- 22:56S5: Oh, are you kidding me? Yeah, we are so grid dependent.
- 23:00S5: So there's a lot of talk about this on social
- 23:03S5: media as you well know how this goes. It's like, wow. Um,
- 23:09S5: there's just, it's just going to be popping and people
- 23:12S5: get into panic. Now there's no need for panic. As
- 23:14S5: a matter of fact, I heard one commentator say this.
- 23:17S5: If he, because he worked for the FBI, he said,
- 23:19S5: if you work for the FBI and he was special
- 23:21S5: forces military, he they said, you cannot have people that
- 23:25S5: have panicked in a past situation on the front lines.
- 23:27S10: MM.
- 23:28S5: Isn't that interesting?
- 23:29S10: Fair.
- 23:30S5: He said. There's you cannot have panic. And we're on
- 23:34S5: the front lines. Boom crew. We're on the front lines.
- 23:38S5: But could it be that we're primed for something really amazing?
- 23:44S5: Could it be that we're just. I mean, ready for
- 23:46S5: something absolutely amazing? So let me let me just tell you,
- 23:51S5: God's timing is amazing on this one. And we're just look,
- 23:55S5: I'm a little fish in a big pond. But for you,
- 23:58S5: the boom crew and us, we hear things like this
- 24:01S5: and here's what's going to happen. You may have conversations
- 24:05S5: with kids that were raised in church, but they're far
- 24:07S5: from God. There may be people that are in church
- 24:09S5: every weekend. And as we note around here, often when
- 24:13S5: you've got pastors saying they're hopeful that 40% of a
- 24:18S5: church body, this is at a radically clear Bible preaching
- 24:22S5: church They'd be happy if 40% were born again. That's
- 24:27S5: a mission field. So what happens when you get stories
- 24:31S5: like this? It causes people. Praise be to God to
- 24:35S5: think not only about food and water, but their soul.
- 24:39S10: And we know. We know that the preparation that we're
- 24:42S10: called to most urgently in Scripture is to be sober minded,
- 24:47S10: to be alert, to be on watch, to be on guard,
- 24:50S10: not for some sort of attack physically, but for the
- 24:54S10: spiritual war that we know that rages every day.
- 24:57S5: Oh, Ali and I am I'm telling Ali. About three
- 25:02S5: weeks ago, I felt like demonic forces were trying to
- 25:05S5: suck this out of my hands, and I can't even
- 25:08S5: explain it, except that I felt like I was in
- 25:09S5: a war. Like the message of do you know that?
- 25:13S5: You know that you stand with God and doing battle
- 25:16S5: with this hallucination of salvation which has many in the
- 25:19S5: church in the West lost thinking that they've been found.
- 25:25S5: And it breaks my heart because I was one and
- 25:28S5: we all were in different degrees. That person. Yeah. So
- 25:32S5: if we're four for four here, we've got a crisis people.
- 25:37S5: And I and I'm not being alarmist. I'm just saying, look,
- 25:41S5: Jesus spoke it repetitively and we got an opportunity in
- 25:49S5: two weeks, uh, two weeks from Saturday, November 14th, I'm
- 25:53S5: going to be hosting a conference, the Unstoppable Gospel Conference,
- 25:56S5: and we're going to break it down. What are the
- 25:58S5: lies that crept into the church first session? What is
- 26:02S5: the truth that's going to bring dead people to life
- 26:04S5: in Christ? Third session doing this from hearts. It's not
- 26:08S5: the exact title. Seven Surprising Ways God Saves Those We Love.
- 26:13S5: This is going to blow such hope into moms and
- 26:16S5: dads and brothers and sisters and husbands and wives. I
- 26:20S5: kid you not, because some of you have wondered, here's
- 26:22S5: what you first wonder. Uh oh. What did I do wrong?
- 26:25S5: First off, it's not on you to save your kids
- 26:27S5: or your loved ones or anyone. That's the Holy Spirit's job.
- 26:31S5: But are there things that we can do to position
- 26:34S5: people that are even in a time of concern for
- 26:38S5: the gospel? Yeah. And then what's it look like to
- 26:41S5: walk in the power of God? I'm so fired up
- 26:43S5: about this. It's more than a conference. It's like a summit, man.
- 26:47S5: We're meeting at the foot of the cross on this one. Ali.
- 26:49S10: Yeah. The unstoppable gospel conference that's coming up Saturday, November 14th.
- 26:54S10: If you are in the Chicagoland area or you can
- 26:57S10: get here in person is available and we'd love to
- 27:00S10: have you here. If not, live stream is going to
- 27:02S10: be the best option for the vast majority of you.
- 27:04S10: Just text intro. We want to send you the intro
- 27:07S10: to the book so you can get a taste of
- 27:09S10: what's coming, and then also the sign up link. So
- 27:11S10: text intro to (800) 555-7898, text intro to 57898.
- 27:20S5: I got a tender heart warning. We do little, little
- 27:23S5: ear warnings. I got a tender heart warning. Tender heart.
- 27:26S5: When you read this intro. It's gonna, it's gonna jolt you.
- 27:29S5: Not in a bad way, but it's sobering. It just is.
- 27:33S5: But I'm so grateful that we're going to rally around this.
- 27:38S5: You know, when we get to Glory Valley, it's going
- 27:40S5: to be wild, isn't it? We're going to look back
- 27:41S5: and we're going to see how God was masterminding this
- 27:44S5: whole thing sovereignly in control. And could it be that
- 27:47S5: we had a conference on November 14th that dovetailed with
- 27:51S5: a timeliness in the world events?
- 27:53S10: Yes, absolutely. Text intro. We'll get you set up text
- 27:57S10: intro to 805 557898, text intro to 805 557898.
- 28:06S1: He was sharing the gospel on the radio and then
- 28:09S1: he got saved. Young thunders in the crew it's Carl
- 28:13S1: and crew on Moody radio.
- 28:15S5: You know, I just want to throw it out there.
- 28:19S5: it's when we do events or we see people out
- 28:23S5: and about. We keep hearing this story of a lot
- 28:26S5: of people who are in the boom crew, who were
- 28:29S5: raised in a lot of you were raised in church
- 28:31S5: and you got saved as a kid, and it's real
- 28:33S5: as real can be. And every day you are an apprentice,
- 28:38S5: a humble, dependent apprentice on Christ. You don't trust in
- 28:41S5: your 401 K and your status in your. How many
- 28:44S5: likes you get on Facebook all the time? You don't
- 28:47S5: always rely on that, but you. You're in. You're in it,
- 28:50S5: I get it, but there's a vast number of you
- 28:53S5: that were raised in church thought you were born again
- 28:55S5: and you were lost. And this is the this is
- 28:59S5: the crisis that we have. So call in. That was you.
- 29:04S5: You thought you were saved and you were lost. Give
- 29:07S5: us a call right now 805 557898. We'll chat it
- 29:11S5: up with you here. 805 557898. And I think it's
- 29:16S5: important to talk about this because it's way more prevalent
- 29:21S5: than people might think. We're four for four here in
- 29:24S5: some variation of being churched but being lost. Alli right
- 29:29S5: here on the Morning show.
- 29:30S10: Absolutely. So we'd love to hear your story. You thought
- 29:32S10: you were saved. You were lost. 855 578, 98, 800 555, 78, 98.
- 29:40S1: He's a sports fanatic with a stat for anything you
- 29:44S1: can think of. Young Thunder is in the crew. It's
- 29:48S1: Carl and crew on Moody Radio.
- 29:51S5: And truth with a twist at the end is what
- 29:56S5: Satan does. And there's so many that are so close
- 30:00S5: but yet so far away. And they prayed a prayer
- 30:02S5: on the edge of a bed. They lifted a hand
- 30:05S5: when no one was looking, they walked an aisle. But
- 30:07S5: they never followed Jesus King. God saved people in that situation. Yeah,
- 30:11S5: I heard a story earlier from Michael Redlick, but the
- 30:16S5: proof in him was that he told himself, ain't no way.
- 30:20S5: My hands going in the air to follow Jesus.
- 30:23S10: Then all of a sudden.
- 30:24S5: And it involuntarily went in the air.
- 30:26S2: Yeah.
- 30:26S10: Yeah.
- 30:27S3: And his life changed.
- 30:28S10: Incredible.
- 30:29S5: Yeah. I mean, it's incredible story. But do we have
- 30:32S5: an epidemic of people who are raised in church and
- 30:34S5: have never been in Christ? R.C. Sproul, before he passed away, said,
- 30:38S5: you can profess Jesus and not possess him. And his
- 30:42S5: words are it is everywhere. Wow. Jim and Schomberg asking,
- 30:48S5: answering the question, were you lost and how long were
- 30:51S5: you lost thinking you were saved?
- 30:54S13: Hi Carl, I love your love, your love, your radio program.
- 30:57S13: I listen to it every day.
- 30:59S5: Glad for you, man. We love. We love Jim, don't we?
- 31:01S10: Yes we do. Give us your story, Jim.
- 31:05S13: Uh, for 25 years, I told people I was a Christian. Uh,
- 31:08S13: and then I got saved. I guess I didn't know
- 31:11S13: what I didn't know.
- 31:12S5: What didn't you know? I mean, you got swept along
- 31:15S5: in cultural Christianity. You had church. Were you going to
- 31:19S5: church periodically every Sunday? Every Sunday.
- 31:24S13: I wouldn't miss it. But, you know, you start getting
- 31:27S13: older and then you get in your 20s and you
- 31:28S13: do stuff that are wrong, and then you start doing
- 31:30S13: stuff that's longer than wrong. And, uh, you know, you're feeling.
- 31:35S13: I got to change my life. My roommate got saved,
- 31:38S13: my brother got saved. And I figured, what the heck,
- 31:41S13: I might as well try to give my heart to
- 31:42S13: Jesus Christ like they did. And so I did. And
- 31:45S13: then one night in bed, I got saved. And I said, what?
- 31:49S13: People didn't believe it. So people I know didn't believe it.
- 31:52S13: It's true.
- 31:53S5: So we're going to. Jim, thanks for calling in. We're
- 31:56S5: going to keep you on the horn here for a moment.
- 31:58S5: You're going to be our special guest here for a second.
- 32:00S5: So I'm doing this conference on the 14th. My heart
- 32:04S5: passion behind this thing is to illuminate something that's been
- 32:08S5: in the fog, Jim, and that is that we've got
- 32:10S5: an epidemic, a crisis in the church of people who
- 32:13S5: think they know Jesus and don't. We aren't far off here,
- 32:16S5: are we? We don't know what the crisis is. We
- 32:18S5: just know it's big. Right, Jim?
- 32:21S13: Yeah. Well, you know, everybody knows everybody has a conscience. And,
- 32:25S13: you know, when you're doing something wrong, but then you
- 32:28S13: can't stop doing it. And the only hope I had
- 32:31S13: was giving my heart to Jesus Christ. Yes. And with
- 32:34S13: the power that God had given me, I was able
- 32:36S13: to change my life. I mean, I'm not perfect, but
- 32:39S13: I tell you what. I don't want to go back.
- 32:41S13: I will not go back to Egypt. That was terrible.
- 32:43S13: So yeah, man, I'm thankful to God that he was there.
- 32:45S13: I'm thankful people in my life that showed me the way.
- 32:48S5: Yeah. That's so cool. Way to go, Jim and Schomberg.
- 32:52S5: It's a real thing. Ali.
- 32:54S10: It is. And you know, we had somebody who texted
- 32:57S10: in and said, you know that they're glad that we're
- 32:59S10: talking about this and that there's no shame in that.
- 33:03S10: We're removing some of the shame that that can exist. Oh,
- 33:07S10: you're feeling like you're saved, but you're not. And I
- 33:11S10: thought that that was a really good point. They said
- 33:14S10: there's no shame. It's important to talk about it because
- 33:16S10: it helps people to not be afraid or scared to
- 33:18S10: admit they're not safe. There's no shame in realizing it.
- 33:22S5: None.
- 33:22S10: And I think that that's a really great.
- 33:25S14: That's a great point.
- 33:26S10: Great point.
- 33:27S3: And Satan will use shame to keep you from it.
- 33:30S3: He'll say, are what are people gonna think? Everyone's gonna,
- 33:33S3: you know, think you're crazy. Everyone's gonna be mad at you.
- 33:35S3: Everyone's gonna think you were trying to lie to them
- 33:37S3: for years upon years upon years. And that's not the case.
- 33:41S14: There's no shame in that.
- 33:42S5: You know what else there isn't shame in when you
- 33:44S5: raised a kid in church and now they're far from God.
- 33:49S5: Or you married a guy that you thought was a Christian,
- 33:52S5: but it's very evident he's not. Or a woman, or
- 33:55S5: you got a loved one, or you're sitting in church
- 33:57S5: at a small group and you know someone's sitting there
- 33:59S5: that is not born again. All those things that just
- 34:01S5: gave you. There's no shame in that.
- 34:03S3: No. My wife was one of those women. My dad
- 34:05S3: and my mom were two of those parents that I
- 34:08S3: had to come to have a conversation with them and
- 34:11S3: tell them I was lost. But now I'm found and
- 34:13S3: they rejoiced with me.
- 34:15S5: I want you to get to this conference if you can,
- 34:17S5: if you're in the Rolling Meadows area. Right on. I'd
- 34:20S5: love to shake your hand. That would be so cool.
- 34:22S5: But you can be online and we're going to have
- 34:24S5: a super. It's going to be an intimate time of
- 34:27S5: exploring what is salvation? How can we reach those that
- 34:30S5: are lost? Ali. Details sister.
- 34:33S10: Yeah. We're going to send you an intro to the
- 34:35S10: book as well as the sign up link. So just
- 34:37S10: text intro to 805 557898. Just that one word intro.
- 34:44S1: He was sharing the gospel on the radio and then
- 34:47S1: he got saved. Young thunders in the crew. It's Carl
- 34:52S1: and crew on Moody Radio.
- 34:54S5: So young thunder, super die. I just want to ask
- 34:57S5: you something. Is there anything that you would benefit from
- 35:02S5: with regard to This morning show moving like two hours
- 35:06S5: later for a start and boom, that ain't happening. But
- 35:09S5: I'm just wondering, is there anything that you would benefit
- 35:12S5: from by moving it two hours later for a start?
- 35:15S3: Yes.
- 35:15S6: I was like, really? Really?
- 35:17S3: Yeah. You mean it? No.
- 35:20S5: I can't pull the levers. And they they wouldn't do
- 35:22S5: it anyway. But no, a couple hours of sleep because
- 35:26S5: circadian rhythms are important, aren't they?
- 35:28S3: 100%.
- 35:29S5: They really.
- 35:29S3: Are. You'd you'd increase your opportunity for more sleep at night,
- 35:34S3: which is good because I don't think any of us
- 35:35S3: get eight hours or close to it most of the time. Uh,
- 35:38S3: and then, you know, when you're driving into work, it's
- 35:41S3: always nice to have the sun up already when you're
- 35:43S3: coming in. Those are gigantic benefits. So yeah, I'd really
- 35:46S3: like that.
- 35:47S5: So I'm going to give you one. You're going to
- 35:50S5: get refreshed this Sunday because you get an extra hour.
- 35:53S3: Oh thank you.
- 35:54S5: Yeah. Thank you.
- 35:54S3: Thanks for.
- 35:55S5: Doing that. I decided to go ahead and do that
- 35:57S5: daylight savings. Kick it in gear.
- 35:59S6: What a guy.
- 36:00S5: Oh I'm so glad we've got Doctor Sandra Dalton Smith.
- 36:04S5: She is a board certified internal medicine physician, international speaker,
- 36:09S5: and she is with us today to talk about what
- 36:12S5: happens inside the body when the clock shifts. Is there
- 36:16S5: something to this doc?
- 36:18S15: There is. And you're right, the circadian rhythm has a
- 36:21S15: huge role in the process, but honestly, it goes a
- 36:24S15: lot deeper than that, just in the effect it has
- 36:27S15: on how we live our lives.
- 36:29S5: So give me some examples of that because everybody's looking
- 36:33S5: forward to an extra hour. But there's been a lot
- 36:36S5: of studies done on this daylight savings. I mean, the
- 36:39S5: amount of accidents that go up, the costs just in
- 36:42S5: changing everything over practically globally. It's a big deal, isn't it?
- 36:48S15: It is. You know. Yes. You're going to get an
- 36:50S15: extra hour of sleep this weekend. But on the flip
- 36:54S15: side of that, when it gets darker in the evening
- 36:57S15: times quicker, we see an increase in accidents because people,
- 37:01S15: they start kind of winding down a lot sooner, so
- 37:03S15: their alertness becomes less quicker in the day. So rather
- 37:08S15: than having the sun up when you're driving home, a
- 37:10S15: lot of people are driving home in darkness. And then
- 37:12S15: with that, we also tend to see an increase in
- 37:14S15: depression because sunlight actually helps us release serotonin in our
- 37:18S15: happy hormones. And so the, the least, the least amount
- 37:22S15: of that we get, the more sad and depressed we
- 37:25S15: also end up getting.
- 37:26S5: Yeah. And that's the natural outworking of, of the seasons.
- 37:30S5: There's been a lot of talk about sad disorder. How
- 37:35S5: real is that? Some people feel beat up there in
- 37:38S5: Christ Jesus, but they feel like they get into a
- 37:41S5: funky season around fall or winter. What do you say, doc?
- 37:44S15: Yeah, I'm glad you bring that up because biology doesn't
- 37:48S15: get removed from your system because you're a believer. Your
- 37:51S15: body is still going through the same biology as everyone else.
- 37:56S15: And so yes, when the sunlight is less and you're
- 37:59S15: not having an opportunity to get outside. I mean, most
- 38:02S15: of us are not going to go out for a
- 38:03S15: walk if it's completely dark. Whereas in the summer we
- 38:07S15: see a lot of people after work going for walks,
- 38:09S15: that that increase exposure to the sunlight improves your hormones.
- 38:14S15: As far as the hormones that actually help with mood
- 38:17S15: and mood regulation. So it's a huge thing. And sad
- 38:20S15: is very real, especially in places where it gets darker
- 38:25S15: quicker already, even before the time changes. This just makes
- 38:29S15: it worse.
- 38:30S5: Some of you might be wondering, how can I recover
- 38:33S5: some aspects of my life? How can I renew some
- 38:36S5: energy or restore maybe even some sanity? That is the
- 38:40S5: subtitle to Sacred Rest More with Doctor Sandra Dalton Smith
- 38:45S5: straight ahead.
- 38:46S1: Walking closer to Jesus every day. You're listening to Carl
- 38:50S1: and Crew.
- 38:51S5: Our guest right now just in time for daylight savings
- 38:55S5: kicking into gear. You get an extra hour of sleep,
- 38:57S5: but it's a little darker in the morning. Doctor Sandra
- 39:00S5: Dalton Smith is with us. Okay, sister, how in the world,
- 39:04S5: from your vantage point as a physician, how do we
- 39:09S5: renew energy when it feels like we're starting to lose it?
- 39:12S5: What's some practical things we can do?
- 39:15S15: I think we have to begin with really understanding what
- 39:18S15: type of fatigue that we're experiencing. My work really is
- 39:21S15: based around seven types of Rest framework. And so when
- 39:25S15: people are able to understand where their fatigue is coming from,
- 39:29S15: they can be more intentional in getting the type of
- 39:32S15: rest they need. So whether that's physical, mental, spiritual, emotional, social, sensory,
- 39:37S15: or creative, they're not just trying to get energy from anywhere.
- 39:41S15: They're actually being very intentional about it.
- 39:44S5: So it's kind of counterintuitive. I've been a, I've been
- 39:47S5: a life hack for a lot of years on my
- 39:49S5: physical body health, what I put in my gut. And
- 39:54S5: it's interesting because some people feel drained of energy and
- 39:59S5: they feel like the last thing I can do is
- 40:01S5: work out. But we know that working out, although in
- 40:04S5: the short haul may take you backwards, it will ultimately
- 40:08S5: take you forwards. Is there science around that? Doc?
- 40:12S15: Absolutely. Because when you're working out, yes, your physical body
- 40:16S15: is active, but it's improving circulation. And most of us,
- 40:19S15: we're sitting around all day, so we need that extra
- 40:22S15: circulation to actually improve our lymphatic system, to help us
- 40:27S15: be able to flush out toxins as well as sometimes
- 40:30S15: when you're physically active, that's when the brain actually can
- 40:34S15: be quiet. And so I mentioned mental rest. Some people
- 40:37S15: can only experience the quieting of the brain when they're
- 40:40S15: physically moving. So things like cycling, going for a walk
- 40:44S15: or jog can actually help your mind get clear, despite
- 40:49S15: the fact your body is still moving. So it might
- 40:51S15: not physically look like rest, but mentally you could be
- 40:54S15: experiencing some deep breaths.
- 40:56S5: Okay, that can that confirms something for me because I
- 40:59S5: find some of the most rejuvenating mental times for me
- 41:02S5: is a long walk with my husky dog named blaze.
- 41:06S5: No joking. And you say there's a reason for that, right?
- 41:10S15: Yeah, because when you're doing rhythmic type activities, your brain
- 41:14S15: looks for rhythms to attach to every. Everything in biology
- 41:18S15: has some level of rhythm to it. And so when
- 41:21S15: you're walking, when you're cycling, when you're jogging, your brain
- 41:24S15: can actually kind of focus down, so to speak, on
- 41:27S15: the rhythm of that process. And it helps flush out
- 41:30S15: and clear out some of the mental fog and some
- 41:33S15: of the other noise that's keeping you from being able
- 41:36S15: to get to peace.
- 41:37S5: My guest, doctor, Sandra Dalton Smith, she is an M.D.,
- 41:42S5: and she's really done a deep dive on what renews us,
- 41:46S5: restores us, gives us energy. What are some of the
- 41:49S5: most surprising findings you have that people would go, hmm,
- 41:53S5: didn't know that.
- 41:54S15: I think one of the most surprising has been most
- 41:56S15: people don't think about creative fatigue. They assume that fatigue
- 42:02S15: is mostly physical. But if you're problem solving, if you're
- 42:05S15: having to think outside of the box, be innovative, come
- 42:08S15: up with solutions. You're using a lot of creative energy,
- 42:12S15: and that is a part of yourself that can also
- 42:14S15: be depleted. The second one, I would probably say, is
- 42:17S15: the effect of our sensory environment on our level of fatigue.
- 42:21S15: So we don't sometimes think about the cluttered desk as
- 42:24S15: being as adding to our exhaustion, or the fact that
- 42:28S15: maybe you have background praised music playing all the time,
- 42:31S15: but that sensory input, your brain is constantly filtering, that
- 42:36S15: it's judging safe or unsafe. And so when it's constantly filtering,
- 42:40S15: it gets exhausted quicker. And so I think we need
- 42:43S15: to be aware of our environments. And I find a
- 42:46S15: lot of us don't even think about it or consider
- 42:49S15: the effect of our environment on our fatigue levels.
- 42:52S5: So it goes without saying that one of the biggest
- 42:54S5: culprits is these little phones that we have that are
- 42:58S5: just loaded with all kinds of distractions and ultimately mental fatigue.
- 43:02S5: What do you prescribe people that feel like I'm addicted
- 43:06S5: to a phone? How do we get off of that?
- 43:08S5: It's one thing to say, well, just set it down.
- 43:11S5: It's another thing to do it.
- 43:13S15: Yeah, getting off phone addiction is not like cigarettes. You
- 43:15S15: can't just say, well, just go cold turkey because most
- 43:18S15: of us need our phones for work and other things.
- 43:20S15: I think it's a matter of setting up some healthy
- 43:23S15: boundaries and parameters around use. So not using it in
- 43:27S15: the bed, having certain time periods where you where you
- 43:30S15: do function without your phone turning off the notifications. I
- 43:34S15: find it's been extremely effective for people. We don't need
- 43:37S15: all of that constant input. And so just turn the
- 43:41S15: notifications off. You can still keep the phone, keep the apps,
- 43:44S15: but you get to choose when you engage with them
- 43:47S15: rather than letting them just push you stress when they desire.
- 43:51S5: Sacred rest is the title of your book. Is rest Holy.
- 43:55S5: I think there's some people that feel like to run
- 43:59S5: almost feels unrighteous, unholy. We've been programmed that we've got
- 44:05S5: to go, go go go go. What do you say?
- 44:08S15: Yeah, I that's I feel like that is the enemy's,
- 44:12S15: um way of pulling us from God's plan. Yes. Because
- 44:16S15: rest was really a foundational. You know, one of the
- 44:18S15: things that really drew me to the concept of rest
- 44:22S15: and an appreciation for it was just based on the
- 44:25S15: creation story, because we always say on the seventh day,
- 44:28S15: God rested, but the Bible says God never slumbers or sleeps,
- 44:31S15: so God doesn't need rest. He's not tired. And so
- 44:34S15: what was rest about? Rest was really an opportunity for
- 44:38S15: us to be positioned with God before being sent out
- 44:41S15: for the work mankind created. On the sixth day, seventh
- 44:45S15: day we rested. Then after that, the next chapter, we
- 44:48S15: start seeing mankind doing work. Rest is the place where
- 44:51S15: we get empowered to do what God has sent us
- 44:54S15: out to do. And now we have kind of twisted
- 44:57S15: it so that it's the thing we do after the
- 44:59S15: work is done, which really means we're doing the work
- 45:02S15: in our own strength.
- 45:03S5: Boom. Nailed it. Okay. Some of you are like, I
- 45:06S5: want to find out more. Doctor Dalton Smith has written
- 45:09S5: Sacred Rest, recover your life, renew your energy, restore your sanity.
- 45:14S5: And some of you are saying that's me takes the
- 45:17S5: word rest to 805 five, five, 78, 981 word to
- 45:23S5: 805 557898.
- 45:27S1: A basketball mom who's mastered the dad joke. Ali is
- 45:32S1: in the crew. It's Carl and crew on Moody Radio.
- 45:36S5: I saw that 75% CTE number yesterday and I'm like, whoa, whoa.
- 45:41S3: That's a scary number.
- 45:42S5: That is a high number.
- 45:44S3: Yeah, it really is.
- 45:46S5: Who contact sports can be tough. Okay. Speaking of contact sports,
- 45:51S5: we got a near one right now.
- 45:53S3: Speaking of contact sports.
- 45:54S5: We bump into Young Thunder's cup. It's bottom of the
- 45:58S5: 830 central time. Close enough anyway. And so it's time
- 46:02S5: for this one right here.
- 46:05S1: Finding nuggets of truth in everyday life.
- 46:08S16: It's a metaphor. It's just a metaphor, dude.
- 46:10S17: That's a metaphor.
- 46:11S16: It's a metaphor. I know it's a metaphor.
- 46:14S1: It's time for. Make it a metaphor with young thunder.
- 46:19S10: We give him a story. He makes it a metaphor.
- 46:22S10: Really simple. But here's the thing you need to know.
- 46:25S10: He has no clue. So we've we've had the question.
- 46:27S10: Does he know what's coming? Never. Not even so much
- 46:31S10: of an inkling.
- 46:32S3: Unfortunately not.
- 46:32S5: That would be so tacky for us to say. All right,
- 46:35S5: here's the two stories we're going to tell on air tomorrow.
- 46:38S3: Yeah, that'd be crazy thinking about it.
- 46:39S10: No. Heads up. He hears the story when you do.
- 46:43S10: So I emceed Founders Week last week.
- 46:46S5: Yes you did. Which did a great job.
- 46:48S10: Thank you. It was so much fun. And so there's
- 46:51S10: so much work that the team puts in behind the
- 46:54S10: scenes to get ready for this. So the emcee job,
- 46:57S10: they make it so easy for me because everything is
- 47:00S10: mapped out. So I'll give you a little behind the scenes.
- 47:03S10: So I get there maybe an hour, hour and a
- 47:06S10: half before the actual event starts, and they hand me
- 47:09S10: a set of cards that I am to read from.
- 47:13S10: So I get like the whole script and I get
- 47:16S10: these half cards. I said, make the font big because
- 47:18S10: my eyes are not as good as they used to be.
- 47:21S10: And so I literally have the whole night mapped out
- 47:24S10: in front of me. So night one, you know, you
- 47:26S10: have to try to balance. If you've ever done this,
- 47:28S10: you're standing up in front of a lot of people,
- 47:30S10: you've got cards to read, but you don't want to
- 47:32S10: just be reading from it. You want to be making
- 47:34S10: eye contact, right? So night one goes well, but I
- 47:37S10: hear someone says, you know, that all of that information
- 47:41S10: that you're reading on the cards is actually up on
- 47:43S10: the screens. So it might be easier for you to
- 47:46S10: look up at the courtesy screens those TV screens up
- 47:50S10: on the wall, and then you can just be able
- 47:52S10: to read it from there.
- 47:54S5: Oh my word.
- 47:54S10: So I said, oh that's great. Can you have that
- 47:58S10: for me tomorrow night? No problem. So the next night comes.
- 48:03S10: I still go with my cards. I have them down,
- 48:05S10: but I'm like, I'm gonna read from these screens. So
- 48:09S10: I get out there and I do my introduction, which
- 48:11S10: I just do spontaneously because I know my own name
- 48:14S10: and a little bit about myself. And then it gets
- 48:16S10: to the prepared parts, and I see on the screen
- 48:19S10: that there's only about 1 or 2 lines at a
- 48:23S10: time before they advance it. So I start with the screen,
- 48:29S10: but then I quickly have this moment of panic. I
- 48:31S10: can't see what's coming. And although the person is keeping
- 48:35S10: up with me, it's making me feel very anxious.
- 48:38S5: That would have been too much for me. It's like
- 48:40S5: a teleprompter, but you've never done.
- 48:42S10: It the end of a sentence and have to wait.
- 48:44S10: And so I'm kind of the for the first 30s,
- 48:47S10: I'm not even going to tell you one night, but
- 48:49S10: if you watch closely, you could tell I was a
- 48:51S10: little bit more nervous because I'm trying to go back
- 48:53S10: and forth between the cards in front of me, which
- 48:56S10: I have it all scripted out, and the screen, which,
- 48:59S10: although I can make better eye contact, I only get
- 49:02S10: two lines at a time. And so after about 30s
- 49:06S10: to a minute of trying to do that, I said
- 49:08S10: in my mind I thought, I'm not doing this. I'm
- 49:10S10: going back to my cards. I need to see what's coming.
- 49:15S10: So I said, forget those screens. This was all happening
- 49:18S10: in real time in my mind. Forget the screens. This
- 49:20S10: is messing me up. I'm going back to the cards.
- 49:22S10: There was something so jarring to me of being standing,
- 49:26S10: standing up there, having all those people looking at me,
- 49:29S10: all those lights and not being able to see fully
- 49:31S10: what was coming. Jonathan, make it a metaphor.
- 49:34S3: Okay. Goodness, that this is a difficult one. I would
- 49:37S3: say probably the most difficult one that I've heard. However,
- 49:40S3: I've got some places I can go with it. So
- 49:43S3: let's talk through it a little bit. Uh, Ali, this
- 49:46S3: the the way I'm going, I in no way intend
- 49:48S3: to say that you did the wrong thing or you
- 49:50S3: should have done something different.
- 49:52S5: A disclaimer on his metaphor.
- 49:54S3: It has no comment on the decision that you made.
- 49:56S3: I completely understand because seeing things from a greater vantage
- 49:59S3: point is, is really beneficial. However, sometimes in life, we're
- 50:03S3: not offered the chance to have a greater vantage point. Uh,
- 50:08S3: we have to trust that the person who's directing the screen,
- 50:14S3: in this case, a spiritual reality, is the Lord who
- 50:16S3: has the greater vantage point, knows exactly where things are
- 50:19S3: going to go, and is going to direct you in
- 50:22S3: the way that you should go. And you kind of
- 50:24S3: have to trust and move along. I thought about Gideon. Uh,
- 50:28S3: you know, Gideon is a judge. And in the book
- 50:31S3: of judges, he he is getting ready for a great battle.
- 50:35S3: And he's got tens of thousands of people in this
- 50:38S3: army that he's getting ready to lead against a warring nation.
- 50:42S10: Right.
- 50:43S3: And he's prepared. There's a good thing about being prepared, however,
- 50:47S3: God calls him to lessen his vantage point by dwindling
- 50:51S3: down the amount of people he has in his army
- 50:53S3: until he's only had 300 people. I mean, of course,
- 50:56S3: you're never going to walk into a battle with another
- 50:57S3: country with only 300 soldiers. However, God called him to
- 51:00S3: do that. The vantage point was very limited for Gideon.
- 51:04S3: Yet he knew, although he could prepare to a certain extent,
- 51:08S3: trusting in the Lord was the only way he was
- 51:11S3: going to get through it. And that's kind of what
- 51:12S3: we have to do. Our vantage point is limited trust
- 51:15S3: in the one who has the full, clear view.
- 51:17S5: So the upside for Ali is if this would have
- 51:21S5: been God running the teleprompter, she would have hung with it.
- 51:24S3: Absolutely.
- 51:24S5: And she could know this guy up there.
- 51:26S3: Well, I was going to say at this time, she's
- 51:27S3: got someone imperfect with the vantage point. God's perfect with
- 51:30S3: the vantage point.
- 51:31S10: To be fair, he did a fantastic job.
- 51:33S3: Oh yeah.
- 51:34S5: I was disclaimer there he did.
- 51:36S10: I was just like, this is too. I need to
- 51:38S10: see more. I need the full picture. Great metaphor. Jonathan. Great.
- 51:41S10: Great metaphor, I love that.
- 51:42S5: Great work, my man.