1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:08,000 Don't get down when you're seeing the worst, 2 00:00:08,000 --> 00:00:10,000 cause the last will be the first. 3 00:00:10,000 --> 00:00:13,000 What a day I'm telling you, 4 00:00:13,000 --> 00:00:15,000 all things will be new. 5 00:00:15,000 --> 00:00:18,000 Living up in a down world. 6 00:00:18,000 --> 00:00:21,000 Yeah we're living, yeah we're living, 7 00:00:21,000 --> 00:00:25,000 living up in a down world. 8 00:00:25,000 --> 00:00:26,000 Oh! 9 00:00:26,000 --> 00:00:28,000 This is Jimmy and Annette, 10 00:00:28,000 --> 00:00:31,000 and we are so excited to be with you today. 11 00:00:31,000 --> 00:00:32,000 We sure are. 12 00:00:32,000 --> 00:00:34,000 It's been a long time. 13 00:00:34,000 --> 00:00:36,000 Okay, it's been a month for me, a month. 14 00:00:36,000 --> 00:00:38,000 Oh my goodness. 15 00:00:38,000 --> 00:00:40,000 I was ready, I was ready now. 16 00:00:40,000 --> 00:00:42,000 It's been hard on me. 17 00:00:42,000 --> 00:00:44,000 I have missed you. 18 00:00:44,000 --> 00:00:45,000 Well, you know, I was sick, 19 00:00:45,000 --> 00:00:47,000 and so I knew, well, you know, 20 00:00:47,000 --> 00:00:51,000 you told the church I was coughing up a lung. 21 00:00:51,000 --> 00:00:53,000 I did not appreciate that. 22 00:00:53,000 --> 00:00:54,000 That's the old youth pastor. 23 00:00:54,000 --> 00:00:56,000 You even said do not text me if you're hearing this and that 24 00:00:56,000 --> 00:00:58,000 while I'm preaching, and I... 25 00:00:58,000 --> 00:01:00,000 And then you text me in the middle of a sermon, 26 00:01:00,000 --> 00:01:02,000 I get a text on my iPad, 27 00:01:02,000 --> 00:01:04,000 cause I preach from my iPad, 28 00:01:04,000 --> 00:01:06,000 and there it was, it was like, 29 00:01:06,000 --> 00:01:08,000 Annette just text me, I told the whole church. 30 00:01:08,000 --> 00:01:10,000 And now, okay, 31 00:01:10,000 --> 00:01:13,000 one of our pastors got an email, 32 00:01:13,000 --> 00:01:16,000 I believe it was an email from someone, 33 00:01:16,000 --> 00:01:18,000 he's going to read it at our staff meeting next week, 34 00:01:18,000 --> 00:01:20,000 and it was an email from a visitor who said, 35 00:01:20,000 --> 00:01:22,000 next time I come back, 36 00:01:22,000 --> 00:01:25,000 I've got to meet this Annette who was coughing up a lung. 37 00:01:25,000 --> 00:01:27,000 Oh my gosh. 38 00:01:27,000 --> 00:01:28,000 Yeah, I... 39 00:01:28,000 --> 00:01:29,000 Well, whoever this visitor was, 40 00:01:29,000 --> 00:01:30,000 they knew how to get me in trouble, 41 00:01:30,000 --> 00:01:31,000 keep me in trouble. 42 00:01:31,000 --> 00:01:32,000 Boy, they did. 43 00:01:32,000 --> 00:01:33,000 You are in trouble. 44 00:01:33,000 --> 00:01:34,000 You have to understand, 45 00:01:34,000 --> 00:01:35,000 I was a youth minister, 46 00:01:35,000 --> 00:01:36,000 youth pastor. 47 00:01:36,000 --> 00:01:37,000 You're not a youth anymore, 48 00:01:37,000 --> 00:01:38,000 you're 62 almost. 49 00:01:38,000 --> 00:01:39,000 I still am. 50 00:01:39,000 --> 00:01:40,000 No, no, no. 51 00:01:40,000 --> 00:01:41,000 It never goes away. 52 00:01:41,000 --> 00:01:42,000 Leopard cannot change its spots. 53 00:01:42,000 --> 00:01:43,000 Well, that's true. 54 00:01:43,000 --> 00:01:44,000 You do act like you're 17. 55 00:01:44,000 --> 00:01:45,000 I'm sorry. 56 00:01:45,000 --> 00:01:47,000 So I do tend to say things 57 00:01:47,000 --> 00:01:49,000 that are maybe a little more on the adolescent level. 58 00:01:49,000 --> 00:01:51,000 That was kind of crude. 59 00:01:51,000 --> 00:01:52,000 Coughing up a lung? 60 00:01:52,000 --> 00:01:54,000 Well, you kind of were. 61 00:01:54,000 --> 00:01:57,000 Well, you don't have to tell the world. 62 00:01:57,000 --> 00:01:58,000 I'm a truth teller. 63 00:01:58,000 --> 00:01:59,000 This is what I do. 64 00:01:59,000 --> 00:02:00,000 Oh, Lord. 65 00:02:00,000 --> 00:02:01,000 Yeah, we are raw and real, aren't we? 66 00:02:01,000 --> 00:02:02,000 We are. 67 00:02:02,000 --> 00:02:04,000 Hey, what episode are we on? 68 00:02:04,000 --> 00:02:05,000 Can you believe it? 69 00:02:05,000 --> 00:02:06,000 49. 70 00:02:06,000 --> 00:02:07,000 Number 49. 71 00:02:07,000 --> 00:02:08,000 Here we are. 72 00:02:08,000 --> 00:02:09,000 That's... 73 00:02:09,000 --> 00:02:11,000 Wait, this is like a year anniversary. 74 00:02:11,000 --> 00:02:14,000 It would be our 52nd if we didn't skip a few weeks. 75 00:02:14,000 --> 00:02:15,000 Right, we had a few, 76 00:02:15,000 --> 00:02:17,000 then we went to a two-week thing. 77 00:02:17,000 --> 00:02:21,000 I did a solo podcast last time. 78 00:02:21,000 --> 00:02:23,000 I did not have fun doing that. 79 00:02:23,000 --> 00:02:26,000 I mean, I love, love, love talking about Jesus. 80 00:02:26,000 --> 00:02:27,000 It's too hard. 81 00:02:27,000 --> 00:02:29,000 By myself, I do that in the pulpit. 82 00:02:29,000 --> 00:02:31,000 I'd rather have, I need you. 83 00:02:31,000 --> 00:02:32,000 Well, I appreciate that. 84 00:02:32,000 --> 00:02:33,000 I mean that. 85 00:02:33,000 --> 00:02:35,000 It was hard for me to listen to, honestly. 86 00:02:35,000 --> 00:02:36,000 You complete me. 87 00:02:36,000 --> 00:02:37,000 Oh, my gosh. 88 00:02:37,000 --> 00:02:39,000 That's from what movie? 89 00:02:39,000 --> 00:02:41,000 Tom Cruise. 90 00:02:41,000 --> 00:02:42,000 Oh, that one. 91 00:02:42,000 --> 00:02:43,000 That movie, yeah. 92 00:02:43,000 --> 00:02:44,000 Yeah, what was that? 93 00:02:44,000 --> 00:02:47,000 I don't know, but everybody was using that line for years, 94 00:02:47,000 --> 00:02:51,000 and it was like, no, no person completes anybody. 95 00:02:51,000 --> 00:02:53,000 That's right, only Jesus completes us, right? 96 00:02:53,000 --> 00:02:54,000 Exactly. 97 00:02:54,000 --> 00:02:56,000 That sounded very Sunday school, but it's true. 98 00:02:56,000 --> 00:02:58,000 It is absolutely true. 99 00:02:58,000 --> 00:03:00,000 Where are we broadcasting from today? 100 00:03:00,000 --> 00:03:02,000 Oh, my gosh, we're in our studio. 101 00:03:02,000 --> 00:03:03,000 We are in our new studio. 102 00:03:03,000 --> 00:03:05,000 And every time we say it's ready, it's not. 103 00:03:05,000 --> 00:03:06,000 We add things. 104 00:03:06,000 --> 00:03:07,000 Oh, my gosh. 105 00:03:07,000 --> 00:03:08,000 Now we have more, more things coming. 106 00:03:08,000 --> 00:03:10,000 We had to get two more cameras. 107 00:03:10,000 --> 00:03:11,000 We've got three cameras now. 108 00:03:11,000 --> 00:03:13,000 We've got more lighting coming, 109 00:03:13,000 --> 00:03:16,000 and all kinds of gizmos and gadgets. 110 00:03:16,000 --> 00:03:18,000 There's a lot to this video thing. 111 00:03:18,000 --> 00:03:20,000 Well, it's because we're doing video. 112 00:03:20,000 --> 00:03:24,000 We're going to actually have these podcasts videoed as well as audio. 113 00:03:24,000 --> 00:03:25,000 Yes. 114 00:03:25,000 --> 00:03:28,000 Eventually, we're working on, we've got some more acoustic panels coming in. 115 00:03:28,000 --> 00:03:29,000 Right, yeah, for sound. 116 00:03:29,000 --> 00:03:34,000 We're trying to get everything set up for sound to take away any distractions 117 00:03:34,000 --> 00:03:36,000 that could be out there, and there's a lot. 118 00:03:36,000 --> 00:03:38,000 Our heart is to do it with excellence. 119 00:03:38,000 --> 00:03:39,000 Yes. 120 00:03:39,000 --> 00:03:40,000 We don't want to do cheesy. 121 00:03:40,000 --> 00:03:41,000 We want to do it well. 122 00:03:41,000 --> 00:03:43,000 We do that with our church. 123 00:03:43,000 --> 00:03:44,000 We do that with our personal life. 124 00:03:44,000 --> 00:03:45,000 Absolutely. 125 00:03:45,000 --> 00:03:46,000 We do it with the podcast. 126 00:03:46,000 --> 00:03:48,000 You know, we do that with our friends, too. 127 00:03:48,000 --> 00:03:52,000 Speaking of Adam and Tina Curry, Adam is our executive producer. 128 00:03:52,000 --> 00:03:54,000 I mean, he's my sound guy. 129 00:03:54,000 --> 00:03:55,000 He'll bounce off things. 130 00:03:55,000 --> 00:03:59,000 He'll say, hey, the room sounded live or the room sounds really good. 131 00:03:59,000 --> 00:04:03,000 He talked about when I did the solo podcast that the room sounded really good. 132 00:04:03,000 --> 00:04:04,000 So I'm encouraged by that. 133 00:04:04,000 --> 00:04:07,000 We do have more sound panels coming because really on the video piece, 134 00:04:07,000 --> 00:04:09,000 we need a little bit better sound. 135 00:04:09,000 --> 00:04:13,000 But we went on a major learning curve yesterday. 136 00:04:13,000 --> 00:04:14,000 Let's talk a little bit about that. 137 00:04:14,000 --> 00:04:19,000 We got to go to a studio yesterday and film our stories. 138 00:04:19,000 --> 00:04:23,000 You filmed one big story, and I filmed three stories. 139 00:04:23,000 --> 00:04:27,000 So the name of the ministry is Israel Media Ministries, 140 00:04:27,000 --> 00:04:32,000 and they do these amazing video series, and you do it in a studio. 141 00:04:32,000 --> 00:04:34,000 It's very professional. 142 00:04:34,000 --> 00:04:39,000 And you start off by saying, I'm Jimmy, and this is my story. 143 00:04:39,000 --> 00:04:43,000 And then you tell your story, and you tell your testimony. 144 00:04:43,000 --> 00:04:46,000 The good, the bad, the ugly, the glorious, all of it in between. 145 00:04:46,000 --> 00:04:50,000 And then they do a bunch of B-roll shots afterwards. 146 00:04:50,000 --> 00:04:52,000 For me, it was like tattoos. 147 00:04:52,000 --> 00:04:54,000 They had a guitar, and I was playing the guitar 148 00:04:54,000 --> 00:04:57,000 because I talk about being a guitar player and Bible, 149 00:04:57,000 --> 00:05:00,000 you know, looking at a particular Bible verse. 150 00:05:00,000 --> 00:05:03,000 It was really a great experience. 151 00:05:03,000 --> 00:05:07,000 It was one of the best experiences I've ever had. 152 00:05:07,000 --> 00:05:10,000 But it cost us a lot of money because we came back home 153 00:05:10,000 --> 00:05:14,000 after seeing their studio and said, okay, let's buy this and this and this 154 00:05:14,000 --> 00:05:16,000 because we want to up our game. 155 00:05:16,000 --> 00:05:18,000 It's kind of like watching HDTV. 156 00:05:18,000 --> 00:05:20,000 You're like, oh, I want that for the kitchen. 157 00:05:20,000 --> 00:05:22,000 Which is why we're about to do some kitchen stuff. 158 00:05:22,000 --> 00:05:25,000 Let's not go there yet. Let's finish this conversation on the studio. 159 00:05:25,000 --> 00:05:28,000 So it's called Witt Studio in San Antonio. 160 00:05:28,000 --> 00:05:31,000 It's off days of all life here in this area, in the Hill Country, in I-10. 161 00:05:31,000 --> 00:05:37,000 It is a phenomenal facility, and the production tech there, 162 00:05:37,000 --> 00:05:43,000 the audio, video tech there, EJ was so professional, so easy to work with. 163 00:05:43,000 --> 00:05:45,000 He was phenomenal. 164 00:05:45,000 --> 00:05:47,000 He really was. I enjoyed it. 165 00:05:47,000 --> 00:05:51,000 So I told him, I said, EJ, I'm going to school on you. 166 00:05:51,000 --> 00:05:54,000 We just built a studio slash office in our church, 167 00:05:54,000 --> 00:05:57,000 and we're gearing up right now. 168 00:05:57,000 --> 00:06:00,000 And he said, man, any questions you have, just ask. 169 00:06:00,000 --> 00:06:03,000 So I asked a lot of questions. I took a lot of pictures. 170 00:06:03,000 --> 00:06:06,000 His lighting setup was so awesome. 171 00:06:06,000 --> 00:06:09,000 So ours is going to be so awesome now, too. 172 00:06:09,000 --> 00:06:11,000 I'm pumped. I'm so pumped. 173 00:06:11,000 --> 00:06:17,000 Because really, this is such a learning curve when you get into this world 174 00:06:17,000 --> 00:06:20,000 of not just podcasting. That was a learning curve and still is. 175 00:06:20,000 --> 00:06:25,000 But also video. That's a whole other machine. 176 00:06:25,000 --> 00:06:27,000 And so we're learning. We're growing in it. 177 00:06:27,000 --> 00:06:31,000 And he said, look, you told the story of us adopting Faith. 178 00:06:31,000 --> 00:06:34,000 And then we talked about how she's on our staff at the church. 179 00:06:34,000 --> 00:06:38,000 She does all of our production, audio, video, everything. 180 00:06:38,000 --> 00:06:41,000 And I said, man, she would love your studio. 181 00:06:41,000 --> 00:06:44,000 He said, why don't you bring her? I want to meet her. 182 00:06:44,000 --> 00:06:46,000 He said, why don't you bring her over. 183 00:06:46,000 --> 00:06:51,000 I'll give you the tour of the studio, and then I'll answer any questions. 184 00:06:51,000 --> 00:06:55,000 I'll share any information, anything I can do to help you guys. 185 00:06:55,000 --> 00:06:57,000 So he gave me his number, and we're going to hook up. 186 00:06:57,000 --> 00:07:00,000 And Faith feels like she's a kid getting to go to a candy store 187 00:07:00,000 --> 00:07:03,000 and pick out all the candy she wants. 188 00:07:03,000 --> 00:07:06,000 This is why she went to college. It was for production. 189 00:07:06,000 --> 00:07:10,000 It's why we paid all that money for her to go to college. 190 00:07:10,000 --> 00:07:12,000 She's getting to use it. Thank the Lord. 191 00:07:12,000 --> 00:07:14,000 She's using it, putting it to work. 192 00:07:14,000 --> 00:07:18,000 She's doing such a great job for us and just love what she's doing. 193 00:07:18,000 --> 00:07:20,000 So are you getting cool yet? 194 00:07:20,000 --> 00:07:23,000 I'm starting to get really cold, but I'm drinking coffee right now. 195 00:07:23,000 --> 00:07:26,000 If I make references to various things like this during the podcast, 196 00:07:26,000 --> 00:07:28,000 because this is a brand new room. 197 00:07:28,000 --> 00:07:30,000 So we're still figuring out all the ins and outs. 198 00:07:30,000 --> 00:07:34,000 And we have our own air conditioning, and it's kind of like Arctic in here. 199 00:07:34,000 --> 00:07:36,000 I'm feeling it. Yeah, it's working. 200 00:07:36,000 --> 00:07:38,000 That's why I'm drinking my coffee. 201 00:07:38,000 --> 00:07:42,000 We've got an air conditioner going, and it is January. 202 00:07:42,000 --> 00:07:47,000 This weather's crazy. It is 71 degrees here in the Texas Hill Country. 203 00:07:47,000 --> 00:07:51,000 But then in a few days, it's going to be 18 and 12. 204 00:07:51,000 --> 00:07:56,000 So we need to enjoy this while we have it, although there's no windows in our office. 205 00:07:56,000 --> 00:07:59,000 Here's one sad thing today. I'm a morning. 206 00:07:59,000 --> 00:08:01,000 Mr. Chevy is not with us today. 207 00:08:01,000 --> 00:08:05,000 I know. We had a podcast listener come in and talk with us today, 208 00:08:05,000 --> 00:08:08,000 and she's like, where's Chevy? How are you going to do it? 209 00:08:08,000 --> 00:08:10,000 You have to have Chevy. 210 00:08:10,000 --> 00:08:12,000 Well, we're going to have to bring him. 211 00:08:12,000 --> 00:08:15,000 Jill, you are a bright light. Yes, you are. 212 00:08:15,000 --> 00:08:19,000 You're a million watt light bulb in a world of 60 watt light bulbs. 213 00:08:19,000 --> 00:08:21,000 She's one of my new favorite people. 214 00:08:21,000 --> 00:08:23,000 I love her. She's on fire. 215 00:08:23,000 --> 00:08:25,000 Jill Holbrook, we love you. 216 00:08:25,000 --> 00:08:30,000 We're going to have to think about how to bring Chevy next week or the next time we do one. 217 00:08:30,000 --> 00:08:32,000 We will figure this out. We will figure this out. 218 00:08:32,000 --> 00:08:36,000 Yes, it'll be done. And so Mr. Chevy will not miss another episode. 219 00:08:36,000 --> 00:08:41,000 But we had a really jam packed week, and that's why we're just we've been flying this week. 220 00:08:41,000 --> 00:08:43,000 It's a miracle we could get this done today. 221 00:08:43,000 --> 00:08:46,000 I was first time and to do this January 11th. 222 00:08:46,000 --> 00:08:52,000 And I literally thought we're not going to be able to do it today because our day kept getting packed. 223 00:08:52,000 --> 00:08:55,000 Yeah, but we decided no, this is so important. 224 00:08:55,000 --> 00:08:58,000 So worth it. And we love you guys and we want you to be encouraged. 225 00:08:58,000 --> 00:09:02,000 Our heart is so to encourage you. And we I can't go. 226 00:09:02,000 --> 00:09:05,000 I'm not really liking the ever every other week thing. 227 00:09:05,000 --> 00:09:08,000 Well, just beyond until we can get our legs. I know. 228 00:09:08,000 --> 00:09:10,000 I know we've had a lot going on. 229 00:09:10,000 --> 00:09:12,000 And next week we have a holiday again. 230 00:09:12,000 --> 00:09:17,000 So it's going to put make us have a short work week again. 231 00:09:17,000 --> 00:09:20,000 And it's really hard to happen. Yeah, we'll figure it out. 232 00:09:20,000 --> 00:09:32,000 So one of the reasons why we've had a lot of moving parts lately and spinning a lot of plates is that we started a third service at the bridge at our church this last Sunday. 233 00:09:32,000 --> 00:09:40,000 How did that go? Well, it was pretty interesting because we thought we were asking people to come to the third service, 234 00:09:40,000 --> 00:09:48,000 because that's the main one that we're trying to get people to move to so that when visitors come, guests come, they'll come to the second service. 235 00:09:48,000 --> 00:09:53,000 So we thought, oh, well, maybe five people will show up the third service. 236 00:09:53,000 --> 00:10:02,000 And we were quite surprised. We increased in attendance what I would say 20 percent. 237 00:10:02,000 --> 00:10:05,000 Just least just on the first Sunday of the year, the third service. 238 00:10:05,000 --> 00:10:09,000 So I really am anxious to see what's going to happen over time. 239 00:10:09,000 --> 00:10:17,000 So I was worried about you. You you didn't tell me how nervous you were until after the service. 240 00:10:17,000 --> 00:10:21,000 Here's why I was nervous. You don't seem. How can I even tell, though? I never saw it. 241 00:10:21,000 --> 00:10:25,000 Well, that's good. You know, it's that old commercial. Remember the old it says never let them see you sweat. 242 00:10:25,000 --> 00:10:27,000 What was that? That was like an underarm deal. 243 00:10:27,000 --> 00:10:31,000 A commercial. Never let them see you sweat. And being a musician, that's another thing. 244 00:10:31,000 --> 00:10:36,000 Be careful setting it down. Folks, if you hear noise, we're using a new mic set up and a table. 245 00:10:36,000 --> 00:10:40,000 So it's not I'm sorry. I'm sorry. 246 00:10:40,000 --> 00:10:45,000 And even during the video, you kept slapping your hands. 247 00:10:45,000 --> 00:10:48,000 I know. You talk with your whole body. That's for sure. So do you. 248 00:10:48,000 --> 00:10:56,000 I know. No, no doubt. So anyway, what I was saying is you were worried about me doing the third service. 249 00:10:56,000 --> 00:11:01,000 I actually had a mind glitch. I mean, it's like I glitched at one point. You did. 250 00:11:01,000 --> 00:11:04,000 But then you recovered. Oh, I was fine after that. 251 00:11:04,000 --> 00:11:08,000 But the thing is, it's the first time we've done three back to back services. 252 00:11:08,000 --> 00:11:11,000 Have you ever done three at one in one day? I don't think so. 253 00:11:11,000 --> 00:11:15,000 I think you've done a Saturday night and two Sundays before. That's the most. 254 00:11:15,000 --> 00:11:18,000 But you've never done three back to back. That was a new thing for me. 255 00:11:18,000 --> 00:11:24,000 Actually, there's a lot that I like about it, though. I like my mind and my thoughts get really going. 256 00:11:24,000 --> 00:11:30,000 But I'll be fine next time. We also realized we had not eaten any breakfast or anything. 257 00:11:30,000 --> 00:11:33,000 Because we're on a fast, a church-wide fast. Well, we weren't starting until Monday. 258 00:11:33,000 --> 00:11:35,000 We'll talk about the fast in a minute. I have it on the list. 259 00:11:35,000 --> 00:11:41,000 But we never eat Sunday mornings, but I'm going to start making a full pound of bacon every Sunday morning. 260 00:11:41,000 --> 00:11:44,000 I'm going to need some jet fuel to get me through, not just coffee. 261 00:11:44,000 --> 00:11:48,000 So yeah, I had just a momentary glitch. My mind just went blank. 262 00:11:48,000 --> 00:11:53,000 I was worried. The reason why I was worried is because I thought, for sure, 263 00:11:53,000 --> 00:11:57,000 how are you going to remember what you said in first and second? Are you going to go, wait? 264 00:11:57,000 --> 00:12:01,000 I already said that in this. To me, I don't know how. It's got to be a God thing, honestly. 265 00:12:01,000 --> 00:12:06,000 It is a God thing. And true, there's grace for things. When God calls you to do something, 266 00:12:06,000 --> 00:12:10,000 He gives you the grace for it. Well, you had the grace. It was pretty remarkable. 267 00:12:10,000 --> 00:12:14,000 I'm confident that God told us to do this. We had some detractors. 268 00:12:14,000 --> 00:12:20,000 We had folks in the church, not terrible, but some saying, why are we doing this? 269 00:12:20,000 --> 00:12:23,000 Why do we need three services? And some of those were our elders who were going, 270 00:12:23,000 --> 00:12:28,000 I am so glad we did this because we see the benefit day one. 271 00:12:28,000 --> 00:12:33,000 We had 145 in the last service and I was hoping we'd have 10. 272 00:12:33,000 --> 00:12:37,000 I didn't think we'd have more than five, besides our staff. 273 00:12:37,000 --> 00:12:40,000 Well, I had a little more faith than you. I had twice as much faith as you did 274 00:12:40,000 --> 00:12:46,000 because I thought 10 would be here. You always do because your cup is half full 275 00:12:46,000 --> 00:12:49,000 and I'm more half empty. No, my cup is overflowing. Well, that's true. 276 00:12:49,000 --> 00:12:54,000 So you had enough faith, but apparently you were so nervous that afterwards you said, 277 00:12:54,000 --> 00:12:57,000 I didn't tell you. Well, I wasn't just nervous about the attendance. 278 00:12:57,000 --> 00:13:01,000 I was nervous about we changed everything. We started with the video. 279 00:13:01,000 --> 00:13:05,000 We changed up the order service. There was a timing. 280 00:13:05,000 --> 00:13:12,000 It's a brand new year. There was a lot of things to navigate going into this thing. 281 00:13:12,000 --> 00:13:16,000 But you know what? Everybody was awesome. We received some beautiful thank yous. 282 00:13:16,000 --> 00:13:19,000 One guy said, man, you guys, this is like you all did it. 283 00:13:19,000 --> 00:13:23,000 This is like your 100th time. So we were so encouraged. 284 00:13:23,000 --> 00:13:27,000 And just, yeah. So thank you, George, for that encouraging note. 285 00:13:27,000 --> 00:13:30,000 We really appreciate it. I went up to him at church and said, thank you. 286 00:13:30,000 --> 00:13:33,000 George Kirschner is like one of the coolest guys. 287 00:13:33,000 --> 00:13:38,000 He'll give us constructive criticism. I don't even like to say the word criticism 288 00:13:38,000 --> 00:13:41,000 because nothing is good. He's a helper. He's constructive advice. 289 00:13:41,000 --> 00:13:45,000 Let me put it that way. And I told him, I said, I appreciate what you say. 290 00:13:45,000 --> 00:13:48,000 He's sharp. Yeah, he's wise. And he listens to our podcast. 291 00:13:48,000 --> 00:13:52,000 So hey, kudos to my friend, George. We need to do coffee or lunch again 292 00:13:52,000 --> 00:13:56,000 because man, I love that time we went out. I want to be included. 293 00:13:56,000 --> 00:14:00,000 It may be a boys thing, but I don't know. I bet we can get everybody, 294 00:14:00,000 --> 00:14:03,000 his wife involved too. Karen, yes. 295 00:14:03,000 --> 00:14:07,000 So what else we got going on? We've got a fast going on. 296 00:14:07,000 --> 00:14:13,000 Churchwide fast. Started Monday, ends Friday. I'm having a nice dinner Friday night. 297 00:14:13,000 --> 00:14:19,000 We are. Although we did say, this is really to start off the new year. 298 00:14:19,000 --> 00:14:25,000 Let's start off on the right foot. Let's fast. You can fast food, electronics, 299 00:14:25,000 --> 00:14:29,000 anything that gets in the way of you spending time with the Lord 300 00:14:29,000 --> 00:14:34,000 and maybe spending more time, not just your normal every day, 301 00:14:34,000 --> 00:14:38,000 but really giving him more time, putting him in the forefront 302 00:14:38,000 --> 00:14:42,000 instead of whatever that is that takes up your attention. 303 00:14:42,000 --> 00:14:45,000 So we have a lot of people doing different types of fasts. 304 00:14:45,000 --> 00:14:50,000 Because the whole point isn't to go on a hunger strike to get God to do something. 305 00:14:50,000 --> 00:14:53,000 It's really a realignment of your focus. It's like a reset. 306 00:14:53,000 --> 00:14:57,000 I like the word reset. Yeah, I like it. There's some political implications. 307 00:14:57,000 --> 00:15:00,000 There is, but I'm not talking that. I'm talking a spiritual reset. 308 00:15:00,000 --> 00:15:03,000 But I like the idea of you're resetting, you're rebooting your computer. 309 00:15:03,000 --> 00:15:08,000 It's all clean and fresh again. And again, realigning your affections 310 00:15:08,000 --> 00:15:11,000 back to God. And it's just getting your attention back on him. 311 00:15:11,000 --> 00:15:16,000 So the idea is the time you would have spent prepping a meal or eating a meal 312 00:15:16,000 --> 00:15:21,000 or going out to eat, you take that time to reassign that, realign during the fast, 313 00:15:21,000 --> 00:15:25,000 however long you're going to do it, to God. And it's getting your attention 314 00:15:25,000 --> 00:15:30,000 and your focus back and perspective back. And we're in, what, day four right now. 315 00:15:30,000 --> 00:15:33,000 It has been so good for me. It has been. 316 00:15:33,000 --> 00:15:38,000 We've had a crazy busy week, but because we're focused, 317 00:15:38,000 --> 00:15:43,000 we've been able to navigate everything, just the busy schedule and all that 318 00:15:43,000 --> 00:15:46,000 really well. I haven't had the fatigue I thought I would have. 319 00:15:46,000 --> 00:15:49,000 I feel fantastic, actually. I think because it's been such a busy week, 320 00:15:49,000 --> 00:15:54,000 it's kept us... And let everybody know how we're fasting, 321 00:15:54,000 --> 00:15:57,000 because everybody does it different. Well, what we're doing is we're only 322 00:15:57,000 --> 00:16:01,000 eating one meal, and it's typically between three and four, which today 323 00:16:01,000 --> 00:16:04,000 will be more like between five and six. Yeah, it's going to be a little later today. 324 00:16:04,000 --> 00:16:08,000 One meal, we can only eat within an hour, and then we stop. 325 00:16:08,000 --> 00:16:12,000 No snacks or anything, just our meat. And we're not gorging or anything. 326 00:16:12,000 --> 00:16:16,000 It's just we eat our typical what we would normally eat for a carnivore diet, 327 00:16:16,000 --> 00:16:19,000 which is a steak. Yeah, that's what we're eating. 328 00:16:19,000 --> 00:16:24,000 And so, or a bacon, which I had yesterday too. 329 00:16:24,000 --> 00:16:29,000 But yeah, it's the only reason why I didn't want to do the full on... 330 00:16:29,000 --> 00:16:33,000 I wanted to do a liquid fast. I was really thinking I could do beef broth, 331 00:16:33,000 --> 00:16:38,000 chicken broth, water, electrolyte. But because I do take some vitamins 332 00:16:38,000 --> 00:16:43,000 and stuff that need some kind of food on me, I was a little bit nervous 333 00:16:43,000 --> 00:16:46,000 about doing that because I don't want to make myself sick. 334 00:16:46,000 --> 00:16:51,000 So everybody has to do what's best for them. Plus, I am, and I'm going to say this on air... 335 00:16:51,000 --> 00:16:54,000 Wait, what are you going to say? I know. I am fasting. 336 00:16:54,000 --> 00:16:58,000 You need to run that by me first. I'm fasting shopping. Not for the house. 337 00:16:58,000 --> 00:17:02,000 Could you repeat that? I know. I know. Fasting shopping clothes. 338 00:17:02,000 --> 00:17:05,000 I was taking a picture of you because you look amazing. 339 00:17:05,000 --> 00:17:08,000 I just had to take a picture. I'm capturing the moment. 340 00:17:08,000 --> 00:17:11,000 You're funny. I wish you didn't do that. Production moment. 341 00:17:11,000 --> 00:17:14,000 Please don't put that on Facebook. It's the behind the scenes thing. 342 00:17:14,000 --> 00:17:19,000 You like to put things on Facebook. So anyway, I am fasting shopping for myself, 343 00:17:19,000 --> 00:17:25,000 unless I absolutely have to, because for one, I've lost so much weight 344 00:17:25,000 --> 00:17:28,000 that I have had to give away a whole bunch of new clothes. 345 00:17:28,000 --> 00:17:32,000 You are a girl on fire, and yes, we are making people happy with the clothing collection. 346 00:17:32,000 --> 00:17:36,000 But I don't want to lose anymore, which is another reason why I didn't want to just go on a liquid fast. 347 00:17:36,000 --> 00:17:41,000 I would look like a POW, and I don't want to look like that 348 00:17:41,000 --> 00:17:45,000 because it shows your wrinkles when you lose it in your face. 349 00:17:45,000 --> 00:17:51,000 I already got an estimate on a facelift, and that was way out of our budget. 350 00:17:51,000 --> 00:17:54,000 So I'm not doing that. My son was like, please don't do that. 351 00:17:54,000 --> 00:17:56,000 When you do, you might look like a clown or something. 352 00:17:56,000 --> 00:17:58,000 I know. We've seen that stuff go bad. 353 00:17:58,000 --> 00:18:02,000 We have. We're the Joker. We know one person who kind of has that Joker look. 354 00:18:02,000 --> 00:18:08,000 So I'm not going to do that, but I am fasting from shopping for clothes. 355 00:18:08,000 --> 00:18:12,000 I'm not only doing it for five days, though. I'm actually doing it. 356 00:18:12,000 --> 00:18:18,000 This year is going to be my year of only getting what I need. I'm dedicated. 357 00:18:18,000 --> 00:18:23,000 It's kind of like last year when I said, okay, no TV. 358 00:18:23,000 --> 00:18:28,000 Well, I don't want to say no TV. No normal TV that we were watching. 359 00:18:28,000 --> 00:18:34,000 We can watch wholesome, good stuff, but it can't overtake our lives. 360 00:18:34,000 --> 00:18:40,000 So we watch Pure Flix or some Amazon movies or Christmas movies and stuff like that. 361 00:18:40,000 --> 00:18:43,000 But I'm kind of doing the same thing with shopping. 362 00:18:43,000 --> 00:18:47,000 It needs to be something I just have to have. 363 00:18:47,000 --> 00:18:51,000 If I get invited to something, I have to have a certain item of clothing. 364 00:18:51,000 --> 00:18:55,000 Or I can't get into anything because I've lost, which like I said, I'm hoping I'm not. 365 00:18:55,000 --> 00:18:59,000 But I really want to curb that. It's an addiction. 366 00:18:59,000 --> 00:19:03,000 And I would rather spend the money on the house. 367 00:19:03,000 --> 00:19:05,000 Or steak. 368 00:19:05,000 --> 00:19:09,000 Oh my gosh. You've got steak on the brain. 369 00:19:09,000 --> 00:19:13,000 I do, actually. It's because we're normally grilling right now. 370 00:19:13,000 --> 00:19:17,000 And it's 3.30 and we're not going to be eating anytime soon. 371 00:19:17,000 --> 00:19:21,000 Anyway, unless we just hurry up with this podcast. 372 00:19:21,000 --> 00:19:23,000 No, we're not going to do that. 373 00:19:23,000 --> 00:19:25,000 Tell me spiritually how this has worked for you. 374 00:19:25,000 --> 00:19:27,000 Because I mean, those are good things. 375 00:19:27,000 --> 00:19:31,000 Well, I wanted to bring that up because I think it's important that... 376 00:19:31,000 --> 00:19:37,000 I mean, someone came up to us in between services last week and said when she would go on 377 00:19:37,000 --> 00:19:43,000 Churchwide Fast, she felt like the Lord told her to fast complaining. 378 00:19:43,000 --> 00:19:49,000 And so in the next two services, I shared that with the church and there was an audible groan. 379 00:19:49,000 --> 00:19:53,000 I mean, people were like, oh, I'll just do the food. 380 00:19:53,000 --> 00:19:57,000 You know, I'd rather fast food than grumbling and complaining. 381 00:19:57,000 --> 00:19:59,000 So there are a lot of things we can fast. 382 00:19:59,000 --> 00:20:03,000 And so I just wanted to bring that that's what I'm doing. 383 00:20:03,000 --> 00:20:11,000 But honestly, spiritually, I think to just go into the studio yesterday and telling my story, 384 00:20:11,000 --> 00:20:14,000 it literally increased my faith more. 385 00:20:14,000 --> 00:20:15,000 It gave me... 386 00:20:15,000 --> 00:20:16,000 It was good. 387 00:20:16,000 --> 00:20:17,000 It helped me. 388 00:20:17,000 --> 00:20:18,000 You were good, by the way. 389 00:20:18,000 --> 00:20:19,000 You were so pro. 390 00:20:19,000 --> 00:20:21,000 I thought I was going to be so nervous. 391 00:20:21,000 --> 00:20:24,000 So I said, just let me go first and tell my story. 392 00:20:24,000 --> 00:20:26,000 And then how did you cry on cue? 393 00:20:26,000 --> 00:20:28,000 That was powerful. 394 00:20:28,000 --> 00:20:29,000 It was... 395 00:20:29,000 --> 00:20:34,000 You were making me, the tech and Zae Ev, who's the founder of Israel Media Ministries. 396 00:20:34,000 --> 00:20:40,000 I really hope that we can get the recording and be able to maybe even play it here. 397 00:20:40,000 --> 00:20:42,000 Well, I don't know if we can play it. 398 00:20:42,000 --> 00:20:43,000 No, no, no. 399 00:20:43,000 --> 00:20:46,000 Wait, don't get ahead of yourself, technology wise. 400 00:20:46,000 --> 00:20:47,000 So that... 401 00:20:47,000 --> 00:20:48,000 We'll see. 402 00:20:48,000 --> 00:20:49,000 We'll see how that works. 403 00:20:49,000 --> 00:20:53,000 Well, all you'd have to do is once I get it on the website, maybe play it. 404 00:20:53,000 --> 00:20:56,000 But anyway, I think it was really... 405 00:20:56,000 --> 00:21:03,000 Hearing it again, just telling it the way I did, man, it moved me. 406 00:21:03,000 --> 00:21:07,000 What it did was it built my faith up more. 407 00:21:07,000 --> 00:21:16,000 It helped me see how much I don't live with regrets because I wouldn't be here if I didn't have those challenges in my life. 408 00:21:16,000 --> 00:21:17,000 But it also... 409 00:21:17,000 --> 00:21:20,000 It just gave me such gratitude for what God's done. 410 00:21:20,000 --> 00:21:23,000 Oh, my goodness, He's done so much in our lives. 411 00:21:23,000 --> 00:21:29,000 And if I don't keep that in the forefront, I could tend to go in a deep place. 412 00:21:29,000 --> 00:21:31,000 And I don't want to go there. 413 00:21:31,000 --> 00:21:43,000 I want to...you know, when things happen, like our health issues, which everybody ends up having some kind of health issues, especially as we age. 414 00:21:43,000 --> 00:21:48,000 But when things happen, you could tend to go into place and just stay there. 415 00:21:48,000 --> 00:21:56,000 And after hearing, re-hearing the telling of your story and my story, it just built me up so much. 416 00:21:56,000 --> 00:21:58,000 And it just... 417 00:21:58,000 --> 00:21:59,000 I'm so grateful. 418 00:21:59,000 --> 00:22:01,000 God is good and He is faithful. 419 00:22:01,000 --> 00:22:04,000 And His timing is not always our timing. 420 00:22:04,000 --> 00:22:09,000 And sometimes we have to, again, like we said, with the fast, realign ourselves. 421 00:22:09,000 --> 00:22:14,000 Talk about for a minute, because when you were telling your testimony, you brought this up, and I love that you went here. 422 00:22:14,000 --> 00:22:16,000 And I think it's something that's very helpful. 423 00:22:16,000 --> 00:22:20,000 We've talked about on the show, but we're going to repeat things because I never learned anything the first time I hear it. 424 00:22:20,000 --> 00:22:21,000 That's true. 425 00:22:21,000 --> 00:22:22,000 Or the tenth sometimes. 426 00:22:22,000 --> 00:22:27,000 But you talked about connecting the dots and not living a life of regret. 427 00:22:27,000 --> 00:22:28,000 Talk a little bit about that. 428 00:22:28,000 --> 00:22:29,000 That's powerful. 429 00:22:29,000 --> 00:22:33,000 Well, I made a lot of poor choices when I was young. 430 00:22:33,000 --> 00:22:36,000 You know, I got pregnant when I was 15 years old. 431 00:22:36,000 --> 00:22:38,000 And that was a poor choice. 432 00:22:38,000 --> 00:22:39,000 It wasn't good. 433 00:22:39,000 --> 00:22:40,000 At 15, what do you know? 434 00:22:40,000 --> 00:22:49,000 And I did it on purpose, thinking I could get out of my bad home situation by having a baby with my boyfriend, 435 00:22:49,000 --> 00:22:52,000 getting married, and living happily ever after. 436 00:22:52,000 --> 00:22:57,000 And that didn't work out because three months after, 437 00:22:57,000 --> 00:23:06,000 I told him I was pregnant, he ran away and left me with being pregnant with a child, with his child. 438 00:23:06,000 --> 00:23:11,000 And the only support I had was of my mother because my dad was so angry that I was pregnant. 439 00:23:11,000 --> 00:23:14,000 He didn't want anything to do with me. 440 00:23:14,000 --> 00:23:17,000 And so, you know, I think about that. 441 00:23:17,000 --> 00:23:23,000 I think about, you know, getting married to someone else and staying in a bad situation for so long 442 00:23:23,000 --> 00:23:28,000 because I went from the frying pan to the fire with my first marriage. 443 00:23:28,000 --> 00:23:36,000 And I think, gosh, I could look back and go, oh, my gosh, I am so shameful of all these things I've done wrong. 444 00:23:36,000 --> 00:23:42,000 Not that I did wrong marrying this guy, but staying married and allowing the abuse to continue. 445 00:23:42,000 --> 00:23:48,000 But I could live with such regret of all those decisions that were made. 446 00:23:48,000 --> 00:23:50,000 And or I could say, you know what? 447 00:23:50,000 --> 00:23:51,000 I wouldn't be here today. 448 00:23:51,000 --> 00:23:53,000 I wouldn't be married to you today. 449 00:23:53,000 --> 00:24:02,000 I wouldn't have have we wouldn't have this ministry that we have if we didn't have challenges 450 00:24:02,000 --> 00:24:11,000 because, hello, challenges help us bring people to their knees with their challenges and give them hope to overcome those. 451 00:24:11,000 --> 00:24:15,000 And so, yeah, I don't live with regrets. 452 00:24:15,000 --> 00:24:19,000 Now, sometimes I wish things didn't happen, obviously, because I'm human. 453 00:24:19,000 --> 00:24:21,000 True, true, true. 454 00:24:21,000 --> 00:24:32,000 But looking back now, oh, my goodness, it's almost like if if if regret was a was a sea or an ocean, you don't swim in it. 455 00:24:32,000 --> 00:24:35,000 You can see it there. It's there. It's tangible. It's real. 456 00:24:35,000 --> 00:24:38,000 But you don't go in it. You don't go get in the water. 457 00:24:38,000 --> 00:24:42,000 It's like we don't live like that. That's true. Yes. 458 00:24:42,000 --> 00:24:45,000 There's a sea, but I'm not going to go swim in it or get in it. 459 00:24:45,000 --> 00:24:50,000 It's like looking at a rearview mirror. But if you keep your eyes on that, you'll never go forward. 460 00:24:50,000 --> 00:24:59,000 But the only reason why I could get through what I did is because I literally turned my life around, asked God to come in. 461 00:24:59,000 --> 00:25:05,000 There you go. And take over and help me to live my life for him. 462 00:25:05,000 --> 00:25:07,000 And I couldn't do that without him, without the Holy Spirit. 463 00:25:07,000 --> 00:25:11,000 Literally, I could not do because I tried it on my own. 464 00:25:11,000 --> 00:25:14,000 It didn't work. It did not work. 465 00:25:14,000 --> 00:25:22,000 And I tried. There was a time and you did the same thing for a few months in our single life where we said, you know, I'm angry. 466 00:25:22,000 --> 00:25:27,000 I'm angry at God because I deserve to go be stupid. Yeah. 467 00:25:27,000 --> 00:25:31,000 Because, you know, I finally did what he told me to do. 468 00:25:31,000 --> 00:25:34,000 And yet, why did I have to go through that anyway? 469 00:25:34,000 --> 00:25:37,000 And then you go through this time where you go, you know what? 470 00:25:37,000 --> 00:25:42,000 I'm just going to you know what I did because I didn't date because I got married so young. 471 00:25:42,000 --> 00:25:52,000 I didn't get to go on dates and enjoy, you know, spending time with a date and getting to know them and having a courtship. 472 00:25:52,000 --> 00:25:56,000 So how did going back and trying dating you and how did that work out for you? 473 00:25:56,000 --> 00:25:58,000 Oh, it was horrible. I hated it. 474 00:25:58,000 --> 00:26:02,000 So I thought, OK, well, I'll put God, you know, on a pedestal. 475 00:26:02,000 --> 00:26:06,000 Sorry. I'll put God on a pedestal and I won't go to church. 476 00:26:06,000 --> 00:26:11,000 I'll go to the lake every weekend with my friends because, you know, going to the lake is a lot more fun. 477 00:26:11,000 --> 00:26:17,000 And I did that for a few weeks, kind of like you did when you went to the bars with your friends. 478 00:26:17,000 --> 00:26:19,000 Three weeks of stupid. 479 00:26:19,000 --> 00:26:22,000 But I was miserable. Me too. 480 00:26:22,000 --> 00:26:24,000 I mean, sin's fun at the time. 481 00:26:24,000 --> 00:26:32,000 But then when you get like when I would get back home from my trip, it's like, gosh, I'm missing out on something. 482 00:26:32,000 --> 00:26:35,000 There's still a void that didn't fill it. Right. 483 00:26:35,000 --> 00:26:42,000 And so when I finally made the decision that, no, you know what, I'm not going to go back to the lake. Y'all, let's don't do that. 484 00:26:42,000 --> 00:26:45,000 Let's go to church. It changed my life. 485 00:26:45,000 --> 00:26:48,000 And the girls that I was going to the lake with started coming to church with me. 486 00:26:48,000 --> 00:26:49,000 Yeah, they did. 487 00:26:49,000 --> 00:26:53,000 Just like the guys who you were going to the bars with came and worked out. 488 00:26:53,000 --> 00:26:56,000 Came to the church with you. 489 00:26:56,000 --> 00:26:59,000 And then we met a few weeks later. It was just amazing. 490 00:26:59,000 --> 00:27:07,000 So all that ties back to we don't live with regret because we see that even those mistakes were part of the journey. 491 00:27:07,000 --> 00:27:10,000 Yes. And they're part of connecting the dots. 492 00:27:10,000 --> 00:27:15,000 You know, the whole connect the dots thing, the ship, you know, or whatever the horse you're drawing. 493 00:27:15,000 --> 00:27:21,000 But when you connect the dots and realize that happened, which positioned me here for this, 494 00:27:21,000 --> 00:27:26,000 and then it removes the sting of regret again, not that it's not there. 495 00:27:26,000 --> 00:27:30,000 The ocean is still there, but it doesn't have mastery over you. 496 00:27:30,000 --> 00:27:36,000 It doesn't constantly inform your thinking. It doesn't cause you to, to use Jill's word today, 497 00:27:36,000 --> 00:27:40,000 it doesn't cause you to frame everything around regret. 498 00:27:40,000 --> 00:27:45,000 Instead, you become grateful to say, first of all, God delivered me out of that. 499 00:27:45,000 --> 00:27:48,000 God got me out of that. I'm not there anymore. 500 00:27:48,000 --> 00:27:51,000 And one more thing, I'm not that person anymore. 501 00:27:51,000 --> 00:27:57,000 Well, we lost the desire to do those things because that didn't fill the void. 502 00:27:57,000 --> 00:28:06,000 So why would we keep doing something that hoping for a different result, which is the definition of insanity. 503 00:28:06,000 --> 00:28:10,000 We kept doing the same thing, hoping for a different result, never did. 504 00:28:10,000 --> 00:28:19,000 So we put that aside and said, let's go do what we know is going to give us, you know, that 505 00:28:19,000 --> 00:28:26,000 fill that void. And so we, you and I separately go back to church and that's where we met. 506 00:28:26,000 --> 00:28:29,000 And it wasn't even that I was going back to church. I went back to God. 507 00:28:29,000 --> 00:28:32,000 Right. That's what I was about to say. Exactly. 508 00:28:32,000 --> 00:28:37,000 It started with going to that place first. And then you hear the word. 509 00:28:37,000 --> 00:28:42,000 This is what I love. What is it? Romans 10, 17. Faith comes by hearing, hearing by the word of God. 510 00:28:42,000 --> 00:28:47,000 So you hear the word and then faith comes. And what do you want to do? 511 00:28:47,000 --> 00:28:52,000 You want to hear more. So you go back and then you go, wait, okay, now I need to get in the word. 512 00:28:52,000 --> 00:28:55,000 Now, what does the Bible say about this situation? 513 00:28:55,000 --> 00:29:00,000 And you go to your concordance or you ask a pastor, you do whatever you have to do to say, 514 00:29:00,000 --> 00:29:04,000 how is this pertained to my situation? Right. 515 00:29:04,000 --> 00:29:07,000 How does it give me hope to get out of this situation? 516 00:29:07,000 --> 00:29:11,000 And boy, did he ever do that. And he brought you. 517 00:29:11,000 --> 00:29:15,000 And then he brought you to that gym with that jerk of a guy. 518 00:29:15,000 --> 00:29:19,000 Well, you didn't know him. I didn't know him either. He was training me. 519 00:29:19,000 --> 00:29:23,000 Anyway, that almost was a deal breaker for me. 520 00:29:23,000 --> 00:29:25,000 Because when you saw him with me, you thought he was with me. 521 00:29:25,000 --> 00:29:28,000 I don't want to rehearse all that. Let me move in there. 522 00:29:28,000 --> 00:29:30,000 Here we go down the rabbit trail. 523 00:29:30,000 --> 00:29:36,000 All this is going back to the idea of connecting the dots to your past and realize, 524 00:29:36,000 --> 00:29:43,000 I can't live in regret in that sea. I can't go back in that water because had that not have happened, 525 00:29:43,000 --> 00:29:47,000 I would be somewhere else right now. Not that that wouldn't be any worse or better. 526 00:29:47,000 --> 00:29:49,000 I mean, because you are where you are. Right. 527 00:29:49,000 --> 00:29:54,000 But remember the Where's Waldo thing. You are here. You know, where's Waldo? You are here. 528 00:29:54,000 --> 00:30:05,000 You got to start somewhere. And so I think that the us living a life of gratitude and I call them living a but God life. 529 00:30:05,000 --> 00:30:09,000 So living about God life means, yeah, this this happened. 530 00:30:09,000 --> 00:30:17,000 This was bad or this was traumatic or I made a poor choice. But God, right. 531 00:30:17,000 --> 00:30:21,000 I messed up. Yes. But God, I made a mistake. But God, I failed. 532 00:30:21,000 --> 00:30:28,000 But God, I I feel like I'm not going to make it. But God, there's always hope. Right. Yes. 533 00:30:28,000 --> 00:30:31,000 And so that's that's what I loved when you went there in your testimony. 534 00:30:31,000 --> 00:30:38,000 Really, that was that was one of the things that really hit me in your testimony of just that remembering. 535 00:30:38,000 --> 00:30:41,000 We remember the we remember the potential for regret. 536 00:30:41,000 --> 00:30:44,000 And we see the sea, but we don't go there. Right. 537 00:30:44,000 --> 00:30:48,000 And it's OK to remember it because that helps you continue to learn not to repeat. 538 00:30:48,000 --> 00:30:50,000 And I think we always need to remember those things. 539 00:30:50,000 --> 00:30:56,000 And to me, you know, if you're listening to this podcast, it's because God had you listen to it. 540 00:30:56,000 --> 00:30:59,000 Because there is a reason for you to listen to it. Absolutely. 541 00:30:59,000 --> 00:31:03,000 And it's so that you can go back and go, wow, this is where I am with God now. 542 00:31:03,000 --> 00:31:10,000 Or why am I listening to this? Well, maybe because God's nudging you to get closer to him. 543 00:31:10,000 --> 00:31:16,000 And that's the whole point of this podcast is not just to hear our stories and just so that we can rant. 544 00:31:16,000 --> 00:31:25,000 But really, it's for you to to get to draw closer, draw nearer to God, because as you draw near to him, he draws near to you. 545 00:31:25,000 --> 00:31:27,000 Yeah. Can I say something here? Yes. I think this is important. 546 00:31:27,000 --> 00:31:33,000 I love that you said that, Damonette. Amazing. 547 00:31:33,000 --> 00:31:42,000 We get so many letters and emails through our website or sometimes we'll get comments on social media of people who found us on social media. 548 00:31:42,000 --> 00:31:47,000 And they say a lot of similar things. And it was this has become a real common thing. 549 00:31:47,000 --> 00:31:55,000 I was a Christian when I was a kid or I grew up going to church and then life happened and I spent years away from God. 550 00:31:55,000 --> 00:32:07,000 And now listening to your podcast or getting to know Adam and Tina through Curry and the Keeper, which is another fantastic podcast, through all of this, I have found my way back to God. 551 00:32:07,000 --> 00:32:12,000 And I'm growing again. That's the whole point of what we're doing. That is what we're living for with this podcast. 552 00:32:12,000 --> 00:32:20,000 That's the whole point that we bought this equipment and we did this office and we did all of that because we want you to know there's hope. 553 00:32:20,000 --> 00:32:28,000 And we want you to know that if you at one point in your life, you felt like you were a Christian, you felt like you were after God, but life has happened. 554 00:32:28,000 --> 00:32:34,000 Things have happened. Now you feel like you don't qualify. You feel like maybe you've blown it and you've gone too far away from God. 555 00:32:34,000 --> 00:32:42,000 If your heart is still beating, if you still have a pulse, you've not run too far away from God. You cannot outrun His grace. 556 00:32:42,000 --> 00:32:52,000 Well, let me say this because yesterday with your story, you talked about being introduced to God, that when you were in fifth, sixth grade, you were introduced. 557 00:32:52,000 --> 00:33:01,000 You actually went up, signed the card, asked for prayer for salvation, but nothing happened. You described it this way. 558 00:33:01,000 --> 00:33:07,000 I was introduced, but a relationship really didn't start because I didn't do anything with it. 559 00:33:07,000 --> 00:33:13,000 There are people out there who get introduced to God and they think, okay, well, I'm saved because I know him. 560 00:33:13,000 --> 00:33:21,000 But you know, the demons know him too. Demons, according to the book of John, know the book of James. 561 00:33:21,000 --> 00:33:26,000 But I'm thinking about what you preached on on John, how they know the word. 562 00:33:26,000 --> 00:33:34,000 Remember when Satan was talking to Jesus when he was in the wilderness and he was spouting the word. 563 00:33:34,000 --> 00:33:40,000 So he knows the word. But does he know Jesus? Does he have a relationship? 564 00:33:40,000 --> 00:33:47,000 There is such a difference. And I think that was the difference with me as well when I was young at 10 years of age. 565 00:33:47,000 --> 00:33:57,000 When I came, when I walked down the aisle, said that I was saved, that I was ready for a relationship, but I didn't do much with that relationship. 566 00:33:57,000 --> 00:34:07,000 And would I have gone to heaven? I don't know. I really don't know. But I do know now because he's the Lord of my life. 567 00:34:07,000 --> 00:34:11,000 There's a big difference in being introduced, even getting baptized. 568 00:34:11,000 --> 00:34:15,000 We've talked about this with Jill today because she's going to get baptized on Sunday. 569 00:34:15,000 --> 00:34:17,000 Oh, it's going to be so beautiful. 570 00:34:17,000 --> 00:34:22,000 Her story in listening to her talk was so much like Tina and Adam. 571 00:34:22,000 --> 00:34:29,000 The trajectory of their lives have changed so much and everything has changed with their spiritual life with God. 572 00:34:29,000 --> 00:34:34,000 Yet she was introduced and even went to church on a regular basis when she was young. 573 00:34:34,000 --> 00:34:40,000 But there is a difference now. And to me, the difference is when you truly make him Lord of your life. 574 00:34:40,000 --> 00:34:43,000 Does it mean you're perfect and everything goes perfect? No. 575 00:34:43,000 --> 00:34:45,000 Of course not. 576 00:34:45,000 --> 00:34:54,000 I think too many people have this misnomer that once you become a Christian, everything is perfect. You have no issues. 577 00:34:54,000 --> 00:34:59,000 God's with you. He's answering every prayer and everything is perfect every day. 578 00:34:59,000 --> 00:35:04,000 No, because there's a real devil. And now you know there's a real devil. You didn't know that before. 579 00:35:04,000 --> 00:35:08,000 You just thought, well, the universe caused this is what I hear a lot. 580 00:35:08,000 --> 00:35:16,000 No, there's a real devil that hates you and now you're more aware of your sin. 581 00:35:16,000 --> 00:35:21,000 You're more aware of when things aren't going well, but you have a God to take it to. 582 00:35:21,000 --> 00:35:24,000 There's the difference right there. 583 00:35:24,000 --> 00:35:35,000 But living for God is so much more than just going to church, reading a U version devotion every day. 584 00:35:35,000 --> 00:35:42,000 It's living your life for Him, giving your life to Him and telling others, which is what we're doing right here. 585 00:35:42,000 --> 00:35:47,000 I love what you just said because we now have a place to take our pain. 586 00:35:47,000 --> 00:35:53,000 We now have a place to take our suffering. We now have a place to take our trauma. 587 00:35:53,000 --> 00:35:58,000 We have a place to take our bad decisions. The mistakes we made, the sin we committed. 588 00:35:58,000 --> 00:36:01,000 God, we didn't really consult you on this. I'm sorry. 589 00:36:01,000 --> 00:36:08,000 We now have a place, a person, not a place, but a person to take that to. 590 00:36:08,000 --> 00:36:13,000 That's what I love. Jesus says, come to me. If you're weary and heavy laden, come to me. 591 00:36:13,000 --> 00:36:15,000 Bring your stuff to me. 592 00:36:15,000 --> 00:36:22,000 I love Eugene Peterson in the message Bible says, I'll show you how to take a real rest. 593 00:36:22,000 --> 00:36:26,000 I love the wording on that. I will show you how to take a real rest. 594 00:36:26,000 --> 00:36:29,000 That's really the heart of God for you that are listening. 595 00:36:29,000 --> 00:36:34,000 The reason why we're passionate about this and we get on here and we just get going because 596 00:36:34,000 --> 00:36:40,000 this has marked mine and Annette's life where we live a but God life. 597 00:36:40,000 --> 00:36:45,000 We live a grateful life because Jesus has done so much for us. 598 00:36:45,000 --> 00:36:51,000 The Bible calls, use the word gospel and you'll hear this word in churches and Christian language, 599 00:36:51,000 --> 00:36:55,000 the gospel of Jesus Christ. All that word means is good news. 600 00:36:55,000 --> 00:37:01,000 This is good news. It's not bad news. It's not okay news. It's not so-so news. 601 00:37:01,000 --> 00:37:04,000 It truly is the greatest news. 602 00:37:04,000 --> 00:37:12,000 And scripture you quoted earlier in Romans 10-17, it actually means and literally says in the actual language, 603 00:37:12,000 --> 00:37:20,000 it says faith comes by hearing and hearing by the message of Christ, which is the gospel, the good news. 604 00:37:20,000 --> 00:37:25,000 What that does when you hear the gospel, it stirs up faith in your life. 605 00:37:25,000 --> 00:37:30,000 So what we're wanting to share with you is good news, the good news of Jesus Christ. 606 00:37:30,000 --> 00:37:35,000 He's here for you. He's got your back. He's got your situation. 607 00:37:35,000 --> 00:37:39,000 Better yet, he's got you. And that's our heart for you. 608 00:37:39,000 --> 00:37:43,000 Absolutely. I love it. That was great. So who are we going to thank? 609 00:37:43,000 --> 00:37:48,000 We got some great thank yous. David Wicker has become my email pen pal buddy. 610 00:37:48,000 --> 00:37:52,000 This T-shirt. Wait. What are the T-shirts about that he's sending us? 611 00:37:52,000 --> 00:37:55,000 He didn't tell me. I'm not sure what the shirts are. So he says this, 612 00:37:55,000 --> 00:38:02,000 I listened to Pastor Jimmy Pruitt's December 17th sermon, very hopeful message of young people seeking Christ. 613 00:38:02,000 --> 00:38:11,000 I've noticed an interest when I work with some young people. They are asking me questions and I wondered about the recent interest. 614 00:38:11,000 --> 00:38:15,000 I like the sermon. It does give me hope in the future and for our nation. 615 00:38:15,000 --> 00:38:21,000 By the way, that wasn't David Wicker that wrote that. That was a flight attendant on American Airlines. 616 00:38:21,000 --> 00:38:29,000 He was listening to a podcast or sermon when she walked up and she I don't know how they got in a conversation about it. 617 00:38:29,000 --> 00:38:35,000 And so he started talking to her. Her name is Jennifer. And so he told her about the message. 618 00:38:35,000 --> 00:38:41,000 And so she went and listened to the message later and sent this text back to David. 619 00:38:41,000 --> 00:38:46,000 She listened to the message and this is what she's happening. And anyway, just very cool and appreciate. 620 00:38:46,000 --> 00:38:51,000 Never know. David, thank you for sharing that just by you listening to a podcast, 621 00:38:51,000 --> 00:38:56,000 having a conversation with a flight attendant and who boy we all know they've got a tough job right now. 622 00:38:56,000 --> 00:39:03,000 Right. They're not want to literally remind me of police officers, firemen, EMA. They're like first responders. 623 00:39:03,000 --> 00:39:06,000 They are. They're on the line. It's a different world out there. 624 00:39:06,000 --> 00:39:11,000 So we need to pray for them just like we do firefighters and police. Here's another one. 625 00:39:11,000 --> 00:39:17,000 And this is from Julie. So appreciate this. She says, Pastor Jimmy and Damon that I've written before, 626 00:39:17,000 --> 00:39:22,000 but wanted to write again to give you encouragement. I'm from California and I teach for Bible study fellowship. 627 00:39:22,000 --> 00:39:28,000 I've been enjoying your podcast since the beginning and appreciate your willingness to continue even with the church growing. 628 00:39:28,000 --> 00:39:34,000 A new YouTube channel and sickness praying for Annette to heal quickly, which, by the way, she did. 629 00:39:34,000 --> 00:39:40,000 Thank you very much for the prayers in praying about what word I might have for the year. 630 00:39:40,000 --> 00:39:45,000 God kept saying trust. That's a big word. That is a big word. That's a tough word. 631 00:39:45,000 --> 00:39:51,000 That's a big one. And she says, thank you for following God's call on your life and engaging, which is my word. 632 00:39:51,000 --> 00:39:56,000 Engage. God bless our word. Our word is engage. 633 00:39:56,000 --> 00:40:00,000 And it means to throw oneself into. I love that. I think we are doing that already. 634 00:40:00,000 --> 00:40:05,000 January 11th. We so are. Is it only the 11th? God bless Julie. 635 00:40:05,000 --> 00:40:09,000 So, Julie, thank you for sending that in. Another part to that was really cool. 636 00:40:09,000 --> 00:40:15,000 But so appreciate you, Julie, and bless you as you lead that Bible study for Bible study fellowship. 637 00:40:15,000 --> 00:40:21,000 That's a great organization. BSF. And we had so many people contact Curry and the Keeper and say, 638 00:40:21,000 --> 00:40:26,000 what's happened to living up in a down world? They're having to make excuses for us. 639 00:40:26,000 --> 00:40:30,000 Sorry about that, Adam and Tina. Thank you, Adam and Tina, for covering for us. 640 00:40:30,000 --> 00:40:36,000 Thank you for bringing us up on your show last night. I hope you did. They were supposed to. 641 00:40:36,000 --> 00:40:40,000 We haven't had a chance. I got part of the way through. I started listening today. So far so good. 642 00:40:40,000 --> 00:40:44,000 They said that they were going to bring us up and say, hey, they're going to have the podcast tomorrow. 643 00:40:44,000 --> 00:40:49,000 So here it is. By the way, just a little caveat in the middle of these thank yous. 644 00:40:49,000 --> 00:40:55,000 We did have New Year's dinner with them. New Year's Day. New Year's Day dinner. 645 00:40:55,000 --> 00:40:59,000 We all stayed in on New Year's Eve because it's craziness out there. I don't like to be out at night. 646 00:40:59,000 --> 00:41:04,000 I don't either. But we had such a great time. Every time we get together with them. 647 00:41:04,000 --> 00:41:08,000 Of course, me and Adam, it's God, the world and other things. That's our topic. 648 00:41:08,000 --> 00:41:12,000 And you don't think it's that way for Tina and I? You always say me and Adam. 649 00:41:12,000 --> 00:41:16,000 Well, we're talking politics and media. I mean, we talk female stuff too. 650 00:41:16,000 --> 00:41:22,000 Deconstruction. We're talking about all that stuff. But it's always fun to get to be with them. 651 00:41:22,000 --> 00:41:25,000 It's fun. And we had a great time. We love those guys. 652 00:41:25,000 --> 00:41:28,000 We never want to leave. And we finally have to say, oh, we have to go. 653 00:41:28,000 --> 00:41:31,000 Well, they feed us meat. So that's how you keep us there. 654 00:41:31,000 --> 00:41:35,000 That's right. That's right. And now we're trying to find time in their schedule to come to our house. 655 00:41:35,000 --> 00:41:37,000 I know. They're busy as we are. They're so busy. 656 00:41:37,000 --> 00:41:42,000 Their social calendar is insanity. Yes. So hopefully we can make it work soon. 657 00:41:42,000 --> 00:41:48,000 Yes, soon because I'm already missing them. So here's another one. This is from London in the UK. 658 00:41:48,000 --> 00:41:53,000 I wanted to tell you my word is gratitude. I really love it. 659 00:41:53,000 --> 00:41:57,000 That's my word for life. I can't make it my word for the year. 660 00:41:57,000 --> 00:42:02,000 I'm so with you on that. She says, or he says, I'm not sure. 661 00:42:02,000 --> 00:42:06,000 I really love the idea. And you're right. It kicks in straight away. 662 00:42:06,000 --> 00:42:11,000 Talking about when I said in November, October, November, when I came up with Engage, I just started doing it. 663 00:42:11,000 --> 00:42:17,000 Same thing. She says, I hope Annette is returning to health. Happy New Year from London, UK. 664 00:42:17,000 --> 00:42:23,000 I do love me some London. I know. We've got to go back. Every time I hear Coldplay, my mind goes back to London. 665 00:42:23,000 --> 00:42:28,000 We want to go back to London, Paris and Ireland. London was awesome. Yeah, I loved it. I liked it. 666 00:42:28,000 --> 00:42:32,000 So and then we've got some Boostergrams too. So I want to share that. 667 00:42:32,000 --> 00:42:41,000 Guess who our executive producer and literal executive producer, Mr. Adam Curry, in with a Striper Boost. 668 00:42:41,000 --> 00:42:43,000 I've got to go Striper. 669 00:42:43,000 --> 00:42:48,000 He says this lifting up Dayman that in healing prayer. Remember, this has been two weeks ago. 670 00:42:48,000 --> 00:42:54,000 I know this is throwing everything on now because you're like you're well, you're well now, but I wasn't well ish. 671 00:42:54,000 --> 00:43:00,000 So yes, he says, lift up Dayman and healing prayer. Thank you, Adam. He is my prayer partner for sure. 672 00:43:00,000 --> 00:43:06,000 Great job flying the plane solo, brother. Thank you for being nice. You're never doing that again. 673 00:43:06,000 --> 00:43:14,000 I don't like it. I can't. Well, it's weird. I'm so codependent on you. Podcasts really should be with other people. 674 00:43:14,000 --> 00:43:19,000 I know. I mean, there's life in it. He says, see you Sunday, which we did. Of course, we had a blast. 675 00:43:19,000 --> 00:43:28,000 Tina and Adam also. Hey, it's been a while, but Sir Brian with an eye is the one that we've wondered if he really has a girlfriend or not. 676 00:43:28,000 --> 00:43:33,000 I had to throw that in there. It was so good to hear from. I have missed him. 677 00:43:33,000 --> 00:43:38,000 OK, calm down, guys. I miss him. I really do. I just love him. 678 00:43:38,000 --> 00:43:42,000 So anyway, we did get to see him at the meet up last two months ago, whenever that was. 679 00:43:42,000 --> 00:43:44,000 That was a long time ago. We've slept since then. Yes. 680 00:43:44,000 --> 00:43:51,000 But anyway, Sir Brian with an eye in with 3000 sats says, Pastor Jimmy, I loved your solo project, but I love the duet even more. 681 00:43:51,000 --> 00:43:56,000 Me too, bro. Dayman that is feeling much better. I hope Dayman is feeling much better. 682 00:43:56,000 --> 00:44:00,000 May the new year bring you many prayers and plenty of vitamin C. 683 00:44:00,000 --> 00:44:07,000 Sorry for the low boost amount. It's all I had left. I'll get my wallet funded and get you some more sats next week. 684 00:44:07,000 --> 00:44:11,000 OK, I'm you hold him to it, bro. 685 00:44:11,000 --> 00:44:15,000 Also, for anyone in Austin, check out ninety two point five FM. 686 00:44:15,000 --> 00:44:22,000 Excellent worship music to help you. K.Y.B.O. keep the buckets overflowing. 687 00:44:22,000 --> 00:44:27,000 I haven't downloaded that. Oh, why not? We have a cool, slightly busy. 688 00:44:27,000 --> 00:44:34,000 Yeah, we have a new jingle, which I'm super. Sir T.J. The Wrathful put that together. 689 00:44:34,000 --> 00:44:37,000 I can't wait to play that. Thank you, Sir Brian with an eye. 690 00:44:37,000 --> 00:44:41,000 You're one of my favorite peeps, especially one of my favorite peeps from Austin. 691 00:44:41,000 --> 00:44:45,000 And we love you, man. So thanks for the sats and thank you more for just the encouragement. 692 00:44:45,000 --> 00:44:53,000 Shelly C with a thousand sats says this, a small boost, but simply wanted to send you a note and say thank you for your podcast. 693 00:44:53,000 --> 00:44:57,000 You're welcome. And thank you for saying thanks. 694 00:44:57,000 --> 00:45:04,000 Something I realized recently was that whenever I listen, I'm always encouraged and realize how much God is at work despite the evil in the world. 695 00:45:04,000 --> 00:45:10,000 Amen and amen. That's why we're here to help you live up in a down world. 696 00:45:10,000 --> 00:45:13,000 So thank you for that. I know life is full for you both right now. 697 00:45:13,000 --> 00:45:16,000 And I am praying for Annette to return to full health. 698 00:45:16,000 --> 00:45:21,000 Isn't that beautiful? And for continued energy and wisdom as you lead your church. 699 00:45:21,000 --> 00:45:24,000 Blessings to you both. Thank you, Shelly C. 700 00:45:24,000 --> 00:45:28,000 That's sweet. Again, the word gratitude just comes back up. 701 00:45:28,000 --> 00:45:32,000 I'm grateful for people taking time to write and say thank you. 702 00:45:32,000 --> 00:45:38,000 It means so much to us. We also did receive a PayPal donation from David. 703 00:45:38,000 --> 00:45:41,000 Sir, what's it called? Oh, David Wicker. Yes. 704 00:45:41,000 --> 00:45:44,000 Yeah. Yes. So we definitely want to thank him for that. 705 00:45:44,000 --> 00:45:47,000 It's Sir by His Grace. Sir by His Grace. Thank you, David, for that. 706 00:45:47,000 --> 00:45:51,000 Thank you for that. Really appreciate that. And we have others that do some ongoing things. 707 00:45:51,000 --> 00:45:57,000 So appreciate it. One last boost a gram from Maxi Peach at 500 Sats. 708 00:45:57,000 --> 00:46:01,000 Thank you for your courage. I really enjoy your podcast. 709 00:46:01,000 --> 00:46:06,000 You're helping me as a new believer to grow my faith. My word is gratitude. 710 00:46:06,000 --> 00:46:11,000 There it is again. That word keeps coming up. I'm certainly grateful to you both. 711 00:46:11,000 --> 00:46:13,000 I hope Annette is returning to good health and she is. 712 00:46:13,000 --> 00:46:17,000 Yay, God. Happy New Year and Happy New Year to you, Maxi Peach. 713 00:46:17,000 --> 00:46:19,000 We so appreciate it. Beautiful. Beautiful. 714 00:46:19,000 --> 00:46:23,000 And I just want to say if you want something that will help you on a daily basis, 715 00:46:23,000 --> 00:46:26,000 I write a daily devotional. I've written it for 20 years. 716 00:46:26,000 --> 00:46:31,000 Every day it's fresh. It's hot off the press. I rarely repeat one. 717 00:46:31,000 --> 00:46:35,000 I literally every morning get up, get in the Word and listen for God. 718 00:46:35,000 --> 00:46:40,000 And I write a daily devote. It is on our website, Living Up with a Down World. 719 00:46:40,000 --> 00:46:43,000 Every morning you'll see it. Living Up in a Down World. 720 00:46:43,000 --> 00:46:45,000 What did I say? With a Down World. Did I say that? 721 00:46:45,000 --> 00:46:47,000 You did. Ooh, okay. 722 00:46:47,000 --> 00:46:51,000 I know. Thinking too far ahead. LivingUpInADownWorld.com. 723 00:46:51,000 --> 00:46:57,000 It's also on BridgeFBG.com. There's a way to look at it there. 724 00:46:57,000 --> 00:47:00,000 It's also on social media, Facebook. It's everywhere. 725 00:47:00,000 --> 00:47:03,000 But I'm just saying for our listeners, LivingUpInADownWorld.com. 726 00:47:03,000 --> 00:47:07,000 Go there and just click on blog and you'll see the daily post. 727 00:47:07,000 --> 00:47:09,000 It's there every day and it's there to encourage you. 728 00:47:09,000 --> 00:47:12,000 It's just another way that we want to speak into your life. 729 00:47:12,000 --> 00:47:15,000 Are you okay? I know the homilic. 730 00:47:15,000 --> 00:47:17,000 Oh my gosh. I'm certified. I had a small cough. 731 00:47:17,000 --> 00:47:19,000 Okay, you're alright. 732 00:47:19,000 --> 00:47:22,000 So anyway, thank you again and do check out our website. 733 00:47:22,000 --> 00:47:25,000 All of our podcasts and all of our archives are there. 734 00:47:25,000 --> 00:47:31,000 Or if you are into Podcasting 2.0, by the way, David Wicker, 735 00:47:31,000 --> 00:47:34,000 we are working on the video version of this podcast 736 00:47:34,000 --> 00:47:38,000 and even getting my sermons on Podcasting 2.0 as well. 737 00:47:38,000 --> 00:47:41,000 So you've asked about that and you've asked for it. 738 00:47:41,000 --> 00:47:44,000 You've even gone through Adam and Tina to ask about it. 739 00:47:44,000 --> 00:47:46,000 So we're getting the message. 740 00:47:46,000 --> 00:47:51,000 So we're going to be having conversations about how to get that video on Podcasting 2.0. 741 00:47:51,000 --> 00:48:00,000 Now, if you listen on Fountain or Cast-O-Matic or any of the Podcast 2.0 platforms, 742 00:48:00,000 --> 00:48:01,000 you can boost us. 743 00:48:01,000 --> 00:48:03,000 And that's one of the ways we call it value for value. 744 00:48:03,000 --> 00:48:06,000 It's something Adam Curry came up with. It's brilliant. 745 00:48:06,000 --> 00:48:09,000 And what it is basically, if you like what you're hearing, 746 00:48:09,000 --> 00:48:13,000 if what we're doing is helping you, if it's encouraging you, 747 00:48:13,000 --> 00:48:17,000 if it's adding value to your life, then our simple ask is this. 748 00:48:17,000 --> 00:48:23,000 You can show value back to us and give value back to us by going to, 749 00:48:23,000 --> 00:48:27,000 by subscribing to our newsletter, by passing our links along to others 750 00:48:27,000 --> 00:48:29,000 because you may listen to something. 751 00:48:29,000 --> 00:48:31,000 We cover a topic that could help somebody. 752 00:48:31,000 --> 00:48:34,000 And that's really our biggest part of our heart is to help people. 753 00:48:34,000 --> 00:48:37,000 And so share the podcast with others. 754 00:48:37,000 --> 00:48:42,000 Or you can contribute through Boostergrams or through PayPal on our website. 755 00:48:42,000 --> 00:48:44,000 So there's just ways you can add value. 756 00:48:44,000 --> 00:48:47,000 And we love you guys and we're so thankful for you. 757 00:48:47,000 --> 00:48:49,000 Any last words in there? 758 00:48:49,000 --> 00:48:50,000 No, that's good. 759 00:48:50,000 --> 00:48:55,000 Well, then we're going to go ahead and land the plane today because this boy is getting hungry. 760 00:48:55,000 --> 00:48:58,000 We've hit our 23-hour window on our fast. 761 00:48:58,000 --> 00:48:59,000 We sure have. 762 00:48:59,000 --> 00:49:02,000 And I'm looking forward to getting some meat, some jet fuel. 763 00:49:02,000 --> 00:49:03,000 I love you, baby. 764 00:49:03,000 --> 00:49:04,000 You look amazing, by the way. 765 00:49:04,000 --> 00:49:05,000 Thank you. 766 00:49:05,000 --> 00:49:07,000 When you're on fire for Jesus, that is when you're the most beautiful to me. 767 00:49:07,000 --> 00:49:08,000 I know. 768 00:49:08,000 --> 00:49:09,000 I know. 769 00:49:09,000 --> 00:49:10,000 You always say that. 770 00:49:10,000 --> 00:49:11,000 You got it. 771 00:49:11,000 --> 00:49:12,000 You're on fire. 772 00:49:12,000 --> 00:49:13,000 Love you, folks. 773 00:49:13,000 --> 00:49:34,000 Thank you.