with us today. We are living up in a down world and we want to welcome you to our podcast.
Hey baby girl. Hello. You look fantastic today. Thank you. When we were getting ready this
morning you walk in and you ask the golden question, how does this look? You don't have
to tell everybody that. What do I always say? You look amazing. You look amazing. I know.
Because you do. I could be in a rag and you'd go, you look amazing. That's true. This morning
you walked in and I was like, whoa. Wow. You're so funny. It's because I'm dawdled up for work.
Yesterday I wasn't. I was dawdled up for the gym, which is not very dawdled. No, I like you being
dawdled up for the gym. That's how we first met in a gym. That's true. That's true. Anyway,
we want to welcome our listeners today and we're just thrilled. What number are we at? We're on
number 61. Wow. I know. I know. We're starting to really crank these out. Yep, we are. We're
doing good. Time flies when you're having fun. I know. It does. It's crazy. I know. So, how have
you been since the last show? Great. Oh my gosh. So much has happened. I know. Well, the world's
going crazy. The world's going crazy. I ran declared war against Israel, which was just
unbelievable to me. Mind-bending. It's one thing when a group
declares war. It's another thing when a nation declares war. That's bad.
So, but you know what? It's driving me more to the Bible more than ever, because we are in the last
days. I mean, we've been in the last days since, you know, for how many years? 2,000 years. But we
really are. If you study prophecy and you study Ezekiel and Zechariah and the New Testament
Revelation, you really do see that it's clearer and clearer where in the last days and we could
rapture at any moment. And I don't want to be caught doing anything but serving the Lord.
That's it. And sharing the gospel, period. I love what you said, Annette, because it's the same for
me as I'm watching world events unfold and even biblical prophecy events unfold in terms of nations
turning against Israel and just the strangeness that we're in right now. For me, it's the same
thing. It drives me back to Scripture. It drives me to the Word of God, because that is my anchor.
I'm one of those guys that as a young new Christian on fire for God, it was the Word of God that I
fell in love with. I fell in love with Jesus, of course, and of course, Abba, Father, and the Holy
Spirit. But the Word was what spoke to me. Well, that's how you get to know Jesus, the Holy Spirit.
God is through the Word, because the Word is God. It's the revelation of who He is and His character.
Yes. So, yeah, so the same is... This is just driving me deeper into Scripture. Bring out the
book, as we say. We're bringing out the book. I find so many books, too, on end times and just
trying to get some more clarity. Especially when you get up in our age, you really start to look
at your mortality. Well, hello. We are in our 60s. You begin to think about your mortality more,
whether it's the rapture coming at any moment or us going at any moment. Of course, it doesn't
matter how old you are, but obviously when you're older, you begin to think about those things more.
True. And I'm really encouraged by the things I'm reading, especially the prophets of today that are
pre-trib and helping me understand. So what is pre-trib? Pre-trib, that the rapture is going to
happen before the tribulation. So the rapture of... Jesus coming back. Pretend somebody is
listening and they don't know what we're talking about. That's true. You go ahead. You share what you've...
Okay. Because we've been talking about this a lot. So the Bible talks about that at the end of days,
the last of the last days, and what's called that day, the big day, that there is going to be a
rapture. And what the rapture is, is that we're literally going to be literally lifted up. I mean,
we're carried off of this planet. Everything shifts. We're so relegated to a natural world,
terra firma, the earth we stand on, dirt between our toes and all that, matter, atoms, all that.
That's what we're relegated to. Well, we're not... But we're not just physical beings. We're spiritual
beings too. And the spiritual component of us, this is where the Bible gets wild. It says we'll be
caught up in the air. To meet Him in the clouds. And so I'm assuming it's going to be a cloudy day.
In the blink of an eye too. I mean, it literally could happen. And a lot of people, because the
Bible talks about tribulation coming, which is the wrath of God, there are scriptures that show
that the wrath of God is not going to come on us that believe. And again...
Comes on the wicked, the scripture says.
Right. But I'm going to reiterate believing, trusting, adhering.
Yes. I mean, there's so much more depth to that word. We just don't...
You're right.
I don't think we understand the depth of that word. We just take it so lightly.
True. It's what Mama Joyce Meyer, I call her Mama Joyce because she's in her 80s now,
said years ago, she talked about, are you a believing believer? And to me, that just has
stuck with me through the years. And I constantly check my heart because I want to make sure that
I'm not just giving lip service to God. I'm not just saying I'm a Christian or I'm a follower of
Jesus, but that I am literally actually a believing believer. I'm adhering to, I'm taking hold of,
I'm grabbing hold of it and not just saying it. Not just going through the motions.
And He knows your heart.
Yes.
Our hearts can be wicked, but He knows that we're wanting to be gratified by Him and not the things
that... I mean, again, we have to talk about your message from last week. Last week's show,
we talked about your message or have we talked about... Yeah, did we talk about your message
or Brian's message?
Talked about Pastor Brian's message.
And this week, your message was so right on. I want you to share your devotion today
because it kind of goes along with it and where you're going to be going in the coming weeks.
And I was really moved by what you said today in your devotion. Read that for us.
So, two things. First of all, I'm going to post on our newsletter, which we're going to put out
today just ahead of this podcast before we release it. The title was,
Awake, Aware, and Alive. And just the idea that we need to wake up. We need to be sober-minded.
We need to be aware of what's going on around us and live in the middle of it. Be alive. Look
alive. Keep your head on a swivel, as they say in the military.
And we as Christians should be looking alive. We shouldn't look forlorn and be down. We should
be living up in a down world because we don't have anything to be down about.
No matter how crazy this world gets, and it's going to get crazier. For once, an election year
and maybe one of the wildest elections we'll ever witness. Maybe. You never know what the next one
will bring, but right now up to this point, this is insanity what's happening. We've got one,
got a sitting president who's bullying and prosecuting a candidate at opposition. I mean,
it's war. I mean, it is like war right in our midst.
And you can look at all that, and you can look at the state of the world and be down,
but we have hope. We're supposed to be looking up. Look up. Don't look down. Don't look at our
circumstances. So Colossians 3.2 is one of my go-to verses that always encourages me that no
matter how whacked everything seems to be, it says to set your mind on things above and not on
things on the earth, which is exactly what we need to be doing. So instead of getting so spun up.
Which is interesting because that's the verse of the day. I just read that.
No way. Yeah, Bible version,
Bible version, you version. Set your mind on things above, not on earthly things. In fact,
I was going to bring that up because of, and yet, and that's how you stay up. If you set your mind
constantly on the things that are going on in this world, you will be spun up. You'll be down.
You will live forlorn. You will not be able to get above circumstances. And we can't afford to
do that. Now, sometimes we go there and God reminds us, set your mind on things above,
not on earthly things. Of course, that verse could mean a lot of things.
Because it can mean don't put your mind on how you're going to make it from day to day,
you know, your finances. Don't let things become your idol. Put God there.
Well, everything about the milieu and the ethos of this world. That's what it's referring to.
Exactly. So I'm going to read the scripture verse, then I'm going to read this short devotional,
and I do these every day. You can go to Living Up in a World. Down World. I do this every time.
And you know what? We're having a big neon sign made right now. Yeah, it says,
Living Up in a Down World. And you'll be able to look at that and be able to remember what we are.
I need a cue. Yes, you do. So Living Up. I'll point to it every time you say it.
LivingUpInADownWorld.com. You can go there and you can see the daily devotionals are posted around
7 a.m. every morning. That's central standard time here in Texas. And you can see all the
archives too. And these are written every day and they are fresh. They are hot off the press.
I write these every morning. I've done this for 20 years. And so what you're getting is not
regurgitated. It's not recycled. It is fresh. So whatever God's speaking to me, I wake up every
morning, good morning, Holy Spirit. What do you want to say? So here's today. And this is
out of 1 Peter chapter 1 verses 15 and 16. I used to listen to Lectio 365 on my headphones while I'm
getting Chevy taken care of. It's a devotional. When I'm getting Chevy taken care of, getting him
his morning breakfast and all that, you have to take care of him before you do anything or the
house isn't going to work. So first thing is take care of him. And that's usually about 4 45, 5 45,
5 o'clock. So this morning I get up and I thought I don't want to do the Lectio 365 anymore. It's
kind of, it's good, but it's a little passive in this season for me. So I decided to just put the
U version Bible on with a speaker, you know, so I could listen with my little earbuds. And I listen
to 1 Peter because 1 Peter talks a lot about what's going on in the world, what was going on in their
current world. Very similar to what we're seeing right now. So here's the scripture, 1 Peter 1 15.
But just as he who called you as holy, so be holy in all you do for it is written, be holy because I
am holy. So it mentions holy 1, 2, 3, 4 times in just 2 sentences. 4 times. Which is very important.
This idea of holiness. Apparently he's shouting that. He is loud and clear, right? Loud and clear.
Shouting it from the rooftop. So I titled it a dangerous move. And here it is.
There has been a move away from holiness and consecration in our contemporary church culture.
In our desire to be relevant and current, we tend to abandon biblical virtues we don't like or
understand, which distinguish us as believers who live under the Lordship of Christ. The Greek word
hagias is an adjective that means holy or sacred. It can also mean set apart by God or different from
the world. We can easily default unhealthy representations that reduce this godly attribute
holiness to legalism, practices, and even hyper-Pentecostalism. To engage in biblical
holiness is to live your life as a vessel of honor in every arena and therefore point a watching world
to Jesus. It is not old-fashioned or irrelevant. It is a crucial virtue to be welcomed and embraced.
How can you embrace and express holiness in your life today? I want you to riff on that.
Wow. Well, I believe that the church has capitulated to the world. We have definitely said,
you know what? We're old-fashioned. We're modern. We know more now. We have more technology.
We're more progressive.
We're more progressive. So the Bible's not relevant anymore. And that is a very,
very dangerous place to be.
That's why I called it a dangerous move.
It is. And I love the fact that we were awakened over our sabbatical to holiness
and to godliness and to be able to and to take our church into a whole new place. Because again,
like most churches, we were, according to the word, tickling the ears of what people wanted to hear
instead of what God wanted to say. And I feel like God said, if you'll just listen to me,
do what I say from the word. Don't tickle their ears so you can grow a bigger church,
have more money in your church or whatever, like a lot of churches are doing out of fear.
Out of fear. Do what I say. Preach the word of God. Even if it's not popular,
I will build your church, period. Don't worry about anything else.
And we had to come to terms with that over our sabbatical. People have asked us,
what has happened to y'all? What has happened?
People are calling me Pastor Jimmy 2.0.
Well, they are. And the thing is, when we went on sabbatical, we were praying for revival and
awakening. We've talked about this. We were praying for it, and God said, it's got to start
with you first, because you're the leader. If you're praying for that for your church,
not the church, but for your church, it's got to start with you. And if it doesn't start with you,
it will not spill out to them. And He had to get us to a place to where we turned off the TV,
the bad TV. I'm not saying all TV is bad, because we watched some great movies on Pure Flix this
week. There's good internet podcasts, and there's a lot of good stuff out there. But we turned off
everything that was not pleasing. I love what you said on Sunday.
If you're watching something that your child walks in and you have to turn the channel,
there's a problem. And that is a problem. And we in America have said, oh, but the grace covers,
grace covers everything. We're forgiven, so we can just do whatever we want. Wow. No, that is not
the truth. It's a swing and a miss. We've missed the mark on that. And God has really opened up
our minds and our hearts. So what you're preaching is not popular. It is not popular. It is not a
popular thing. And it's stirring up some things. I'm getting a lot of hate mail. Not within the
church. Our people in the church are amazing. Our church has been amazing. Our church is ready to
go. It's full-staminated. But there's probably people in the church that have left. It could be.
It could be. But here's the thing. I no longer work for an audience of 650 people. I now do what I do
for an audience of one. And it truly is. Whatever remainder of days I have, 10, 20, however long God
lets me live. Days? You said days. Years, years, years, years. 10 or 20 days is not very long.
Many years God lets me live. I'm going to spend it pleasing Him. I'm done with trying to please
people and be a man pleaser or a person pleaser or to make everybody happy. I can't live like that
anymore. And that was part of the revelation and part of the clarity that I got on our sabbatical.
And I used the term you said at the scales. Dropped from my eyes. Just like when the prophet Ananias
prayed over Saul who became Paul. It was a Saul to Paul moment when he could see.
He was persecuting the Christians. He hated the Christians. He was having them killed.
But then the scales came off of his eyes after Ananias prayed over him and now he became the chief
of all. He says he's the chief of all sinners back then and he was. But he literally, I mean he wrote
Chief Apostle. Chief Apostle. He wrote three quarters of the New Testament. And it's amazing
what he wrote and his insight in a short amount of time. But he had to have an awakening. He had to
have an awakening. He did. And while I was praying for awakening for everybody else, God woke me up
big time. And I love that you're going there with holiness because the grace movement has been
hijacked. God is full of grace. God is about grace. He sits on the throne of grace. He is grace.
Yes. Approach you. Come boldly before the throne of grace the book of Hebrews tells us. Yeah,
so far in that we feel like we don't have to do anything but like you say lay in a hammock with
some sweet tea and we're fine and no there's so much more to that. There's work to be done.
Not for our salvation because our salvation was given as a gift. There's the work of the ministry.
Getting the gospel out. The mission. And how do we get the gospel out if we're not sharing it first
with our family? It has to start in the hall. Starts at the dinner table. Then it goes from
there to your friends, to people that are in your sphere of influence. And then for us, church,
podcast, however we can get the gospel out is how God's called us to get the gospel out.
So let's bring it back to where it all starts because I think it's good that we take a step
back because I mean we could riff on this all day long right but we need to get back to the very
basic point where it starts. The genesis of this so to speak and it is this. When you say yes to
Jesus you say I want to give my life to God. I'm going to give my life to Jesus. I believe that he
died for my sins and I receive his gift of salvation. I receive his and accept his atonement
for my sins which means I'm now free, clear, clean, washed clean. A whole new person. When you do that
now you have a decision to make. All right so you make this this we call it the great exchange.
You've got this great exchange that happens but what's critical isn't just that point it's what
happens after that. That's way more important than that moment. And what we often see is that there
will be people who have this this epiphany and this amazing epic moment in their life. Because
of something that happened some emotion they felt or pain or trauma whatever stirs it up and they're
sensitive to it but then after they do that and maybe they get baptized you know follow the Lord
and believers baptism but then they they leave there they leave the applause and the cheering
church and you know everybody congratulating me and they go they they default because our our
default mechanism is to go right back to what we were used to and what we've known but we have to
learn a whole new life. And it's a process. It's a process. It doesn't happen overnight
but what I look for in a new believer is really what happened to me because that's my experience
is that I was so hungry for God's word. So hungry for his presence. So desiring to
be obedient to what he told me to do and that started by reading the Bible and saying okay this
is what the Bible says a believer should look like or a believer should walk like talk like speak like
behave like act like. I wanted to do that and lo these many years now this is my 40th year in
ministry but even before that you know born again just a few years not long before that but a few
so a little over 40 probably 44 years that I've been walking with Jesus.
My passion for that has never stopped. It's it's actually increased. Which it should. Yeah at this
age I'm 62 years young and feel better than I've ever felt but it's it's my passion to please him
and to honor God with everything I am. So let's bring that back to where people are. There ought
to be something in you if you say you are a follower of Jesus you've given your heart to
Christ you've been born again irregardless of trauma you've experienced irregardless of
disappointment you've walked through because everybody goes through these things and some
worse than others obviously but everybody's got let downs and broken places. There should be a
hunger within you that says I want to know him more. I want to walk with him. I want to obey him.
Fruit of your salvation. Yeah well the Bible calls it the fruits of repentance
that turning to God there should be fruit in other words it should be evident to anyone in your life
anyone in your sphere of influence that you're a changed person you are not the same. But what
happens is things in life happen to us and we begin to blame God. We get disappointed. We get
disappointed and we blame God and we turn away from the faith because something bad happened
because we think well I'm a Christian nothing bad should ever happen that is not the truth.
They were told a bill of goods it is wrong it is not that way. It's hard to be a Christian in this
world today but God can turn anything that happens that's negative in our life that's trauma he can
turn it for good. Absolutely. And I know that because of what happened with me. You know that
because of what happened with you when you went through your divorce and you were devastated you
got mad at God because you were like God I married the first my only Christian woman I ever knew I
married and then she left me because I was in the ministry and she didn't want to be a part of it
and there was other other circumstances that went along with that but you had every right to be mad
at God and you were for a very short period. It didn't last long. Because you knew God so well that you were like
all right God I can't leave I can't abandon you because you didn't abandon me you knew this was
going to happen what are you going to do about it God and what did he do? He brought healing and then
he brought me to you. Which is the greatest gift I've ever experienced this side of salvation.
Marriage could be this way not that God condones divorce because he doesn't she left you you
couldn't do anything you actually tried to stay and there were other circumstances that
was a reason why it didn't work but the thing is is so many people get disappointed in God
so they just abandon their faith. Do they really know God? That's what is a puzzle to me it's a
mystery. It is to me. Can you actually walk away from God if you've ever actually known him?
And that's hard for me to reconcile personally because I cannot imagine that because I've had
opportunities to do that with disappointment, betrayal, hard things happening especially being
a pastor. Pastors are falling right and left it's so hard being a pastor in this crazy
sprawling world. The stress alone is unbelievable. COVID sent us down a dark place that a lot of
pastors have never recovered from and so there's a lot of reasons to say you know I could walk away
or I can't even wrap my mind around denying God or denying his existence much I've got too much
history with him and too much love for him and understand his love for me so taking it back to
where we were starting is that I want to see those fruit of the fruit of repentance. I want to
if it's there you can't walk away if it's there you can't stay away if you it's like you and me
I mean I go out and do a bro date with Adam right what three hours and I'm missing you and I love
my brother Adam I mean we like to hang out and we solve all the world's problems every time we go to
dinner and we fix in everything people just listen to us the world would be a better place.
Wow. Someone said I'm the biblical Jimmy you're the you're the biblical version of no agenda
so Adam does no agenda I do the biblical side of no agenda the New Testament side of it and
and together we have these amazing conversations but an hour into it I'm already going I'm not home
with my with my wife I'm not home with the person I love and in the same way I could never imagine
walking away from you or you abandoning me I can't imagine walking away from God. Because our love
has grown over 31 years of being married better and people don't understand that marriage can
actually get better instead of we've been married a long time and we're kind of you know setting our
ways and we're no we don't do that we don't we go out to eat we don't just sit there and stare
or get on our food or get on our phones which we see a lot we talk we engage we ask questions we
have conversations and which is exactly what God wants for us exactly in fact marriage is supposed
to be a picture it is a picture of your relationship with Jesus exactly and so and when when when a
marriage is not going well it could be an indicator of your relationship with Christ unfortunately can
be a bad picture as well so which again I want to stay holy with you and not I'm not I don't want
to do anything that's going to disappoint you that's going to cause you to look down on me
and that works both ways exactly and because we're both like that and because we're both
want the best for each other it makes it work which is what God wants from us he wants us to
want the best and want to to be the best we can with him but we can't do that apart from his word
we can't go oh well we're progressive now we're a modern society we the Bible's antiquated it's
it's irrelevant you know it's an old book it's but that's what a lot of churches are relegating
a lot of pastors have lost their biblical worldview yeah it's they've moved away from it it's sad for me it's tragic this is why we need to pray for the church
I'm glad that we're awake enough to see that our church could have gone down that path if we continued
the way we were going but God said no course correction this is why you took your sabbatical
this is why I forced you into this sabbatical which he did we weren't going to take it last minute we go
okay because there's never a good time anyway and God said I need that time to spend with you you
to spend with me so that you can get on a course correction yeah this is the way I want you to lead
the church and what we were doing before wasn't wasn't bad it wasn't bad or wrong the church was
growing the church was healthy we were getting healthier it's just that we were not in the center
of the lane we were like on the edge of the lane instead of in the center if that makes sense that's
like driving down a road and you got a boundary on each side and you're supposed to be in the
middle of the lane but you're over here driving on the kind of like the two trucks that almost ran
us over yesterday and today because they went over the line head on a swivel yeah it's crazy crazy
out there right now but but yeah but back to that I want to digress off of that I also want to encourage
people listening who they're not in a great place right now they're in that struggle and we want you
to know something there's a lot of talk about the grace of God these days but I want to talk about
the mercy of God oh yeah that's good grace is a gift that is given and it's God giving you something
you didn't earn mercy is God not giving you what you do deserve which is which is separation from
him which is perdition punishment wrath all those things that's what mercy is and a lot of people
are saying I need grace when really what they need is mercy it's true and I we need to be talking
about mercy as much or more than we talk about grace we need to talk about all of them but but
mercy is what we need yes and and I've been appealing to God's mercy to say father I
where I've missed the mark where I strayed out of the middle of the road and got too close to the
edges I am so sorry I walked outside I took Shaviyat to do his business at night which we
do every night before we go to bed right and there's this beautiful large cross on a hill across the
highway from us and it's up on a large hill I mean you stand and just look up the hill it's beautiful
stunning and at night yeah it's lit up and it's just this massive reminder standing on in my
backyard looking up on the patio that the cross so every night I walk out I love taking him out
at night because it's dark the moon full moon came up last night and I walk out and I say good
evening Holy Spirit and then I say this on purpose good evening Lord Jesus he's Lord not me there's
the difference and then I say good evening Abba father that's the difference in you know we talked
about this you've talked about this on Sunday Lordship on we can sign a card we can say a prayer
ask God to forgive us but the whole key of salvation is not that one moment it's making him
Lord of our life and if he's not Lord of all he's not Lord at all that was strong that was strong
and we had someone who's very godly teaches you know the class here very um very looked up to
with admiration and she came to us and said I've not made him Lord of all and we prayed for her
immediately and this is someone who's been in the church it was a beautiful moment we literally held
her like it was three of us we both wrapped her arms around her held her and prayed for her
because she said I want him to be Lord I want to make sure and the way I put it is what it means
to be Lord is master but it's also to be on the throne in the center of your life not just the
top of the list lists are kind of a misnomer the center of your world the center of your life the
core of who you are so she said I want him to be on the throne of my life and I think what's
what we're seeing in the church today are Sunday to Sunday Christians and so he's Lord on Sundays
because they come to church for an hour or two they might sing they might raise their hands they're
they're listening to the word but what about during the week that you know I heard we heard
a preacher say it's more it's more important what happens during the week than what happens at church
and that is when you go out of this building yes when you go out of the building it's how do you
live during the week okay can I say the way he said it yeah he said the way he said it was
we see who the church really is when you're outside these walls not when you're here this
is a special moment we come together we get stirred up we worship and we hear a sermon but
where it really counts is out there exactly where you live where you work and where you play exactly
wow I know this was heavy today but I it's good and it's I need it as a constant reminder to keep
myself in check too because I want to always act in a godly way wherever I go I don't want it to
just to be relegated to church I want it to be relegated to that's Annette's life yeah she knows
God I want people to look at me and say she knows the Lord I want what she has yeah and I that's you
know every day I pray for wisdom I pray for revelation I pray for the light of God to shine
through me and I think that's what we all should pray for if when we pray that way and we keep our
eyes fixed on him it's amazing the things that we can see that he does because he's always doing
something but our eyes aren't fully you know fixed on what he's doing and we can get our eyes off of
things but when we keep our eyes fixed on him we can see his just the manifestation of who he is in
everything and everywhere and that is that's what I want for people who are listening to this to see
to see his majesty everywhere even in the dark things he's there he's just waiting for someone
to pray he's waiting for someone to move he's waiting for you know what I'm saying yes he's
just ah I'm just enamored I loved our conversation last night when we just both said together we were
back and forth with this we just want to honor him in every area of our life honor God in every
area if there's any area of our life that is not I mean I was talking about getting off Instagram
just which I did I asked out I removed it I went off of it I've got a lot of I do my devotionals
on there and then I get a lot of news things so I'm looking at an alternative way to get that and
then I'm going to turn over my account to my daughter who does all of our social media and
everything and just give it to her and let her have it let her post yes so if anybody dms me she
can get me the note and then I can get back through her instead of because I it's a it's a time suck
it just wastes so much time and it's not a bad thing things there are dark things there are dark
things which is why I got off I've got all my reels I'm like oh my gosh all this bad stuff I'm
like how if it doesn't honor God I want it out of my life I want it out of my life and so I'm
gonna make a shift with that I'm gonna keep Facebook because I know so many people go back
years with us high school friends and so I'm gonna stay on that because that's that's easy
to navigate and but I'm we're just saying God if it doesn't honor you it's gone it's gone we don't
need it and and I would encourage you to just do a self-check do an evaluation what is it in your
life that you know doesn't honor God that if your child walked in and saw you doing it would you be
embarrassed that's a real obvious thing but I mean just on a personal level we know we intuitively
know we do we know we know when we're I call it dancing close to the fire you know hey I'm a little
close but maybe I won't get burned oh because it's a slow phase it is and we just need to wake up
there it is we do because people are watching us yeah they are watching but you know who's really
watching us God's always watching and I don't mean he's watching to wait for us to mess up that's
watching us like a good father to a good daughter or son saying I'm so proud of you I want the
best for you if you'll just do what I tell you course correction it'll be amazing for you because
he's not trying to keep us from something that we are gonna miss out on he's trying to protect
he's protecting us from the bridge that's out Rome is burning family yeah all right you're looking
at your watch hey we got to go folks we have a lot going we got a meeting coming up but I got a
couple people to say thank you to Adam Curry at 7777 7777 sat says this striper boost for dame
Annette back on the mic so there it is thank you Adam my best friend on the planet I so love you brother looking
forward to by the way he's coming by to help us reset our sound because our sound's gotten a little
whacked since we're in the studio he's gonna re calibrate for the studio so I'll see him in a
little bit and then Dave wicker oh Dave wicker just what a good guy he subscribes so we get a monthly
offering from him and that is so sweet so we're going to the K love awards uh award show in a couple
of weeks and David wicker and his wife yeah the end of the month we'll see them there yeah Adam and
Tina are going with us we're gonna have a great time so yeah thanks David wicker your blessing
Ryan Tierney sent 10 000 sats and he says this nice to hear dame Annette not that I didn't
thoroughly enjoy pastor Brian in the previous episode so Ryan thank you for uh the boost and
the the encouragement and I'm glad dame Annette's back on the mic too I'm enjoying it but I also
encourage Brian to come in every now and then once a month or something yeah he was just in the office
a few minutes ago I enjoy listening to both of y'all yeah we'll get him back on soon Tina and I
are going to be starting our own podcast yes in January we're waiting until two girls and one
god two girls one god that's gonna be awesome yeah I'm excited about it y'all are gonna be
it's gonna be fire no telling what it's gonna sound like I'm looking forward to it also we got
another boost this is from last week's show the one that that pastor Brian and I did together talking
about can Christians be political Alan C Paul we met Alan at the spark media podcast I think he won
like podcast of the year super sharp guy very talented and he wrote uh for last last episode
he did a stripper boost as well he says this enjoyed this convo and it was apparent you share
the same heart to impact the culture as my pastor we did an episode on this same subject so I got
to check that out from Alan and he says this would love to connect you both sometime soon so he wants
to connect connect connect me with his pastor oh I love that and so that keeps happening I know
contacting you constantly I want to connect you with my I've got a call this afternoon actually
with a guy out of Florida pastors yeah yeah and more pastors need to come around I know I'm trying
to wake my friends up culture I'll be honest with you when I talk to a lot of my pastor friends
about this it's just crickets there's just nothing I see a title culture wars culture
culture wars write that down I keep seeing titles I'm gonna type it out that's too good
your sermon series I came up with one yesterday for for the next one do you remember what it was
I hope we wrote it down it was unmasked unmasked and I see a white mask and a dark mask I see that
God's just been showing me culture wars just came to my head booyah yeah there you go so anyway we
just want to say thanks to everybody and again go to our our YouTube channel no our yeah you can go
to our YouTube channel for bridge church bridge church Fredericksburg Texas on YouTube if you'll
go there all of our current sermons on there look for the sermon awake aware alive by the way I only
got through the introduction I didn't even get into the message I just I basically did a come to
Jesus meeting with our church you did and it was powerful I came to Jesus three times in a row
I'm glad you got saved again I keep getting saved again and again well listen we do know that we're
over the target because I'm getting a lot of hits online and stuff negative that's okay but that's
okay hey my skin is thick because I love that you got finally got some thicker skin because
oh yeah it used to tear you up it motivates I used to get tore up over it now it motivates me yeah
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