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Holy Spirit, Lord Jesus, Abba Father, we come

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to you today grateful, grateful that we get to

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do this. It's not just the name of a show. It's

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a mantra for who we are and it's a declaration

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of gratitude to you. So Lord, as we talk today,

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we consecrate our words to you, pray for our

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listeners, so thankful for them. May they find

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encouragement and hope and inspiration in what

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we do today. In Jesus' name, amen. It's Wednesday,

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July 22nd, 2026. We get to do this. This is episode

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number 42. How you doing, brother? I'm doing

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great, actually. Yeah. Apologies up front to

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our listeners who were like, I've been waiting

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all day for the show. How come we didn't get

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the show yet? Oh, there you go. Yes. There were

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reasons. The main reason being we had a death

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in the family, and that would be the Noagenda

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family, but also the Curry family and the Dvorak

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family as John C. Dvorak passed two days ago.

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And I wanted to make sure that you heard it from

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no agenda first before we just started discussing

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it here. Fully appropriate. And wow, this is

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a good time to have a pastor as a friend. Because

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it has been just the wildest week with the arrival

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of our granddaughter. Huge celebration. I mean,

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just insane. Of course, we had you know, left

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Holland. So we had, we had missed the barely.

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Um, how many days was it? It was five days, five,

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six days. Yeah. That's still relatively close

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in time terms, but we were living in a socialist

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country in a hotel room for two weeks. You know,

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I couldn't take it. Couldn't take it any longer.

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Now we, we had stuff to do. Yeah. And, uh, and

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so Sunday, um, Did the show with with John C

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Dvorak no agenda great show mm -hmm I listened

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to over half of it and the energy was there everything

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was there It was it was man both of you were

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in full form yeah, and then for you know and

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when we when we end the show we We don't really

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say, we don't really talk much. It's like I'm

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looking for opening clips, that little opening

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bit. And then we go through the credits and usually

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would be laughing about, because I've set my

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robot up to do the clips and like, well, let's

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see if that stupid robot got the credits right.

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And we went through that and then we select the

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art, which is sometimes a discussion, but we

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both agreed. Yeah, that's a good one. We'll use

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that one. Do the title and then, you know, wait

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until everything's published. We check and make

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sure it's on the website. Okay. All right. We'll

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talk to you on Thursday. Yeah. Adios. Yeah. And

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that was it. And you've done this for 19. Almost

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in October. It'll be 19 years in October. Yeah.

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And for a majority of that twice a week. So I,

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this is my work wife. No kidding. Yeah. And so,

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um, was it, uh, yeah. Monday. right Monday, I'm

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on my way to go play chess with Willie. You know,

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that's my Sabbath and as part of the, part of

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the joy of, you know, not really doing any work

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and just resting. And I see John's wife, Mimi,

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pop up on my screen calling, you know, like,

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and she's in, on the West coast. I'm like, this

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can't be good. And, and, and she told me, I mean,

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I had to pull over the side of the road. I just,

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what? I flabbergasted so I literally went from

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that super high from you know not even 24 hours

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before that to just oh oh wow and it was now

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the the thing that I Love and by this this is

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in the newsletter John had done the show and

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Mimi was at the house because you know they have

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a place in Washington so it was nice that she

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was there and you know they had dinner and they

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were joking and laughing and then sitting on

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the couch watching an old NCIS and John was typical

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fashion grousing about the actor and an obvious

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hole in the plot and as Mimi describes it, it

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was just lights out. Wow. Complete lights out.

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That was it. There was no, there was nothing

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to do. Everything just, everything turned off

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like he was unplugged. And I'm thinking, brother,

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sign me up for that one. I know. I said the same

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thing to Annette. That's how I want to go. Sign

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me up. But I want to be watching When Calls the

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Heart. But that's how I want to go. Not anytime

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soon, but yeah, when it's time. And so now this

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just started this whole process. Oh, gosh. Now,

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there were very few. We kept it within the close

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family because we wanted to just make sure. really

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no agenda is, you know, it's hundreds of thousands

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of people worldwide and they need to hear it

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from us first. And, you know, the obvious question

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is what now? And so this is kind of the place

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where I'm at now is, well, what now? That's a,

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you've been in a cascade. I mean, like a, like

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Niagara falls coming over the ridge, you know,

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of just, okay, there's a lot of decisions that

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need to be made in a relatively short time. Yes.

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And What's interesting is that it's as if, well,

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and that's not as if, but the devotionals that

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pop up, the things that in my own devotionals

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book, it's like, did you, God, did you put these

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on this date for all this to coincide, for me

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to read this right now? And I just want to go

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through a couple of the scriptures. I have not

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sought out Scripture. They have literally come

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to me, you know, through the YouVersion app,

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through my Study Bible app, through things people

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have emailed me. I mean, literally just—I should

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read this—just before I got into the car to come

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over here, I got an email just out of the blue

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from John Doe—I have no idea who he is—and he

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says, praying for peace for you and everyone

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this morning, Adam. He has no idea what's going

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on. Wow. Just out of the blue. And I, okay, right,

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thank you. You know, that is, thank you. I needed

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that more than you even know. Holy Spirit knows.

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Holy Spirit does know. So the scriptures that

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have been popping up for me, Psalm 37 23, which

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is, I mean, it's a Pastor Jimmy Pruitt classic.

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That's my go -to. But it wasn't from you. It

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popped up elsewhere. Beautiful. And this is the

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NLT. The Lord directs the steps of the godly.

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He delights in every detail of their lives. Because

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we hear it more like the Lord orders your steps

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and delights in the details of your life. And

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this is how I'm taking it, because I am just

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trying to listen and praying. Lord, what am I

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supposed to do? Where am I supposed to go with

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this? What is the next step? Are you opening

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doors? I've just been asking, asking, asking.

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As well as the details of just handling the immediate.

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Oh, that's a good point. Talking to the family,

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the grief wave that hits. So, this is the devotional

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that went with that Scripture. The person whom

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God delights is one who follows God, trusts Him,

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and tries to do His will. God watches over and

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makes firm every step that person takes. If you

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would like to have God direct your way, then

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seek His advice before you step out. And before

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I ask you a question, it goes into Proverbs 19

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.21. Also just came up, you know, there's no

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coincidence in the kingdom. There are many plans

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in a man's heart. Nevertheless, the Lord's counsel

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that will stand. Wow. And that's the new King

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James version, which I kind of like that. Do

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you know an NLT version or how would you? Yeah,

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the NLT is a little more casual, colloquial,

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conversational, narrative style. New King James

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version takes the Elizabethan English spin out

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of it, but still holds that same classical face.

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For some reason, I'm an NLT. NASB guy, not a

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new King James version guy. So here's the one

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that really, and I think I shared this with you.

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This came from my daily devotional for men, which

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my daughter gave me for Christmas, Boyd Bailey.

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And it was a little bit longer than this, but

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there was multiple parts with the scripture in

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the middle. God's will is a continuous journey

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of discovery and faith. True obedience requires

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stepping into the unknown without being paralyzed

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by uncertainty, trusting Jesus as our guide while

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staying flexible to the Holy Spirit's direction

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rather than locked into our own rigid plans.

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Then they break it up with the scripture, Hebrews

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11, 8. By faith, Abraham, when called to go to

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a place he would later receive as his inheritance,

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obeyed and went even though he did not know where

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he was going. And so this the devotional closes

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out by saying Are you inspired or intimidated

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by your faith adventure? Do you anticipate or

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dread doing the next right thing as you fulfill

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God's calling on your life? Yes, Christ must

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come to you in clarity before you venture out

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for him in obedience But once you are sure of

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the Lord's leading do not let up until you have

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arrived at his destination Go on your great adventure

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with God like a visit to a new country enjoy

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the new sites and people. I love that. You sent

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that piece to me and I said, that will be a next

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week sermon. It was such a good statement. It's

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good. So the question, because I've always felt

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like I When I'm asking God, is this what you

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want me to do? It's not like it appears in the

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clouds, yeah, Adam, that's the thing to do. But

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after asking and praying, okay, I feel confident

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now. This is new for me because now I'm in a

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scenario that is not the same as my other times

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talking to God and asking Him. Is it just? grief

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speaking, you know what I'm saying? It's like,

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how can I trust what I'm hearing? I'm hearing

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things for sure, but now I'm doubting. Is this

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the right way to go? Is this the right thing

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to do? This is a situation that's new for me.

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So if you have any counsel or words on that,

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that would be probably appreciated. There's a

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great scripture that says, I'm paraphrasing because

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I don't have it in front of me, but A matter

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is established out of the mouth of two or three

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witnesses. I'm laughing because I wrote that

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one down as well. That's a good one because to

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me it gives us an insight into how God speaks

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to us and establishes a matter in our heart,

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in our mind, in our spirit. So, you'll hear something

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and you go, is that God, me, or the devil? It's

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one of the three, right? But it'll be established

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out of the mouth of two or three witnesses. You'll

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hear it again from somebody else, like some of

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these scriptures that just seem to come randomly,

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but they're all thematic. They all fit in the

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same flow. That's God speaking to you. So, I've

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learned to trust multiple anchors, multiple…

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God speaks in multiples to me. So I'll hear something,

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I'll go, man, that is so good. But I used to

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say, that must be God, and I'd run off with it.

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And then it wasn't. It was just a good idea.

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Maybe not a God idea, but a good idea. I've learned

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as I've gotten older to when I get something,

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I think is a clearer word from God, to not just

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act immediately, but to wait for those two or

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three witnesses. And it may come in a scripture,

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it may come as a lyric in a song, it may come

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as a in a conversation, somebody says something,

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I go, whoa, there it is. And I always have this

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thought, this is that, this is that, this is

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that. And that's based out of scriptures where

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Jesus said, this is that, which was said by the

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prophets, this is that. So out of the mouth of

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two or three witnesses, so I listened for multiples

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for confirmation before I just go. I've learned

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the hard way because I tend to go ready, fire,

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aim, instead of ready, aim, fire. And so I've

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learned to, you talked about my pauses. Those

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pauses are there and they've been hard learned.

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So that's just one of the things that helps me

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establish, is it God, me or the devil? It'll

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bring clarity. Yes. So there are multiples that

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that is happening for sure. But also it hasn't

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all come at once. Right. It doesn't. And this,

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and I will say that when I heard all this, when

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this happened, I turned around, I called Willie,

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I said, Willie, you're not gonna believe this,

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and you know Willie, he's like, oh, oh, oh, oh.

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What a beautiful man. I said, Willie, I'll make

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it up to you. Don't worry, don't worry, okay.

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And I told Tina, and she just melted, because

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she's known John forever, too. Yeah, he's family.

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He is family. And then I said, you know, I'm

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just gonna go to the car wash. There's a good

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way to oscillate. And our car wash, I've learned

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now, we've got a nice car, so you've got to wipe

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it down and do all the little bumpers and everything.

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So I'm just taking my time. Mindless work. It's

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95 degrees, I'm sweating. And that's when the

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first thing started coming. And I wasn't even

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asking for something. It was just like, okay,

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here's one, here's one, here's one. Gosh, I was

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telling you just before we started recording,

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speaking of multiples, that Tina and I have been

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re -watching West Wing. I'm not even sure why,

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but it's actually quite an entertaining show

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when it was back in kind of wholesome television

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days and a dream that your president would be

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as cool as President Bartlett. And there's this

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scene where he has to make a decision about pardoning

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a guy on death row and, you know, to go through

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a longer story to make it short, the reference

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to him being indecisive came from his pastor

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and he told the story of... the guy who was drowning,

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and then a guy comes by in a boat and says, hey,

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you want to get in my boat? And the guy says,

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no, no, the Lord will save me, and a helicopter

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comes over, and here's the ladder. No, he will

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pick you up at the helicopter. The guy says,

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no, no, I'm waiting for the Lord to save me.

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And then a guy comes to the ladder. He says,

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climb up the ladder. No, no, no. And so he drowns,

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and he's at the pearly gates, and God says, what

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were you doing, man? I gave you a helicopter,

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a boat, and a ladder. And so that's three. And

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there's your multiples. That's very helpful,

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Jimmy. That's very helpful. And hopefully that'll

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help others, our listeners, because we're all

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trying to hear God, right? I mean, those of us

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who name the name of Christ, we want direction.

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We honestly don't want to make a mistake, so

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we're asking God, show me what to do. But then

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there's the waiting game, the in -between, the

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in -between what you need and when it's coming.

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Like you said, it doesn't always come all at

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once. But I always recognize it because it resonates.

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Wait, that's just a different way of saying the

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same thing. That's the second time I've heard

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that. So that's when it starts to really get

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my attention when I've heard it twice. And then

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basically, I'm just listening for the next...

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For the third time. Yeah. And when that happens,

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it's green light go. Yeah. Thank you. That's

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very helpful. I hope that helps. I want to say

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that no agenda is not just ending tomorrow and

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there's lots of stuff to work on, lots of things

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to think about, lots of praying to do. We get

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to do this is fresh and new and building. And

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so, regardless of anything, you and I are going

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to continue on this. Bro, we have a website now?

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Yeah. We're legit now. We got a newsletter out.

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Thank you, Tina, the keeper. We so appreciate

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that. What does she sign off as? Back office

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worker? Back office management. Management, right.

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In a little closet. Hey, Tina. Little closet

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for an office. So you can go to WGTDT .com. We

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get to do this .com was taken. I like WGTDT,

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once you get used to it. It doesn't exactly roll

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over your tongue. You just go WGTDT. There you

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go. Once you split it, WGTDT. OK, that helps.

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And it's a substack, which we had discussed.

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Yeah, I love substacks. Actually, we already

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got a comment. Yay. We got a comment from Jody

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White. Of course. I don't know, Jody. Yeah, you

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do. The Pickle Princess. Oh, the Pickle Princess.

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Okay. Yes, I do. She says, just sending more

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encouragement your guys way. I look forward to

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the pod podcast. I know it's your favorite word.

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Every week and can't wait to see what great things

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you are doing for the glory of the Lord. Thank

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you very much. Oh, so cool. Hey, we got another

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thing. Okay. Let me look it up though. I got

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to find it because it's from Brett Hahn, the

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Amrev. Oh, yeah. Yeah, yeah. American Revolution

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guy. He writes some fantastic stuff. He wrote

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this. Oh, why does it do that? Okay, here it

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is. Thanks for... That's not it. There it is.

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Hey, Pastor Jimmy, love the new, we get to do

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this newsletter. If you guys need help with anything

00:18:31.519 --> 00:18:34.720
else, website set up, just let me know. Happy

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to give back with my time, talent and treasure.

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My wife and I run a marketing consulting and

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custom AI development firm. So happy to help

00:18:45.640 --> 00:18:49.039
support you both in any way we can. Spread the

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news of the show. That's the number one thing

00:18:52.640 --> 00:18:55.440
you can do is tell people about the show. We're

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going to do show notes with every episode now,

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which will be a post. I really like this experiment

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of using Substack for everything because it's

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so different. Look, we can easily put together

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a website, but now everything just kind of happens

00:19:13.539 --> 00:19:16.359
in this Substack world. It's easy for people

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to comment. Easy to subscribe. Everything is

00:19:20.099 --> 00:19:24.920
easy about it. And I like the vibe of the community

00:19:24.920 --> 00:19:28.680
that hangs out there. Me too. And we can always

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change if we want to, but right now I think it's

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a great way to experiment with trying to figure

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out how to get... PayPal links in there because

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we do like TimeTown and Treasure. We got Stripe

00:19:40.359 --> 00:19:43.039
stuff and everything. But we'll get to all that

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right now. Just people signing up to the newsletter

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and then you'll also automatically be notified

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when the new show comes out. Every episode will

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post the links in there. Hopefully it'll go to

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the to the Godcaster app as well. This is where

00:19:59.279 --> 00:20:01.539
platforms get kind of interesting like, well,

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Yeah, you can post that you can't really do something

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from somewhere else, you know. We'll see how

00:20:07.460 --> 00:20:10.099
we work that out. We'll figure it out. Yeah,

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we will. But people should get the Godcast rap

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regardless. Absolutely. Because that is where

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you can get a lot of great podcasts and live

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streams and music streams. So I was in... It

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kind of came... Man, this was also perfect. Yesterday

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I had a long -standing appointment for my hair

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in Austin, which... I like for a number of reasons.

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One, I've known Johanna for, oh man, 15 years.

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She's been doing my hair. We became friends.

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Right, of course. Just kind of comparing notes

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about, and she's very kind of down the middle

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on political issues and she doesn't really go

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one way or the other, but she's a very loving

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kind of... holistic, crystal type girl. Austin.

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She's an Austinite. Yeah, pretty much. And I

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don't mean that in a disparaging way. No, no,

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no. It's spot on. There's a vibe. There's a culture.

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And she'd actually moved to Taylor, Texas with

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her partner. And they recently decided to, it's

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funny how she says it, to consciously uncouple.

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So he stays there and she now got her own place

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back. It's so Austin. But, you know, and I've

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been very old. Of course, she's witnessed my

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faith journey. And I've prayed for her dad when

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he was in hospital. And I've prayed over her.

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And, you know, she's never had any issue. You

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have to know that Taylor, Texas, that whole community

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got ripped apart right down the middle. because

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a whole lot of Austinites moved out there, particularly

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when Samsung was going to build this huge chip

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fab out there. And so you had a lot of Austinites

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moving in. You had the old school Taylor people.

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And to coin the phrase, it became the pride people

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against the churchies. I mean, literally, and

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it splits that community in half. It's just,

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you know, you either had an American flag in

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your coffee shop window or a pride flag, and

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people wouldn't go to one or the other. But that's

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how Johanna would characterize it. You know,

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the churchies versus the pride. Anyway, neither

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here nor there, I love her just for who she is.

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And she would always give me the canary in the

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coal mine, like, oh, man, you won't believe what

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the women are saying. Because, you know, she

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has the clients who are - She's got her thumb

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on the pulse of the culture there. Right on the

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pulse of everything. In fact, she had to Tell

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me quietly about things because you know, they

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kind of got a little worried. She might be turning

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MAGA I'm not kidding. I'm not kidding. So anyway,

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so that girl deprogrammed well, so I'm sitting

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there and And so she first she says are you reading

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the book that everyone's talking about? Yes,

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I got to be honest, you know, I haven't had a

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lot of time to read what what is this book that

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everybody's when I hear everybody's talking about

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everybody's reading okay, it's called Theo of

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Golden and Turns out that yes Tina's heard of

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it many of her friends are reading it and Johanna

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gives it to me and she says She shows me on their

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phone, it's about religion and faith and belief.

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I'm like, and everyone's reading this? Oh yeah.

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Oh, it's a huge shit. Everybody's talking about

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it. And okay, okay. Well, that's interesting.

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Coming from her and that everybody's reading

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it. And I later confirmed, Tina says, oh yeah,

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Theo of Golden. Yeah, I want to read it. Everyone

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saw all her church friends are reading it. I'm

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not sure what exactly, I have started reading

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it. So I'll get back to you on that. Thank you.

00:24:01.740 --> 00:24:08.259
But then, about maybe half an hour later, she

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says, Adam, I want to come out to Fredericksburg.

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She's come out several times with her friends,

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you know, because she loves wine and yeah, I'm

00:24:17.559 --> 00:24:18.920
going to come out to Fredericksburg and I would

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love to come to your church one Sunday morning.

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Wow, beautiful. I mean, this is literally my

00:24:25.160 --> 00:24:28.859
mouth went, what? She says, you know, cause I,

00:24:28.859 --> 00:24:31.079
you know, I talk about you and I talk about,

00:24:31.180 --> 00:24:33.339
she's sound like you have such a lovely community.

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And she said, you know, I would really come to

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church. I'd love to come to your church with

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you on a Sunday morning. And she says, I don't

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want to be the person that says no. Wow. Wow.

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And I have never. pushed or encouraged or I've

00:24:49.000 --> 00:24:51.259
just been myself and just told her you're just

00:24:51.259 --> 00:24:54.720
leaking you're leaking yes and it was I mean

00:24:54.720 --> 00:24:57.240
I could not wait to get home to tell Tina that

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I'm looking forward to meeting her oh no you

00:25:00.200 --> 00:25:02.660
will of course sure of course I want to meet

00:25:02.660 --> 00:25:07.960
her of course let me see Theo of Golden by Alan

00:25:07.960 --> 00:25:11.940
Levi We see a stranger named Theo arrives in

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the small southern city of Golden at the local

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coffee house pencil portraits of the townspeople

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hang on the walls Theo begins buying the one

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at a time giving each portrait back to the person

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that depicts Asking only for their story in return

00:25:24.640 --> 00:25:27.539
portrait by portrait secret secret surface regrets

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are shared and ordinary lives are quietly transformed

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a novel about generosity being seen connection

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and small miracles of kindness number one New

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York Times for three weeks Well, it's interesting

00:25:39.099 --> 00:25:42.240
that Johanna said it's a religious book. That

00:25:42.240 --> 00:25:44.700
was her exact words. It's a religious book. So

00:25:44.700 --> 00:25:47.119
we'll have to see what that is. It's, I mean,

00:25:47.160 --> 00:25:49.440
I love the premise. Love that. That's creative

00:25:49.440 --> 00:25:54.119
premise. So anyway, so how about all these things

00:25:54.119 --> 00:25:56.839
that are happening in this? It's only Wednesday.

00:25:59.059 --> 00:26:01.460
We just were not, we were not even the hump day

00:26:01.460 --> 00:26:06.359
hardly. Got a note from Jim McCaslin. Adam, love

00:26:06.359 --> 00:26:10.160
the new or to me new podcast. It's really helped.

00:26:10.259 --> 00:26:12.220
This is, you know, I guess he's a no agenda guy

00:26:12.220 --> 00:26:14.940
listening to we get to do this. It's really helping

00:26:14.940 --> 00:26:17.740
me on my walk with Christ, which honestly has

00:26:17.740 --> 00:26:21.019
been stagnant for most of my life, but God uses

00:26:21.019 --> 00:26:23.759
a lot of people when they're older. Look at Moses

00:26:23.759 --> 00:26:26.619
and Abraham. What are you saying? He's talking

00:26:26.619 --> 00:26:29.220
about me. He's going to send us some challenge

00:26:29.220 --> 00:26:32.410
coins. So very cool. When I hear these things,

00:26:32.829 --> 00:26:35.130
man, I just melt. This is why we do this. Yes,

00:26:35.450 --> 00:26:40.690
this is why we get to do this. Absolutely. I

00:26:40.690 --> 00:26:43.349
love that. Appreciate that. What do you got,

00:26:43.529 --> 00:26:45.789
brother? There's a lot of things that you had

00:26:45.789 --> 00:26:49.660
to welcome back. From from you know, you you

00:26:49.660 --> 00:26:52.299
you did the message on Sunday. Yeah, I came back

00:26:52.299 --> 00:26:54.880
two weeks ago and both Sundays I didn't do the

00:26:54.880 --> 00:26:57.160
message right people like are you okay? What

00:26:57.160 --> 00:26:59.259
are you up there? What's going on? You ain't

00:26:59.259 --> 00:27:01.920
got a long time and it's because we had the 250

00:27:01.920 --> 00:27:04.420
So we had Rick Green right get up and do that

00:27:04.420 --> 00:27:07.579
cock couldn't have anybody else No, and and then

00:27:07.579 --> 00:27:10.259
last the last time we had Todd McDowell from

00:27:10.259 --> 00:27:14.170
Caleb global talking about Israel and just the

00:27:14.170 --> 00:27:17.009
Why I Bless Israel kind of thing was so, so rich.

00:27:17.549 --> 00:27:19.750
We're having him back in August, by the way,

00:27:19.769 --> 00:27:23.269
the 26th evening, two 45 -minute sessions, and

00:27:23.269 --> 00:27:26.210
it's on world revival. Nice. And so he's going

00:27:26.210 --> 00:27:28.589
to lay that out. Super excited about that. World

00:27:28.589 --> 00:27:30.630
revival. I like that. Yeah, yeah, the global

00:27:30.630 --> 00:27:34.089
revival. Brother, I'm telling you, I don't know

00:27:34.089 --> 00:27:37.089
what this Theo of Golden is, but I'm sure this

00:27:37.089 --> 00:27:40.250
is related to revival somehow. Could be. It has

00:27:40.250 --> 00:27:42.779
to be connected. tiny bit leery when I hear things

00:27:42.779 --> 00:27:46.500
like this. When somebody passed along the secret

00:27:46.500 --> 00:27:49.180
to me, I was like, calm. Well, yes. No, I understand.

00:27:49.319 --> 00:27:51.400
This is different. But the way I took it in the

00:27:51.400 --> 00:27:54.200
sequence of, she talks about this book and then

00:27:54.200 --> 00:27:56.200
she wants to come to church. Right, right. That

00:27:56.200 --> 00:27:58.279
was the sequence that I received that in. I'm

00:27:58.279 --> 00:28:00.440
looking forward to diving into a little bit on

00:28:00.440 --> 00:28:04.039
that. I'll have to look at it. Of course, of

00:28:04.039 --> 00:28:07.690
course. I'm a shepherd. Yes, you are. Yes, you

00:28:07.690 --> 00:28:08.930
are. Yes, you are. Yes, you are. Yes, you are.

00:28:08.950 --> 00:28:11.089
And protect the sheep if need be. Amen. So I

00:28:11.089 --> 00:28:13.369
stepped up into the pulpit back in the saddle,

00:28:13.390 --> 00:28:16.109
so to speak, for the first time in weeks. I don't

00:28:16.109 --> 00:28:18.869
even know how long it's been. And, oh, it felt

00:28:18.869 --> 00:28:21.069
good. It's like putting on an old catcher's mitt

00:28:21.069 --> 00:28:23.450
that you've played with for years, you know,

00:28:23.609 --> 00:28:25.250
and somebody gives you a new one and it's like,

00:28:25.269 --> 00:28:27.809
ah, I got to break this in. But man, when you

00:28:27.809 --> 00:28:30.170
step into it, all the leather's right, it fits

00:28:30.170 --> 00:28:34.549
right. So it just felt like being home. And I've

00:28:34.549 --> 00:28:38.940
just been Since our break, our vacation, I've

00:28:38.940 --> 00:28:43.220
just been so gushing with love, gratitude, and

00:28:43.220 --> 00:28:48.019
appreciation for our church family. I know I'm

00:28:48.019 --> 00:28:51.160
the pastor, so of course I'm going to brag, but

00:28:51.160 --> 00:28:54.500
truly it's exceptional. Everyone who visits our

00:28:54.500 --> 00:28:57.680
church, for example, Todd McDowell and Papa Don

00:28:57.680 --> 00:29:01.039
Finto from Nashville, Todd several times to me

00:29:01.039 --> 00:29:03.480
off little one -off conversations. He said, Jimmy,

00:29:03.519 --> 00:29:06.940
this is... We've got we go to hundreds of churches.

00:29:07.240 --> 00:29:11.579
This is different This is the community you have

00:29:11.579 --> 00:29:15.380
here the graciousness and the people here He

00:29:15.380 --> 00:29:18.440
said the openness. He said this is not normal

00:29:18.440 --> 00:29:21.779
and I looked at him I said, thank you and I'm

00:29:21.779 --> 00:29:24.839
aware of that and I'm very grateful. Can you

00:29:24.839 --> 00:29:29.329
define that? Because, you know, obviously you've

00:29:29.329 --> 00:29:32.589
pastored at churches, you've planted a few churches,

00:29:32.670 --> 00:29:36.630
you've been around, as we say. What can you pinpoint

00:29:36.630 --> 00:29:40.930
it to? Well, when Annette and I came here, one

00:29:40.930 --> 00:29:43.549
of the things, we came off of what I would call

00:29:43.549 --> 00:29:46.630
our wilderness wandering first season, about

00:29:46.630 --> 00:29:50.109
three or four years. And we learned a lot from

00:29:50.109 --> 00:29:53.069
that. We also, the Lord in a good way, stripped

00:29:53.069 --> 00:29:55.769
a lot of things from us, a lot of things that

00:29:55.740 --> 00:29:59.859
our agenda, our way of doing, what we want to,

00:30:00.240 --> 00:30:04.519
our vision of success, those kinds of things,

00:30:05.079 --> 00:30:08.140
and stripped all those things away. And we came

00:30:08.140 --> 00:30:11.339
back into the church ministry after working in

00:30:11.339 --> 00:30:14.099
the world for a season in the business sector

00:30:14.099 --> 00:30:16.980
with just a new appreciation for what we get

00:30:16.980 --> 00:30:19.099
to do, but also an understanding that people

00:30:19.099 --> 00:30:22.779
are tired, people are working hard, a new love

00:30:22.779 --> 00:30:26.289
for people, and a lot of compassion. for where

00:30:26.289 --> 00:30:29.150
people are in this world and the brokenness in

00:30:29.150 --> 00:30:31.970
this world. We step back into the pulpit with

00:30:31.970 --> 00:30:35.930
strong vision, but a vision that we only want

00:30:35.930 --> 00:30:39.289
to align with God's heart. If it's not in alignment

00:30:39.289 --> 00:30:42.950
with his heart, it's gone. We've been here 10

00:30:42.950 --> 00:30:46.710
years sowing into that mentality, also with the

00:30:46.710 --> 00:30:50.289
idea of we have the pleasure and the privilege

00:30:50.289 --> 00:30:54.779
of living in a small town in America. And there's

00:30:54.779 --> 00:30:58.039
something about small town community that is

00:30:58.039 --> 00:31:02.519
unique and beautiful in Americana. And we're

00:31:02.519 --> 00:31:06.700
like that in Fredericksburg. I go to the grocery

00:31:06.700 --> 00:31:10.900
store, H -E -B, it's over. I cannot just go get

00:31:10.900 --> 00:31:14.339
a gallon of milk and walk out. Not without stopping

00:31:14.339 --> 00:31:16.200
and talking. And it's not because people are

00:31:16.200 --> 00:31:18.660
stopping me necessarily. I may be stopping them

00:31:18.660 --> 00:31:20.660
and going, man, it's so good to see you. How

00:31:20.660 --> 00:31:24.220
are you doing? How are your calves doing? I had

00:31:24.220 --> 00:31:26.140
a guy talking to me about his beef yesterday.

00:31:26.519 --> 00:31:28.480
And I'm just like, yeah, we had a great conversation

00:31:28.480 --> 00:31:32.740
about beef. But it's living in a small town.

00:31:33.049 --> 00:31:36.430
And I've lived in Los Angeles. I was nearly born

00:31:36.430 --> 00:31:39.369
in Los Angeles. I've lived in Kansas City. I've

00:31:39.369 --> 00:31:42.390
lived in Dallas, Fort Worth, Nashville. I've

00:31:42.390 --> 00:31:45.450
lived in some big cities, but there's something

00:31:45.450 --> 00:31:49.349
about a small town culture. But Fredericksburg's

00:31:49.349 --> 00:31:51.789
unique too, because it's not just small town

00:31:51.789 --> 00:31:55.069
culture. People move here because they want to

00:31:55.069 --> 00:31:58.089
be here. And there's a different spirit behind

00:31:58.089 --> 00:31:59.890
that. Or they're led to be here. They're led

00:31:59.890 --> 00:32:02.369
to be here. and there's a different spirit behind

00:32:02.369 --> 00:32:05.190
that as well, and it's a spirit of gratitude.

00:32:05.549 --> 00:32:08.170
So when you get a bunch of people together who

00:32:08.170 --> 00:32:10.869
are happy to be where they are and thankful that

00:32:10.869 --> 00:32:14.390
they get to live here, we get to do this. I didn't

00:32:14.390 --> 00:32:17.809
just make that up on the fly. It's an atmosphere

00:32:17.809 --> 00:32:19.930
that we live in here in Fredericksburg. It is.

00:32:19.970 --> 00:32:23.029
It is a bit like living on a cruise ship, honestly.

00:32:24.869 --> 00:32:28.529
Without the norovirus. Yeah, exactly. All the

00:32:28.529 --> 00:32:32.170
good parts of it. The food, the drink, the culture,

00:32:32.289 --> 00:32:36.269
the fun. It's really a fun town, but it breeds

00:32:36.269 --> 00:32:40.089
this community that I'm just so thankful for.

00:32:40.269 --> 00:32:42.730
And not all the time. Can you believe we get

00:32:42.730 --> 00:32:45.599
to live here? and that we've had the privilege

00:32:45.599 --> 00:32:48.140
of doing the thing we love the most, and that's

00:32:48.140 --> 00:32:50.660
teaching, preaching about Jesus, making disciples,

00:32:51.500 --> 00:32:53.859
growing in our faith with others in a community.

00:32:54.200 --> 00:32:55.920
And we get to do it in Fredericksburg, Texas.

00:32:56.059 --> 00:33:02.039
So it is special, this town. And so that is conveyed

00:33:02.039 --> 00:33:05.019
through the culture of our church as well. That's

00:33:05.019 --> 00:33:08.609
why almost everyone who visits here ends up either

00:33:08.609 --> 00:33:11.390
moving here or they really want to move here.

00:33:11.769 --> 00:33:13.589
And it's not just because of the church, it's

00:33:13.589 --> 00:33:16.569
the community itself. So we were representative

00:33:16.569 --> 00:33:21.869
of that. We're a fun bunch. We are, man. Our

00:33:21.869 --> 00:33:24.549
old people are fun. Yes, our old people are great.

00:33:24.609 --> 00:33:27.390
They're a little scary. It's the Woodstock generation.

00:33:27.470 --> 00:33:30.369
They're still wild at heart. It's still there.

00:33:30.410 --> 00:33:32.769
I love how everyone's always coming together

00:33:32.769 --> 00:33:35.690
and like, hey, so -and -so's got a baby. Let's

00:33:35.690 --> 00:33:39.490
do a food train. So -and -so's wife is having

00:33:39.490 --> 00:33:42.630
a procedure. We're all helping each other. The

00:33:42.630 --> 00:33:46.470
floods once again. We've got our church jumps

00:33:46.470 --> 00:33:49.599
in. A lot of churches, of course, jump in. We

00:33:49.599 --> 00:33:52.140
also have like 25 churches around here, which

00:33:52.140 --> 00:33:54.279
is also... And they're active. They are active.

00:33:54.559 --> 00:33:57.359
They're engaged. But as I was telling Johanna,

00:33:57.500 --> 00:34:00.400
I said, you know, you love our church because...

00:34:00.190 --> 00:34:03.890
It's not just a church. It's like a clubhouse,

00:34:04.089 --> 00:34:06.890
man. There's stuff going on there. There's stuff

00:34:06.890 --> 00:34:10.050
happening all the time. How many people in our

00:34:10.050 --> 00:34:12.289
youth group now? Do we have 70, 80, 90s getting

00:34:12.289 --> 00:34:13.769
up there? We have a big youth group. We took,

00:34:13.769 --> 00:34:17.070
I think, 80 to camp. But also, we're doing a

00:34:17.070 --> 00:34:18.610
cool thing. We're doing a backpack drive. For

00:34:18.610 --> 00:34:21.250
the kids and teachers? So they start off saying,

00:34:21.269 --> 00:34:24.619
we want to get 150 backpacks. And then they said,

00:34:24.639 --> 00:34:27.260
we want to get 175. It kept going up. Oh no,

00:34:27.400 --> 00:34:28.820
it keeps, because we don't want to disappoint

00:34:28.820 --> 00:34:30.980
anybody. We got 200 back to back. Backpacks.

00:34:31.199 --> 00:34:33.219
And they're full of school supplies. So we get

00:34:33.219 --> 00:34:37.519
to bless 200 families, 200 kids with backpacks,

00:34:37.719 --> 00:34:40.500
full, you know, everything for free. Then we're

00:34:40.500 --> 00:34:43.599
doing, we're raising money for, for 18 teachers

00:34:43.599 --> 00:34:46.400
who we're going to pay their help, give them

00:34:46.400 --> 00:34:48.739
their supplies that they otherwise pay for themselves.

00:34:49.440 --> 00:34:52.420
You know, gift cards for restaurants, for stores.

00:34:52.699 --> 00:34:55.739
and we get to bless that. I think this is the

00:34:55.739 --> 00:34:59.219
thing that, well, it's not the thing I like most,

00:34:59.380 --> 00:35:01.860
but something I really enjoy about our church

00:35:01.860 --> 00:35:07.969
is how when the the congregation ties and blesses

00:35:07.969 --> 00:35:11.550
the church. And the church does things with that

00:35:11.550 --> 00:35:15.429
in the community. Like, didn't we pay off all

00:35:15.429 --> 00:35:18.889
the school lunches and the deficit, which was,

00:35:18.889 --> 00:35:23.070
I don't know, $11 ,000 for kids who just weren't

00:35:23.070 --> 00:35:26.800
able to pay for it. struck that record. I mean,

00:35:26.860 --> 00:35:29.960
this is amazing to me. This is what family does,

00:35:30.119 --> 00:35:33.099
right? We take care of our own. I love that spirit

00:35:33.099 --> 00:35:36.079
in a small town. We take care of our own. Instead

00:35:36.079 --> 00:35:38.619
of leave them be, it's we take care of our own.

00:35:38.659 --> 00:35:41.960
And I love that. So that makes it special. So

00:35:41.960 --> 00:35:45.480
we've got the best of both worlds. We've got

00:35:45.480 --> 00:35:49.179
a big church, large church, anywhere from sick

00:35:49.179 --> 00:35:51.519
with nearly 700 last Sunday, that's in the middle

00:35:51.519 --> 00:35:54.639
of the summer. So think about the fall. And we're

00:35:54.639 --> 00:35:56.960
building an overflow space right now that's about

00:35:56.960 --> 00:35:59.099
to be done. We're right in the middle of that.

00:36:01.179 --> 00:36:04.119
So we get the accoutrements of a large church.

00:36:04.320 --> 00:36:07.239
We got a sound system, ACDC could do a concert

00:36:07.239 --> 00:36:11.360
here. I mean, we've got the full meal deal. We

00:36:11.360 --> 00:36:13.639
got all the accoutrements of a large church and

00:36:13.639 --> 00:36:17.739
yet we still have that. small town heart and

00:36:17.739 --> 00:36:20.679
soul. Yeah. Yes. And I just love it. I mean,

00:36:20.699 --> 00:36:22.900
we still wave at people when we drop down the

00:36:22.900 --> 00:36:25.639
street, man. This doesn't mean that people can't

00:36:25.639 --> 00:36:28.239
have this sense of community in a city. Oh, no,

00:36:28.239 --> 00:36:30.360
I agree with that. Because you can. You do that

00:36:30.360 --> 00:36:32.920
around a church community. That's community.

00:36:33.460 --> 00:36:36.360
Yeah. All these people, you know, and people

00:36:36.360 --> 00:36:38.159
say to me all the time, like, you know, you know

00:36:38.159 --> 00:36:39.980
what you're talking about is very lonely out

00:36:39.980 --> 00:36:42.539
here. I said, you know, could I just recommend

00:36:42.539 --> 00:36:46.360
go to a church? That's it. You may not be ready

00:36:46.360 --> 00:36:48.860
to cross the line yet. Go meet some people at

00:36:48.860 --> 00:36:51.179
the church. In Nashville, when we were working,

00:36:51.239 --> 00:36:53.019
I was working for Dave Ramsey and it was working

00:36:53.019 --> 00:36:58.539
for a dental practice. Our community became our

00:36:58.539 --> 00:37:00.599
church, Grace Chapel, which is phenomenal. Sounds

00:37:00.599 --> 00:37:02.920
like a little tiny country church with 15 ,000

00:37:02.920 --> 00:37:08.059
people. But you find your community in that larger

00:37:08.059 --> 00:37:11.360
community. And you tend to sit in the same spot.

00:37:11.500 --> 00:37:13.699
You tend to go to the same classes. And then

00:37:13.699 --> 00:37:15.440
somebody says, hey, let's start a small group.

00:37:15.480 --> 00:37:17.179
So you start a small group, which we did, called

00:37:17.179 --> 00:37:19.679
Deep End. And they asked me to lead it. But we

00:37:19.679 --> 00:37:23.500
did it at a mansion of a Nashville producer.

00:37:23.960 --> 00:37:29.309
We did it at their house in Brentwood. we created

00:37:29.309 --> 00:37:31.590
community within the larger settings. So that

00:37:31.590 --> 00:37:35.389
can be done anywhere. But I must say, I'm a little

00:37:35.389 --> 00:37:37.989
partial to small town America. Oh, yeah. I mean,

00:37:38.030 --> 00:37:42.630
I've lived in cities most of my life. When I

00:37:42.630 --> 00:37:45.150
was younger, we did live outside of Amsterdam,

00:37:45.190 --> 00:37:47.570
which was kind of cool in a very small village.

00:37:47.590 --> 00:37:50.969
So I had kind of a dual situation going on there.

00:37:51.170 --> 00:37:53.929
But when we were in Austin and we just said,

00:37:53.929 --> 00:37:56.190
nah, now it's time to get out. And then Tina

00:37:56.190 --> 00:37:58.989
just said, How about Fredericksburg? Spin the

00:37:58.989 --> 00:38:03.550
globe. Literally. I'm like, okay. I've been there,

00:38:03.550 --> 00:38:05.570
but it really didn't matter because I have no

00:38:05.570 --> 00:38:08.110
business in Austin. I don't have to be there.

00:38:08.110 --> 00:38:11.090
We live wherever we want. I've been there. It's

00:38:11.090 --> 00:38:14.570
kind of a cool town. And then we open up Zillow

00:38:14.570 --> 00:38:17.409
and boom. Oh, well, that's exactly the house

00:38:17.409 --> 00:38:21.789
we like. They bought it the next day under contingency

00:38:21.789 --> 00:38:23.869
of selling our home in Austin, which we sold

00:38:23.869 --> 00:38:28.960
in 24 hours. Now, there's all kinds of moves

00:38:28.960 --> 00:38:30.820
there. There's nothing like driving up in the

00:38:30.820 --> 00:38:34.719
parking lot and seeing 120 F -154 pickups. But

00:38:34.719 --> 00:38:38.119
it's Wednesday morning, and there's 25 cars in

00:38:38.119 --> 00:38:39.679
the lot today. There's always something going

00:38:39.679 --> 00:38:41.679
on. And there's Tommy waving at me, hey, Adam,

00:38:41.760 --> 00:38:43.780
how you doing? And he's got to come talk to you.

00:38:43.780 --> 00:38:45.119
Of course. He's got to come tell him what's going

00:38:45.119 --> 00:38:47.320
on. I'm glad I came early. Don't you love that?

00:38:48.820 --> 00:38:51.139
Every day, I walk into this building, and you've

00:38:51.139 --> 00:38:53.800
got to stop and talk to the staff. Hey, how was

00:38:53.800 --> 00:38:55.840
your day? How was last night? We had some stuff

00:38:55.840 --> 00:38:58.980
going on. We had 46 people come to Blair and

00:38:58.980 --> 00:39:01.800
Evans class on Experiencing God. Oh, yes. 46

00:39:01.800 --> 00:39:03.659
people last night. Wow. Wow. Isn't that cool?

00:39:03.780 --> 00:39:05.980
On a Tuesday night. Man, I wish you could have

00:39:05.980 --> 00:39:09.739
met my grandfather. I mean, too. Eugene, Gene

00:39:09.739 --> 00:39:13.739
Curry, who, you know, he and… I will someday.

00:39:14.320 --> 00:39:17.260
Well, yes, and you will love him. So they, for

00:39:17.260 --> 00:39:19.460
all intents and purposes, lived in small town.

00:39:20.010 --> 00:39:22.650
Well, Armok, New York, which is, you know, borders

00:39:22.650 --> 00:39:27.550
on Connecticut. And he was originally a real

00:39:27.550 --> 00:39:31.949
estate guy, but then he went to war and he became

00:39:31.949 --> 00:39:36.269
the guy that sat up all night on his Corona typewriter,

00:39:36.849 --> 00:39:39.250
writing letters to the president, to congressmen.

00:39:40.099 --> 00:39:42.639
voicing his opinion. He would write op -eds.

00:39:43.219 --> 00:39:45.500
Many got published in the New York Times. Not

00:39:45.500 --> 00:39:49.820
all. Beautiful. He was engaging his leadership

00:39:49.820 --> 00:39:53.460
before it was cool. Completely. I love that.

00:39:53.480 --> 00:39:57.639
But also on Saturdays, he would go to the...

00:39:57.639 --> 00:40:05.000
I forget the name of it. a home for elderly ladies,

00:40:05.139 --> 00:40:07.340
and he'd bring flowers for every single one of

00:40:07.340 --> 00:40:09.940
them. And he'd say, oh, I'm just off to visit

00:40:09.940 --> 00:40:11.760
the ladies. I think he also liked visiting the

00:40:11.760 --> 00:40:14.599
ladies, honestly. He liked chatting with them.

00:40:15.619 --> 00:40:17.559
And when the family came over, oh, let's go to

00:40:17.559 --> 00:40:20.139
Hanker's, go get some corn. And Hanker's corn,

00:40:20.219 --> 00:40:23.360
they'd be ready. And then it was all St. Stephen's

00:40:23.360 --> 00:40:28.059
Church. I was baptized there as a young child.

00:40:30.659 --> 00:40:33.369
I think we have a family plot. Yeah. Although

00:40:33.369 --> 00:40:35.329
I don't know. Look at the seeds that were sown.

00:40:35.869 --> 00:40:40.550
So I'm feeling all these things that I saw but

00:40:40.550 --> 00:40:43.230
didn't get from my parents, got from my grandparents.

00:40:43.650 --> 00:40:47.949
And so now I'm feeling like, oh man, not only

00:40:47.949 --> 00:40:49.949
do I need to give my granddaughter all the little

00:40:49.949 --> 00:40:51.730
cookies she's not supposed to have, but I got

00:40:51.730 --> 00:40:53.889
a lot of other things I got to instill into her.

00:40:54.110 --> 00:40:57.090
So I'm looking forward to that very much so.

00:40:57.130 --> 00:41:01.840
Beautiful brother. Just to talk about the And

00:41:01.840 --> 00:41:05.559
thank you for reading the briefing on Sunday.

00:41:05.659 --> 00:41:08.639
Oh, so good. Because this, and I just want to

00:41:08.639 --> 00:41:11.920
tell everybody who's listening to our podcast

00:41:11.920 --> 00:41:14.960
about what President Trump was really saying

00:41:14.960 --> 00:41:16.940
in his address to the nation. I know it seems

00:41:16.940 --> 00:41:21.079
like 5 ,000 times the straight -up Hormuz open

00:41:21.079 --> 00:41:24.420
and shut since that speech. But the whole point

00:41:24.420 --> 00:41:28.699
was we need to fix the plumbing of our voting

00:41:28.699 --> 00:41:32.590
system. And it's not necessarily about, you know,

00:41:32.809 --> 00:41:35.869
voting machines and all. It's really about, we

00:41:35.869 --> 00:41:39.170
need to identify who we are when we vote, when

00:41:39.170 --> 00:41:41.050
we register to vote, there just needs to be a

00:41:41.050 --> 00:41:43.300
check. You got to use your ID for everything

00:41:43.300 --> 00:41:47.519
else. The continuous noise of, well, it's racist

00:41:47.519 --> 00:41:51.380
and it makes voting difficult is of course nonsense

00:41:51.380 --> 00:41:54.360
and everybody knows this, but it's not just Democrats

00:41:54.360 --> 00:41:59.159
that don't want this. This mail -in by ballot.

00:41:59.539 --> 00:42:02.550
I used to vote. by absentee ballot is what it

00:42:02.550 --> 00:42:05.190
was called. I was overseas and my mom would make

00:42:05.190 --> 00:42:07.690
a big deal of it. We're going to go talk to the

00:42:07.690 --> 00:42:09.590
embassy. We want our ballots and you get your

00:42:09.590 --> 00:42:11.610
ballot and then you send it back because we want

00:42:11.610 --> 00:42:14.349
our vote to be counted. And it's important. And

00:42:14.349 --> 00:42:16.110
so we would always do that. You know, this has

00:42:16.110 --> 00:42:19.210
become basically a scam over the years where

00:42:19.210 --> 00:42:21.909
in some states, every resident gets a ballot

00:42:21.909 --> 00:42:24.230
whether you want it or not. And, you know, there's

00:42:24.230 --> 00:42:27.170
no real check and balance of who signed it, who

00:42:27.170 --> 00:42:30.949
sent it. Who's alive, who's dead. who's eligible.

00:42:31.130 --> 00:42:34.030
It is not just Democrats who have used this.

00:42:34.130 --> 00:42:37.309
I totally agree. So it's not a partisan thing,

00:42:37.510 --> 00:42:41.250
but it is bipartisan on them not wanting to sign

00:42:41.250 --> 00:42:44.250
it. And that's my point. It's not just Democrats

00:42:44.250 --> 00:42:47.570
saying no, it's Republicans and Democrats alike

00:42:47.570 --> 00:42:52.389
slow walking it in the Senate. So I called my

00:42:52.389 --> 00:42:56.030
Senator. I called my representative, federal

00:42:56.030 --> 00:43:00.550
and regional, local, and left messages. I talked

00:43:00.550 --> 00:43:02.250
to one of the aides and just said, hey, I'm a

00:43:02.250 --> 00:43:04.489
pastor of a church of a thousand plus people,

00:43:04.570 --> 00:43:07.369
and I want you to know we appreciate this bill,

00:43:07.530 --> 00:43:11.250
the Save America Act. And he was blown away.

00:43:11.469 --> 00:43:14.829
He said, man, we'd love to get these calls. He

00:43:14.829 --> 00:43:17.449
was like, thank you for taking the time to call

00:43:17.449 --> 00:43:19.650
and support because most of the calls they get

00:43:19.650 --> 00:43:23.320
are negative. But it also matters because then

00:43:23.320 --> 00:43:26.460
they get encouraged. They know it's important

00:43:26.460 --> 00:43:27.860
to their constituents. It's springing their step

00:43:27.860 --> 00:43:30.119
when they step back into the halls. And it has

00:43:30.119 --> 00:43:33.139
to be a call. Emails doesn't work. It doesn't

00:43:33.139 --> 00:43:35.920
work. It goes into a big bin. It doesn't get

00:43:35.920 --> 00:43:38.260
seen. Calling works every single time. And it's

00:43:38.260 --> 00:43:40.360
easy. Nine times out of 10, you're going to get

00:43:40.360 --> 00:43:42.800
a voicemail. And then you get two. And it takes

00:43:42.800 --> 00:43:46.639
you over to their... Voicemail. Hopefully their

00:43:46.639 --> 00:43:49.739
aide listens to it and passes the good word along.

00:43:49.760 --> 00:43:51.099
Well, they have to because eventually the voicemail

00:43:51.099 --> 00:43:53.480
box gets full. So I think they do listen to it.

00:43:53.480 --> 00:43:57.460
I do too. It's part of their job. Again, our

00:43:57.460 --> 00:44:00.559
voice is heard with both our vote and our call,

00:44:00.639 --> 00:44:03.199
our voice. So we need to do that. Be diligent.

00:44:03.639 --> 00:44:05.519
And it's an important one. And that's what President

00:44:05.519 --> 00:44:07.119
Trump was saying. He's like, I'm not doing anything.

00:44:07.559 --> 00:44:10.440
You got to pass this act. It's important. We

00:44:10.440 --> 00:44:14.500
got to do it. coming up with reasons not to,

00:44:14.800 --> 00:44:17.980
is, in my book, un -American. They're hiding

00:44:17.980 --> 00:44:21.380
something. They're in somebody's pocket. It's

00:44:21.380 --> 00:44:24.460
not good what you're doing. Now, simultaneously,

00:44:24.699 --> 00:44:28.440
this was what was interesting. The State Department

00:44:28.440 --> 00:44:34.500
did an entire symposium, like a whole day, on

00:44:34.500 --> 00:44:38.409
international terrorism. uh, our treasury secretary,

00:44:38.449 --> 00:44:41.309
I love general patent is what I call him. Um,

00:44:41.349 --> 00:44:45.150
he, uh, Scott Besson, you know, it seems like

00:44:45.150 --> 00:44:48.389
such an obvious thing that our treasury who runs

00:44:48.389 --> 00:44:51.309
the real financial networks knows how money moves

00:44:51.309 --> 00:44:53.730
from point A to point B that they would be looking

00:44:53.730 --> 00:44:56.449
at stuff. You know, it seems like no one ever

00:44:56.449 --> 00:44:59.090
did or they didn't want to or told not want and

00:44:59.090 --> 00:45:02.349
he's like shut off so many different avenues

00:45:02.349 --> 00:45:06.289
of illicit money flows. It's crazy. He's making

00:45:06.289 --> 00:45:10.250
Doge look like a kindergartener. And now they're

00:45:10.250 --> 00:45:15.590
going through the Smithsonian Institute. The

00:45:15.590 --> 00:45:17.769
Smithsonian Institute is not necessarily keeping

00:45:17.769 --> 00:45:20.329
to their mission anymore. And there's also money

00:45:20.329 --> 00:45:21.949
that flows through that. Exactly. That's what

00:45:21.949 --> 00:45:25.550
I'm thinking. But our Secretary of State Rubio,

00:45:25.909 --> 00:45:28.869
man, he had just a firebrand speech and I had

00:45:28.869 --> 00:45:30.730
already clipped this and you sent this morning,

00:45:30.730 --> 00:45:34.699
you said, hey, look at this speech. Brother Jimmy,

00:45:34.719 --> 00:45:37.960
I literally have this stack up for the show today

00:45:37.960 --> 00:45:40.760
and I'll play this and didn't just want to talk

00:45:40.760 --> 00:45:46.460
about it briefly That was the wrong one shows

00:45:46.460 --> 00:45:53.480
over I Love that we don't edit this stuff. Here

00:45:53.480 --> 00:45:57.059
we go. This is what radical leftism is It may

00:45:57.059 --> 00:45:59.219
wear various different slogans and ideologies

00:45:59.219 --> 00:46:01.969
across place and time They can call themselves

00:46:01.969 --> 00:46:05.250
anti -capitalists, or anti -imperialists, or

00:46:05.250 --> 00:46:08.170
communists, or anarchists, or Marxists, but the

00:46:08.170 --> 00:46:10.949
fundamental character is always the same. It's

00:46:10.949 --> 00:46:13.849
always the same. It is a poisonous resentment

00:46:13.849 --> 00:46:17.170
cloaked in the language of equality and justice

00:46:17.170 --> 00:46:20.110
and liberation, an overwhelming need to tear

00:46:20.110 --> 00:46:23.369
down what greater men have built, to wreck what

00:46:23.369 --> 00:46:26.610
is beautiful and what is right on behalf of people

00:46:26.610 --> 00:46:29.409
who are only filled with ugliness. and have nothing

00:46:29.409 --> 00:46:32.789
else to offer the world. Through violence and

00:46:32.789 --> 00:46:35.789
through terror, they once again seek to impose

00:46:35.789 --> 00:46:39.929
their ugliness on all of us. The old dogma was

00:46:39.929 --> 00:46:42.570
wrong. The old dogma was wrong. None of this

00:46:42.570 --> 00:46:46.570
is driven by idealism. It is not utopian. In

00:46:46.570 --> 00:46:51.250
fact, it is the opposite. One of the criticisms

00:46:51.250 --> 00:46:54.630
you sometimes hear of communism, for example,

00:46:54.690 --> 00:46:56.869
is that it sounds good in theory, but it never

00:46:56.869 --> 00:47:01.599
works in practice. That's actually not true.

00:47:02.019 --> 00:47:04.619
Communism does not sound good in theory. The

00:47:04.619 --> 00:47:07.619
world that envisions for all of us is small,

00:47:08.280 --> 00:47:12.239
flat, gray, leveled of all exception, drained

00:47:12.239 --> 00:47:14.719
of all that is good and noble in the human soul.

00:47:15.260 --> 00:47:17.320
The world that envisions is a world without courage,

00:47:17.880 --> 00:47:21.519
a world without creativity or ambition, a world

00:47:21.519 --> 00:47:24.699
without heroes or glory or great causes to strive

00:47:24.699 --> 00:47:28.860
towards, a world without miracles. without myths,

00:47:29.059 --> 00:47:32.000
without men who rise above the rest to do incredible

00:47:32.000 --> 00:47:35.260
and extraordinary things. And the world communism

00:47:35.260 --> 00:47:39.599
envisions is a world without God. For these architects

00:47:39.599 --> 00:47:41.920
of revolutionary violence, the towering achievement

00:47:41.920 --> 00:47:45.539
of our civilization, for them it's an unbearable

00:47:45.539 --> 00:47:49.159
humiliation, a reminder of what they cannot do

00:47:49.159 --> 00:47:52.699
and a reminder of what they cannot be. And this

00:47:52.699 --> 00:47:57.300
is, I mean, this is a powerful statement. And

00:47:57.300 --> 00:48:01.840
I'm so happy it's coming from our existing administration.

00:48:02.739 --> 00:48:05.400
Because what he's saying is, and it's going to

00:48:05.400 --> 00:48:08.440
be very interesting in the midterm election and

00:48:08.440 --> 00:48:10.960
into the next general election. Of course, you

00:48:10.960 --> 00:48:14.699
and I will be all over it. When you see these,

00:48:15.000 --> 00:48:18.059
the DSA candidates, Democrats, Socialists of

00:48:18.059 --> 00:48:20.920
America, they literally are saying we need to

00:48:20.920 --> 00:48:23.340
break apart the system from within, revolution

00:48:23.340 --> 00:48:29.190
from within. That's rarely the way it actually

00:48:29.190 --> 00:48:36.230
goes, funny enough, with socialism. But Secretary

00:48:36.230 --> 00:48:40.530
Rubio is so spot on. And yes, the ultimate truth

00:48:40.530 --> 00:48:46.809
about socialism and communism is no God. That's

00:48:46.809 --> 00:48:51.250
the basic bottom line. I've probably participated

00:48:51.250 --> 00:49:00.099
in ignoring God, ignoring the roots of even of

00:49:00.099 --> 00:49:04.380
European countries. I mean, the churches, if

00:49:04.380 --> 00:49:06.420
they're not being burned down, they've been turned

00:49:06.420 --> 00:49:09.860
into Airbnbs and WeWorks to the point where,

00:49:09.860 --> 00:49:13.820
you know, we went to a church in a school auditorium.

00:49:15.199 --> 00:49:19.820
But you see how... It's almost felt like we're

00:49:19.820 --> 00:49:23.219
hiding out here. Okay, it's just us Christians

00:49:23.219 --> 00:49:26.480
here in this school auditorium. I'm glad they

00:49:26.480 --> 00:49:30.000
need a school auditorium instead of a home. They're

00:49:30.000 --> 00:49:31.760
growing. That's what's exciting. Absolutely.

00:49:34.429 --> 00:49:37.570
He said without God, without miracles. Without

00:49:37.570 --> 00:49:40.710
miracles. Without heroes. Without creativity.

00:49:40.989 --> 00:49:43.570
And great men doing things above and beyond.

00:49:43.570 --> 00:49:45.849
So much in a very short amount of time. Pack

00:49:45.849 --> 00:49:48.909
that in. Let me read to you what Jillian Michaels

00:49:48.909 --> 00:49:51.269
said. Okay, right. Yes, because she played this

00:49:51.269 --> 00:49:53.369
clip. She did. And I was like, what? But I like

00:49:53.369 --> 00:49:55.969
what she said. She said, Marco Rubio just exposed

00:49:55.969 --> 00:49:58.630
what the political elite never wanted you to

00:49:58.630 --> 00:50:01.250
hear in a moment that is sending shockwaves across

00:50:01.250 --> 00:50:04.489
the internet. He completely dismantled dismantled

00:50:04.489 --> 00:50:08.110
radical leftism live on air, tearing down decades

00:50:08.110 --> 00:50:10.809
of political propaganda in under 60 seconds.

00:50:11.530 --> 00:50:13.250
Everyone thought he was going to give a typical

00:50:13.250 --> 00:50:16.130
politician response, but what he revealed at

00:50:16.130 --> 00:50:18.250
the very end changed the entire conversation

00:50:18.250 --> 00:50:22.989
forever. Yeah. Brilliant. Yay, Gillian. Well,

00:50:23.389 --> 00:50:25.590
there's more people who are starting to see this.

00:50:25.949 --> 00:50:28.210
And as much as, you know, I'm like, hey, you

00:50:28.210 --> 00:50:31.300
know, let's all calm down about A million mosques

00:50:31.300 --> 00:50:34.320
built in the last 24 months in Texas, et cetera,

00:50:34.340 --> 00:50:38.739
et cetera. What we are seeing is Islamists teaming

00:50:38.739 --> 00:50:43.699
up with the socialists. This is where the danger

00:50:43.699 --> 00:50:48.239
comes from. And it's not just danger for our

00:50:48.239 --> 00:50:51.780
country and our republic. It's actually dangerous

00:50:51.780 --> 00:50:55.920
for the socialists because they're the ones that

00:50:55.920 --> 00:51:00.360
get killed first. And the weak brothers and sisters,

00:51:00.460 --> 00:51:04.019
oh, bring in your LGBTQ. You are the first ones

00:51:04.019 --> 00:51:05.719
who are gonna get killed. That's exactly right.

00:51:06.280 --> 00:51:10.639
It's historical. So, you know, I pray that people

00:51:10.639 --> 00:51:15.579
will snap out of it. Snap out of it. Couple things

00:51:15.579 --> 00:51:20.500
before we go. We got prayer requests from Ian

00:51:20.500 --> 00:51:25.590
Cummings. His dad has not been doing well, suffering

00:51:25.590 --> 00:51:30.989
cytokine release syndrome, CRS. It's from chemo.

00:51:31.510 --> 00:51:34.949
And so just want everybody to pray for his dad.

00:51:35.650 --> 00:51:42.889
Heard from my friend Pete, Pete in quotes, who

00:51:42.889 --> 00:51:48.250
was very brave and prayed through what actions

00:51:48.250 --> 00:51:50.409
he had to take for his addiction, his alcohol

00:51:50.409 --> 00:51:53.570
addiction. You know came clean with his wife.

00:51:53.730 --> 00:51:56.289
He said hey man. I just want to let you know

00:51:56.289 --> 00:51:59.769
I was in the ICU for three days. I'm out now

00:51:59.769 --> 00:52:02.849
and now the hard work begins Yeah, and so, you

00:52:02.849 --> 00:52:04.530
know, I'm praying for him and I hope everybody

00:52:04.530 --> 00:52:07.489
else will as well It's just I'm so proud of that

00:52:07.489 --> 00:52:11.349
guy for Wow for doing that and then without even

00:52:11.349 --> 00:52:15.360
asking we got two donations already with our

00:52:15.360 --> 00:52:18.000
quest for a value for value, which, of course,

00:52:18.059 --> 00:52:20.219
this is a value for value podcast, which means

00:52:20.219 --> 00:52:22.380
the best thing you can do is tell people about

00:52:22.380 --> 00:52:26.099
the podcast. That's very valuable to us right

00:52:26.099 --> 00:52:29.199
now. But as we grow and as we move and spend

00:52:29.199 --> 00:52:32.460
more time on this, all parts of value for value

00:52:32.460 --> 00:52:35.420
become important. And why does it not surprise

00:52:35.420 --> 00:52:40.480
me that right away we get Steve and Stephanie

00:52:40.480 --> 00:52:46.460
in Las Vegas supporting us with $33 .33. I really

00:52:46.460 --> 00:52:49.840
appreciate that. Yeah, Steve and Stephanie. And

00:52:49.840 --> 00:52:53.280
$75 from The Pickle Princess. Oh my goodness.

00:52:53.639 --> 00:52:56.539
Aka. She's awesome. Jody White says, I love you

00:52:56.539 --> 00:52:58.880
guys. Keep up the good work. Thank you so much.

00:52:59.039 --> 00:53:04.780
That is so appreciated. WGTDT .com is our...

00:53:04.800 --> 00:53:07.199
website and that's where you're going to find

00:53:07.199 --> 00:53:09.760
real show notes this time. I'm going to put something

00:53:09.760 --> 00:53:12.760
in the show notes so people can go, oh, they're

00:53:12.760 --> 00:53:15.480
talking about something here. We're legit. We're

00:53:15.480 --> 00:53:19.019
getting legit. We're getting legit. Yes, man.

00:53:19.099 --> 00:53:21.440
Working on it. Working hard on it. It's fun,

00:53:21.440 --> 00:53:24.199
brother. I love doing this. This is so different.

00:53:24.340 --> 00:53:26.380
How long has it been since you've built one from

00:53:26.380 --> 00:53:28.239
the ground up like this? Has it been a while?

00:53:28.840 --> 00:53:32.099
Because I mean you do several podcasts 2 .0 you

00:53:32.099 --> 00:53:36.099
know facts It's everything's different. Okay

00:53:36.099 --> 00:53:40.239
2 .0. I mean all of all podcasts are communities.

00:53:40.519 --> 00:53:42.840
Mm -hmm. That's the bottom line Yeah, the the

00:53:42.840 --> 00:53:44.860
biggest community is the no agenda community

00:53:44.860 --> 00:53:47.360
and that's just been built up over right over

00:53:47.360 --> 00:53:52.780
almost 19 years Mo facts was a part of the no

00:53:52.780 --> 00:53:56.880
agenda community podcasting 2 .0 is a very small

00:53:57.050 --> 00:53:59.130
It's only a couple thousand. Well, it's because

00:53:59.130 --> 00:54:01.610
you all speak another language. Totally. I tried

00:54:01.610 --> 00:54:04.590
listening. No, no, no. And we also call it the

00:54:04.590 --> 00:54:07.369
board meeting because we're, you know, we're

00:54:07.369 --> 00:54:10.869
technology. We are a bunch of, we're misfits.

00:54:11.030 --> 00:54:13.449
We're a misfit. It's like someone said, Hey,

00:54:13.489 --> 00:54:16.309
let's put this band together. And some dude comes

00:54:16.309 --> 00:54:19.309
up with the banjo. We got a guy playing spoons,

00:54:19.789 --> 00:54:22.710
someone on the, you know, on the theremin and,

00:54:22.909 --> 00:54:24.630
you know, but all of this together is working

00:54:24.630 --> 00:54:28.550
to. make podcasting better, and podcasting is

00:54:28.550 --> 00:54:31.969
owned by no one. So we're just trying to help

00:54:31.969 --> 00:54:35.730
keep it open free. And that's for selfish reasons

00:54:35.730 --> 00:54:38.050
too. I want to make sure that I can continue

00:54:38.050 --> 00:54:43.849
to create podcasts. Now, Korean The Keeper really

00:54:43.849 --> 00:54:46.869
started because we didn't know anybody out here

00:54:46.869 --> 00:54:50.449
and we were just going to... check out some wineries

00:54:50.449 --> 00:54:52.670
and talk about wine, and we thought maybe some

00:54:52.670 --> 00:54:54.510
people send us some wine and we can, you know,

00:54:54.630 --> 00:54:56.269
we'll drink the wine. We did that for seven episodes.

00:54:56.289 --> 00:54:58.849
Seven episodes. And then, you know, then it turned

00:54:58.849 --> 00:55:01.510
out that this was really about us and our faith

00:55:01.510 --> 00:55:04.130
journey. And, you know, so all of this, I think,

00:55:04.230 --> 00:55:07.329
led to what this is. And now there's a new community

00:55:07.329 --> 00:55:09.010
that we're going to build together. I'm very

00:55:09.010 --> 00:55:12.610
excited about it because when I see these notes

00:55:12.610 --> 00:55:16.829
saying, hey, I'm coming back to my faith, or

00:55:16.829 --> 00:55:20.530
it's been a long time. This is the success. This

00:55:20.530 --> 00:55:23.929
is the reason why we've been asked to do this,

00:55:23.929 --> 00:55:26.909
I feel. Well, it's not about clicks, likes, and

00:55:26.909 --> 00:55:30.670
sponsors. It's about people. And a true community

00:55:30.670 --> 00:55:33.929
is about people. And the success is the community,

00:55:34.090 --> 00:55:36.690
the people. Always. The interactions. I love

00:55:36.690 --> 00:55:39.929
interaction with some of the guys on X and Substack.

00:55:40.309 --> 00:55:43.769
And I'm excited about that growing. I've been

00:55:43.769 --> 00:55:46.110
to a few of the no agenda meetups and I just

00:55:46.110 --> 00:55:49.289
always leave going, this is so cool to have this

00:55:49.289 --> 00:55:52.869
community and people not content to just stay

00:55:52.869 --> 00:55:55.889
on their computers or their pods, but come together

00:55:55.889 --> 00:55:58.230
and hang out and get to know each other. Man,

00:55:58.349 --> 00:56:01.170
I've enjoyed that so much. Every time you ask

00:56:01.170 --> 00:56:03.570
me, I go, okay, I'm there. Well, it's on a Saturday.

00:56:03.690 --> 00:56:07.670
I'm there because I get to meet people that I'm

00:56:07.670 --> 00:56:10.889
going to somehow build some level of a relationship

00:56:10.889 --> 00:56:15.570
with. Isn't that real riches in life? To me,

00:56:15.630 --> 00:56:18.190
real riches isn't getting a sponsor by row or

00:56:18.190 --> 00:56:21.829
some of these different big sponsors. It's about

00:56:21.829 --> 00:56:26.090
people and it's about holding each other's arms

00:56:26.090 --> 00:56:28.929
up through the tough days and celebrating the

00:56:28.929 --> 00:56:32.190
wins together. We'll take that as the plane sticking

00:56:32.190 --> 00:56:34.969
the landing, man. I love that. Perfect. We get

00:56:34.969 --> 00:56:37.809
to do this and we will get to do it next week.

00:56:38.710 --> 00:56:42.940
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