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In your Bibles, go to Acts 20,
24 through 30, Acts 20.
24 through 30,
Heddy will be reading those
verses a little bit later on in the show.
In A.W.
Tozer's devotional,
Tozer for the Christian Leader,
it references Acts 20, 24.
Today's March 21,
and the title is A New Type of Preacher.
It's the first day of spring
and the Persian New Year.
Wait, what?
Yeah, March 21.
Why has nobody told me this?
How about it?
I would have had a whole
thing to talk about.
I didn't know that.
Acts 20, 24 says,
but none of these things move me.
Neither count I my life dear
unto myself so that I might
finish my course with joy
and the ministry which I
have received of the Lord
to testify the gospel of
the grace of God.
AW says,
if Christianity is to receive a
rejuvenation,
it must be by other means
than any now being used.
If the Christian church in
the second half of this
century is to recover from
the injuries she suffered
in the first half,
there must appear a new type of preacher.
Another kind of religious
leader must arise among us.
He must be the old prophet type,
a man who has seen visions
of God and has heard a
voice from the throne.
When he comes,
and I pray God there will be
not one but many,
he will stand in flat
contradiction to everything our smirking,
smooth civilization holds dear.
He will contradict, denounce,
and protest in the name of God,
and will earn the hatred
and opposition of a large
segment of Christendom.
Such a man is likely to be lean, rugged,
blunt-spoken,
and a little bit angry with the world.
He will love Christ and the
souls of men to the point
of willingness to die for
the glory of the one and
the salvation of the other.
But he will not fear Christ.
but he will fear nothing
that breathes with mortal breath.
Send to your church today, O Lord,
many who have seen visions
of God and heard a voice from the throne.
Amen.
You're writing feverishly over there.
What do you?
Well,
I thought of it occurred to me on the
second time around the old
type of preacher.
And I heard this great
sermon about Jeremiah 38.
And it's an obscure passage
of scripture for Jeremiah
because a lot of Jeremiah
is talked about often.
But it's the part of the
story where so Jeremiah is
the weeping prophet.
Nobody liked him.
They hated him.
uh he was like repent repent
that you know the god of
god's wrath is coming and
everyone's like you know
what you're super annoying
uh you need to stop talking
and so they decided to
throw him in a cistern so
the cisterns were uh like
small giant jugs where they
kept water but because they
were going through a
drought there was no water
it was just mud
So they threw him in this
thing that was filled with blood.
And the sermon was about like,
he's probably thinking to himself,
I am doing the work of God
and I'm in a cistern right now.
Like, how did this happen to me?
And it just reminds me that,
what Tozer is saying is the
old type of preacher is
sackcloth and ashes.
It's,
I'm willing to die for the gospel or
suffer innumerable amount of damage.
Like take, for example,
even in comparison to what
Pastor Jack's going now, I mean,
He's being vilified in the
news as if he was like David Koresh.
You know, it's just absolutely horrible.
And yet he takes it with a
smile on his face because he's like,
it must be doing something right.
But in this day and age,
if you're going to stand up
for the gospel in any kind
of powerful way, if you're a rugged man,
you know, committed to the cross,
reminds me of Driscoll, that description,
you're going to suffer.
And I don't know how many
people are willing to do that.
And it's funny, he said this, you know,
60 years ago now, 70 years ago.
Well,
it's funny that this devotional is today,
and right when I read it,
I got a text from my daughter,
one of my three daughters, that
my fight with um the school
district not the school
district the teachers union
um is now has affected uh
her and um the courtney no
right right how so well
they're talking about my
you know I'm trying I want
to keep this short because
I know it's if I go too long um
So this has been going on
for a long time where I
have been arguing in school
board meetings and speaking
out and going to rallies and whatnot,
making a show,
an entire show that
dedicates to the things
that are going on in the school district.
But suddenly I'm on the,
I told you on my birthday,
one of my presidents was
that the school union said
they're the teacher's union with,
I don't know why I keep
saying school union,
the teacher's union said
they're coming after me.
Well, they've now,
what that means is they've,
they've gone to the point
where it's affecting my daughter,
that they've used people to,
to send her videos and to
tell her that I'm a
horrible person and all
these kinds of things.
Apparently, because, uh, uh,
I try to explain to Ray, I'll just, just,
sorry.
Let me just read the message
I got just as we were
reading the devotional.
was that,
but you don't realize how
irritating this is.
It's so embarrassing.
And the fact that you're not
caring about it affecting
us kids is weird.
I'm just frustrated because
it doesn't only make you look bad,
but us too.
I think you should change your approach.
Makes us look bad.
What's your approach?
Calling them out.
Calling them out that what
they're saying is lies
about the 17 principals being fired.
That's not happening.
That hundreds of teachers are being fired.
That is also not happening.
See, so,
but she brings up a good point
that we often, I don't think it's just us,
but any family who is outspoken about
is not really calculating
the cost on the family.
Yes.
You know,
I'm sure Sonia's kids and
Leandra's kids we know have suffered.
Yes,
and they're getting another round of
attacks.
It's happening to the other
kids or to the children of
the people in the fight.
Sure.
All at the same time.
And it's been pretty bad for
Leandra's son.
Repeatedly.
Beth Frazier,
who's a principal of Bernardo Yorba,
her children are six and eight years old,
and they said they're going
after her children too.
But this isn't even back
when we were talking about
all the LGBTQ stuff.
Which is so weird.
That's not even when I was
praying at the school board meeting.
Right?
So that's kind of how this
comes together because they
look at me as a Christian nationalist.
That's what I've been called.
I've been personally called
a whole bunch of names.
Yes, you have.
The king of the douchebags.
The king of the douchebags,
which is maybe not that far
from the truth.
But this has been going on
for a very long time.
But it's strange.
I mean...
Why is it flaring up so crazy?
Because we're having success.
The more success you have,
the more they find ways to say nonsense.
Like they have to come after you.
They cause chaos and then say,
you see what these people are doing?
They're causing all this chaos.
And we're going, we're not doing anything.
We have two new schools
being built within the district.
We have the charter school coming in.
We got new attendance
records that have never been,
not attendance, enrollment records,
more than ever before.
Not one single teacher's being fired,
but yet it's the teachers
union who's coming after us.
And so it's so funny that
this comes on this at the
same moment as that text.
But yes,
I tried to explain to her that
they're just they're mad
because we're having success.
And then that's when she
sent me that response.
That was her response to my listen.
I'm just I want you to know
that we are being very successful.
Things are going to are
going really well in the school district.
and it's only like maybe 10
or 15 people but where it
says um he will he will
stand in flat contradiction
to everything our smirking
smooth civilization holds
dear he will contradict
denounce and protest in the
name of god and will earn
the hatred in opposition of
a large segment of christiandom
So I know the folks that I'm
arguing against,
which are about five or six
women that are,
I don't even think they
have kids in the district,
but they're surely
representatives of the teachers union.
I have pictures of them in
their social media,
the people that have come after me.
I know they're not Christians, though.
I know that this devotional
speaks more towards.
Do you know they're not Christians?
Well, I don't know.
That's true.
There's a lot of people
called Christians out there.
Because I don't mind getting the ire of,
you know, the demonic.
Right.
I mean, that's going to happen.
Well,
this also takes me to the other point
I was going to talk about
is the other podcast I
heard about urban apologetics,
which was also brilliant.
The Perrys were interviewing
Dr. Eric Mason,
who has a new book called
Urban Apologetics.
And he was saying that this
is part of the purification of the church,
that the Lord is sifting
the wheat from the tares.
There's the great falling away.
There's the remnant that is left.
So a lot of Christendom has
to leave Christendom.
So God will use these kinds
of situations to get people to be like,
I'm done.
That's it.
They're all,
all the Christians are nationalists.
They're like, they're like clan members.
We're going backwards.
I want nothing to do with it.
This is the way the Lord works.
And when he used the great
example of John 15, three, the pruning,
and he says, you will bear much fruit,
but you will be pruned in the process.
So he's basically putting his, um,
his profits and his
anointed through pruning.
And in that pruning,
he's cutting away dead branches.
So.
it is even in our own community,
we will see people falling
away because they're afraid
of the conflict and the
truth and want nothing to do with it.
This, this, this,
this is the dilemma because this is what,
this is why they do it
because they want to make
families back down and seeing, you know,
If they try hard enough and
start at the children,
will the parents cave?
Sonia Shaw hasn't.
Madison.
Madison hasn't.
Leandra.
Sean and Todd don't quite get it as much.
I wonder why.
Well, they do go after Sean.
I'll take that back.
Lately, they've been going after him, too.
But I don't think it's kids.
Okay.
But that is the, yeah,
that is the dilemma.
I mean,
there's probably some things I
could do somewhat differently,
but you can't not speak the truth.
I mean, that really is the problem,
is that when they want to
say all these things are
happening and you say, no, they're not,
and here's the proof, then they go, okay,
then we're going after your kids.
I mean, that's the...
They go,
what am I supposed to do with that?
And how do I help Ray understand?
Listen, it's, I can't,
I cannot give in to.
They don't do well enough to know that.
Yeah.
There was a description that
I was thinking that he said, what is he,
these guys are,
such a man is likely to be lean.
I've been working on my leanness.
Rugged.
I'm sometimes rugged.
Blunt spoken.
Oops.
Got me there.
And a little bit angry.
Funny, I didn't think of you.
I thought of Driscoll, but yes.
I think of Driscoll too.
For sure.
Because you have to be tough skinned.
Yeah, you have to be.
so yeah they um can we say
hi to our friends yeah they
just want to make it make
it difficult hi kelly hi
iris and kelly says how
terrible that they would
bring the kids in on it
yeah people have no shame
you know what's interesting
is that these are the same
hi maria these are the same
women that get up there and
say you know say how
they'll scream about nonsense about
We care about the kids.
We love the kids.
Except your kids.
Yeah.
And then they fight for
pornography in the libraries.
Like you go read the book and they go,
you're book burning.
You're burning books.
You're censoring books.
No,
we just don't want pornography in the
children's school.
Exactly.
You're burning books.
They can have books.
What's wrong with the pornography books?
They can have them in their house.
We're not burning it here.
We're not going to burn it here.
Take it and take it in your house.
And then when you try to
read it at the meeting, they're like, ew,
don't say that.
That's vile.
You can't read that.
That's terrible.
But you want it in the
elementary school libraries.
Makes no sense.
But then they go out to your
kids if you don't knock it off.
It really is.
Brian Potter, I appreciate you guys.
Thank you, Brian.
Thank you.
So strange.
What's the scripture say?
Well,
this is Paul in a similar situation
as he's ending towards his ministry,
going to Jerusalem, expecting.
that chains and tribulation
await him and possibly death,
he tells the Ephesian
elders this is his parting
message to them,
that none of these things,
all the trials he's been through, move me,
nor do I count my life dear
to myself so that I may
finish my race with joy and
the ministry which I
received from the Lord
Jesus to testify the gospel
of grace of God.
And indeed, now I know that you all,
among whom I have been
preaching the kingdom of God,
will see my face no more.
Therefore, I testify to you this day,
I am innocent of the blood of all men.
For I have not shunned to
declare to you the whole counsel of God.
Therefore,
take heed to yourselves and to
all the flock among which
the Holy Spirit has made
you overseers to shepherd
the church of God,
which he purchased with his own blood.
For I know this, that after my departure,
savage wolves will come among you,
not sparing the flock.
Also from among yourself,
men will rise up speaking
perverse things to draw
away the disciples.
after themselves so I am
innocent of the blood of
all men because why I've
declared the whole council
of god so not shying away
from the tough
conversations and the
things that we must do on
behalf of the gospel so
it's a tough it's a tough
fight um and it's been
going on since the beginning
of Jesus's ministry.
Yeah, you know,
so I just expect that it's
only going to get worse.
Yes.
As the persecution increases,
remember that they if they hate you,
they hated me first.
truth there's some truth
right there yeah bible um I
haven't watched um pastor
jack's uh sunday service
yet I started to watch some
of it and then I think we
got busy doing some other
stuff and I don't want to
see it center israel oh is
it yeah it's very good but
I understand he's uh he's
transitioning out for a
couple weeks yeah to talk
about what's happening in the world again
Oh, out of Romans.
I thought you meant leaving the church.
No, no, no.
No, he's doing Israel.
Oh, okay.
The significance of Israel.
Looking forward to that.
You know, I emailed Peggy, his assistant.
He said it's time for another interview.
It's not Peggy?
No.
What's her name?
I can't remember right now,
but it's not Peggy.
Okay.
Let's just,
we could have just said it was big.
Some people watching me know.
That's her name.
Nice.
No, are you sure?
Yeah.
Maybe I emailed the wrong Peggy.
Oh, Pastor Matt, Pastor, uh, Driscoll's.
robin thank you robin yes
absolutely where'd I get
peggy from I don't know I
have a cousin named peggy
um robin thank you kelly
yes I emailed robin and uh
and I told her it's time
for another interview
awesome because I want to
talk I want you and him to
talk about what's happening
in um uh chino valley with
uh the palestinians the palestinians
That sounds like a book.
Sonia and the Palestinians.
Yeah, so what's happening?
And Pastor Jack needed some
assistance on that.
And I think that that's a
good topic about that.
It's coming from now different factions.
It's really crazy, right?
It's a really crazy time.
Like if it was just LGBTQ...
homosexuals defending hamas
like that's my point what
universe are we in that
homosexuals are defending
hamas like I and this is
completely insane but why
the school why are the
schools seem to be the
epicenter it's it's the
most bizarre way it's crtdi
because that's the next
generation every good
revolution starts at the children
Fighting so hard for that ground.
I mean, this really is a battle.
And I want to honor my children, of course,
and Ray in particular.
She's particularly sensitive to this.
thing I mean girls are they
want to be accepted and
they don't want people
calling their dad a creep
and an a-hole and all the
other names that they're
calling me and but that's
my dad but your dad's and
I'm sure there's some of
the kids that walked out of
school yesterday because of
the they were told a lie oh
so that's why this is fired
up because they don't walk
out yeah they were told to
lie that hundreds of people
are being fired from the
district not true I'm just
telling you that's not
happening right um and um
I think it's all that,
that your dad is the cause of this.
But that made room for your mom.
That's what I tried to tell her mom,
because her mom came after me too.
And so I said,
you would not be able to
work at the school district
if they were having all the
firings that these other
school districts have.
So that's obvious.
You got a job in the school business,
which right now is...
A, a, a bonfire of,
of burning down schools, um, Lakewood,
I think it is, um,
in the LA unified school district,
they're closing down,
they're closing down five schools.
They're not just firing
hundreds of teachers,
San Diego's firing 400
teachers in the San Diego, you know,
freight school district 400.
So maybe that's where some
of the ignorance comes from.
They think those statistics
are replicated in our jurisdiction.
I think it's easy to fool people, say,
look at this, what's happening.
So it's also happening here.
But that's the great thing
is that we are doing so
well that it's the only
place in the surrounding
school districts that's not
firing teachers.
And we're adding two schools.
Maybe we can get,
why don't you ask to get
Cherneice an interview with
Jack on this podcast?
Oh, I can do that.
Sure.
This has been waiting to get
interview with me because
he wants to wait until some
of these things kind of
calm down and I'm like,
I'm not sure it's going to
come to do the interview anyway.
Um, but, uh, that'd be a really good idea.
I think that really is.
Yeah, yeah, for sure.
He's got interviewed in the
orange orange county
register and it's a very
positive story for it tells the stats.
Nobody's getting fired.
Yeah,
it's the only one of the school
districts.
Somebody's put it in print.
Yeah, finally.
Great.
All right.
What else we got there?
One of my Brian says one of
my recent memory versus which verse.
Is it the scripture from Acts?
Probably.
Yeah, I run my race.
What's Maria saying about Driscoll?
Oh, yeah.
Pastor Mark Driscoll does
not hold back for no one.
Love his warrior spirit for Christ.
Yes.
Yeah.
I had a very interact funny
interaction with a nurse the other day.
Um, had some choice words for me and I.
I responded with, I'm really sorry,
but I have a tendency to
intimidate people.
And I'm very, very sorry.
I think I've made you uncomfortable.
She's like, no, no, that's not true.
And I'm like, no, really, it's OK.
I have a tendency to do that sometimes.
And I apologize.
I don't mean to do it.
It's just kind of who I am.
So sometimes our warrior
spirits come out in the
grocery store or at the doctor's office.
yeah can't help it and our
children on our children
but they usually deserve it
true that's that's true um
just gonna change gears yes
of course we've done that
been there done that I
think we've yeah we've oh
one more with brian
Oh, 15, 18, 20.
If the world hates you,
know that it has hated.
You know that it has hated.
World would love.
But I choose you out of the
world because this world hates you.
I think there's some words missing there.
But yes,
now I know what you're referring to.
Great.
Yeah,
I was actually looking for that the
other day to send to
somebody else that was
giving me a hard time.
We're in that for in East
Anaheim in our community group.
Oh, that's true.
That is true.
So I was on my call with my
business accelerator group.
Oh,
which includes I hope it's okay to say
includes two people that
are helping you with.
Yes.
Okay.
They are book publishers.
So they're in my mind and
Everett's business accelerator group.
And
they are over promise under
deliver under promise over deliver.
No, I just said, I go, I love that.
I told him I was smiling
that you were pleased so
far with what's been going
on and it was been going very well.
But one reason I'm bringing
that up is that they're
very excited about your book.
Oh, really?
Very excited about your book
and about how it's turning out and,
you know, in the outline form,
at least at this point.
And I think all of you will
be so excited to get your
hands on Hedia's book once
it gets published.
We'll be keeping you up to
date and let you know about
a launch date and all that kind of stuff.
But I got to tell you that
the publishers who's published,
they've published lots of
books for people, a lot of professionals,
a lot of Christian books,
but they really seem to be
really excited about your book.
So for them to be excited,
I think that that's a really big deal.
I'm excited.
How do you think that the
outline that was presented
to you came up?
All glory to the king, first of all.
Let's just get that out
there because I have no
words other than the words he gives me.
But they created an outline
based on what I did was I
handed them hundreds of
pages of articles I've
written for the past two
and a half years.
A movie script I've written,
journal entries, text for the website.
I threw all of this content
at them and I was like,
These are my topics.
This is my roadmap.
This is where I want to go.
Living Fearless for the Kingdom.
These are the five kingdom
areas I want to cover.
I know the content is there.
Turn this into that content.
And the editor did it.
She basically went through
all of that content and put it.
So I was like, my words.
Yeah.
Our words, Jesus,
Jesus' words that he gave me.
I was like, oh my goodness,
it's all there.
They were talking to the
other publishers about how
your project was put together.
And Everett, the other publisher,
a friend of mine.
He wasn't mad at us, was he?
No, not at all.
He goes, yeah, we wouldn't have done that.
We wouldn't have done that.
We wouldn't have taken it on?
No, not that.
Not the way that you did it.
Oh, really?
Like giving all these
different things and then
gave it to them.
hoping that the the editor
would be able to put it all
together yeah um and so it
was very very impressed oh
I think they believed it
too yeah but there is an
aspect of it that these
aren't just you know
they're not your average
person's blog like there's
not like a blog post no you
you've written articles
yeah and you happen to have
a couple degrees
And, and so, I mean,
it's not my own cut and paste blog post.
It's not like me where I
took a bunch of my emails
and you see my emails and I
made a book out of my emails.
It wasn't, it wasn't.
And I think they were
surprised also that what the topics I had,
like I knew in my heart and
also from having written it
for years that the outline I gave,
I actually had that content.
So they didn't know that
because I sent them 60 articles.
So they didn't know, wait a minute, this,
they saw my outline, my book outline.
They had no idea that that
would actually pair up to this content.
You know what I mean?
Like, wait,
is she guessing that this is
going to pair up?
Like,
how does she know this is going to
pair up?
And that was the beauty of this editor.
She's like, oh yeah, I can fit this.
And she just literally just
put them each in each of these sections.
And I was like, right on,
you figured it out.
You did the jigsaw.
So I'm excited.
Yeah.
So it's living fearless for the kingdom.
That's our, uh,
our working title as of now,
but it's self like, you know, um, your,
your personal, personal victory, um,
family, society, politics, religion.
So self family, religion, society,
politics.
Yeah,
we spent the whole hour talking about it.
Whoops.
Yeah.
Oh.
We talked about launches and
some other stuff.
I want you to keep
brainstorming every couple
of weeks about my launch and the cover.
I wanted your whole group to
be discussing that.
I was bringing up topics.
And then Malia,
who is the assistant to my colleague,
my partner in this business, said, Andy,
have you never published a book before?
I was asking questions.
She knew I knew the answers.
Uh-huh.
But I was bringing up topics
for the group.
My job is to bring up topics for the group,
but in doing that, you, there were a few,
um,
new nuggets that came out of the
discussion.
Like the one I really like, um,
and we'll see if the
audience likes this is that the publisher,
um, suggested, and you heard this too.
No, well, there's that, but, um,
that's an old one too, but, um,
taking a press release and
sending it to your high school.
Oh, yeah, I think she like,
is it the Facebook group or
to my to your high school
to your to your high school
saying like the office?
Yes.
Like to the principal.
you're a graduate of Beverly Hills high,
which is,
but I think about like Neff high
school where I went, that would be huge.
It'd be like number one.
I'd be up there with four Academy award.
Beverly Hills high school.
Oh, she wrote a book.
We're really excited.
Oh, it is Christian.
All right then.
Yeah.
But I think that that would
be so fun to send that press release.
Well, we have a reunion committee.
So we have our,
uh beverly highway union
community which is
thousands of people yeah um
so they would put it out in
the newsletter for sure for
me yeah yeah I think that
would be cool what about
usc ucla um my I'm part of
the usc alumni association
so the law school food for
sure do that too oh see
ucla I don't have much of a
connection to but I'm sure
it wouldn't be difficult
let's see what else what
about the the uh the head
off the home uh the seventh
floor of the fbi
Since I'm so complimentary
to them right now.
Yeah, so that would be fun.
Yeah.
What is it that do you think
that you'll be able to do
once it's published?
Do you plan on going out
into the speaking world and
visiting churches all over like?
What if you sent a press
release to Joel Olsteen and
he invited you to speak in
his congregation?
Would you do that?
I think I would hide under a table.
No, really?
That ginormous church?
I'm like, God, are you kidding?
It's no different than pastoring,
just standing up in front
of the audience.
I spoke in front of NORAD.
So the chairman of the Joint
Chiefs of Staff, McMullen, invited me,
and it was fantastic.
room it was an impressive
room that was probably the
most impressive room I've
ever spoke at yeah so I
think I can handle a room
with church folk in it it
would be hard for me to not
keep focusing on those big
teeth I think we should
shoot a little a little lower now why
That was one of the things
that we talked about,
about you sending it to Joel Holstein.
Oh, really?
Yeah.
Okay.
Not a huge fan, but why not?
What about Pastor Furtick?
Would you love to go speak
in front of his audience?
At Furtick's, I would, yes.
Elevation, I would.
I will definitely send him a copy.
Yeah.
Because I have the paradox
of the celebrity pastor in there,
and so I criticize him.
Mark Driscoll, of course,
I think you have to send it there.
They were huge fans.
Yes.
And we've been to your church.
Are we totally off topic right now?
Are we just having our own
fireside chat right now?
Sorry, folks.
Sorry about that.
I got excited about my book.
Oh.
So Brian has fixed the verses.
John 15, 18.
If the world hates you,
you know that it had hated
me before it hated you.
Right.
Amen.
And then 15, 19.
If you were of the world,
the world would love its own.
But because you are not of the world,
but I chose you out of the
world because this world hates you.
Hmm.
Those are life verses right now.
That one right there is
what's happening right now.
You should put it on a
t-shirt and give it to Ray.
Yeah, I'm not going to respond to her.
I responded already and said, listen,
I know and I'm sorry this
is happening to you.
And that's when she sent me
the part that I just sent
you or read out loud.
But I think I'm just going
to wait till tomorrow and
give it some thought of how
I want to respond.
Yeah, you should.
But worry about it.
Think about it.
I mean,
she's a cheerleader and all these things,
and she's having these
other issues with friends
and stuff like that.
I just wish they would have
left her alone.
That fire may be being stoked right now.
Yeah.
I'm not getting any help on
the other home front.
Kelly's excited for the book.
Thank you, Kelly.
I appreciate that.
Prayers would be much appreciated.
It's always whenever you try
to get something out,
the world starts to fall apart.
So just praying for peace and encourage.
You were talking about a topic at dinner.
Did you want to dive into that at all?
Which one?
I talked about so many.
About your podcast that you listen to,
The Couple.
the Perry's I talked about Eric Mason,
the urban apologetics,
but what I loved about it.
So the Perry's is I never
remember her husband's name,
but it's Jackie Perry.
Gay girl, good God.
So she used to be in a same-sex lifestyle,
but was radically transformed by Christ,
now married with, I don't know, three,
four kids.
But she's a Reformed theology,
very conservative,
outspoken preacher of the gospel.
Really awesome.
I just really love her.
And they do a podcast,
her and her husband.
And they had on Dr. Eric Mason,
who wrote a book called
Urban Apologetics.
And there's something to be
said about the black
community being able to
look critically at itself.
Because honestly, if it, if a, you know,
a white preacher pastor said, Oh my God,
what is it with these black
preachers and their tennis shoes?
You know what I mean?
Like it would sound so horribly racist,
but
he was commenting,
he was explaining to them, he was like,
this neo-prosperity gospel
we have right now is
turning young black church members,
male and female,
into like groupies
idolizing these pastors who
have these like dramatic
entries into the church.
They're wearing like fancy
Balenciaga tennis shoes.
It's like Louis Vuitton tennis shoes.
with expensive clothes and
Gucci sunglasses and a Gucci belt.
And they're like peace
signing their audience, high-fiving them.
They're like, they've turned into like,
like rap artists, you know?
And he says that instead of
the focus being on holiness
and repentance and the full
counsel of God and preaching fire and,
and,
deliverance and the power of
Christ and the Holy Spirit.
It's about image.
It's about what can you achieve?
Look at me, follow Jesus,
and you could be like me.
And he was super critical of that.
And it was just really
awesome to hear him
articulate it in a very,
not only a smart way,
but a respectful way.
And from somebody within the community,
I felt he had the
credibility and the
integrity to make those
kinds of comments about
what he sees happening.
And it was just a really cool conversation,
so.
And that reminds me of the contrast,
I guess, of Francis Chan,
who we listened to last night,
who was just crying about
the awesomeness of God.
And everything is Jesus.
It's such a difference when
you described how the video
shows the pastor coming out of the car,
the limousine, basically.
With those expensive shoes.
What do you call them again?
Balenciagas?
Balenciaga.
Oh, that's the... Yeah, the baby killers.
Yeah, the baby killers.
Yeah.
They're wearing baby killer shoes?
Yeah.
These pastors.
Yes.
Wow.
What a contrast.
Oh, my gosh.
Here's Francis Chan just saying, I just,
God, I'm not.
In his thrift clothes,
his thrift shop clothes.
Rides his bicycle.
Really rides his bicycle.
Not like the transportation secretary.
Wow.
Yeah, this is something.
And so you're saying that like in times,
you know,
as we approach as we're in the
last days and the book of
Revelation comes to life
and the Lord is is
basically sifting out his remnant.
He says that he says to the church,
I will take your lampstands.
In other words,
he says that the Lord had
told him that you will see
churches start to close and
people may grieve.
Oh, no, churches are closing.
He's like, but it's false.
It's all of this false
doctrine that has been propagated.
All of these false teachers
that have been propagated.
He's like,
and people will start to fall away.
And I see what we're going
through here is just
another evidence of that.
is that holding religion
will be like holding burning coal.
And it's not going to be easy.
Kelly says, yes, when I was growing up,
there was a prosperity
gospel called name it and claim it.
And it always turned me off.
Yeah.
So now what they're
describing is it's a version of that.
And so they call it the neo
prosperity gospel because it's about
it's a little bit self healthy.
And it's also about it's
very person centric.
It's got a lot of humanism.
That's the way he described it.
It's got a lot of the cult
ideology of humanism in it.
That I can be all I can be
and I could be enough and I
don't want to hear something weird.
Yeah.
Weird?
Yeah.
Yes.
I just realized why I said Peggy.
Friends Church, their executive secretary,
her name is Peggy.
Oh, see that?
I dealt with her a lot.
I go, why did I say Peggy?
There's got to be a reason why I thought.
Because usually you're a
couple letters off,
like Rachel or something.
Yeah, not entire names.
Right.
But I just realized why that.
That makes perfect sense now.
Yeah.
So happy I figured that out
and was able to share all
of it with all of you.
There are millions of
listeners and viewers.
Anything else, Snooks?
No, I think we got it.
I think we covered a lot.
Do you think you can add
sleep to the prayer tonight?
Is it possible that you and
I could get some sleep?
Not only, I mean, you are new friends.
Remember our new friends?
What were their names?
The pastor.
Peggy and Robin.
Natalie and Dave Hess.
Oh, yes.
Yes.
I was having a real problem with sleep,
and he prayed this
beautiful prayer of sleep over me.
He's like, I impart to you sleep.
you know and he just kept
praying that over me he's
like I've never done this
before I don't know where
it's coming from but the
lord says just pray it over
you and I'm like I'm just
praying sleep over you and
it was so beautiful I had
the best night's sleep yeah
we've done that for cake
too my neck is killing me
right now is it I feel like
I've been in a traffic
accident oh yeah so that's
what's causing it
It's causing the heart palpitations.
I didn't want to talk about that.
Oh.
Just, yeah, the tension.
The tension that I feel.
I think it's in my neck.
Do we have Tiger Balm?
Tiger Balm?
You know that, like,
bio-freeze kind of stuff?
There's the Chinese version.
I've had some.
Right?
I don't think I, I think I threw it away.
I think in the purging of my
old house that you made me do.
I was waiting for that.
I was waiting for it to be my fault.
Bring the trash can.
The Falcos are very attached
to all their old stuff.
We love our old stuff.
Oh, my God.
Our comfy blankets.
Oh, the smelly, stinky blankets.
Yes.
Smells like home.
Oh, it smells like old peat.
Dirty socks.
Oh, my goodness.
I smelled the towels this down.
I was like...
I was listening to, um, just before, um,
Steve, uh, no, Steve, uh,
Bannon before Steve Bannon comes on,
there's this, the morning show.
Have you ever seen those?
There's two ladies and a dude and, um,
they're all chipper and
happy and that kind of stuff.
And, um,
and then Steve comes on if they
only had a conscience.
Um, and then,
so they're talking and the
one lady who was a doctor,
um she said well at least
she has doctor in front of
her name who knows she's a
doctor not a medical doctor
yeah dr jill's not if she
was a doctor she wouldn't
have you know the old man
there in the white house
but um she says she goes I
have a pillow from my I
believe it's her
grandfather or it could be
in her father uh that he
used when he was in world war ii yikes
And she still has the pillow
that she keeps around.
And that's the first thing I thought.
I go, what could that possibly smell like?
And she says that like this
little tiny pillow.
Yikes.
Oh,
you should see this podcast with the
Perrys.
She's got her feet,
her bare feet on his lap.
And I was thinking, I was like,
I wonder how her feet smell good.
distracted by that I don't
know if I can watch a
podcast with somebody's
feet in the in the screen I
like it when you put your
feet on me oh good okay
well he seemed to like it
too preston preston is his name
Yeah.
Do you guys have any old
things that have around
that you just can't get rid of?
And they they're a little ratty.
I think somebody else was
telling on another show
where they were talking about this.
It's just threads from a
blanket that used to be the
comfort blanket that the
kid had when they were a baby.
Wow.
That the kids now like 13 or
14 is like that.
And now it's just the
strings from the blanket.
That's how often I get that.
If the kid still recognizes it.
But I just wait.
If nobody notices for a couple of weeks,
I'll just start to throw them out.
Yeah.
But then it's something like
my daughter comes back and was like,
where's my squishmallow?
The yellow one, the banana.
I'm like, what?
What banana?
I don't know what you're talking about.
I didn't see no bananas.
I didn't see any bananas.
Whoops.
It was literally, I waited six months.
I had a whole garbage bag
full of squish mellows in the,
in the closet.
I waited six months and it
was like six months in two weeks.
She was like,
where are all my squish mellows?
Sorry.
gone with the wind all right
all right let's pray for
some sleep or do we have to
do we need them to pray for
our sleep can we pray for
sleep we can pray for sleep
okay pray for sleep the
lord is generous with all
of his guys okay uh thank
you lord for this time of
fellowship thank you for
uh your church lord we ask
for we ask for piety we ask
for purity for um loyalty
and courage um to defend
the gospel and to share the
gospel with those who do
not yet know you lord but
to stand in um truth lord
that we shall never be
ashamed of the gospel it is
the power unto salvation
for all who hear it and we
want to be those proclaim
the gospel boldly lord
We know we're in perilous
times and we just ask for
your strength and your
courage to go forward.
We ask for your protection,
for your loving embrace of
our families and our loved
ones that you would calm
their spirits and speak to
their hearts and souls and
give them courage, Lord,
because this is a fight
that includes all of us.
And we want from young to
old to be covered with your love
heavenly armies of angels
that will surround them and
empower them but also your
peace your peace that
passes all understanding
lord and we know that you
don't give as the world
gives but you give as the
one and only the god um the
god of moses and jacob
uh lord we ask for peace for
andy we ask for a restful
night sleep uh sleep is a
gift lord and we ask for
your rest we ask for your
sabbath we ask for that
rest to come upon us and um
we know you are jehovah
rafa you are the great
physician there is no
illness for which you do
not provide a cure lord so
whatever it is that is
ailing him we ask that you
heal it and you restore him
and that you provide him with that
restful sleep, Lord.
And for all of our friends
that are suffering illnesses, Lord,
we ask for a mighty healing.
We ask for a restoration of
their cells to purity and to wholeness.
And for those that are
suffering from financial provision, Lord,
that you bless them with
your heavenly provision and
you protect all of our families, Lord.
We love you.
It's in the mighty name of
Jesus that we expect, that we ask,
and that we expect all things, Lord.
We love you.
In Jesus' name we pray.
Amen.
Thank you, my friends.
We love you guys.
God bless.
Good night.