S1: Coming to you from the Morning Star Mission sponsored studio.
S1: This is Carl and crew on Moody Radio.
S2: You know, I gotta tell you, I got to go
S2: back to this lunch that I had yesterday with, uh,
S2: some really cool staff at our church here in Chicagoland.
S2: It was such a. You ever been in those meetings
S2: that kind of caught you off guard?
S3: Yes. Yes, in a great way.
S2: Yeah, in a great way. Not a bad way.
S3: Not the other kind of caught off guard meetings. Those
S3: you don't want to talk about.
S2: Oh, we have these meetings here at Moody Radio where
S2: we have to rate the meeting and thankfully, what are
S2: what are the normal ratings come in at for our meetings.
S3: Between 8 to 10? Yeah, yeah. Nine's like the average. Yeah. Yeah.
S2: So between 8 to 10. But we're doing good when
S2: we can have a meeting and, and we have to
S2: rate every meeting at the end of it. Yeah. Now
S2: we found out that if you rate it at A7I
S2: believe or below. Then it kicks a system error back
S2: to you going why? Why was why why not an
S2: eight or a nine or a ten?
S3: Then you have to have a meeting about that.
S2: Then you have to have a meeting about that.
S3: Yeah.
S2: But it's really cool. But we sat down at this
S2: meeting yesterday and one of the young ladies just opened
S2: up and I, I forget what opened this, this door,
S2: but it was beautiful. And we all began to share
S2: stories of how the Lord had ministered to us deeply
S2: in our pain and some of the stuff that people
S2: had gone through. And one young lady was sharing. And
S2: then as she was sharing, a girl sitting right next
S2: to her just began to weep for her. And then
S2: we all get choked up because it's like, oh boy,
S2: and I'm glad we were sitting off in a corner
S2: because we're like, oh man, what the world's going on
S2: over here? We got a therapy session. Well, basically it
S2: was it was really dynamite. And, you know, we've been
S2: talking about transformational tools, and I just want to champion
S2: something right now. One of the most transformational tools you
S2: can have in your life is to be in a
S2: loving community of other Jesus followers, where you can have
S2: lunches like that, you can sit down and share your
S2: heart and go, let me tell you what God's done
S2: in my life, and maybe even deal with things that
S2: aren't totally resolved yet, but watch God minister there. It's
S2: one of the most powerful things that we can do.
S2: You ever been in one of those? Ali?
S3: Yeah. One of those meetings where it was unexpected. It
S3: was unexpected. And there was a heart connection. I think
S3: back to some meetings. It used to be a part
S3: of a ministry called Moms on Mission, and it was
S3: a moms ministry that met at our church. And I
S3: started attending and then eventually was helped lead helped to
S3: lead it. But it was just those meetings were have
S3: such a sweet place in my in my memory because
S3: such humility, such a sense of collaboration, a desire to
S3: be growing in Jesus ourselves, but also to encourage other moms,
S3: moms of little kids, moms of adult kids and everything
S3: in between. And just the heart of the women that
S3: I got to serve with. I always left so encouraged
S3: and challenged in the Lord.
S2: Yeah, what I'm feeling compelled with is that there's some
S2: of you listening that still are kind of coming out
S2: of the Covid fog, and that long tail on that
S2: thing is huge. And maybe you spent years going to
S2: church but not being the church. I'm asking you to
S2: take a risk and put yourself out there and find yourself.
S2: Get into especially this fall when they really kick off
S2: in earnest again, get into a small group, get into
S2: a group, and ask God to align yourself with people
S2: that you're going to be opening up your chest cavity
S2: and sharing your heart. And you might be a dude
S2: listening right now going, Karl, I don't do that. Well,
S2: you're missing out, my brother. You really are. You're missing out,
S2: my brother. And the amount of grace that God has deposited,
S2: not only in you, but in other people, in still grace,
S2: that God wants to visit you with his power, his favor,
S2: to unlock something in you that maybe you're stuck in.
S2: We don't come transformed by God, fully sanctified. I experience it,
S2: you do too. We got to grow. And one of
S2: the ways we grow is to let someone see what's
S2: going on inside our heart. And when we do that, boom,
S2: things can begin to happen. Okay, coming up here in
S2: a moment, I was hurting. I got to take you
S2: to the Iditarod just about a day and a half
S2: into the race, I was hurting. I couldn't believe I
S2: left it at home or lost it on the trail.
S3: Uh oh.
S2: I still don't know what happened to it, but I
S2: was in a bad way. I'm on the squint in
S2: the river and I'm like, how in the world am
S2: I going to survive? Little did I know there was
S2: a resource to fix my problem. Just nearby. And I'm
S2: going to give you the details coming up. This is
S2: Megan Woods. The truth.
S1: She was trying to earn her way to God, but
S1: God showed her she didn't have to. Allie is in
S1: the crew. It's Carl and crew on Moody Radio.
S2: This whole week, we are tackling resources that can transform.
S2: Sometimes there's funny things that come along in life, and
S2: they're illustrative of how something might be right in front
S2: of us, and we don't even know it's there. So
S2: back in the day, when I was 18, I headed
S2: out on the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race, and I
S2: had everything on board. I've got all my gear and
S2: 13 sled dogs in front of me at that point
S2: in the race. By the way, I had King up
S2: in lead. Isn't that a classic name for a lead dog? King.
S3: King feels appropriate.
S2: Yeah. He was in single lead when we got to
S2: the coast of the kind of the west coast of Alaska.
S2: I put two twin sisters up in lead. They were
S2: both named White Eyes. They were litter mates. They were
S2: team mates. And they actually they actually died within months
S2: of each other. They were precious girls, man. They were
S2: incredible huskies. They were great in the wind. They were.
S2: They were better than king by far. King was great
S2: for wide open trails in trees and when the sun
S2: was shining. But when the weather got tough, you put
S2: those girls up in lead. How about that? Power to
S2: the girls, Ali.
S3: There you go, I love that.
S2: Yeah, they were amazing. So I'm day and a half
S2: into the race. Slept one night just short of, uh,
S2: just short of the squint in a checkpoint. And this
S2: is back in the day when it took a lot
S2: longer to get to Nome, Alaska than it does now.
S2: The trail was a little tougher. Dogs were not as fast,
S2: food was not as advanced. All the stuff. But we
S2: were we were making good time. The sun was out.
S2: There was not a breath of wind. It was probably,
S2: I don't know, I think it was probably zero, maybe
S2: five degrees below zero. So balmy for, you know, Alaska terms.
S2: And the sun was high in the sky and I
S2: could not believe it. I am scrambling, I'm looking through everything.
S2: As we're mushing down the trail. I got my Velcro
S2: ripped open on my sled bag and I am scouring
S2: the sled bag. I am in a panic because I
S2: have chapped lips like nobody's business. It was bad. You
S2: ever get them? I don't know if anyone else here
S2: ever struggles with chapped lips, but man.
S3: Yeah, I remember that. Remember that feeling. Being younger and
S3: being at school and like, you feel like your lips
S3: are like red and cracking and. Oh, and it's painful.
S3: I can't even imagine out on the Iditarod where you've
S3: got the cold and the wind just beating against your face.
S2: Yeah, and there's no 7-Eleven nearby. You know what I mean?
S2: So it's nothing. You know it's not. I'm going to
S2: whip in here and get some carmex somewhere. And I
S2: think back in the day, I was looking for a
S2: tube of carmex, and I'm digging around. I couldn't find it,
S2: and I am panicked over the silliest little thing, and
S2: that is, I don't have any chapstick, and I feel
S2: like my lips are falling off my face or I
S2: wish they would. So I come around the corner and
S2: there's two dog teams camped in the trail cooking some
S2: meals for their team, and I thought, man, I've been
S2: going now about four hours. It's time for a stop anyway.
S2: So I pulled in beside him. It was Emmitt Peters
S2: and Isaac Oakley. I'll never forget it. Two native Alaskan mushers.
S2: Emmitt was a bit of a friend of mine. I'd
S2: gotten to know him. I didn't know Isaac Oakley. He
S2: was from the interior of Alaska. But both of these
S2: guys were really respected dog mushers. And they were I mean,
S2: they were outdoorsmen par excellence. It was absolutely amazing to
S2: slide up alongside them. They actually told me, come on
S2: in here, man, we're making a fire. And get your
S2: get your cooker on the fire and we're going to
S2: be good to go. And finally I had enough courage
S2: to muster it up. I said, do either of you
S2: guys have any chapstick with you? And they just laughed
S2: their heads off at me. Chapstick? What do you mean, chapstick? Chapstick.
S2: You use chapstick and they start making fun of me
S2: and I'm like, oh, boy. Wrong question. Shouldn't have asked him.
S2: And they said, do you know that God gave you chapstick?
S2: And I'm like, what do you mean? And they and
S2: they laugh with each other and they're holding out the information.
S2: Then finally Isaac looks at me and he he comes
S2: up close to me. He says, this is where God
S2: gave you chapstick. And he says, do what I do.
S2: And he reaches behind his ear, right behind that lobe.
S2: And he says, you want to press your finger against
S2: your skin behind your earlobe. There's that stuff back there.
S2: And then you wipe that onto your lips and I. Yeah.
S2: And I thought.
S3: Oh.
S2: This is kind of crazy.
S3: This is gross.
S2: But I, I did it and it worked. It gave
S2: me a little relief. It wasn't like carmex, but it
S2: was God's carmex for the moment. And I now, all seriousness,
S2: I know it's gross.
S3: Yes. The story. I've heard it before and it never
S3: gets less gross to me.
S2: But it's it's it's good. And Native Alaskans swear by it.
S2: It's like. And it's cheap.
S3: Like the oil behind. Like the oil.
S2: In your.
S3: Deposits?
S2: Yeah.
S3: The deposits. Sounds gross.
S2: Well, you know what I'm saying?
S3: Deposits.
S2: So right now somebody is trying this.
S3: Oh, I'm sure.
S2: It it works. That's what's beautiful about it. So it
S2: gave me a little bit of relief, and I actually
S2: gave me enough relief where I could get up to.
S2: I forget what city I got to. I guess I
S2: had to go all the way to McGrath, which was
S2: a town another 2 or 300 miles down the trail
S2: that actually had a store where I could go in
S2: and get some chapstick. And oh boy, that was good
S2: because it worked. But I had such a severe case
S2: of chapped lips, I needed something a little more industrial
S2: strength than what I could muster behind the ear. And
S2: it's really funny because I said at first, I said,
S2: I don't get it. And he said, get your fingernail
S2: in there and scrape it out. Oh.
S3: That's even worse.
S2: Yeah, I know it's kind of rough, but it's it's
S2: it's what Native Alaskans do. And you know what? It helped.
S2: It was the funny tool. Yeah.
S3: In the moment.
S2: This this is my Bible study tool, uh, Illustration here.
S2: Sometimes the greatest tools we find are close by.
S3: Okay.
S2: And they come right when we need them. And so
S2: we are going to tee it up for you right now.
S2: We got a question for you. What is that tool
S2: that resource that you needed and you didn't know how
S2: much you needed until you got it. And you want
S2: to shout it from the mountain tops. It's a transformational tool.
S2: Who knows what it is? Could be a mr. pin
S2: sleek highlighter. Could be a certain commentary. It could be.
S2: You name it. Fill in the blank. We are ready
S2: for your phone calls right now. And you get bonus
S2: points if you try the chapstick that Carl just recommended you.
S3: You don't have to tell us about it, though. Try
S3: it on your own time. But we do want you
S3: to call in on this question. What is that tool
S3: of transformation that really unlocked things for you? Could have
S3: been a Bible study, could have been a devotional habit.
S3: It could have been an accountability partner. This was something
S3: that you did not know how much you needed until
S3: you had it. 800 555 7898. Talking about taking those
S3: next steps in our walk with Jesus, what was that
S3: tool of transformation that made all the difference in the
S3: world for you? 805 55 7898.
S1: You can take him out of Alaska, but you can't
S1: take Alaska out of him. Carl is in the crew.
S1: It's Carl and crew on Moody Radio.
S2: This is your opportunity to get up on a soapbox
S2: and cheer for something. And you want to do it.
S2: You got a resource. It's really helping you grow and
S2: go with God. It's a transformational tool. Something that came
S2: that might have been close by. Maybe you had it
S2: in your house for years. Maybe it's something that you
S2: had at the office. It might be an online tool.
S2: What is that tool of transformation that you use? Could
S2: be a devotional, could be a book. And you're like,
S2: I got to shout this one from the mountaintops. 800
S2: 555 7898. Call in right now. Phone lines wide open
S2: 800 555 7898. It's good to cheer about it, Ali.
S3: It really is. Let's go to Erica calling in this
S3: morning from Tennessee. Erica, what's that tool of transformation that
S3: really has helped you?
S4: Yeah. So my Christian counselor met me at a really
S4: hard time in my life where I wanted to express
S4: to God and like I needed his help, but I
S4: didn't have a lot of people around me that I
S4: could share with. And she taught me a method called
S4: the Dilemma Book Method, dilemma Book method. And it did
S4: helpful where you journal this lament to God writing down
S4: what's on your heart. And then she specifically taught me
S4: and find Scripture that correlates with what I need. And
S4: it felt like I was just taking the medicine I
S4: needed to heal my soul and just bring the comfort
S4: that I needed. Because sometimes, you know, we're at places
S4: where we don't have people around us to support us,
S4: and we just really need God, but we don't have
S4: the words for it. So journaling with the Dilemma book
S4: method has really helped me over for several years now.
S2: That's beautiful. Erica, thanks for having the courage to call in.
S2: We appreciate that. Um, that's that's that's so sweet. It's
S2: interesting that you mentioned that, uh, you know, I'm convinced
S2: that one of the big challenges, by the way, if
S2: you've got a resource that you want to shout from
S2: the mountaintops, we'd love to hear from you right now.
S2: Call 1-800-555-7898. I want to make sure you get the
S2: phone number here. (800) 555-7898. Give us a call. Let's load
S2: up the phone lines. Guys. There's there's resources, books, journal, tactics,
S2: all these different things that God can really use in
S2: a powerful way. Um, so give us a call right now.
S2: 800 555 7898. You know, it's interesting. We had a
S2: very unusual staff meeting. I pastor a church here in Chicagoland,
S2: and we've got a just a great team of people,
S2: young and old. We've got we've got 20 somethings and
S2: we've got 60 somethings, and it's really cool because we
S2: had a sweet time yesterday. What began is going to
S2: be just kind of a lunch celebrating. Some things turned
S2: into a lot of tears, and I'm glad we were
S2: tucked off in the corner because we had this table there.
S2: And we're we're talking about life. And pretty quick, a
S2: layer got peeled back and, uh, one of the young
S2: ladies began to share a little bit of her story,
S2: just some of her upbringing. Very appropriate sharing, but it
S2: was really powerful. And then someone else shared and someone
S2: else shared. And by the time we were all done sharing,
S2: it was just one of the most uniting things we
S2: could have done. It was, I think too many times
S2: we fly through life even thinking about spiritual growth and
S2: we miss. And this is why I'm so glad Eric
S2: had called in. We miss the beauty of digging down
S2: deep enough not to camp out, or to worship that
S2: thing of pain, but to embrace man. I am really
S2: impacted to this day from what happened to me back here.
S2: And the beautiful thing about that is when you bring
S2: it into the light, you find that there is a
S2: a increased sense of intimacy with God and friendship with
S2: others that is unstoppable. It's a beautiful thing. You know,
S2: for a lot of years, I think until probably 16
S2: years ago, I didn't have a deep understanding of. Of
S2: digging down to the point where you go, why do
S2: I do what I do? What's driving me? Is there
S2: something from family of origin that's causing me to say
S2: what I say to. To be what I am. Then
S2: you dig down and you get a little bit further
S2: and you start to see things. And the beautiful thing
S2: about God's grace and mercy is that as we see
S2: those things, he begins to craft in us a brand
S2: new identity, who we are in Jesus Christ. And one
S2: of the biggest aha moments that I had a number
S2: of years ago, and it was reaffirmed yesterday around the
S2: lunch table, is that man. It's a freeing thing to
S2: know that we have nothing to prove to God that
S2: we're not working for God, we're not working for Jesus,
S2: we're not working for the Holy Spirit. We are with God.
S2: We are with Jesus. We are with the spirit. And
S2: he doesn't need us to have everything perfectly packaged up.
S2: He just wants to walk with us that way. So
S2: I appreciate you, Erica, calling in this morning because it's.
S2: It was Erica, right? Yes. Um, I appreciate you calling
S2: in this morning because that's. beautiful. I'm so glad that
S2: journaling the dilemma journaling, is that what it was? Dilemma journaling.
S3: I've not heard about that before, but that that sounds good.
S2: Let's get a couple more calls in here. We got
S2: wide open lines 805 five, 578, 98. What's that resource
S2: that has really impacted your life? Let's go. Let's go
S2: back to Elizabeth.
S3: First time caller from from Chicago right here in Illinois. Elizabeth,
S3: what's that tool of transformation or that resource that's really
S3: helped you take a step forward with Jesus?
S5: Good morning. A friend of mine challenged me to do
S5: the Bible app, read the Bible in a year with her,
S5: and I've attempted a couple of times to do it
S5: on my own and and do a reading plan. But
S5: with the Bible app, I, I even if I'm on
S5: the go, I can always do my reading. And it's
S5: been a huge transformation in my life and my prayer
S5: life and my spiritual walk with God. It's been so
S5: amazing and I can't do without it. And I can't
S5: wait now to finish the Bible app so I can
S5: start all over again and again and again and again.
S5: I don't think I could ever go without it.
S2: That's beautiful.
S3: Elizabeth. Elizabeth.
S2: Thank you. Thank you for calling in. Yeah. What's really
S2: sweet about the YouVersion Bible app? If you get the
S2: Bible app, they've got read through plans. So many that
S2: are so varied. You can go all the way from
S2: a power read through. Ready for this? You can do
S2: an eight day read through of the Bible. So if
S2: you got eight days and you're going away to some
S2: cabin somewhere, you might be able to pull it off. Uh,
S2: but you can go all the way to yearly read
S2: through and so many different approaches to read through. But
S2: way to go, Elizabeth. That is great. All right, let's
S2: keep going here. Ali, who do we have?
S3: We have Susan, first time caller from Tennessee. Susan, what's
S3: that tool of transformation or that resource that's really helped you?
S6: Well, I have to plug the Bible app also because
S6: this devotional talking about is, uh, called um, Celebrate Recovery
S6: and um, um, the, uh, I went through it three
S6: and a half times. I was in a, uh, I
S6: was in a very huge depression. Like, I had to.
S6: I had to transform my life hugely. And, um, I
S6: couldn't I couldn't get out of this. Even my husband,
S6: he was like, you've got to do something because we
S6: can't live with you like this. So I so I
S6: cut out a whole bunch of things in my diet,
S6: went to I went to a couple of doctors and
S6: I found this devotional, it's like 41 to 45 days,
S6: three and a half times going through it. And, I mean,
S6: I'm a Christian. I've been a Christian for 30 something years,
S6: and this was amazing. It just what it brought out.
S6: I've never done drugs. I've never done alcohol. I've never
S6: done anything like that. But just, just I was just
S6: wanting to celebrate being over being depressed. And it worked.
S6: It was amazing what God brought, brought through to this.
S6: It was hard and it was wonderful.
S2: Yeah. Susan, thank you so much for calling in. First
S2: time caller from Tennessee celebrate recovery. Alright. Ali probably knows
S2: where I'm going to go here.
S3: I think I do.
S2: Yeah, we're all in recovery. See, one of the great
S2: dangers with Recovery ministry is that you start thinking, man,
S2: I'm glad I'm not that poor person over there. The
S2: irony is, is that we were all born with our
S2: back to God. And when we had our back to God, we.
S2: There were a lot of seeds sown that need to
S2: be unwound. And even when we come into a relationship
S2: with Christ, we're not fully sanctified. Everything isn't perfect. And
S2: all of us are in recovery things. And oftentimes one
S2: of the dangers with recovery ministry is we look at
S2: those guys over there. And the beautiful thing about recovery
S2: ministry is that there's a level of authenticity and vulnerability
S2: that we need across the entire spectrum of the church, everybody.
S2: We would all benefit from it. So that's my two
S2: shots on that one. That's an important one. Susan, thank
S2: you for calling in. We're going to spin a song here,
S2: but we're going to keep phone lines wide open here.
S2: We've got a question for you right now.
S3: What's that tool of transformation that's helped you take a
S3: step forward in your walk with Jesus? It unlocked things
S3: for you. It's the tool you didn't know you needed
S3: until you had it. 800 555 7898 (800) 555-7898.
S1: She's a choreographer extraordinaire and everything is Greek to her.
S1: Super dei is in the crew. It's Carl and crew
S1: on Moody Radio.
S2: Going back to the phone lines. What's that tool of
S2: transformation that God has used in your life so radically?
S2: You got to. You need a soapbox. We got one
S2: for you. 800 555 7898 taking your calls this morning
S2: 800 555 7898 take it away, Ali.
S3: Let's go to Mike. First time caller from Indiana. What's
S3: that tool of transformation that's really helped you?
S7: Uh, it would be a book called Love and Respect
S7: by Emerson Etheridge. It really transformed in my marriage. Um,
S7: just help me understand how I needed to relate to
S7: my wife and the roles that God had put in
S7: our lives. And we've we've used that for just talking
S7: to other couples who were struggling, how it helped us.
S2: Yeah it's beautiful Mike. That's a great book. And getting
S2: a resource like that can be so transformational. I appreciate it. Mike,
S2: I'm so glad for your marriage. How many years you've
S2: been married, Mike?
S7: Uh, 44 years this year.
S2: Wow. My man. Way to go. When did you get
S2: your hands on that book? How many years of marriage?
S7: Uh, well, let's see, it was.
S2: Now I'm having you do math.
S7: Yeah, ten years ago.
S2: So 34 years of marriage. Hey, I want to thank you, Mike,
S2: for being a man. That's not, uh, you're not mailing
S2: it in. You're leaning in even to your relationship with
S2: your bride, bro. That's so encouraging. May your tribe increase, Mike. Godspeed, man,
S2: I love you. Thanks for calling in. How cool is that? Yeah,
S2: I love that 34 years of marriage. And he picks
S2: up a book and goes, we're we're working on this still.
S3: Yeah. I need to change how I'm relating to my wife.
S2: Yeah. Let's go back here. Ali, who do we have.
S3: Got Scott calling in this morning from Illinois. Scott, tell us,
S3: what's that resource, that tool of transformation that's helped you
S3: take that step forward?
S8: Good morning. It's kind of obvious, but the Bible really
S8: touched my heart. One day we were at our son
S8: Stephen's graduation from the Marine Corps Boot camp in San
S8: Diego on March 15th, 2018, and the commanding general was
S8: going to have a presentation to any family members at
S8: the at the parade deck. And, uh, at 7:00. So
S8: I was out there with a big cup of coffee
S8: and the word and I was reading Proverbs 15 because
S8: that was the 15th, which is kind of what I do,
S8: and I've read it many, many times before. And, um,
S8: I was sitting there because I got discharged from the
S8: Marine Corps under other than honorable conditions because of drugs
S8: and alcohol and getting in trouble in 83. And I
S8: was reflecting on like how I blew it and why
S8: it happened the way it did. And, you know, what
S8: did God do with that? Why? You know, and, um,
S8: I read Proverbs 15 five and, uh, it says a
S8: fool spurns his father's discipline. And it just hit me
S8: like the Holy Spirit said. That's why it ended up
S8: for you the way it did. Because I reached out
S8: to you so many times and tried to get you,
S8: and you didn't want to listen to me. And so
S8: I let you go your way. And if I hadn't
S8: been sitting there reading that that morning, that wouldn't have happened.
S8: And it's it's really challenged me to be in the
S8: word as much as I can, because I want that
S8: to happen more.
S2: Scott, I want to thank you too, man, for your vulnerability.
S2: That takes up real spiritual, strong man to share that story.
S2: That must have been it. Two things happened there. One
S2: is you go, this is why it happened. I hope
S2: it was soon followed by a big old hug from God.
S2: Did you feel that one, Scott?
S8: Oh, yeah. Every time I think about it, it's. It's
S8: just fills my heart with love for him. You know
S8: that he would do that. That he would, you know,
S8: touch my heart with that little verse that morning at
S8: that time and answer my question for me.
S2: That's beautiful. Scott. I love you, man. Thanks for calling in.
S2: Scott from Illinois, man. This. This is just what my
S2: soul needed today. How how sweet is this? This is
S2: not just resources. This is stories of. This is how
S2: it impacted me.
S3: Yeah. And if you've got one of those, the tool
S3: of transformation, a resource that really met you at a
S3: moment or unlocked things, helped you take a step forward
S3: in your walk with Jesus. 800 555 7898 855 five 7898.
S2: Kenyan first time caller from Georgia. What do you say? Kenyan?
S9: Um. Hi there. Um, I have, um, This thing where
S9: whenever I think of my dog who died, like last year, um,
S9: there's this podcast called No Sanity Required from Snowbird Wilderness
S9: Outfitters in North Carolina, and they had a podcast on
S9: dealing with loss of family and animals. And I mean,
S9: just listening to the whole hour of that podcast helped
S9: me a lot, much, a lot, much more than if
S9: I didn't listen to it.
S2: Yeah, right.
S3: Oh, wow. I'm looking up this podcast. Right. Kenyon, how
S3: old are you? Kenyon calling in this morning.
S9: I'm 13 years old.
S3: 13 years old? That's awesome. I'm looking up this podcast.
S3: This is awesome. It's a it's a podcast that has
S3: been began in 1997. The mission is to equip the
S3: local church. Wow. So it's a new way to teach
S3: Scripture in a relational way. Strong focus on the faithful
S3: exposition of God's Word for the growth of his church.
S3: So this is a this is a gospel centered podcast.
S3: You chose Kenyon. I think that's awesome. Thanks for listening
S3: to Carl and crew. Hold on the line. We want
S3: to get you a Carl and crew.
S2: I was gonna do it if you didn't do it.
S2: Kenyon's getting a Carl and crew prize pack.
S10: We get a 13 year old up that.
S3: Early, listening to Carl and crew and talking about a
S3: podcast where that God used to help him through a
S3: season of grieving a pet boy.
S10: Oh, boy, that's beautiful.
S2: What's the name of that podcast everybody's going to be
S2: asking us via text?
S3: It's called No Sanity Required. I've not heard of it,
S3: but looks fascinating.
S2: Coming up, taking more of your calls. What's that transformational
S2: tool that God has used in your life? 800 555
S2: 7898 800 555 7898 if you're on the phone lines
S2: right now, stay on hold. If you possibly can, we'll
S2: get to you straight ahead.
S1: Said he was sharing the gospel on the radio and
S1: then he got saved. Young thunders in the crew. It's
S1: Carl and crew on Moody Radio.
S2: And get a couple more in here for another quick break.
S2: We're going to powerhouse right to the end of this hour.
S2: This is awesome. We got text messages coming in saying,
S2: loving this. We're with you. What is that transformational tool
S2: that God has used so powerfully in your life and
S2: these heartfelt stories? My goodness, Ali warms the cockles of
S2: your heart to grab one of my dad's statements.
S3: It really does because you think about the different all
S3: the there's a million things out there, but God can
S3: use one specific tool or resource at the moment when
S3: you need it. And that's what we're hearing, David from Michigan,
S3: you've got one of those. Tell us what's that tool
S3: of transformation that God really used in your life?
S11: It's called the Scripture Typer app, and you can download
S11: it and import all of your favorite scriptures. You can
S11: organize them into categories, but what it is is you
S11: type the first letter of each word, and it fills
S11: the rest of the word in for you. And as
S11: you get toward the end of it, all of the
S11: letters kind of fade away. So you you kind of
S11: gain points, lose points. But the whole purpose is to
S11: memorize scripture.
S12: And oh.
S11: I really enjoy that.
S10: So it kind of gamifies it.
S11: Yeah.
S3: Oh.
S10: Interesting.
S2: Really cool. It's called the Scripture taper. Is it a
S2: free app or do you have to pay some shekels?
S11: It's free if you use the King James Version, but
S11: ESV charges you.
S2: I gotta call my friend Wayne Grudem, who's the general
S2: editor of the ESV, and go, why are you charging
S2: for the ESV on? No, it's a publishing thing. Oh
S2: that's hilarious, David, that is hilarious. Uh, the Scripture typer,
S2: especially all UK fee fans. Is it new King James
S2: Version or just old King James Version? That is free.
S11: Uh, I don't remember. You'll have to download it and
S11: tell me.
S12: I'll have to download it now.
S2: You got me going to look at it. All right. David,
S2: thank you for calling in from Michigan. Really cool. I mean,
S2: we're learning some good stuff.
S10: I know I'm writing stuff down.
S2: Uh, Will, let's get you in Illinois. Right here in Chicago.
S2: What do you say, Will?
S7: Uh. Good morning. I was with about six gentlemen in Gurnee,
S7: and we studied Andrew Murray's humility. And a trusted brother
S7: made a study guide for it. And what I learned is,
S7: you know, even in our righteousness, we can be prideful.
S2: Yeah. Yeah. There's not a wasted word in that book.
S2: That's one of my top five books of all time.
S2: Might actually be. I'm going to call it right now.
S2: It's top three. It's up there with Divine Conspiracy and
S2: a couple others, but Humility by Andrew Murray. Thank you, Will,
S2: for calling in today. That is, if I can recommend
S2: a book for you to get Humility by Andrew Murray.
S2: It's a very short read. You can get it. I'll
S2: go ahead and say it. You can get it on
S2: the big box Amazon for like $7 and change right now.
S2: Get the one with the vase on the cover. It's
S2: kind of a brownish cover, but for $7 and change,
S2: you can get a book that is one of the
S2: most transformational things going. It's called Humility by Andrew Murray.
S2: And way to go, Will. Okay. Coming up we're going
S2: to go back to more of you man. It's lighten
S2: up in here Ali.
S3: What do you say. What's that tool of transformation, that
S3: resource that got us really used in your walk with him?
S3: 800 555 7898.
S1: You're listening to Carl and crew on Moody Radio.
S12: So grateful.
S2: These stories. This is some of the most heartwarming content
S2: that we've had. I there's something about you, the boom
S2: crew doing what you do. And by the way, I
S2: haven't done it today. Boom. To all of you, it's
S2: a big affirmation. Thank you. Heartfelt. How many people are
S2: leaning into their relationship with God and finding hope in
S2: transformational tools? It is awesome.
S3: Huge. Huge. Can I grab the next caller because she
S3: shares a tool that's really helped me. Let's go. We
S3: have the same one. Tina. First time caller from Florida.
S3: I'm going to let you talk about this awesome resource
S3: that sounds like we're both doing.
S6: Good morning.
S13: The Bible recap by Tara Lee Campbell. It's a great resource.
S13: It's a hardcover book. You can get and also a podcast. Uh,
S13: I started reading that book daily. It's a daily reading
S13: plan with the Bible, and I started reading that five
S13: years ago. I have read the Bible through and through
S13: for five years, and it's really enhanced my knowledge and
S13: love for God.
S2: Wow. Yeah. Okay. This is first time I've heard of
S2: this Tina.
S3: First time caller from Florida. I am so with her
S3: on this. I have started this this year. It's called
S3: the Bible Recap. There's different ways you can engage with it.
S3: I do it on the YouVersion plan, and so there's
S3: a daily reading plan. And then a daily mini video
S3: of just kind of helps you get some context for
S3: what you're reading, but it's done in such a way
S3: that it really makes it fun. And you're learning. You're
S3: engaging with the Word of God, and it helps fill
S3: in some of those gaps that if that exists, particularly
S3: in some of those tougher Old Testament passages, it has
S3: really illuminated some things for me. I'm pumped. I want
S3: to cheer for that one as well. It's called the
S3: Bible recap.
S2: Okay, man, we got banner ads going up here.
S3: I'll do a banner ad for that one. It's well deserved.
S2: That's great. Kimberly and Aurora, let's get you in here.
S2: What do you say, Kim?
S14: Hi. I love you, ally. All of you guys, actually, however,
S14: mine is. called The Garden Within by Anita Phillips. It
S14: talks about how your heart is a garden, and it
S14: gives a translation of how real garden is, and how
S14: roots are deeply rooted in your heart, and how it
S14: has to be plucked up from the root and not
S14: just from the vine. And it tells you from gambling to, um,
S14: whatever you're dealing with. She tells you how God removes
S14: it and helps you remove it when you are walking
S14: with him, and how to get it deeply rooted out
S14: of your heart or is going to resurface. It's a
S14: great read.
S2: Way to go, man. Transformational tools. Are you kidding me?
S2: This is the garden within. Garden within. Let's go to
S2: dawn in New Orleans. What do you say, Dawn?
S15: Hi there. So my thing was I traveled with my daughter,
S15: who's military, and I found when she left to another post,
S15: I was lonesome, and I'm not a lonesome person. So
S15: I was praying. And the Lord said, take me on
S15: a date with you. So I started going on dates
S15: with the Lord when I was thinking I wanted a
S15: husband or, you know, a boyfriend, and I would go
S15: to the movie and I would take my Bible and
S15: my book and then go to the coffee shop, spend
S15: time with the Lord, and then I'd go to dinner,
S15: and then we would go and read my journal, bring
S15: my journal and my book and my Bible and go
S15: just so now I do that all the time and
S15: quite often. And I'm never lonely because he's my father.
S15: He's my provider. He's my king, my savior. Why not?
S15: Can he be my boyfriend or my husband?
S2: Boom! Sister.
S3: Wow!
S2: Go out with God and stay there. Beautiful. Beautiful feedback.
S2: Today we're talking transformational tools all week. And we got
S2: a character here. His name is John Yeager. He's a
S2: man of many voices. He does a lot of the
S2: spots here. He's got a he's a wild man. He's
S2: an old soul and yet still young. Good guy. Tremendous guy.
S2: But what God's doing in his life with regard to
S2: Bible memory is one of the coolest things going, isn't it?
S3: It is because he likes to say that. Like, it's
S3: not that he's got this great mind. This is his words,
S3: not mine. This great mind that's just built for memorization.
S3: It's not a natural thing. It's it's out of necessity.
S3: He says. This is what I need. And you know what?
S3: I think this is what we all need. How to
S3: commit more scripture to memory in a way that makes
S3: it super fun and practical. We've got some tips a
S3: downloadable for you as well. All that's coming up here
S3: on Carlin Crew.
S1: This is Carlin crew on Moody Radio.
S2: This entire week we are going after Tools of Transformation,
S2: and I think most of you get pretty fired up.
S2: You're like, yeah, Moody Bible commentary. Thanks for giving those away.
S2: We got a couple here that we're giving away each
S2: day this week. That's awesome. And we hear stories from
S2: Michael Riedel, and he gives us study tips that he
S2: got from Howard Hendricks. And the list goes on and on.
S2: And we're like, yeah that's good. And I mentioned the
S2: words Bible memory and you might turn away. Don't turn
S2: away as many of your Bible memory. It's like it
S2: took me back to Boys Brigade and I want some
S2: candy bars, but it was hard for me to memorize verses.
S3: But most of you would appreciate the value of it.
S3: But how do you start? What's the best way to
S3: memorize scripture? John Gager joining us right now, John, you
S3: first started to really appreciate the importance of memorizing the
S3: Bible when your Bible was not able to be with
S3: you on a trip, right?
S16: It was a trip with former Moody Radio pastor Donald
S16: Cole to Angola, Africa. I'd packed everything so carefully my
S16: malaria medication, the shirts, the special Deet spray. Oh, I
S16: was armed to the teeth and ready to go. And then,
S16: as you said, the luggage didn't arrive and never arrived
S16: with it. My Bible gone. So there you are. You know.
S16: What do you do for your devotional time? I'm lying
S16: in bed. I'm quoting Bible verses I memorized in Awana
S16: as a kid, and and that was great. For the
S16: first night and second night. You're quoting those verses again,
S16: and then you and you're going, man, I wish I'd
S16: memorized more. And then you say, I wish I'd memorized
S16: longer passages. Something to really chew on. Really, really hang
S16: on to. And then the thought is, hey, what happens
S16: if I get to that point in life where you
S16: know whether America falls apart and I'm in jail or something?
S16: I don't have a Bible. What then? I think I
S16: wish I'd memorized more. I was so scarred by that,
S16: Carl and Ali that I came home and immediately made
S16: a booklet of Bible verses, and I started working on them,
S16: and one thing led to another, and then it became
S16: the Psalms. And I've never quit. 25 years later.
S2: Oh. That's beautiful. You know, it's funny. You're catastrophizing the
S2: reason for memorizing scripture, but but there's some truth in that.
S2: We live in a dicey world. That's not a bad motivation,
S2: is it, John?
S16: No, I don't think so. And as we have the
S16: Word of God in our hearts, suddenly we go from
S16: catastrophe to blessing because we see what it does in
S16: so many practical ways.
S3: So most people feel like, okay, maybe I've memorized Psalm
S3: 23 or so. There's some that are often memorized. Many
S3: people could probably quote John 316, but how do you
S3: get started in this, where you're memorizing and expanding a
S3: little bit longer passages?
S16: I think you first got to look at where you're
S16: at in life. What is it I'm doing that I'm
S16: messing up at consistently, or where am I hurting? What
S16: is my need? From the Word of God? You find
S16: a passage, you bumped into it, you didn't look for it.
S16: It came at you, maybe. And that's the one. That's
S16: how you know. Because this is meeting a need of yours.
S16: This is scratching an itch. This is bringing a comfort
S16: that you're hungry for. Start there on that passage. In
S16: my case, I like to do cards. I take the passage,
S16: stick it on a photo I've taken, play with it
S16: in Photoshop. Maybe you're going to handwrite it out, you say.
S17: Come on now, you're so old fashioned. We got apps
S17: for that. And we do.
S16: I've got some apps on my phone, but my problem
S16: is I'm so distracted. The moment I grab that app,
S16: I'm playing with the text. I'm playing with an email.
S16: It's a schedule issue, so the card is old fashioned
S16: and analog as it is, is a great blessing because
S16: there's no distraction. It's the card. It's me and the
S16: word of God. And that's it.
S2: You know, I've found that for me, one of the
S2: reasons that I do memorize scripture now and oftentimes for
S2: teaching is I've had too many times when I've had
S2: a vague notion of what this book, this chapter says.
S2: But that vague notion sometimes can lead you astray. You
S2: make conclusions about what was cited there. That may not
S2: be true. There's something about memorizing that gets you anchored
S2: in the truth, not a vague notion. And that's a
S2: game changer.
S16: That's huge. What you're sharing there because we think, oh,
S16: I have to memorize. Oh, I'm not good at that.
S16: My mind doesn't work that way anymore. Hey, mine doesn't either.
S16: You know, I'm as slow or slower than the next guy.
S16: That's okay. Last I checked, there's no prizes being handed
S16: out for first place. So just start where you are.
S16: But to your point, Carl, here's what I'm learning. Okay.
S16: Just because I've committed to memorizing the Word of God,
S16: a I'm no longer as mired in the crummy thinking
S16: that I was mired in walking home from work. I'm
S16: replacing that with something positive. B in the act of
S16: memorizing now, I'm actually meditating on that. You can't help
S16: but you're going phrase by phrase. And so suddenly this
S16: is kind of getting a hold of you. It's seeping in.
S16: It's oozing all over your soul. Three you have something
S16: to hang onto when you're not sleeping at night. The
S16: benefits go on and on and on. Replacing junky thinking
S16: with biblical thinking.
S2: Okay, let's dispel a myth, because I think Ali and
S2: I are probably on the same wavelength because we've worked
S2: together so long. I think when you hear Bible memory,
S2: there's a lot of things get a bit discouraging. Yeah.
S2: And I think, um, one of them is how much
S2: do I need? I guess the real good answer is
S2: some is better than none if it's focused on what
S2: you lead with. And that's the need that God has
S2: in your life right now, right, John?
S16: Yeah. We are just so prone to legalism. I mean,
S16: you're not doing a whole chapter well. You're just a
S16: junior saint. You're not even.
S17: That.
S16: Forget that. Just start with something. Your word I have
S16: hidden in my heart that I might not sin against you.
S16: Classic story. I'm working on Psalm 27 right now, and
S16: I'm coming to the verse, verse eight, when you said,
S16: seek my face, my heart said to you. And that's
S16: an interesting phrase. My heart said to you, I shall
S16: seek your face, Lord. Okay, so I'm walking down the street,
S16: busy street in downtown Chicago, coming into Moody. And you know,
S16: my heart said, I shall seek your face, Lord, I
S16: shall seek your face, Lord. Walking right into view is
S16: a jogger with too few clothes. And whatever of them
S16: there are are way too tight. And this verse is
S16: screaming at me, seek my face. When you said, seek
S16: my face, Lord, my heart said, I shall seek your face.
S16: It literally prompted me, look away, don't go there. So
S16: in the act of memorizing scripture, it's fighting some of
S16: the temptation going on around me. I thought, wow, now
S16: that's powerful stuff. No wonder the Word of God calls
S16: itself sharper than any two edged sword. I needed that.
S3: If you had an estimate of how much Scripture you've
S3: now committed to memory and not, I'm just asking out
S3: of curiosity. I know you're not one to try to
S3: show off in this way. That's never your motive, but
S3: you've invested a lot of time into this. How much
S3: scripture have you memorized?
S16: I don't keep track of individual verses. I'm just. I'm
S16: working on Psalms. I've done about 20 Psalms. And if
S16: God should give me health, strength and a mind by
S16: the time I'm 80, I'd like to do 50. I
S16: do have a goal, and it's to do 50 psalms
S16: by the time I'm 80.
S2: Okay, now we got the question. How do you do it?
S2: What have you learned? You must have gone through the
S2: school of hard knocks on this.
S16: I'm still going through the school of hard knocks. Ali. Carl, I.
S16: I'm still learning. But I again choose a passage that
S16: meets a need right there. Where are you at now?
S16: In your journey? What verse. What chapter do you need
S16: to hang on to? There's something also, I think that's
S16: real huge.
S17: I can't do it, I just can't. My mind. Try it.
S16: Force yourself to do just one verse. Once you see
S16: one verse and one phrase. Even if it takes you
S16: a month. So what? That begins to build a sense
S16: of confidence that, you know, I'm slow, but I can
S16: still do this. I ain't dead, you know, and I
S16: can go at this. So choose a passage that meets
S16: a need. And then if you're going to do you know,
S16: any kind of a analog way, you got to print
S16: out multiple copies. You want one on your wallet, you
S16: want one on your purse, you want one on on
S16: the nightstand. You want one in your backpack. When I
S16: do a passage, I've got six and they're laminated and
S16: they're everywhere because I lose them sometimes. And so you
S16: want to print out multiple copies. You want to learn
S16: to use small moments to memorize. You're in line at
S16: the store. You're at the bank, you're grabbing a bowl
S16: of cereal in the morning. Memorize. You're waiting at the
S16: doctor's office. Why read moldy magazines? Why not pick up
S16: your card? Uh, I you know, those are some of
S16: the tips that I would suggest. Don't beat yourself up
S16: if it takes a while. We're so into that. Get
S16: out of that. Just do what you can.
S3: We have a resource for you. It's John's five favorite
S3: Bible memory tips. If you want this, we've got it
S3: for you. You can print it out and get started today.
S3: Just text tips to 800 555 7898. Text tips to
S3: 800 555 7898.
S2: Okay, I feel prompted by the spirit that's promised in
S2: John 14. John, would you pray for us right now?
S2: Because some people have this want to, but feeling immediately condemned,
S2: you know what I'm saying, bro?
S16: Yeah. Let's pray. Lord, would you free us from this self-condemnation. Therefore,
S16: there is no condemnation now for those who are in
S16: Christ Jesus. Thank you for that assurance, Lord. Would you
S16: help us move instead toward obedience, picking up what we need,
S16: where we are as we can to memorize what you,
S16: by your Holy Spirit, divinely, uh, show us. We invite
S16: you to do that. Where are we hurting? What do
S16: we need from your word? Show us. Give us the gumption, Lord,
S16: and we will follow up. We will give us a
S16: shot in the strength and in the power for the
S16: glory of Jesus we pray. Amen.
S3: Amen.
S2: I believe that prayer was a bump and encouragement to
S2: someone going, all right, I'm going to get this crazy thing.
S2: They were going to veer away from it. Now they're
S2: all in. Isn't that great? How God works?
S3: Text tips to 800 555 7898. If you want John's
S3: five favorite Bible memory tips, just text tips to 800
S3: 555 7898.
S2: Hang on, we got a treat for you. Coming up,
S2: Jamie Ali, take it away.
S3: Someone mentioned it earlier. Their tool of transformation was today
S3: in the word. Haven't heard of it. Oh, we've got
S3: something for you. This might become your favorite tool as well.
S3: Coming up.
S1: Your shot of hope to help you through the day.
S1: This is Carl and crew on Moody Radio.
S2: Well, a million people are saying yes and Yesterday. Amen.
S2: A million people plus. How in the world does that happen?
S2: Over a lot of years, for sure.
S3: Yeah, and word spreads. This is a good thing.
S2: It's a good thing. Jamie. Janice. Over a million people.
S18: Yes. Can you believe it?
S2: I know it's really shocking.
S18: It's a wonderful thing.
S2: Yeah, I love it. Uh, today in the word devotional. Jamie. Janice,
S2: she is running point on this whole thing. Go ahead
S2: and give the proper bio here. Ali.
S3: Yeah. Jamie. Janice is the managing editor for today in
S3: the Word. How long is today in the word been established?
S3: I don't think I even know this.
S18: I believe, boy, see? It's early. You're putting me to
S18: a quiz. I think it was 1983, if I'm correct.
S3: But this is decades.
S18: Yeah, it's been a while. Yeah.
S2: Okay. What's the goal and intent of today in the word?
S2: There's a lot of devotionals that are out there. And
S2: by the way, devotionals are still hot items. When one
S2: gets produced by a publishing house. Bang, they get grabbed up.
S2: My wife loves streams in the desert, but what's today
S2: in the word all about?
S18: We like to think of it as like a bite
S18: sized meal, so it really is a daily time in
S18: the word. Um, we go through an entire book of
S18: the Bible a month or a topic a month, and
S18: we deep dive a little bit. So it's not lengthy.
S18: You don't have to pull out, you know, all your
S18: tools and notebooks and everything. You could read it on
S18: the go or listen, but it does let you dig
S18: a little bit deeper into the Bible than perhaps a
S18: thought of the day type devotional. Um, and yeah, we
S18: just we love having people get into the word from
S18: cover to cover and to really, um, apply it to
S18: their hearts and their lives.
S3: Jamie Janos with us right now. So give us a story.
S3: I'm sure you get to hear back from people, uh,
S3: on the many different ways that this is being utilized
S3: and just helping people take their next step in their
S3: walk with Jesus. Is there a story that comes to
S3: mind for you.
S18: Yeah. The wonderful thing is we have people who have
S18: been believers for years and have used this faithfully as
S18: one of the ways they connect with God daily. But
S18: I happen to hear a story of a young man
S18: named James, and he wrote in and said, you know,
S18: this changed my life because he said that he was
S18: at the lowest point of his life. He had been
S18: raised by his mom, you know, was a Christian, fell away,
S18: got into some bad stuff, um, and was arrested, lost
S18: his job that same month. His mom said, why don't
S18: you read today in The word? And she handed him
S18: the issue, and it was Paul's letters from prison. And
S18: James said it just struck his heart. And ever since
S18: then he goes, I can't put it down. He goes,
S18: I just keep reading and reading. Now he's involved in
S18: his church and growing up. Yeah, he's he's drives is
S18: an Amazon driver now. And he goes in between stops
S18: and I'm always listening to the Bible. So I just
S18: praise God because the Word of God is alive and
S18: active and it's changing people's lives.
S3: Jamie, obviously the main today in The Word is kind
S3: of an individual devotional, but you've also put together some resources,
S3: or the team has put together some resources for families
S3: to engage around this. Talk about the family studies.
S18: Yeah, we've we've had a lot of fun with this.
S18: So each month we take the study and we develop
S18: four weekly lessons. So you can have kind of your
S18: own mini VBS in your house in a sense. But
S18: you read the passage, there's questions that our kids level
S18: and then we give a fun activity to do that
S18: will kind of reinforce the main point. Um, and then
S18: a prayer to do together and memory verses, which you
S18: were just talking about, you know, as a kid, you
S18: can memorize a lot. I was an Awana kid. And um,
S18: so shout out to Awana because it embedded God's Word
S18: in my heart. So I really think it's important that we, um,
S18: make sure our kids are getting fed a daily diet
S18: of scripture. And this is just one little way. So
S18: if you go to our website, you can download those
S18: for free, use them for a Sunday school class or
S18: for your own personal family.
S2: Okay. Coming up here, Jamie Janos with us right now,
S2: today in the word, how in the world can you
S2: get it? And what are some of the highlights of
S2: the most recent months? DeVos right from Jamie's mouth. Hang on.
S2: Coming up.
S1: It's Carl and crew on Moody Radio.
S3: Maybe you never got an opportunity to go to Bible college.
S3: You can actually receive instruction from a moody, Moody Bible
S3: Institute professor every single day through the today and the
S3: word devotional Moody Bible professor's author. This Jamie Janos, managing
S3: editor with us right now. That's the cool thing, is
S3: that you are getting high quality instruction, as if you
S3: were a student in a classroom here at the Chicago campus.
S3: Talk about that.
S18: Yes. All of our, um, authors are Moody Bible Institute professors,
S18: so it is really wonderful. It is like you're sitting
S18: in their class and getting a refresher course for some
S18: of you on the Bible or for others for the
S18: first time digging in at this level. And it's so accessible.
S18: They really they really feel to me like they're sitting
S18: alongside the Bible with you, kind of pointing it out,
S18: you know, saying, oh, did you notice this? And do
S18: you see the depth of meaning here in this verse? Um,
S18: and I love that. I love that kind of nature
S18: of how we're sharing faith with other believers.
S2: Jamie, you've been doing this a while. As you look back,
S2: what are some of your favorite Devo moments that stand
S2: out to you? And I know it's different for everyone.
S2: Jim Coakley's teeing it up this month with animals in
S2: the Bible. So that's a that's a real different one.
S2: But what really strikes you?
S18: Boy um, yeah. Jim, Jim's is so fun and animals
S18: in the Bible I was he proposed it to me
S18: and I thought, that's fascinating. So, um, it really has
S18: been a great study. You know, the Psalms are my favorite. Probably. And, um,
S18: Ryan Cook wrote a series of them, which we just
S18: recently released in a new book called talking with God,
S18: which collects all of Ryan's devotionals on the Psalms. But
S18: he's an Old Testament professor, and he really just gives
S18: a deeper look at that beautiful book of the Bible
S18: that teaches us how to be honest before God. So
S18: I think that and also, I loved Kelly Wuerl, who
S18: does some wonderful devotionals. She's done them on women in
S18: the Bible. And she's got she's working on one right
S18: now on the book of Ruth, um, for next year.
S3: Jamie Janos, managing editor for today in The Word. And
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