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S2: by the way, I was reading this morning, second Peter
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S2: To him be the glory both now and to the
S2: day of eternity. That interesting thing, Ali. Grow in the grace.
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S3: In the grace. That's a.
S2: Huge distinction. We don't have to say, Oh God, give
S2: me your grace. He's he's lavished his grace on us.
S3: Now we just have to. Isn't that great? With the
S3: help of the Holy Spirit. Grow. Yeah.
S2: Grow in it.
S3: Grow in it.
S2: It's there. Are we going to grow in it? It's
S2: like going into this.
S4: Womb.
S2: World of power. What a beautiful thing. Okay, guys, we
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S2: I think oftentimes we think and get in our mind
S2: a picture of an I'm walking in this great liberty,
S2: but the liberty that we have in Christ is some
S2: some oftentimes constrained by chains of earth, but unshackled spiritually.
S2: And I mean, that's the reality. We have this great
S2: American experiment going on, and yeah, Canada, you've got it too,
S2: where we're pretty immune to persecution, to the degree to
S2: which our brothers and sisters have it around the world.
S3: But we have to be careful that we don't somehow
S3: think that that's the normal experience for Christians globally. I
S3: want to bring in a special guest right now, Todd Nettleton,
S3: vice president of message integration for The Voice of the martyrs. Well,
S3: it's easy to live in the in the West and
S3: think that persecution that was a thing of of Bible days.
S3: And obviously, if you are aware of things happening globally,
S3: especially what's been in the news recently. Just give us
S3: what's on your heart this morning.
S5: You know, one of the countries that is on my
S5: heart is Syria. We've seen a lot of change in
S5: Syria in the last three months, and some of it's
S5: very good. There have been church bells ringing that haven't
S5: rung for a decade. There have been churches gathering in
S5: their buildings that haven't gathered for a decade. Boy, that's
S5: great news. I talked to a Syrian pastor last week, though,
S5: and he said what the pastors are hearing around the
S5: country in multiple places, what they're hearing from the government
S5: is not what the government is telling the rest of
S5: the world, like the government is telling the rest of
S5: the world, oh, we want freedom, and we want to
S5: have a place for all religions. And what they're telling
S5: the pastors in Syria is just, just wait. Wait till
S5: we get established. Wait till we get our feet on
S5: the ground. Then we're going to come for the Christians.
S5: And so the Christians there are like, okay, what does
S5: this mean now? Obviously they know what it's like to
S5: live under persecution, but they're hearing a very different story
S5: from the new leadership of Syria than what the rest
S5: of the world is hearing.
S2: Yeah. Abu Mohammad Al-julani is the new leader of that country,
S2: and he's got a $10 million bounty on his head
S2: back from.
S5: From his al Qaeda days.
S2: Yeah. I mean, one plus one is still two, isn't it, Todd?
S5: It is. But the rest of the world doesn't want
S5: to necessarily pay attention to that math.
S2: Yeah, so we know that. So we can bemoan that
S2: stuff all day long. But how do you help equip? Oh, boy,
S2: get choked up thinking about it. How do you equip people?
S2: Can you imagine living in a country where you know
S2: what's coming? Think about that. If you stand up for Christ,
S2: you know what's coming. That's brutal. Todd, how do you
S2: equip them? What do you. What are you.
S5: Doing? You know, one of the one of the great
S5: things about that, though, is when suffering comes, you're not
S5: knocked off course by it. Like sometimes in America, if
S5: we suffer, we're like, Lord, how could you let this happen?
S5: I'm not supposed to suffer. I'm following you in a
S5: place like China or Syria. When you follow Christ, you
S5: know you're going to suffer. So it's not a surprise
S5: to you when it happens. How do you get people ready?
S5: I think there's a couple ways. One is helping them
S5: drive deep roots into the Scripture, into God. The other
S5: thing is the stories of persecuted Christians. They hand down
S5: those stories within their countries. Oh, you know, this pastor
S5: was put in prison and he came out and he
S5: was still faithful, still following Christ. Oh, that person was beaten.
S5: And they showed up at church the very next week.
S5: They didn't care. And so those stories strengthen me and
S5: you and our brothers and sisters who live in hostile
S5: and restricted nations to get ready to face persecution.
S3: You know, when you think about it, I was thinking
S3: about this the other day with news coming out of
S3: the Democratic Republic of Congo, the slaughter of Christians. And
S3: you know about just this, the simplicity of the gospel
S3: message that's so offensive, the cross that's so offensive. Isn't
S3: that interesting? You know, just and I don't know why
S3: that struck me afresh, but, man, that there's so much
S3: opposition to the cross.
S5: Yeah. Well it's like, why does it bother you that
S5: I follow Jesus? Like, why should that bother you at all?
S5: But it is it is so offensive. And it's it's
S5: such a threat to these governments and these terrorist groups
S5: and these because they see how Christ changes lives. Yeah.
S5: If young people follow Christ, they're not going to follow
S5: the terrorists. And so if you're recruiting, that's a problem
S5: for you. So it's partly it's a power thing. Like,
S5: God's power is so great that every other power is
S5: threatened by it.
S2: I think we sell it short. We call it evil
S2: and this and that. At the end of the day,
S2: there's a massive demonic force at work. You can explain
S2: it in another way, because what Ali is saying is true.
S2: It's like, hold it, let's think about this. If you
S2: take any spiritual equation out, who would be against families
S2: staying together, growing, being happy, sharing their food with one another?
S2: But there it is. It sounds.
S5: Really dangerous, doesn't it, when you describe it.
S2: That way. Wow. Coming up in a few minutes. All right.
S2: Let's get some facts and figures from around the world.
S2: Can you do that for us, Todd? Let us know
S2: what's going on in just a couple of minutes. We're
S2: going to break it down for you.
S1: It's Karl and crew on Moody Radio.
S2: Broadcasting from grapevine just outside Dallas here in Texas for NRB.
S2: And we've got Todd Nettleton with us, VP of Message integration,
S2: voice of the martyrs guys.
S3: Incredible ministry that serves persecuted Christians in the world's most
S3: difficult and dangerous places to follow Christ. You said you
S3: got a story you heard recently out of the Middle East.
S3: Can't give any more specifics, but tell us what grabbed
S3: your heart about this story.
S5: I just sat down with a former missionary. They don't
S5: they don't use that word in that part of the world.
S5: But former missionary in the Middle East who was arrested
S5: and took him off to jail. His wife didn't know
S5: what had happened to him. She actually took their kids
S5: and left the country because she's like, I don't I
S5: don't know what's going on, but I want to get
S5: my kids out of here. And he was in jail.
S5: Ended up being there for 13 days, which, you know,
S5: in the scope of things, not a huge jail sentence,
S5: but hard when you're the one in jail, when you're
S5: the one sitting there. He said two things made a
S5: huge difference, he said. One, he was arrested with two
S5: other believers and they were allowed to stay together. So
S5: there were three of them in the fire instead of
S5: just one, he said. That was huge, having brothers with
S5: him in jail. Wow. The other thing he said, he
S5: said on day three they decided to have communion. He said,
S5: we didn't have, you know, juice, but we had water.
S5: And Jesus can turn water into wine. So? So we
S5: took our water and we took a little bit of
S5: our dinner roll bread and we had communion. And he
S5: said when they had communion on that third day in prison,
S5: he said it was like Jesus walked in. He took
S5: all the fear and all the frustration and all the upsetness,
S5: and he just took it out of the room like
S5: it wasn't there anymore. Wow. And he said, from that
S5: point on, they had communion together three times a day
S5: while they were in prison. And every single time it
S5: was like Jesus walked in the room and said, I
S5: got this. I'll take care of this.
S2: It's overwhelming when you hear those stories. You know, I've
S2: often wondered, do we know ahead of time that we're
S2: going to have the grace to go through that? You
S2: know what I'm saying, Todd? You know, you're. Yeah. We
S2: don't we can't say, oh, I can, I can, I
S2: can stand strong because it's not about us. It's about
S2: them being filled with the the power of God.
S5: I had a chance to sit down with Hanley Greenwald,
S5: whose family was killed in Afghanistan, and I asked her
S5: that question. I said a year before this happened, would
S5: you have said, oh, yeah, I'm strong enough to go
S5: through losing my family. She said no, in a million years,
S5: I never would have said that. She said the grace
S5: to go through that and she compared it and I guess.
S5: Corrie ten boom said this first. She said the grace
S5: to go through that is like a boarding pass. You
S5: get to get on an airplane, you don't get your
S5: boarding pass a year before the flight, you get your
S5: boarding pass when you go to the airport and check in.
S5: And she said, God gave me the grace to go
S5: through that. Even in the hours right before my our
S5: home was attacked, right before my family was killed.
S2: You've got a unique vantage point because you're in this
S2: all the time. What do you want people to know
S2: that we don't know?
S5: First pray, pray pray pray, pray, pray, pray. That's what
S5: persecuted Christians ask us to do.
S2: Second, now hold on. Second, that's what they asked for.
S5: That's what they asked for.
S2: They don't ask for.
S5: Not money, not.
S2: Money, not saved.
S5: Money. That's it. They asked us to pray. The second
S5: thing is, don't picture persecuted Christians as these depressed, downtrodden,
S5: sad people that have just gone through so much and
S5: they're just barely scraping through life. They are joyful. They
S5: are excited about what God is doing. And yes, they
S5: know that their suffering involved in that, but they are
S5: excited and joyful. Don't picture them as sort of depressed
S5: and beaten down by these things.
S2: That's a good perspective shift.
S3: It really is. How would you what do you tell
S3: people who live not under persecution? Certainly here in the
S3: West there's a growing intolerance for the Christian worldview. But
S3: absent persecution, sometimes you go because we know that faith
S3: thrives in under persecution. How do we live? How now
S3: shall we live? As Chuck Colson said, in the absence
S3: of it. But knowing that that could change at any time.
S5: You know, I think a couple of things we need
S5: to exercise our faith muscles. Most of us live in
S5: biweekly reliance on our paychecks. We don't live in daily
S5: reliance on God. Our brothers and sisters in hostile and
S5: restricted nations. They live in daily reliance on God. They
S5: wake up every morning and say, God, if you don't
S5: show up today, I don't know how it's going to go.
S5: We don't have to do that. And so we don't.
S5: So so we have to figure out ways to exercise
S5: our faith on a day by day. Learn to hear
S5: the voice of God. Hey. Do this. Hey! Turn left.
S5: That kind of relationship with God, and it doesn't. I
S5: don't think it comes naturally to us because we're not
S5: forced to live that way. Whereas our brothers and sisters
S5: who could go to jail today, they live that way
S5: all the time. But when you exercise those muscles, they
S5: grow strong. And you wake up every morning thinking, wow,
S5: I can't wait to see how God's going to show
S5: up in my life today. We need a little practice
S5: to kind of live that way.
S2: I was talking with a guy who's overseeing a bunch
S2: of church plants, tens of thousands, and it's I asked him,
S2: I said I called him a couple of weeks ago,
S2: and it had that tone that I'm calling out of country.
S6: Beep. Beep.
S2: That's a dial tone. When you're. When someone's abroad. That's
S2: the dial tone. I'm the ring tone. And I left
S2: a message. They said, hey, when you get back stateside,
S2: give me a call. And he did. I said, hey,
S2: all right, what's the difference? What's the difference between saints?
S2: They're saints here. And he said, you know, boil it
S2: down to this. He said, the way we're making disciples
S2: and the ones that are really rocking and rolling and
S2: surviving storms is they have a great spirit of obedience,
S2: he said. When they read the word and it says
S2: to do it, they do it. Unlike American or Western Christians.
S2: What do you say to that?
S5: Todd, my boss at voice of the martyrs, Cole Richards,
S5: our president, talks about the knowledge obedience gap. We American
S5: Christians often have a lot of knowledge, but a low
S5: level of obedience. Our brothers and sisters, that you go
S5: into a village in Laos where somebody has very low knowledge,
S5: like like maybe they just have heard the gospel in
S5: the last two weeks, but they are 100% obedient to
S5: everything they know about it. We have to close that gap.
S5: We have to bring our obedience up to the level
S5: of our knowledge.
S2: And we can, by God's grace. Amen. And, you know,
S2: it's an interesting thing because the last couple of days
S2: we've been here, there's been a theme. I was on
S2: a panel with Chris Fabry and Michael Ray and, uh oh,
S2: for crying out loud. Oh, Ron Hutchcraft. And we were
S2: talking about, you know, what needs to happen here in
S2: our lives. And it's that early morning personal introspection where
S2: you go, all right, what's really causing me to go
S2: here today? And I was getting ready to come down
S2: here to NRB, and, you know, I was having some
S2: time with the Lord, and I thought about, okay, we're
S2: coming down. You know, when you come into a room
S2: with a lot of new people and you're wondering about you.
S2: If I'm going to confess what everyone else does. We
S2: all think about, well, you know, what do I wear?
S2: How am I going to be perceived? And then you
S2: get in those environments and your jockeying and who's telling
S2: what stories. And it is a freeing thing when the
S2: Lord says, you got nothing to prove. You got nothing
S2: to gain. You got nothing to lose. Just go be
S2: you in me and we're going to be okay. That's
S2: a freeing thing. Amen. And it's that early morning consecration
S2: where you get your. In fact, I forget. I think
S2: it was Ray who said in really humble tones, it's like,
S2: this is where we've got to start early in the morning,
S2: just going slow down. I am God's kid. And you
S2: know what's amazing? The people you're ministering to, they do
S2: that every morning. They do out of desperate need.
S5: And that's how you learn to hear God's voice. Like
S5: in that quiet time, daily, every day, some some days
S5: you don't hear anything. But the days he speaks. Boy,
S5: you want to be ready and you want to be
S5: there to hear it.
S2: Yeah.
S3: Todd Nettleton, the voice of the martyrs. If you want
S3: more on this incredible ministry, just text voice to 800 555, 7898. Text.
S3: voice to 805, 55, 7898.
S2: I got to tell you, man, I saw the proof
S2: of this. I was at a funeral recently, just a
S2: few weeks ago, for a precious woman. Man, she was
S2: from Romania. She was led to Christ by Richard Wurmbrand,
S2: the founder of voice of the martyrs. When she was
S2: a teenager.
S5: Which is amazing, she.
S2: Was absolutely far from God. Had a friend invite her
S2: into this Bible study and she's like, what in the
S2: cat hair is this all about? She didn't say cat hair,
S2: but she goes into this thing and Richard shared the
S2: gospel with her, and there were just a few girls
S2: in this meeting. And then. Sabina. Sabina? Yeah. So his wife, um,
S2: came alongside, and I got chills right now. This woman
S2: began to grow and go with God. Now her her
S2: sons had to run from the bullets of Ceausescu's regime
S2: into Czechoslovakia. And they escaped. and they ultimately brought mama stateside.
S2: But to hear the stories and the legacy of this
S2: woman who were radically impacted by voice of the martyrs,
S2: it was just, I got chills all over my body
S2: right now. I mean, I was going to stay there
S2: for a half an hour because Romanian funerals are like
S2: 2.5 hours. I stayed 2.5 hours because I'm like, this
S2: is epic. I mean, it was just story after story
S2: after story, and it was open casket. And the and
S2: my friend who's in our church in Chicago and his brothers, man,
S2: they're they're just patting mom on the head. They're going,
S2: she's not here. But there she is. And oh, man,
S2: I'm telling you, man, it was one of the most
S2: awesome things what God can do to change, I mean, generations.
S2: And you've been a part of that for a lot
S2: of years with voice of the martyrs. You guys, I
S2: got to tell you, um, Ali said it. This is
S2: a great ministry. I want you to get content here.
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S2: Text the word voice to (800) 555-7898. Now, I want to
S2: thank you, brother, for being here today.
S5: Thanks for.
S2: Having me. Yeah. What a sweet time, guys. Text. Voice
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S2: because that information of what's going on with our brothers
S2: and sisters around the globe, much like the epistles, would
S2: be writing back and forth. Right? Yes. Same. Same kind
S2: of thing. You're getting node up. Then you can stay
S2: humble and dependent on the Lord, if nothing else, just
S2: to honor them. For crying out loud, what a great
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S1: She was trying to earn her way to God, but
S1: God showed her she didn't have to. Ali is in
S1: the crew. It's Carl and crew on Moody Radio.
S2: Well, I one of the craziest things that ever happened
S2: to me. And I don't know what happened. Have you
S2: ever had a short term addiction? Just a short term
S2: addiction where you're like, you get on to something and
S2: you got to have it? Yes.
S3: Sheet, sheet pans of brownies. When I was eight months pregnant.
S2: Okay. There you go.
S3: Well, a short term addiction.
S2: I had a crazy thing where I had to run
S2: to an ice cream joint. And you know me with sugar, right? No,
S2: you're not a sugar guy. No, but I went through
S2: a crazy phase about seven years ago for about a month,
S2: where it's like I had to have this fix. And
S2: one day I said, what time is it to my bride?
S2: She goes, it's the same time. I said, I got
S2: five minutes. Go with me. Let's go. We got five minutes.
S2: They're going to shut the joint down. And I got
S2: there just in the nick of time, and my bride
S2: was like, you are absolutely crazy for this stuff. Well,
S2: we got a man here that's got people around the
S2: globe that are crazy for this stuff.
S3: Ricky Dixon, recently retired CEO of Blue Bell Creameries, bestselling
S3: author of One Scoop at a Time Lessons from fear
S3: to Faith. Give us the story behind Blue Bell Creamery
S3: started here in Texas, right?
S5: That's correct.
S7: And thank you, first of most for allowing me to
S7: be on this morning. This this is awesome. An addiction.
S7: I've had mine for about 43 plus years, so I'll
S7: still call that a short term addiction, no question about it.
S7: But the book and the inspiration behind the book, one
S7: scoop at a time, it talks about my journey on
S7: how God moved me from high school to college. I
S7: wrote a paper on Blue Bell while I was at Baylor,
S7: and from that I went back and I thought, you know,
S7: that that looked like a real fun company to work for.
S7: And so therefore I'm going to put an application in.
S7: And so my journey took off, and the book kind
S7: of goes through those steps. But really the heart and
S7: soul of the book is how do you have the
S7: peace that passes all understanding when you go through adversity
S7: or stories and lessons, turning fear into faith. But most
S7: importantly in the storm. Not when the storm is over,
S7: but how do you get to the point where you really,
S7: truly just have the peace that no matter what? God,
S7: I know you have this and I'm just going to
S7: walk and follow where you're taking me.
S2: I know you've got some stories of adversity, but time
S2: out a second here. You didn't inherit this thing. You
S2: filled out an application for Bluebell, put your name in
S2: the hat and Rose. How'd you come on here? There's
S2: a couple of subplots. How did God rise you through
S2: the ranks of Bluebell to becoming CEO? Let's. And I'm
S2: asking you seriously, how in the world did this happen?
S7: It definitely is a God thing. There's no question about it.
S7: My journey took me all you know, from I started
S7: here in Dallas when Dallas Fort Worth, San Antonio, a
S7: couple of stops in Oklahoma, Oklahoma City, Tulsa, Kansas City,
S7: back to Tulsa. But there was a defining moment in
S7: my career when they had asked me to move to Oklahoma,
S7: that I was really thinking this was a new position,
S7: a promotion, and in that moment, thinking that it got
S7: real quiet. And finally, when the phone call came and
S7: they sat me down, all of a sudden we were
S7: having a review going the different direction and things I
S7: wasn't doing that they saw that I was doing before, um,
S7: things that I needed to be doing that I wasn't doing. Oh, and.
S2: Honest with that.
S7: Yes. And so I remember going back to the hotel,
S7: sitting on the bed and saying, God, I thought you
S7: moved me here for for this new region and this this,
S7: you know, to take bluebells into Oklahoma and beyond. And
S7: in that moment, in my spirit, I heard God say,
S7: I didn't move you here for a promotion. I moved
S7: you here for my purpose. And I realized at that point.
S2: I had.
S7: I left sinner, I had drifted away. And so I thought,
S7: you know, I could either leave or I can get
S7: serious about what he's doing. And I know it's ice cream,
S7: but it's so much more. And so I read really
S7: just my whole attitude and my direction. Not that I
S7: wasn't praying beforehand, but now I had a direction. So, um,
S7: I just felt like I better, uh, get serious about this.
S7: And through my journey, the next thing I knew, about
S7: five years later, I'm running our ice cream plant in
S7: Broken Arrow, Oklahoma, and then they moved down to Texas. And, um,
S7: as I would say, when 2017 came and they asked
S7: me to be president, the rest was history. And I
S7: knew that this was a God thing. The most humbling
S7: thing ever in my whole life.
S3: Rickey Dixon, our guest right now, recently retired CEO of
S3: Blue Bell Creameries, bestselling author of One Scoop at a
S3: Time Lessons from Fear to Faith. Coming up, he's got
S3: a story of a little bit of fear, a little
S3: bit of crisis and how God used that to move
S3: him toward faith. More coming up here on Carlin Crew.
S1: This is Carlin Crew on Moody Radio.
S3: Broadcasting live from NRB National Religious Broadcasters Convention this week.
S3: Ricky Dixon, our guest right now, recently retired CEO of
S3: Blue Bell Creameries, is about ten years ago on a
S3: Friday night, you got a phone call, thought what could
S3: this be? A work call on a Friday night? Usually
S3: not a good thing. Tell us about it.
S7: Yes. And right before Valentine's on top of that. So, yeah.
S7: You know, when I got the phone call, I knew
S7: that this was probably not the norm. And we had
S7: just been notified that the product that we had produced
S7: had we had had found listeria in the product. And
S7: so obviously it was a game changer.
S2: Is that a death sentence for a company like yours?
S7: Well, you know, obviously, you know, ice cream is a
S7: very low risk product. It's not supposed to be in there.
S7: You take a, you know, a product, you pasteurize it
S7: and then you put it in a -20 environment. So
S7: it should be safe, kill everything. It's supposed to be there.
S7: And so at the same time, yes, you're exactly right.
S7: It's it's not supposed to be there, I should say.
S7: And so, you know, over the course of the next
S7: few months, we got to the point where we we
S7: shut our plants down. We literally took all the equipment
S7: out of the room. We tore the floor up. We
S7: took the walls down the ceiling and really rebuilt the
S7: inside of our company. And we did that with the
S7: help of microbiologist and outside agencies. We looked even outside
S7: the ice cream industry. How can we make this an
S7: incredibly safe environment, even though maybe going too far? But
S7: the way we looked at it is no, you can't
S7: go too far. And so today we test every single
S7: thing we make, and we wait till the tests come
S7: back before we put it out in the market. That way,
S7: we have the assurance that everything we we've done on
S7: the front end makes its way through the product.
S2: What did you learn about God in that season? Because
S2: you're talking to a lot of people right now. They
S2: don't have listeria breaking out in their home, but they've
S2: got some kind of adversity going on.
S7: Absolutely. And, you know, in life, if you live more
S7: than a minute, you're going to have at some point,
S7: adversity in your last segment was just incredible to listen
S7: to what's happening all over the world. Yeah, but but
S7: back here at home, adversity can come in so many ways.
S7: And what I learned is we're going to have it.
S7: So how do you prepare? And I love Mark for
S7: where he, you know, the disciples get on the boat
S7: with Jesus. He goes up to the front, goes to sleep,
S7: and then the waves come. And while they're trying to
S7: bail the water out on their own, they finally go
S7: and wake him up. And when he wakes up, he
S7: they they ask the question, do you not care that
S7: we're going to die now? They're talking to Jesus, and
S7: what does he first do? He calms the storm, and
S7: then he looks and says, oh, ye of little faith.
S7: And and I take that as if Jesus can sleep
S7: in the middle of a storm on a boat. That
S7: when I get to that point in my life where
S7: I think I've done everything I can do, which is
S7: probably a lot longer than I should, that I rest
S7: with Jesus and and that finding that peace in the
S7: middle of the storm, knowing that even the storm still
S7: going around me inside you have that calmness and the
S7: waves have stopped. And when you get at that point,
S7: I call it my second wind. If you're a runner,
S7: you get to the point where you want to quit
S7: running and all of a sudden you have that second wind. Well,
S7: to me, that's the peace that passes all understanding.
S2: A beautiful story.
S3: Well, you've written this book. One scoop at a time.
S3: Stories and lessons from fear to faith. And I'm sure
S3: you don't write this as an expert who's arrived and
S3: who never battles fear and always stays in a posture
S3: of faith, right? I mean.
S2: These battles maybe he has. Ali, I don't want to assume.
S2: No words in your mouth, but I mean you.
S3: I'm sure you as you, even as you're writing, you're
S3: living this, right?
S7: That's right. Absolutely. You know, what you do is you do.
S7: But at a lot more concentrated effort. You're on your
S7: knees in the morning every day. But at the same time,
S7: there's a tendency to drift. And I'm just being very transparent.
S7: Appreciate it. But but when you get to that point
S7: where you're especially now a couple of years later when
S7: they asked me to become president and CEO, knowing that
S7: not just the 3500 employees and their families, but the
S7: consumer that's out there, that's been behind you, that stood
S7: beside you and waited until we came back. You want
S7: to make sure you do it right, but you're exactly right.
S7: You know, the fear is. There it comes. But that's where. Scriptures.
S7: You know, I love John at the end of John 16,
S7: where he's talking to the disciples. He's getting ready to leave.
S7: But I'm going to bring you're going to get a comforter.
S7: And then he goes in John 17 with this long
S7: prayer about not just himself, but then you're going to
S7: have problems. But I've overcome the world. I think it's
S7: John 1633 that says, don't worry, I've overcome it. And
S7: so if we can anchor to that, and I love
S7: that word I say in there when the waves get high.
S7: What are you anchoring? What are you anchoring to? And
S7: that's to Christ. So yes, fear is definitely there. But
S7: getting to the point where you get to the peace
S7: that passes understanding, it's an incredible feeling. No matter how
S7: dark it seems, it's around you.
S2: All right. You're good on vulnerability. So I'm going to
S2: go here. What did you do as a young man
S2: that God grew you up and you didn't do as
S2: a more wise, seasoned man? Oh, wow.
S7: That's a great question. I think that and I shared
S7: a little bit about this earlier. I go to fast
S7: pace and always have, maybe sometimes faster than allowing God
S7: to do what he has planned to do. I think
S7: patience in my mind when I've talked about my story,
S7: my wife says, you. You talk about patience like you
S7: have a lot and you don't.
S2: Oh, hold it a second. You got a great you
S2: got a bride. That's a sister to mine. She speaks truth.
S7: Absolutely. No. You know, and she's usually here. This was
S7: a little early, but I love her to death. And
S7: I said, I've got this one. You know, you get ready.
S7: But no, she's she's been my my biggest cheerleader. But
S7: she's very honest with me. And you know, so often
S7: that's the problem that we try to get ahead of
S7: God or we try to get ahead of life. And
S7: patience is probably the one thing that I could, I
S7: could have used a lot more of. You know, God,
S7: please give me patience. Just give it to me right now.
S2: As soon as possible. Please give it right now. That's
S2: a great line. Boom! Crew. You know, I'm sitting here thinking,
S2: who's this for? It's for everyone. But I specifically believe
S2: that there's some of you that you're running a mom
S2: and pop. You're an executive. You're a leader in some way,
S2: shape or form. This book is going to be peppered
S2: with principles that leaders especially can take away here and go, whoa,
S2: this is wisdom here. You know, there's nothing like hearing
S2: from somebody that's been there, done that. And Ricky's been
S2: there and done that. I love your name, Ricky, by
S2: the way. That's a cool thing. I mean, I wish
S2: my mama. Ricky. Yeah, that's a great name.
S7: Well, back in the 70s, it was Ricky and Lucy. Yeah. Yeah.
S2: That's right. I usually have a Ricky, and then I
S2: have a Lucy. Here's what I want you to do. Boom!
S2: Crew right now. Uh, text the word scoop. Get a
S2: link to this book. One scoop at a time, Ricky Dixon.
S2: Text the word scoop to 805 Five. Five. Five. 78. 98.
S2: Another great resource here. Scoop to (800) 555-7898.
S1: He's a sports fanatic with a stat for anything you
S1: can think of. Young Thunder is in the crew. Its
S1: curling crew on Moody Radio curling crew.
S2: Broadcasting live from NB here in Dallas, Texas. And we've
S2: got a tremendous man of God with us right now.
S2: I love Collin, and I want to just say this.
S2: This is so great. 15 can I read some numbers here?
S2: This is the absolute breaking radio rules right now. 15
S2: million lives touched globally by Open the Bible in the
S2: last 12 months. 15 million. Wow. 230 plus countries reached
S2: through this global ministry. 650 radio stations that air the
S2: daily program and 2.5 million estimated weekly radio listeners. And
S2: guess what? Before we're done here, we're going to tell
S2: you about how this message of the gospel is going
S2: to be going into other languages, just in time for
S2: this great resurrection celebration that we have coming up? Okay. Well,
S2: let's do the right intro here, Ali.
S3: Pastor Colin Smith is founder and teaching pastor of the
S3: national radio program Opened the Bible, joins us in Dallas
S3: right now. We come all the way from the Chicago. Yeah, here.
S2: We are to reunite in Dallas. Come on, man, you
S2: can drive five miles and go get a cup of coffee.
S8: It's worth coming a long way to be with you.
S2: Okay. Quick question. What's God doing in your life? What's
S2: the guy doing? Uh, God is.
S8: Giving me a great sense of peace. Is the first
S8: thing that comes to to to to my mind. I
S8: am so grateful for the team that the Lord has
S8: placed around me. Um, as years go by, you realize
S8: how much you owe to to others, and God's kindness
S8: comes to us in so many ways through other people.
S8: And I am so very, very thankful for the team
S8: that the Lord has placed around me at the orchard,
S8: the church that I serve, and the team that the
S8: Lord has placed around me at Open the Bible. I
S8: just have a profound sense of thanksgiving for that.
S3: You know, I've heard recently, just anecdotally a couple different times,
S3: people reiterating that biblical illiteracy is a real problem in
S3: the church. I don't have any numbers to back that up,
S3: but I've heard it a couple times recently. One of
S3: your passions is to help us not just read, but
S3: also understand the Bible. Bible sales we saw in the
S3: last year up 22%, but there still is this sort
S3: of gap between I have a Bible in my house,
S3: maybe I have one in my hand, but either I'm
S3: not opening it or I'm not understanding at all what
S3: I'm reading. Give us your heart on that.
S8: You know, 20 years ago, I was absolutely convinced that
S8: Bible illiteracy was the great problem. Today, I'm absolutely convinced
S8: that Bible illiteracy is the great opportunity, because we're at
S8: a place where there is a new generation of people
S8: who really, really do not know the God of the Bible.
S8: And that's a very, very different kind of a situation
S8: from people who think that they. Know the God of
S8: the Bible and have decided to walk away. And that's
S8: been largely true of many, many people, um, in recent years.
S8: But I think that there is a turning of the tide.
S8: Bible sales are significantly up. Um, in many cases it's
S8: people buying the Bible for the first time. Younger people
S8: are interested in exploring what they realize they don't know,
S8: and secularism has been feeding answers to people for such
S8: a long time. At some point, people come to the realization,
S8: you know, what I've been promised isn't delivering, and maybe
S8: it's time to look at something else. So to encourage people,
S8: to encourage believers to to open the Bible, um, with
S8: someone who needs to know the God of the Bible
S8: is the great passion of my life. I just keep
S8: asking Abby the question, who is there in your life?
S8: Who needs to know the God of the Bible and
S8: just might be interested in opening the Bible with you
S8: if you were to ask them? And I think that
S8: that's the great opportunity of our day.
S2: Colin Smith with us right now, he is founder and
S2: teaching pastor of the great program Open the Bible. When
S2: you consider, as Ali was just alluding to, the numbers
S2: are staggering. Barnett just came out with a report the
S2: latter part of January forecasting trends. He says that we
S2: have 4% of the nation with a biblical worldview and
S2: relatively little. And what little is out there is ineffective
S2: in disciple making. I don't know if you've seen that research.
S2: It's quite staggering. You've got a great vantage point, both
S2: globally and locally. What are the things that the the
S2: person listening to us this morning who has a big
S2: furnace of want to boil in in them, but they
S2: want to close that gap between. Oh, I got chills
S2: right now. Getting chills all morning. Um, they want to
S2: close that gap between want to and realizing many of
S2: these promises that God has in his word. What's in
S2: that gap, Pastor Colin?
S8: Well, the gap, um, in regards to realizing the promises
S8: of God is clearly faith. But then the first thing
S8: is that we need to know what the promises actually are. Um, so, um,
S8: you know, in speaking, Karl, about 4% have a Christian worldview.
S8: How is a Christian worldview actually formed? That's the question. Yeah.
S8: And I've been persuaded by the example of pioneer missionaries,
S8: folks who've gone to unreached people groups, people who know
S8: absolutely nothing about the God of the Bible. And what's
S8: their strategy? Their strategy historically has been to tell the
S8: Bible's story, because the way that God introduces His Son
S8: to us is by a progressive, unfolding story in which,
S8: step by step, the building blocks are actually put in place.
S8: Who is God? Who? Who am I? Why is the
S8: world as it is? What is the human problem? What
S8: is needed in order to put it right? All of
S8: these things are progressively unfolded in the Bible's story, going
S8: from Genesis to Revelation. So that's why the big project
S8: of my life is to try and to provide resources
S8: that will help people grasp the unfolding story of the Bible,
S8: and then introduce other people to it and share it
S8: with them.
S3: Coming up, one of those resources is going to be
S3: available a week before Easter. This is an exciting one
S3: man play that you are going to love. You're going
S3: to want to watch it yourself and share it. It's
S3: going to be in multiple languages. We'll tell you all
S3: about it. With special guest Colin Smith coming up.
S1: You're listening to Kirtland Crew on Moody Radio.
S3: Broadcasting live from NRB in Dallas, Texas. We've got special
S3: guest Colin Smith, founder and teaching pastor of Open the Bible.
S3: Something exciting coming just in time for Easter. The thief
S3: on the cross. First tell us. For those who aren't
S3: familiar with this passage of Scripture, give us the heart
S3: behind what this play is and then tell us about
S3: the play.
S8: Yes. Well, the story of the thief on the cross,
S8: to my mind, is the greatest story for explaining God's
S8: marvelous grace to someone who doesn't get it. Because I
S8: think an awful lot of people have the idea that
S8: if you're going to get into heaven, you'll get there
S8: by living a good enough life. And here's this man
S8: who obviously didn't do that and was out of time
S8: in terms of starting to do that. And Jesus says,
S8: today you will be with me in Paradise. So that
S8: just blows open people's minds as to, okay, on what
S8: basis then did he get into heaven? So it's a
S8: wonderful story to help people grasp the grace of the
S8: Lord Jesus Christ. And we have a one hour film
S8: of Stephen Baldwin performing The Story of the thief on
S8: the cross as a one man play. We've used it
S8: in Easter at Easter for several years now. What's new
S8: this year is not only are we making it available
S8: in English for free on the Open the Bible website
S8: the week before Easter, but it's also being translated into
S8: languages that cover about more than 60% of the world.
S8: So we're talking about Farsi. We're talking about Hindi, we're
S8: talking about Arabic, we're talking about Chinese. So we're saying
S8: to people all the time, who do you know who
S8: speaks Farsi? Give them a link to the Open the
S8: Bible page. And they can see in the week before
S8: Easter a presentation of the gospel of the Lord Jesus Christ.
S8: It's a dramatic presentation. It's one hour. It's absolutely compelling.
S8: We think that it's a wonderful opportunity to reach out
S8: to friends and neighbors in whatever language.
S2: Okay, we're going to give you a link here in
S2: just a moment. So get your phones ready. But I
S2: want you to, without giving away all your message. Uh,
S2: what should I say? The big. The big points. All
S2: of them. What is the most surprising thing about the
S2: thief on the cross? As you were studying and preparing
S2: to communicate that incredible story that even surprised Colin?
S8: Well, the thing that was the aha moment for me
S8: was to realize that the thief on the cross died
S8: after Jesus. We know that because they had to break
S8: his legs and the Lord had already died. What that
S8: means is that he heard every single word that Jesus
S8: spoke from the cross. So not only did he come
S8: to faith, but then his faith was tested in the darkness.
S8: My God, my God, why have you forsaken me? And
S8: then he heard the words of triumph, it is finished. So, uh,
S8: seeing the cross and all that Jesus accomplished through the
S8: eyes of the thief on the cross was to me
S8: something very wonderful. He was up close throughout these entire
S8: six hours that were the six hours that changed the world.
S3: You know, you hit on something earlier. I want to
S3: go back to that. There is this pervading idea that man,
S3: if my good works could outweigh my my bad works.
S3: I hear that all the time. Just try to be
S3: a good person. And then when you're confronted with the
S3: holiness of God and the sinfulness of man, then you
S3: almost the flip, the script flips and you go from, okay,
S3: now it's not just good versus bad. I cannot be perfect,
S3: but the thief on the cross. My goodness, this is
S3: this story meets every single person where they're at, right?
S3: Is that why you mean tell us a story of
S3: how you've seen this be used already over the past
S3: couple of years.
S8: Oh, well, we've seen many people who've come to faith
S8: in the Lord Jesus Christ as a result of the story.
S8: And that's why we're encouraged to keep working with it
S8: and to encourage people to to say, take this and
S8: use it and share it, share it with a friend.
S8: It's interesting that the thief on the cross must have
S8: had some real knowledge of God, because he said to
S8: the other thief, do you not fear God? So there
S8: was something there was an assumption there. There was something
S8: in his background. My guess is that he had been
S8: brought up with the Ten Commandments, and that he had
S8: some awareness of them, but clearly he'd not practiced them.
S8: He'd gone off on his own way. He'd lived his
S8: own life, and it had been a life that was
S8: in obvious rebellion against the ways of God. But now
S8: he comes to the very end of his life. He's
S8: right on the brink of eternity, and he realizes that
S8: there really is a God, and that he is a
S8: few hours away from being in the immediate presence of God.
S8: He says to his friend, don't you fear God? And
S8: then he realizes that the only hope he has is
S8: the Lord Jesus Christ, and the Lord Jesus Christ gives
S8: him this marvelous grace. It's tremendous. You must have heard
S8: Jesus say, father, forgive them. They do not know what
S8: they are doing. And he entered into the forgiveness that
S8: Christ died to release for all of us. It's a
S8: wonderful story.
S2: Ali's right. The thief on the cross strips away so
S2: much religiosity, pretense, even the even the what can sometimes
S2: be distorted as the the grace of baptism, rather than
S2: a reflection of the grace of God. All those things
S2: are just. They just fall away. Yes. For the thief
S2: on the cross.
S8: It makes it so starkly clear. And that's why it's
S8: such a wonderful story. So we want to introduce people
S8: to the marvelous, free grace of God in which we
S8: find reconciliation, forgiveness through the Lord Jesus Christ. Here's the
S8: story to use, and I hope very much that this
S8: dramatic presentation will be something that people will say, well,
S8: now I could share that with a friend. Um, watch
S8: it with a friend. Um. You can. It's available for
S8: free download so you can invite some friends into your home.
S8: You can just give them the link. There's all kinds
S8: of ways in which people can use it, and we
S8: hope that it will be a real means of bringing
S8: God's grace to many.
S2: In the mission fields at our door here in America. Yeah,
S2: I mean, that's just absolutely true. So how many languages
S2: is it now? This this dramatic presentation?
S8: 16 languages this year. And we're very excited about that.
S8: And that's being done in partnership with the Gospel Coalition
S8: in various countries. And it will be aired on different
S8: media platforms. But I think the thing that I'm most
S8: excited about is how many Christians will be able to
S8: give this to a friend and say, here's the link.
S8: Have a look at this and let's talk about it.
S2: Love it.
S3: Just text open to 800 555 7898 will take you
S3: right to that web page. Text open to 800 555 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: I want you to look for something that you can
S2: give God praise for. I got up this morning. Second Peter,
S2: the final words here in second, Peter and I just
S2: did a quick contemplation on this this morning early. And
S2: I thought, wow, this is phenomenal words, but grow in
S2: the grace and knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ.
S2: To him be the glory both now and to the
S2: day of eternity. Amen. And let it be. Grow in
S2: the grace. Now this is what's important. Grace doesn't grow.
S2: Grace does not grow. Grace is what it is. And
S2: it's all we need. Yeah.
S3: And we can grow into it. Which is great.
S2: Yes, that's the point. Yes, we grow into it. Yeah.
S2: And how do we grow into it? We go low.
S3: Humility.
S2: Yeah, we go low. Okay. We got something. I am
S2: fired up Saturday morning. I'm going to be up with
S2: bells on. I might even get up extra early to
S2: get ready for the crew.
S3: You're always up extra early.
S2: Is there ever a time.
S9: What's sleeping in for you?
S2: 430. That's dynamite. You Give Me 430. Man, I feel
S2: like a new man. Carl's going to.
S3: Sleep in till five on Saturday, and then he's going
S3: to be out at Villa Park. Yeah, starting at 9 a.m.
S3: to noon. Out in Villa Park for a book signing
S3: for his book Killing Sin. Oh, man. Hearing such incredible
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S2: Yeah, grateful for you guys. And you want to look
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S2: that's a cool little surprise. So just text the word
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S2: and we got a whole team of folks that are
S2: going to be out there. This is live radio. That's
S2: what we're doing. We got you guys bellowing from the back.
S3: Live radio every morning. But this today we are live.
S2: Yeah, I should say live with the crowd. We don't
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S3: Full of people.
S2: Yeah, so we're going to be out there textbook. And
S2: I'd love to see you if you're within striking distance
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S1: This is Carl and crew on Moody Radio.
S2: A lot of times when we think about, he won't.
S4: Fail.
S2: And then we go, is that true? I mean, really,
S2: how faithful is God? And oftentimes we only discover that
S2: when it really gets hot in the furnace.
S3: Let's bring in a special guest right now. Just sat
S3: down at our table. Danette Joy Crawford, she's a speaker, author,
S3: TV host, evangelist. You said there is a joy. There's
S3: a joy that comes when life's going really well. There's
S3: a new grandbaby that's born, you get the new house,
S3: and then there's there's the joy that you have to
S3: fight for because life is so hard. Tell us a
S3: little bit about your story.
S2: Yes.
S10: You know, I accepted Jesus as my savior at the
S10: age of 17. I didn't grow up born again, grew
S10: up going to church, but didn't have a personal relationship.
S10: Accepted the Lord at 17. Started as a youth pastor
S10: at 19 and started traveling as an evangelist at the
S10: age of 21. So the last thing I ever expected
S10: to do was become a single mom did all the
S10: right things. I was nine months pregnant and five days
S10: before I delivered my daughter, my husband announced to me
S10: that he was leaving. So my whole world came crashing
S10: down and all I had was a great big God
S10: and a little teeny baby. And I learned that God
S10: and I together are the majority. But I have to
S10: make choices just because somebody else has made choices outside
S10: of the will of God or bad choices. What counts
S10: as my choices? And I had to choose not to
S10: be shaken out of my faith, out of my joy.
S10: And I had to make a decision to go forward.
S10: One step of obedience at a time.
S2: Trials come at us in every which way, shape and form.
S2: And even James said, consider it pure joy when you
S2: face trials of many kinds. Have we ever met anyone
S2: that grew without a trial and I mean a trial?
S2: Do we really grow? I don't know, I.
S3: Don't know.
S2: I don't think so. There's a knowledge that can be gained,
S2: but it's usually on the heels of something pretty heavy.
S2: What were the things that you learned? And, you.
S10: Know, the first part of that verse is consider it
S10: pure joy. So we focus on the joy, but consider
S10: it a real key is how are you considering it?
S10: The situation, circumstance? The first thing I was like, God,
S10: this is not fair. I've done all of the right
S10: things in life. You know all of this. Know? How
S10: were you considering it? I'm considering. God. You're still in control. God,
S10: you're still a good God. God, you're still faithful. That's
S10: how we have to. That's the beginning step. And making
S10: the choice to consider it.
S3: You know, because it's it's so easy to get stuck
S3: in that place of why in the world is this
S3: happening to self-pity, the self-pity and the and the big
S3: glaring why, that may or may not ever get answered
S3: this side of heaven. How did you reconcile all of
S3: the questions I'm sure you had? And then, as you
S3: begin to be a single mama raising a baby, the
S3: questions that I'm sure your little one had, how did
S3: you reconcile that? Okay, I might not get these answers,
S3: but I'm going to continue to choose joy and march forward.
S10: That is very key. And the Lord said, Danette, you
S10: have to understand that you don't have to understand, and
S10: the Lord will give you understanding Standing when he wants to.
S10: And it might be tomorrow. It might be in five years.
S10: It might not be to the other side when we
S10: get to heaven. But he said, everyone has a choice
S10: to make, and what's going to count is your choices.
S10: I had to choose to forgive. I had to choose
S10: not to get in a self-pity party pit, and I
S10: had to decide to go forward on what God had
S10: called me to do and choose joy every day.
S2: You know, I was talking to a man two nights ago,
S2: and I sensed in my spirit that he was trying
S2: to get out of the pain. And I applaud that.
S2: I pray to get out of pain constantly. And it's
S2: a it's a great prayer, but sometimes the way out
S2: is to go into it all the way and to
S2: feel it deeply and to not ignore it. I was
S2: reading last night, Psalm 13. Um, David embraced pain big time,
S2: and he went into it. Now, I don't know if
S2: I'm explaining myself rightly here, but there's a sometimes we
S2: want to skip across the top of it rather than
S2: go into the depth of it. Not for the purpose
S2: of becoming a victim, but for the purpose of finding
S2: God meeting us at where we're really honest with ourselves.
S2: It's called.
S10: Process. It's what I call the process. God's a God
S10: of process. You have to process it. It's like grief.
S10: Grief comes in stages, and I had to grieve the
S10: loss of my marriage, the loss of dreams and visions
S10: that I had. And you know, when you go through
S10: the grief, you have to go through the steps or
S10: you get stuck. You can get stuck in depression. You
S10: can get stuck in self-pity, you can get stuck in yesterday.
S10: But God wants us to embrace his grace, to embrace
S10: his grace today and go forward.
S3: Yeah. Jeanette Joy Crawford, our guest right now. Coming up,
S3: she has a a release out just in a couple
S3: of weeks. The power of joy for women. What she
S3: wants you to know about choosing joy today. Coming up.
S1: Your shot of hope to help you through the day.
S1: This is Carl and crew on Moody Radio.
S2: Shot of Hope is right. We're broadcasting live from NB
S2: here in Dallas, Texas, and all across the United States,
S2: here and even into Canada. We're grateful for you being here.
S2: It's it's so sweet. Two days ago, Ali and I
S2: were asking listeners, why in the world do you come here?
S2: And that came out of the blue, that question. But
S2: the amount of response with one key word encouragement.
S3: Staggering encouragement, wanting to take steps forward in your walk
S3: with Jesus, we've got a guest who's helping us do
S3: just that. Danette Joy Crawford, a speaker, author, TV host, evangelist.
S3: You became a single mom unexpectedly five days before delivering
S3: your child. Your husband said, I'm leaving. You know, you
S3: could you could go two directions with that. You could
S3: put your head down. Just focus on I'm going to
S3: make sure I'm good, which maybe you did for a season.
S3: But then at some point you decided, I'm going to
S3: leverage this story that God's given me the one that
S3: maybe I didn't want to write, but he's writing, and
S3: I'm going to bring other people in and help other
S3: women choose joy. Talk about this devotional that you've got
S3: coming out.
S10: Absolutely. The power of joy for women. And you know,
S10: the joy, the power of joy is not just for women,
S10: but this is targeting women. And, you know, every day
S10: we need to tap into the joy. Nehemiah eight and
S10: ten says, the joy of the Lord is our strength
S10: and the midst of whatever situation or circumstance you're dealing with,
S10: you can find joy. And as we, our joy is
S10: rooted in the right relationship with God. As your heart
S10: is right with him and as you're trusting him, you
S10: can tap into an unshakable joy, a joy that's not
S10: shaken according to your situations and circumstances.
S2: Yeah, and joy. I think it gets a bad billing.
S2: Oftentimes it's translated or interpreted that it's some kind of
S2: giddiness that doesn't recognize, but it's really a depth of
S2: understanding of the character of God. You've found that, haven't you?
S10: Absolutely. And that is a really great way to explain it.
S10: It is a depth in understanding the character of God.
S10: God is a good God. God will bring you through
S10: in where you're at. It's not your final destination. You know,
S10: I had to make steps every day. I would set
S10: a goal. And in the beginning, there were months that
S10: my big goal was to get out of bed, to
S10: take a shower and put my makeup on because I
S10: was so devastated with my first child, the only child
S10: I'd ever had. None of my biological family was in
S10: the area. So, you know, set your goals and go forward.
S10: Get in the presence of the Lord. When we're in
S10: the presence of God, through worship, through prayer, through studying
S10: His Word, we can find out and be reminded and
S10: encouraged of who we are in Christ and your your destiny.
S10: Your call has not changed just because your circumstances have changed.
S10: God hasn't changed and neither has his call or plan
S10: for your life.
S3: You've got a book coming out. You also have a
S3: television program, Joy with Janet Crawford. You must get to
S3: hear stories of of women who, whatever their circumstances are
S3: in life, who have who have really been ministered to
S3: to give us a story that stands out. Kind of
S3: kind of one of your whys.
S10: Well, I'll tell you when I first started our outreaches,
S10: we have 23 community outreaches. And God said, get your
S10: eyes off of yourself. That's a key. Whatever you're going
S10: through today, get your eyes off of yourself. I took
S10: what little groceries I had, and I took my baby,
S10: and I went over to low income, subsidized housing that
S10: became our Bread of Life feeding program, where we do
S10: door to door deliveries for single moms in low income neighborhoods.
S10: I knocked on the door. Long story. This girl got
S10: saved and this is what she would call me. I
S10: had two nicknames in in the subsidized housing in the hood,
S10: the spunky white girl. And this is what she'd say.
S10: They would peek out their windows and they go, oh,
S10: here comes that spunky white girl. Ain't nobody can really
S10: be that happy. And then this girl got her life
S10: changed around. And her name was Tracy. All of her kids,
S10: she was living in an abusive relationship. Wasn't married to
S10: the guy. Long story. Everyone saved. She's leading worship in.
S10: So many people's lives were changed. Just because I got
S10: my eyes off of myself and went to bring encouragement
S10: to somebody else.
S2: Yeah, to the person that's listening right now going, How's
S2: God going to dig me out of this ditch? Well,
S2: you got the right question. How is God? Because you can't,
S2: but he can. And what an opportunity to feature something
S2: here that might be of huge encouragement to you.
S3: Just text the word joy to 800 555 7898. Text
S3: joy to 800 555 7898.
S2: Yeah. I want to thank you so much for being
S2: with us here this morning. It goes quick on drive
S2: time radio. Well, thank.
S10: You for having me. It's been a blessing and an honor.
S2: Yeah. Okay. We've got that keyword for you guys.
S3: Text joy to 800 555 7898. Joy to 805 five
S3: five 7898.
S1: You're listening to Carl and crew on Moody Radio.
S2: Over a year ago, a lot of tragedy, a lot
S2: of pain, a lot of heartache, and yet a lot
S2: of redemption.
S3: Captain Guy Barak joins us right now. He's the Israel
S3: naval attache to the U.S. and military attache to the U.N..
S3: You are here today or this week at NRB, representing
S3: the Israel or friends of the Israel Defense Forces, f IDF.
S3: Give us a little bit of an overview of what
S3: that is.
S11: Good morning. First of all, thank you for having me here.
S11: It's an honor and pleasure and feel all the support here.
S11: So f IDF friends of the IDF is the organization
S11: that is with direct contact with the Ministry of Defense
S11: in Israel and got directly our needs. The IDF needs
S11: the soldiers needs to support them during the wars and
S11: even before and after the war, of course.
S2: What are you seeing? Give us a story. Give us
S2: a story. What's on your heart?
S11: So I'm serving the Israeli Navy for 26 years. Since
S11: October 7th. I'm sorry. Three years ago, I came to
S11: the US to represent the Israeli Navy here. And since
S11: October 7th, I represent the IDF. I was representing the
S11: IDF at the UN, which is another war zone. You
S11: can you can imagine. Yeah. Um, you know, Israel is
S11: a small country. October 7th touches almost, almost each and
S11: every family in Israel, including myself. Um, my wife's uncle
S11: was murdered in his house in Kibbutz Neros, in front
S11: of his wife's eyes. And she was, uh, been captured
S11: as hostages in his hostage in Gaza. We were lucky
S11: enough that she was released in the first hostages deal,
S11: but I can guarantee she's not the same person. Um,
S11: and I lost also friends during this war. And in
S11: October 7th itself. So, actually, the personal tragedy mixed with
S11: the national tragedy. And it basically goes to every house
S11: in Israel.
S2: Yeah, that's heartbreaking, isn't it?
S11: It is. But we are a strong nation. We are
S11: a strong people, and we keep on fighting until the victory.
S3: What are the primary needs that you're that you're seeing
S3: that the IDF is able to step in and meet?
S11: Uh, you know, IDF been during this war adjusting for
S11: our needs day to day. If it's a special ambulances
S11: for the field that we can use blood plasma in
S11: rough roads. Um, treating PTSD, many of our soldiers and
S11: civilians suffering from PTSD post-traumatic after October 7th, since October 7th,
S11: of course, supporting the widows and the orphans and many,
S11: many other needs to support both our soldiers and our society.
S2: Coming up here, we're going to have a link for you.
S2: Boom crew, a lot of you really do want to
S2: be a part of helping out where you can, and
S2: we're going to have a link for you. It's it's
S2: a sobering thing with the we talk a lot about
S2: news cycles and how quickly they come and go. And
S2: yet at the same time, some of the pain and
S2: the fallout from tragedies like October 7th linger on. And
S2: yet we can do something about it. That's the beauty
S2: of it. We'll talk about that straight ahead.
S1: He was running from God, but God's love brought him home.
S1: Carl is in the crew. It's Carl and crew on
S1: Moody Radio.
S2: We were really encouraged when we put out a question
S2: to you, boom crew, asking you, why in the world
S2: do you tune in here? And we didn't say that.
S2: And you need to know or I think you know,
S2: our hearts. We sure don't say it for our benefit.
S2: But the word back was so for our benefit, and
S2: it was a resounding to be encouraged in my walk
S2: in my relationship with Jesus Christ. That's beautiful, isn't it?
S3: It is because, I mean, everyone put it in slightly
S3: different words. But that was the resounding, overwhelming consensus is
S3: that I want to be encouraged in my walk with Jesus.
S2: The encouraging words out of First John. And I'm going
S2: to build some context around this here, and it picks
S2: it up in verse five of the first chapter of
S2: First John. This is the message we have heard from
S2: him and proclaim to you. This is written by the
S2: only disciple that died in natural death, that God is light,
S2: and in him there is no darkness at all. Wow.
S2: Isn't that amazing? God is light, and in him there
S2: is no darkness at all. If we say we have
S2: fellowship with him while we walk in darkness, we're. We're
S2: not practicing the truth. We're lying to ourselves. Whoa!
S9: It's a big deal.
S2: So it's one thing to have a claim to know
S2: that God is light. But if we claim that he
S2: is light and yet we walk in darkness. Oh, no,
S2: we're not practicing the truth. So how do we practice
S2: the truth this morning? If we walk in the light
S2: as he is in the light, we have fellowship with
S2: one another. Look at what happens. You know, sometimes that
S2: relational divide that we experience as a result of being
S2: in the shadows. So step into the light, will have
S2: fellowship with one another in the blood of Jesus. His
S2: son cleanses us from all sin. Now, if we say
S2: we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth
S2: is not in us. But if we confess our sins,
S2: he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins
S2: and to cleanse us of all unrighteousness. I want to
S2: encourage you today. I want to encourage you to take
S2: a moment to do some self-assessment. And you might say,
S2: oh man, you just told us you were going to
S2: encourage us. I am encouraging you because to know that
S2: God is light and to walk in the shadows is unwise.
S2: But to take a moment just to say, God, I
S2: just bring to you anything from the shadows in my life,
S2: and I confess it to you. You ready for this?
S2: Everything is scrubbed clean. We're washed. It's like that whiteboard
S2: that's got all that residue on it. God scrubs that clean,
S2: and he's writing a new story in your heart today,
S2: and you'll have connection with others around us. How sweet
S2: is that? And so I know it's so uncommon to hear.
S2: But that inspection, personal contrition before the Lord that says, God,
S2: search me, know me, try me. What a beautiful exercise today.
S2: As you're getting your day started, it will carry you.
S3: Well, that reminder to examine any areas of your life
S3: where there's shadows or darkness, where you've chosen the darkness
S3: over the light and to bring it into the light.
S2: Bring it into the.
S9: Light. And Carl, you're right, this is encouragement because although
S9: it's uncomfortable to bring things into the light, sometimes it's
S9: lonely to keep it in the dark.
S12: Oh, that's that's a big one.
S9: Everyone who is in Walking in darkness. Keeping things in
S9: the dark is lonely because they've got things that they're hiding.
S9: They've got things that they feel like they can't tell
S9: anybody about. And you just kind of shrivel up in
S9: that when you hold it to yourself. But when you
S9: walk in the light, you give it to God. You
S9: talk with God about it, but then you bring in
S9: community of the of of God, who you can trust.
S9: You say, my brothers, who can help me walk through this,
S9: my sisters who can help me walk through this? Now
S9: we've opened up the door to growth, to joy in
S9: the Lord. It's all better from there. Yeah.
S2: And the interesting thing here is in this text is
S2: this if you walk in the light, you will have
S2: fellowship with one another. Isn't that interesting?
S9: That is how it works.
S2: So you might feel alone. Step into the light of
S2: personal introspection, wipe the decks clean, and then God in
S2: His providence and goodness will you will find fellowship beginning
S2: to happen, maybe as never before. And what a great
S2: way to start your day. So there's some encouragement for you.
S1: A basketball mom who's mastered the dad joke. Ali is
S1: in the crew. It's Carl and crew on Moody Radio.
S1: We are Carl.
S2: And Crew mornings broadcasting live from NRP in Dallas, Texas,
S2: and we are having a sweet time this week having
S2: conversations around the power of God to change lives. But
S2: we did not forget. No, it's near the bottom of
S2: the hour, and it's that time.
S1: Making herself laugh. No matter who joins her, it's time
S1: for Ali thinks it's funny.
S3: Well, have you ever seen fish in a band?
S2: Fish in a band? Wasn't there.
S9: A band? Fish?
S3: No. No, no. Yeah. Go fish.
S9: Oh. Go fish.
S3: Okay, well, that's not what I'm talking about. Okay.
S2: Fish in a band.
S3: Just picture. Picture. Four little fish. They formed a band,
S3: but they do not use any musical instruments. Do you
S3: want to know why? Yeah. They have to sing acapella.
S13: That is outstanding. Wow. That is outstanding.
S9: My favorite jokes are the ones.
S13: Oh! Hold it! Ali was losing it before she got
S13: through the hole. Couldn't get through. She couldn't get between
S13: aqua and paella. She lost it. It's so good. I
S13: just I couldn't.
S3: Get it out. It was too.
S13: Funny.
S3: Next one. You know, everybody has house rules. Sometimes grandparents
S3: have house rules. Yeah. This one particular set of grandparents
S3: had a specific house rule that was a little unique.
S3: Grandma said to the grandkids, you cannot throw grandpa's false teeth.
S3: You just can't do it. You cannot throw them, and
S3: you definitely can't throw them at the vehicle. Do you
S3: want to know why?
S2: Gotta know.
S3: Because you might dent your car.
UU: Oh, look at it.
S13: Oh my goodness. The visual is so much more. Oh boy.
S13: So much more. Okay, I'm crying now. I really am laughing.
S3: Harder than I.
S13: Should. Wow.
S3: Blame it on Texas.
S13: Tech's jokes to 800 555 7898.
S3: Text jokes to 800 555 7898.
S2: Oh, Ali. Those were both so outstanding. You got to
S2: get them. Torment those around you today, folks. Text jokes
S2: to 800 555 7898. I commercial fished with the sea
S2: captain who, uh, he had dentures and he couldn't keep
S2: them in to save his neck. Oh, no. And when
S2: we'd wake up, like when it was a closure during
S2: our fishing, we'd wake up. And those those things were
S2: always sitting in a different spot. And so we'd sit
S2: on his teeth.
S13: Oh, no. No.
S2: I grabbed a cup of water one time, and thankfully
S2: I looked down and saw there at the bottom of
S2: the water.
S3: But you never dented a car, right?
S2: I never dented a car. You might dent your car.
S13: Jeez.
S2: Text jokes to 800 555 7898. Broadcasting live from NB.
S2: And we've got a guest coming up here in a
S2: moment that you're going to want to catch on the.
S3: Silk from transform, Iran is going to be joining us.
S1: She's a choreographer extraordinaire and everything is Greek to her.
S1: Super di is in the crew. It's Carl and crew
S1: on Moody Radio.
S2: Broadcasting live from Dallas, Texas. National religious broadcasters. A big
S2: event here, and we've got the opportunity to connect with
S2: some incredible people. And boy, have we got a fine
S2: young lady right now.
S3: Lana Silk with Transform Iran or the chief executive officer
S3: here in the US. Iran is one of the world's
S3: most hostile countries to the gospel. But you're seeing the
S3: church grow rapidly. I feel like I've heard that story before.
S3: Tell us a little bit about what's going on.
S14: Yes. Ali, thank you for having me. The church in
S14: Iran is thriving. It's thriving. It's growing, it's strong. There are,
S14: of course, um, battles with discouragement. But when they see
S14: the way God is moving, it constantly stirs them on
S14: for more. And it's exciting to be part of it.
S2: Give us a story, Lana.
S14: So we were just talking earlier about God's supernatural work
S14: in Iran, weren't we? He is constantly working through that
S14: country and you know, God is doing his own thing.
S14: He is wooing people to himself, and he is so
S14: generous in allowing us to partner with him. But he
S14: can do it without us. Yeah. So here's an example.
S14: This is one of our pastors now in our churches.
S14: She was part of a muslim family. She was forced
S14: into marriage at 12. She had three kids through her teens.
S14: And then around her 20th birthday, her husband, her brother
S14: and her father were murdered by the government. She's part
S14: of an ethnic minority group in Iran, where there's some
S14: political activities which led to their death. So she took
S14: that as a sign that she wasn't a good enough
S14: Muslim and decided to really press hard into her Islamic faith.
S14: She was praying more, fasting more wanting to please Allah
S14: better so that kind of judgment would fall on her again.
S14: And as she began doing that, Jesus began appearing to her.
S14: So he would stand in the doorway in her room
S14: and put his arm out to her and say, trust me,
S14: come and follow me, or he would appear to her
S14: in her dreams. He would take her flying on these
S14: adventures that she described to me and saying, you know
S14: I'm trustworthy, you can follow me. And it would just continue.
S14: And then she started to notice that when she was
S14: praying her Islamic prayers, when she would go to say Muhammad,
S14: the word Jesus would come out by accident. And so
S14: she would catch herself and think, wow, I need to
S14: redo this. This is wrong. Try to pray again and again, involuntarily.
S14: Instead of Muhammad, she would say Jesus. So over the
S14: period of time as this is happening, of course we
S14: know the power of the name of Jesus. He began
S14: to really touch her heart and she ended up giving
S14: her life to him. But now it's dangerous for her.
S14: She's in a muslim family, and they're very strong in
S14: their faith. And they're not. It wouldn't be good for
S14: her if they knew.
S15: Has.
S2: Has she? Oh, so they don't know.
S14: They don't know if they know. They would likely turn
S14: her in or kill her themselves. So she describes a
S14: period of time when she tried to keep it hidden.
S14: She would go hide in the bathroom and read her
S14: Bible there. That was the only place where she could
S14: have a little bit of privacy because, you know, in,
S14: in Iran, the, the male nearest male relative effectively owns
S14: the woman. So now her husband is dead. Her father
S14: is dead. That means her husband's family take authority over
S14: her and her children, and she's probably living with them,
S14: and she has them in and out of her life constantly.
S14: She's got to be careful. But you know, when Jesus
S14: transforms your life, it's hard to hide it. Wow.
S3: Talk a little bit about the the Ministry of Transform
S3: Iran and your commitment to it.
S14: Yes. Well, the ministry is about reaching our country, reaching
S14: our country with Jesus's love and power up and down
S14: the country. The men, the women, the children, the illiterate,
S14: the educated women like this lady whose story I'm telling you.
S3: Why is this such a passion point for you?
S14: Well, I was born and raised in Iran, I love Iran.
S14: That's my country. That's my home. Eventually, I'll get to
S14: go back and see it again. And I. You know,
S14: God loves Iran even more than me. I think we
S14: only have a glimpse of his passion for the things
S14: that he puts on our heart. And I live for that.
S2: When we come back. Lana, we want to talk about
S2: how widespread is the underground church and how does it
S2: even operate and what is the what are the faith
S2: stories you're getting out of there? We'll get that straight ahead.
S1: This is Curling Crew on Moody Radio.
S3: We're broadcasting live from the National Religious Broadcasters Convention this week.
S3: We've got special guest Lana Silk with us right now
S3: with Transform Iran. Born and raised in Iran before emigrating
S3: to the UK. The growth of the church in Iran
S3: has been Unbelievable. Tell us a little bit about the,
S3: the the information that you do have about the numbers
S3: and just how accelerated it's been.
S14: Yes. Well, before the revolution in 79, we think there
S14: were maybe three, four, 500 at the most Muslim background
S14: believers in Iran. A few years ago, a research organization
S14: in Holland did some extensive research to try to ascertain
S14: the numbers. They think it was well over a million
S14: at that point. So and people are saying Iran is
S14: the fastest growing church in the world. So if we're
S14: if that is the case, we're probably one and a half,
S14: maybe closer to two. And that's just in the last
S14: 50 years.
S2: How does the church grow? I mean, how does it
S2: you don't you don't set up rent a building on
S2: the corner and hey, put up the sign flyers.
S13: Yeah.
S14: Yeah. No. That's right. You know, the church grows in
S14: the way. It probably should. Yeah. Through the lives of
S14: people who are transformed by God's love and who are
S14: themselves bursting with Jesus in their life and want to
S14: tell people, other people then get saved. And it sort
S14: of it's fruitful, you know, in the way that I
S14: guess it should be.
S2: What are so those stories where someone is now transformed
S2: by the power of God. They're living as light. They're
S2: bearing fruit. Somebody sees it, they ask him a question.
S2: Now you got a choice. Yes. Do I tell them
S2: who's buttering my bread? You know what I'm saying?
S14: Exactly right. You know, they are so courageous and so
S14: inspiring in the way they are excited for those opportunities
S14: to bring Jesus to the people around them. And bear
S14: in mind, Iran is a country of people who are
S14: really under trauma, like just the oppression, the brutality of
S14: their government. So, you know, when you love a people
S14: group and you see that they are hurting, you know,
S14: you have the answer for their problems, you can't help
S14: but share it, even if it's going to cost you.
S3: What can the American church learn from the church in Iran?
S14: That's a great question. I think all of us who
S14: live in a free context can be inspired by the passion,
S14: the zeal, the sold out nature of the faith, of
S14: the people who live in countries like Iran. When we
S14: live in a free world, it's very easy to get
S14: comfortable to pick and choose, become a consumer really of
S14: our faith. You know which church is more fun? Which
S14: worship do I like more? Which Bible do I want
S14: to pick up or put down? When you're in a
S14: context where you're persecuted, all of those sort of extras
S14: go away, then it's all in, sold out, whatever it takes.
S2: How are you getting resources to the underground church? How
S2: are we getting Bibles? I mean, how does that work?
S14: There are ways to take physical things in, and we
S14: have our secret ways, which we do. But most of
S14: it honestly is digital. Digital media is very powerful and effective.
S14: It's good quality and it's easier to hide. So we
S14: use satellite TV, radio, social media, but we also have
S14: an app where people can download Bibles, discipleship materials. So
S14: that's probably the most predominant way.
S2: So let's say there's a million and a half followers
S2: of Jesus in Iran. How many of those have a
S2: physical Bible or even risk that? I mean, that's a
S2: huge risk, isn't it, to have a Bible in your
S2: on your person?
S16: It is. It is a risk.
S14: Um, it wouldn't be the majority, I would I would
S14: love to know myself, but I would guess it would
S14: be less than half that would have a physical Bible.
S2: This is an awe inspiring. You know, it's the Spirit
S2: of God hit me with is the children? Yes. What
S2: are the stories about the children? I feel like I
S2: need to ask you that. Yeah.
S14: You know what? I think that might have been the
S14: Holy Spirit prompting you that the children are really high
S14: on our focus this year. We've been thinking a lot
S14: about how do we empower and strengthen the Christian children. First,
S14: imagine the context in which you have an Islamic education.
S14: You can't tell your schoolteachers you're a Christian. Your whole
S14: family would be outed. You have to play this game
S14: of being a muslim. You're being forced to study the Quran,
S14: to recite the namaz, and all of that is going
S14: on at school. Then you go home and the same
S14: people Moses, Abraham, Noah, have a different story and a
S14: different truth that you're being presented with at home. So
S14: that's a struggle. Imagine a five, six, seven year old
S14: having to navigate that. So we're putting a lot of
S14: resources together now in helping the children just get strengthened
S14: in their faith and then through them reach their friends.
S2: I mean, imagine our kids having to go somewhat incognito. Yeah.
S2: And yet they're growing up in their relationship with Jesus.
S2: They see it in their mom and dad. Yeah. They
S2: see it in the underground church. Are they meeting house
S2: to house? Do they gather together?
S16: Yes.
S14: House to house, in small numbers. And as they grow,
S14: which they do, then we encourage them to split up,
S14: to keep the numbers small. So they don't. They're not
S14: detected so easily.
S2: Some of you wonder right now or have wondered, oh,
S2: what's going on with those people? And you've heard some
S2: stories here today. You think about those children, and I
S2: want that to be an impetus for you to say,
S2: I want to grab a link. I want to help.
S2: This is a tangible way. Talk about return on investment.
S2: My goodness.
S3: Yeah. The ministry is transformed. Iran just transformed to 800
S3: 555 7898. will get you a link to their website.
S3: Text transform to (800) 555-7898.
S2: Lon. I want to thank you. I feel prompted to
S2: pray right now.
S14: Thank you, I appreciate that.
S2: Father, in Jesus name, we thank you for our brothers
S2: and sisters in Iran and the children right now. Lord,
S2: we pray your protection over them and we thank you
S2: for their witness. I pray, Lord, that you would provide
S2: for them in every way that they're crying out for,
S2: and even surprise them today as we pray with your
S2: abundant grace, which is so rich and I give you
S2: praise today in Jesus name, Amen. And as we pray,
S2: the Spirit of God goes to work and you might
S2: be prompted to join in to this effort. I want
S2: to encourage you to do it right now.
S3: Text transform to 800 555 7898. Just text that one word.
S3: Transform to 800 555 7898. Get the link. Click it.
S3: Use it as the Lord leads. Yeah.
S2: Lana. Thank you, thank you. You're an inspiration.
S16: Thank you. Appreciate it.