S1: Coming to you from the Morning Star Mission sponsored studio.
S1: This is Carl and crew on Moody Radio.
S2: You know, sometimes you just got to put it out there.
S2: The life of the Christian is one of faith taking risk.
S2: They are interchangeable terms, and it's part of what we do.
S2: We get out of the boat, we put a toe
S2: in the Jordan. God says, be strong and courageous. I
S2: know there's giants in the land, but let's go. Big
S2: boys and big girls. We got Jesus on our side.
S2: Why are we hesitant to put it out there sometimes, Ali?
S3: Well, I mean, because we're so acutely aware of our
S3: own limitations. And so we have a thought that it
S3: depends on us. And so if I'm, if I think
S3: that I'm limited to what I have, boy, it's I'm
S3: not going to go much past what I think I
S3: can do.
S2: That's a good summation. I think that's right. And the
S2: only remedy for that Because if we look at our
S2: own capacity, unless you're absolutely like, cocksure of yourself was
S2: what my dad always used to say. If you're cock
S2: sure of yourself, that'll get you into some trouble. Because
S2: sometimes you get out into the middle of the storm,
S2: you realize, whoa, I don't have this thing here.
S3: It doesn't take much for us to be confronted with that.
S3: Even the most confident person you come up against things
S3: that you cannot handle all the time.
S2: Yeah, but most of us struggle with the man. I'm
S2: pretty certain I don't have what it takes, so I'm
S2: going to stay at home. There is a phenomenal passage
S2: in Ecclesiastes that is just a hoot. Ecclesiastes is a
S2: comedy book.
S4: Why? Why is Ecclesiastes a comedy?
S2: No, it's filled with comedy. If you just read it
S2: straight up. Let me give you a couple of samples.
S3: Here.
S2: Okay? If the clouds are full of rain, they empty
S2: themselves on the earth. And if the tree falls to
S2: the south or to the north, in the place where
S2: the tree falls, there it will lie.
S3: Okay.
S4: Okay. Yeah. Fair.
S2: Yeah. Rain is gonna come down. It's gonna fill those leaves.
S2: And when the tree falls. We don't know if it's
S2: north or south. But there's going to lie.
S3: There's the tree. It is what it is.
S2: And then the next verse is even better. He who
S2: observes the wind will not sow. And he who regards
S2: the clouds will not reap. You know what that's talking about.
S2: You can analyze yourself into spiritual paralysis. Oh, look at
S2: the winds. Ain't going out today. Look at the clouds. Yeah,
S2: we better not do that.
S3: Mhm.
S2: Yeah. There's always going to be winds and clouds.
S3: Yes.
S2: There's going to be scorching heat. Chance we could get
S2: hit by a meteor. I guess the odds are kind
S2: of low but chance is real.
S3: Yeah.
S2: So this this day today, I want you to think
S2: about putting yourself out there. Not recklessly and not presumptively,
S2: and not being so sure of yourself that you're like,
S2: I got this. But absolute faith in God that he's
S2: got this. Yeah. Which is a game changer. One of
S2: those guys that puts it out there every day is
S2: one of the coolest dudes in Chicagoland. I'm not overstating it, Ali. No.
S2: No way.
S3: No. I mean, he's a faith walker, for sure.
S2: Hang on. Because we're going to get to a story here.
S2: I'm imagining more than one. Phil Kwiatkoski Pacific Garden mission.
S2: Been around for how long now?
S3: Oh, boy. It's the country's oldest continuously operating gospel rescue mission.
S2: It's got to be over 100 years old. I mean,
S2: you got this thing started.
S4: It founded in 1877.
S2: Oh, yeah. So it's well over 100 years old. Like
S2: close to 150, 50 to be accurate here. That's been
S2: around a while.
S4: Yeah, 148 years.
S2: The building's looking pretty good.
S4: Yeah.
S2: Guess it's a.
S4: Different.
S2: One. Yeah. It actually used to be just down the
S2: road a piece. You remember when that was still there?
S2: Super high.
S3: I do, I do.
S2: But now they. They've grown and expanded. Hang on. Buckle up.
S2: Get a swig of water. Ali, what are we heading into?
S3: We are headed into stories of life change. When you
S3: think about the crisis that we. The addiction crisis. The
S3: homelessness crisis. The despair crisis. What do you do? What
S3: do you do? This guy's got some answers and some
S3: examples of hope restored.
S1: He was sharing the gospel on the radio. And then
S1: he got saved. Young thunders in the crew. It's Carl
S1: and crew on Moody Radio.
S2: Ali, do you ever look at people that do ministry
S2: and go, how do they do that?
S3: Yes, all the time.
S2: How do they do that? This guy is one of
S2: those guys. When you think about ministry and sometimes you
S2: look at someone and go, I couldn't do that. This
S2: man's in that category. Phil Kwiatkoski with us right now.
S2: Pacific Garden Mission has been around a while, hasn't it, Ali?
S3: It's the oldest continuously operating gospel rescue mission right here
S3: in Chicago. And Phil, you've been president for how many
S3: years now, boy?
S5: Since 2013. But I've been here since 1988.
S6: Oh my word. Yeah, I was a student.
S5: At Moody Bible Institute when I came down here, and
S5: I've been here ever since, so it's been a long,
S5: long time.
S3: So a gospel rescue mission in a city like Chicago,
S3: with all of its challenges. From your vantage point, what
S3: keeps you going after so many years of doing this?
S3: Because you see many stories of hardship, but also so
S3: many stories of victory, right?
S5: Yeah. I mean, this is a place of incredible pain,
S5: but what keeps me going is those stories of redemption.
S5: When you see changed lives, people that were absolutely broken,
S5: drug addicted, homeless and you see them a year or
S5: two later coming in. They're married, you meet their families,
S5: they're working. To me, that's what keeps me here. Every
S5: time I hear these stories, I say, that's why I'm here.
S2: Do you ever look around Phil and go, I don't
S2: know if God can change that life now. You know
S2: what I'm talking about here. I'm not. I know you
S2: got you. And I got our theology right. But sometimes
S2: you look at things and go, I don't know. Does
S2: that happen?
S5: Unfortunately, it happens all the time. Some people I look
S5: at and I think, I don't think anything is ever
S5: going to happen with that guy or girl, and it
S5: seems so far gone. But then you see, miracles take place. Yeah.
S5: You know, I was thrilled recently and I just want
S5: to share this with you. There was this, uh, two migrants.
S5: This one guy was a part of the Venezuelan. That gang,
S5: that notorious gang. And his girlfriend was here. They had
S5: a kid. He overdosed right down by the Chicago River.
S5: And a group of us went out there and they
S5: tried to bring them back, and it didn't work. The
S5: ambulance came and they gave them a shot of something,
S5: and they brought him back to life. But he was
S5: he was gone for 15 minutes dead. He came back.
S5: He was pounding on the windows. He was angry, violent.
S5: And his girlfriend got saved. So she got saved. They
S5: have a little kid. And then soon thereafter, he accepted Christ.
S5: And I just saw him. He's walking around with his Bible,
S5: and they call him Lazarus because he was risen from
S5: the dead. And here's the fruit of the salvation. She
S5: was offered free housing for one year. And she said,
S5: I don't want to take it because I want to
S5: live right before God and I can't live in sin.
S5: So she decided I'm not going to take the housing
S5: right now. She says, I want to marry this guy.
S5: So they're going through marital counseling, but he's telling his
S5: other migrant friends about Jesus. They're making fun of him.
S5: And I thought here was a guy almost overdosed from drugs,
S5: went to hell, and now he accepted Christ. He wants
S5: to be a family man. I hear that story and
S5: I say, that's why I'm here.
S2: Oh, Phil, I mean, he's in Tren de Aragua. I mean,
S2: come on. And God delivers him.
S5: He was violent, and the guy said he would walk
S5: around mean angry again. One time he's banging on our
S5: windows and I'm thinking, is there any hope for this guy?
S5: And somehow he got saved and to see his family.
S5: But when his girlfriend said, I can't accept free housing
S5: because I know it's going to be temptation and I
S5: want to live right now.
S3: Wow.
S5: I said, that's the fruit. There's something happened to these folks.
S2: How many of these people that you minister to have
S2: a little bit of an upbringing in a real committed
S2: Christian home or kind of culture, and when they get saved,
S2: everything starts to click together. Is there some of that
S2: going on?
S5: Oh, yeah. There's a number of people that are raised
S5: with Christian families, are raised in the church, and they
S5: just walked away from it. But when they come here,
S5: they encounter the gospel themselves and come to Jesus Christ,
S5: and you hear families call us and say, thank you.
S5: And I had a mother. This one, this one girl, Lisa,
S5: was a drug addict for years. She did not see
S5: her mother for three years. Imagine as a parent, not
S5: seeing your child for three years. She said her heart
S5: was broken. The daughter came here. She accepted Christ. The
S5: two of them sit together in service every Saturday now.
S5: But the mother said to me, thank you for giving
S5: me my daughter back. And when I heard that, I
S5: just you almost break down in tears. And her name
S5: was Lisa again. And she shared the story. When she
S5: was living in sin, she was one day sleeping in
S5: the bed with her boyfriend and a gang broke into
S5: the room and shot and killed her boyfriend. The guy's
S5: body was there, the corpse was there. She was in trauma,
S5: addicted to drugs, no hope in life, separated from her
S5: family and to see her sitting in a service now
S5: with her Bible singing praises to God.
S4: Wow.
S2: Goodness.
S5: I always say that to the staff. I said, that's
S5: why we do what we do. Yeah, that's the reason.
S3: Well, Phil. Phil Kwiatkowski, Pacific Garden mission with us right now.
S3: Let's talk about a little bit about what you do,
S3: because people are hearing the stories and go, what in
S3: the world happens inside this building? You still on Canal
S3: Street last I checked. What's happening inside those walls? That
S3: this kind of transformation is possible.
S5: It's the gospel. It's primarily a homeless shelter. Men, women,
S5: children will walk through our doors. We'll see on any
S5: given night, anywhere from 600 to 800 homeless individuals. And
S5: many of them, when they come here, they come here
S5: in crisis. And real quick, I just this guy named James,
S5: he was a drug addict, meth addict, took everything from him.
S5: He was on the streets. And this is what he
S5: said to me. He wrote me a letter. He said
S5: I cried the first night I slept on the third
S5: floor because they gave me a pillow. I hadn't had
S5: a pillow in over three years. Here's a guy crying
S5: because he has a pillow. When I'm at home, I'm
S5: worried that my cable go out or, you know, he's
S5: crying because he. He didn't have a pillow. So people
S5: come here, they're broken. And think about this. In order
S5: to come to a shelter, that means every door is closed.
S5: Your family either can't have you or doesn't want you.
S5: Every door. So you end up at Pacific Garden Mission.
S5: And we have the gospel. Three times a day. We
S5: don't make it voluntary. It's mandatory if you want soup.
S5: We are not government funded. So we can set our
S5: own rules because God's people support God's ministry. You have
S5: to hear the gospel.
S7: I love it.
S5: And once you hear the gospel, if you get saved,
S5: we have a drug program. People will deal with their
S5: addiction from a biblical perspective. There's a discipleship program. You
S5: can stay here for a year and a half, be discipled, grow,
S5: go to classes and a lot of these folks because
S5: as we know, Carl, I heard you a couple of
S5: weeks ago talking about salvation. There's a lot of lot
S5: of issues people deal with, right? And it's just the beginning.
S5: But you counsel with somebody, you talk with people. Then
S5: we have graduations where we get jobs for folks, and
S5: people come here and they hire our folks and they
S5: can go back into society. But to see somebody who
S5: was drug addicted and homeless when they graduate and they
S5: go to work, I just praise God and lift up
S5: my hands and.
S8: Say, thank you, Jesus.
S2: Now, here's what's weird about your job is that you
S2: guys are down there serving people, many of whom are
S2: enemies of the cross, and they don't like what you're selling.
S2: And I remember one time as a little guy going
S2: with my dad to the Anchorage Rescue Mission. He went
S2: every week and he preached and he played his fourth
S2: string guitar. And I got up there with my dad
S2: and he says, all right, we're going to sing a
S2: song to you. Me and my son. And we sang
S2: a song at that rescue mission. And then this guy
S2: in this front row, man, I found out later he
S2: got saved. But he was a cussing fool. First time
S2: I'd ever heard anything like it in my life. My
S2: dad's in the middle of preaching and he starts cussing
S2: out my dad while he's preaching the gospel, raging on
S2: him and then looking at me, raging on me. How
S2: do you handle when you're up there giving the gospel,
S2: or you're given a cup of soup and they're basically
S2: shaking a fist at God, not you, but they're shaking
S2: a fist at God. How do you handle that? Because
S2: a lot of people try to share their story and
S2: they meet resistance. How has God given you the ability
S2: to soldier on?
S5: I would rather have somebody angry than apathetic, because when
S5: you're angry, it shows. Maybe something's going on when you
S5: just don't care, it's harder to reach them. And again,
S5: you know you're going to have opposition. And we do
S5: most of those folks, if you have a conversation with
S5: them outside, say, come here for a second. Look, if
S5: we're giving you free clothes, we have a clinic here.
S5: Lawndale clinic runs our clinic. We have doctors, we have nurses,
S5: we have a barber. We give you three meals a day.
S5: And how you pay rent. We ask you one thing.
S5: Just sit in the service. You don't have to believe
S5: what we believe. You don't have to like it. Just
S5: out of respect. And most folks, I found out. All right,
S5: I got you. You know, they will sit there because
S5: especially in the winter time, uh, the alternative is what?
S5: You have to leave and you stand outside so they
S5: will listen to the gospel.
S2: All right. Give us a quick word of encouragement for
S2: someone who's like, all right, I'll sit there. And then
S2: one day, the Holy Spirit blindsided him. You got to
S2: have one of those, Phil.
S5: There's guys that have been sitting here, and I see
S5: them all the time, maybe for five, ten years. And
S5: I think of a guy that was recently on our program,
S5: and he was sitting here for many years, and all
S5: of a sudden somehow. And that's where it's God.
S7: Yes.
S5: Something just clicked.
S7: Yeah.
S5: Something clicked. And he gets saved, joins our program. And
S5: when you see him now in the program, it didn't
S5: make sense before. And that's just the Holy Spirit. It
S5: makes sense and real quick. What also is exciting is
S5: I got a letter from somebody, an email. And this
S5: guy says he was here in 2005 for four months.
S5: He says, I was a drug addict, I was hopeless.
S5: And he says while sitting at the old lighthouse. And
S5: this is his own letter on State Street at 20
S5: years ago, I accepted Christ. He said, now I have
S5: founded an outreach called children of the Lord. I have
S5: pastored a church in Milwaukee, am now pastoring a church
S5: in Oak Creek, Wisconsin. He says, keep doing what you're doing.
S7: It works. Here's a guy that's here 20 years ago.
S7: You know, he's he's.
S5: Not a convert that I would ever know his name.
S5: He never joined a program. Nobody would. He wouldn't be
S5: in one of our newsletters. I have no idea who
S5: he was, but he heard the gospel left, and now
S5: he's pastoring a church. And I thought, wow. I mean,
S5: that's that's the power of the gospel.
S3: One of the ways that you capture some of the stories,
S3: like you've shared today, Phil, is through the unshackled radio program,
S3: which is an incredible, compelling drama, true life stories, as
S3: this is a ministry of Pacific Art mission. Capturing some
S3: of these stories. Give us a word on unshackled!
S5: Oh, unshackled is amazing. It is the oldest radio program,
S5: secular or Christian in the country. Every Saturday we tape
S5: it live at 3:00 and people are welcome to come
S5: and they sit and it's a live audience. But guys,
S5: to hear the stories again real quick. There was a lady, Rose,
S5: who was a crack cocaine addict. We just did her
S5: story two Saturdays ago in the midst of her addiction.
S5: She was going to sell her child for $10,000, and
S5: she stole $65,000 from her mom for her drug addict.
S5: She comes to the mission, gets saved. She comes back,
S5: does her story. And seated in that audience was that
S5: daughter that she would have sold for $10,000 and her
S5: mother was next to her. And at the end of
S5: her unshackled story, they recreated what happened to her. Her
S5: mother has dementia, and the judge was going to award
S5: custody to somebody in the family. So some in the
S5: family were saying Rose was no good. She was a
S5: drug addict, the judge said. She's been down to Pacific
S5: Garden Mission in her life has changed. I award custody
S5: to the mother, but the mother was sitting in that
S5: unshackled story. It's one of those I walk out with
S5: tears how different her story could have been if she
S5: would have sold her child.
S7: And.
S5: Then her child was in service with her. That's unshackled.
S5: The stories of real changed lives.
S2: Oh, I gotta exhale, man. I hold my breath. I
S2: don't know how you do it. Still, that's where we started.
S2: I do not know how you do it. But, Phil,
S2: you've never done anything but come in here and bring
S2: the juice, man. You're filled up with God, man. Okay,
S2: here's what we got. Boom crew. We got a link
S2: for you that is totally different. We're going to turn
S2: you on to some stories that are really cool, and
S2: there's going to be a way for you to find
S2: a link if you want to throw some shekels. Phil
S2: kwiatkoski his way through Pacific Garden Mission. But Ali, how
S2: do we do it?
S3: Yeah. If you want more on the unshackled radio program
S3: and Pacific Garden Mission, just text garden to 800 555 7898.
S3: You'll find it all using this one link garden to
S3: 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: If your hand is shaking, maybe you're sweating a bit.
S4: Chills.
S2: Scratching. Chills. Pacing the floor. It could be, in fact,
S2: that you have suffered from. Ali thinks it's funny. Withdrawals. Oh,
S2: and we want to care for you right now. No
S2: more scratching. No more sweating. No more.
S3: You are back. Oh.
S2: I'm back. See, Ali's getting so crazy working with me.
S2: She doesn't know you like you do, Sabrina. She goes.
S2: She just goes on top of it. I'm back.
S3: Yeah.
S4: Okay, just pull up to the car and crew, drive
S4: through and pick up your prescription of. Ali thinks it's funny.
S3: Oh, I like it. Yeah.
S2: Oh, it'll get that sweating and scratching.
S3: Okay.
S2: Got it You did that just for you.
S3: You.
S2: Withdrawals that have those symptoms. Come on! Fire! The stupid
S2: spot you're under.
S4: Well.
S9: Why does herself.
S1: Laugh no matter who joins her? It's time for Ali.
S1: Thinks it's funny.
S9: Sitting here hanging me out like summer sausage.
S4: Well, you generally, like, don't say anything anymore.
S9: Oh, you fired all the time without me saying anything.
S10: Oh. That's funny.
S3: Guys. Ready?
S9: All right. Yeah. Sorry. We're duking it out in here.
S3: Ready to have your mind blown.
S4: Oh, wow.
S9: Yeah.
S4: You just you just set yourself up for a lot
S4: of expectations.
S9: I don't care. She doesn't care because she doesn't think.
S9: If you think it's stinko, she thinks it's funny.
S10: Oh, whatever.
S3: Okay, so what do you call a fly who accidentally
S3: enters the beehive? He's in trouble, by the way. A
S3: fly who accidentally enters the beehive.
S4: Oh, man, I don't know.
S3: He's a wannabe.
S9: That's pretty good. That's good. That's a good one. That's
S9: a good one. Okay. This ought to be super. I
S9: will not even.
S2: Crack.
S9: A smile. No she won't.
S3: This next one's gonna get her because I got to
S3: gear myself up for this. This one's a little wing. Nutty.
S9: Oh, good.
S3: Oh, this one is okay. Okay. I got to gear
S3: up for this one. Oh. What do you call a
S3: mother in the UK who is on the shorter side?
S4: Oh, goodness.
S3: A mother in the UK who is, let's say five
S3: for shorter. Folks. She is crying so.
S9: Much trying to get.
S3: This joke out.
S9: A mini mum.
S3: Come on. My eye's twitching a mini mum.
S9: I am losing it. It's all done. That's outstanding. Jonathan
S9: and Diana, can.
S3: We check their temperature?
S9: What's the matter.
S2: With you.
S9: Two? Seriously, man.
S4: I don't get it.
S9: We're going to get a prayer committee going.
S3: Minimum. Minimum.
S4: Minimum.
S3: Minimum. Minimum.
S4: Oh my goodness.
S3: Jonathan.
S4: What?
S3: Oh, boy. He didn't get.
S9: It. Thinking of the flowers.
S3: In there really bad.
S9: Were you thinking the flower?
S4: I don't even know what the flower is.
S3: Jonathan. A mom.
S4: A mom I don't know what a mum is.
S9: Has nothing to do with the. What were you thinking?
S2: That she just totally stepped in.
S9: The goose poop there?
S4: Yes. I was like, the only thing that came to
S4: my mind was mini mart, but that I knew that,
S4: wasn't it? I didn't know.
S3: Minimum, Jonathan.
S4: I didn't catch it.
S3: See, next time when I assume that he's not laughing
S3: because he didn't get it. Don't shame me because he's
S3: not laughing because he didn't get it. You got it.
S3: Text jokes to 805, 55, 78, 98. Text jokes to
S3: 805 five five, 7898.
S2: Again, I have to confess something, though.
S9: You didn't get it either.
S2: A joke? Oh, no, I got it. I got it.
S2: But there was one told way, way, way back. And
S2: I thought I got it, but it didn't really. It
S2: didn't really resonate with me. I can't remember what the
S2: joke was. And I got in the car and I'm
S2: driving out of here and I'm about halfway home, and
S2: the thing hit me like.
S9: A ton of bricks.
S3: Well, that would be funny.
S9: If I had embarrassment that.
S2: I didn't.
S9: Get.
S2: It while I was live on.
S9: Air. It's okay.
S2: But then.
S9: I thought I did.
S2: You know, it's one of those. It's like, okay.
S9: I.
S4: Got it, you got it.
S2: Well, that's not very funny though.
S3: I know. Only those with a more refined sense of humor.
S3: I mean, I get it. Sometimes there's levels to this.
S9: That's a shot at Young thunder and super die I got.
S4: I counted.
S9: You guys are rubes.
S4: I counted two texts of people who said they also
S4: did not get the the minimum punchline. So.
S2: So you're finding other people to validate?
S3: Okay. It's okay. Like I said, there's levels.
S4: There's there's.
S9: Levels.
S2: 7% of America thinks chocolate milk comes from brown cows.
S2: So be careful with your small percentages.
S4: Is that a real stat?
S9: That's a real stat.
S2: Yes it.
S9: Is.
S3: Come on stat Statman text jokes to 800 555 7898.
S3: I love torturing my teammates with this.
S9: Yeah.
S2: No, it's it's just good.
S9: I got.
S2: Tears again.
S11: Oh, the two of you.
S9: Oh, yeah.
S2: I think she's genuinely hilarious, especially with the British accent.
S3: It was such a bad British.
S9: It was a bad British accent.
S2: That's what makes it good.
S3: She was crying, but I knew that I had to
S3: go for it. I knew it just. It would just
S3: add something if I just went for it. So.
S9: Clip, clip.
S2: That for me. I got to send that to my
S2: mother in law because she's from Scotland.
S9: She'll see if.
S3: She.
S9: Gets it.
S2: Yeah, well, she'll get it, but I want to get
S2: I want to I want her to rate your accent.
S3: Well.
S12: 000, no.
S3: That's terrible.
S9: Man.
S2: When I married my bride, I could not understand my
S2: mother in law.
S9: Oh, and then.
S2: I found out that was a good thing. No.
S9: I'm kidding. Whoa, whoa.
S4: I'll send that to your mother in law.
S9: I like my mother in law.
S3: Yeah.
S9: Chop that.
S12: Up. Chopping it over the line.
S9: Now I'm over the line.
S4: Yeah, it was too far.
S2: Oh, for crying out loud. All right, coming up here
S2: in a moment. Uh. Let's see. What are we doing here? Oh, yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah,
S2: I remember where we're at. Gotta follow those breadcrumbs out there. Um. Boy, there's. Look,
S2: I'm just going to give you the punchline right now.
S2: Butch and sunny. I didn't really understand how much they
S2: put it out there until I began to understand what
S2: it takes to even come back. Details coming up. Got
S2: a little soundbite. I never get tired of these things.
S2: Does anyone else get tired of this stuff?
S4: It's a great story. It's a great story. Yeah.
S2: Cool stuff.
S1: A basketball mom who's mastered the dad joke. Ali is
S1: in the crew. It's Carl and crew on Moody Radio.
S2: Okay, I'm going to. I'm going to give you the
S2: lead right now because I want to get calls in here. Uh,
S2: I saw this live. Anyone will see it live. Super die.
S2: You did, I did.
S12: Oh, my. Really cool.
S2: So glad I did. Oh, the biggest, the best part
S2: of this whole thing was the dolphins.
S4: Oh, I didn't hear about the Dolphins.
S2: The dolphins? No, literally, the capsule hits the water. It's
S2: bobbing around for about 30s. And then all of a
S2: sudden those dolphins pod starts, just starts swarming around the pod.
S12: And they're pretty.
S2: They're jumping out of the water like they're excited. Oh,
S2: but it was beautiful. I mean, bluebird day seas were
S2: absolutely calm. All right, take a listen to this.
S13: 200 copy, 200m brace for splashdown.
S14: And space freedom. Splashdown. Good. Main relief.
S13: Copy. Splashdown. We see main chutes cut. Nick. Alex. Butch. Sonny.
S13: On behalf of space X, welcome home.
S2: MC astronaut. Alex. Cosmonaut from Russia. Excuse me. Butch and sunny.
S2: Stranded in space. Excuse me. It began as a three
S2: hour tour and went on for nine months. Man.
S12: Seriously? It was supposed to be a week. No joke.
S12: A week. Nine months later, they're finally, finally back home.
S2: Here's the kicker. They know that going in that anything
S2: can happen. Yeah, you know that. They know it going in, guys.
S4: I guess you mentally have to be prepared for that
S4: because otherwise, I mean, it's a floating tin can in
S4: the sky that you can't get off of on your own.
S4: And so if there's a problem, you have to be
S4: prepared to be up there for a while.
S2: And here's the verse right out of Ecclesiastes 11, verse four.
S2: I love this. He who observes the wind will not sow,
S2: and he who regards the clouds will not reap. Do
S2: you know how easy it is to get your eyes
S2: on all the obstacles to God's calling on your life?
S15: Hoo hoo hoo hoo hoo!
S2: Oh, I love even saying that because it's it's it's
S2: self provocative to me. I love that, I love saying
S2: things that get me going. You know what I mean? Yeah.
S2: It's like yeah, that's true. It is. We all know
S2: what it's like to hear or suspect. At least we
S2: hear God's voice calling us to do something, jump into something,
S2: lead this, do this, take this job. Um, somebody texted
S2: in earlier and said, man, God told me I got
S2: to remodel my wife's bathroom. We couldn't afford a contractor.
S2: I've never done it before. And I am literally joining
S2: God in this thing. You know what? There's I don't
S2: know how many opportunities in a day God says, jump
S2: in there. Let's go. And I'm asking you to do it.
S2: And we want the stories of those of you that have.
S2: We're going to get a just a couple in here.
S2: But we want to get those stories of you who
S2: have heard God's voice, and you're putting it out there
S2: and there's an element of faith and risk involved, no
S2: question about it. Get your call in here right now.
S2: We want to hear your story. Calls 800 555 7898
S2: 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: In an instant, heat shield comes off. Poof, vaporize. No
S2: bits and pieces of the vessel. No fragments of them gone. Poof.
S2: Why descending at. I forget what the mileage is, but
S2: going through heat of 3500 degrees, that's more. That's hotter
S2: than molten lava. That's hot. And then two chutes have
S2: to open, and then four more come out and then
S2: everything's got to be just right. And there's a level
S2: of risk involved. But the reward is huge. And that's
S2: the same way it is with God. We're not promoting
S2: recklessness or presumption, but man walking by faith is hearing
S2: his voice and going, I'm going to step out there.
S2: I'm going to put it out there. Isn't it fun, Ali?
S3: It is. And so we asked you to call in
S3: and share. What is the risk that you feel God
S3: is calling you to take in this season? Let's go
S3: to Paul. First time caller from Tennessee.
S16: Good morning. Thanks for having me on. I guess I'm
S16: jumping back into the fire, going back to a position
S16: that I was a company that I was let go
S16: from during the pandemic, while three jobs and one of
S16: the positions that I lost, the company is doing better
S16: and they want me back four years later. Wow. So
S16: I'm really praying that it's a praying that it's a
S16: reset and not a repeat.
S2: Oh, you know what? That that's some guts there, Paul.
S2: How do you feel going back in? Are you are you.
S2: How's your heart with the guys that had to let
S2: you go? Obviously, you know that there was financial constraints,
S2: but how are you doing?
S16: Uh, it's a calling. I'm going back to work in
S16: foster care. Um, and it's a it's a place that
S16: really needs people with experience to serve our kids that
S16: don't have a permanent family. So I'm trusting God that
S16: I'm going to go back in it, and it's going
S16: to be different this time.
S2: Cool. Paul, stay on the horn, man. We're going to
S2: get you a Carl and Crew prize pack. Thanks for
S2: taking the time to call in. You didn't call in
S2: so you could get something, but we want to get
S2: it in your hands. Thanks for calling, Paul.
S3: Let's go to Gary. First time caller from Illinois. Gary,
S3: tell us about the risk you feel God's calling you
S3: to take.
S17: Um, I'm going to be, uh, in July and August
S17: of this year. I'm going with a team from my
S17: church to Kenya to minister to Kenyan pastors. I'm going
S17: to be doing a financial workshop for the Kenyan pastors,
S17: but we'll be going to four different It's also a
S17: widows and orphans ministry. And then. But prior to the
S17: trip to Kenya, I'll be hiking Mount Kilimanjaro with my son.
S3: Wow. Wow.
S2: Wow. That's great. Dude. That's putting it out there. Uh,
S2: are you fearless on this thing, or do you have
S2: a little bit of caution here?
S17: I've got some trepidation, no doubt about it. That's healthy. But, uh,
S17: you know, I'm. I'm saying, hey, this is the time
S17: to do it, so way to go. And, uh. Yeah. So, uh, I'm,
S17: you know, I'm praying to God that he's going to
S17: give me the courage and the strength.
S2: Where'd he go? Gary? Stay on the horn. You're getting
S2: to Carl and crew prize pack. I didn't tell you
S2: that ahead of time, but that's the surprise. I got
S2: a great one came in here. Honestly, Carl, remodeling our bathroom.
S2: It needs fixing, having moisture issues, but I can't afford contractors,
S2: so I have to do it myself.
S4: Wow. Oh.
S18: My heart.
S2: My wife is a great accountability partner. She will make
S2: sure it gets done right.
S4: I love.
S18: That.
S2: The problem is I've never remodeled before. I'm taking a
S2: big risk. However, God has already blessed me with a
S2: free vanity and wall set. Okay, see, this is. This
S2: is the life of a disciple, right? Ali, that's the stuff.
S3: Yeah. I mean, and you look to hear from the
S3: Lord on this stuff. You don't just decide. Okay? Time
S3: to take a risk today. Let me figure out the
S3: riskiest thing I can do.
S2: No, but when he tells you something, you go for it, right?
S2: And it can be remodeling a bathroom or going to
S2: do financial stewardship training in Kenya.
S3: In Kenya.
S2: How awesome is that? Here's what I'd say today. Put
S2: it out there. The clouds are always going to be there.
S2: The rain is going to fall. Put it out there, Saint.
S3: Let's go to Cathy calling in this morning from Wisconsin.
S3: Tell us about the risk God called you to take.
S19: Hi. Good morning. It's about a year ago now. A
S19: little bit over a year ago, that I was called
S19: to take on a role in county government, and it
S19: meant leaving a job that I liked, that I did well,
S19: that I was secure in, to step into a role
S19: which required a whole lot of faith and trust and
S19: an election. And it's been great. It's been hard, but
S19: it's been great.
S2: How long is that job?
S19: I've done it. Uh, I have a four year term
S19: right now.
S2: Oh, so you went for it and got this thing,
S2: is that right?
S19: I went, I went, I was I was appointed to
S19: fill a role that had been vacated, and that was
S19: only for about eight months. And then I had to
S19: run for the for the job. I had to run
S19: for election to keep the job.
S2: Wow, Kathy.
S19: For four more.
S8: Years. Come on.
S3: Kathy feels. That feels risky, right?
S19: It was scary. Very, very scary. And in the election process,
S19: ended up having an opponent that I wasn't expecting and
S19: had to go through a primary, so I had to
S19: run for election twice. I had to go through an election,
S19: I had to go through a primary process and then
S19: through a general election. Um, yeah, it was wonderful. I
S19: couldn't could not have done it without the Lord Jesus
S19: at my side. Uh, without encouragement from my husband and
S19: my family and neighbors. And and it was just great.
S2: Beautiful. Cathy, stay on the horn. You not only won
S2: a governmental position, you just got a car and crew
S2: prize pack.
S18: Love it.
S3: Yes.
S2: Okay. Put it out there. Here's my word to you
S2: guys today. I want you to listen to me clearly.
S2: Faith has uncertainty, but better to walk by faith than
S2: to sit on the spiritual couch and to come up
S2: with reasons to say no to whatever. Leading a group,
S2: going abroad, changing jobs. I mean, whatever it is, put
S2: it out there, right? Ali. Absolutely is risk.
S3: Faith is risk.