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Speaker 1: I'm here. Doaks, get out of here. No, I'm here, coach.

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Speaker 1: I have a question from Troy. It says, Hey Granger,

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Speaker 1: I'm Troy from Wisconsin, big fan of yours. I've seen

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Speaker 1: you at Country Jam. What books would help me with

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Speaker 1: understanding the Bible. I'm thirty five and I was raised

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Speaker 1: in a not so religious house. I would really like

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Speaker 1: to get to know God and become a light in

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Speaker 1: this dark world. If you have any titles or references

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Speaker 1: I could use help, or if you want to send

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Speaker 1: an address where I could find a better place to

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Speaker 1: understand this, that would be great. Love to meet you

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Speaker 1: again if you ever come back to Wisconsin. Just so

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Speaker 1: you know, I did the prayer with your pastor on

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Speaker 1: the podcast on a few episodes ago, just like you asked,

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Speaker 1: and I felt like a lot of weight was lifted

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Speaker 1: off my chest. Thank you for being the lead reason

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Speaker 1: for me to do this. This comes from Troy, and

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Speaker 1: I want to I want to Troy. I want to

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Speaker 1: say something at the end of this email. I'm not

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Speaker 1: the lead reason now. That was God. God. God is

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Speaker 1: always the lead reason. I am. I'm a tiny pawn

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Speaker 1: in this game, right, So let me let me start

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Speaker 1: with this. Let me start with this way. You being

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Speaker 1: big deal, That's that's very normal. I would encourage you

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Speaker 1: to not try to get a book to understand another book.

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Speaker 1: The Bible is a book, and I would encourage you

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Speaker 1: not to get another book to understand the main book.

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Speaker 1: Does that makes sense? I would go right after the

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Speaker 1: main book. I would go right to the source. That's like,

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Speaker 1: you know, the Bible is like an instruction manual to

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Speaker 1: our lives, and you would never get an instruction manual

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Speaker 1: try to understand the main instructure manual. You'd never get

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Speaker 1: a supplemental instruction manual to understand the main instructure. You

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Speaker 1: would not do that. And I know that that's not

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Speaker 1: what the world wants to tell you. The world wants

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Speaker 1: will help you understand the book so that you could

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Speaker 1: better understand the book, right, because they make a lot

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Speaker 1: of money selling more books and devotionals. I used to

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Speaker 1: be a devotional junkie. I would read any kind of

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Speaker 1: book to help me understand the book. But the reality

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Speaker 1: is true, you don't need that, You just need the

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Speaker 1: one book. I love that your heart is asking this

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Speaker 1: question question. Love that your heart is saying you want

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Speaker 1: to get to know God and become a light in

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Speaker 1: this dark world. Not everybody says that. In fact, there's

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Speaker 1: a lot of people listening to this podcast right now

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Speaker 1: that probably think I have zero desire to want to

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Speaker 1: know God, zero desire to be a light in a

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Speaker 1: dark world. In fact, I don't even think this world

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Speaker 1: is that dark. I bet you there's people thinking that.

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Speaker 1: I know there is. So I love that your heart

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Speaker 1: podcast with that very question. So this is when I

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Speaker 1: want to I want to kind of walk this through

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Speaker 1: I personally like to do this in the morning, so

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Speaker 1: that that's when my brain works, but you don't have to.

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Speaker 1: You could do it at night. Maybe you're a night guy,

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Speaker 1: maybe step late, maybe in the middle of that, maybe

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Speaker 1: waking up, quiet, no distractions. Then I like a cup

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Speaker 1: I could feel my brain just like start revving up,

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Speaker 1: and it's pretty empty. Now this is important part of

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Speaker 1: this morning routine for me. This is how this is

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Speaker 1: exactly how it starts. It doesn't go to social media first.

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Speaker 1: I don't go to email, our Instagram or Facebook or

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Speaker 1: TikTok or anything first because or text or text or

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Speaker 1: text messages. I don't look at text messages first because

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Speaker 1: you could get something that's going to throw you off

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Speaker 1: a little bit. Unless you're expecting something some really important news.

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Speaker 1: Stay away from text emails, Facebook, Instagram, tiktoks, whatever you do, news, TV, radio,

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Speaker 1: stay away from all of it. So just you, the birds,

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Speaker 1: with me so far, and I'll get a comfortable chair,

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Speaker 1: and I'll get the Bible, the book, not the instruction

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Speaker 1: manual to the instruction manual, but the book. And I

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Speaker 1: would pick a Bible that's easier to understand for you.

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Speaker 1: Everyone has their own opinions the Bible. The authors of

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Speaker 1: the Bible, the men that wrote it, wrote in the

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Speaker 1: language of their time, for the language of their people,

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Speaker 1: Like the New Testament. Most of it's Greek because that

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Speaker 1: was the common language at the time. So they wrote

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Speaker 1: it in Greek, and they wrote it in an in

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Speaker 1: a way that everyone that read it knew that language,

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Speaker 1: So you need to do the same. We are very

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Speaker 1: blessed in this time to have a lot of translations.

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Speaker 1: That doesn't mean that it's been a game of telephone.

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Speaker 1: That doesn't mean that it's been translated so many times

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Speaker 1: that it doesn't even make sense anymore. The translations we

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Speaker 1: have are usually a team of hundreds of scholars, very

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Speaker 1: smart people that will take the old Greek text. They'll

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Speaker 1: go all the way back. They're not looking at something

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Speaker 1: that happened one hundred years ago or two hundred years ago.

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Speaker 1: They're going all the way back to the source, the

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Speaker 1: oldest copies that we have, and they're translating it together

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Speaker 1: kinds of references to figure out exactly what these authors meant,

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Speaker 1: so that you could know exactly what those words meant.

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Speaker 1: I say that because and there's people that might hate this,

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Speaker 1: but I'm saying it because if you get an old

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Speaker 1: and you're you're liable to start reading that and go

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Speaker 1: man I don't. I don't understand this, these shouts and

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Speaker 1: so I read personally me, I read the E. S V.

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Speaker 1: I also like the N I V. There are many options.

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Speaker 1: I my go to is the E. S V. I

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Speaker 1: have also read many times. I've read the N I V.

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Speaker 1: I like both. My mother reads the N I V. Okay,

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Speaker 1: we're back to the We're back to the morning. Okay,

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Speaker 1: dark outside, just the birds, just a distant train and

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Speaker 1: a dog. Coffee is working in your brain. You're in

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Speaker 1: your E. S V. Right, you're with me. You open

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Speaker 1: this thing up up to I want you to go

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Speaker 1: you to go to either Matthew or John. I've heard

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Speaker 1: many people go to Luke to Mark. Great these are

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Speaker 1: They're all great, you can't go wrong. But I'm gonna,

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Speaker 1: for the sake of this podcast, I'm gonna take you

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Speaker 1: right to Matthew because that's chronologically the first one Matthew one,

642
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Speaker 1: verse one, and that's the beginning of the New Testament

643
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Speaker 1: in the Bible. So see how easy this is so far,

644
00:39:30,560 --> 00:39:32,439
Speaker 1: this is so easy. You don't even need another book

645
00:39:32,480 --> 00:39:35,040
Speaker 1: to tell you how to do the book. You open

646
00:39:35,080 --> 00:39:38,200
Speaker 1: it up, but don't read. Don't read a word, just

647
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Speaker 1: get it lined up. Go to Matthew one one. Don't

648
00:39:40,960 --> 00:39:45,080
Speaker 1: read a word. Don't read a word. Okay. Coffee is

649
00:39:45,120 --> 00:39:48,360
Speaker 1: working in your brain. There's a distant dog barking a

650
00:39:48,400 --> 00:39:50,600
Speaker 1: little train. No one in the house is up, it's

651
00:39:50,640 --> 00:39:53,840
Speaker 1: still dark. You're in your comfortable chair, e sv pulled up,

652
00:39:53,840 --> 00:39:56,480
Speaker 1: but you haven't read a word. And right then, this

653
00:39:56,520 --> 00:40:00,759
Speaker 1: is when it happens, Troy. You close your eyes and

654
00:40:00,920 --> 00:40:11,360
Speaker 1: you say, God, I want to understand this book. I

655
00:40:11,520 --> 00:40:16,160
Speaker 1: know that this book, these words were inspired by you.

656
00:40:16,280 --> 00:40:19,680
Speaker 1: It was written by man, But these words were inspired

657
00:40:19,719 --> 00:40:25,040
Speaker 1: by you through the work of man. And these men

658
00:40:25,160 --> 00:40:29,480
Speaker 1: wrote this stuff during a time when they were eyewitnesses

659
00:40:30,239 --> 00:40:34,520
Speaker 1: to these supernatural events. And they lived in a time

660
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Speaker 1: when there was hundreds of other eyewitnesses around them, keeping

661
00:40:38,880 --> 00:40:41,799
Speaker 1: each other accountable. And they wrote these words. God, they

662
00:40:41,840 --> 00:40:45,520
Speaker 1: wrote your words through their hands. And here I am

663
00:40:45,560 --> 00:40:48,960
Speaker 1: sitting in this chair with a distant train and the

664
00:40:49,000 --> 00:40:52,719
Speaker 1: coffee in my brain, and God, I want to understand this.

665
00:40:53,640 --> 00:40:55,920
Speaker 1: I want to know. I want these words to matter

666
00:40:55,960 --> 00:40:57,960
Speaker 1: to me. I want to see your truth in here.

667
00:40:58,160 --> 00:41:00,480
Speaker 1: I want to see your promises, want to see your

668
00:41:00,520 --> 00:41:03,120
Speaker 1: purpose for me so that I could feel like I

669
00:41:03,120 --> 00:41:05,279
Speaker 1: have a purpose, so that I could live for you.

670
00:41:06,200 --> 00:41:08,799
Speaker 1: But I need you to open my eyes. I if

671
00:41:08,840 --> 00:41:11,520
Speaker 1: you don't open my eyes, God, it's gonna look like gibberish.

672
00:41:11,800 --> 00:41:14,960
Speaker 1: It's gonna look like stuff I don't understand. It's gonna

673
00:41:14,960 --> 00:41:18,920
Speaker 1: look like an ancient, weird book. God, don't make it

674
00:41:18,960 --> 00:41:21,960
Speaker 1: be that for me. Make it be the truth. Make

675
00:41:22,000 --> 00:41:24,480
Speaker 1: it be what you say. It is the living word,

676
00:41:24,640 --> 00:41:28,480
Speaker 1: your living word. Make it be that. I want to

677
00:41:28,520 --> 00:41:31,480
Speaker 1: believe it. God. And just like I wrote to that

678
00:41:31,520 --> 00:41:33,680
Speaker 1: podcast where I said, I want to get to know you,

679
00:41:34,200 --> 00:41:36,960
Speaker 1: and I want to become a light in this dark world.

680
00:41:37,000 --> 00:41:39,480
Speaker 1: I can't be the light. You're the light, but I

681
00:41:39,520 --> 00:41:41,879
Speaker 1: want to reflect it. I want to reflect your light

682
00:41:42,040 --> 00:41:47,799
Speaker 1: into this dark world. Please, God, open my eyes. And

683
00:41:47,840 --> 00:41:53,920
Speaker 1: then Troy, you open your eyes and you follow down

684
00:41:53,960 --> 00:41:58,920
Speaker 1: to Matthew one and you go game on, game on.

685
00:41:59,560 --> 00:42:02,800
Speaker 1: It's time to read, and don't read too much. I

686
00:42:02,800 --> 00:42:05,759
Speaker 1: would say, if you're just starting, you'll limit it to

687
00:42:05,800 --> 00:42:09,320
Speaker 1: like one chapter, maybe two. I do four In the mornings,

688
00:42:09,320 --> 00:42:12,680
Speaker 1: I do four, and I'll do and I have a

689
00:42:12,719 --> 00:42:16,760
Speaker 1: reading plan that that keeps me skipping around. But for you,

690
00:42:16,800 --> 00:42:18,480
Speaker 1: just do one or two because you don't want to

691
00:42:18,520 --> 00:42:21,839
Speaker 1: go too far because it's it might get it might

692
00:42:21,880 --> 00:42:27,520
Speaker 1: start jumbling up. Okay, And the next morning after you

693
00:42:27,560 --> 00:42:33,879
Speaker 1: do this, the next morning, repeat, repeat, keep a pin

694
00:42:33,960 --> 00:42:36,600
Speaker 1: with you. You might want to do a little a

695
00:42:36,600 --> 00:42:38,960
Speaker 1: little highlight on you. You You might want to circle some things.

696
00:42:39,120 --> 00:42:42,520
Speaker 1: You might want to go that's interesting. That verse was

697
00:42:43,400 --> 00:42:46,200
Speaker 1: really interesting. It kind of feels like it's talking about me.

698
00:42:46,400 --> 00:42:49,279
Speaker 1: And you get that pin and you kind of put

699
00:42:49,280 --> 00:42:52,200
Speaker 1: a little put a little circle around it and and

700
00:42:52,239 --> 00:42:54,759
Speaker 1: do a little line in the margin that says, this

701
00:42:54,880 --> 00:42:58,799
Speaker 1: kind of sounds like me. That'll help. That'll help with

702
00:42:58,840 --> 00:43:01,719
Speaker 1: your brain. Now. I I usually have a notepad next

703
00:43:01,719 --> 00:43:03,560
Speaker 1: to me too, so I could kind of take take

704
00:43:03,560 --> 00:43:05,600
Speaker 1: a general jot some things down. Some days I have

705
00:43:05,640 --> 00:43:07,560
Speaker 1: my notepad and I read the Bible and I don't

706
00:43:07,560 --> 00:43:11,239
Speaker 1: write a single thing in the notepad nothing, And some

707
00:43:11,360 --> 00:43:14,080
Speaker 1: days I'll fill up pages. So it's just it's kind

708
00:43:14,120 --> 00:43:17,000
Speaker 1: of whatever's on your heart. But it might help with

709
00:43:17,080 --> 00:43:20,680
Speaker 1: your digesting of it. If you're taking a few notes

710
00:43:20,760 --> 00:43:25,200
Speaker 1: or doing a little circles. Another thing is you might

711
00:43:25,239 --> 00:43:28,799
Speaker 1: not need to use a physical book. I use an

712
00:43:28,840 --> 00:43:32,239
Speaker 1: app called Logos, and I really like the app. I'd

713
00:43:32,239 --> 00:43:35,320
Speaker 1: sell my iPad. It's called logos l O g os.

714
00:43:36,040 --> 00:43:39,960
Speaker 1: And you could you gotta do any any translation of

715
00:43:40,000 --> 00:43:41,400
Speaker 1: the Bible, and you could pull it all up. You

716
00:43:41,400 --> 00:43:44,240
Speaker 1: could do reading plans, you could. I like it because

717
00:43:44,239 --> 00:43:46,520
Speaker 1: you if you see a word you don't understand, you

718
00:43:46,600 --> 00:43:48,279
Speaker 1: just hit it on the iPad. You just touch it

719
00:43:48,360 --> 00:43:51,040
Speaker 1: the word and it boom pops up a definition of

720
00:43:51,080 --> 00:43:53,839
Speaker 1: the word or a reference of where else it might

721
00:43:53,880 --> 00:43:57,319
Speaker 1: be in the Bible. And I like that. But hey,

722
00:43:57,520 --> 00:44:02,120
Speaker 1: but everybody could do whatever they want. But that's I

723
00:44:02,200 --> 00:44:04,279
Speaker 1: wanted to give you a roadmap, Troy, so that you

724
00:44:04,280 --> 00:44:06,320
Speaker 1: don't go out and feel like you have to spend

725
00:44:06,360 --> 00:44:09,719
Speaker 1: money on an instruction manual to tell you how to

726
00:44:09,840 --> 00:44:15,160
Speaker 1: use the instruction manual to your life. Does that make sense? Okay,

727
00:44:19,120 --> 00:44:23,240
Speaker 1: let me let me give around here. This made me smile.

728
00:44:24,080 --> 00:44:28,760
Speaker 1: Crazy step mother, Crazy step mother. It says, that's the subject.

729
00:44:28,800 --> 00:44:33,040
Speaker 1: It says, Hey, Granger, please keep me anonymous. Fair enough.

730
00:44:33,640 --> 00:44:36,279
Speaker 1: My fiance and I are both twenty two. We love

731
00:44:36,280 --> 00:44:38,640
Speaker 1: your music and your family and we can't wait to

732
00:44:38,680 --> 00:44:42,279
Speaker 1: see you in Redland, PA. Or excuse me, we got

733
00:44:42,280 --> 00:44:46,440
Speaker 1: to see you in Redland, PA. The reason I'm writing

734
00:44:46,520 --> 00:44:49,359
Speaker 1: is my fiance step mother has been trying to manipulate

735
00:44:49,440 --> 00:44:57,400
Speaker 1: her relationship with her father. My fiances step mother, I'm calculating,

736
00:44:57,760 --> 00:45:00,520
Speaker 1: has been trying to manipulate her relationship with her father.

737
00:45:01,440 --> 00:45:04,040
Speaker 1: This has been going on for years, and I've been

738
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Speaker 1: with her for three years now and we live in

739
00:45:06,440 --> 00:45:10,280
Speaker 1: our own apartment, and it's slowly been getting worse. There

740
00:45:10,600 --> 00:45:13,360
Speaker 1: has been physical and mental abuse situations in the past

741
00:45:13,640 --> 00:45:16,759
Speaker 1: between them which drove her to end up living with

742
00:45:16,760 --> 00:45:22,080
Speaker 1: her grandmother, and she acts like it like they never happened,

743
00:45:22,239 --> 00:45:24,640
Speaker 1: and her father never did anything about those situations and

744
00:45:24,640 --> 00:45:28,680
Speaker 1: basically chose her stepmom over his daughter. Her stepmom has

745
00:45:28,760 --> 00:45:35,480
Speaker 1: mentioned that all the abuse in the past hasn't changed anything,

746
00:45:35,640 --> 00:45:38,640
Speaker 1: and she hasn't done anything to show it. My fiance

747
00:45:39,120 --> 00:45:42,000
Speaker 1: wants to stand up for herself all the time, but

748
00:45:42,239 --> 00:45:47,280
Speaker 1: is afraid that it will ruin the relationship with her dad.

749
00:45:48,120 --> 00:45:54,160
Speaker 1: Thank you, Anonymous. I'm apologized for skipping through this email

750
00:45:54,160 --> 00:45:58,799
Speaker 1: a little bit. So I want to say. I want

751
00:45:58,800 --> 00:46:01,440
Speaker 1: to say a couple of things. This is common if

752
00:46:01,480 --> 00:46:03,360
Speaker 1: you guys listen to this podcast on Monday, as you

753
00:46:03,400 --> 00:46:06,080
Speaker 1: know that this is not the first time we've we've

754
00:46:06,080 --> 00:46:09,880
Speaker 1: had a crazy step mother or a stepfather or anything

755
00:46:09,920 --> 00:46:14,279
Speaker 1: like this. I think, in fact, I think it was

756
00:46:14,320 --> 00:46:18,520
Speaker 1: it last week we had monster monster in law. So

757
00:46:20,560 --> 00:46:24,520
Speaker 1: one thing I want to say, mister anonymous, is this

758
00:46:24,600 --> 00:46:29,799
Speaker 1: is not totally your problem until you get married. And

759
00:46:31,600 --> 00:46:35,120
Speaker 1: that's important because you can't you can't take on the

760
00:46:35,160 --> 00:46:41,200
Speaker 1: full burden of this family until you are married. It

761
00:46:41,280 --> 00:46:47,200
Speaker 1: is it is honorable of you for wanting to hang

762
00:46:47,200 --> 00:46:51,640
Speaker 1: in there for your fiance. You've been there for three years,

763
00:46:52,239 --> 00:46:55,680
Speaker 1: and I would like to see you go ahead and

764
00:46:55,920 --> 00:46:59,520
Speaker 1: tie the knot, lock this down, make her your wife,

765
00:47:00,040 --> 00:47:02,080
Speaker 1: because then a lot of things change from that, because

766
00:47:02,080 --> 00:47:07,879
Speaker 1: then when she's your wife, you guys are you're You're

767
00:47:07,920 --> 00:47:11,200
Speaker 1: then loyal to each other before anything else. You're loyal

768
00:47:11,239 --> 00:47:14,440
Speaker 1: to each other before the rest of the family. So

769
00:47:15,760 --> 00:47:18,400
Speaker 1: it sounds like what this is, what it's boiling down to,

770
00:47:19,440 --> 00:47:23,760
Speaker 1: is your question really is how does she my fiance,

771
00:47:24,480 --> 00:47:27,480
Speaker 1: maintain a good relationship with her dad. It sounds like

772
00:47:27,520 --> 00:47:30,839
Speaker 1: that's what she's after and what you're after, because you

773
00:47:30,840 --> 00:47:34,600
Speaker 1: could just Forget the stepmother, you know, right, forget this.

774
00:47:35,840 --> 00:47:39,480
Speaker 1: It sounds like there's no need to repair anything there.

775
00:47:39,480 --> 00:47:42,759
Speaker 1: You just want to keep Dad in here. So so

776
00:47:42,840 --> 00:47:44,960
Speaker 1: many of these questions just come down to a really

777
00:47:45,000 --> 00:47:49,360
Speaker 1: good communication. And I think it comes down to besides

778
00:47:49,360 --> 00:47:51,880
Speaker 1: you getting married, go ahead and getting married. I think

779
00:47:51,920 --> 00:47:54,960
Speaker 1: it sits down you sit down with her dad and

780
00:47:55,040 --> 00:48:00,000
Speaker 1: you just say, hey, mister Dad, I want to be

781
00:48:00,160 --> 00:48:04,920
Speaker 1: totally honest. This has been going on. There's been physical abuse,

782
00:48:04,960 --> 00:48:10,520
Speaker 1: which is crazy, and there's been mental abuse, and we

783
00:48:10,560 --> 00:48:13,719
Speaker 1: can't do that anymore with her. But we love you

784
00:48:14,400 --> 00:48:16,279
Speaker 1: and we want a relationship with you. We want to

785
00:48:16,320 --> 00:48:20,239
Speaker 1: maintain this relationship with you, dad, And how could we

786
00:48:20,239 --> 00:48:23,200
Speaker 1: do that? How could you help us? Meaning we're not

787
00:48:23,239 --> 00:48:25,239
Speaker 1: going to come over there for Thanksgiving and go mess

788
00:48:25,280 --> 00:48:27,280
Speaker 1: with and you're not going to be messing around with her? Okay,

789
00:48:27,800 --> 00:48:30,000
Speaker 1: what else could we do? How could we meet in

790
00:48:30,040 --> 00:48:31,880
Speaker 1: the middle? How could we how could we do some

791
00:48:31,960 --> 00:48:34,640
Speaker 1: things we don't necessarily have to get involved with her?

792
00:48:35,560 --> 00:48:38,919
Speaker 1: And another option is, and because I don't I don't

793
00:48:38,960 --> 00:48:42,200
Speaker 1: know the direct context, but you could sit down with her.

794
00:48:43,120 --> 00:48:44,719
Speaker 1: And it sounds like you might have already done this,

795
00:48:44,800 --> 00:48:47,239
Speaker 1: but you could you could sit down and just say, hey,

796
00:48:47,280 --> 00:48:52,280
Speaker 1: this is this is bad, and because we love dad,

797
00:48:52,560 --> 00:48:54,879
Speaker 1: we don't want to we want to we don't want

798
00:48:54,880 --> 00:48:57,120
Speaker 1: to mess it up with him, and you're right here

799
00:48:57,160 --> 00:48:59,600
Speaker 1: with us, and so how could we make this better

800
00:48:59,640 --> 00:49:05,239
Speaker 1: for you? But mister anonymous, you don't have a voice

801
00:49:05,280 --> 00:49:08,120
Speaker 1: until you get married. Right now, you're just the fiance

802
00:49:08,320 --> 00:49:11,840
Speaker 1: or the boyfriend. You're just a boyfriend. You don't have

803
00:49:11,880 --> 00:49:14,239
Speaker 1: a true voice until you lock this down. And you're

804
00:49:14,320 --> 00:49:17,520
Speaker 1: now you're talking about your wife, and then you, guys,

805
00:49:17,880 --> 00:49:21,919
Speaker 1: have have a bond that is now more important than

806
00:49:21,960 --> 00:49:25,200
Speaker 1: her and her dad's bond. Her she's always gonna have

807
00:49:25,200 --> 00:49:28,960
Speaker 1: an incredible bond with her dad, but your husband is

808
00:49:29,000 --> 00:49:31,960
Speaker 1: going to be a tighter bond, just the same as

809
00:49:32,200 --> 00:49:34,279
Speaker 1: she is going to be a tighter bond than you

810
00:49:34,320 --> 00:49:37,400
Speaker 1: are with your mother. You're student, and that's if you

811
00:49:37,400 --> 00:49:39,239
Speaker 1: have a tight bond with your mother, that means she

812
00:49:40,160 --> 00:49:42,200
Speaker 1: you better really lock it down with her. Right Does

813
00:49:42,200 --> 00:49:45,000
Speaker 1: that make sense? Because that's that's how it's supposed to be.

814
00:49:45,239 --> 00:49:49,560
Speaker 1: That's just how it is. Guys. These problems with in

815
00:49:49,680 --> 00:49:53,359
Speaker 1: laws are not going to go away. You can't fix them,

816
00:49:54,280 --> 00:49:56,279
Speaker 1: but you could change the way you react to them.

817
00:49:58,280 --> 00:50:00,520
Speaker 1: You can't tell them how to act or tell them

818
00:50:00,520 --> 00:50:03,799
Speaker 1: to stop doing something or change them. You can't, but

819
00:50:03,840 --> 00:50:06,239
Speaker 1: you could change you, and you could change the way

820
00:50:06,280 --> 00:50:09,239
Speaker 1: you look and your react and the way you deal

821
00:50:09,280 --> 00:50:11,080
Speaker 1: with it and the way you deal with it internally.

822
00:50:11,960 --> 00:50:16,600
Speaker 1: You can change that. So that's where I would lead you.

823
00:50:17,600 --> 00:50:28,399
Speaker 1: Thanks for the question, brother, Let's do another one here.

824
00:50:28,880 --> 00:50:34,120
Speaker 1: Here's another one subject line God question. It says, Hey, Grangeur,

825
00:50:34,160 --> 00:50:35,880
Speaker 1: this is John from Nashville. I hope us all is

826
00:50:35,920 --> 00:50:38,120
Speaker 1: well with you and your family. I have a question

827
00:50:38,200 --> 00:50:41,919
Speaker 1: for you. How do you pursue a relationship with God

828
00:50:41,960 --> 00:50:45,759
Speaker 1: and try to pursue country music as a career. I

829
00:50:45,800 --> 00:50:48,360
Speaker 1: am a follower of Jesus as you are, and I

830
00:50:48,360 --> 00:50:51,440
Speaker 1: don't believe that you have to be in Christian music

831
00:50:51,560 --> 00:50:54,759
Speaker 1: to follow God as an artist. So what would your

832
00:50:54,760 --> 00:50:58,920
Speaker 1: advice be in doing both and doing them both well?

833
00:51:00,600 --> 00:51:05,399
Speaker 1: In christ? John, Nashville, Tennessee. John, I'm assuming that you're

834
00:51:05,440 --> 00:51:11,239
Speaker 1: a country artist awesome, and I'm assuming you're asking a

835
00:51:13,200 --> 00:51:18,040
Speaker 1: valiant question on how to do both. I see your

836
00:51:18,080 --> 00:51:20,920
Speaker 1: point because you kind of kind of hear the voices

837
00:51:20,960 --> 00:51:24,480
Speaker 1: out there where it's like, oh, you're a Christian and

838
00:51:24,520 --> 00:51:28,319
Speaker 1: you're a singer, you should do Christian music right, But

839
00:51:28,400 --> 00:51:30,359
Speaker 1: you know a lot of people don't feel that way.

840
00:51:30,360 --> 00:51:33,200
Speaker 1: A lot of people feel like and by the way,

841
00:51:33,200 --> 00:51:35,640
Speaker 1: there's a lot of corruption in Christian music too, but

842
00:51:35,800 --> 00:51:40,520
Speaker 1: a lot of people feel like to be a reflection

843
00:51:40,640 --> 00:51:43,400
Speaker 1: of that light, you got to go into a dark place.

844
00:51:43,480 --> 00:51:44,920
Speaker 1: I heard this a long time ago when I was

845
00:51:44,920 --> 00:51:48,480
Speaker 1: a teenager. A pretty popular country singer told me this.

846
00:51:49,000 --> 00:51:51,040
Speaker 1: He was like, I want to be I want to

847
00:51:51,080 --> 00:51:52,840
Speaker 1: go into a dark place and try to be a

848
00:51:52,920 --> 00:51:56,920
Speaker 1: light as opposed to just hanging around people that are

849
00:51:57,239 --> 00:52:00,480
Speaker 1: all think like I do. There's no growth in that.

850
00:52:01,239 --> 00:52:06,160
Speaker 1: There's no spiritual growth in that. So your question is

851
00:52:07,640 --> 00:52:09,839
Speaker 1: how do you do both? I mean, you just do it.

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Speaker 1: You do it, but you never compromise one or the other.

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00:52:14,280 --> 00:52:18,680
Speaker 1: And the one is you never compromise God. So you're

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Speaker 1: going to come into situations as a country singer when

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Speaker 1: you might have to compromise something. Something has to give,

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Speaker 1: and God will never give. You'll never give in that area.

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Speaker 1: Country music will be the one that has to give way.

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Speaker 1: You'll have to turn down an offer, or you'll have

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Speaker 1: to you'll have to fire a manager or a band member,

860
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Speaker 1: or you won't sing a certain song, or you won't

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Speaker 1: shoot a certain music video a certain way. I've dealt

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Speaker 1: with all these things, and I'm still peeling back layers

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Speaker 1: in my own career. I'm still finding things that I

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Speaker 1: did in the past, and as a reborn Christian now

865
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Speaker 1: going I got to reconcile that I can't I can't

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Speaker 1: have that anymore on stage with me, or I can't

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Speaker 1: say that anymore. I can't sing that lyric anymore. And

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Speaker 1: some of you that have seen my shows recently might

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Speaker 1: have noticed there's certain lyrics that don't happen on my

870
00:53:18,400 --> 00:53:22,719
Speaker 1: stage anymore because I look at them differently. Now. I

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Speaker 1: have a greater fear of God now, and that's really

872
00:53:27,320 --> 00:53:30,600
Speaker 1: what it boils down to. I have a fear, and

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Speaker 1: I believe, I believe it's a righteous, healthy fear, But

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Speaker 1: I have a fear of God and a fear of

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Speaker 1: His disappointment in me that I don't want to do

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Speaker 1: some things anymore that I've done in the past, and

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Speaker 1: so I haven't. I don't have it all figured out,

878
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Speaker 1: but it's it's a daily renewal. It's a daily task

879
00:53:53,760 --> 00:53:56,960
Speaker 1: for me to go in there and what layers. Can

880
00:53:57,040 --> 00:54:01,600
Speaker 1: I peel back and a daily dissection of my life,

881
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Speaker 1: my public life, my singing life, my songwriting life, my

882
00:54:04,640 --> 00:54:09,000
Speaker 1: music videos. But everything that I do, you're constantly looking

883
00:54:09,000 --> 00:54:14,040
Speaker 1: at it and going what else. It's like cleaning the garage.

884
00:54:14,160 --> 00:54:17,200
Speaker 1: You're going through like this is a messy garage. But

885
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Speaker 1: where do I start? Okay, I'm going to start in

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Speaker 1: this corner right here, and when I finish that corner,

887
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Speaker 1: I'm going to look around and go what else could

888
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Speaker 1: I start cleaning up? That's my life right now, and

889
00:54:26,239 --> 00:54:29,200
Speaker 1: that that should be your life, John and any believer,

890
00:54:29,600 --> 00:54:34,040
Speaker 1: we just want to we want to feel motivated to

891
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Speaker 1: please God, to not disappoint him. Now, if you're a

892
00:54:42,280 --> 00:54:44,160
Speaker 1: non believer and you're listening to this, this is not

893
00:54:44,880 --> 00:54:47,080
Speaker 1: This is not the key to Christianity. This isn't how

894
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Speaker 1: you get in the Kingdom. You don't start cleaning your

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00:54:50,120 --> 00:54:52,120
Speaker 1: garage and hope, hey God, you see me down here

896
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Speaker 1: and cleaning up. That's not how it works. So I

897
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Speaker 1: don't want to confuse anybody. Christianity is the opposite. The

898
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Speaker 1: opposite every other religion is get your life cleaned up

899
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Speaker 1: to be worthy of God. And Christianity it's go to

900
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Speaker 1: God and watch him clean your life up. And so

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Speaker 1: that's where I am, That's where I have this, just

902
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Speaker 1: this deep feeling that God is sanctifying me, constantly cleaning me.

903
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Speaker 1: And how do I reconcile that? In country music? It

904
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Speaker 1: day by day, John, Day by day. I'm not perfect.

905
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Speaker 1: I never will be. But I try to get a

906
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Speaker 1: little better, a little bit better every day. And sometimes

907
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Speaker 1: I slip back, and sometimes I make a mistake, and

908
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Speaker 1: I still will. I'll say something wrong, I'll do something

909
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Speaker 1: on stage and I shouldn't have done but I was

910
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Speaker 1: so overwhelmed by the crowd and I thought it'd be

911
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Speaker 1: really cool if I did this, and then I go,

912
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Speaker 1: I shouldn't, I shouldn't have done that, And I do

913
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Speaker 1: less and less of those things. But that's me. And

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Speaker 1: if I was in just pure Christian music, there wouldn't

915
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Speaker 1: be that challenge. I wouldn't. I wouldn't have that as much.

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Speaker 1: So I'd tell you one thing, John, I got this podcast,

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Speaker 1: and I've had this opportunities to preach a little bit.

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Speaker 1: I feel like I've preached on this podcast a little

919
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Speaker 1: bit today. So there's that. But it's definitely possible, John,

920
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Speaker 1: And with christ anything as possible. So if you want

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Speaker 1: to do country music and be a Christian, go for it, buddy.

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Speaker 1: I love that. I'll be looking out for you. I'll

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Speaker 1: be keeping in touch with you. So I appreciate you guys.

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Speaker 1: Thanks for putting up with me without a guest today

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Speaker 1: on the podcast episode ninety six. Love y'all and we'll

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Speaker 1: see you next Monday. Ye yee. Thanks for joining me

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Speaker 1: on the Grangersmith Podcast. I appreciate all of you. Guys.

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Speaker 1: email Grangersmith Podcast at gmail dot com. Ye