Speaker 1: There's a couple of things, but I would just I
Speaker 1: would say, why are you trying to numb yourself? Is it?
Speaker 1: Do you like yourself better when you're you're under the
Speaker 1: influence problem? Or are you able to relax more when
Speaker 1: you're under the influence problem because you're you're taking away
Speaker 1: from the fact that there's there's there's a better solution
Speaker 1: to all of this. Podcast guests today the one and
Speaker 1: only Chad, one of my favorite guests. I'm so I'm
Speaker 1: so giddy when you come. It's exciting to be here.
Speaker 1: You've switched some things up. I have sitting on this
Speaker 1: side now. Yeah, I'm I still recognize you. It's mostly
Speaker 1: by your voice, though I'm not used to seeing this
Speaker 1: side of you. Yeah, I I because of the second camera.
Speaker 1: I'm just trying to make adjustments. You asked me earlier
Speaker 1: why I make adjustments, and I said, usually it's because
Speaker 1: of a problem. Most of the things in my life
Speaker 1: are innovated from problems. You're a visionary. There's Yeah, You're
Speaker 1: you're always getting better, which is cool. Good, I'll take that.
Speaker 1: I'll take that as a compliment. Yeah, and you are
Speaker 1: the reason I love you as a guest is because
Speaker 1: first of all, you're just just a good human being,
Speaker 1: just a good dude. And if I had something going
Speaker 1: on in my life a question, I'm so glad that
Speaker 1: I have you in my life to bounce that off of.
Speaker 1: If I said, hey, Chat, I got to talk about something.
Speaker 1: Could we meet for coffee, You'd be like house three o'clock. Absolutely,
Speaker 1: And I think that that's that's such a benefit to
Speaker 1: have that kind of person on this podcast where we
Speaker 1: can go through these questions and walk through it as
Speaker 1: as if we're living it with them. That's really what
Speaker 1: we're doing. And if anyone wants to email, you could
Speaker 1: email Grangersmith Podcast at gmail dot com. That's where I'm
Speaker 1: getting these questions from. And you're you've been on here
Speaker 1: so much that I actually have a lot of questions
Speaker 1: that are for you, okay, that are for chat specifically
Speaker 1: that that's in the subject line. And I'm gonna I'm
Speaker 1: trying to find I was gonna find like an easy
Speaker 1: one to get into. Probably this one first question is, Hey,
Speaker 1: this is John from Illinois. Shout out to Illinois granger
Speaker 1: What is your favorite thing to hunt? Yeah? M hm,
Speaker 1: we've talked about we have the very first Yeah, episode
Speaker 1: I was a part of. We talked about the difference
Speaker 1: between hunting and shopping, like in Texas we kind of
Speaker 1: shopped for meat around a Yeah, you steer the line
Speaker 1: like heater air conditioner in the in the summertime. And
Speaker 1: I've had people that they were less than excited about
Speaker 1: the way that I described hunting in Texas. They were like, whatever, man,
Speaker 1: and that they're telling me that it's because I take
Speaker 1: the easy route and I'm a rifle hunter and I
Speaker 1: need to bow hunt or I need to whatever else.
Speaker 1: But I mean, I don't totally disagree with them. Chad
Speaker 1: is a Montana guy. Yeah, Montana hunting is very different
Speaker 1: than Texas hunting, and there it's all hunting. So I
Speaker 1: understand the joke about shopping, and I feel that, and
Speaker 1: I feel the need to to make a hunt difficult
Speaker 1: so that you could feel like you're you're earning it
Speaker 1: and your reflection of your ancestors and you're it's a
Speaker 1: it's a huge challenge. I understand that. But sometimes you
Speaker 1: just want to get a dough right. You just want
Speaker 1: to feel the freezer exactly, and and so I do
Speaker 1: appreciate that. I think it's interesting here you can your
Speaker 1: your your limit or whatever, you can get five deer.
Speaker 1: And where I've lived before and hunted in Colorado on Montana,
Speaker 1: it's it's you get one, you pay, and you get
Speaker 1: one because of size difference. But the question is what's
Speaker 1: our favorite? M h, Yeah, what's our favorite? Which is
Speaker 1: in Texas we need to get white tail off. Like
Speaker 1: the reason there's five is because we need to manage herd.
Speaker 1: Because because as humans, we've also managed to get rid
Speaker 1: of all the predators. You know, there used to be
Speaker 1: wolves in Texas. Did you know that? Wild wolves? If
Speaker 1: you think about I always put in perspective of that
Speaker 1: movie Old Yeller. Did you ever see that movie? Ye?
Speaker 1: Remember they're fighting. There's a wolf in the movie. That's
Speaker 1: that's fighting Old Yeller. TRAVI us a wolf, get your gun.
Speaker 1: And that was that took place like in the Texas
Speaker 1: hill country. So there used to be wolves in Oklahoma, Texas, Louisiana.
Speaker 1: And those wolves were either killed by local farmers and
Speaker 1: ranchers and pioneer people, or they were bred out by coyotes.
Speaker 1: Coyotes could breed with a wolf, and the more that
Speaker 1: the codies do that, obviously it they just become coyotes
Speaker 1: and and so coyotes aren't a predator of deer or
Speaker 1: they are. They are, but they'll they'll take they'll take
Speaker 1: down a fawn, okay, and they'll actually take a lot
Speaker 1: of fawns. But we also manage those. The State of
Speaker 1: Texas will manage codies free of charge to ranchers just
Speaker 1: to help with cattle and goats and sheep and chickens.
Speaker 1: So the State of Texas will manage that for you.
Speaker 1: So we also get rid of coyotes, but they're not
Speaker 1: like a wolf. A wolf take down a dough to
Speaker 1: a wolf take down a buck, and they used to,
Speaker 1: but because we've limited that those predators, Texas needs hunters
Speaker 1: to manage the white tail herd because if you don't
Speaker 1: manage it, they'll just there's not enough food to go around. Yeah,
Speaker 1: this is not an answer to his question at all,
Speaker 1: I know, but it's very enlightening and I think you're
Speaker 1: you're drying a good point that there are different reasons
Speaker 1: why we would hunt and maybe have different favorites. So
Speaker 1: there's a what's your favorite thing to hunt and eat? Right,
Speaker 1: there's the what do you enjoy the flavor of or
Speaker 1: like to cook? But then I think there's the what's
Speaker 1: kind of on your bucket list? Right, would you love
Speaker 1: to say that you've you've done that kind of hunt?
Speaker 1: And then there may be just a man when it
Speaker 1: comes down to it, I love to, okay, hunt this.
Speaker 1: So it seems like there's multiple favorites, right, And I
Speaker 1: can think there's one animal that fills two of those
Speaker 1: categories for me, and then there's another one that's just
Speaker 1: that bucket list like that would be cool an epex
Speaker 1: predator go first. Okay. So the thing that I have
Speaker 1: enjoyed hunting the most, and I also enjoy the meat
Speaker 1: the most of is the rocky mountain elk. I think
Speaker 1: that is just the process of stalking the animal, finding it,
Speaker 1: you know, chasing it, getting after it, spending hours climbing mountains,
Speaker 1: trapsing through the forest. It is a it's a powerful
Speaker 1: moment when you have downed a bowl elk and it's
Speaker 1: there before you and it's it's just majestic. It's huge,
Speaker 1: it's beautiful, and its meat is so good and tasty.
Speaker 1: But my like, what would I love to hunt someday?
Speaker 1: It'd be a grizzly bear. Yeah, because I think there's
Speaker 1: this element of you're going to die. You could, it
Speaker 1: could in me right. It's not just a one way
Speaker 1: street here, it's two ways. And yeah, that are a
Speaker 1: polar bear, same thing. Those things hunt you. Yeah, okay, awesome.
Speaker 1: I've been elkhunting, but I've never gotten an elk. It
Speaker 1: keep going and we need to get you up to
Speaker 1: Montana or Colorado. Will trapes around for a few days. Yeah,
Speaker 1: we'll get you. I would love to. I have. I've
Speaker 1: gone mule deer hunting. I have gotten a mule deer,
Speaker 1: actually got a mule deer in Mexico, which was a
Speaker 1: But I haven't. I just don't have a lot of
Speaker 1: big game experience grown up white tail hunting. I have
Speaker 1: a lot of great whitetail stories. And that's probably my
Speaker 1: answer to what I enjoy hunting and eating because I've
Speaker 1: done it so much. And do you both rifle and
Speaker 1: bow hunts and I have. I enjoy bird hunting. I
Speaker 1: enjoy dove hunting. It's a completely different deal, you know.
Speaker 1: I love to go out with Lincoln, my son, and
Speaker 1: he can easily go and he's been deer hunting with
Speaker 1: me too. But there's a process of dove hunting where
Speaker 1: we could literally go out in the front yard, you know,
Speaker 1: in September thirtieth in Texas and get a dove and
Speaker 1: then you can go right back to the grill and
Speaker 1: put that dove breast on the grill within twenty minutes
Speaker 1: of shooting it, which is really cool. I like to
Speaker 1: do it with white tail too. I like to get
Speaker 1: the backstrap and eat a piece of it the same day.
Speaker 1: There's something special about that that is awesome bucket list
Speaker 1: for me. I would say doll sheep in Alaska or
Speaker 1: the Northwest Territory of Canada that I've had some friends
Speaker 1: do that, and it's like a nine day deal. You're
Speaker 1: probably not gonna get one. You're gonna you're gonna walk
Speaker 1: for fifty miles. You're gonna be more tired than you've
Speaker 1: ever been. Are they like up in eigh elevation or
Speaker 1: are they okay? Yeah, So you'll see one and you'll
Speaker 1: you'll see And first of all, just to get a
Speaker 1: legal illegal ram, that's hard in itself, just to find one,
Speaker 1: and then when you do, you will you could hunt it.
Speaker 1: You could stock it for three or four days and
Speaker 1: you're going mountaintop to mountaintop just watching it and You're like, well,
Speaker 1: the sun's going down, we need a camp here. He's
Speaker 1: probably gonna be in that same ridge when we wake up.
Speaker 1: Wake up there he is. So you move down the
Speaker 1: valley and you come back up, and then he's he's
Speaker 1: moved on to the next hill. And then and you realize, well,
Speaker 1: our airplane pick up, which is how they get you,
Speaker 1: is in two days. We have to start heading back
Speaker 1: to the drop site. We're gonna let this one go.
Speaker 1: But it's crazy. I mean the stress that the toll
Speaker 1: it takes on your body. You're completely dependent on the weather.
Speaker 1: If it's foggy, you can't do anything but stay right there.
Speaker 1: If it's raining, you're right there. I'm in When do
Speaker 1: I mean, how many can go on this? Okay, I'll
Speaker 1: look into it. I'm serious, talk about totally do that,
Speaker 1: talk about getting close to God? I mean, you are
Speaker 1: out in the middle of absolute nowhere. If this results
Speaker 1: in an actual hunt, this is the best question we've
Speaker 1: ever received. That's true. Thank you. John. His name, by
Speaker 1: the way, his emails John the Angler. Yeah, he's a fisherman,
Speaker 1: probably a fly fisherman. Yeah yeah, let me find one
Speaker 1: of these that has Chad. Here's one right here, two
Speaker 1: granger and Pastor Chad. Hey, my name is Aaron. My
Speaker 1: wife goes to church every Sunday, but I don't. I
Speaker 1: used to go to church by myself when I was younger,
Speaker 1: but I stopped because I felt like I was consistently
Speaker 1: being judged by my peers. I want to start going
Speaker 1: with my wife, but I still have that fear. I
Speaker 1: don't know much about the word, and I want to
Speaker 1: be a follower of Christ, but I don't know where
Speaker 1: to begin. Any advice would be appreciated. Thank y'all so much,
Speaker 1: Love you guys. So, Aaron, do you say he didn't
Speaker 1: say where he's from. It's a good question, though, and
Speaker 1: I want to address first that he used the word fear.
Speaker 1: It's interesting and I would say as a pastor, Aaron,
Speaker 1: as much as you might be intimidated or have that
Speaker 1: fear of going back, or or not knowing enough or
Speaker 1: feeling like you should know more, as a pastor, that
Speaker 1: does not exist in our heart and when we if
Speaker 1: I were to meet you on a Sunday morning, I
Speaker 1: would be so floored and excited that you overcame the
Speaker 1: fear to be there because of what that means for you.
Speaker 1: And for your eternal security, that you're taking a step
Speaker 1: towards the Lord, and that is significant, and that is
Speaker 1: a win in and of itself. And I'll also confess
Speaker 1: Aaron that as a pastor, there are often times where
Speaker 1: if I'm sitting in the congregation and somebody else's preaching
Speaker 1: or teaching and they reference a verse or a book
Speaker 1: of the Bible, I sometimes have to look in the
Speaker 1: Table of Contents to find it, in the sense that
Speaker 1: I don't automatically know exactly what page in number. But
Speaker 1: it's okay to not know. It's okay to be in
Speaker 1: a place of still learning, and to just embrace that
Speaker 1: and own that there's still so much to learn when
Speaker 1: it comes to the scriptures, what they say, what they mean,
Speaker 1: where to find things, and so don't allow that fear.
Speaker 1: Just know that you're not alone in it. I think
Speaker 1: the enemy wins when he gets us to think we're
Speaker 1: somehow unique and weird in our own issues and that
Speaker 1: no one else can relate or has those issues. But
Speaker 1: that is absolute, that's a lie. Yeah. So I have
Speaker 1: a friend that I try to get to go to
Speaker 1: church with me all the time, always ask him, and
Speaker 1: he had an interesting thing to say about that. He said,
Speaker 1: I can't go to church right now because until I
Speaker 1: know more about the Bible, I feel like it's me
Speaker 1: walking into the movie theater halfway through the movie. I'm
Speaker 1: just going to go to church on a given Sunday
Speaker 1: and the preachers talking about something and I don't know
Speaker 1: the backstory at all. What do you say to that? Well,
Speaker 1: I mean, that's the place where we learn the backstory. Like,
Speaker 1: that's the exact place you ought to go. It's kind
Speaker 1: of like I talk to people because in another life
Speaker 1: I am a a coach CrossFit yep. And I'll have
Speaker 1: people say I really want to try CrossFit, but I
Speaker 1: need to get in shape first. I don't feel like
Speaker 1: it can coming point and do CrossFit because I'm just
Speaker 1: not physically there. And I'm trying to convince them. No,
Speaker 1: if there is, there is nothing better than CrossFit to
Speaker 1: help you begin to experience fitness and to get in shape.
Speaker 1: That's what it's designed to do. It's not there for
Speaker 1: the people that are already fit to then go and
Speaker 1: hang out and have fun. No, it's designed to develop
Speaker 1: fitness for people that are not fit. That's a great analogy. So,
Speaker 1: and you could you could attest to this that on Sunday,
Speaker 1: Aaron Sunday mornings, churches will build their service with you
Speaker 1: in mind. They're going to build their service knowing that
Speaker 1: a certain percentage probably pretty big, what thirty forty fift
Speaker 1: they know will go on a Sunday as a guest
Speaker 1: or as a friend or the mother in law joins
Speaker 1: because they were asked to. And pastors know that, they
Speaker 1: know that on Sunday mornings they're going to have to
Speaker 1: They're going to have to build their sermon with a
Speaker 1: component of this is a lot of people's first time
Speaker 1: to hear this first time or it may be the
Speaker 1: only time in the week that these folks will experience
Speaker 1: the Bible. And so we understand that this is an
Speaker 1: important opportunity to get people comfortable with the Word, exposed
Speaker 1: to the scriptures, learning the Bible, how to approach the
Speaker 1: Bible on their own, like it's a unique spot. The
Speaker 1: majority of people that are coming that may be the
Speaker 1: only time they experience it. So, yes, we do have
Speaker 1: that in mind. And so like I said, that's the
Speaker 1: place you should go in order to gain a greater
Speaker 1: understanding and love of comfort. Yeah, once you get that,
Speaker 1: then they have small groups and Bible studies during the
Speaker 1: week that then dig deeper and it allows you to
Speaker 1: get to the next level. But Sundays will always take
Speaker 1: you back at some point to the basics in the message.
Speaker 1: At least it's usually built like that. So and there's
Speaker 1: a podcast that you can listen to, the Take and
Speaker 1: Read podcast. Yes, when does that come out? It should
Speaker 1: If it's not already ready, it will be ready in
Speaker 1: the next week from when this podcast. When you hear
Speaker 1: my voice right now, okay, good, good, good like okay,
Speaker 1: then we'll reiterate that again. Okay. So what do you
Speaker 1: think Aaron means by judged by others? He says, I
Speaker 1: stopped going because I constantly felt like I was being
Speaker 1: judged by my peers. What do you think he means
Speaker 1: Christians judging or non believers, non church goers judging him?
Speaker 1: A good question. I took it to mean that other Christians,
Speaker 1: other peers within the church were judging him for lifestyleka,
Speaker 1: something like that, and he just he felt like it
Speaker 1: was a place of judgment. Could go either way. It
Speaker 1: could be other people as friends that aren't church goers,
Speaker 1: saying why do you go to church? I don't know
Speaker 1: that's a good point, man. I would just lean in, Aaron,
Speaker 1: I would lean into what Chad said about this is
Speaker 1: the same scenario as you saying I really want to
Speaker 1: get in shape, but I don't really want to go
Speaker 1: to the gym because I'm not in shape, and everyone
Speaker 1: is saying no, the gym is how you get in
Speaker 1: Jed's where you go. That's where you go. That's and
Speaker 1: just like the gym, when you go to the gym,
Speaker 1: you're surrounding yourself with other people that have like minded goals.
Speaker 1: They all want The people at church are going to
Speaker 1: want to know more about the Word and to be
Speaker 1: stronger followers of Christ. And so you're going to surround yourself,
Speaker 1: just like you would do at the gym, with people
Speaker 1: that are have the same goal in mind. And just
Speaker 1: like the gym, you're going to have those guys that
Speaker 1: are there because they want to show how strong they
Speaker 1: are totally and they're flexing down and they're they're simply
Speaker 1: there because they want to display, you know, all of
Speaker 1: their their macho stuff. And I think you're going to
Speaker 1: find that obviously in the church. You're going to find
Speaker 1: people that really want you to know how much they
Speaker 1: know and and just just let them just roll with it.
Speaker 1: So he says, I don't even know where to begin. Well,
Speaker 1: you find a church. Yeah, where's your wife going? He says,
Speaker 1: his wife goes. My wife go to church every Sunday, perfect, Yeah,
Speaker 1: the right past. So hey, babe, what time are you going?
Speaker 1: Is it ten? What time do you leave? I'm in,
Speaker 1: I'm in. Hey does this look okay? All right, let's
Speaker 1: roll and then your level of participation is could be zero. Yeah,
Speaker 1: just sit sit in the seat. One of our pastors
Speaker 1: at celebration. Daniel, his story is crazy, his testimony is crazy.
Speaker 1: He came from Lansing, Michigan, and he came from a
Speaker 1: non believing family, and his mother was radically transformed, radically
Speaker 1: reborn and started going to church, and his dad, who
Speaker 1: was a drug dealer, thought that she was going to
Speaker 1: meet another man. So he would follow her and go
Speaker 1: and hide in the bathroom and wait just to catch
Speaker 1: her in the act, because she had to be going
Speaker 1: to this church thing, because there had to be another
Speaker 1: man she was cheating on him with. So he was
Speaker 1: going and hiding in the bathroom and sometimes doing drugs
Speaker 1: in the bathroom, and one day after so many times
Speaker 1: the Gospel penetrated him. It just radically transformed him, and
Speaker 1: he walks out of the bathroom tears streaming on his face,
Speaker 1: walked up to the altar, fell down in front of
Speaker 1: the pastor and said, I'm in. He then gave his
Speaker 1: life to Christ and he started going to church, and
Speaker 1: then he became a pastor. And then he radically transformed
Speaker 1: his family and turned himself into the police and said,
Speaker 1: well this is before he became a pastor. Turned himself
Speaker 1: into the police and said this is what I do.
Speaker 1: And they said, we'll let you off if you rat
Speaker 1: out all of your drugular buddies, and he said, I
Speaker 1: can't do that because they'll kill my whole family. So
Speaker 1: instead he opted to go to each of them and
Speaker 1: ministered to them the Gospel. So he went to each
Speaker 1: of the drug dealers and ministered and some of them
Speaker 1: believed that's so cool and transformed. And then that then
Speaker 1: led to his young kids growing up in the Word.
Speaker 1: And then now Daniels the pastor himself. That's awesome. That's
Speaker 1: the kind of stories that you that are undeniable, Aaron.
Speaker 1: So just show up, no expectations, just show up with
Speaker 1: your wife. Yeah, yeah, let's kid, let's take a break.
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Speaker 1: You're gonna love it. Back to the podcast, Aaron, we're
Speaker 1: just talking about you, the guy that emailed last, and
Speaker 1: we're talking about what it would mean to your wife
Speaker 1: for you to go with her to church. And I'll
Speaker 1: tell you this too, that statistics will say that if
Speaker 1: you don't go, your kids won't go either. Yeah I can't. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's about the father. Statistics will show them a father
Speaker 1: that does not go to church, the kids will not go,
Speaker 1: regardless of the mother. Whatever that means. Yep. So Chad
Speaker 1: has a podcast out that's it's not out now, but
Speaker 1: it's out. By the time you hear this podcast, it
Speaker 1: should be ready to take and read. Take and read
Speaker 1: podcasts spelled out yep. And it's it's it's the next
Speaker 1: level if you if you want to get deeper into
Speaker 1: the word, it's the next level from this podcast to
Speaker 1: go to and and just break down the Bible itself.
Speaker 1: Inspired by Yeah, my time getting to be here with
Speaker 1: Granger and and inspired by him as he and I
Speaker 1: had tacos and and explored what what could it look
Speaker 1: like for people that wanted to go a little bit
Speaker 1: deeper into some of these topics, specifically around the Bible.
Speaker 1: So yeah, we got after it. And uh, if you
Speaker 1: tune in, my first guest is a really good guy,
Speaker 1: one of my favorite guests, and yeah, you'll probably really
Speaker 1: appreciate him if you tune in. All right, I think
Speaker 1: that might be me. It is. This is an interesting question.
Speaker 1: I don't think I've seen anything like this. This is
Speaker 1: If you have a question, email Grangersmith podcast at gmail
Speaker 1: dot com. Subject line of this one is homesick says
Speaker 1: hey granger thanks for your podcast. I've been listening for
Speaker 1: a while and I really like your advice. So I
Speaker 1: have a question of my own for you. I'm twenty
Speaker 1: two years old. Recently moved to another state to do
Speaker 1: a year and a half of voluntary service work and
Speaker 1: I felt like this is what God wanted me to do.
Speaker 1: But the last few weeks I felt really overwhelming with
Speaker 1: this new job and everything, and I miss home and
Speaker 1: my family a lot. I work with one other guide
Speaker 1: and we do a lot of driving, and it could
Speaker 1: be very lonely. So my question is how much is homesickness? Okay?
Speaker 1: And how much should I just not let myself think
Speaker 1: about it? And how can I overcome homesickness and believe
Speaker 1: in myself that I am enough on my own. Thanks
Speaker 1: in advance, Andrew. And it's interesting because you you ended
Speaker 1: it almost like you thought I was going to tell
Speaker 1: you that you're enough on your own, like anticipating that
Speaker 1: I would say something like that. But man, homesickness is
Speaker 1: a real thing and I feel it. I feel it
Speaker 1: because I travel for my work. And the first thing
Speaker 1: that comes to my mind, Andrew, is just balance. You
Speaker 1: have to be able to balance your home life with
Speaker 1: your work life. And some people don't have that kind
Speaker 1: of luxury, like a deployment soldier in the Armies out
Speaker 1: for sixteen months on deployment doesn't have that choice. If
Speaker 1: you do have a choice, then I would I would
Speaker 1: lean into that balance as hard as you can and
Speaker 1: really really dial in your time that you're present when
Speaker 1: you are home as opposed to going home, and that's
Speaker 1: the time you get to just lay on the couch
Speaker 1: and look at your phone, but instead just really really
Speaker 1: be as present as you can. I know you're twenty two.
Speaker 1: I don't think you're married, which is good that makes
Speaker 1: it worse. Homesickness gets a lot worse when you have kids.
Speaker 1: Have you ever felt homesick? Yeah? So in my position
Speaker 1: at the church, I get to lead out efforts and missions,
Speaker 1: and so when we think about global or international missions,
Speaker 1: I'll go and a trip will be ten fifteen days absence,
Speaker 1: so about a half of a month. And so I've
Speaker 1: definitely experienced it, and I think there are some things
Speaker 1: that I've learned about that experience and just being in
Speaker 1: seasons of life that feel like you're in a particular
Speaker 1: place or of time where you can't wait to get
Speaker 1: past it, but it's you're in this and this is
Speaker 1: where you are, this is where God has you. And yeah,
Speaker 1: so I think there's some things to think about. Like
Speaker 1: I always identify the duration of the trip or the season,
Speaker 1: and if I know there's there's a time stop, like
Speaker 1: I know that it's gonna end at some point, that's
Speaker 1: different than if I don't know when it's gonna end totally.
Speaker 1: And it sounds like he does. He has a dedicated time.
Speaker 1: He said a year and a half. He's doing this
Speaker 1: volunteer service, he's working, he's doing this particular thing, and
Speaker 1: there's an end date. So there's something to that that
Speaker 1: I think is helpful. And the next question we would
Speaker 1: naturally ask is Okay, is it worth it? Yep? I
Speaker 1: don't know if he's required to be on this thing,
Speaker 1: but you're asking yourself is this worth it? And if
Speaker 1: it is, then what do I hope to get out
Speaker 1: of this? Like what's the value? What's the worth of this?
Speaker 1: And how might I get the most out of this experience?
Speaker 1: So I mean, like so many of the questions that
Speaker 1: you get, it's like I have more questions for this individual, like, Okay,
Speaker 1: what is this? Why did you decide to do it?
Speaker 1: In your decision to do it, have you started to
Speaker 1: second guess that decision what you thought it was going
Speaker 1: to be. Is there more that this could do in
Speaker 1: your life than you anticipated? Are there ways in which
Speaker 1: pining for home right now in this homesickness is diminishing
Speaker 1: the value of what you could get out of this time?
Speaker 1: And so I just have more questions than I have answers,
Speaker 1: I think. So we'll just treat it like this is
Speaker 1: just he's out on work and he has to do
Speaker 1: it and he's stuck to it. So Andrew, I'll walk
Speaker 1: through a couple of things that I do in my
Speaker 1: life when I experience homesickness. One thing is FaceTime. FaceTime
Speaker 1: is amazing. FaceTime is something that we didn't have six, seven, eight,
Speaker 1: ten years ago where you could save your mom. So
Speaker 1: you're thinking about your mom. I'm just throwing that out there.
Speaker 1: I say, hey, Mom, can I FaceTime you at ten
Speaker 1: am every day for a couple of minutes? That would
Speaker 1: make me feel good? And this buddy that you're driving
Speaker 1: with tell him that, say, manam I know it sounds weird,
Speaker 1: but I get a little homesick and he might look
Speaker 1: at you and go me too. He'd be weird if
Speaker 1: you didn't. If you guys are on the same mission
Speaker 1: together something. Here's a couple other things that important to me.
Speaker 1: Maintaining a schedule is important. A routine is important even
Speaker 1: when you're gone. Maintaining even if it's broken. Just knowing
Speaker 1: your schedule, knowing that I'm gonna eat at this time,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna go to sleep at this time, I wake
Speaker 1: up at this time, We're gonna drive this many miles today.
Speaker 1: The unknown makes homesickness worse, and so it's like I
Speaker 1: don't know how much farther we're gonna drive. I don't
Speaker 1: know how much sleep I'm gonna get tonight. I don't
Speaker 1: know if I'm gonna where I'm gonna eat lunch. Not
Speaker 1: knowing those things adds to the anxiety of it. So
Speaker 1: then along the same lines, if you could add a
Speaker 1: gem stop or some kind of exercise into your daily routine,
Speaker 1: it will drastically help you. It man, it helps me.
Speaker 1: I work out every morning on the road. We either
Speaker 1: find a gym, or we'll work out outside, or we'll
Speaker 1: do some kind of cardio outside. But some kind of
Speaker 1: physical activity every morning, every single morning. I'll do that.
Speaker 1: And if I'm feeling a little grumpy or a little homesick,
Speaker 1: forty five minutes of getting the blood flowing and I'll
Speaker 1: feel great. I feel great. And then along the same
Speaker 1: those same lines, trying to eat healthy because you have
Speaker 1: a tendency to get homesick or depressed and eat junk
Speaker 1: because it's convenient. Maybe it's comfort comfort, Yeah, gas stations,
Speaker 1: been on the road, you're stopping. I'm just gonna grab
Speaker 1: these Doritos in a Snickers bar and a coke. I
Speaker 1: just don't feel like I don't feel like eat anything
Speaker 1: other than this. It's and it's just a never ending
Speaker 1: cycle because then you feel worse and you crash because
Speaker 1: of that sugar. It and it just perpetuates the problem.
Speaker 1: So FaceTime your mama at a certain time. That helps
Speaker 1: instead of just sporadically, just say hey tomorrow at ten am,
Speaker 1: knowing your schedule of your day when you go to bed,
Speaker 1: know your schedule tomorrow. What do I have tomorrow? Okay, tomorrow,
Speaker 1: we drive three hundred miles. I have two stops. I'm
Speaker 1: gonna eat in this town and I already looked it
Speaker 1: up and there's a diner I'm gonna eat there. We'renna
Speaker 1: do that twelve thirty. Then I'm gonna have dinner. I'm
Speaker 1: gonna try to do as healthy as I can, and
Speaker 1: it's gonna be in this town. And then I'm gonna
Speaker 1: be in bed by ten and then lights out at
Speaker 1: ten thirty. Cool. And then there's there's a there's a
Speaker 1: comfort that comes with that, like I know what I'm
Speaker 1: doing tomorrow and just stick to those kind of things.
Speaker 1: And then I think, to Chad's point, count down the days.
Speaker 1: I've got seven more days, six more days. And then
Speaker 1: you know, I keep a weather app on my phone
Speaker 1: my iPhone. I'll keep the weather in all the cities
Speaker 1: that we're going to, and every time we get to
Speaker 1: a city, I delete it off the weather app. So
Speaker 1: that's kind of a way to count down. I could
Speaker 1: scroll through the city the checklist. So Andrew, what your
Speaker 1: feelings real? I'm gonna I think you might have wanted
Speaker 1: me to say, get over it, stop thinking about it.
Speaker 1: You're fine on your own. I'm not gonna say that.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna say it's a real thing because as humans
Speaker 1: were built for community. We're built for family and to
Speaker 1: be together and to be on a routine. We're not
Speaker 1: built to separate and go. We can and we're good
Speaker 1: at it, and we should. You need to to grow
Speaker 1: in life, but you need to understand it when you
Speaker 1: don't feel comfortable, why and where that's coming from? Yeah, buddy,
Speaker 1: good question, man, I was good. Where should we go now?
Speaker 1: What about budgeting? How about budgeting? That's all great? Another
Speaker 1: off the wall. It says, Hey, Granger and guest. My
Speaker 1: name is Kaylee. I'm twenty six years old from Magnolia, Texas.
Speaker 1: I'm a Texas A and M class of twenty seventeen.
Speaker 1: And was she supposed to say something after that. Okay, yeah,
Speaker 1: I knew you guys haveniced this. I've got my parents
Speaker 1: hoked on the Smiths and so now we watch together.
Speaker 1: Thank you, Kayley. That's awesome. She also listened to the
Speaker 1: podcast every Monday morning at her desk while she's prepping
Speaker 1: for the week. My question is about budgeting. I moved
Speaker 1: back in with my parents in May to save up
Speaker 1: for a house. I've been doing pretty well saving so far,
Speaker 1: but I feel like I could really maximize my savings
Speaker 1: by creating a solid budget. Do you and your guest
Speaker 1: have any strategies for budgeting programs to use or apps?
Speaker 1: Thanks so much, Kaylee. Yes, what you got Within the
Speaker 1: first couple months of marriage, we did the whole financial
Speaker 1: piece thing and we saw transform just our peace of
Speaker 1: mind as well as the actual amount of money we
Speaker 1: were able to save. To have a plan for the
Speaker 1: money before it arrived and telling it where to go
Speaker 1: rather than wondering where it went, it was huge for us.
Speaker 1: And when we are when we stick to the budget,
Speaker 1: we definitely experience more joy and success in saving and
Speaker 1: getting to prioritize money where we want it to go. So, yes,
Speaker 1: we've used things from an envelope system to a simple spreadsheet,
Speaker 1: to Mint to simplify, or there's all kinds of programs,
Speaker 1: free apps where you can link to your bank account
Speaker 1: and as you spend money, you can go through and
Speaker 1: assign this is it was for clothing, it was for food,
Speaker 1: and it can track all that so you can just
Speaker 1: every week, every day, every month, you can see if
Speaker 1: you're sticking within those categories you've preset. But I think
Speaker 1: it's a good idea. So you're talking about Dave Ramsey, Yes, right, yeah,
Speaker 1: so that's the same place I would go, Kaylee. Is
Speaker 1: Dave Ramsey probably dot com, I don't know, the Financialpeace
Speaker 1: dot com, something like that. Just just google Dave Dave
Speaker 1: Ramsey and he is really the go to for for
Speaker 1: your question. And you might have already heard of him
Speaker 1: or from him, but he has a massive platform, many
Speaker 1: books and and very detailed step by step process that
Speaker 1: chat's talking about. Amber and I did the same thing
Speaker 1: and it's called baby steps or something. Ye, baby steps
Speaker 1: and emergency fund and you kind of accumulate there's things
Speaker 1: that you kind of prioritize and do in a certain
Speaker 1: order that then helps you build and protect your your
Speaker 1: budget and your wealth. And the good news is you're
Speaker 1: twenty six and you're single, and you're already thinking about
Speaker 1: this as opposed to forty five and you're in tremendous
Speaker 1: debt and you you're in trouble. You know a lot
Speaker 1: of people will go there from that too, So it's
Speaker 1: great that you're starting from scratch. Maybe you have some
Speaker 1: school debt, maybe you have car debt. I don't know,
Speaker 1: but Dave Ramsey, no matter what stage you're in, these
Speaker 1: baby steps at the beginning, will just go Okay, here's
Speaker 1: here's the deal. We're going to start with the highest
Speaker 1: interest credit card, and we're going to attack it, and
Speaker 1: we're gonna pay the minimum on the lowest interest credit card.
Speaker 1: What does he call it? Like the snowball now the
Speaker 1: it's been a while since I've seen it. Oh, he
Speaker 1: calls it going gazelle intense. Okay, yes, I think that's
Speaker 1: the first case. Yeah, And you you are able to
Speaker 1: identify your priorities, and so you attack debt and you
Speaker 1: say no to other things, and for a period of
Speaker 1: time you're just just going after that thing and paying
Speaker 1: it off, and you're going gazelle intent. Same no to
Speaker 1: some of the frills. Of life for a little while.
Speaker 1: And I think he says, what's his phrase, live like
Speaker 1: no one else now, so you can live like no
Speaker 1: one else later, Yeah, or something that's awesome. All of
Speaker 1: these things are copyrighted Dave Ramsey. Yeah, sorry, Dave, I
Speaker 1: take no credit. He has so many YouTube videos and
Speaker 1: probably podcasts, and so yeah, I would lean lean, lean
Speaker 1: in to Dave Ramsey and don't worry about what I
Speaker 1: say because he's the authority, and Chad and I have
Speaker 1: both done it so very fun. Yeah, good for you
Speaker 1: for thinking about that. Kayley, Let's see so many, so
Speaker 1: many questions, so many questions. How about struggle with marijuana? Okay,
Speaker 1: next one on a queue. Hey and your My name
Speaker 1: is Blake. I'm twenty four years old currently living in Reno, Nevada.
Speaker 1: Turned twenty one a few years back and about the
Speaker 1: same time I started smoking marijuana. Now a little backstory.
Speaker 1: Growing up, I was deeply involved in church in Las Vegas,
Speaker 1: and I was on fire for Jesus. Once I moved
Speaker 1: to Reena for college, I got involved with the fraternity,
Speaker 1: and to be honest, it really helped me find who
Speaker 1: I was and some great lifelong friendships I found myself
Speaker 1: distant from Christ as I was in attending church and
Speaker 1: I was in a relationship that was not supportive of
Speaker 1: my faith. Around my twenty first birthday, I started smoking
Speaker 1: and I've been pretty much doing it every day since.
Speaker 1: It has helped me with insomnia, depression, and some medical
Speaker 1: issues I have. I have discussed it with my doctors.
Speaker 1: In the last six months or so, I started attending
Speaker 1: a church regularly, and I'm even a small group that
Speaker 1: meets with people around my age when it's a week.
Speaker 1: My issue is that I've come to is I'm trying
Speaker 1: to stop smoking and even what the Bible says about
Speaker 1: weed and addiction. So my question is, what does the
Speaker 1: Bible say about weed? And do you have any advice
Speaker 1: on ways to stop smoking? Help to catch a concert
Speaker 1: when you're in reno? Yee blake, Okay, A lot, a
Speaker 1: lot to unpack, a lot to unpack. So we didn't
Speaker 1: we didn't first say me not, Chatty's a pastor. You
Speaker 1: can't say this that that there are there are good
Speaker 1: reasons from marijuana. There's medical reasons. For instance, if it's
Speaker 1: crazy opioid from your doctor, or your doctor wants to
Speaker 1: give you some kind of edible and it's doctor approved,
Speaker 1: then okay, I can understand it. So you need to
Speaker 1: ask yourself because you you identified a bunch of problems
Speaker 1: that you're using it for. You need to really dial
Speaker 1: in why are you using it? Because I don't think
Speaker 1: it's any of those reasons right. Why are you using?
Speaker 1: And then why do you want to stop? Because you're
Speaker 1: not convinced the Bible says to stop? You're asking, does it?
Speaker 1: It's interesting because the Bible says that the heart that
Speaker 1: is the law will be written on our hearts, and
Speaker 1: so our hearts know the law and will speak it
Speaker 1: to us. It's actually it's a big testimony to the
Speaker 1: truth of the Bible because from an atheistic perspective, we all,
Speaker 1: as image bearers of God have this law written on
Speaker 1: our hearts that speaks to us. That's hard to explain
Speaker 1: where that would have come from. We know right from wrong,
Speaker 1: and we know different scenarios. We know that the smoking
Speaker 1: thing is probably not right and I should probably quit.
Speaker 1: But then you know, we could justify it by insomnia, depression,
Speaker 1: medical issues, doctor approved, but we know that's not why
Speaker 1: he's emailing this podcast. Yeah, I mean, yeah, other people
Speaker 1: describe it your moral compass, that there's something that we
Speaker 1: have that says that I ought to do this and
Speaker 1: I probably shouldn't do that, or we feel bad when
Speaker 1: we do something. But back, so his question is one
Speaker 1: of what does the Bible say about a weed? And
Speaker 1: do you have any advice to stop smoking? So to
Speaker 1: one's practical, one's more kind of philosophical theological, right, And
Speaker 1: I want to say one more time, if anyone's listening
Speaker 1: in Grandma is in stage three cancer and doctors saying hey,
Speaker 1: some edibles will help you eat, I've heard of these stories. Right,
Speaker 1: this is not what we're talking about. Yeah, I mean
Speaker 1: not it right that we we can identify whatever whatever
Speaker 1: substance it might be. There are there are ways in which,
Speaker 1: like prescription medication is used to help and assist, and
Speaker 1: there are ways that it is abused and it's very harmful. Well,
Speaker 1: you could say the same about alcohol, regular tobacco. You
Speaker 1: could say the same about McDonald's. Right, that the way
Speaker 1: that our culture approaches food and processed food and stuff
Speaker 1: that's just bad for you. The way that we use
Speaker 1: that is harmful to our bodies. So that's a whole
Speaker 1: another discussion. And chads a cancer survivor by the way, Yes,
Speaker 1: And so there's a whole discussion to be had about
Speaker 1: how does marijuana compare to other substances that people might
Speaker 1: be addicted to or that might cause harm. But that's
Speaker 1: not this that's not this discussion. I think what he's
Speaker 1: asking what does the Bible say about whether it's substance
Speaker 1: or maybe using products or ingesting things, or it could
Speaker 1: even be in the realm of you know, the Bible
Speaker 1: talks about meat, sacrifice to idols and refraining from it
Speaker 1: because it might cost someone to stumble. Even though you're
Speaker 1: free to partake, there is a reason to abstain from
Speaker 1: it for the sake of another brother, or a weaker brother.
Speaker 1: So there's a lot of avenues you could take to
Speaker 1: say there's a certainly there's factors in your circumstance that
Speaker 1: would have to be considered. But in general, there is
Speaker 1: no passage of the Bible that says marijuana is a sin.
Speaker 1: But it does speak to the way that we give
Speaker 1: ourselves to things, the way that we allow substance to
Speaker 1: influence us. It talks about that you do not be
Speaker 1: drunk with wine, but be filled with the spirit. So
Speaker 1: there are times in seasons where alcohol is acceptable in
Speaker 1: the scriptures, and there's other times where it's like, man,
Speaker 1: the abuse of that stuff is really unwise and unhealthy.
Speaker 1: And so, just like any of these conversations, a substance
Speaker 1: that impairs your judgment, a substance that causes you to
Speaker 1: not be able to respond to the spirit or to
Speaker 1: love others well because you have been impaired. Yep, that's
Speaker 1: not what That's not God's design for us, that's not
Speaker 1: his best for us. And so we don't have to
Speaker 1: find a passage that says thou shalt not partake of marijuana,
Speaker 1: because there's other principles that guide us to understand. Can
Speaker 1: I be sensitive to God's leading in my life if
Speaker 1: I'm impaired? Am I in a position where I can
Speaker 1: fully and freely care for and serve another person? Or
Speaker 1: am I limited because I'm impaired? Yeah, there are things
Speaker 1: that we have to consider. Yeah, is your motivation behind it?
Speaker 1: Because it's changing your mind, are your perception? Are your
Speaker 1: You're it's numbing you to some other kind of pain
Speaker 1: that that's inside. Then you're you're taking away from what
Speaker 1: Christ can do for you, because He could accomplish all
Speaker 1: those things and in order for that to happen, we
Speaker 1: need to have a clear mind. The Bible's talk so
Speaker 1: many times about about the mind, the mind, the mind,
Speaker 1: the controlling your mind. Not your feelings, are your your heart,
Speaker 1: are your gut, but your mind. And so if you're
Speaker 1: transforming your mind with any kind of substance for any
Speaker 1: kind of reason, then everything Chad said, then you're you're
Speaker 1: you're hindering your yourself from the spirit speaking to you
Speaker 1: in that way. So there's a couple of things. But
Speaker 1: I would just I would say, why are you trying
Speaker 1: to numb yourself? Is it? Do you like yourself better
Speaker 1: when you're you're under the influence problem or are you
Speaker 1: able to relax more when you're under the influence problem
Speaker 1: because you're you're taking away from the fact that there's
Speaker 1: there's there's a better solution to all of this. And
Speaker 1: and that's why I built this. I wanted to say that,
Speaker 1: and that's why I built the whole thing up with.
Speaker 1: If you need to be impaired for a medical reason,
Speaker 1: that's different. But if it's just like you know what, man,
Speaker 1: I don't really like myself the way I am sober, Yeah,
Speaker 1: I like myself better when I'm numb to the problems,
Speaker 1: and then you can't identify what the problems are, and
Speaker 1: it's never ending numbness that you keep searching for, but
Speaker 1: you're never fixing the problem. You're just bondoing the side
Speaker 1: of the car without getting the new door. Yeah, or
Speaker 1: I mean similar to that, I like myself better, or
Speaker 1: I just I like to escape from the world or
Speaker 1: my problems or my situation, and I just I just
Speaker 1: want to break from it for just a little bit.
Speaker 1: And then when it wears off, Man, you're right back
Speaker 1: in that spot and Leven's changed, and it may even
Speaker 1: be worse because you've neglected to engage with in a
Speaker 1: healthy way the things in your world. But Yeah, if
Speaker 1: it's I mean, I really like what you said, Granger.
Speaker 1: If it's this, then that's a problem. If it's this,
Speaker 1: then it's I mean, like going through the checklist of
Speaker 1: what's your motivation. And it sounds like he wants to stop,
Speaker 1: and he wants some practical advice on how to stop.
Speaker 1: I've I've never had to deal with substance abuse and
Speaker 1: trying to figure out how to stop. My My biological
Speaker 1: father was addicted to substance and didn't really ever successfully stop.
Speaker 1: So I don't have good advice for that because that's
Speaker 1: not something I've experienced or witnessed. Do you have any
Speaker 1: I would say, first and foremost, get away from the
Speaker 1: other guys that are doing it. Yeah, So your community,
Speaker 1: the people you disassociate with, the people you're around, and
Speaker 1: that you are who your five people, your five closest
Speaker 1: people around you are, That's who you are. We could
Speaker 1: you could substitute that marijuana for girlfriend. How do I
Speaker 1: quit this girlfriend? She's not good for me. You could
Speaker 1: substitute it with almost anything, my job, my career, it's
Speaker 1: not good for me. How do I quit it? I'm
Speaker 1: making good money. So this situation is it's not just marijuana.
Speaker 1: So I would first and foremost get away from these
Speaker 1: guys that are doing it, or just tell them straight up, guys,
Speaker 1: I'm trying to stay away from this. So will you
Speaker 1: please not do it in front of me? Oh come on, man,
Speaker 1: we've changed, Yeah, I've changed. Yeah, So cut off your
Speaker 1: Yeah that the friendships are the place where that is
Speaker 1: natural and normative. Also cut off access if you can
Speaker 1: like how you're getting it. Yeah, we would say that
Speaker 1: with other avenues of sin or temptation. We would say,
Speaker 1: you need to cut off access, you need to stop
Speaker 1: hanging around people that are doing it. And the reality
Speaker 1: is it needs to be it's it's likely to be
Speaker 1: replaced by something else. Yeah, tell tell your small group.
Speaker 1: He's in a small group. Yeah, I would say, guys,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna tell you something. I'm smoking weed. Hey, it's
Speaker 1: not that it's it's it's not like you're coming out
Speaker 1: and saying, hey, guys, I'm gonna tell you I'm a
Speaker 1: serial killer. You're gonna say I'm smoking weed, and they're
Speaker 1: going to go, how can we help you? I mean,
Speaker 1: you're not too far lost here, man, bring it up
Speaker 1: to your small group. And so I'm trying to quit.
Speaker 1: I don't want to do this. I don't like what
Speaker 1: it's making me become. Can you help me with this?
Speaker 1: And that's what a small group is for. Yeah, I
Speaker 1: think you should ask the same question of them. Yeah,
Speaker 1: you guys have some advice. I need to, yes, stop
Speaker 1: doing this and to figure out a better way and
Speaker 1: get some accountability and some support. And then we'll say
Speaker 1: this to and then this is the last thing we'll
Speaker 1: say on this podcast. Actually, but Chad and I would
Speaker 1: both agree that this is not a this is not
Speaker 1: a judgment thing, and it's important this day and age
Speaker 1: because everyone's so offended. But leaning into Christ as hard
Speaker 1: and as fast as you can, with all of your
Speaker 1: burdens and with all of your problems and all your
Speaker 1: vices and all of your addictions and all of all
Speaker 1: of your tendencies, take it all to him. This is Christianity.
Speaker 1: Is not about drop it all and then you're worthy
Speaker 1: to go to church and sit before Christ. Christ says,
Speaker 1: bring it all to me. Give all of it to me,
Speaker 1: and I will take it and I will make you clean.
Speaker 1: Leaning into Him. It's not about it's not about how
Speaker 1: could I work to shave all this often and to
Speaker 1: be better for myself? Just go to him. Just go Okay, God,
Speaker 1: I'm pregnant, I'm not perfect, I got so many problems.
Speaker 1: But I'm leaning into you and you will be amazed
Speaker 1: at what He can do to you in that aspect. Amen.
Speaker 1: Thank you guys. That's all we got today. I always
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