Speaker 1: Granger. My name is Mallory. I'm from Pennsylvania. I heard
Speaker 1: you and Amber on a rise and you're talking about
Speaker 1: how you believe in Calvinism. Can you talk more about
Speaker 1: what you believe surrounding that. Thank you so much for
Speaker 1: answering this. I love watching your family logs and pray
Speaker 1: for your family often. You're so inspiring. Man, I just
Speaker 1: walked into it. You told me to pick that. Know,
Speaker 1: I usually I usually vet these pretty good, but I
Speaker 1: actually just walked into a hornet's nest and I'm gonna
Speaker 1: have to answer it because we don't edit this podcast.
Speaker 1: We just go straight through it. What's up, guys, Welcome
Speaker 1: to the podcast Special Treat. Today, Bernie texted me he
Speaker 1: actually had car trouble's alternator went out in his truck.
Speaker 1: Hate it when that happens. Yes, had to call and
Speaker 1: go through the repair process, and so he texted me
Speaker 1: kind of last minute and said, hey, man, I'm not
Speaker 1: going to be able to make it, so we rescheduled
Speaker 1: for next week. So the next episode, well you I
Speaker 1: think Chad's next anyway, He'll be soon. But special guest Amber,
Speaker 1: I repeat from last week, we get to do this again.
Speaker 1: I'm back I am the backup. So sorry, guys. If
Speaker 1: you guys we're wanting Bernie, I like, you're not a backup.
Speaker 1: You're a good You're a really really good guest. Everyone
Speaker 1: loves you. And what's cool about this is where you
Speaker 1: did the podcast last week. We put these out every Monday,
Speaker 1: and some of the questions we didn't get to last week,
Speaker 1: we'll now get to see them on this episode. So, guys,
Speaker 1: what we do on this podcast, if you're new, is
Speaker 1: we're going to read your questions and we're going to
Speaker 1: walk through them with you, as if you're sitting in
Speaker 1: the room with us, as if there's three of us
Speaker 1: and you say, hey, can I talk to you about something.
Speaker 1: We don't have notes, we don't have books, we don't
Speaker 1: have preparation. In fact, Amber has never seen any of
Speaker 1: these questions, and I only skimmed them. I didn't I
Speaker 1: usually read the first couple of sentences and then I
Speaker 1: can categorize them. If you have a question, email granger
Speaker 1: Smith Podcast at gmail dot com. Grangersmith Podcast at gmail
Speaker 1: dot com. Give me anything you want and it'll be
Speaker 1: up to me and my guests to help you walk
Speaker 1: through it. And I want to give a shout out
Speaker 1: to our Spotify listeners. I know we have a lot
Speaker 1: on Spotify. Yeah. Shout out to the YouTube listeners and watchers.
Speaker 1: Dress up for you guys on YouTube. Yeah. Apple, Apple
Speaker 1: podcast app shout out to you guys. That's my preference.
Speaker 1: I listen on Apple podcast. What do you listen on Apple?
Speaker 1: You do? Yeah? Yeah? So I have kind of my
Speaker 1: choice podcast. I watched this one though on YouTube. You
Speaker 1: watched this one? I watch. I watch all your podcasts.
Speaker 1: I sometimes will listen to this one in one and
Speaker 1: a half speed. Oh yeah, to look for the cool
Speaker 1: spots in it. And I like hearing myself. I don't
Speaker 1: like carry myself talk regular speed. I like me, you're
Speaker 1: talking real fast. Which that's funny because that's how I
Speaker 1: do books. I do books at one point five, and
Speaker 1: you don't. You read them at one on Audible. It
Speaker 1: depends on the book. It depends because if it's a
Speaker 1: really in depth book, I listen to it at one
Speaker 1: because my brain can't comprehend something fast. If it's like
Speaker 1: a news podcast, like I listened to Albert Mohler The
Speaker 1: Briefing every single morning, and that's like my world news.
Speaker 1: I take in at one and a half speed because
Speaker 1: like if you listen to news really fast, Yeah, because
Speaker 1: I can kind of tune in, tune out who else
Speaker 1: who we shout out there's are there anybody else any
Speaker 1: other way of listening to that? I don't know. I
Speaker 1: don't know. I think you cover them all. Yeah, well,
Speaker 1: shout out to my over the road truckers. I know
Speaker 1: we have some over the road truckers, my early work commuters.
Speaker 1: If you listen on Monday mornings, my listeners while you're working,
Speaker 1: you know, give a shout outs to that. Some tractor cabs.
Speaker 1: I know we listen to that. Yeah, we just speaking
Speaker 1: of We just announced EEE Radio so exciting. So that's
Speaker 1: gonna come out live to the world July the second.
Speaker 1: And that's an app, so you can download the app
Speaker 1: and any any of your app stores will have it.
Speaker 1: It's called yee Radio. It's super simple and it's free,
Speaker 1: and we have programmed thousands of songs that fit the
Speaker 1: EEE lifestyle. And it's got all kinds of goodies in
Speaker 1: it and different different things that you can't get anywhere else.
Speaker 1: And it streams twenty four to seven. Yeah, I got
Speaker 1: I was talking to my mom yesterday and she's we
Speaker 1: got to hear it a little bit like it was
Speaker 1: out before people, Yeah, before you announce it, before we
Speaker 1: announced it, and she heard Matchbox twenty, so I heard
Speaker 1: that was put on there for me. Oh Fair said that. Yeah.
Speaker 1: Ant Man, who's been programming radio stations for like thirty years,
Speaker 1: is partners with me in this and Tyler, and so
Speaker 1: he programs it, so he actually brings the radio mind
Speaker 1: to it. So it's a legit radio station and we
Speaker 1: have big plans for it, but we're excited. So whenever
Speaker 1: you hear this podcast, just know that right now, if
Speaker 1: you download it, you're gonna hear or Earl working on it.
Speaker 1: It's like a bunch of sound effects of Earl working
Speaker 1: on the building, the app, building the radio station, excuse me.
Speaker 1: And then on July second, at ten am Central, it's
Speaker 1: gonna boom, open up, and you want to hear it
Speaker 1: at ten am Central because that's when the app starts
Speaker 1: for the first time, the station, the radio station starts
Speaker 1: and you're gonna want to hear the funny little thing
Speaker 1: that we built, the skit that we built for Earl
Speaker 1: to launch to kick this thing off. And then we're
Speaker 1: having a live concert at seven pm Central on July third,
Speaker 1: streaming on UE Radio. Awesome. Yeah yeah, make sure you
Speaker 1: tell your friends. So, going to these questions that you
Speaker 1: guys have asked, and I've categorized them a little bit,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna start with one that the subject line says,
Speaker 1: easy warm up question. Okay I did. I was reading
Speaker 1: the comments last time and somebody said, could we read
Speaker 1: the date that they were sent in? I guess just
Speaker 1: to see how long it's been or this one was
Speaker 1: sent Monday? Okay, says Hey Granger. My name is Kyle
Speaker 1: from San Antonio. I've had the honor of meeting you
Speaker 1: a few times around in San Antonio and Austin area.
Speaker 1: First saw you way back at Chigarfest and always bring
Speaker 1: it up when I meet you. Love everything you stand
Speaker 1: for in all of your music. Thank you, Kyle. I
Speaker 1: remember Tigarfest very well. It was crazy, says My question
Speaker 1: is what's the story behind the arrowhead you wear on
Speaker 1: your neck? I love arrowheads and recently began looking for
Speaker 1: them at our ranch. I've had some success in finding
Speaker 1: broken ones, but haven't found that perfect one yet. Did
Speaker 1: you find one? Did you find the one that you
Speaker 1: wear or was it passed down. It says, ps, if
Speaker 1: you have that black and gold arrowhead ye ye shirt
Speaker 1: you wore Whitewater Amphitheater and new bronfles in an excel,
Speaker 1: I'll take it off your hands. Thank you, God bless Kyle.
Speaker 1: Appreciate you. Kyle, thanks so much. Man. I'm glad you
Speaker 1: liked the black and gold T shirt. That's going to
Speaker 1: be an exclusive and I think Matt's going to start
Speaker 1: selling it at our merch table. So maybe next time
Speaker 1: you see us, maybe July fourth and Leander, if you
Speaker 1: go to that, I'm pretty sure Matt at our merch
Speaker 1: table will have them. Like this question. I don't get
Speaker 1: it a lot. The arrowhead I wear around my neck
Speaker 1: for most of my shows, I found well, I don't
Speaker 1: know if I found it. Let me explain me. Dad,
Speaker 1: Tyler and Parker have searched for arrowheads as a hobby
Speaker 1: as a pastime at mom and Dad's house in central
Speaker 1: Texas outside of Clifton, Texas. And it's a very arrowhead
Speaker 1: fertile country. They're everywhere, and so it's been such a
Speaker 1: good family bonding time. Like we'll go for Thanksgiving and
Speaker 1: we'll eat Thanksgiving dinner and we'll literally go outside and
Speaker 1: hunt for arrowheads for hours. You can't really do it
Speaker 1: in the summer it's too hot, but Thanksgiving's perfect and
Speaker 1: you could walk around the kids do it, and the
Speaker 1: kids could find little pieces and they say, is this
Speaker 1: an arrowhead? And it's just such a cool bonding experience.
Speaker 1: And so at one point Tyler and I realized, after
Speaker 1: Dad died, it would be really cool to make a
Speaker 1: couple of necklaces out of the ones that we found.
Speaker 1: So that's why I say, I don't know if I
Speaker 1: found it. I feel like I remember that one though,
Speaker 1: because it's pretty pretty perfect, and I feel like it
Speaker 1: was after your dad passed and we found that and
Speaker 1: somebody I don't know who, I think it was you.
Speaker 1: It might looked straight down and it was just right
Speaker 1: at your foot. Yeah, perfect, this perfect arrowhead. I found several,
Speaker 1: so I don't remember which is which, but the one
Speaker 1: I wear around my neck, either it's that one you're
Speaker 1: talking about, or Tyler Parker or Dad found it. And
Speaker 1: it's a really cool thing when you find an arrowhead
Speaker 1: and you look at and you say, the last person
Speaker 1: that touched this, who was that man, who was that woman?
Speaker 1: What were they doing? What tribe were they in, and
Speaker 1: it's just it's such a really neat thing. I love them.
Speaker 1: And with that mentality, Tyler decided to make these necklaces
Speaker 1: and we actually gave we've only given two of them away,
Speaker 1: and that was to Brian and Tyler with what Georgia
Speaker 1: Lyne Like. In twenty sixteen, we did a long tour
Speaker 1: with them throughout Canada and the Northwest and we gave
Speaker 1: them two necklaces with those arrowheads as a thank you.
Speaker 1: That's on sounds like a weird bucket list item. I've
Speaker 1: never found one, and that's been like I always want
Speaker 1: to find them because they find them all the time,
Speaker 1: and for some reason, I just haven't found one yet,
Speaker 1: but I will. I'll find one out of Yenger. That's
Speaker 1: so cool. I didn't know that. So when you do,
Speaker 1: and you're so analytical, you're very observant, so you seem
Speaker 1: like you would. But when you that first one, it's
Speaker 1: really special because it's just like, yeah, I want to
Speaker 1: find one so bad. Yeah, Okay, well, good question, Kyle.
Speaker 1: I appreciate your brother. I hope to see you fourth
Speaker 1: of July and the Leander I'm going to hit another.
Speaker 1: I saw another and easy softball. In here, it says, hey, grade,
Speaker 1: your My name is Destiny Campbell from Crawford, Texas. Speaking
Speaker 1: of that's not too far from Clifton. Crawford has a
Speaker 1: lot of arrowheads. So I have a question for you.
Speaker 1: Where would you and your family go for vacation. I'm
Speaker 1: not expecting your reply, but I hope you see this.
Speaker 1: You've inspired me so much. Thank you, Destiny. This email
Speaker 1: came January seventeenth, twenty one. We Amber and I have
Speaker 1: been to Mexico the River or Amayas eight or nine times,
Speaker 1: starting with our honeymoon. Ye, and we we like to
Speaker 1: do an all inclusive where you go, it's it's relatively cheap,
Speaker 1: and you can get a Southwest flight to Cancun from Austin, Texas,
Speaker 1: and you can go get an all inclusive for three
Speaker 1: or four days and you don't even have to have
Speaker 1: your wallet with you. All food and drink and everything
Speaker 1: is paid for, especially a couple's trip. Yeah, so we
Speaker 1: usually do like a couple's trip. Other than and I
Speaker 1: love I just love Mexico, and I love the culture,
Speaker 1: and I love the food, and I love the people.
Speaker 1: Other than that, we like to go to the mountains,
Speaker 1: We haven't done that big family mountain trip in the
Speaker 1: summer yet, like I've wanted to, but the kids have
Speaker 1: been a little too young. They would complain too much.
Speaker 1: But when they get a little bit older, I cannot
Speaker 1: wait to take them to the mountains in the summer,
Speaker 1: which I get to see a lot in touring. I'll
Speaker 1: see it in July. We're gonna go to Montana and Utah,
Speaker 1: Cherry Peak and Bozeman, so I'll always hit the mountains
Speaker 1: during tour season. Also Boise we go over, We go
Speaker 1: over to the mountain and Boise. We'll do that this year.
Speaker 1: But we like to go skiing with the family, which
Speaker 1: we skipped because of COVID, but we went to two
Speaker 1: years before that and the kids were just starting to
Speaker 1: really like it. Yeah, Lincoln really loves it. Yeah, Lincoln
Speaker 1: loves the mountains. London's more of a beach girl. Probably
Speaker 1: she gets out their too sickness. Yeah, but so yeah,
Speaker 1: the beach and mountains. That's probably the most common answer
Speaker 1: to any vacation question. Beach mountain. We want to take
Speaker 1: them to Europe, though, I would love to take them
Speaker 1: where we got engaged and we just don't know if
Speaker 1: they're too younger appreciated right now. Yeah, that's that. That's
Speaker 1: probably my favorite vacation. Yeah, we don't do it as
Speaker 1: much because that's much more expensive than the other two options. Yeah,
Speaker 1: on twice, right, just for our engagement. Yeah, twice, Yeah,
Speaker 1: together as a couple, and then I've been several times
Speaker 1: with friends. But yeah, so Europe. I love the history.
Speaker 1: I love touring. Uh, I love backpacking. I love the food,
Speaker 1: the food, coffee, everything. Yeah, thank you, Destiny. Let's see
Speaker 1: what we got here. We're gonna get we have time,
Speaker 1: and we're to start getting deep here. I'm going to
Speaker 1: leave them up to you. We have a subject called
Speaker 1: what should I Do? I have a subject called church Speak.
Speaker 1: We have I need some advice we need. We have
Speaker 1: one called the Artist and the Peacemaker. We have one
Speaker 1: called the Lord podcast question and yeah, there we go.
Speaker 1: Let's do church speak. Yeah, church speak, it's different, says
Speaker 1: Hey Granger. I've been following your podcast and because of
Speaker 1: your your personality and ideals, I even gave country music
Speaker 1: a try. That's awesome, he says. I've been a serious
Speaker 1: pickle in my life, and your Christian testimony an example
Speaker 1: of life, brings me joy in Christ and helps me
Speaker 1: trust in the Lord more and more. My question to
Speaker 1: you is this In a podcast with you and Amber,
Speaker 1: you mentioned that you were invited to speak at a
Speaker 1: church in Granger, Indiana. Did you do it? If it
Speaker 1: is still happening in a future date, we would ask
Speaker 1: that you would record it and put it on your podcast.
Speaker 1: I'd love to hear what you share in a church environment.
Speaker 1: Not saying that it's something that you share on a podcast,
Speaker 1: but just think would be an interesting episode. Ye yee
Speaker 1: from Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada. Thank you, Bruno. And that's this
Speaker 1: came February sixteenth. Was it online when you spoke? Yeah, Granger, Indiana. Yeah,
Speaker 1: you can probably search it. It's called the Granger Community Church.
Speaker 1: We did it skype because I was during COVID interesting
Speaker 1: enough and I haven't reached out to them, but we're
Speaker 1: going to be touring sixty miles from there coming up
Speaker 1: soon in on a Sunday, so I might hit him up. Yeah,
Speaker 1: but where do you want to start with this one?
Speaker 1: Because this is an in depth Bruna doesn't know it's
Speaker 1: in depth, but it is an in depth question here, Well,
Speaker 1: what is it? He's basically just asking if you could
Speaker 1: post it online, right, and I know, but it's deeper
Speaker 1: than that, okay, because we have a lot more to
Speaker 1: say about that. First of all, I'm sure that's got
Speaker 1: to be online. But second of all, Amber and I
Speaker 1: have actually been speaking to church a lot more and
Speaker 1: we haven't talked about it really on socials. Amber spoke
Speaker 1: last night. I did at a big women's group. I
Speaker 1: spoke a couple of weeks ago at a big men's group.
Speaker 1: Both of us were nervous for those that was my
Speaker 1: first time was two weeks ago. You've done it before
Speaker 1: by yourself, right, not by myself. I've led table, but
Speaker 1: I've never gotten up and spoken to the whole group.
Speaker 1: So I did as Amen's besides with you. Yeah, I
Speaker 1: did a men's group and it was at seven am
Speaker 1: a couple fridays ago, and my topic was leading yourself
Speaker 1: through pain, and so I prepared and I built a
Speaker 1: twenty five minute sermon, and I was practicing an on
Speaker 1: tour like in hotel rooms. I was literally putting trash
Speaker 1: cans on top of coffee tables to create a podium,
Speaker 1: and putting my little iPad on top of the the
Speaker 1: ottoman and practicing and so I practiced and practice and
Speaker 1: built this sermon and then delivered it on at church
Speaker 1: and was nervous. I don't know if it went that good.
Speaker 1: I think it went great. You sent it to me,
Speaker 1: and everyone that I talked to at church said it
Speaker 1: did too. But I think we're really hard on ourselves
Speaker 1: because when I spoke last night, I didn't feel like
Speaker 1: I did the same thing you. I practiced and practiced
Speaker 1: and had everything down that I wanted to say, and
Speaker 1: then the Holy Spirit just takes over sometimes and what
Speaker 1: you planned is not what God lead you to do.
Speaker 1: And so sometimes the enemy can come in and tell
Speaker 1: us that we didn't do good. But yeah, I know
Speaker 1: that there's many, many more in the future. How do
Speaker 1: I know that because I want to. I really want to.
Speaker 1: I've written another sermon. I've written two in my life
Speaker 1: back to back, and there were both in the last
Speaker 1: couple of months. The second one I plan on. It's
Speaker 1: a Sunday morning type sermon, so I plan on somebody
Speaker 1: that will invite me to their church on a Sunday morning.
Speaker 1: And I've delivered it to the dogs and the Cat
Speaker 1: and then Amber at separate times in the barn. I've
Speaker 1: said the sermon. So when I get my first invitation
Speaker 1: for a Sunday morning somewhere at some church and some
Speaker 1: city and some time, I'll say it to the world. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and then maybe Bruno, I'll think about putting it on
Speaker 1: my channel. Yeah yeah cool, Okay, what should I do?
Speaker 1: I need some advice artist and the peacemaker, the lord
Speaker 1: artist and the peacemaker. M Remember, we can't pick times
Speaker 1: just because they're fancy, because then it takes away from
Speaker 1: the people that say podcast question. Yeah, so this one says,
Speaker 1: Hey Granger, I recently got married, and you graciously sent
Speaker 1: my husband a cameo the morning of our wedding, encouraging
Speaker 1: him and giving him great advice. He ugly cried when
Speaker 1: he realized that it was you. Picture attached. Let's look
Speaker 1: at the picture. That is a very pretty picture of
Speaker 1: an ugly cry. He said it was one of his
Speaker 1: top three moments of the day. Wow, because the cameo.
Speaker 1: I love cameo for that reason, and I've got I've
Speaker 1: gotten to love cameo more and more over the years,
Speaker 1: knowing that it actually ends up being played in some
Speaker 1: really intimate environments. People will play the cameo so we
Speaker 1: get messages all the time about Hey, can you send
Speaker 1: so and to a birthday message? So just search search
Speaker 1: him on cameo and we could send you any kind
Speaker 1: of message. So moving on, Rachel says, since we've gotten married,
Speaker 1: we've been more interested in each other's eneogram numbers. They've
Speaker 1: helped us better understand and love one another. My question
Speaker 1: is do you know yours and Amber's aneograham numbers? What
Speaker 1: are they and how have they helped you create a
Speaker 1: better union with one another? Thanks Rachel from Kansas City, Missouri.
Speaker 1: Parentheses not Kansas. We did this. We took this test
Speaker 1: in bed what a month ago or so? And I
Speaker 1: don't remember. You're three another three? You're three and I'm
Speaker 1: a nine. What does that mean? You are the achiever,
Speaker 1: I believe, and I am the peacemaker. I think, oh,
Speaker 1: that explains the title. Yeah, okay, the subject. So you're
Speaker 1: your three and we looked up what we are together
Speaker 1: as a couple, and it fits really well together. The
Speaker 1: nines really helped the threes, and the threes really help
Speaker 1: the nines. I support you and encourage you, and you
Speaker 1: do the same for me. I read something on my
Speaker 1: rise about both of us, so we should look it
Speaker 1: up real quick on the nine and the three and
Speaker 1: how we mesh well together. But just look up an
Speaker 1: nine and a three couple ship enneagram. Okay, he's very
Speaker 1: driven and I'm kind of more laid back. So a
Speaker 1: three the achiever says success oriented, pragmatic type, adaptive, excelling, driven,
Speaker 1: and image conscious. Yes, and nine says the peacemaker, easygoing,
Speaker 1: self ficing type, receptive, reassuring, agreeable, and complacent. So if
Speaker 1: you guys want to read, I mean, we probably don't
Speaker 1: have time to look it up. But if you guys
Speaker 1: want to read what we are together, just google like
Speaker 1: nine and a three couple ship together. But it fits
Speaker 1: really well together and it works with our personalities, and
Speaker 1: I think it fits us pretty good to a t
Speaker 1: what our enneagram numbers are. Yeah, So it's a fun
Speaker 1: little personality test if you want to try it. Only you,
Speaker 1: as a guest would have remembered what mine is, and
Speaker 1: there's no way I remembered three. I'm actually a nine
Speaker 1: wing one. But what a nine wing one? You're normally
Speaker 1: something and then you have a wing of another one.
Speaker 1: So I'm a partly a little bit of nine wing one. Okay,
Speaker 1: So we have what should I do. We have Graindeer,
Speaker 1: I need some advice. We have the Lord, and we
Speaker 1: have podcast question, Podcast question boom. It says, Hey Granger,
Speaker 1: my name is Mallory. I'm from Pennsylvania. I heard you
Speaker 1: and Amber on a rise and you're talking about how
Speaker 1: you believe in Calvinism. Can you talk more about what
Speaker 1: you believe surrounding that? Thank you so much for answering this.
Speaker 1: I love watching your family logs and pray for your
Speaker 1: family often. You're so inspiring. Man, I just walked into it.
Speaker 1: You told me to pick that, you said, don't know.
Speaker 1: I usually I usually vet these pretty good, but I
Speaker 1: actually just walked into a hornet's nest and I'm gonna
Speaker 1: have to answer it. Yes, we don't edit this podcast.
Speaker 1: We just go straight through it. And we're going to
Speaker 1: get a lot of backlash for it. Yeah, people, some
Speaker 1: people are gonna start hating me right now. I do
Speaker 1: it's tulip. Yeah, I learned that from from r C yesterday.
Speaker 1: My heart's actually beating right now. Yeah, so people are
Speaker 1: going to start hating me, and thank you. I'll just
Speaker 1: I'll just dive into it. Calvinism comes from a man
Speaker 1: named John Calvin. These were his doctrines, his ideas that
Speaker 1: he derived from the Bible, and it it is a
Speaker 1: what is it? What? What? How do I say it
Speaker 1: without getting so much hate on the Internet and from
Speaker 1: people not listening to my podcast anymore after I say it.
Speaker 1: But it's a it's a way of understanding the Bible.
Speaker 1: It's not a religion. It's it's I don't even want
Speaker 1: to say it's a form of Christianity, because it is Christianity.
Speaker 1: It is the essence of Christianity, and it's based on Scripture,
Speaker 1: and it's as as we all know, there's different denominations.
Speaker 1: Calvinism is actually not a denomination. It's just a form
Speaker 1: of doctrine within the denomination. So you could be Baptist,
Speaker 1: you could be Methodist, you could be Episcopalian, and you
Speaker 1: could still be Calvinist. It's it's a way, basically. The
Speaker 1: best way to say is it centers around grace, the
Speaker 1: grace of God and what grace means. And before we
Speaker 1: started this podcast we actually just started talking about it.
Speaker 1: The best way to describe Calvinism to me is the
Speaker 1: song Amazing Grace, Amazing Grace, How sweet the sound that
Speaker 1: saved a wretch like me I once was lost, but
Speaker 1: now I'm found. Was blind, and now I see. That
Speaker 1: is the essence of Calvinism. It's it's I had no
Speaker 1: hope dead in my transgressions. God's grace alone saved me.
Speaker 1: It was irresistible. I had no hope. It was irresistible.
Speaker 1: And because of that, I have the highest maximum human
Speaker 1: level of gratefulness because of it, because I'm no better
Speaker 1: than anyone. No, I'm not smarter than anyone. I didn't
Speaker 1: figure out a mystery past anyone. I was saved by
Speaker 1: pure grace. I was a wretch. I was a wretch.
Speaker 1: So the five points of Calvinism is total depravity, unconditional election,
Speaker 1: limited atonement, irresistible grace, and perseverance of the saints. And
Speaker 1: this is getting deep. And like I said, I I
Speaker 1: don't like to talk about this in a public forum
Speaker 1: because people will hate this idea. Yeah, but I believe
Speaker 1: it with all of my heart. I believe it because
Speaker 1: I've lived it. I feel it. I've lived it. And
Speaker 1: more importantly than what I feel and what I live,
Speaker 1: more important than all that, I see it over and
Speaker 1: over in the scriptures. Every morning, I get up before
Speaker 1: the the son comes up, and I pull out my Bible,
Speaker 1: and I pray for understanding, and I pray for repentance,
Speaker 1: and I pray for my family. And then I open
Speaker 1: up the book and I have a reading plan, so
Speaker 1: I pick up where I left off the morning before,
Speaker 1: and I read and I see the truth, and I
Speaker 1: see sovereignty in the scriptures, and I see peace, and
Speaker 1: I see hope, I see love, I see God's wrath.
Speaker 1: And let me try to explain these these five points.
Speaker 1: Total depravity means I had no hope. I had no hope.
Speaker 1: I was dead. I could not have fixed it myself.
Speaker 1: Unconditional election means that God knew that before the beginning
Speaker 1: of time. And you know, we've read through the Bible,
Speaker 1: and I'm now I'm reading through it my second time,
Speaker 1: and now I'm going through and highlighting specific words in
Speaker 1: the Bible election, adoption, predestination, and those are words that
Speaker 1: people don't like to share. These people are going to
Speaker 1: hate us, but it's in the scripture that's right there.
Speaker 1: You have a lot if you don't believe in unconditional election,
Speaker 1: you have a lot of explaining to do with so
Speaker 1: many scriptures over and over and over. Then it just
Speaker 1: means that before the beginning of time, before you were
Speaker 1: formed in the womb, God chose you and people. But
Speaker 1: here's the key. He didn't choose everybody. Yeah, and that's
Speaker 1: the problem. That's the problem people have, right. They say,
Speaker 1: it's not well, that's not fair. How can you? And
Speaker 1: it might Who am I to decide what's fair? Right?
Speaker 1: Who can never know the mind of God? Yeah? So
Speaker 1: the third is limited atonement, and this is another big one.
Speaker 1: Limited atonement means Jesus didn't die for every human. He
Speaker 1: only died for his chosen people. Who are we to
Speaker 1: know the chosen? We don't. That's why you just have
Speaker 1: to live your life in a way. He picks all
Speaker 1: different kinds of people, from all different races, in all
Speaker 1: different societies, and all different income levels, in all different
Speaker 1: mental capacities, in all different ages. He picks them, and
Speaker 1: he died for them. Why do we know Jesus didn't
Speaker 1: die for everybody? Because Jesus also said not everyone is saved,
Speaker 1: and he mentions, I'm not praying for the world, I'm
Speaker 1: praying for those who you sent me. Talking to the
Speaker 1: Father John seventeen. The whole prayer is really about this.
Speaker 1: The fourth is called irresistible grace. That means God's grace
Speaker 1: is so powerful you cannot stop it from hitting you.
Speaker 1: It's irresistible. You can't choose, you can't choose. The grace
Speaker 1: is so powerful it's going to overcome you. If you're reborn,
Speaker 1: it's going to overcome you, and you have no way
Speaker 1: to stop it. You just go, Okay, I'm in. That's
Speaker 1: what we were just talking about before the podcast, about
Speaker 1: how we are completely different people and that's what we
Speaker 1: should be. The last piece of Calvinism is called perseverance
Speaker 1: of the Saints, and that means that once you're chosen,
Speaker 1: or once you come to know that you're chosen and saved,
Speaker 1: you're always chosen and is saved and nothing, nothing you
Speaker 1: could do, will stop it. That's another big hot item
Speaker 1: because hot topic because people don't like the idea of
Speaker 1: what are you gonna do? Just murder somebody and you're
Speaker 1: still good. No. The idea is, once you're saved, you
Speaker 1: don't want to You're not going to anybody because you
Speaker 1: feel the conviction of the Holy Spirit. You feel that
Speaker 1: conscience that's weighing down on you so heavily that you
Speaker 1: just want to be better because you feel better by
Speaker 1: being better. It's not a it's not a handcuff. You
Speaker 1: know that you're just stuck. No, it's a freedom. It's
Speaker 1: a freedom. It's the opposite. And the Bible says, no
Speaker 1: one can take them from my hand. The Bible says
Speaker 1: that no one can take them, take them from me.
Speaker 1: So and that includes themselves. They can't ruin that. So
Speaker 1: that this is a hot topic. A lot of people
Speaker 1: hate it. If you google Calvinism, the other kind of
Speaker 1: Christianity is Armenianism, and the idea is both sides are saved,
Speaker 1: both sides are a Christian Both sides ghosts could sit
Speaker 1: next to each other in the same view, in the
Speaker 1: same church. But Calvinism is is a form that I
Speaker 1: believe because I believe that I was totally depraved, and
Speaker 1: I believe that by realizing that that when I get
Speaker 1: to heaven and face God, he's going to say, why
Speaker 1: are you here. I'm going to say, because of your grace,
Speaker 1: and he's going to go, then why did why did
Speaker 1: the other person in your church not end up here?
Speaker 1: I'm going to say, I didn't. I didn't do anything,
Speaker 1: you did everything. There's nothing I could do to brag
Speaker 1: about being saved. There is no way to boast nothing.
Speaker 1: It's the idea. I'll say this last thing. It's the
Speaker 1: idea of the man in the ocean. There's there's two
Speaker 1: ways of looking at the word saved, sa veed saved.
Speaker 1: There's two ways of looking at it. Here's the first one.
Speaker 1: You're in the ocean. You've been paddling, you've been dog
Speaker 1: paddling forever, and you're getting so tired you can't do
Speaker 1: it anymore. And God comes to you, sees you in
Speaker 1: your you're tired, depraved way, and he throws you a
Speaker 1: life preserver and you swim to it and you climb.
Speaker 1: You put on the life preserver and climb up on
Speaker 1: the raft and you lay on the raft and you
Speaker 1: go God, you saved me. The other way, the Calvinist way,
Speaker 1: is you're dog paddling, you're tired, you can't do it anymore.
Speaker 1: You sink to the bottom. You die dead, dead in
Speaker 1: your transgressions, totally depraved, unable to do anything. God comes
Speaker 1: at the bottom of the ocean, picks you up, take
Speaker 1: you to the beach, breeze life back in you. You
Speaker 1: open your eyes, revived, reborn, renewed, and you look at God,
Speaker 1: and you go, you saved me. That's a very different
Speaker 1: way of saying saved, kind of you saving yourself versus
Speaker 1: God saving you, like you didn't reach for that life preserver.
Speaker 1: Bring on the comments. Here we go. We're open to
Speaker 1: you know, we're open. Sorry, I'm sorry, just the deep
Speaker 1: the deepest parts of my soul. Just I just see it.
Speaker 1: I see it, guys, and I'm un ashamed to say it.
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Speaker 1: gonna give you kicking back to you. What should I do? Granger?
Speaker 1: I need some advice? And the Lord, those are the
Speaker 1: three we have left. There is a three. I mean
Speaker 1: if we finish these, I'll dive back in more. Let's do, Granger?
Speaker 1: What should I do? Wo? Is that what I said?
Speaker 1: There's what should I do? And there's Hay Granger need
Speaker 1: some advice? Oh? What should I do? What should I do? Hey? Granger?
Speaker 1: My name is Corea from Georgetown, Texas. I'm nineteen years old, Georgetow.
Speaker 1: I've been working full time for two years. The job
Speaker 1: I currently have is not the career I want to
Speaker 1: go in. How do I find the perfect career for me?
Speaker 1: This was sent May thirty, first, twenty twenty one, and
Speaker 1: there is no name on here. Okay, nineteen years old,
Speaker 1: working full time for the last two years. Current job
Speaker 1: is not the career. Yeah, that's yeah, that's understandable. You're nineteen.
Speaker 1: It's understandable to see that the job you want is
Speaker 1: not the job you have when you're nineteen. I didn't
Speaker 1: what were you doing your nineteen just graduated college? I
Speaker 1: think I was waiting tables. Yeah, yeah, yeah, Oh I'm sorry,
Speaker 1: just graduated high school? So yeah, right right, yeah, so yeah,
Speaker 1: I was far. I was either you know, I'm working
Speaker 1: for a paint contractor. I think that's what I was doing.
Speaker 1: I was nineteen, ye I was waiting tables. Most painting
Speaker 1: houses and plan get really bad gigs. And we knew
Speaker 1: that was what wasn't our life goal of what we
Speaker 1: want to do. It's just something to make money on
Speaker 1: the weekends to go out with your friends, you know. Yeah,
Speaker 1: So I would say, first, there's no worry you're nineteen.
Speaker 1: If you're forty nine, this would be a different question.
Speaker 1: How do I find the perfect career for me? It's
Speaker 1: hard because we don't know what his passion is, what
Speaker 1: he likes to do. So we just got to take
Speaker 1: a broad stroke at it, and it would say the
Speaker 1: first first question is do you need an education for
Speaker 1: what you need to go into? So say, you know,
Speaker 1: I really want to go into diesel mechanics. Okay, well,
Speaker 1: there's a tech school for you that you need to
Speaker 1: go to You need go to the trade school according
Speaker 1: to what you want to do. Nineteen is the perfect
Speaker 1: age to go to a trade school. If you say
Speaker 1: I want to be a lawyer, Okay, now you need
Speaker 1: to go to a major university or a community college
Speaker 1: that you can then get into a major university. And
Speaker 1: then you need to start thinking about saving up money
Speaker 1: so then you can go to law school. And you
Speaker 1: need to be thinking about that path. You want to
Speaker 1: be a doctor, same thing. Yeah, I was going to say,
Speaker 1: if you need to, if you know exactly kind of
Speaker 1: where you want your career path to go, find a
Speaker 1: place in that field that does internships and volunteer or
Speaker 1: intern and still keep your same job if you can,
Speaker 1: and just work a few hours interning at that location.
Speaker 1: There's nothing wrong to with taking a stab at a
Speaker 1: couple of different careers that you think might be interesting
Speaker 1: and then you find out, you know, I hate this,
Speaker 1: I don't like it. If you want to go to
Speaker 1: law enforcement or EMT or anything like that, there's a
Speaker 1: clear path for you to get a law enforcement or
Speaker 1: EMT school. There's a clear path to do that fire school.
Speaker 1: If you want to be an entrepreneur. Then you the
Speaker 1: perfect path is what Amber said. You go to you know,
Speaker 1: as you said, Georgetown, Texas. So they're like, there's Yetti.
Speaker 1: You know, you go to YETI Coolers in Austin and
Speaker 1: you go in there and you go have I want
Speaker 1: to apply for an internship to work for you guys.
Speaker 1: I think this is a cool outdoor company, and I
Speaker 1: would love to see just how you work through things,
Speaker 1: and you work your way up from there. First form
Speaker 1: in Saint Louis, Missouri, they sell supplements. Really cool group
Speaker 1: of guys and girls, and they they take on interns
Speaker 1: that then turn into shippers in their warehouse that then
Speaker 1: turns into some kind of management role and just keep
Speaker 1: working up the ladder. A lot of companies do that, Yeah,
Speaker 1: And it's okay if you don't, if you don't quite
Speaker 1: know what you want to do. I don't think I
Speaker 1: knew exactly what I wanted to do at nineteen. I
Speaker 1: changed when I did go to college. I changed my
Speaker 1: major about four times. And you already are getting something
Speaker 1: good for your resume right now. You have two years
Speaker 1: working in the same company that shows loyalty. So just
Speaker 1: pray about it. Pray if you don't quite know. Pray
Speaker 1: for guys to open up some doors for you, or
Speaker 1: search your heart for what you might desire to be doing,
Speaker 1: and just keep doing what you're doing until something, and
Speaker 1: still something kind of sparks your interest or sparks what
Speaker 1: you want to do. I have a suggestion to this guy, Corey.
Speaker 1: It's his name right there, Corey. Why did I say it?
Speaker 1: No name? It's in the first sentence. I don't know
Speaker 1: my name is Corey Corey. I got a suggestion for you,
Speaker 1: not knowing you, not knowing anything about you. I only know.
Speaker 1: The only thing I know from you is four sentences
Speaker 1: that you wrote. You're nineteen, you live in Georgetown, you've
Speaker 1: been working for two years, and it's not where you
Speaker 1: want to be. I have a suggestion. Marine Corps. Huh yeah.
Speaker 1: The Marine Corps could offer the motivation that you need
Speaker 1: to build your resume, to build your network, to build
Speaker 1: your work ethic, to build your discipline that then can
Speaker 1: catapult you into a host of other careers. That's probably
Speaker 1: if I didn't have music, that's what I would have done.
Speaker 1: I was in the court A and M. Everybody else
Speaker 1: around me was going into the Marine Corps. So that's
Speaker 1: and then I went to Iraq and performed. And when
Speaker 1: I was with the Marines, I just felt at home.
Speaker 1: So no offense to anybody else in Navy or air
Speaker 1: Force or army, but I would say, you go to
Speaker 1: your Marine Corps recruiter here in Georgetown, Texas and just
Speaker 1: ask them do you don't have to commit to anything.
Speaker 1: Just walk in there one day and just go. You know,
Speaker 1: there'll be a guy, a sergeant sitting in there at
Speaker 1: the recruiting office and just say, hey, my name is Cory,
Speaker 1: just wondering what that maybe the Marines could offer for me. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's good, and and he'll go, all right, let's sit down.
Speaker 1: He's gonna be a cool guy. He's in he's in
Speaker 1: recruiting for a reason. He's a good talker probably, and
Speaker 1: he's gonna go, man, do you like you like aviation?
Speaker 1: Do you like mechanics? Computers? Do you like computers? Do
Speaker 1: you do you like some action? You know what? Do
Speaker 1: you like jumping out of airplanes? And and the cool
Speaker 1: thing about the Marine Corps. I don't even know why
Speaker 1: I'm pitching this so hard. I have no idea why,
Speaker 1: I have no idea why I'm feeling this right now.
Speaker 1: But the cool thing about it, man, is it's like
Speaker 1: zero financial investment. It doesn't matter how much you have
Speaker 1: in the bank account. It doesn't matter what grades you
Speaker 1: got in high school, it doesn't matter anything that you
Speaker 1: have going on right now. It doesn't matter. You go
Speaker 1: that Marine Corps recruiter and he could send you off
Speaker 1: to San Diego next week, and you're on an airplane
Speaker 1: and you're going to San Diego or wherever, and that's
Speaker 1: that's pretty exciting if you don't have a you know,
Speaker 1: a wife and kids right here, and you're looking for
Speaker 1: direction and you're looking looking for the perfect career. I
Speaker 1: don't know why on this podcast I'm telling you this.
Speaker 1: I don't know why. But Georgetown, Texas Recruiting Office, Oh rah,
Speaker 1: there you go. I need some advice, and we have
Speaker 1: the Lord. If two more, we're probably gonna have time
Speaker 1: for another one. After that, Son, I'll go back to
Speaker 1: the drawing board. Okay, I need some advice. Hey, mister Smith.
Speaker 1: My name is Amber. I'm from Southern Indiana. I absolutely
Speaker 1: love your music. And second, I need some advice. They
Speaker 1: say God won't put you through anything you can't handle. Well,
Speaker 1: I'm not sure. I could handle what is going on
Speaker 1: in my life right now. My grandmother was rushed to
Speaker 1: the hospital for emergency surgery in August of twenty nineteen. Well,
Speaker 1: while she was in there, my grandpa got sick and
Speaker 1: about a week later my birthday. On my birthday, my
Speaker 1: grandpa was diagnosed with cancer. Sadly, he passed that January.
Speaker 1: All the while my grandma was in the hospital slash
Speaker 1: rehab and having more surgeries than In June, my dad
Speaker 1: was diagnosed with cancer. Thankfully it was they were able
Speaker 1: to remove it all with surgery. Then this past December,
Speaker 1: my grandmother was diagnosed with cancer. Do you have any
Speaker 1: advice on how I can handle all of this? God
Speaker 1: bless you and your family? And ye he that comes
Speaker 1: from Amber in February. Hi, Amber, first, just want to say,
Speaker 1: that's a lot for anyone to handle. And I know
Speaker 1: people all the time say God doesn't give you more
Speaker 1: than you can handle. And I've said this for so
Speaker 1: long that I think that he does. I think He
Speaker 1: gives us more than we can handle because we're not
Speaker 1: meant to carry it alone. We are meant to lay
Speaker 1: everything at his feet, and we are never alone because
Speaker 1: He is walking with us. So I just want to
Speaker 1: say that. I think the Bible says you won't be
Speaker 1: tempted right beyond what you can handle. Butt. It says
Speaker 1: anything about you will have you won't have as much
Speaker 1: trouble as you can handle. It doesn't say that. Now,
Speaker 1: that's still like an old wives tell See they say
Speaker 1: God won't put you through anything you can handle. It
Speaker 1: doesn't say that that's the world. That's what the world's
Speaker 1: telling you. The Bible says it won't tempt you beyond
Speaker 1: what you can handle. Yeah, that's different. And I want
Speaker 1: you to say, what because one situation her grandfather went home.
Speaker 1: The other situation, her dad was healed. And I love
Speaker 1: what we saw the other day that it gave me
Speaker 1: a lot of peace and a lot of a comfort
Speaker 1: from losing our son. Was that some sicknesses, some accidents,
Speaker 1: some cancers, some things are not meant for healing. They're
Speaker 1: meant for homecoming. And I love that word homecoming. Yeah.
Speaker 1: And Second Kings thirteen fourteen, it says, now Elisha had
Speaker 1: fallen sick with an illness of which he was to die.
Speaker 1: So I think about that for a second. Now, Elisha
Speaker 1: had fallen sick with the illness of which he was
Speaker 1: to die. Second king is thirteen fourteen. Now here's the deal.
Speaker 1: Elishah was a prophet. He divided rivers, he undid poison,
Speaker 1: he'd made axe handle's float, he caused oil to flow.
Speaker 1: He healed leprosy, he raised the dead. But now God
Speaker 1: says this sickness is for homecoming, not healing. I just
Speaker 1: I love that tweet us all because yes, God can
Speaker 1: perform miracles, and God will heal certain people, but other
Speaker 1: times it's meant for homecoming. He's calling you home, and
Speaker 1: I pray that you're a grandmother and grandfather had a long,
Speaker 1: beautiful life, you know, and I pray that you got
Speaker 1: to spend so much time with them, and I'm so
Speaker 1: glad that you have your dad. I know it doesn't
Speaker 1: take away the pain. It hurts, and it doesn't seem fair.
Speaker 1: But we always talk about renewing our mind and changing
Speaker 1: the channel in our mind, and I hope that you
Speaker 1: can try to flip it to that perspective and know
Speaker 1: that if you are a follower of Christ, you will
Speaker 1: see them again and they're home. And I love that
Speaker 1: they wouldn't want to come back to this earth even
Speaker 1: if they could. I was in a meet and greet recently,
Speaker 1: and there was a guy telling me something similar. He
Speaker 1: had a lot going on in his life and he
Speaker 1: was just pouring it on me in the meet and
Speaker 1: greet and he just said, I just have so much
Speaker 1: and I just don't know how I could handle it.
Speaker 1: And I said, well, you don't have to handle it
Speaker 1: for five years. You don't have to handle it for
Speaker 1: ten years. You don't have to handle it for one month.
Speaker 1: You just have to handle it today. Yeah, that's all
Speaker 1: you have to do, just today. If today's too much
Speaker 1: for you, just this hour. Yeah, just handle it this hour, man,
Speaker 1: that's too much. Okay, this minute, Just handle it for
Speaker 1: sixty seconds. You can do anything for sixty seconds. That's
Speaker 1: too much. Breath by breath. And I've been there in
Speaker 1: my life. I've been in a place in my life
Speaker 1: where I couldn't handle an hour. So I had to
Speaker 1: just deal with the next breath and guess what it came,
Speaker 1: and the next one after that came, and that turned
Speaker 1: into a minute, and then that turned into an hour,
Speaker 1: and then it turned into months and then turn into years.
Speaker 1: That's all we could do, guys. We're not built to
Speaker 1: handle all this for a long period of time. Now,
Speaker 1: we're not built. That's why we're being renewed day by day.
Speaker 1: That's why the mercies are new every morning. Are only
Speaker 1: built to handle it one days. It's like what I
Speaker 1: said in the Men's sermon, It's like a Tesla car.
Speaker 1: The battery has to be recharged every day. I don't
Speaker 1: personally know. I don't drive a Tesla, but you have
Speaker 1: to recharge the battery every day. On your cell phone.
Speaker 1: The cell phone that's not made to last for months,
Speaker 1: you got to go back and charge it every day.
Speaker 1: So that's like us. We got to go back, and
Speaker 1: we got to go back to the source of our power,
Speaker 1: which is Christians. We believe it's God and the Word
Speaker 1: of God. And we go go back. We open our
Speaker 1: Bibles and we open them and we look at it
Speaker 1: and we go, God, I can't can't do this. I
Speaker 1: got too much going on. I got there's sickness, and
Speaker 1: there's death, and there's cancer going on in my life.
Speaker 1: Or can't do it. And God goes, yeah, I know
Speaker 1: you can't, because I made you. I know you can't.
Speaker 1: So I'm going to sustain you just enough to where
Speaker 1: you have to keep coming back to me and I'll
Speaker 1: keep powering you. I'll keep recharging that battery, giving you
Speaker 1: that motivation. I'll give you just enough why so that
Speaker 1: you keep coming back to the refilling station. Yeah. And
Speaker 1: his power is made perfect in our weakness. We're not
Speaker 1: meant to try to be strong. And it's not some
Speaker 1: power hungry god that goes on knew due to come
Speaker 1: to me. He knows because he made us. That is,
Speaker 1: if we keep coming back to him daily, then he's
Speaker 1: going to give us enough energy and then then that
Speaker 1: gives us peace and hope and love. And that's what
Speaker 1: we need, that's what we crave. And so and Paul sayes,
Speaker 1: the light momentary afflictions, Yeah, are preparing us. These light
Speaker 1: momentary afflictions are preparing us for an eternal weight of glory.
Speaker 1: They're preparing, they're doing something. This affliction you're going through,
Speaker 1: Amber is doing something for you and for your soul
Speaker 1: and for your happiness and for your peace and for
Speaker 1: your love to do. It's working for you, that's what
Speaker 1: it's doing. So when you asked me in your last
Speaker 1: sentence any advice on how do I handle all this?
Speaker 1: I say you can't. You can't, not alone, not alone. Yeah,
Speaker 1: And there's so much peace in that. Yeah. And just
Speaker 1: one more thing I think you said in the second
Speaker 1: to last sentence. This past December, my other grandmother was
Speaker 1: diagnosed with cancer. So enjoy every moment you have with her,
Speaker 1: and be in this present moment, like Granger said, take
Speaker 1: it hour by hour, minute by minute, spend as much
Speaker 1: time with her as you can, and pray for healing.
Speaker 1: You know, we can pray for healing, but we also
Speaker 1: have to pray for God's will and for strength to
Speaker 1: make it through whatever we're facing. But enjoy that time together,
Speaker 1: spend those extra moments with her. Yeah. And then none
Speaker 1: of this means that you don't research doctors and research
Speaker 1: hospitals and try to help them with their diet. None
Speaker 1: of that. Of course, you're going to try your best
Speaker 1: to do. That's part of That's part of God's will
Speaker 1: for you as well. But through it, don't let it
Speaker 1: start affecting you so much that you can't function, you
Speaker 1: get paralysis. Don't don't let that happen because you can't
Speaker 1: handle it all by yourself. And just remember that advice
Speaker 1: that people gave you, that say God won't put you
Speaker 1: through anything you can't handle, is not true. It's not
Speaker 1: real advice. It's about temptations that's misunderstood. So when it
Speaker 1: gets heavy, and when when it seems like it's stacking on,
Speaker 1: that just means your your battery's going out. It's time
Speaker 1: to recharge. It's time to take a Tesla back to
Speaker 1: the to the garage. I wish there was a good
Speaker 1: pickup truck analogy for that, because Tesla's we'll just use gasoline,
Speaker 1: but diesel. It's like when you're driving down in the
Speaker 1: county road and you're in the middle of nowhere and
Speaker 1: your your your little needles on empty and you can't
Speaker 1: see it a station. You how how much anxiety do
Speaker 1: you have in that moment? You're so worried, and you
Speaker 1: got the windows down and you're turning off the air
Speaker 1: conditioner and you're just you don't know what to do.
Speaker 1: But then you go over the hill and you see
Speaker 1: that Texico station, that excellent station, and you pull in
Speaker 1: there and you start refilling that diesel in your truck,
Speaker 1: and what do you get. You get, Oh, there goes
Speaker 1: all the anxiety. It's gone. It's relief and peace, and
Speaker 1: you just go, I made it. This is where I needed,
Speaker 1: This is what the truck needed it needed to refuel.
Speaker 1: You can't run on your fumes, so don't try to amber.
Speaker 1: You're not. This is look through human history. You can't
Speaker 1: do it. You can't this this time. This type of
Speaker 1: stuff leads to depression and anxiety and anger and anger
Speaker 1: and guilt, and you can't function like that. You can't.
Speaker 1: So thanks for the email. I hope this helped a
Speaker 1: little bit. And I'm not trying to make it sound
Speaker 1: like what you're going through isn't hard, because it sounds
Speaker 1: sounds so hard, and it sounds like you're handling it
Speaker 1: with a lot of gray stuff. Thanks for emailing. One
Speaker 1: more here and the little group that I brought, and
Speaker 1: then we can go get more if we need. This
Speaker 1: one is called the Lord says Hey Granger. My name
Speaker 1: is Nate from coll Colorado. Have been following her music
Speaker 1: since two thousand and eight. Haven't stopped since. I've been
Speaker 1: to every single show in Colorado and Wyoming since twenty thirteen.
Speaker 1: I've been dating this girl for four years. Here it comes,
Speaker 1: and both of our first priorities were to build our
Speaker 1: relationship on the foundation of God. The problem is she
Speaker 1: loves her big church in the city and I love
Speaker 1: my small church in the country. He didn't say country.
Speaker 1: I just wanted those say Earl dibbles. I love my
Speaker 1: small church. I've been attending for fifteen years. She came
Speaker 1: to me recently saying that if I can't bring myself
Speaker 1: to switch to her church, it just won't work out
Speaker 1: in the long run. I don't know how to go
Speaker 1: about this because I love my church and the people
Speaker 1: that go there, and her only reason to not come
Speaker 1: to mind is because she feels being like she's being
Speaker 1: judged by the small town atmosphere. I hope you could help.
Speaker 1: I love your music and your beautiful family. I'll be
Speaker 1: a fan till I die as a fan. Before you
Speaker 1: met me, Nate is say how old? No, he is
Speaker 1: a lifer man, lifer, EVI nation or brother you were,
Speaker 1: You're my dude. This email came in January. Okay, so
Speaker 1: it's been a few months since he said it. It's
Speaker 1: been in the queue. What's your first reaction. My first
Speaker 1: reaction when you were reading that was I was trying
Speaker 1: to put both of us in that situation, and my
Speaker 1: gut reaction would be for us to go to both
Speaker 1: with each other, both of us go to the small one.
Speaker 1: Both of us go to the big one. I know
Speaker 1: what time constraints and schedules and all that that might
Speaker 1: not work. But when you're trying to build a relationship,
Speaker 1: it's a lot of give and take and compromise and communication.
Speaker 1: And I feel like if you felt so strongly, but
Speaker 1: it sounds like you both do. But if you came
Speaker 1: to me and said, I really love my small church,
Speaker 1: I really want to keep going, I would go with you,
Speaker 1: and vice versa. You know, what was your first impression.
Speaker 1: There's a couple of things here. One there's great, there's
Speaker 1: great news. They're not married. Yep, if you're married, this
Speaker 1: is a different conversation. This is a much harder email
Speaker 1: to talk about. Here's the discouraging part. Four years, been
Speaker 1: dating for four years? Yeah, you've been in four Have
Speaker 1: you ever been in a four year relationship? Besides now?
Speaker 1: I haven't. Yeah, I've been maybe like three's kind of max,
Speaker 1: you know, so, Nate, I would say, dude, first, why
Speaker 1: why are you still dating this girl after four years
Speaker 1: and you haven't pulled the trigger? Why? Why haven't you?
Speaker 1: Why haven't you popped the question? Is it because you're
Speaker 1: too young? Is it because you lived in different cities.
Speaker 1: Is it because you're unsure, you're afraid to commit? And
Speaker 1: any guys girls, let me say as girls, if you're
Speaker 1: guys too afraid to commit, that just means he's he's
Speaker 1: not all in. He's not all in, because there is
Speaker 1: no such thing as afraid to commit. If you're all in,
Speaker 1: you're just like, I don't care, I'll commit. I'm all
Speaker 1: in in this girl. I want to spend the rest
Speaker 1: of my life with the girl. I don't care. I'm in.
Speaker 1: It doesn't matter what kind of commitment worries you've had
Speaker 1: in the past, So I kind of worry about that, Like,
Speaker 1: why are you else dating? It's been four years and
Speaker 1: there's people listening right now that are probably disagreeing. Yeah.
Speaker 1: Another thing that was a little discouraging is she said
Speaker 1: if I can't bring myself to switch to her church,
Speaker 1: then it won't work out. Bye goodbye. Like that means
Speaker 1: she's just cutting it down, Nate, goodbye. Yeah, if that's
Speaker 1: the deal breaker, like you won't switch the church, So
Speaker 1: I'm done with our I'm throwing our whole four years away,
Speaker 1: You're out. That's kind of discouraging. I hope she's not
Speaker 1: a podcast listener or maybe she could maybe maybe only
Speaker 1: maybe she is Nate get out. This is episode ninety,
Speaker 1: Episode ninety for eighty nine episodes. I've been softer and
Speaker 1: I'm getting harder and harder. But hey, man, I build
Speaker 1: this up. That build these podcasts up, like like we're friends.
Speaker 1: And Nate he's my dude. Man, he's a Yuege nationer
Speaker 1: since two thousand and eight. He's been to almost every
Speaker 1: show in Colorado and Wyoming since twenty thirteen. We have
Speaker 1: a bond. My shows in Colorado and Wyoming are crazy.
Speaker 1: Those people not because of us, but because the people.
Speaker 1: We have a bond. Nate is my bro, and so
Speaker 1: I'm not gonna sugarcoat this for him when I know
Speaker 1: he's a life for a Yege Nation or I'm not
Speaker 1: gonna sugarcoat this if I was in there, if I
Speaker 1: was sitting with him and we're sitting there in a
Speaker 1: campfire and he dumped this on me, but I'd say, bro,
Speaker 1: get out, because that's weird. It's a weird way for
Speaker 1: her to say this is not gonna work out. If
Speaker 1: I can't, you can't switch churches. That's just weird, right well,
Speaker 1: And it's good that they're, like you said, they're not
Speaker 1: married and they don't have kids involved. Because if you
Speaker 1: do get married and you guys haven't resolved this, it's
Speaker 1: going to cause a lot of friction in your marriage
Speaker 1: and with your kids and how you raise them. Yeah,
Speaker 1: let me rephrase. It's not weird, it's actually normal if
Speaker 1: you're not totally in love. Yeah. I would have said
Speaker 1: something weird like that to a girl if I wouldn't
Speaker 1: totally end he or I might have said, like, you know,
Speaker 1: this might just not work out if you can't do this.
Speaker 1: So man, I just there's a lot of pride going
Speaker 1: on and kind of on both sides. Or maybe maybe
Speaker 1: she's she is way into him, but she's mad that
Speaker 1: it's been four years and he hasn't off the question. Yeah,
Speaker 1: maybe that because of another thing. But regardless that, Nate,
Speaker 1: I feel like you would have done it by now
Speaker 1: if you were totally in As much as we read
Speaker 1: comments on these podcasts, now, I can just hear them
Speaker 1: ringing at me right now, like, yeah, dare you say
Speaker 1: that about them? That's my situation. But that's just not
Speaker 1: that's not a good enough reason. There's there's a marriage
Speaker 1: is a compromise and you're not married, but you're in
Speaker 1: a long term relationship and there's a compromise that has
Speaker 1: to happen. And if Amber, if Amber's right, hey, let's
Speaker 1: go to both. Then what do you say to that, Nate?
Speaker 1: If that's what, how much are you holding back? Nate?
Speaker 1: I should say that, how much are you resisting? Like?
Speaker 1: Maybe maybe this is a good cop backcop Maybe you
Speaker 1: have told her the same thing, but you're not mentioning
Speaker 1: it on the semol Maybe you've told her I ain't
Speaker 1: going to your big city church. And yeah, and we
Speaker 1: don't know how often have you, guys both been to
Speaker 1: each other's I guess she said she feels judged when
Speaker 1: she goes. Maybe you nix both churches and find a
Speaker 1: new church home. Idea, find a new church home together,
Speaker 1: start from scratch. That's a good idea to meet new people.
Speaker 1: Let's hey, babe, I can't go to your church. I
Speaker 1: just don't feel comfortable. You can't go to mind you
Speaker 1: don't feel comfortable. Let's find a new one that we
Speaker 1: both agree on. Yeah, and if you can't agree on one, bye,
Speaker 1: that's like there you go, that's your son. Yeah, Okay,
Speaker 1: I still think Nate needs a dumper. I do. That's
Speaker 1: my The female perspective is like, let's compromise, let's work. Yeah,
Speaker 1: Nate needs a dumper. And just because he's my boy,
Speaker 1: I could just tell he's my dude, he's a he's
Speaker 1: a lifer. Let's get a couple of shout outs and
Speaker 1: we'll we'll let everybody go back to their Monday. Okay,
Speaker 1: this is a shout out to Lee Hadden and Keenan
Speaker 1: fur thirteen years old and Stevens. Let's see Stephen. That's
Speaker 1: all it says. Shout out to Stephen Short, Stevens, Stephen
Speaker 1: Shortz Philipe. Why are my shout outs harder to read?
Speaker 1: Philip from Sweden? What's up? Brother? Thank you for listening
Speaker 1: from Sweden, Casey Morton, Connie Barnes. And then we have
Speaker 1: a birthday shout out that just happened on June eighth.
Speaker 1: Jen from Maryland, Happy birthday, says, Can you shout out
Speaker 1: to miss Williams on her birthday? It would make her day?
Speaker 1: Love your podcast, keep up the great advice. Thank you,
Speaker 1: Jen from Maryland and John h. He's from Southwest Florida.
Speaker 1: Thank you for listening to my brother. He wants a
Speaker 1: shout out. Landon Williams says, I really want to meet
Speaker 1: you on fifteen and my birthday is July thirty first,
Speaker 1: so happy early birthday, Land and thank you for listening, dude.
Speaker 1: And Royce Thrantham says, my name is Royce Thrampam. I'm
Speaker 1: from Southeast Alabama, and he says, what's what's your biggest
Speaker 1: hit in your music career? Earl Dibbles Junior? And an
Speaker 1: anniversary shout out goes to Adam Shuster. What's his name?
Speaker 1: Is sothing? Familiar? Adam Schuster Shuster from Central Wisconsin. He says,
Speaker 1: can you shout out? Give a shout out to my
Speaker 1: wife Melissa on her nine year wedding anniversary on June
Speaker 1: twenty third, and as we record, that is yesterday, yesterday, awesome,
Speaker 1: happy universary. Yeah, thank you guys for the shout outs.
Speaker 1: If you have any questions for me, Grangersmith Podcast at
Speaker 1: gmail dot com. Love you guys, Love this girl. She's
Speaker 1: my favorite guest and my favorite human. Thank you. Listen
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