Wrestling Turkeys, Deer Dilemmas, and the Faithful Path

Ever wondered how wrestling during Thanksgiving can shape your holiday season, or why deer hunting might involve more squirrel antics than you'd expect? Join us as we share our side-splitting struggles of launching this podcast amidst the chaos of early Christmas cheer, complete with tree decorating and movie marathons that keep grand babies—and us—entertained. We recount personal tales of navigating the holiday season, from the wrestling-induced Thanksgiving dramas to the never-ending debate over turkey versus ham. Dive into the early thrills of football fever and Thanksgiving leftovers somehow become the highlight of the year.

Imagine trying to outsmart a deer without any professional gear—trust us, it's as hilarious as it sounds! Our amateur deer hunting tales capture everything from the adrenaline-pumping moments of spotting a buck to the relentless and comical battle with mischievous squirrels. These stories of triumph and hilarity merge the essence of adventure and the joys of filling the freezer with fresh meat. Whether you're a seasoned hunter or just love a good laugh, our exploits in the woods are sure to entertain. Plus, we touch on those unpredictable winter weather patterns that lead to wardrobe confusion and amusingly sparse Halloween participation.

Explore the profound and humorous journey of faith as we unravel stories of Roman centurions whose beliefs were either unshakeable or depended on grand events. Reflect on Jesus's encounters with outcasts, like the tax collector Matthew, and the lessons of mercy over sacrifice. Our discussion takes a light-hearted turn as we recall camping mishaps with raccoons and kielbasa, all while pondering the deeper meanings of grace and divine forgiveness. This episode invites you to consider the richness of personal traditions, the warmth of family connections, and the universal journey of faith—wrapped in a cozy blanket of humor and insight.

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Transcript

Early Thanksgiving and Christmas Traditions

Speaker 1 0:09

welcome back to life . Beside christ podcast , I still this is my least favorite part of the episode is starting it you do it so good though you're natural no the fans love you I could . I could do it so much better if I well , someone else could do it so much better is what I meant . Oh , I don't have much . I feel like it's just very monotone when I do it .

Speaker 2 0:31

Well , you could fix that , you know .

Speaker 1 0:32

Yeah , but I'm .

Speaker 2 0:33

It's like singing , it's like talking , but moving your voice up and down . Sorry , we watched Elf the other night and I've got a lot of quotes .

Speaker 1 0:43

Christmas cheer .

Speaker 2 0:44

Yeah , you guys start Christmas early , huh oh we love it Got the tree up , which that was mainly for the grandbabies and mom's enjoyment .

Speaker 1 1:01

And then we watched a couple Christmas movies , because I think we're that's a little odd for you guys .

Speaker 2 1:03

One was on the TV . It was like Rudolph and movies , because I think we're that's . That's a little . Yeah , but it's odd for you guys . One was on the tv , it was like rudolph already yeah , what we're only seven weeks out , brother , that's only seven movies oh no , you guys watch like a movie at night no oh dude by accident . No , we make it a thing on the weekends .

Speaker 3 1:23

Oh .

Speaker 2 1:24

I know , maybe accident , oops , oops . Mom's had Hallmark playing since June , that's crazy she's a big , big Christmas fan .

Speaker 1 1:38

I'm not by any means a Christmas hater . That's good , okay . But I think there is a time where you say , okay , it's a little early to be like full-blown , like diving into it . Yeah , at least anyone who does anything before halloween is might be a little crazy agreed 100 agree middle november , I guess is somewhat acceptable . Yeah , I think the ideal time is maybe the weekend after thanksgiving okay , I could see it .

Speaker 3 2:11

Yeah , like that's why friday christmas shopping and you're into it yeah , yeah , but we like to push that line .

Speaker 2 2:18

You know , in the hayes household we got tree up .

Speaker 1 2:24

I feel like that makes me sound like a Christmas hater . I love Christmas . It's my favorite holiday .

Speaker 2 2:28

Yeah , that's what I was going to ask you Favorite holiday oh .

Speaker 1 2:32

With Thanksgiving coming up . See , it's funny because Thanksgiving okay . So I wasn't the best at cutting weight . So anyone that is listening that knows how my weight was . In high school wrestling I wasn't always the best . There were times where I never missed weight . I just had to do some extra running before some weigh-ins . For all of high school I didn't get to enjoy Thanksgiving . It kind of put a damper on that . I enjoyed it . For all of high school I didn't get to really enjoy Thanksgiving , so it kind of put a damper on that .

Speaker 2 3:08

I enjoyed it . I enjoyed it every time .

Speaker 1 3:11

It's not my favorite , though . Thanksgiving isn't .

Speaker 2 3:13

It wasn't close , but now it's getting closer with Christmas . Why , I don't know . I enjoy it because we do it the same thing . We have our family over for both holidays . It's just one gets presents and one doesn't .

Speaker 1 3:30

On Thanksgiving .

Speaker 2 3:32

Yeah , we don't have presents on Thanksgiving . No , what I'm saying Christmas has presents , Thanksgiving doesn't . That's why I'm saying those two are close .

Speaker 1 3:41

No , but why is Thanksgiving gaining ground on christmas in your mind ? Um what the question was it's cheaper for me same meal , just less .

Speaker 3 3:53

Yeah , money same meal .

Speaker 2 3:55

I I enjoy getting to see the family yeah , and then like christmas is like oh , we just saw you guys a month ago , like it's not like you know , we just saw you guys like thanksgiving . It's like gang's all back then .

Speaker 1 4:08

Christmas is like I gotta wait till next year to see it .

Speaker 2 4:11

Yeah , yeah , yeah , that's a little harsh , a very excited . Yeah , I love good food , but you like thanksgiving meal , or ? Or do you like the leftovers better ? Because thanksgiving meal you're trying to get , you're trying to sample all this stuff and you're so freaking full but leftovers it's like , oh , that turkey give me some pie , because we got two extra pies .

Speaker 1 4:53

I mean , might as well just go turkey and pie see , but I think I'm not a good one to answer that question , because I'm the same . Four things are on my plate every year . Oh yeah , you're one of those .

Speaker 2 5:05

For all the men out there .

Speaker 3 5:08

Get out of here .

Speaker 2 5:10

We got some picky eaters out there . I enjoy 95% of the food there's . I don't know , are you a big stuffing guy ? Never really been . I like the original stuffing but there's some oyster .

Speaker 1 5:28

I love some cornbread though .

Speaker 2 5:31

Oh , I do like cornbread . Yeah , Are you a turkey ? Or a ham or chicken ? Guy Chicken Is that a common thing on Thanksgiving ? I don't think it's common . I think it's there though .

Speaker 1 5:42

Oh , give me both , though turkey and ham , I'd eat both . I think it's there , though . Oh , Give me both , though Turkey and ham . I'd eat both . I think , overall , I enjoy ham more , but you got to have some turkey on Thanksgiving .

Speaker 2 5:51

That's why , yeah , people are getting away from the turkey . It's pretty important , yeah , I mean , that's just a staple .

Speaker 1 5:58

It's like the Thanksgiving mascot . Yeah , it's like the thing Like . It's like the thing Like .

Speaker 2 6:02

Macy's Day Parade , having turkey , having family over , that's like Thanksgiving pretty much and football .

Speaker 1 6:13

And foosball , come on . You know , what's funny is how much more of a football fan that you've kind of become the last year .

Speaker 2 6:18

basically , yeah , what's wrong with me ?

Speaker 1 6:20

No , no , I like it . It's just funny to hear you get excited about football sometimes .

Speaker 2 6:23

I know it's weird .

Speaker 3 6:24

It's just funny to hear you get excited about football sometimes , I know it's weird , it's not normal .

Speaker 1 6:26

Yeah . Yeah , I don't know what's happening . I'm okay with it . Don't be ashamed of that .

Speaker 2 6:29

I'm about to order a jersey . What Well , it's Christmas time . I can't do that . Why ? Because you can't . You can't buy yourself stuff . Get mad like oh , I was gonna get you that like that deep freeze . Really . Dad didn't know I got one and then I told him yeah , I put in my deep freeze in the cabin . He's like gosh dang it . I was gonna get you one for christmas , like deer season's almost over , yeah , christmas . But so there's that you can't buy nothing no in december , at least just goes on the list and you might get it , you might not , I don't know .

Speaker 2 7:11

See what santa says . It's all up to santa . You never know . Yeah , if I even get , I might get coal this year . I don't know , yeah , which I could use some coal yeah , you have some use for coal .

Speaker 1 7:25

Oh yeah , what's that ?

Speaker 2 7:27

You know , I might get me a Weber grill .

Speaker 1 7:30

You don't have use for it yet . You have hopeful use .

Speaker 2 7:33

I could sell it probably .

Speaker 1 7:34

Coal . I don't think it's that in demand you got to find the right people . You just like Walmart's out , or what .

Speaker 2 7:45

I don't know . Okay , I've never bought it , so I've been needing some .

Speaker 1 7:51

Yeah , I'll tell you what Just good to have around . Yeah .

Speaker 2 7:54

Yeah , so get me a Weber grill put on the Christmas list .

Speaker 3 7:58

Yeah .

Speaker 2 7:59

I get one of them Blackstones , ooh yeah , which there are some haters out there on the Blackstones . Ooh yeah , which there are some haters out there on the Blackstone .

Speaker 3 8:07

Yeah .

Speaker 1 8:09

But I like mine , I like Brady's , you like mine .

Speaker 2 8:13

I love yours .

Speaker 1 8:15

No , I'm just kidding . No , yeah , I like the Blackstone .

Speaker 2 8:18

Pretty nice . Yeah , you made some fire .

Speaker 1 8:21

Yeah , I know what was it Philly cheesesteak .

Speaker 2 8:24

Oh , and I'm not huge on Philly cheesesteak , but that was fire .

Speaker 3 8:28

You're welcome .

Speaker 1 8:30

Just anyone listen . Just know that you know Yep fire Thanksgiving at Keith's house .

Speaker 2 8:37

Well , with Philly cheesesteak on the menu .

Speaker 1 8:40

I don't think that feels right .

Speaker 2 8:42

Let's go the weekend before . Weekend after we're having a party at your house . You're cooking Philly cheesesteaks . Everybody's invited .

Speaker 3 8:51

Okay .

Speaker 2 8:51

Yep , I'm very excited . Okay , okay , so I've got some problems .

Speaker 1 8:59

I know , I know you do .

Speaker 3 9:01

Which ones are you talking about , though ?

Speaker 2 9:03

I went on my Oklahoma trip trip okay two weeks ago I think , and it's a pretty good drive , you know how much , how long , how much eight hours that's fun yeah , yeah , it's peaceful for the first couple hours . Is it a ?

Speaker 1 9:24

scenic drive or no ?

Speaker 2 9:26

It gets to be Really . Yeah , on the west side of Missouri it gets a little hilly , but there's where my problem kicked in .

Speaker 3 9:36

Okay .

Speaker 2 9:36

These dang semi-drivers . I'll tell you what we need a law that keeps semi drivers in their lane Go 65 mile an hour . People understand you're going to be there whenever you get there , but don't try and pass three semis and then you go up a hill and then you start backing off and you got a pile of cars back there and then you go down the hill and you all speed up and then you go back up the hill . It's like come on .

Speaker 2 10:07

Get on that gas , dump that fuel . Come on , that's my big problem . I'm like what are we doing here ? We got a big old line back here . We got to get moving . I got four more hours , and that's just on the way there , gosh dang . And that's just on the way there , gosh dang . So that's what's really been on my mind lately .

Speaker 1 10:29

Still .

Speaker 2 10:30

Yeah , I've been pretty mad about it . I'm not going to lie to you .

Speaker 1 10:33

Oh , you've had some other stuff happen that gets you a little excited . Oh , I have .

Speaker 2 10:39

You were my first answered call .

Speaker 1 10:43

There you go , that's what I'm here for you know .

Speaker 2 10:45

Yeah , first answered call . That's my boy . So when was that ? A week and a half ago ? No , it was my first one .

Speaker 3 10:55

A week ago .

Speaker 1 10:56

What day of the week was it ?

Speaker 2 11:00

One was Friday and the next weekend .

Speaker 1 11:04

It was on election day , wasn't it Tuesday ? Maybe Tuesday morning ?

Speaker 2 11:09

Tuesday morning .

Speaker 1 11:11

Right , no , it was rainy that day . When did you get that thing ?

Speaker 2 11:17

The first one was on a Saturday .

Speaker 3 11:19

Was it , mm-hmm .

Speaker 2 11:22

Before the election so a week and a half ago was my first one . And then got that processed and it was maybe a few days later . First deer right , yeah , so first deer was a little fork buck and we'll take it . We will .

Speaker 1 11:43

We'll take a good shot . I'm going to look at . I'm gonna look at the messages okay when you sent that , because now I'm curious that I don't know yeah , so I got my first one .

Speaker 2 11:54

Very exciting , um had brady help me but then he had to go to his family so I was stuck doing that . Because people have jobs , I guess I don't know what's that weird ? Um , and then a few days later , little seven point buck come walking across as I'll tell you what .

Speaker 2 12:19

So I was sitting there , I got in at like 6 , 15 , like a little late , like a little past shooting light , and I didn't see anything . I didn't spook anything , I didn't see anything . I didn't hear any squirrels , saw a fox , saw a coyote , but no noises at all . So I'm just sitting up there hanging out , um , and then I see a buck , probably 200 yards away , running across the field smelling the dough , um , and tried to call it

Deer Hunting Adventures

Speaker 2 12:54

in .

Speaker 1 12:54

You know , I've been working on that , yeah , and it didn't work and I the way that carter was explaining to this , to me , this whole story , the way he was explaining to me over the phone in my head I could only picture him again , just by his wording , that he was trying to make these grunt calls just straight up with his mouth like no call , because he said he was which . So this is the deer's not in yet . Is what you're saying ?

Speaker 3 13:27

Right .

Speaker 1 13:27

Okay , yep , well , he was telling me that , like when he got drawn on the buck that he got , he said that he had his bow drawn and then he started grunting at it . So I was like wait a minute , you're grunting at this deer with just your mouth . What are you doing ?

Speaker 2 13:47

No , I mean , that's probably how I said it whenever I called you , I know I was freaking shaking . This whole tree was shaking , I was shaking so bad ?

Speaker 1 13:58

Go back to where you were .

Speaker 2 13:59

First deer , it was a buck Tried calling it Didn't work . I was like got to thinking because I had a few hours just sitting there , nothing going on . I was like , well , I saw these videos on how these guys do it , so I'll try and just mimic that . And I was doing that . I was eating a pop tart , yeah , just crunching as loud as the rapper will allow me .

Speaker 2 14:24

Uh , and I'm stood up looking to my right like straight , straight , right , feet turned all the way , and then I hear a little leaf crunch to my left like that's a big squirrel or something . So I look over , he's 17 yards , like my gosh . Then he went to the left of that tree , right where he couldn't see me . So I twisted real quick , grabbed the bow and then he came like 10 yards and walked into the creek , kind of quartering away a little too much for an amateur hunter that I am . So I was drawn back then and then he jumped in the creek and then was starting to walk out and I pulled back again and then I was making my little bleating noises , or whatever they're called , and the first one apparently he didn't hear me or something . So he stepped out of the creek and I did it again , and then he stopped and was staring at me .

Speaker 2 15:26

Then wah-bam me then wah bam , wah bam , and that's pretty much what it sounded like yeah ran 60 yards . You said 20 . No , he is . He laid down 20 yards from where my other one . Oh , so they both like were in the same general area , yeah .

Speaker 1 15:47

But pretty cool . So I was looking . What day did you get the bigger buck ? On Tuesday this week .

Speaker 2 15:55

Monday , tuesday it was the day you were working .

Speaker 1 15:59

Yeah , that's every day . You came on the lunch . I work every day .

Speaker 2 16:03

It was probably a Tuesday .

Speaker 1 16:04

It was definitely auesday , um . So you got your your fork saturday and then your buck , your bigger buck on tuesday there's so the same week , yeah three , four days apart wow , that's pretty cool .

Speaker 2 16:19

That means I got too much time on my hands . That's what that means . Not for long , though , right , yeah , not for long .

Speaker 1 16:24

Yeah , um , that's pretty sweet though yeah I've seen one deer , one one . I guess they're all shootable technically , yeah , but one mature doe and then two deerlings .

Speaker 2 16:42

I and they caught you snoozing . Mm-hmm , or was that another time ? Nah , wasn't one blowing at ?

Speaker 1 16:49

you , I didn't see that one . Oh , I don't think I heard it . Okay , I've seen one deer from my stand . Nice and the two yearlings all year so far and you've sat 10 times probably Two yearlings all year so far and you've sat 10 times probably . More than you and Brady probably combined .

Speaker 3 17:10

Yeah .

Speaker 1 17:12

I don't know , that might not be true . I didn't mean that that sounded like I was . That sounded very passive , aggressive .

Speaker 2 17:17

You just go out there and sit , yeah , like a real G .

Speaker 1 17:21

I feel like I've been out there enough to see deer . I've sat out all day twice and you saw one get hit . I swear , yeah , I swear . I saw one get hit on the highway from my stand . It was just after shooting lights so it was hard to see .

Speaker 2 17:39

If you went out there and got a picture of it .

Speaker 3 17:43

Just claim that deer .

Speaker 2 17:44

My first deer . Where'd you shoot it ?

Speaker 1 17:47

I think it was a GMC .

Speaker 2 17:51

About 60 miles an hour . Yeah , so pretty cool For my first deer . That's very exciting . Yeah , beginner's luck . Nah , that's what I think . It's pretty cool , though . Yeah , that's what I think . Shoot .

Speaker 1 18:06

It's pretty cool though .

Speaker 2 18:07

Yeah , it's been fun . I am tired and worn out of processing deer .

Speaker 3 18:15

Yeah .

Speaker 2 18:15

That's a Either I'm not very good at it , which is probably correct , or it's just a long process .

Speaker 1 18:23

It's not a quick process . I don't think of even for a skilled person dragging it , gutting it .

Speaker 2 18:30

That sounded like a shot at you or someone yeah , someone's good with stuff , doing anything really yeah , no it's a lot , but very blessed to get a couple deer this year and have meat in the freezer yeah .

Speaker 1 18:46

So that's sweet , just got that deep freeze .

Speaker 2 18:50

Yeah , ready for your deer to get in there .

Speaker 1 18:55

I'm about to start slinging I keep saying it , but I'm about to start slinging some of these arrows at squirrels . Get them squirrels . Oh my gosh . They're driving me nuts .

Speaker 2 19:04

They're probably everywhere .

Speaker 1 19:05

That's crazy . Get them . And then I tried to put up another stand and that was a whole mess . Oh yeah , it's still not up . I don't want to talk about it . I'll get a little fired up .

Speaker 2 19:17

Let's do it tonight , come on .

Speaker 1 19:20

Just go out in the dark .

Speaker 2 19:21

Try to lift that stand . That seems safe . Yeah , and that's what I'm about really safety . Yeah , I've always said that .

Speaker 1 19:29

Yeah , the same day you shot your little fork , our most recent guest , adam Fox , shot a nice 10-point buck . Was it 10 ? I think so .

Speaker 2 19:42

That thing was massive , it was nice . Yeah , Shout out Adam . What a a beast with the recur with a freaking that's impressive stick and string and a little wooden stick with a sharp end on it w that's called an arrow , hey that's my boy .

Speaker 1 20:00

Come on . Yeah , that's fun . That's sick , um , that's sick . Speaking of which , do you have anything else to catch up ?

Speaker 2 20:08

with Winter is here . Okay , it's cold . Are you a big cold guy or no ?

Speaker 1 20:14

I'd rather be cold than hot .

Speaker 2 20:16

I'd rather be cold while I'm sleeping .

Speaker 3 20:20

Okay .

Speaker 2 20:23

I'd rather work outside whenever it's hot than cold .

Speaker 1 20:25

Yeah , I guess it depends on what you're working on . Yeah , but I okay , so I don't have an issue with sweating , but my issue is just like stepping outside and sweating for no reason .

Speaker 2 20:36

I hate that part of and like a hot shower just isn't the same . It's like , oh , I get out of the hot shower and I start sweating .

Speaker 1 20:43

I just feel sticky , yeah , awesome . So's like oh , I get out of the hot shower and I start sweating . I just feel sticky , yeah , yeah , awesome . So overall , I feel like I'd rather be on the cooler side than hot side .

Speaker 3 20:52

Okay .

Speaker 1 20:53

I like winter . I don't like winter when it's just cold and

Weather Talk and Grumpy Club Welcome

Speaker 1 20:57

no snow .

Speaker 2 20:57

If it's going to be cold snow we are like prime spot of not getting snow .

Speaker 1 21:04

Yeah it's been awful here lately like the last , lately the last couple years yeah for a while was it three years ago we had that big ice storm or whatever yeah , we get those and then like no snow at all last year .

Speaker 1 21:17

yeah , except we had the most snow days , I think , last year . For school we had like three snow days last year and last year for school . We had like three snow days last year and any of the days I don't think we got snow , it was just Just straight ice . Yeah , it was like predicted snow that didn't really happen , I guess .

Speaker 2 21:33

Yeah , I was just saying . A couple of those were like okay .

Speaker 1 21:36

Or like maybe we did get some , but like it didn't last more than a day and it wasn't near as much as we thought it was supposed to be .

Speaker 2 21:45

Yeah , these dang kids nowadays won't even know what hit them if we get real snow . Yeah , no kidding , driving skills ain't there . It's crazy .

Speaker 1 21:55

Yeah , were you going somewhere with that ?

Speaker 2 21:57

Nope , it's just cold and my hands are itchy .

Speaker 1 21:59

I think I made a mistake .

Speaker 2 22:02

On what .

Speaker 1 22:03

I pulled out the Carhartt like middle October .

Speaker 2 22:07

What's that Carhartt's are on .

Speaker 1 22:09

Yeah , Carhartt season wasn't started yet and I made the mistake .

Speaker 2 22:14

Oh , I broke my rule though .

Speaker 1 22:16

But it was like 30 degrees , it was like 34 degrees that week , three days in a row , or something like that in the morning I'm like what else am I going to ?

Speaker 3 22:24

wear Right .

Speaker 1 22:25

But then it got warm again , like back up into like a low of 65 . Like this is what are we summer now ?

Speaker 2 22:32

or what . Yeah , it's Illinois .

Speaker 1 22:34

Hate it .

Speaker 2 22:35

It's a bummer . We need to move . No , we got freaking , we got roots here . Brother , Macedonian roots , come on .

Speaker 1 22:46

I don't think so .

Speaker 2 22:47

Oh , not yet . Yeah , because you're Macedonian . Yeah .

Speaker 1 22:53

You got to spread your roots . I don't know if I've met any other Macedonians .

Speaker 2 22:57

I don't think that's a .

Speaker 1 22:59

Not a real place . Is that what you were ?

Speaker 2 23:01

going to say Well , I mean , I don't think people make it up like you do .

Speaker 1 23:05

Hey , I'm just going to let you know .

Speaker 3 23:07

King .

Speaker 1 23:07

Arthur .

Speaker 2 23:09

Or whatever . Whatever you said .

Speaker 1 23:12

When Macedonia does get internet connection , they're going to have a lot of angry listeners talking smack on you guys .

Speaker 3 23:22

Yeah , I hope yeah .

Speaker 1 23:23

They're going to come after us Talking smack on you guys .

Speaker 2 23:25

Yeah , I hope so . That way I can hear from them .

Speaker 1 23:29

Oh , that's funny .

Speaker 2 23:30

Yeah , that's good .

Speaker 1 23:32

Anything else . I think that was it so we got a couple emails , One of them from who we were just talking about a second ago , Sir Adam Fox . He starts off this email . He said I would like to welcome Levi to our grumpy old man club , solely based on the Halloween rant . He said you are our youngest member . That's awesome . Got that going for me .

Speaker 1 24:05

Yeah , that's sick , he said but I think you're well qualified and I agree with your assessment of recent Halloweens around town . Other than he said , however , in Woodson we still do it right , and only on one night . Shout out to Woodson , I guess .

Speaker 2 24:20

And I went this year .

Speaker 1 24:22

Do I get ? You went sugar trading . Well , I walked with Brady's family . I was like that's weird Because we all .

Speaker 2 24:28

It was me , mom Dad , brady , zoe , madeline Mason .

Speaker 3 24:32

Yeah .

Speaker 2 24:32

And we walked State Street . Yeah , oh my gosh . There was like Like there'd be like one big house and then you walk like six houses and then another .

Speaker 1 24:43

So they're not even no , it's not even cool People who are supposed to keep it alive aren't even doing it , right yeah . Maybe that's a good thing , though . Maybe that'll start spreading people out around town instead of just going down .

Speaker 2 24:52

They had to shut off , though , like cop cars and stuff I'm like , but there's nothing .

Speaker 1 25:05

I mean there's a few houses and we went to two houses . Yeah it Halloween felt weird this week , being in like the middle of the week , mm-hmm , which I don't know if that's obviously changes each year . But yeah , but do I get anything like ? Do I get a card or anything that says like I'm in this club ?

Speaker 2 25:16

I'd assume . So it seems like a established club you think there's ?

Speaker 1 25:20

maybe I need to reach out to Adam . I didn't know if there's . Maybe there's like some meetings I need to start attending .

Speaker 2 25:25

Yeah , I think you get a free format . You get the grumpy old man for to put out on your Halloween night . Oh , ok , just let him know like hey you better do it right , or I'm going to gripe and you will hear about it .

Speaker 1 25:39

There you go . Yeah , ok , well , so I got that to look forward to , at least for next year . Yeah , I don't hear anything

Varieties of Faith and Camping Food

Speaker 1 25:48

. I'll read a couple of his other thoughts here . He said talking about the TikTok clip . Yes , the one that Carter brought up , I believe , is what the one he was referring to he said . Though I think I get what the speaker is trying to convey , I don't agree with how he is conveying it , which I think is kind of how I felt during that yeah um , but he said I think both of your thoughts and comments about it were more in line with what I would think .

Speaker 1 26:18

I also would think that everyone is different and not everyone needs a thorn in their side to be dependent on god I think there are times when we all need something like that to remind us that God is in control and we should focus on him and his provision , but not everyone is motivated by something like that . This is a topic that could be discussed in much greater detail and more than an email can convey it's . You know , I read this the other day and thanks to adam for always writing these emails , because it's fun to hear from yeah , we do someone more mature and than us .

Speaker 1 26:56

Yeah , and also , and also just someone smarter yeah , that's like better educated yeah , so it's like okay , it goes back to like why ? Like in my head , like why are we doing ?

Speaker 2 27:10

it's like I , we sound probably like idiots yeah , compared to some other people like I know where they say like okay yeah you guys are doing good and yeah all this , I bet maybe they're lying to us I don't know , know .

Speaker 1 27:21

Yeah , you're right , maybe they are .

Speaker 2 27:22

I don't assume they are .

Speaker 1 27:24

I don't know , but it's like gosh . I wish I could put my thoughts together as well as some of these other people . Yeah , they're so good . Yeah , Thanks Adam .

Speaker 1 27:36

And then he's had talking about the faith of the centurion . The faith of the centurion regarding the faith of the centurion , how he completely believed that Jesus would heal the servant and that he was not worthy of Jesus coming into his house . His faith was admirable and he knew that Jesus was the Christ without seeing a thing . In some ways , I guess it could be called blind faith . It got me thinking about the stark contrast between the centurion and the centurion that was guarding Jesus while he was on the cross . It took all of the things to happen when Jesus breathed his last for the centurion to acknowledge that Jesus was truly the Son of God , and he inputted Mark 1539 . It took a spectacular thing that this centurion could see before he would believe , but the other centurion needed to see nothing to believe .

Speaker 1 28:33

I just thought it was interesting , and this goes to show that we are all different and all people come to faith in different ways . I went to put more thought into it but was hoping you two could also provide some insight . That's another one of those . That's a great connection , yeah .

Speaker 2 28:54

I'm not going to say I would have never put that together , but it's good to hear that yeah that , yeah , it is a .

Speaker 1 29:01

It is a crazy like when you put those two people side by side . They're both roman , fairly high-ranking soldiers , I guess like important people and whatever and we don't know everything about them .

Speaker 1 29:20

We don't know a lot about them , really about them . We don't know a lot about them really . Uh , but yeah , for one to just be like , I know , for I know for a fact with all my heart that you can just say it and it will be done compared to this guy who was watching jesus die slowly and painfully on the cross and still not believe anything until after he had died .

Speaker 3 29:47

Yeah .

Speaker 1 29:47

Like it is and maybe and we know , I guess , that there's plenty of people that never believed , that even did see the miracles and stuff like that .

Speaker 3 30:01

Yeah .

Speaker 1 30:02

I'm sure there are plenty of other Romans that were up close to a lot of it that never believed what they were seeing .

Speaker 2 30:09

I guess yeah , I think that comes up in this next chapter that we're going to get through , where I thought of this and I don't know if it's true or not , but it's almost like they were watching these miracles as almost like a circus act . Like wow , that was really cool , like do another one , do another trick .

Speaker 3 30:35

Yeah .

Speaker 2 30:35

Instead of wow , look at the power of God . I mean it's . How do you not believe this ?

Speaker 1 30:42

Yeah , and I'm sure , like to some of the Romans at that time I'm just guessing here , I don't know for sure To them it was kind of like you said , just kind of entertainment , but also maybe to them because we know that they did look down on the Jews as like second class , like okay , well , this guy is keeping the Jews kind of occupied . There's nothing bad for us to kind of take care of right now . And maybe they were just like , yeah , just let it go on and use that as I don't know in their heads like crowd control and keeping the lower class citizens that kind of in their place . Yeah , I guess I don't know . Now we obviously know that that's not what Jesus was there for , right .

Speaker 2 31:33

Yeah , and we all I'm speaking for a lot of people here , but I assume we all want to be like the first centurion , where it's like I don't need to see it , I believe it . Um , yeah , and I'm sure not a lot of us are like that at times um , where it is kind of all right , I need , I don't need to see something , but let me you know .

Speaker 1 32:01

yeah , it kind of goes back to the thought of people waiting for some big , spectacular thing to happen , and then I'll believe that's kind of what that was . It was that we know , at Jesus' death , the curtains or the—was it the curtains ?

Speaker 2 32:20

I forget the word I think that sounds— yeah .

Speaker 1 32:23

Ripped in half and fell . It's like all of that and the way , like the last words that Jesus spoke and all that stuff like to that centurion that probably was that big like oh my gosh what did we do ? And for the other guy , he didn't need that big spectacular thing .

Speaker 3 32:42

Yeah .

Speaker 1 32:43

So yeah , it is kind of like Adam said we're not all the same and people respond to belief and faith differently .

Speaker 2 32:53

Yeah , I think , with seeing God and his work , it's here . I mean you go out in nature , you see these animals and the trees and all this stuff and even creation of life . I mean , yeah , if you see babies , it's like how do you think that just came from ?

Speaker 2 33:11

nothing like that's the lord right there . Um , it's just crazy to me how people don't look at it that way . I guess , as a I don't know if you call it a miracle , but God's hand at work , I guess it's pretty amazing , especially with Brady and Zoe having kids and just watching them grow up .

Speaker 3 33:35

It's more relevant , yeah .

Speaker 2 33:36

Yeah , so pretty cool .

Speaker 1 33:39

Yeah , and then we'll get back into some of that Bible talk in a second . Just to finish up some of Adam's thoughts . So last time you talked about bringing up songs every episode and I think that's a good idea . I think I wrote down a couple to throw in at the end of this one , but Adam threw a couple in . Pray for the Fish is one of my favorites and I have on the CD from Adam . You may also want to give a listen to Do it Again by Elevation , Worship and Same Power by Jeremy Camp . So give those a lesson Lesson . Yeah , give them a lesson . Give those a lesson Lesson .

Speaker 3 34:25

Yeah , give them a lesson .

Speaker 2 34:26

Give them a lesson .

Speaker 1 34:27

And then we had this same question from Adam in another emailer what is your favorite camping food ? Because we talked a little bit about how we want to go camping . We just haven't had the time . I guess , what are your favorite camping food ? Do you prefer freeze-dried , freeze , dried fire cooking something different ? And then he threw in some of his favorites , so I haven't done any like survival camping , I guess . Well , nothing I mean like extended camping trips . I guess , we had a couple that we went . They were at a campground .

Speaker 2 35:06

Yeah , show up late , eat late , set up late yeah .

Speaker 1 35:10

But those hot dogs over a fire is good . Hot dog , I'm thinking hot dog .

Speaker 3 35:17

Oh yeah .

Speaker 1 35:19

With some barbecue , oh , some barbecue all day Fire .

Speaker 2 35:22

That's definitely a campfire thing , okay . Thank you , i's definitely a campfire thing , okay .

Speaker 1 35:24

Thank you .

Speaker 2 35:25

I'll keep it there , though I'll keep it at a campfire thing . I don't think I'd bring it to the kitchen , okay .

Speaker 1 35:30

Whatever . Anyways , what do we have ? What do we call it ? Is it just a tinfoil dinner ?

Speaker 2 35:37

A hobo dinner .

Speaker 1 35:38

Hobo , dimmer , dimmer , dimmer , dimmer , dimmer .

Speaker 2 35:46

I can't talk , yeah , um , I kept wanting to call it a like a cowboy dinner , but that's like beans in a can or something like that , isn't it ? Yeah , yeah , so I keep getting them , except that was good , like just real good , tinfoil some potatoes , yeah , carrots butter yeah , and if we have any suggestions on how not to burn I think a quarter of it to the tinfoil and then you get to eat the rest of it . You know what I mean . It just sticks to it . Yeah , yours was worse than mine .

Speaker 1 36:10

I think we probably just put it too direct to the fire . I guess that could be . I think you're supposed to kind of put it more on coals . Not enough butter , Not in the fire .

Speaker 2 36:21

Yeah , yeah , I think we didn't let which we got there late , so we had .

Speaker 1 36:25

We were kind of rushing and then it got cold yeah , killed some bunnies yeah terrible yeah , the second time was definitely better , yeah what do we have the second time , though , I think it was the hot dogs , wasn't it ?

Speaker 2 36:36

oh , just the dogs . Oh no , no , no no . Second time was the hobo dinner . First time was the dogs , you sure ? Mm-hmm , okay , I'll take your word for it , because we went to Walmart because we thought we were going to have plenty of time . The second time we went to Walmart .

Speaker 1 36:51

We were still late . Yeah , yeah , there we go .

Speaker 3 36:55

Yeah .

Speaker 1 36:56

It was good , though ?

Speaker 3 36:57

Yeah , I've not really tried any of the .

Speaker 1 37:05

We bought them both times to take and have the freeze-dried , just adding some water .

Speaker 2 37:07

Yeah , I think we were mountain house people . That's what I've used before and I've had quite a few of them . I like them . They're a little pricey , but they're so convenient , they're so light .

Speaker 1 37:20

That's something the peak ones look good .

Speaker 2 37:22

Yeah , I think Emma bought me some last year for christmas . I ate a few of those . They're good , um , but as far as meals go , is it like a mixture of things , like the hobo dinner was like everything , or like just like meat . It was like me , I'll go freaking steaks on a uh , what's that thing ?

Speaker 1 37:51

the uh , go ahead . I don't know what you're going , I don't know um the big heavy cast iron skillet thing . Oh , oh , my gosh words tonight I'll tell you what , but they're .

Speaker 2 38:05

Oh my gosh . Me and ryan made those and we added so much butter , but it was . I don't know if we were hungry or what , but it was some of the best stuff I've ever had . Ever it was just like cheap steak from hy-vee . Yeah like .

Speaker 1 38:21

Oh , it's so much better on campfire yeah so that's probably number one , and then yeah , yeah , I think , especially if you're doing like a night , maybe even two yeah having like food to cook and not the freeze-dried or dehydrated stuff .

Speaker 2 38:37

I guess , um , but then it's hard to beat breakfast . I I mean , if you cook up some bacon eggs .

Speaker 3 38:44

Did we cook ?

Speaker 2 38:45

breakfast we went .

Speaker 1 38:48

I feel like we got bacon dinner and not important . Okay , we can move on , I don't know .

Speaker 2 38:54

Anyways , it's hard to beat breakfast on a campfire . Something about that bacon sizzling up . Get them eggs going . But I think I messed up on the eggs one time . I didn't dump out some of the grease , so there's a lot of grease .

Speaker 1 39:12

I bet you could do like a breakfast style hobo dinner . Yeah , I bet you could yeah , basically just like an egg casserole looking kind of thing .

Speaker 2 39:22

Yeah , I was thinking omelet , but more of a casserole . Yeah , That'd be good . Let's do it right now . No thanks , okay , that sounds so good though .

Speaker 1 39:33

Oh what , my tacos weren't good enough for you tonight . No , they were real good .

Speaker 2 39:35

Oh really , I should have warmed up the beef more , but that's something I want to get more into is the freeze I want to freeze dry or dehydrate my own food and like vacuum seal it . I don't have any of the stuff for that , but that's something I definitely want to get into . I think that'd be nice and be way cheaper start making that deer jerky dude yeah that'd be good let's go eat food right now . I'm so hungry . Make a quick intermission , that'd be good . Yeah , let's go eat food right now . I'm so hungry .

Speaker 1 40:06

Okay , make a quick intermission . Yeah , we're going to be right back . We'll stay right . We'll keep it right here .

Speaker 2 40:11

Yeah , we'll keep it right here . Shout out , Brady .

Speaker 1 40:15

Yeah , very few people will get that reference . I don't think Brady will listen to this anymore , Nah , nah , anyways .

Speaker 2 40:22

So what's yours , what's your favorite ? Did you answer ?

Speaker 1 40:25

Yeah , you know how we started that conversation .

Speaker 2 40:27

You're the hobo dinner guy . Yeah , that was good .

Speaker 1 40:31

I mean any meat , yeah , but I think I , kind of like I said , anything that you can cook is probably better than the dehydrated . Yeah , but again , I guess I've not really tried the dehydrated dinners .

Speaker 2 40:47

Higher risk , higher reward , because you could mess it up and not eat very good food , but usually it works out . Yeah , oh , did we explain what is in our hobo dinner ? Because ?

Speaker 1 41:05

I'm sure people do it differently . Yeah , I mean , I kind of said it . We just put some some ground beef um potatoes , carrots peppers yeah , I think you see some threw some peppers in there . Yep , then just season it with salt and pepper and some butter .

Speaker 2 41:23

Yeah , a lot of butter ,

Jesus Forgives and Calls Matthew

Speaker 2 41:26

so good .

Speaker 1 41:26

You could throw whatever you want in it . Really , yeah , Some sausage would be good in that . Oh , we did kielbasa . We cut up the kielbasa the rounds .

Speaker 3 41:37

Oh yeah , we threw that in there too yeah that was good , like Polish sausage .

Speaker 2 41:43

And we had raccoons take something . Yeah , that was good Like Polish sausage . And we had raccoons take something , yeah we had like bread or something .

Speaker 1 41:49

Yeah , they took the whole bag . Yeah , that was gone , that's right . In the morning it was just . Yeah , that's right .

Speaker 2 41:55

So that's our inexperienced selves trying to camp .

Speaker 3 41:59

Yeah .

Speaker 1 41:59

So we've spent about 40 minutes talking about Nothing . Nothing , oh , adam provided most of our conversation so far .

Speaker 1 42:03

So we've spent about 40 minutes talking about nothing , adam provided most of our conversation so far , so we'll get into our little bit of Matthew 9 here . I guess I'll go first . This isn't where I want to spend most of my thoughts . But in Matthew 9 , the beginning , I'm not going to read it , I'm going to paraphrase Jesus forgives a paralyzed man . Or Jesus forgives and then by doing that he heals this paralyzed man in front of a crowd . So it's a miracle that he performs . Paralyzed man in front of a crowd . So it's a miracle that he performs . And um , he says that .

Speaker 1 42:51

he says take heart , son , your sins are forgiven yeah and the pharisees that are watching this , because they started following around like , okay , who is this person ? What is he doing wrong ? We need to catch him doing something he's not supposed to be doing . So they hear this and they're like hold on . The only person that can forgive sins is god , and to them that , like this guy's claimed to be god and he can't be so , he's blaspheming yeah and so this is like the I think at least in matthew .

Speaker 1 43:22

In matthew the first time , the like the I think at least in Matthew the first time , the teachers of the law , the Pharisees , sadducees , are like we're going after this guy . Now this guy is on our radar , pretty hardcore . He's claiming basically , by his words to be God , and Jesus kind of has a back and forth with him . By his words to be God and Jesus kind of has like a back and forth with him . But yeah , it was one that stuck out just for that . Like okay , this is where things in Matthew really start to kick off in probably a little bit scary way , especially for the followers at that time and the disciples .

Speaker 2 44:07

Yeah , I was thinking about . I'm like I was going to say this was kind of the start of them trying to get him in prison or stop him , but Didn't he ? I mean , they tried to kill him as a baby , at a young age , and they had to move . Yeah , I mean so , but it wasn't .

Speaker 1 44:31

Yes , it was , but it was . They were just trying to kill all the babies in that area .

Speaker 2 44:36

Yeah , and just get rid of them , king .

Speaker 1 44:38

Herod From the start .

Speaker 3 44:40

Yeah .

Speaker 1 44:41

Because they .

Speaker 2 44:43

So yeah . So that's a kind of ongoing thing , but here's where it starts to pick up , I guess . It starts to get momentum in Jesus filling out his prophecy and doing the mission .

Speaker 1 44:57

That reminds me Sorry to interrupt . I want to one of these episodes . Just talk about prophecies yeah there's . Obviously there's an insane amount of them that he's fulfilled and some that haven't been fulfilled yet , but I want to spend time like talking about some of them and how , like you probably could have missed them pretty easily that would be fun sorry , just a yeah , that would be fun .

Speaker 1 45:21

But uh , the part that I kind of picked out was the calling of Matthew . So it goes . It's Matthew 9 , starts in verse 9 . It says as Jesus went on from there , he saw a man named Matthew sitting at the tax collector's booth . Follow me , he told him . And Matthew got up and followed him , which is crazy , yeah . But when the Pharisees saw this , they asked his disciples why does your teacher eat with tax collectors and sinners ? On hearing this , jesus said it is not the healthy who need a doctor , but the sick . But go and learn what this means . I desire mercy , not sacrifice , for I have not come to call the righteous but sinners , and you brought that line up last time . I believe that it's not the healthy who need the doctor , but the sick . And there are a lot of things that stuck out to me there . The one that made me chuckle , I guess , was the line where it says why does your teacher eat with tax collectors and sinners ? It's like , brother , we're all sinners .

Speaker 2 46:43

Yeah , what do you mean ?

Speaker 1 46:44

So you're saying you're not , can't eat with anybody ever , Right , yeah , and then that's yeah . These Pharisees and Sadducees are saying that they're perfect and they've never sinned , Unless maybe they're not . Maybe they're saying that they've somehow cleansed themselves of these sins .

Speaker 3 47:02

Yeah .

Speaker 1 47:05

But even then that's crazy .

Faith, Mercy, and Healing

Speaker 1 47:10

And then it was funny because like and I know some people could explain it better , but like tax collectors were even to the Jewish people were like outcast to the Jewish community Taking my daggum money . The Jewish community Taking my daggum money ? Because thinking about it now it blows my mind , but I don't know the social structure of that time , I guess . But it's like they're Jewish people usually working the tax booths for the Romans , and it wasn't them imposing the taxes , they were just the workers for the Romans , yeah .

Speaker 2 47:43

Or enforcing it right .

Speaker 1 47:44

They're just like yeah , the roman soldiers were the ones enforcing it if they , you know ? Um no , not saying that , whatever , I don't know , but I just thought it was . I just think it's . It's an interesting thing to look at that they're separating and putting in their head tax collectors and sinners as two of the lowest things you could be . Yeah .

Speaker 2 48:09

I think I saw a list of it and they're the bottom . Yeah , but I mean watching the Chosen . Matthew had a lot of money and a pretty good house , so I'm sure they're looking at it as like he's taking all my money and he's got all these things just by sitting in there taking our money .

Speaker 1 48:27

Yeah , that's true . Sorry , go ahead .

Speaker 2 48:32

I don't know where you're going with next , but what I laughed at kind of was on hearing this . Jesus said whatever you know , yeah , can you imagine being that guy ? He's like , oh crap , he heard me .

Speaker 3 48:48

Oh gosh , Sorry yeah .

Speaker 1 48:51

Because he said . He said , while the Pharisees saw this , they asked his disciples .

Speaker 2 48:55

Yeah , it's like I'm hearing this .

Speaker 1 48:57

Jesus said there's not that . Yeah , that is funny .

Speaker 2 49:00

He just got caught .

Speaker 1 49:04

Like that is funny , he just got caught . That'd be not great . But yeah , the one thing that stuck out first was Jesus . Just saw this dude and was like hey , let's go . And then Matthew's like , alright , got it . So that one it tells me that Matthew had been looking for that in some way , from God leading up to it .

Speaker 3 49:31

Yeah .

Speaker 1 49:32

Like we've talked about it before , I think , but like you don't pray for something and then not notice it when it comes , I most , I would assume .

Speaker 2 49:46

Yeah , if it's heavy on your heart .

Speaker 1 49:48

Not that you can't , I guess , but if you're thinking about it , you're going to notice it .

Speaker 3 49:52

Yeah .

Speaker 1 49:52

Like , if someone says , like , don't look at that green object , you're going to want to look at that green object yeah , yeah , you know . So it's like if you're praying about something , you're thinking about a lot . It's going to be something that catches your eye . You're not going to be . I don't think you're going to be super unprepared for it .

Speaker 2 50:08

And so it tells me that Kind of waiting on that moment or that sign , you know .

Speaker 1 50:11

So it tells me that Matthew , for him to just be like got it , I'm coming .

Speaker 2 50:15

And that faith . Yeah , can you imagine , if you're like , I quit my job , I'm out of here .

Speaker 3 50:21

I'm going to fall . I'm dropping everything you said , my good paying job . Yeah .

Speaker 1 50:24

I feel good about yeah . So yeah , that's , that's one thing . That's I think I thought was pretty cool for Matthew To just . It was obviously something . If Matthew wasn't struggling in his head with something or wanting a closer relationship with God in some way , he wouldn't have been like who me , why no ? Like looking for almost needing convinced or something like that . He didn't need it . Jesus said follow me , and he did . Closed up shop Took off , so I thought that was pretty cool .

Speaker 3 51:00

Yeah .

Speaker 1 51:00

And then the other part was let me just double check where that was .

Speaker 2 51:07

I think this whole thing , from what I've read , is obviously showing the miracles , but the faith in these certain people . There's such strong faith that they just are ready for that next step . You know , yeah , like all the healing and miracles . It's like I know you can do it . Just bless me , I guess , with that .

Speaker 1 51:33

Yeah . So then the last part of what I kind of caught on to here was 12 and 13 , I guess kind of go together , but more in 9 , 13 . On hearing this , jesus said it is not the healthy who need a doctor , but the sick . But go and learn what this means . I desire mercy , not sacrifice . So I desire mercy , not sacrifice . Is Jesus quoting Hosea 6.6 . And Hosea 6.6 says I'll read from 4 through 6, . I guess what can I do with you , ephraim ? What can I do with you , judah ? Your love is like the morning mist , like the early dew that appears . Therefore , I cut you into pieces with my prophets , I killed you with the words of my mouth . Then my judgments go forth like the sun , for I desire mercy , not sacrifice , and acknowledgement of God rather than burnt offerings . So I was like mercy , not sacrifice . What does that mean ?

Speaker 3 52:42

Now .

Speaker 1 52:42

I don't know how much of what I read around Hosea connects , but he died was just reading where he quoted it from but it made me start thinking about what is mercy and why , why not sacrifice . And then I was looking through my phone notes and I don't know if this was from a couple years ago and I just had in , like I have just like a page of notes that I add to , I guess , when I have like thoughts or questions , or like a piece of scripture that stuck out to me and I wrote in my notes . So this isn't completely on with what I was getting at , I guess , but it I wrote grace verse , mercy . I heard it from something I'm not coming up with this but grace and mercy we get to gain God's riches for .

Speaker 1 53:48

Christ dying on that cross . So we gained all of God's everything by accepting and believing that Jesus died on the cross and his actions .

Speaker 2 54:01

Yeah , so maybe that is the sacrifice , jesus' sacrifice .

Speaker 1 54:05

Right , we don't need that part Right , so we don't need to . We need to accept God's mercy , not accept God's mercy . I'm not wording that right . I had my thoughts put together a lot more than I was than I started talking . So sacrifice , so mercy versus sacrifice . I guess sacrifice is like okay , I'm going to give this up or I'm going to let this go . Jesus said I'll take all those , I'll be the sacrifice and give you mercy . So it's like you don't need to sacrifice now . I am the sacrifice and you gain my mercy . The act of compassion , forgiveness , is kind of where I thought I was going . Maybe that makes sense . Maybe I'm wrong in how I'm explaining that . Someone more knowledgeable can add to that or fix what I said , maybe .

Speaker 2 55:16

But you got the point .

Speaker 1 55:18

I think so . Yeah , god is good .

Speaker 2 55:20

Sheesh ? I think so . Yeah , god is good Sheesh , sacrifice brother .

Speaker 1 55:25

Gosh , you know , for anyone listening , I try to get my thoughts together but , man , I lose it as soon as I start talking . My storytelling is like not even storytelling , just my talking . I get ahead of myself and then I lose what I was going to say and I'm like , oh , I had it put together my head's , so good yeah . And then I lose it Because on the phone with you .

Speaker 2 55:45

Sorry , I don't get it out too well . I feel your frustration through the phone , because this would be like he's telling me a good story and then something will happen , and then you're like I don't know where I was . I had something I was going to say and I lost it . I was like I want to know so bad what you were going to tell me , like you're leaving me on a cliffhanger here Myself too .

Speaker 3 56:10

Like gosh dang .

Speaker 2 56:11

We just sit there in silence for a little bit . Come up with it sometime , maybe .

Speaker 3 56:17

Never .

Speaker 1 56:18

Yeah , so All right on to you , I guess .

Speaker 2 56:28

Okay , so you chose that one . I chose a dead girl and a sick woman mainly . I was mainly focused on the dead girl .

Speaker 2 56:33

Okay , because that's uh pretty amazing yeah um , so I'll just read that , I'm not to say quick because it'll take a little bit , yeah , okay . So while he was saying this , a ruler came and knelt before him and said my daughter has just died , but come and put your hand on her and she will live . Jesus got up and went with him and so did his disciples . Just then a woman who had been subject to bleeding for twelve years came up behind him and touched the edge of his cloak . She said to herself If only I touch his cloak I will be healed . Jesus turned and saw her Take heart , daughter . He said your faith has healed you and the woman was healed from that moment .

Speaker 2 57:26

When Jesus entered the ruler's house and saw the flute players and noisy crowd , he said Go away . This girl is not dead but asleep . But they laughed at him . After the crowd had been put outside , he went in and took the girl by the hand . She got up . News of this spread through all that region . So I guess I was focused kind of on the sick woman as I was reading that I was like A little switch up there .

Speaker 2 57:56

Yeah , the thing that I pointed out first was the ruler came to him , knelt before him and said my daughter has just died , but come and put your hand on her and she will live . That's the same thing , just that faith . It's like I know you can bring this thing that's not living come back . It's like what in the world ? Just the options of a miracle are endless . It's like what in the world ? Just the options of a miracle are endless . It's amazing , but I think that's happened more than once where he brought someone back to life . So that's crazy .

Speaker 3 58:38

Himself .

Speaker 2 58:40

Yeah , amen , lazarus his friend friend , yes , another one yeah um , they rolled the rock away , yeah , yeah , um , yeah , he was . He was put down , I mean wrapped up and all his stuff . And that'd be kind of weird . Taking off your like today , taking off your suit , like all right , we're back , I get another day , yeah , that'd be crazy . Think about it , that'd be nuts . And then another one , the faith , came up behind him and touched the edge of his cloak , said to herself if only I touch his cloak , I will be healed .

Speaker 2 59:28

Like can you imagine Just like if I can just get close enough to touch it , I'll be healed .

Speaker 1 59:35

It's funny because it puts some of this . When you spend time focusing on it , I guess , and not just hearing the story , it puts some of what Jesus is capable into perspective . And it's like it's funny for us to look at it now and be like what are these people doing ? How do they see this and not believe that Jesus was who he said he was ? It's like you're seeing it , but I don't know . It's crazy . So then now you think about the stuff you pray for and you're like okay , yeah , yeah , you know like Jesus can do this . But you know , is he like is this what he wants from me ? Or like , has he got bigger things to deal with ?

Speaker 2 1:00:30

Yeah , it's like I think we all get caught up in that .

Speaker 1 1:00:33

Yeah , we get these stupid thoughts in our head , and I am definitely one of those . I definitely do that to myself and I'm like okay , like there's people out there that have bigger needs than what I'm praying for now . It's just like he can do all of it he doesn't have to focus on one he doesn't have boundaries . He literally doesn't even have to try . No .

Speaker 2 1:00:55

His cloak got touched . He was like your faith has healed you . Yeah , it's amazing . What was I ? Oh , we'll talk about it later .

Speaker 1 1:01:10

Later .

Speaker 2 1:01:11

Yeah , okay , and the next one . I read this one .

Speaker 1 1:01:16

Next episode . Maybe , If we're late . Yeah , we're running a little long .

Speaker 2 1:01:20

Okay .

Speaker 1 1:01:22

Yeah , so maybe we'll pick up a little bit , a little bit . Nine . Did you have any more thoughts about this one , or was it another section ?

Speaker 2 1:01:30

Sorry , no , I'm good here , I think Okay . I think this whole thing is faith and people spreading so quick you think of the internet . Now I feel like it would have been like that for them . Like you hear these stories of this guy he's saving all these lives like you need to go see this . So people are walking , I don't know . Hundreds of miles probably , I don't know yeah , I don't really know but it would be crazy , and especially if you had someone sick .

Speaker 2 1:02:02

Like get them to the doctor , yeah , come on , yeah , but yeah , so maybe we'll .

Speaker 1 1:02:08

If we've got some in chapter nine to any thoughts to pick up , next time maybe we'll go into finish up nine and go into 10 . Um , I guess we'll just see how it goes , but real quick I guess we'll finish with . Um goes , but real quick , I guess we'll finish with . We said just some good songs to check out . You got any ?

Speaker 2 1:02:30

I have one okay wait , what did you say last time ?

Speaker 1 1:02:34

I don't know if I said did I say any last time ? I don't know . Well , I had wrote down . I don't know . Maybe I said it on the last one . I wrote these down , but I thought I wrote them down after the last episode . But the last one I wrote these down , but I thought I wrote them down after the last episode . But the first one was I Am Barabbas . Did I say that one ? I showed it to you after .

Speaker 3 1:02:50

Yeah .

Speaker 1 1:02:51

So I Am Barabbas . By Josiah Queen . It's kind of like a storytelling song where it's like we are Barabbas , yeah , we are the ones that are sinners , but you died for us , you took our place . That's who I Praise by . Brandon .

Speaker 3 1:03:13

Lake is a good one . Is that a new one ?

Speaker 1 1:03:14

Yeah , I think it's one of his newest ones . Okay , he's got a lot of songs . It's a good one . And then another one is . Another one I heard recently from Recommendation was Straight and Narrow by Sam Barber . I've heard that name Good song , straight and Narrow .

Speaker 2 1:03:34

I feel like I've heard that . I don't remember it , I can't think of it right now , but I've heard of it . I had Gratitude by Brandon Lake .

Speaker 1 1:03:44

That's a good one .

Speaker 2 1:03:44

It is a good one . It's a little bit of a longer one , which I appreciate .

Speaker 1 1:03:47

It takes a little bit to get into yeah , but it's it's like two different songs in one like there's two , isn't it like ? Yeah completely different sounding parts .

Speaker 2 1:03:56

Yeah , but same thing yep , so if you're super bored you could check those out .

Speaker 1 1:04:04

And any of those from Adam at the beginning of class . Yeah , at the beginning of class .

Speaker 2 1:04:10

Yeah , and I guess , if our audience wants to send in music or questions .

Speaker 1 1:04:18

We'd love questions .

Speaker 2 1:04:21

And next time we'll try to speed that up a little bit and get to Scripture a little bit quicker . But we do appreciate the emails .

Speaker 3 1:04:29

Yeah .

Speaker 2 1:04:30

So thank you guys .

Speaker 1 1:04:32

Appreciate it . We'll see you guys next time . Thank you .