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The Dan Bongino Show
Part 1: TX Sen. Brian Birdwell Recalls Being at the Pentagon on 9/11
"If you could tell us your story on 9 11 at The Pentagon we would be an honor to hear it Yes sir Yes sir By the lord's grace I'm joining you now 20 years later Having been at The Pentagon And being the only survivor in the E ring at the crash site My listeners remember that portion of The Pentagon that crumbles the E ring where my desk was located was four windows to the left of where it shears off cleanly when the building crumbles The window I'm in fact behind is just to the right where the debris field remains somewhat hinged on the right hand side The first window to the right of the second floor on 5 to 7 yards behind that window Because when I went out to the men's restroom I stepped out into the E ring hallway walked through what would be the collapse point that impact point that would eventually crumble I walked through that section of the E ring went to the men's gentleman's room to the at the intersection of the fourth quarter and the E ring took care of business came out 7 or 8 steps and I'm not I'm just a few steps from turning right back into that portion that would crumble returning back to my office on the other side of the impact point So when flight 77 makes impact I mean it is I mean it's deafening and one nanoseconds You go from a well lit hallway and charge your faculties to an earthly hell of fire choking black smoke and the pain and the disorientation By the large grace I would survive that There would be my comrades in arms Bill McKinnon Roy lawless John Davies and chuck knoblauch would carry me out of the fourth quarter into an a ring passageway I'd receive my first medical care from a great air force doctor named John Baxter When he treats me inside The Pentagon for my initial care he puts some morphine shot into my right foot the IV into my left because I am so charred burnt the best way to describe how I look is just terribly indisposed I very little of my clothing remaining on me
The Dan Bongino Show
Part 2: TX Sen. Brian Birdwell Recalls Being at the Pentagon on 9/11
"Eventually get to Georgetown university hospital with a great staff there We'll give me my initial emergency room care But I'll say that last prayer with the hospital chaplain because I fully expect that I'm being called into eternity by the lord in these moments I would survive the lord would allow me to get with me That afternoon I don't know she's there but Mel will get to Georgetown That's its own harrowing story of what it took in the traffic there in those moments after impact to get to Georgetown and eventually I'd be life sliding over to the Washington hospital center mill would be taken through the Georgetown police department Georgetown university police department over to the hospital and she said it was just very eerie I mean the streets of D.C. have never been that empty Since Abraham Lincoln was the president of the United States and there would be a number of challenges we'll go through I mean I could do it all the time to name them all but everything from having maggots put on me for three days to eat the infection dead tissue what happens to you in a burn unit ban is a burn injury is terrible but what has to be done to you medically as far worse But by the lord's grace I'm still here And so many things over the last 20 years that we thought that Mel would see as a widow whether it's Matt graduating high school or college getting married and now having two grandchildren We've gotten to see as a married couple And lord willing he'll give us more years and no matter what This is still the greatest place on God's green earth And if I may be so bold to our friends in Florida Texas is still the greatest place but Florida is of course
AP News Radio
At 81, Martha Stewart becomes oldest Sports Illustrated swimsuit cover model
"Style guru Martha Stewart's tackling a new project. She's about to become the oldest woman to ever grace the cover of Sports Illustrated swimsuit edition. There are a lot of things Martha Stewart has done in life, founding a media company in 1990, impressing followers with her cooking and designing skills, saying in 2006. I'm happy about my knowledge and so many different subjects that relating to living. And now at age 81, she's posing for the cover of Sports Illustrated swimsuit edition. Stewart says she hopes it inspires other people to try new things, no matter what stage of life they're in. She's posted a video clip of the photo shoot in the Dominican Republic. Other women in the swimsuit edition coming out later this week, singer Kim petras, actress Megan Fox, and model Brooks Nader. I'm Jackie Quinn
Dennis Prager Podcasts
Proud Boys and Oath Keepers Face Severe Sentencing for Capitol Attack
"Why don't you tell us who was sentenced and what their sentences are or are likely to be? So in terms of the sentences for seditious conspiracy, four members of the Proud Boys were found guilty of that extremely rare statute that was established during the Civil War to stop the confederacy from overtaking the United States government. It has been weaponized to criminalize political dissent. Or Proud Boys found guilty of seditious conspiracy last week. You have numerous oath keepers who have also been convicted and or pleaded guilty to that charge. What happened to date after the verdicts were announced, Dennis is Matthew grace, the D.C. U.S. attorney posted a 183 page sentencing recommendation for the oath keepers, including Stuart Rhodes, its founder and leader. And the prison sentence is that Matthew graves wants the judge to approve. Matthew graves once 25 years in prison for Stuart Rhodes for being convicted of seditious conspiracy in other counts. 20 years in prison for another man, Kelly Meg, who went inside the building. Now keep in mind, short roads never went inside the building, none of them carried or used weapons. None of them assaulted police officers. These are strictly conspiracy and obstruction counts. And Dennis, what really turned my stomach is Matthew graves wanting 14 years in prison for a man named Thomas Caldwell, who is almost 70 years old, who is a decorated disabled navy lieutenant commander who used to have the highest security clearance. He also never went into the building. He was convicted of obstruction of an official proceeding, a post enhanced statute, by the way, and tampering with evidence. And these ghouls in the Department of Justice is particularly Matthew graves, the Biden campaign adviser and Biden appointee wants someone like Thomas Caldwell to die in prison. Because he was convicted by a D.C. jury of obstructing an official proceeding.
The Eric Metaxas Show
Dr. Simone Gold Faces Sentencing in Corrupt Justice System
"Back, talking to doctor Simone gold and John strand. John, how can people find you? John strand dot com. Yes, sir. John strand dot com and doctor Simone gold dot com. Now, we were talking about gold care dot com, which makes me so excited. Thank you, Jesus. That is just the idea that there are people rising up and doing these kinds of things. And it had to get this bad for people to find these solutions, but so this is exciting. But we were talking about your facing sentencing on June 1st. So I hope people will pray. To quote Thomas paine. These are the times that try men's souls. There are many people languishing in jails facing sentencing besides yourself. As a nation, we have to deal with this, just like we had to deal with ugly things in our past, the way we treated the Native Americans, the way we treated blacks, we have a checkered past, but by the grace of God we did the opportunity to face our sins and to repent and to turn away. We're in the middle of that right now with our justice system and particularly with J 6. Well, and with January 6th, people still don't understand it's a lie, actually. Thank God to Tucker Carlson for revealing some of those shocking footage pieces because that cracked the door a little bit. But it's still pervading the public consciousness that this was this really terrible event. And someone actually keyed me into this false dichotomy that were being trapped in. Just like Republican Democrat, like, oh, this side of that, no, no, it's all one cesspool of corruption. And January 6th, they're fooling you into thinking it was either a terrible event because the government's corrupt and weaponized against American citizens, or it was a terrible event because white racist Trump supporters tried to storm the capitol and destroy democracy. Those aren't the only two options.
The Eric Metaxas Show
How Dark Forces Are Working Against America
"We are operating against dark forces. We understand that it's thrown and dominions and principalities. But they work through the Department of Justice, the news media. And we have to do our part. So Brandon, you and I wouldn't be doing everything we're doing individually if we didn't have hope. You have really just bravely resurfaced. You've created this new walk away social app. You're working hard to help this country find its feet again. And I just want to say thanks for that because some people just kind of wither away and say I've had enough. And you and I are hoping that what we do will make the other side say we've had enough. Well, I'm hoping to at least do everything I can possibly do to push back against the forces that are working against us. You made a comment earlier about Tucker Carlson and that this is a time that people need to find God or lean into God. And certainly I don't have any opposition to that, but what concerns me is that particularly particularly with conservatives, there tends to be this sort of like, well, I'll put my trust in God and then I don't have to do anything. Thank you for saying that. Yeah. I wrote a whole book, my most recent book is called letter to the American church, where I basically deal with that. I talk about that on this program all the time. If your faith is just faith without works without action, it is dead, God is not blessed by your fake faith by your cheap grace, the devil laughs in your face.
The Eric Metaxas Show
Brandon Straka: Former Liberal's Journey to Understanding Trump
"I am really, really thrilled to have with me in the studio Brandon struck Brandon. I am just tickled that you are here. In the studio, some people know your story, some people don't. We've got a lot to kind of go into some new stuff in your life, but tell me, tell my audience who's not familiar with your story, the nutshell version of who is Brandon struck, what's the walk away campaign and so on? Sure. Brendan strock is somebody who was a lifelong liberal and Democrat two time Obama voter actually voted for Hillary Clinton in 2016, had a nervous breakdown when Donald Trump got elected, crying on Facebook, going crazy. And then went on a journey of research to understand how the media that I trusted, CNN, MSNBC, New York Times, et cetera, had gotten the election so wrong in 2016. I was all but promised and guaranteed that Hillary Clinton was going to win. And so I was confused and shocked and outraged, but also scared because I believed also the media narrative of what Donald Trump was. Like many of my friends and former friends still do. They believe you. They earnestly believe that stuff, which is why I feel obliged to give them grace. Because they really believe he's Hitler two. And we've got to do anything we can. And it is fascinating to sit here and to talk to somebody who was one of those people and who kind of amazingly went on a journey and found your way out of that. So that's a loan fascinating because how did that when you say you did that? I mean, did you know growing up that you were the kind of person that would do that kind of because most people just kind of go with the flow. The idea that you were so independent minded that you could be crushed by Hillary's defeat and then go on this exploration is investigation. Well, yeah, and that wasn't my intention. I mean, my certainly my intention was never to come to a point where I was okay with Donald Trump or his supporters or that I legitimately just wanted to understand it. I mean, my journey began with just a couple of questions. How did the media get it so wrong? And why would anybody vote for a man who was so terrible?
Daily Grace
A Theology of Home With Author Caroline Saunders
"We see so many stories of home throughout the whole Bible. I mean, I think that people will initially be able to see that the Bible starts with a home a perfect home and eaten. And a lot of times we can skip past that because we're getting to genesis three, we're sent interest the picture, but before that, Adam and Eve are in this place with one another with God where there is such abundance in such beauty and such delight and it's really wonderful and it shows us that no one makes a home like God. And then of course, sinters the picture. And you can see throughout the Bible that sin is like an intruding force. And sin is the ultimate enemy of home. And anyone listening will relate to that because we all have brokenness in our homes to varying degrees. And at the core of all of it is sin. It may not be our sin, it might be the sin of somebody else, and it might just be because we live in a sinful world that's broken. But sin is the enemy of home and we see the pain enter and homesickness enter right away. And then it feels like an Old Testament. It's people searching for their way back. They're searching for their way home, but at the same time, God is looking to make his home with people. There's all these glimmers, you know, we see glimmers in the tabernacle in the temple or even before that with the promised land, or even the way that God delivered his people from an unsafe home in Egypt. In an unexpected way by parting the Red Sea and things like that. So there's lots of different stories that relate to home. And when we pay attention to them, we notice that all of it points to Jesus. And so in the book this story of home, I say that God is building away home through Jesus. And the part of the way he's building the way home is because there's an enemy of home that must be conquered. This intruder has to be dealt with. And so Jesus dealt with our sin on the cross and sent the Holy Spirit after he ascended having sent the Holy Spirit to make his home in us, which is unbelievable to think about as a deposit of what is coming when Jesus will return and make all things new, a new heaven and a new earth and finally it is a perfect home that is permanent where no intruder can enter where there will be no grief, no tears, no pain. No one can break this family, no one can damage this home. No one can disrupt this home. And so I think that there's a lot that the Bible says about home and I would encourage anyone who's maybe read through the Bible or just even wherever you're reading in the Bible, you'll probably be able to notice something and what I like to do in the margin of my Bible is draw a little house and I can kind of track it that way and it's really cool to see all the different ways that God is pointing us home.
Your Daily Prayer
A Prayer for a House of Harmony
"As believers we know that there is a real spiritual battle going on. And the enemy does not want our households to serve the board. Today we are going to ask him to help us wage war by calling on his knee. Jesus to reclaim any areas were sent and demonic forces have tried to come against us. Let's pray. Jesus. Thank you for the home which you have blessed me with today. Thank you for giving me the gift of shelter. Thank you for the amazing family you have entrusted to me to learn from. Here for and to be refined by into your image. The day I recognize that I am weak. A sinner and a need of your help. I can not serve you on my own. I need your help holy spear. Belt me up to date to live by your ways and not my flesh. Remind me of humility and grace. I pray against the spiritual darkness, which tries to wreak chaos in our home. In Jesus powerful name, I ask that you have removed the work of the enemy as to steal, kill, and destroy. And provide us the fear to the spirit left out to you. Remove the lies and the thoughts that defy. Reunite us in any area in which we have been broken. God, you are the great mender of our mission. Even if the house is a physical mass from our busy lives, help us not to neglect the trueness of our heart. Fill me up by your spirit through pondering your scriptures. You say that all of your scriptures are briefed by you and are useful to me. Give me the ability to choose you over the lesser thing. Help me to cling to you and live out of a place of harmony. I pray that when the enemy sees our family, that he knows we are serving the lord, and we are sealed at the blood of Christ.
Daily Grace
Hope and Help for Handling Anger
"Anger is definitely something that I struggle with and I'm kind of one of those people who from a very young age. It just seemed like I was just angry about stuff. Like things make me angry. And so I often give the hulk analogy. I don't always see it coming like you said crystal, but I'll get like super upset. I'll have a moment where I'll say something I regret to somebody I love and then I feel like the hulk where I've just gone through and like ravaged, you know a room and then he comes back down to being Bruce banner and he looks around and he's like, what have I done? I feel that that is like my experience of anger. You know, I think I have this smoldering kind of like below the surface anger like you talked about. But I'm also a person who just gets upset and by the grace of God have learned to control my tongue over the years. But especially I think in situations where I feel overwhelmed or where I just feel super frustrated, it seems like it comes out rather than stays in if that makes sense. So I'm really excited to talk about this topic too because it's something that I have wrestled heavily with for many years and feel just a very big connection to talking about this in light of the gospel and that's kind of where I want to go next just maybe you relate to crystal arise stories about anger or maybe anger shows up differently for you but us talking through it has helped you kind of realize like I think that this is some area of my life I want to work on. I just have great news. The gospel is for the angry. I feel like this is one of those areas when anger is a sin. It's one of those areas where we think, I know God forgives, but this is just a really ugly part of me. And I don't know if he can truly forgive this, but the gospel is for the angry. So for those in Christ, the gospel covers all of the harsh words we say in the hertz we cause and our anger, the gospel helps us deal with the guilt in the destruction left by our anger in the gospel gives us a path of reconciliation in our relationships when they are damaged by anger. And even beyond that, the spirit dwells within us, correcting us, convicting us and sanctifying us. So instead of being controlled by anger, we are controlled by the spirit.
How to Study the Bible
Nicole and Author Kelly Balarie Unpack the Beauty of Ephesians 3
"I'm going to read ephesians three 16 through 18, and then let's just work through our four questions in the alive method together. So this is a fusion three 16, everyone. I pray that out of his glorious riches. He may strengthen you with power through his spirit and your inner being. So that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith. And I pray that you being rooted and established in love may have power together with all the lord's holy people to grasp how wide and long and high and deep is the love of Christ and to know this love that surpasses knowledge that you may be filled to the measure of all the fullness of God. Wow, that is a huge passage. There's so much to discover in just these three verses. So first of all, let's just observe it together and obviously you've spent a lot of time in this passage. I've spent a lot of time in this passage. It can be easy to run through it really fast, which we talk about on this podcast all the time. So let's slow the slow the script down and I would love for you to just share what words phrases like really stand out to you when you hear it this passage. First, Nicole, I just want to mention that one of the greatest life transformational things that we can do is to pray this passage. What I'm going to start to cry because the reality is it's all by God's love that we even love. We love because he first loved us. And so one of the most desperate cries of our heart is to literally pray these things over ourselves and say, God, grant me out of the rich treasury of your glory, strengthen me in my inner man. You know, and just to go through this and to pray that love and I just really felt like that was the first thing to just say because I think the reality is, aren't we all just so in need of love, I know I am. I just need to know that I'm loved by a good father and I need to be reminded of Jesus is grace and the Holy Spirit's power to reveal his love.
How to Study the Bible
Nicole and Author Kelly Balarie Unpack the Beauty of Ephesians 3
"I would love for us to do a little Bible study together since that's what we do here in how to say the Bible. So I want us to go to ephesians three. I know you talk about it in the book. One of my favorite passages, I think it would just be really, really wonderful for us to discover together. So I'm going to read ephesians three 16 through 18, and then let's just work through our four questions in the alive method together. So this is a fusion three 16, everyone. I pray that out of his glorious riches. He may strengthen you with power through his spirit and your inner being. So that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith. And I pray that you being rooted and established in love may have power together with all the lord's holy people to grasp how wide and long and high and deep is the love of Christ and to know this love that surpasses knowledge that you may be filled to the measure of all the fullness of God. Wow, that is a huge passage. There's so much to discover in just these three verses. So first of all, let's just observe it together and obviously you've spent a lot of time in this passage. I've spent a lot of time in this passage. It can be easy to run through it really fast, which we talk about on this podcast all the time. So let's slow the slow the script down and I would love for you to just share what words phrases like really stand out to you when you hear it this passage. First, Nicole, I just want to mention that one of the greatest life transformational things that we can do is to pray this passage. What I'm going to start to cry because the reality is it's all by God's love that we even love. We love because he first loved us. And so one of the most desperate cries of our heart is to literally pray these things over ourselves and say, God, grant me out of the rich treasury of your glory, strengthen me in my inner man. You know, and just to go through this and to pray that love and I just really felt like that was the first thing to just say because I think the reality is, aren't we all just so in need of love, I know I am. I just need to know that I'm loved by a good father and I need to be reminded of Jesus is grace and the Holy Spirit's power to reveal his love.
How to Study the Bible
We Are Seeking Bible Knowledge for the Sake of Transformation
"We talk all the time on this podcast about we are not seeking Bible knowledge for the sake of knowledge. We're seeking knowledge for the sake of transformation. And if it's not transforming you, then it's worthless. And that's a hard lesson. But I think the goodness and the grace of God is that he does bring us to those places and then redeems what we've learned. You hear are like sitting in this comfortable space. I kind of know the Bible. And I think this happens to a lot of Christians who've been around church for a long time. We kind of get the Bible gets stale. And it just we're like, I already know it, right? I don't need to read it again. And yet, are we actually experiencing and knowing God in the sense of the way that he wants us to know it? Know him. And I know you wrote a chapter about that concept of knowing God. And I would love for you to share a little bit about how moving from knowledge of God, Bible knowledge who knowing God, like what happened in you as that was taking place. Yes, Nicole. So it's actually interesting just to go by way of story for a second, my daughter. I'll put on she's 9 and my son's 11. I'll put on a Bible story. I'm like, okay, you guys, you got to see this story. You got to read it in the Bible. And my daughter's responsibility to meet mommy, I already know that story. And I'm thinking, okay, you know the story, but do you know the story? Like, you know the story in your mind. But do you really know that story in your heart? Are you living it? Are you breathing it? Are you a walking testimony of it? Are you a talking revelation of it, right? And so I think Nicole, the real movement for me has been in this deep knowing and there's a Greek word in the word, which means ganos go knowing. And this is where you were seeing or you perceive from personal experience knowing. And it's where it isn't just a knowing in the mind, but it's had that 18 inch conversion from head to heart and it's like, no, I know that I know that I know.
How to Study the Bible
What Started Kelly Balarie's New Book 'Take Every Thought Captive'
"I think I thought I knew a whole lot about God, right? There's this inclination. It's like before Jesus were like, I need you. I need a savior and that's why you accept Christ because you know you need help. And then for me, I became a Christian, I started reading God's word. I started getting all this good Bible information inside of me and it was like, I'm good now. I'm strong. I know all this stuff. I've memorized things. I go to church. I'm doing service. And so they're starting to get to be the self righteousness that came inside me. And I wasn't even aware of it, Nicole. I wasn't even aware. I went to a church with my husband and my family. And when I was there, I started to critique the pastor, like in my mind. I was like, oh, this message is, you know, this and that. And I started to get very critical. And I even started to judge people around me in the church. Then I started to get annoyed and moody with my family. And after that day, I had to step back and say, oh my goodness. Am I a Jesus lover like a friend of sinners? You know, am I pursuing the number one calling of God to love God with all my heart so mind and strength? I love my neighbor as myself or am I like a pharisee where I'm looking pretty good outwardly and doing all this stuff, but inside inside my mind, I'm actually not living out God's word. I'm actually somewhat of a fake. I'm actually having habits that are not aligning with scripture and I guess it was like a come to Jesus fear of the lord moment like I'm projecting one thing on the outside, but on the inside when I look at my heart and Nicole, I'm different. I'm actually I need a lot of help. And so my wall started to fall and I'm like, Jesus, I need to take thoughts captive. I need a rewire on the inside of my heart and my mind and my soul because I'm faking some stuff. It's really interesting too that you talk about that because Kelly, we talk all the time on this podcast about we are not seeking Bible knowledge for the sake of knowledge. We're seeking knowledge for the sake of transformation. And if it's not transforming you, then it's worthless. And that's a hard lesson. But I think the goodness and the grace of God is that he does bring us to those places and then redeems what we've learned.
The Charlie Kirk Show
Churches Were Too Cowardly to Celebrate Roe v. Wade Reversal
"We willing to use courageous and bold action politics, community government, to say that the least of these that Jesus commanded us to protect and say, hands are off limits in line to touch, are they willing and deserving of our protection? And the reversal of roe versus wade was the great moral advancement of our time praised God, thanks to Christians and churches that actually did something about it. The problem and the issue based on a non scientific survey that we did amongst our radio audience is 90 to 95% of pastors and churches were too cowardly to mention it or celebrate it. What should have happened should have been weeks or months long of fasting and prayer thanking God, Jehovah, adana, that we were able to repeal the horror of roe versus wade and babies and image bears are now going to be able to breathe is that the American church rolled their eyes shrug their shoulders and said, I don't want to offend the suburban why mom that comes because she might have had an abortion when she was young and my ties and offerings might go down and I can't have bigger buildings and I can't have bigger budgets and I can't have my latte bar in the lobby, therefore I'm not going to mention it.
The Charlie Kirk Show
Why Abolishing Roe v. Wade Is Crucial for Humanity
"Roe V wade. Talk about the importance and impact of abolishing that. I mean, it's huge. I mean, here in Texas, you guys have really, we have the Texas right to life group here somewhere. They've done a fabulous job. I saw them, I don't know if he's still here, but they deserve to be applauded. They're doing a great job. So let's talk about it. Genesis one 26 and one 27, not only is it an Old Testament proof of the Trinity because it says let us in the Hebrew, which is obviously the Trinity. It's not God talking to angels or God talking to the animals. It's the Trinity talking. So anyway, that's a separate issue. But let us make man in our image. And so therefore we are image bearers of the divine. That is such an unbelievably different philosophical and moral argument than anything you will hear at a secular university. And so it's a very basic thing. This white drives me nuts when pastors say, well, I'm not political. You don't know anything, okay? First of all, what is politics? What is a human being? How do you appropriate power? All politics is, is to decide who gets power and when and how. That's all politics is. It's really simple, right? We kind of mess it up with Republican and Democrat and all this. Politics is community. So instead of saying politics, ask your password, you talk about community. Oh yeah, I love community. Okay, then who gets power in our community? How should we determine who gets power in our community? That's all politics is. Politics is the business of the city, literally. If you go back to the Greek. Anyway, so the question of what is a human being is a question that the Greeks wrestled with in Aristotle was so close and he really is the really inspired Thomas Aquinas and so many ways, but Aristotle argued without even reading the Old Testament scriptures that we know of. He said that we are the speaking beings, we're the ones with the logos, rational speech, the ability to reason, and he was right about that. But the scriptures are even more clear that we are made in the image of God. And therefore, if we're made in the image of God, we're able to speak and create, which is exactly right because 25 versus previous, we learn that creation comes through speech, right? God spoke it into existence got spoken to existence got spoken into existence. No animal or beast of the earth is able to do that except human beings. We are the highest of all the beasts at the Greeks would say. The Bible would say differently. You're made in the image of God. Therefore, you have a soul. Therefore, you have a date with eternity. Therefore, you're more than a random combination of cells. You're not an accident. Your intentional.
The Charlie Kirk Show
Most American Churches Are Filled With Cowards
"American churches are filled with cowards. They might be nice people. They might be good people, but they might be cowards. They're probably cowards. And that's okay. You can be a nice coward. The cool thing about being a coward is you could change it immediately. Does you have to go to university? You just takes a choice to be courageous. That's what's so beautiful about battlefield literature. I love reading about this. Is that you never know who in the platoon is going to end up being courageous. I have never served and I talked, we have amazing veterans that serve on our security detail and God bless our veterans. And what I have gleaned over the years by asking them question is that despite the machismo or all this, you never quite know who's going to be the courageous one when the bullets start firing. And that is an interesting thing, right? It's a person you might least expect. Sometimes you most expect. But courage is a decision. It's a choice. It's a pattern of action. And every single person can choose to be courageous tonight. It is the highest of all the virtues Aristotle believed because without courage, there are no other virtues,
The Charlie Kirk Show
Society Shouldn't Have to Accommodate Your Delusions
"Be very clear, sometimes we're going to do questions. Some people say, well, Charlie, how does it impact you somebody in their own home who thinks that they are a man when they're really a woman? That's no one is actually debating that. You can have your own imaginary friend, your own delusions, your own private struggles with reality. The real debate is why do you want me to re accommodate society for your delusion? Why do you want me to create a bathroom so that men can go to all of a sudden say, well, I think I'm something therefore I should be able to be around women. That is completely that is tyrannical in nature. That is what we have to call the totalitarianism of the minority. That somehow we must reconfigure a rather functional society that we used to have. Because a bunch of people have mental problems. I'm not making fun of the fact they have mental problems. I hope they have helped. They're made of the image of God. But you do not all of a sudden tell people that are generally highly functional that are generally ordinary that if you're a bunch of women, you have to compete against men because that man might somehow be at risk for self harm if you don't re accommodate their society. That is against justice. That is against the principles that we stand for as Christians.
Daily Grace
"grace" Discussed on Daily Grace
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"grace" Discussed on Daily Grace
"Lord. Okay, so now we've worked through some of our obstacles and our pain points and we've talked about ensuring that our goals are centered on the gospel. Let's get into the really practical part of goal setting and Emily. Crystal and I need your help. Like desperately, we want to be better about this. So I'm wondering, can you just give us some ideas like practically, where do we start when we go to set goals? Sure. I think it can sound really mythical and big picture and especially when we want to think big picture. We want to really look at our span of our lives. But there really are a couple of practical steps that we can take. So we will break it down together. But the first step in setting the grace filled goals that we're talking about is to uncover what matters. It's the step we often skip. We think we should just hurdle right into working on goals that sound good or goals we think we should set. But naming what matters in the big picture, but also in whatever season of life that we're in, is the most important part by far. And one of my favorite questions to ask is this. Imagine yourself many years from now. Looking back at the whole of your life, where will you be grateful you spent your time and attention? What will have mattered? What won't have mattered sometimes that's an equally important question to ask yourself. So if you are somewhere you can take a scrap of paper and just draw a line right down the middle and write out your answers to those two questions. What will have
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"grace" Discussed on Daily Grace
"Recently in my soapbox has been, I don't think that we think or talk about eternity enough. And sometimes life is hard or disappointing and we are just like searching for the resolution here, but instead it's an eternity. So I just really love this song so much. Our kingdom is talking about the kingdom of God and it's talking about eternity with God and it's talking about heaven and it's a really cool sounding song. I feel really cool when I listen to it. It's like oh, this is the music that cool kids listen to. But the lyrics are beautiful. So we'll link it in the show notes you can go check it out if you want. Crystal, what about you? What's your favorite thing? So my favorite thing just in general is asking good questions being asked a good intentional question. And so one of the things that we've been using lately as a family is a set of conversation cards from cultivate and daily grace, sell some to that are geared towards Bible study or just friendships and this one is geared towards family and it has been so fun we have just kept it on our dining room table and the first few times we did it over dinner asking the boys questions and then just the other morning I was getting breakfast ready for the boys and my oldest who's 9, just pull out a card and was like Judah. What teacher has influenced you the most? And he's a first grade. So he's only ever had the two teachers. He was like, my teacher now. It was just so sweet. And so they were sharing their answers. So I got to text the teachers to say, hey, my kids are kind of shy in class, but just know that this is what they said about you. And just to get to encourage them, it was just really sweet. So I love just seeing how they just took initiative to ask each other some fun questions. And so that's been my favorite thing this week. I love that. That is so sweet. I am going to have to get those for sure. I saw this, and I was like, oh, that looks so cool. I'm ready to pull the trigger now. That was awesome. Well, we're going to get into our topic for today, which is gospel centered goals. And honestly, when crystal and I were initially talking about this episode, we decided we are not the ones that you want to give you advice on goals. We can help you with the gospel centered part of it, okay? We can help with that. But when it comes to goals, we just felt like we didn't have a lot to add. But we know Emily. And Emily has so much to add. So Emily, we would love to get this conversation started by just asking the simple question of how do
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"grace" Discussed on Daily Grace
"Crystal, and I'm joined as always by my wonderful co host Shelby. Hey everybody, we are delighted to be with you in a new year. Happy 2023. And we have a very special guest with us. Today we have invited Emily Thomas to join us. She is a member of our sister company cultivate what matters. And so we brought her on to talk a little bit about goals. You're going to absolutely love Emily, but before we get into the meat of what we're going to talk about today, I would love for Emily to just take a moment to say hi and introduce herself. Hey everyone, I am so happy to be here. Shelby said, I am the content lead at daily grace and sister company cultivate where I've worked for 13 years, I write much of our product, including the power sheets coal planner, which we're going to talk a little bit about today. And at home, I'm married to my high school sweetheart and had three wonderful kids. Oh, that's awesome. We are so excited that you are here and Shelby will share a little bit more why. Just in terms of goal planning, just to have someone who this is like what you live and breathe and it's just like what you've done and so I'm really excited for our listeners and really for me and Shelby to get to learn a little bit more from you. So that's going to be our topic today is how do we set goals with the gospel in mind and putting God at the center of everything that we do. But first, let's share our favorite things, something we are using and loving lately. So Emily, why don't you kick us off? Sure. This is so fun. And mine might be helpful as you look ahead to family time and then a year, things like that. So it
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"grace" Discussed on Daily Grace
"Hey everybody, we have a super fun announcement for you today. Here at the daily grace co, we are currently hiring. We are always looking for talented individuals to join our Dream Team and our current openings include graphic design, content writing, editing, marketing, and so much more. If you are located in Houston, Texas, or if you're willing to relocate, we would love for you to join our team by filling out an application on our website. You can also sign up for our careers newsletter on our website to be notified of all new future positions as our ministry continues to grow. We love working at the daily grace co. Don't we crystal? Oh yeah, absolutely. I mean, we say, I think weekly, if not daily, how is this our job? How are these the people that we get to work with? It really is such a dream to get to work at the daily grace co. Yes, not only do we love our work, but we love the people that we work with. We love the mission of the company just everything about this job makes it an absolute dream job and maybe you're the next person to join the Dream Team. So we will be sure to link in the show notes a link to our careers page on our website or you can go straight on the website, check that out, sign up for that career's newsletter. We'd love for you to join our team. Welcome to daily grace. We believe the Bible is true, trustworthy, and timeless. And we want to help women like you know and love God's word. The Bible shows us who God is and who he is changes everything. My name is Shelby, and I'm crystal, and we want to invite you to come join us as we chat about the truth of God's word in our everyday lives. Hey everybody, and welcome back to the daily grace podcast. This is
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"grace" Discussed on Uncomfortable Grace Podcast
"What do i do. I and i was recently. Stay at home mom and i. I never knew anyone. Well actually. that's not entirely true. But i didn't know people going through the same exact scenario that i was going through with the miscarriage followed by this. How was i supposed to feel it on facebook and then the group's vanishing twin syndrome and there. It was right there for me. A group full of women who had gone through the exact same thing. And i want to give that example. Because it's so random so not like a huge like moms in southern oregon. Group is very specific to what i'm dealing with in those groups are out there for everyone. So that's i think the whitest net you could cast. But also i tell loaded the app marco polo and just got an acted with friends. I'd used to be friends with so text. I would start texting an old friend. I am now texting a couple of friends. I worked with fifteen years ago and we're just texting regularly. And then we went onto marco polo and suddenly. I have someone in my hand talking to me and being able to talk through these issues. I know that. I'm making it sound simpler than it is it is. I mean that is a saving grace. We've all said it. We said this is my saving grace here my therapist you're here for me like and we're getting down and dirty in the things hard in our lives and just reaching out to someone who maybe you've lost contact with or reaching out to someone in your contact list who you think would be a good friend. Now you've noticed you guys have the same similar stuff going on or or whatever it is. They're they're two. They are in that same position and once you say it out loud to them. There's that moment of the exhale where you're like. I was the only one the only one feeling. Like i was in a rut during this pandemic in that you know..
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"Thank you. I agree but when you figure out who you are. Are you someone that wants to go out and volunteer your time. Are you someone that wants to be in a role where you're traveling all the time. I was like though thankfully because she's listening and didn't get caught up on the but cooties and marriage is weird and all the things to think you know we find people that are drawn to us. That can hold space for us. Because we've become people that do that for others and that makes relationships so much easier and she like you know breathed a sigh of relief and then immediately started telling me jokes about pirates which was great musician Look great conversation. Yeah no that's a great leading an to our topic. Today i wanted to ask you. Danielle like the forefront of your mind an example of how you are giving yourself grace and progress like like your most recent Experience that or you just have there. You had to like sit there and marinate in that thought process. I mean you know everything everything every day is. I can't remember the last day that i had like the perfect day because days are not. I mean unless maybe you're sitting by the lake like you. Heather days generally have stuff bubble up throughout the day. Either that can be emotion like anger at someone that maybe misdirecting anger toward that person or it can be with my kids. My frustration bubbling over. I think it just has to be a constant grace is part of the experience progresses part of the experience. And almost like when you when you drive by a construction site and you're cool with that being under construction like you can see the table. See that it's under construction and you're like okay cool. That's supposed to happen there and this is gonna happen. I'm allowing the space for it. Because i know that it's getting better. I know that it's evolving. I know that it's changing. And i think what we have to understand about our lives is..
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"We just recorded and coming up on our final episodes of wine. How do you feel about that. No too fast. It's a blur. It's like i wanna revisit the episodes i mean we have to. We have to carve out some time to like. Get those back out there because there was so much that we learned recording these podcasts. And i think that's valuable and they're so there just so much. There was so much raw. So i'm a little bit sad but excited for the next session. Be yeah we definitely had some very very good interviews and really and like if that bra conference with people that i think surprised us which what the big deal. We went into this. You know ready for intense uncomfortable conversations and preparing our guests and ourselves. And i still feel very honored and then call for how people opened up. And we're going to be. It's going to be hard to let it sit. But i'm excited to see what it turns into in season two as well so right. It kinda reminds me when you get into all the next net flicks Show and like the beginning from the end. Like like the beginning. A so clunky. And like like okay. I love the storyline blah blah blah. But am i going to really really Veg on this unlike. Watch this the whole time images pulls you in so my hope is that That that will be the next the next season of this of yeah. I i agree. I love that. Because i'll start a show and be like I love three of these characters. And i am already committed them in my heart so i sure hope the storyline lasts a while and and i feel that way about great for your hope in us and we love yes or real okay so today. We are talking about race in coaching. Because you and i are both life coaches. I'm a certified like in grief poaching. You focus on executive coaching and start up businesses. I've of success coaching. Which is kinda intermingled with career Entrepreneurship in life. Which is a weird blend. But yeah but it's a fascinating blend that has you in high demand and reading incredible opportunities. People and i think it's a wonderful conversation press deposit because it is but more importantly like after going to the pandemic And filling a little bit isolated a nation and then as like a little sub communities that we've a lot of us experienced some huge loss. And i think it wasn't a like a like a Sands or like a coincidence. That you Had this skill set eh. Humanity like just being agreed coach. It's such a necessary necessary. Need out there. Right now specifically and recently interviewed by reese keller. I love read. It went great so raises a friend. I met on twitter. He's an author as well. And i think we bonded over the graham thirty three and you know i love three seven and eight any of the aggressive numbers. Like let's talk about everything so anyhow But we started out talking about the podcast. He wanted was kind of acting twitter if he could start one. And if anybody had insight. And i just said yeah. I'll talk to you about how we went. How it went for us and We ended up having a really wonderful conversations. He learned a grease coach. He learned that. I'm a writer and on top of podcasting and leading women night and doing writing a book in all these different things. And so we had a really really good conversation Or you mic on job. You so kind in his interview and he. Yes all the questions. I would have wanted him to ask about my friend who is just multifaceted super valuable in my life and not i mean now you can go on ahead of time speaker all the people but specifically my own life a i know one thing. I thought was super fascinating. I love the way you answer this question. He asked you. What are the differences that you see or fill in the uncomfortable. Grace podcast now. Compared to win it was first launched. And i was like ooh. What is she going to say. Europe high was so powerful. Compare freezing of course but It was along the lines of sharing Stronger interviewer i mean that was in your guts anyways but while for you to share that you've learned how to listen to subtext How to how.
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"Hi i'm mandy. And i'm heather and this is our producer kellyanne either. We're so glad you're here. Here's the thing you have uncomfortable storylines in your life. We are creating space for vulnerable storytellers. To open up about growth and refinement. You deserve the same relationship with grace because it is so much more than a bible. Buzzword welcomed on trump's everybody mandy here other.
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"grace" Discussed on Uncomfortable Grace Podcast
"I love seeing your heart for the homeless community and just the way that you have started to at least in my mind changed the way i think the way i approach even the idea of a conversation about the homeless community So before we dive into all that really good stuff. Why don't you tell me until our audience a little bit about yourself sure And thinks you're saying that that is that is my my mission. It's nice to know that Being on twitter has any sort of positive outcome. Yeah i my name is kevin I live and work in los angeles. I work at a nonprofit doing homeless services and advocacy But i'm also a trained minister Have an md from fuller theological seminary and an expired ministers license from the church gathering. I i like to say that. It peaks interest. We can talk about that more later. and i'm also a writer. I have been writing for a long time on the intersections of theology and popular culture but more recently as i've Really established myself in homeless services have been turning a lot of my writing. Attention toward writing about where homelessness intersects with a christian faith in theology and specifically on the notion of grace in the title of your podcast So yeah. And i'm i'm currently writing a book on homelessness and grace and yeah. That's that's me. I love that your book is even titled grayson. Homelessness mistaken title pending. But grace hiding somewhere. Absolutely well tell me about why you are work became a because you can have a heart and do the work but how did you decide you know what actually need to write a book about this because there has to be something that triggered where it's a bigger conversation that you're not able to have on twitter your question i mean i've always been a writer Long before i wanted to be anything else. I wanted to be a writer and so It's always been a dream of mine to write a book. And i've had a billion different ideas about what that book could be over the years but as my my life has ended up as a you know a a theologically educated person Who is trained in ministry but not doing traditional church ministry and really involved in the world of homelessness It just it just made sense that that needed to be what i was writing about and as i was thinking about it And and really. It was that i've been working in homeless services for awhile and the conversations that i was having with christians about services almost felt like they were completely detached and had nothing to do with. It was seeing in my work as what needed to change. What needed to happen was not the conversations that And not just christians but the anyone outside of that world new to ask or new to have yet. I was like okay. What what's missing here. What what is this gap I'm gonna start writing about it. But what is it. That's that's missing. And i eventually kind of boiled it down to two grace in a way And and that's where. Once i once i made that connection and had that thought and i.
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"grace" Discussed on Uncomfortable Grace Podcast
"Podcast. I wanted to personally introduce this week's interview with kevin ni- titled grace in homelessness. But before i forget. I also want to thank you for continuing to listen. These life changing stories are making a massive impact. But frankly we're just not quite satisfied. So if you're able to do so. Please take a moment to leave a review on apple podcasts. Or wherever you're listening. This simple act helps apple and other podcast platforms. Know that you like what you're hearing. You wanna hear more of us and it helps us get. The word out about are amazing guests and speaking of amazing guests. Let's talk about kevin. Kevin is a case manager in los angeles working with the homeless population. He is so passionate about helping this underserved community find love resources stability and whatever else they need while also creating literacy around the concept of homelessness and breaking off misunderstandings about those without homes. I i met kevin through twitter. He is an author an active participant in hashtag writing community which is full of people that i am just enamored with. Kevin is currently in the final stages of preparing his book for a publisher and he is writing about what it means to carry grace for the homeless population in our cities. Protecting the dignity of this vulnerable group is humbling work. But honestly kevin's kind demeanor makes him so well suited to offer the advice and advocacy needed both in that community and for the rest of us who need to learn. So i am so happy to bring the story to each of you. Thanks again for your support of this podcast and for listening. And i think you're really going to enjoy this interview and learn.
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"grace" Discussed on Uncomfortable Grace Podcast
"And not have any sort of regret. That's concern. I fought the good fight because i feel like it's going to benefit the people around rate even if they know that i haven't fully stepped into that maybe it was not supposed to be it was just just knowing that on a one on one version of our friendship that i was supposed to up. Lift you or up with europe this little girl or that. You know what i mean like. That is a Rewarding to me. And i don't feel i don't feel like shell or dismissed or anything. I don't even feel like i've been over alleged to overshadowed isolate it's still there and it's very very accessible so i don't see assertive as a negative in any way so when you sat on me when you say i don't like that word i think that's really fascinating because i perceive someone who has assertive as someone who has a strong back in a soft front and i would call you strong backs off front all day because you don't walk into the room in like try to absorb all the attention and Assert your dominance. Because i don't think either of k. Leaner i do that either. I see assertiveness as this willingness to stay soft on the front knowing it serves a higher purpose knowing it serves a more Long term goal rather than necessarily someone who walks in and tries to save face that false front. That says i need to be seen. I need to be heard. I need to be valued right now right now. I've been that person it's gross. I've been that person for so long. And when i finally kind of left that off and realized i had more compassion for that person but even still You know my i understood. The pain behind wire was asserting myself. In that way in that season now on the other side of it i can say confidently know. Being assertive is vulnerable. Because the first thing it does is put to target on your front and says i'm fair game. I'm bold enough to show up here and say what needs to be said. I'm a fair. i'm a target That can go both ways like that can be a positive for it can be negative. And i think what i see is again that assertiveness that understands the difference between confidence and false bravado and being able to invite the people who demonstrate the false bravado into my world is much much greater now because i have lake that the compassion of like. Oh i know what that. I know what that actually isn't i'm gonna love them super well and not try to change fix them or manipulate them at all. I'm just going to have a lot of grace for that. Because who is painful place to be but at the same time like when you see the opposite which is what. I've always seen in the two of you. That saw fund says i can. I can hold up space. I take up space by not speaking in a room. Do you know what i mean. When someone has a confidence that carries forward without them saying or doing anything just by the way that they present themselves and treat other people with. That's the person i'm going to invite really close and say okay. I've taken bricks down for you to be able to see over your clearly. Someone who understands that there's going to be a mess on the other side of this so Yeah i think it's really really fascinating when not can be how you're starting to view not that you're making judgment about them as you approach them but really that you're just. I mean applying intuition rather than holding old relationships forward. Thanks for listening to comfortable grace. Podcast here we are inviting men and women who demonstrate great levels of self compassion risk ray decision making an uncomfortable seasons to hold space for themselves and allow us to take a peek at the process. Questions comments we'd love to hear from you. Leave a review on apple podcasts. Or wherever you listen tells your story find us on instagram or shoot us an email at uncomfortable grace podcast at g mail dot com music former episode is from a on and you can find them at band camp dot com thanks to our producer kane. Lean in studio hall for the recording. Space like subscribe and leave us a review wherever you listen. This week's episode is sponsored by danny hall photography. You can find him on. Instagram at danny hall eleven..
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"grace" Discussed on Uncomfortable Grace Podcast
"And it just. It's it's always so. Like if i have one thing in common with people might cool. We're best friends now until he until we have a reason otherwise not to be now. I'm a little more discerning about like who extend that to Maybe it's i just don't talk to many people and looked for common. Ground is much anywhere. I don't know but but i at the time was so excited to like intentionally see. There's a piece here that we can connect on. I'm gonna be intentional in pursuit. That relationship and i feel like from there. We just obviously obviously became those funds. Because we're still here. Obviously and we do all the projects together I had to say came from a distance is like naturally like to cool for any of this right absolutely without of actually. So that's like. Yeah without a doubt. So that for you to do that i mean you were. You had to been just really be and confident. Yeah that's true. I'm not i'm not afraid to walk up to people even when they're too cool for me and they're like you know throwing out all that. Oh my god if you come over here don't even say yes. That's where you and i haven't common for sure. Yeah like in the nicest way possible. I'm going to apple traits. Your your bubble. I need to get closer Yeah so that's that's my kaylene mandy story and then you know one thing led to another and she is the most like for one of the most faithful friends of anyone. Anyone hands down kaylene. You're one of the most basic friends. It's just i. i'm constantly joking with josh. 'cause i mike. I haven't found her limit yet but eventually she's going to get annoyed enough with me and back off and that's just not true. I don't think it's actually true at all interested. Incredible it takes a lot for now. Get annoyed so i'm not trying to annoy you. I'm trying to take advantage of everything that you are capable of it. You're in the most in the most loving way like my dad. Used to say when you when you might as a computer programmer. And so he would. Every time we'd get a four inch book of instructions. He would say. I just you know i read the book back so i can explain the program as best as possible like he just gets to know what he's working with as intimately and is intentionally so that he can help this program be exactly what it was meant to be and i feel like. That's my intention. Analogy right is not to genuinely take advantage of people. Because i can see who they are and what they're good at. It's actually. I can see through you. And i see who you are and i want that to come alive and you and i want to be there to be a part of it and i've gotten not honor with you and with you heather and and lake with so many other people in my life. It's just it's worth the awkward. I'm i'm showing up to burst your bubble even though you don't want to talk to me so here is serving In that also just say. Now thank you. It's like labor intensive to make sure if you're like me since i was child hyper intuitive. I can read a room but most people that like elite out with. Oh i could read a room. What are they in the really gross or lake. Right like it's gross. So i've never said that. I've actually never said that. I want that i can read. It's well it's hard to yes. You're absolutely ray really off putting his hair show. Yeah there's no Pretenses no hidden agenda in it for me for me. It's just like it's it's kind of like more often said rather than the defensive. Because i feel ache i was new and it was summoned schools at people. Were just trying to figure me out. And you're you're not gonna be able to do that like i'm just not going to give you access. Yeah right you can't you don't get to decide why am sure. And i've had that kind of like mary. Distinct line drawn. The census is little. Remember that however. I do want to be friends with everybody. And that's kind of the whole vulnerability thing as i walk a fine line there right. So and there's responsibility will. And that's what i love about you. Walking the fine line is you do present. Kind of in that. Same way as gillian mike. The i'm really focused on what i'm doing and i have no time for anybody's s. I will not be deterred or distracted. Stay out of my way and that was like to answer the question. You ask like how did what was our story right so you were involved in fight night and i showed up to be involved as well and we just kind of like orbited around lindsay but never really crossed paths. We just really those nights were so quick can so fast and busy that there was never really a a moment of connecting and then you were at living waters and i was there to obviously and you walk into the lobby and i can literally. It's so crazy with both of you. I can remember the moment. I tend to forget like details. I can visually remember the moment. I met both of you and the interaction of it which is very uncommon. When people like. How did you meet them mike. Eventually i met them. That's the story. I don't know but i i remember just in my mind setting my thoughts and walking up and saying hi. It's time for us to be friends now or something like that. like kay. This is our moment and you were so kind to not sat me aside and actually say yes like of be available and what has come out of that relationship. That moment has been completely unexpected. I did not expect that. This is where we were going to end up heather. No i didn't either. I know that's that's such a wit when it exceeds your expectations. I think that's that's what it's all about. I mean we're we're all it's our human nature to reach people and so in that whole myrie Concept was psychology. Like i know when somebody wants to just a figure quite down and you can sniff out immediately. The walls go up and there's like quick like it's it's quicker than anything really where you understand what's happening and bs meter with do you guys were so like Thing it it was. It was easy to extend the invitation in that in that moment. Because you could. You could read that you could read. You know i. I think we can each read other okay. This person likes this. This is something that i can. i can connect with. I want this to. I want this to continue and see release. You were a ghost. Yeah and i value. I value the relationships. That aren't as easy just as much. If i'm being honest. I mean there's there's people that i know are supposed to be In my territory my circle. Whatever to and i just i can feel the tension. I can feel it. It's going to be a little more.
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"Hi i'm mandy. And i never and this is our producer kellyanne either. We're so glad you're here. Here's the thing you have uncomfortable storylines in your life. We are creating space for vulnerable storytellers. To open up about growth and refinement. You deserve the same relationship with grace because it is so much more than a bible. Buzzword welcomed on trump. Hi megan.
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"grace" Discussed on Uncomfortable Grace Podcast
"And then the lord spoke to me. It's like this isn't just about physical kingdom but this is about an internal kingdom so then my prayer became lord like what kind of kingdom in my building inside of me. And i want it to look like yours so then that whole second year was like the lord pinpointing all this all this thing that actually has motivated my action either like i had a girlfriend in second year in me and all this stuff was like. Oh you actually don't know how to get your source of drew for me. So that's why this is painful right now in. This is how you're reacting to your girlfriend is because you feel at your sources joyce coming from her so then it's like whoa and then also there's one time i was thinking about this today too about you know when you're driving and then you would see a cop all of a sudden you think that the cop is always staring at you. I don't know it's just it's just you. It's all of the paranoid people among us. They're going one mile over point in their life or ten in in my case ten ten in her legs hanging out the window. Because she's you know. I was in chico. One day and i saw coming towards me or in front of me and i'll start getting nervous. I'm like this. Cop is watching iraq now and then it was in that moment. The lord's is like you need to ask yourself why always regret when there is a cop. Well I mean i could answer the question. What was your answer to the question. Miami is a question. Was i had an issue with authority figure and i wasn't comfortable out of oregon interesting and so like all these things so there's different trigger points that actually is informing our hearts in how we respond by. If you don't have self awareness we actually or if you don't have to ask the holy spirit to reveal things in our hearts that's like. Oh this is why this is happening. You or my struggle was..
Uncomfortable Grace Podcast
"grace" Discussed on Uncomfortable Grace Podcast
"Hi i'm mandy. And i never and this is our producer kellyanne either. We're so glad you're here. Here's the thing you have uncomfortable storylines in your life. We are creating space for vulnerable storytellers. To open up about growth and refinement. You deserve the same relationship with grace because it is so much more than a bible buzzword. Welcome to on trump to the uncomfortable miami k. I'm here with kaylene brown..
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"grace" Discussed on Uncomfortable Grace Podcast
"Muroff mind. Most of the time but i. I don't know what it is about that. But there are times that if i want to if i want to know someone better if i want to get to know someone i want to sit and listen to their story on the listen to who the arlanda listen of how how they how they process you know certain parts of of their life. That's something that i love to do. And so that's why. I would classify myself as a good listener. Do i advertise that. Not necessarily. I don't just go to me like hey. I really good listener. You seem like you're in pain. Let let me tell you. I'm a good listener. Take a seat. I don't. I don't do that but i enjoy it. I enjoy doing that. And i enjoy Letting letting people process and letting people letting people talk do with my roommate often that when you're an extra processor you just you. You have the talk of the talk things through. And so i right. I have to be when you know a friend or one of my roommates like does that. I have to sit and listen. I have to sit in. Because i wanna hear what they're saying and i have i need. I want to hear the where they're trying to get. But i'm not gonna offering any advice because that's not what they need in that moment. Sure they don't need that at all. They don't need me to say while. I understand that same thing has happened to me. No they they wanna get there. They want to get to their own end and letting them talk and letting them process. Let them get to their own end. So it's like recognizing that you don't have to assume what they need to be to offer about value to their story And so people come to you because they know that you're going to correct them. You're not going to try and fix their problem. You're just gonna sit them so giving your propensity to just be able to actually listen to people and not try to fix their.