We Get To Do This - Who Owns Your Future?

0:00 Holy Spirit, Lord Jesus, Abba Father, we come to you today grateful, grateful that we get to do this. It's not just the name of a show. It's a mantra for who we are and it's a declaration of gratitude to you. So Lord, as we talk today, we consecrate our words to you, pray for our listeners, so thankful for them. May they find encouragement and hope and inspiration in what we do today. In Jesus' name, amen. It's Wednesday, July 22nd, 2026. We get to do this. This is episode number 42. How you doing, brother? I'm doing great, actually. Yeah. Apologies up front to our listeners who were like, I've been waiting all day for the show. How come we didn't get the show yet? Oh, there you go. Yes. There were reasons. The main reason being we had a death in the family, and that would be the Noagenda family, but also the Curry family and the Dvorak family as John C. Dvorak passed two days ago.

1:20 And I wanted to make sure that you heard it from no agenda first before we just started discussing it here. Fully appropriate. And wow, this is a good time to have a pastor as a friend. Because it has been just the wildest week with the arrival of our granddaughter. Huge celebration. I mean, just insane. Of course, we had you know, left Holland. So we had, we had missed the barely. Um, how many days was it? It was five days, five, six days. Yeah. That's still relatively close in time terms, but we were living in a socialist country in a hotel room for two weeks. You know, I couldn't take it. Couldn't take it any longer.

2:06 Now we, we had stuff to do. Yeah. And, uh, and so Sunday, um, Did the show with with John C Dvorak no agenda great show mm -hmm I listened to over half of it and the energy was there everything was there It was it was man both of you were in full form yeah, and then for you know and when we when we end the show we We don't really say, we don't really talk much. It's like I'm looking for opening clips, that little opening bit. And then we go through the credits and usually would be laughing about, because I've set my robot up to do the clips and like, well, let's see if that stupid robot got the credits right. And we went through that and then we select the art, which is sometimes a discussion, but we both agreed. Yeah, that's a good one. We'll use that one. Do the title and then, you know, wait until everything's published. We check and make sure it's on the website. Okay. All right. We'll talk to you on Thursday. Yeah. Adios. Yeah. And that was it. And you've done this for 19. Almost in October. It'll be 19 years in October. Yeah.

3:07 And for a majority of that twice a week. So I, this is my work wife. No kidding. Yeah. And so, um, was it, uh, yeah. Monday. right Monday, I'm on my way to go play chess with Willie. You know, that's my Sabbath and as part of the, part of the joy of, you know, not really doing any work and just resting. And I see John's wife, Mimi, pop up on my screen calling, you know, like, and she's in, on the West coast. I'm like, this can't be good. And, and, and she told me, I mean, I had to pull over the side of the road. I just, what? I flabbergasted so I literally went from that super high from you know not even 24 hours before that to just oh oh wow and it was now the the thing that I Love and by this this is in the newsletter John had done the show and Mimi was at the house because you know they have a place in Washington so it was nice that she was there and you know they had dinner and they were joking and laughing and then sitting on the couch watching an old NCIS and John was typical fashion grousing about the actor and an obvious hole in the plot and as Mimi describes it, it was just lights out. Wow. Complete lights out.

4:33 That was it. There was no, there was nothing to do. Everything just, everything turned off like he was unplugged. And I'm thinking, brother, sign me up for that one. I know. I said the same thing to Annette. That's how I want to go. Sign me up. But I want to be watching When Calls the Heart. But that's how I want to go. Not anytime soon, but yeah, when it's time. And so now this just started this whole process. Oh, gosh. Now, there were very few. We kept it within the close family because we wanted to just make sure. really no agenda is, you know, it's hundreds of thousands of people worldwide and they need to hear it from us first. And, you know, the obvious question is what now? And so this is kind of the place where I'm at now is, well, what now? That's a, you've been in a cascade. I mean, like a, like Niagara falls coming over the ridge, you know, of just, okay, there's a lot of decisions that need to be made in a relatively short time. Yes.

5:38 And What's interesting is that it's as if, well, and that's not as if, but the devotionals that pop up, the things that in my own devotionals book, it's like, did you, God, did you put these on this date for all this to coincide, for me to read this right now? And I just want to go through a couple of the scriptures. I have not sought out Scripture. They have literally come to me, you know, through the YouVersion app, through my Study Bible app, through things people have emailed me. I mean, literally just—I should read this—just before I got into the car to come over here, I got an email just out of the blue from John Doe—I have no idea who he is—and he says, praying for peace for you and everyone this morning, Adam. He has no idea what's going on. Wow. Just out of the blue. And I, okay, right, thank you. You know, that is, thank you. I needed that more than you even know. Holy Spirit knows.

6:46 Holy Spirit does know. So the scriptures that have been popping up for me, Psalm 37 23, which is, I mean, it's a Pastor Jimmy Pruitt classic. That's my go -to. But it wasn't from you. It popped up elsewhere. Beautiful. And this is the NLT. The Lord directs the steps of the godly. He delights in every detail of their lives. Because we hear it more like the Lord orders your steps and delights in the details of your life. And this is how I'm taking it, because I am just trying to listen and praying. Lord, what am I supposed to do? Where am I supposed to go with this? What is the next step? Are you opening doors? I've just been asking, asking, asking.

7:35 As well as the details of just handling the immediate. Oh, that's a good point. Talking to the family, the grief wave that hits. So, this is the devotional that went with that Scripture. The person whom God delights is one who follows God, trusts Him, and tries to do His will. God watches over and makes firm every step that person takes. If you would like to have God direct your way, then seek His advice before you step out. And before I ask you a question, it goes into Proverbs 19 .21. Also just came up, you know, there's no coincidence in the kingdom. There are many plans in a man's heart. Nevertheless, the Lord's counsel that will stand. Wow. And that's the new King James version, which I kind of like that. Do you know an NLT version or how would you? Yeah, the NLT is a little more casual, colloquial, conversational, narrative style. New King James version takes the Elizabethan English spin out of it, but still holds that same classical face.

8:44 For some reason, I'm an NLT. NASB guy, not a new King James version guy. So here's the one that really, and I think I shared this with you. This came from my daily devotional for men, which my daughter gave me for Christmas, Boyd Bailey. And it was a little bit longer than this, but there was multiple parts with the scripture in the middle. God's will is a continuous journey of discovery and faith. True obedience requires stepping into the unknown without being paralyzed by uncertainty, trusting Jesus as our guide while staying flexible to the Holy Spirit's direction rather than locked into our own rigid plans.

9:30 Then they break it up with the scripture, Hebrews 11, 8. By faith, Abraham, when called to go to a place he would later receive as his inheritance, obeyed and went even though he did not know where he was going. And so this the devotional closes out by saying Are you inspired or intimidated by your faith adventure? Do you anticipate or dread doing the next right thing as you fulfill God's calling on your life? Yes, Christ must come to you in clarity before you venture out for him in obedience But once you are sure of the Lord's leading do not let up until you have arrived at his destination Go on your great adventure with God like a visit to a new country enjoy the new sites and people. I love that. You sent that piece to me and I said, that will be a next week sermon. It was such a good statement. It's good. So the question, because I've always felt like I When I'm asking God, is this what you want me to do? It's not like it appears in the clouds, yeah, Adam, that's the thing to do. But after asking and praying, okay, I feel confident now. This is new for me because now I'm in a scenario that is not the same as my other times talking to God and asking Him. Is it just? grief speaking, you know what I'm saying? It's like, how can I trust what I'm hearing? I'm hearing

11:00 things for sure, but now I'm doubting. Is this the right way to go? Is this the right thing to do? This is a situation that's new for me. So if you have any counsel or words on that, that would be probably appreciated. There's a great scripture that says, I'm paraphrasing because I don't have it in front of me, but A matter is established out of the mouth of two or three witnesses. I'm laughing because I wrote that one down as well. That's a good one because to me it gives us an insight into how God speaks to us and establishes a matter in our heart, in our mind, in our spirit. So, you'll hear something and you go, is that God, me, or the devil? It's one of the three, right? But it'll be established out of the mouth of two or three witnesses. You'll hear it again from somebody else, like some of these scriptures that just seem to come randomly, but they're all thematic. They all fit in the same flow. That's God speaking to you. So, I've learned to trust multiple anchors, multiple… God speaks in multiples to me. So I'll hear something, I'll go, man, that is so good. But I used to say, that must be God, and I'd run off with it.

12:19 And then it wasn't. It was just a good idea. Maybe not a God idea, but a good idea. I've learned as I've gotten older to when I get something, I think is a clearer word from God, to not just act immediately, but to wait for those two or three witnesses. And it may come in a scripture, it may come as a lyric in a song, it may come as a in a conversation, somebody says something, I go, whoa, there it is. And I always have this thought, this is that, this is that, this is that. And that's based out of scriptures where Jesus said, this is that, which was said by the prophets, this is that. So out of the mouth of two or three witnesses, so I listened for multiples for confirmation before I just go. I've learned the hard way because I tend to go ready, fire, aim, instead of ready, aim, fire. And so I've learned to, you talked about my pauses. Those pauses are there and they've been hard learned.

13:15 So that's just one of the things that helps me establish, is it God, me or the devil? It'll bring clarity. Yes. So there are multiples that that is happening for sure. But also it hasn't all come at once. Right. It doesn't. And this, and I will say that when I heard all this, when this happened, I turned around, I called Willie, I said, Willie, you're not gonna believe this, and you know Willie, he's like, oh, oh, oh, oh. What a beautiful man. I said, Willie, I'll make it up to you. Don't worry, don't worry, okay. And I told Tina, and she just melted, because she's known John forever, too. Yeah, he's family. He is family. And then I said, you know, I'm just gonna go to the car wash. There's a good way to oscillate. And our car wash, I've learned now, we've got a nice car, so you've got to wipe it down and do all the little bumpers and everything.

14:16 So I'm just taking my time. Mindless work. It's 95 degrees, I'm sweating. And that's when the first thing started coming. And I wasn't even asking for something. It was just like, okay, here's one, here's one, here's one. Gosh, I was telling you just before we started recording, speaking of multiples, that Tina and I have been re -watching West Wing. I'm not even sure why, but it's actually quite an entertaining show when it was back in kind of wholesome television days and a dream that your president would be as cool as President Bartlett. And there's this scene where he has to make a decision about pardoning a guy on death row and, you know, to go through a longer story to make it short, the reference to him being indecisive came from his pastor and he told the story of... the guy who was drowning, and then a guy comes by in a boat and says, hey, you want to get in my boat? And the guy says, no, no, the Lord will save me, and a helicopter comes over, and here's the ladder. No, he will pick you up at the helicopter. The guy says, no, no, I'm waiting for the Lord to save me.

15:33 And then a guy comes to the ladder. He says, climb up the ladder. No, no, no. And so he drowns, and he's at the pearly gates, and God says, what were you doing, man? I gave you a helicopter, a boat, and a ladder. And so that's three. And there's your multiples. That's very helpful, Jimmy. That's very helpful. And hopefully that'll help others, our listeners, because we're all trying to hear God, right? I mean, those of us who name the name of Christ, we want direction. We honestly don't want to make a mistake, so we're asking God, show me what to do. But then there's the waiting game, the in -between, the in -between what you need and when it's coming.

16:14 Like you said, it doesn't always come all at once. But I always recognize it because it resonates. Wait, that's just a different way of saying the same thing. That's the second time I've heard that. So that's when it starts to really get my attention when I've heard it twice. And then basically, I'm just listening for the next... For the third time. Yeah. And when that happens, it's green light go. Yeah. Thank you. That's very helpful. I hope that helps. I want to say that no agenda is not just ending tomorrow and there's lots of stuff to work on, lots of things to think about, lots of praying to do. We get to do this is fresh and new and building. And so, regardless of anything, you and I are going to continue on this. Bro, we have a website now?

17:00 Yeah. We're legit now. We got a newsletter out. Thank you, Tina, the keeper. We so appreciate that. What does she sign off as? Back office worker? Back office management. Management, right. In a little closet. Hey, Tina. Little closet for an office. So you can go to WGTDT .com. We get to do this .com was taken. I like WGTDT, once you get used to it. It doesn't exactly roll over your tongue. You just go WGTDT. There you go. Once you split it, WGTDT. OK, that helps.

17:40 And it's a substack, which we had discussed. Yeah, I love substacks. Actually, we already got a comment. Yay. We got a comment from Jody White. Of course. I don't know, Jody. Yeah, you do. The Pickle Princess. Oh, the Pickle Princess. Okay. Yes, I do. She says, just sending more encouragement your guys way. I look forward to the pod podcast. I know it's your favorite word. Every week and can't wait to see what great things you are doing for the glory of the Lord. Thank you very much. Oh, so cool. Hey, we got another thing. Okay. Let me look it up though. I got to find it because it's from Brett Hahn, the Amrev. Oh, yeah. Yeah, yeah. American Revolution guy. He writes some fantastic stuff. He wrote this. Oh, why does it do that? Okay, here it is. Thanks for... That's not it. There it is.

18:26 Hey, Pastor Jimmy, love the new, we get to do this newsletter. If you guys need help with anything else, website set up, just let me know. Happy to give back with my time, talent and treasure. My wife and I run a marketing consulting and custom AI development firm. So happy to help support you both in any way we can. Spread the news of the show. That's the number one thing you can do is tell people about the show. We're going to do show notes with every episode now, which will be a post. I really like this experiment of using Substack for everything because it's so different. Look, we can easily put together a website, but now everything just kind of happens in this Substack world. It's easy for people to comment. Easy to subscribe. Everything is easy about it. And I like the vibe of the community that hangs out there. Me too. And we can always change if we want to, but right now I think it's a great way to experiment with trying to figure out how to get... PayPal links in there because we do like TimeTown and Treasure. We got Stripe stuff and everything. But we'll get to all that right now. Just people signing up to the newsletter and then you'll also automatically be notified when the new show comes out. Every episode will post the links in there. Hopefully it'll go to the to the Godcaster app as well. This is where

19:59 platforms get kind of interesting like, well, Yeah, you can post that you can't really do something from somewhere else, you know. We'll see how we work that out. We'll figure it out. Yeah, we will. But people should get the Godcast rap regardless. Absolutely. Because that is where you can get a lot of great podcasts and live streams and music streams. So I was in... It kind of came... Man, this was also perfect. Yesterday I had a long -standing appointment for my hair in Austin, which... I like for a number of reasons. One, I've known Johanna for, oh man, 15 years. She's been doing my hair. We became friends.

20:43 Right, of course. Just kind of comparing notes about, and she's very kind of down the middle on political issues and she doesn't really go one way or the other, but she's a very loving kind of... holistic, crystal type girl. Austin. She's an Austinite. Yeah, pretty much. And I don't mean that in a disparaging way. No, no, no. It's spot on. There's a vibe. There's a culture. And she'd actually moved to Taylor, Texas with her partner. And they recently decided to, it's funny how she says it, to consciously uncouple. So he stays there and she now got her own place back. It's so Austin. But, you know, and I've been very old. Of course, she's witnessed my faith journey. And I've prayed for her dad when he was in hospital. And I've prayed over her.

21:36 And, you know, she's never had any issue. You have to know that Taylor, Texas, that whole community got ripped apart right down the middle. because a whole lot of Austinites moved out there, particularly when Samsung was going to build this huge chip fab out there. And so you had a lot of Austinites moving in. You had the old school Taylor people. And to coin the phrase, it became the pride people against the churchies. I mean, literally, and it splits that community in half. It's just, you know, you either had an American flag in your coffee shop window or a pride flag, and people wouldn't go to one or the other. But that's how Johanna would characterize it. You know, the churchies versus the pride. Anyway, neither here nor there, I love her just for who she is.

22:28 And she would always give me the canary in the coal mine, like, oh, man, you won't believe what the women are saying. Because, you know, she has the clients who are - She's got her thumb on the pulse of the culture there. Right on the pulse of everything. In fact, she had to Tell me quietly about things because you know, they kind of got a little worried. She might be turning MAGA I'm not kidding. I'm not kidding. So anyway, so that girl deprogrammed well, so I'm sitting there and And so she first she says are you reading the book that everyone's talking about? Yes, I got to be honest, you know, I haven't had a lot of time to read what what is this book that everybody's when I hear everybody's talking about everybody's reading okay, it's called Theo of Golden and Turns out that yes Tina's heard of it many of her friends are reading it and Johanna gives it to me and she says She shows me on their phone, it's about religion and faith and belief.

23:31 I'm like, and everyone's reading this? Oh yeah. Oh, it's a huge shit. Everybody's talking about it. And okay, okay. Well, that's interesting. Coming from her and that everybody's reading it. And I later confirmed, Tina says, oh yeah, Theo of Golden. Yeah, I want to read it. Everyone saw all her church friends are reading it. I'm not sure what exactly, I have started reading it. So I'll get back to you on that. Thank you. But then, about maybe half an hour later, she says, Adam, I want to come out to Fredericksburg.

24:12 She's come out several times with her friends, you know, because she loves wine and yeah, I'm going to come out to Fredericksburg and I would love to come to your church one Sunday morning. Wow, beautiful. I mean, this is literally my mouth went, what? She says, you know, cause I, you know, I talk about you and I talk about, she's sound like you have such a lovely community. And she said, you know, I would really come to church. I'd love to come to your church with you on a Sunday morning. And she says, I don't want to be the person that says no. Wow. Wow. And I have never. pushed or encouraged or I've just been myself and just told her you're just leaking you're leaking yes and it was I mean I could not wait to get home to tell Tina that I'm looking forward to meeting her oh no you will of course sure of course I want to meet her of course let me see Theo of Golden by Alan Levi We see a stranger named Theo arrives in the small southern city of Golden at the local coffee house pencil portraits of the townspeople hang on the walls Theo begins buying the one at a time giving each portrait back to the person that depicts Asking only for their story in return portrait by portrait secret secret surface regrets are shared and ordinary lives are quietly transformed a novel about generosity being seen connection and small miracles of kindness number one New York Times for three weeks Well, it's interesting that Johanna said it's a religious book. That

25:42 was her exact words. It's a religious book. So we'll have to see what that is. It's, I mean, I love the premise. Love that. That's creative premise. So anyway, so how about all these things that are happening in this? It's only Wednesday. We just were not, we were not even the hump day hardly. Got a note from Jim McCaslin. Adam, love the new or to me new podcast. It's really helped. This is, you know, I guess he's a no agenda guy listening to we get to do this. It's really helping me on my walk with Christ, which honestly has been stagnant for most of my life, but God uses a lot of people when they're older. Look at Moses and Abraham. What are you saying? He's talking about me. He's going to send us some challenge coins. So very cool. When I hear these things, man, I just melt. This is why we do this. Yes, this is why we get to do this. Absolutely. I love that. Appreciate that. What do you got, brother? There's a lot of things that you had to welcome back. From from you know, you you you did the message on Sunday. Yeah, I came back two weeks ago and both Sundays I didn't do the message right people like are you okay? What are you up there? What's going on? You ain't got a long time and it's because we had the 250 So we had Rick Green right get up and do that cock couldn't have anybody else No, and and then last the last time we had Todd McDowell from Caleb global talking about Israel and just the

27:14 Why I Bless Israel kind of thing was so, so rich. We're having him back in August, by the way, the 26th evening, two 45 -minute sessions, and it's on world revival. Nice. And so he's going to lay that out. Super excited about that. World revival. I like that. Yeah, yeah, the global revival. Brother, I'm telling you, I don't know what this Theo of Golden is, but I'm sure this is related to revival somehow. Could be. It has to be connected. tiny bit leery when I hear things like this. When somebody passed along the secret to me, I was like, calm. Well, yes. No, I understand. This is different. But the way I took it in the sequence of, she talks about this book and then she wants to come to church. Right, right. That was the sequence that I received that in. I'm looking forward to diving into a little bit on that. I'll have to look at it. Of course, of course. I'm a shepherd. Yes, you are. Yes, you are. Yes, you are. Yes, you are. Yes, you are.

28:08 And protect the sheep if need be. Amen. So I stepped up into the pulpit back in the saddle, so to speak, for the first time in weeks. I don't even know how long it's been. And, oh, it felt good. It's like putting on an old catcher's mitt that you've played with for years, you know, and somebody gives you a new one and it's like, ah, I got to break this in. But man, when you step into it, all the leather's right, it fits right. So it just felt like being home. And I've just been Since our break, our vacation, I've just been so gushing with love, gratitude, and appreciation for our church family. I know I'm the pastor, so of course I'm going to brag, but truly it's exceptional. Everyone who visits our church, for example, Todd McDowell and Papa Don Finto from Nashville, Todd several times to me off little one -off conversations. He said, Jimmy, this is... We've got we go to hundreds of churches.

29:07 This is different This is the community you have here the graciousness and the people here He said the openness. He said this is not normal and I looked at him I said, thank you and I'm aware of that and I'm very grateful. Can you define that? Because, you know, obviously you've pastored at churches, you've planted a few churches, you've been around, as we say. What can you pinpoint it to? Well, when Annette and I came here, one of the things, we came off of what I would call our wilderness wandering first season, about three or four years. And we learned a lot from that. We also, the Lord in a good way, stripped a lot of things from us, a lot of things that our agenda, our way of doing, what we want to, our vision of success, those kinds of things, and stripped all those things away. And we came back into the church ministry after working in the world for a season in the business sector with just a new appreciation for what we get to do, but also an understanding that people are tired, people are working hard, a new love for people, and a lot of compassion. for where people are in this world and the brokenness in this world. We step back into the pulpit with strong vision, but a vision that we only want to align with God's heart. If it's not in alignment

30:39 with his heart, it's gone. We've been here 10 years sowing into that mentality, also with the idea of we have the pleasure and the privilege of living in a small town in America. And there's something about small town community that is unique and beautiful in Americana. And we're like that in Fredericksburg. I go to the grocery store, H -E -B, it's over. I cannot just go get a gallon of milk and walk out. Not without stopping and talking. And it's not because people are stopping me necessarily. I may be stopping them and going, man, it's so good to see you. How are you doing? How are your calves doing? I had a guy talking to me about his beef yesterday.

31:26 And I'm just like, yeah, we had a great conversation about beef. But it's living in a small town. And I've lived in Los Angeles. I was nearly born in Los Angeles. I've lived in Kansas City. I've lived in Dallas, Fort Worth, Nashville. I've lived in some big cities, but there's something about a small town culture. But Fredericksburg's unique too, because it's not just small town culture. People move here because they want to be here. And there's a different spirit behind that. Or they're led to be here. They're led to be here. and there's a different spirit behind that as well, and it's a spirit of gratitude. So when you get a bunch of people together who are happy to be where they are and thankful that they get to live here, we get to do this. I didn't just make that up on the fly. It's an atmosphere that we live in here in Fredericksburg. It is.

32:19 It is a bit like living on a cruise ship, honestly. Without the norovirus. Yeah, exactly. All the good parts of it. The food, the drink, the culture, the fun. It's really a fun town, but it breeds this community that I'm just so thankful for. And not all the time. Can you believe we get to live here? and that we've had the privilege of doing the thing we love the most, and that's teaching, preaching about Jesus, making disciples, growing in our faith with others in a community. And we get to do it in Fredericksburg, Texas. So it is special, this town. And so that is conveyed through the culture of our church as well. That's why almost everyone who visits here ends up either moving here or they really want to move here.

33:11 And it's not just because of the church, it's the community itself. So we were representative of that. We're a fun bunch. We are, man. Our old people are fun. Yes, our old people are great. They're a little scary. It's the Woodstock generation. They're still wild at heart. It's still there. I love how everyone's always coming together and like, hey, so -and -so's got a baby. Let's do a food train. So -and -so's wife is having a procedure. We're all helping each other. The floods once again. We've got our church jumps in. A lot of churches, of course, jump in. We also have like 25 churches around here, which is also... And they're active. They are active.

33:54 They're engaged. But as I was telling Johanna, I said, you know, you love our church because... It's not just a church. It's like a clubhouse, man. There's stuff going on there. There's stuff happening all the time. How many people in our youth group now? Do we have 70, 80, 90s getting up there? We have a big youth group. We took, I think, 80 to camp. But also, we're doing a cool thing. We're doing a backpack drive. For the kids and teachers? So they start off saying, we want to get 150 backpacks. And then they said, we want to get 175. It kept going up. Oh no, it keeps, because we don't want to disappoint anybody. We got 200 back to back. Backpacks. And they're full of school supplies. So we get to bless 200 families, 200 kids with backpacks, full, you know, everything for free. Then we're doing, we're raising money for, for 18 teachers who we're going to pay their help, give them their supplies that they otherwise pay for themselves.

34:49 You know, gift cards for restaurants, for stores. and we get to bless that. I think this is the thing that, well, it's not the thing I like most, but something I really enjoy about our church is how when the the congregation ties and blesses the church. And the church does things with that in the community. Like, didn't we pay off all the school lunches and the deficit, which was, I don't know, $11 ,000 for kids who just weren't able to pay for it. struck that record. I mean, this is amazing to me. This is what family does, right? We take care of our own. I love that spirit in a small town. We take care of our own. Instead of leave them be, it's we take care of our own.

35:38 And I love that. So that makes it special. So we've got the best of both worlds. We've got a big church, large church, anywhere from sick with nearly 700 last Sunday, that's in the middle of the summer. So think about the fall. And we're building an overflow space right now that's about to be done. We're right in the middle of that. So we get the accoutrements of a large church. We got a sound system, ACDC could do a concert here. I mean, we've got the full meal deal. We got all the accoutrements of a large church and yet we still have that. small town heart and soul. Yeah. Yes. And I just love it. I mean, we still wave at people when we drop down the street, man. This doesn't mean that people can't have this sense of community in a city. Oh, no, I agree with that. Because you can. You do that around a church community. That's community.

36:33 Yeah. All these people, you know, and people say to me all the time, like, you know, you know what you're talking about is very lonely out here. I said, you know, could I just recommend go to a church? That's it. You may not be ready to cross the line yet. Go meet some people at the church. In Nashville, when we were working, I was working for Dave Ramsey and it was working for a dental practice. Our community became our church, Grace Chapel, which is phenomenal. Sounds like a little tiny country church with 15 ,000 people. But you find your community in that larger community. And you tend to sit in the same spot. You tend to go to the same classes. And then somebody says, hey, let's start a small group.

37:15 So you start a small group, which we did, called Deep End. And they asked me to lead it. But we did it at a mansion of a Nashville producer. We did it at their house in Brentwood. we created community within the larger settings. So that can be done anywhere. But I must say, I'm a little partial to small town America. Oh, yeah. I mean, I've lived in cities most of my life. When I was younger, we did live outside of Amsterdam, which was kind of cool in a very small village. So I had kind of a dual situation going on there. But when we were in Austin and we just said, nah, now it's time to get out. And then Tina just said, How about Fredericksburg? Spin the globe. Literally. I'm like, okay. I've been there, but it really didn't matter because I have no business in Austin. I don't have to be there.

38:08 We live wherever we want. I've been there. It's kind of a cool town. And then we open up Zillow and boom. Oh, well, that's exactly the house we like. They bought it the next day under contingency of selling our home in Austin, which we sold in 24 hours. Now, there's all kinds of moves there. There's nothing like driving up in the parking lot and seeing 120 F -154 pickups. But it's Wednesday morning, and there's 25 cars in the lot today. There's always something going on. And there's Tommy waving at me, hey, Adam, how you doing? And he's got to come talk to you. Of course. He's got to come tell him what's going on. I'm glad I came early. Don't you love that?

38:48 Every day, I walk into this building, and you've got to stop and talk to the staff. Hey, how was your day? How was last night? We had some stuff going on. We had 46 people come to Blair and Evans class on Experiencing God. Oh, yes. 46 people last night. Wow. Wow. Isn't that cool? On a Tuesday night. Man, I wish you could have met my grandfather. I mean, too. Eugene, Gene Curry, who, you know, he and… I will someday. Well, yes, and you will love him. So they, for all intents and purposes, lived in small town. Well, Armok, New York, which is, you know, borders on Connecticut. And he was originally a real estate guy, but then he went to war and he became the guy that sat up all night on his Corona typewriter, writing letters to the president, to congressmen.

39:40 voicing his opinion. He would write op -eds. Many got published in the New York Times. Not all. Beautiful. He was engaging his leadership before it was cool. Completely. I love that. But also on Saturdays, he would go to the... I forget the name of it. a home for elderly ladies, and he'd bring flowers for every single one of them. And he'd say, oh, I'm just off to visit the ladies. I think he also liked visiting the ladies, honestly. He liked chatting with them. And when the family came over, oh, let's go to Hanker's, go get some corn. And Hanker's corn, they'd be ready. And then it was all St. Stephen's Church. I was baptized there as a young child.

40:30 I think we have a family plot. Yeah. Although I don't know. Look at the seeds that were sown. So I'm feeling all these things that I saw but didn't get from my parents, got from my grandparents. And so now I'm feeling like, oh man, not only do I need to give my granddaughter all the little cookies she's not supposed to have, but I got a lot of other things I got to instill into her. So I'm looking forward to that very much so. Beautiful brother. Just to talk about the And thank you for reading the briefing on Sunday. Oh, so good. Because this, and I just want to tell everybody who's listening to our podcast about what President Trump was really saying in his address to the nation. I know it seems like 5 ,000 times the straight -up Hormuz open and shut since that speech. But the whole point was we need to fix the plumbing of our voting system. And it's not necessarily about, you know, voting machines and all. It's really about, we need to identify who we are when we vote, when we register to vote, there just needs to be a check. You got to use your ID for everything else. The continuous noise of, well, it's racist and it makes voting difficult is of course nonsense and everybody knows this, but it's not just Democrats that don't want this. This mail -in by ballot.

41:59 I used to vote. by absentee ballot is what it was called. I was overseas and my mom would make a big deal of it. We're going to go talk to the embassy. We want our ballots and you get your ballot and then you send it back because we want our vote to be counted. And it's important. And so we would always do that. You know, this has become basically a scam over the years where in some states, every resident gets a ballot whether you want it or not. And, you know, there's no real check and balance of who signed it, who sent it. Who's alive, who's dead. who's eligible. It is not just Democrats who have used this. I totally agree. So it's not a partisan thing, but it is bipartisan on them not wanting to sign it. And that's my point. It's not just Democrats saying no, it's Republicans and Democrats alike slow walking it in the Senate. So I called my Senator. I called my representative, federal and regional, local, and left messages. I talked to one of the aides and just said, hey, I'm a pastor of a church of a thousand plus people, and I want you to know we appreciate this bill, the Save America Act. And he was blown away.

43:11 He said, man, we'd love to get these calls. He was like, thank you for taking the time to call and support because most of the calls they get are negative. But it also matters because then they get encouraged. They know it's important to their constituents. It's springing their step when they step back into the halls. And it has to be a call. Emails doesn't work. It doesn't work. It goes into a big bin. It doesn't get seen. Calling works every single time. And it's easy. Nine times out of 10, you're going to get a voicemail. And then you get two. And it takes you over to their... Voicemail. Hopefully their aide listens to it and passes the good word along. Well, they have to because eventually the voicemail box gets full. So I think they do listen to it.

43:53 I do too. It's part of their job. Again, our voice is heard with both our vote and our call, our voice. So we need to do that. Be diligent. And it's an important one. And that's what President Trump was saying. He's like, I'm not doing anything. You got to pass this act. It's important. We got to do it. coming up with reasons not to, is, in my book, un -American. They're hiding something. They're in somebody's pocket. It's not good what you're doing. Now, simultaneously, this was what was interesting. The State Department did an entire symposium, like a whole day, on international terrorism. uh, our treasury secretary, I love general patent is what I call him. Um, he, uh, Scott Besson, you know, it seems like such an obvious thing that our treasury who runs the real financial networks knows how money moves from point A to point B that they would be looking at stuff. You know, it seems like no one ever did or they didn't want to or told not want and he's like shut off so many different avenues of illicit money flows. It's crazy. He's making Doge look like a kindergartener. And now they're going through the Smithsonian Institute. The Smithsonian Institute is not necessarily keeping to their mission anymore. And there's also money that flows through that. Exactly. That's what I'm thinking. But our Secretary of State Rubio,

45:25 man, he had just a firebrand speech and I had already clipped this and you sent this morning, you said, hey, look at this speech. Brother Jimmy, I literally have this stack up for the show today and I'll play this and didn't just want to talk about it briefly That was the wrong one shows over I Love that we don't edit this stuff. Here we go. This is what radical leftism is It may wear various different slogans and ideologies across place and time They can call themselves anti -capitalists, or anti -imperialists, or communists, or anarchists, or Marxists, but the fundamental character is always the same. It's always the same. It is a poisonous resentment cloaked in the language of equality and justice and liberation, an overwhelming need to tear down what greater men have built, to wreck what is beautiful and what is right on behalf of people who are only filled with ugliness. and have nothing else to offer the world. Through violence and through terror, they once again seek to impose their ugliness on all of us. The old dogma was wrong. The old dogma was wrong. None of this is driven by idealism. It is not utopian. In fact, it is the opposite. One of the criticisms you sometimes hear of communism, for example, is that it sounds good in theory, but it never

46:56 works in practice. That's actually not true. Communism does not sound good in theory. The world that envisions for all of us is small, flat, gray, leveled of all exception, drained of all that is good and noble in the human soul. The world that envisions is a world without courage, a world without creativity or ambition, a world without heroes or glory or great causes to strive towards, a world without miracles. without myths, without men who rise above the rest to do incredible and extraordinary things. And the world communism envisions is a world without God. For these architects of revolutionary violence, the towering achievement of our civilization, for them it's an unbearable humiliation, a reminder of what they cannot do and a reminder of what they cannot be. And this is, I mean, this is a powerful statement. And I'm so happy it's coming from our existing administration.

48:02 Because what he's saying is, and it's going to be very interesting in the midterm election and into the next general election. Of course, you and I will be all over it. When you see these, the DSA candidates, Democrats, Socialists of America, they literally are saying we need to break apart the system from within, revolution from within. That's rarely the way it actually goes, funny enough, with socialism. But Secretary Rubio is so spot on. And yes, the ultimate truth about socialism and communism is no God. That's the basic bottom line. I've probably participated in ignoring God, ignoring the roots of even of European countries. I mean, the churches, if they're not being burned down, they've been turned into Airbnbs and WeWorks to the point where, you know, we went to a church in a school auditorium.

49:15 But you see how... It's almost felt like we're hiding out here. Okay, it's just us Christians here in this school auditorium. I'm glad they need a school auditorium instead of a home. They're growing. That's what's exciting. Absolutely. He said without God, without miracles. Without miracles. Without heroes. Without creativity. And great men doing things above and beyond. So much in a very short amount of time. Pack that in. Let me read to you what Jillian Michaels said. Okay, right. Yes, because she played this clip. She did. And I was like, what? But I like what she said. She said, Marco Rubio just exposed what the political elite never wanted you to hear in a moment that is sending shockwaves across the internet. He completely dismantled dismantled radical leftism live on air, tearing down decades of political propaganda in under 60 seconds.

50:11 Everyone thought he was going to give a typical politician response, but what he revealed at the very end changed the entire conversation forever. Yeah. Brilliant. Yay, Gillian. Well, there's more people who are starting to see this. And as much as, you know, I'm like, hey, you know, let's all calm down about A million mosques built in the last 24 months in Texas, et cetera, et cetera. What we are seeing is Islamists teaming up with the socialists. This is where the danger comes from. And it's not just danger for our country and our republic. It's actually dangerous for the socialists because they're the ones that get killed first. And the weak brothers and sisters, oh, bring in your LGBTQ. You are the first ones who are gonna get killed. That's exactly right.

51:06 It's historical. So, you know, I pray that people will snap out of it. Snap out of it. Couple things before we go. We got prayer requests from Ian Cummings. His dad has not been doing well, suffering cytokine release syndrome, CRS. It's from chemo. And so just want everybody to pray for his dad. Heard from my friend Pete, Pete in quotes, who was very brave and prayed through what actions he had to take for his addiction, his alcohol addiction. You know came clean with his wife.

51:53 He said hey man. I just want to let you know I was in the ICU for three days. I'm out now and now the hard work begins Yeah, and so, you know, I'm praying for him and I hope everybody else will as well It's just I'm so proud of that guy for Wow for doing that and then without even asking we got two donations already with our quest for a value for value, which, of course, this is a value for value podcast, which means the best thing you can do is tell people about the podcast. That's very valuable to us right now. But as we grow and as we move and spend more time on this, all parts of value for value become important. And why does it not surprise me that right away we get Steve and Stephanie in Las Vegas supporting us with $33 .33. I really appreciate that. Yeah, Steve and Stephanie. And $75 from The Pickle Princess. Oh my goodness.

52:53 Aka. She's awesome. Jody White says, I love you guys. Keep up the good work. Thank you so much. That is so appreciated. WGTDT .com is our... website and that's where you're going to find real show notes this time. I'm going to put something in the show notes so people can go, oh, they're talking about something here. We're legit. We're getting legit. We're getting legit. Yes, man. Working on it. Working hard on it. It's fun, brother. I love doing this. This is so different. How long has it been since you've built one from the ground up like this? Has it been a while? Because I mean you do several podcasts 2 .0 you know facts It's everything's different. Okay 2 .0. I mean all of all podcasts are communities.

53:40 Mm -hmm. That's the bottom line Yeah, the the biggest community is the no agenda community and that's just been built up over right over almost 19 years Mo facts was a part of the no agenda community podcasting 2 .0 is a very small It's only a couple thousand. Well, it's because you all speak another language. Totally. I tried listening. No, no, no. And we also call it the board meeting because we're, you know, we're technology. We are a bunch of, we're misfits. We're a misfit. It's like someone said, Hey, let's put this band together. And some dude comes up with the banjo. We got a guy playing spoons, someone on the, you know, on the theremin and, you know, but all of this together is working to. make podcasting better, and podcasting is owned by no one. So we're just trying to help keep it open free. And that's for selfish reasons too. I want to make sure that I can continue to create podcasts. Now, Korean The Keeper really started because we didn't know anybody out here and we were just going to... check out some wineries and talk about wine, and we thought maybe some people send us some wine and we can, you know, we'll drink the wine. We did that for seven episodes.

54:56 Seven episodes. And then, you know, then it turned out that this was really about us and our faith journey. And, you know, so all of this, I think, led to what this is. And now there's a new community that we're going to build together. I'm very excited about it because when I see these notes saying, hey, I'm coming back to my faith, or it's been a long time. This is the success. This is the reason why we've been asked to do this, I feel. Well, it's not about clicks, likes, and sponsors. It's about people. And a true community is about people. And the success is the community, the people. Always. The interactions. I love interaction with some of the guys on X and Substack.

55:40 And I'm excited about that growing. I've been to a few of the no agenda meetups and I just always leave going, this is so cool to have this community and people not content to just stay on their computers or their pods, but come together and hang out and get to know each other. Man, I've enjoyed that so much. Every time you ask me, I go, okay, I'm there. Well, it's on a Saturday. I'm there because I get to meet people that I'm going to somehow build some level of a relationship with. Isn't that real riches in life? To me, real riches isn't getting a sponsor by row or some of these different big sponsors. It's about people and it's about holding each other's arms up through the tough days and celebrating the wins together. We'll take that as the plane sticking the landing, man. I love that. Perfect. We get to do this and we will get to do it next week.

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