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walked into it. You told me to pick that. Know, I usually I usually vet these pretty good, but I actually just walked into a hornet's nest and I'm gonna have to answer it because we don't edit this podcast. We just go straight through it. What's up, guys, Welcome to the podcast Special Treat. Today, Bernie texted me he actually had car trouble's alternator went out in his truck.

Hate it when that happens. Yes, had to call and go through the repair process, and so he texted me kind of last minute and said, hey, man, I'm not going to be able to make it, so we rescheduled for next week. So the next episode, well you I think Chad's next anyway, He'll be soon. But special guest Amber, I repeat from last week, we get to do this again. I'm back I am the backup. So sorry, guys. If you guys we're wanting Bernie, I like, you're not a backup.

You're a good You're a really really good guest. Everyone loves you. And what's cool about this is where you did the podcast last week. We put these out every Monday, and some of the questions we didn't get to last week,

we'll now get to see them on this episode. So, guys, what we do on this podcast, if you're new, is we're going to read your questions and we're going to walk through them with you, as if you're sitting in the room with us, as if there's three of us and you say, hey, can I talk to you about something. We don't have notes, we don't have books, we don't have preparation. In fact, Amber has never seen any of

these questions, and I only skimmed them. I didn't I usually read the first couple of sentences and then I can categorize them. If you have a question, email granger Smith Podcast at gmail dot com. Grangersmith Podcast at gmail dot com. Give me anything you want and it'll be up to me and my guests to help you walk through it. And I want to give a shout out to our Spotify listeners. I know we have a lot on Spotify. Yeah. Shout out to the YouTube listeners and watchers.

Dress up for you guys on YouTube. Yeah. Apple, Apple podcast app shout out to you guys. That's my preference. I listen on Apple podcast. What do you listen on Apple? You do? Yeah? Yeah? So I have kind of my choice podcast. I watched this one though on YouTube. You watched this one? I watch. I watch all your podcasts. I sometimes will listen to this one in one and a half speed. Oh yeah, to look for the cool spots in it. And I like hearing myself. I don't

like carry myself talk regular speed. I like me, you're talking real fast. Which that's funny because that's how I do books. I do books at one point five, and you don't. You read them at one on Audible. It depends on the book. It depends because if it's a really in depth book, I listen to it at one because my brain can't comprehend something fast. If it's like a news podcast, like I listened to Albert Mohler The Briefing every single morning, and that's like my world news.

I take in at one and a half speed because like if you listen to news really fast, Yeah, because I can kind of tune in, tune out who else who we shout out there's are there anybody else any other way of listening to that? I don't know. I don't know. I think you cover them all. Yeah, well, shout out to my over the road truckers. I know we have some over the road truckers, my early work commuters. If you listen on Monday mornings, my listeners while you're working,

you know, give a shout outs to that. Some tractor cabs. I know we listen to that. Yeah, we just speaking of We just announced EEE Radio so exciting. So that's gonna come out live to the world July the second. And that's an app, so you can download the app and any any of your app stores will have it. It's called yee Radio. It's super simple and it's free, and we have programmed thousands of songs that fit the

EEE lifestyle. And it's got all kinds of goodies in it and different different things that you can't get anywhere else. And it streams twenty four to seven. Yeah, I got I was talking to my mom yesterday and she's we got to hear it a little bit like it was out before people, Yeah, before you announce it, before we announced it, and she heard Matchbox twenty, so I heard that was put on there for me. Oh Fair said that. Yeah.

Ant Man, who's been programming radio stations for like thirty years, is partners with me in this and Tyler, and so he programs it, so he actually brings the radio mind to it. So it's a legit radio station and we have big plans for it, but we're excited. So whenever you hear this podcast, just know that right now, if you download it, you're gonna hear or Earl working on it. It's like a bunch of sound effects of Earl working on the building, the app, building the radio station, excuse me.

And then on July second, at ten am Central, it's gonna boom, open up, and you want to hear it at ten am Central because that's when the app starts for the first time, the station, the radio station starts and you're gonna want to hear the funny little thing that we built, the skit that we built for Earl to launch to kick this thing off. And then we're having a live concert at seven pm Central on July third, streaming on UE Radio. Awesome. Yeah yeah, make sure you

tell your friends. So, going to these questions that you guys have asked, and I've categorized them a little bit, I'm gonna start with one that the subject line says, easy warm up question. Okay I did. I was reading the comments last time and somebody said, could we read the date that they were sent in? I guess just to see how long it's been or this one was sent Monday? Okay, says Hey Granger. My name is Kyle

from San Antonio. I've had the honor of meeting you a few times around in San Antonio and Austin area. First saw you way back at Chigarfest and always bring it up when I meet you. Love everything you stand for in all of your music. Thank you, Kyle. I remember Tigarfest very well. It was crazy, says My question is what's the story behind the arrowhead you wear on your neck? I love arrowheads and recently began looking for them at our ranch. I've had some success in finding

broken ones, but haven't found that perfect one yet. Did you find one? Did you find the one that you wear or was it passed down. It says, ps, if you have that black and gold arrowhead ye ye shirt you wore Whitewater Amphitheater and new bronfles in an excel, I'll take it off your hands. Thank you, God bless Kyle. Appreciate you. Kyle, thanks so much. Man. I'm glad you liked the black and gold T shirt. That's going to be an exclusive and I think Matt's going to start

selling it at our merch table. So maybe next time you see us, maybe July fourth and Leander, if you go to that, I'm pretty sure Matt at our merch table will have them. Like this question. I don't get it a lot. The arrowhead I wear around my neck for most of my shows, I found well, I don't know if I found it. Let me explain me. Dad, Tyler and Parker have searched for arrowheads as a hobby as a pastime at mom and Dad's house in central Texas outside of Clifton, Texas. And it's a very arrowhead

fertile country. They're everywhere, and so it's been such a good family bonding time. Like we'll go for Thanksgiving and we'll eat Thanksgiving dinner and we'll literally go outside and hunt for arrowheads for hours. You can't really do it in the summer it's too hot, but Thanksgiving's perfect and you could walk around the kids do it, and the kids could find little pieces and they say, is this an arrowhead? And it's just such a cool bonding experience.

And so at one point Tyler and I realized, after Dad died, it would be really cool to make a couple of necklaces out of the ones that we found. So that's why I say, I don't know if I found it. I feel like I remember that one though, because it's pretty pretty perfect, and I feel like it was after your dad passed and we found that and somebody I don't know who, I think it was you. It might looked straight down and it was just right

at your foot. Yeah, perfect, this perfect arrowhead. I found several, so I don't remember which is which, but the one I wear around my neck, either it's that one you're talking about, or Tyler Parker or Dad found it. And it's a really cool thing when you find an arrowhead and you look at and you say, the last person that touched this, who was that man, who was that woman? What were they doing? What tribe were they in, and it's just it's such a really neat thing. I love them.

And with that mentality, Tyler decided to make these necklaces and we actually gave we've only given two of them away, and that was to Brian and Tyler with what Georgia Lyne Like. In twenty sixteen, we did a long tour with them throughout Canada and the Northwest and we gave them two necklaces with those arrowheads as a thank you.

That's on sounds like a weird bucket list item. I've never found one, and that's been like I always want to find them because they find them all the time, and for some reason, I just haven't found one yet, but I will. I'll find one out of Yenger. That's so cool. I didn't know that. So when you do, and you're so analytical, you're very observant, so you seem like you would. But when you that first one, it's really special because it's just like, yeah, I want to

find one so bad. Yeah, Okay, well, good question, Kyle. I appreciate your brother. I hope to see you fourth of July and the Leander I'm going to hit another. I saw another and easy softball. In here, it says, hey, grade, your My name is Destiny Campbell from Crawford, Texas. Speaking of that's not too far from Clifton. Crawford has a lot of arrowheads. So I have a question for you. Where would you and your family go for vacation. I'm not expecting your reply, but I hope you see this.

You've inspired me so much. Thank you, Destiny. This email came January seventeenth, twenty one. We Amber and I have been to Mexico the River or Amayas eight or nine times, starting with our honeymoon. Ye, and we we like to do an all inclusive where you go, it's it's relatively cheap, and you can get a Southwest flight to Cancun from Austin, Texas, and you can go get an all inclusive for three or four days and you don't even have to have your wallet with you. All food and drink and everything

is paid for, especially a couple's trip. Yeah, so we usually do like a couple's trip. Other than and I love I just love Mexico, and I love the culture, and I love the food, and I love the people. Other than that, we like to go to the mountains, We haven't done that big family mountain trip in the summer yet, like I've wanted to, but the kids have been a little too young. They would complain too much. But when they get a little bit older, I cannot wait to take them to the mountains in the summer,

which I get to see a lot in touring. I'll see it in July. We're gonna go to Montana and Utah, Cherry Peak and Bozeman, so I'll always hit the mountains during tour season. Also Boise we go over, We go over to the mountain and Boise. We'll do that this year. But we like to go skiing with the family, which we skipped because of COVID, but we went to two years before that and the kids were just starting to really like it. Yeah, Lincoln really loves it. Yeah, Lincoln

loves the mountains. London's more of a beach girl. Probably she gets out their too sickness. Yeah, but so yeah, the beach and mountains. That's probably the most common answer to any vacation question. Beach mountain. We want to take them to Europe, though, I would love to take them where we got engaged and we just don't know if they're too younger appreciated right now. Yeah, that's that. That's probably my favorite vacation. Yeah, we don't do it as

much because that's much more expensive than the other two options. Yeah, on twice, right, just for our engagement. Yeah, twice, Yeah, together as a couple, and then I've been several times with friends. But yeah, so Europe. I love the history. I love touring. Uh, I love backpacking. I love the food, the food, coffee, everything. Yeah, thank you, Destiny. Let's see what we got here. We're gonna get we have time, and we're to start getting deep here. I'm going to

leave them up to you. We have a subject called what should I Do? I have a subject called church Speak. We have I need some advice we need. We have one called the Artist and the Peacemaker. We have one called the Lord podcast question and yeah, there we go. Let's do church speak. Yeah, church speak, it's different, says Hey Granger. I've been following your podcast and because of your your personality and ideals, I even gave country music

a try. That's awesome, he says. I've been a serious pickle in my life, and your Christian testimony an example of life, brings me joy in Christ and helps me trust in the Lord more and more. My question to you is this In a podcast with you and Amber, you mentioned that you were invited to speak at a church in Granger, Indiana. Did you do it? If it is still happening in a future date, we would ask that you would record it and put it on your podcast.

I'd love to hear what you share in a church environment. Not saying that it's something that you share on a podcast, but just think would be an interesting episode. Ye yee from Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada. Thank you, Bruno. And that's this came February sixteenth. Was it online when you spoke? Yeah, Granger, Indiana. Yeah, you can probably search it. It's called the Granger Community Church.

We did it skype because I was during COVID interesting enough and I haven't reached out to them, but we're going to be touring sixty miles from there coming up soon in on a Sunday, so I might hit him up. Yeah, but where do you want to start with this one? Because this is an in depth Bruna doesn't know it's in depth, but it is an in depth question here, Well,

what is it? He's basically just asking if you could post it online, right, and I know, but it's deeper than that, okay, because we have a lot more to say about that. First of all, I'm sure that's got to be online. But second of all, Amber and I have actually been speaking to church a lot more and we haven't talked about it really on socials. Amber spoke last night. I did at a big women's group. I spoke a couple of weeks ago at a big men's group. Both of us were nervous for those that was my

first time was two weeks ago. You've done it before by yourself, right, not by myself. I've led table, but I've never gotten up and spoken to the whole group. So I did as Amen's besides with you. Yeah, I did a men's group and it was at seven am a couple fridays ago, and my topic was leading yourself through pain, and so I prepared and I built a twenty five minute sermon, and I was practicing an on

tour like in hotel rooms. I was literally putting trash cans on top of coffee tables to create a podium, and putting my little iPad on top of the the ottoman and practicing and so I practiced and practice and built this sermon and then delivered it on at church and was nervous. I don't know if it went that good. I think it went great. You sent it to me, and everyone that I talked to at church said it

did too. But I think we're really hard on ourselves because when I spoke last night, I didn't feel like I did the same thing you. I practiced and practiced and had everything down that I wanted to say, and then the Holy Spirit just takes over sometimes and what you planned is not what God lead you to do. And so sometimes the enemy can come in and tell us that we didn't do good. But yeah, I know that there's many, many more in the future. How do I know that because I want to. I really want to.

I've written another sermon. I've written two in my life back to back, and there were both in the last couple of months. The second one I plan on. It's a Sunday morning type sermon, so I plan on somebody that will invite me to their church on a Sunday morning. And I've delivered it to the dogs and the Cat and then Amber at separate times in the barn. I've said the sermon. So when I get my first invitation for a Sunday morning somewhere at some church and some

city and some time, I'll say it to the world. Yeah, and then maybe Bruno, I'll think about putting it on my channel. Yeah yeah cool, Okay, what should I do? I need some advice artist and the peacemaker, the lord artist and the peacemaker. M Remember, we can't pick times just because they're fancy, because then it takes away from

the people that say podcast question. Yeah, so this one says, Hey Granger, I recently got married, and you graciously sent my husband a cameo the morning of our wedding, encouraging him and giving him great advice. He ugly cried when he realized that it was you. Picture attached. Let's look at the picture. That is a very pretty picture of an ugly cry. He said it was one of his top three moments of the day. Wow, because the cameo.

I love cameo for that reason, and I've got I've gotten to love cameo more and more over the years, knowing that it actually ends up being played in some really intimate environments. People will play the cameo so we get messages all the time about Hey, can you send so and to a birthday message? So just search search him on cameo and we could send you any kind of message. So moving on, Rachel says, since we've gotten married, we've been more interested in each other's eneogram numbers. They've

helped us better understand and love one another. My question is do you know yours and Amber's aneograham numbers? What are they and how have they helped you create a better union with one another? Thanks Rachel from Kansas City, Missouri. Parentheses not Kansas. We did this. We took this test in bed what a month ago or so? And I don't remember. You're three another three? You're three and I'm a nine. What does that mean? You are the achiever, I believe, and I am the peacemaker. I think, oh,

that explains the title. Yeah, okay, the subject. So you're your three and we looked up what we are together as a couple, and it fits really well together. The nines really helped the threes, and the threes really help the nines. I support you and encourage you, and you do the same for me. I read something on my rise about both of us, so we should look it up real quick on the nine and the three and how we mesh well together. But just look up an

nine and a three couple ship enneagram. Okay, he's very driven and I'm kind of more laid back. So a three the achiever says success oriented, pragmatic type, adaptive, excelling, driven, and image conscious. Yes, and nine says the peacemaker, easygoing, self ficing type, receptive, reassuring, agreeable, and complacent. So if you guys want to read, I mean, we probably don't have time to look it up. But if you guys want to read what we are together, just google like

nine and a three couple ship together. But it fits really well together and it works with our personalities, and I think it fits us pretty good to a t what our enneagram numbers are. Yeah, So it's a fun little personality test if you want to try it. Only you, as a guest would have remembered what mine is, and there's no way I remembered three. I'm actually a nine wing one. But what a nine wing one? You're normally something and then you have a wing of another one.

So I'm a partly a little bit of nine wing one. Okay, So we have what should I do. We have Graindeer, I need some advice. We have the Lord, and we have podcast question, Podcast question boom. It says, Hey Granger, my name is Mallory. I'm from Pennsylvania. I heard you and Amber on a rise and you're talking about how you believe in Calvinism. Can you talk more about what you believe surrounding that? Thank you so much for answering this. I love watching your family logs and pray for your

family often. You're so inspiring. Man, I just walked into it. You told me to pick that, you said, don't know. I usually I usually vet these pretty good, but I actually just walked into a hornet's nest and I'm gonna have to answer it. Yes, we don't edit this podcast. We just go straight through it. And we're going to get a lot of backlash for it. Yeah, people, some people are gonna start hating me right now. I do it's tulip. Yeah, I learned that from from r C yesterday.

My heart's actually beating right now. Yeah, so people are going to start hating me, and thank you. I'll just I'll just dive into it. Calvinism comes from a man named John Calvin. These were his doctrines, his ideas that he derived from the Bible, and it it is a what is it? What? What? How do I say it without getting so much hate on the Internet and from people not listening to my podcast anymore after I say it. But it's a it's a way of understanding the Bible.

It's not a religion. It's it's I don't even want to say it's a form of Christianity, because it is Christianity. It is the essence of Christianity, and it's based on Scripture, and it's as as we all know, there's different denominations. Calvinism is actually not a denomination. It's just a form of doctrine within the denomination. So you could be Baptist, you could be Methodist, you could be Episcopalian, and you

could still be Calvinist. It's it's a way, basically. The best way to say is it centers around grace, the grace of God and what grace means. And before we started this podcast we actually just started talking about it. The best way to describe Calvinism to me is the song Amazing Grace, Amazing Grace, How sweet the sound that saved a wretch like me I once was lost, but now I'm found. Was blind, and now I see. That is the essence of Calvinism. It's it's I had no

hope dead in my transgressions. God's grace alone saved me. It was irresistible. I had no hope. It was irresistible. And because of that, I have the highest maximum human level of gratefulness because of it, because I'm no better than anyone. No, I'm not smarter than anyone. I didn't figure out a mystery past anyone. I was saved by pure grace. I was a wretch. I was a wretch. So the five points of Calvinism is total depravity, unconditional election,

limited atonement, irresistible grace, and perseverance of the saints. And this is getting deep. And like I said, I I don't like to talk about this in a public forum because people will hate this idea. Yeah, but I believe it with all of my heart. I believe it because I've lived it. I feel it. I've lived it. And more importantly than what I feel and what I live, more important than all that, I see it over and

over in the scriptures. Every morning, I get up before the the son comes up, and I pull out my Bible, and I pray for understanding, and I pray for repentance, and I pray for my family. And then I open up the book and I have a reading plan, so I pick up where I left off the morning before, and I read and I see the truth, and I see sovereignty in the scriptures, and I see peace, and I see hope, I see love, I see God's wrath. And let me try to explain these these five points.

Total depravity means I had no hope. I had no hope. I was dead. I could not have fixed it myself. Unconditional election means that God knew that before the beginning of time. And you know, we've read through the Bible, and I'm now I'm reading through it my second time, and now I'm going through and highlighting specific words in the Bible election, adoption, predestination, and those are words that

people don't like to share. These people are going to hate us, but it's in the scripture that's right there. You have a lot if you don't believe in unconditional election, you have a lot of explaining to do with so many scriptures over and over and over. Then it just means that before the beginning of time, before you were formed in the womb, God chose you and people. But here's the key. He didn't choose everybody. Yeah, and that's the problem. That's the problem people have, right. They say,

it's not well, that's not fair. How can you? And it might Who am I to decide what's fair? Right? Who can never know the mind of God? Yeah? So the third is limited atonement, and this is another big one. Limited atonement means Jesus didn't die for every human. He only died for his chosen people. Who are we to know the chosen? We don't. That's why you just have

to live your life in a way. He picks all different kinds of people, from all different races, in all different societies, and all different income levels, in all different mental capacities, in all different ages. He picks them, and he died for them. Why do we know Jesus didn't die for everybody? Because Jesus also said not everyone is saved, and he mentions, I'm not praying for the world, I'm praying for those who you sent me. Talking to the

Father John seventeen. The whole prayer is really about this. The fourth is called irresistible grace. That means God's grace is so powerful you cannot stop it from hitting you. It's irresistible. You can't choose, you can't choose. The grace is so powerful it's going to overcome you. If you're reborn, it's going to overcome you, and you have no way

to stop it. You just go, Okay, I'm in. That's what we were just talking about before the podcast, about how we are completely different people and that's what we should be. The last piece of Calvinism is called perseverance of the Saints, and that means that once you're chosen, or once you come to know that you're chosen and saved, you're always chosen and is saved and nothing, nothing you could do, will stop it. That's another big hot item because hot topic because people don't like the idea of

what are you gonna do? Just murder somebody and you're still good. No. The idea is, once you're saved, you don't want to You're not going to anybody because you feel the conviction of the Holy Spirit. You feel that conscience that's weighing down on you so heavily that you just want to be better because you feel better by being better. It's not a it's not a handcuff. You know that you're just stuck. No, it's a freedom. It's a freedom. It's the opposite. And the Bible says, no

one can take them from my hand. The Bible says that no one can take them, take them from me. So and that includes themselves. They can't ruin that. So that this is a hot topic. A lot of people hate it. If you google Calvinism, the other kind of Christianity is Armenianism, and the idea is both sides are saved, both sides are a Christian Both sides ghosts could sit next to each other in the same view, in the

same church. But Calvinism is is a form that I believe because I believe that I was totally depraved, and I believe that by realizing that that when I get to heaven and face God, he's going to say, why are you here. I'm going to say, because of your grace, and he's going to go, then why did why did the other person in your church not end up here? I'm going to say, I didn't. I didn't do anything, you did everything. There's nothing I could do to brag

about being saved. There is no way to boast nothing. It's the idea. I'll say this last thing. It's the idea of the man in the ocean. There's there's two ways of looking at the word saved, sa veed saved. There's two ways of looking at it. Here's the first one. You're in the ocean. You've been paddling, you've been dog paddling forever, and you're getting so tired you can't do

it anymore. And God comes to you, sees you in your you're tired, depraved way, and he throws you a life preserver and you swim to it and you climb. You put on the life preserver and climb up on the raft and you lay on the raft and you go God, you saved me. The other way, the Calvinist way, is you're dog paddling, you're tired, you can't do it anymore. You sink to the bottom. You die dead, dead in

your transgressions, totally depraved, unable to do anything. God comes at the bottom of the ocean, picks you up, take you to the beach, breeze life back in you. You open your eyes, revived, reborn, renewed, and you look at God, and you go, you saved me. That's a very different way of saying saved, kind of you saving yourself versus God saving you, like you didn't reach for that life preserver. Bring on the comments. Here we go. We're open to you know, we're open. Sorry, I'm sorry, just the deep

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three we have left. There is a three. I mean if we finish these, I'll dive back in more. Let's do, Granger? What should I do? Wo? Is that what I said? There's what should I do? And there's Hay Granger need some advice? Oh? What should I do? What should I do? Hey? Granger? My name is Corea from Georgetown, Texas. I'm nineteen years old, Georgetow. I've been working full time for two years. The job I currently have is not the career I want to go in. How do I find the perfect career for me?

This was sent May thirty, first, twenty twenty one, and there is no name on here. Okay, nineteen years old, working full time for the last two years. Current job is not the career. Yeah, that's yeah, that's understandable. You're nineteen. It's understandable to see that the job you want is not the job you have when you're nineteen. I didn't what were you doing your nineteen just graduated college? I think I was waiting tables. Yeah, yeah, yeah, Oh I'm sorry,

just graduated high school? So yeah, right right, yeah, so yeah, I was far. I was either you know, I'm working for a paint contractor. I think that's what I was doing. I was nineteen, ye I was waiting tables. Most painting houses and plan get really bad gigs. And we knew that was what wasn't our life goal of what we want to do. It's just something to make money on the weekends to go out with your friends, you know. Yeah, So I would say, first, there's no worry you're nineteen.

If you're forty nine, this would be a different question. How do I find the perfect career for me? It's hard because we don't know what his passion is, what he likes to do. So we just got to take a broad stroke at it, and it would say the first first question is do you need an education for what you need to go into? So say, you know, I really want to go into diesel mechanics. Okay, well, there's a tech school for you that you need to go to You need go to the trade school according

to what you want to do. Nineteen is the perfect age to go to a trade school. If you say I want to be a lawyer, Okay, now you need to go to a major university or a community college that you can then get into a major university. And then you need to start thinking about saving up money so then you can go to law school. And you need to be thinking about that path. You want to

be a doctor, same thing. Yeah, I was going to say, if you need to, if you know exactly kind of where you want your career path to go, find a place in that field that does internships and volunteer or intern and still keep your same job if you can, and just work a few hours interning at that location. There's nothing wrong to with taking a stab at a couple of different careers that you think might be interesting and then you find out, you know, I hate this,

I don't like it. If you want to go to law enforcement or EMT or anything like that, there's a clear path for you to get a law enforcement or EMT school. There's a clear path to do that fire school. If you want to be an entrepreneur. Then you the perfect path is what Amber said. You go to you know, as you said, Georgetown, Texas. So they're like, there's Yetti. You know, you go to YETI Coolers in Austin and you go in there and you go have I want to apply for an internship to work for you guys.

I think this is a cool outdoor company, and I would love to see just how you work through things, and you work your way up from there. First form in Saint Louis, Missouri, they sell supplements. Really cool group of guys and girls, and they they take on interns that then turn into shippers in their warehouse that then turns into some kind of management role and just keep working up the ladder. A lot of companies do that, Yeah, And it's okay if you don't, if you don't quite

know what you want to do. I don't think I knew exactly what I wanted to do at nineteen. I changed when I did go to college. I changed my major about four times. And you already are getting something good for your resume right now. You have two years working in the same company that shows loyalty. So just

pray about it. Pray if you don't quite know. Pray for guys to open up some doors for you, or search your heart for what you might desire to be doing, and just keep doing what you're doing until something, and still something kind of sparks your interest or sparks what you want to do. I have a suggestion to this guy, Corey. It's his name right there, Corey. Why did I say it? No name? It's in the first sentence. I don't know my name is Corey Corey. I got a suggestion for you,

not knowing you, not knowing anything about you. I only know. The only thing I know from you is four sentences that you wrote. You're nineteen, you live in Georgetown, you've been working for two years, and it's not where you want to be. I have a suggestion. Marine Corps. Huh yeah. The Marine Corps could offer the motivation that you need to build your resume, to build your network, to build your work ethic, to build your discipline that then can

catapult you into a host of other careers. That's probably if I didn't have music, that's what I would have done. I was in the court A and M. Everybody else around me was going into the Marine Corps. So that's and then I went to Iraq and performed. And when I was with the Marines, I just felt at home.

So no offense to anybody else in Navy or air Force or army, but I would say, you go to your Marine Corps recruiter here in Georgetown, Texas and just ask them do you don't have to commit to anything. Just walk in there one day and just go. You know, there'll be a guy, a sergeant sitting in there at the recruiting office and just say, hey, my name is Cory, just wondering what that maybe the Marines could offer for me. Yeah, it's good, and and he'll go, all right, let's sit down.

He's gonna be a cool guy. He's in he's in recruiting for a reason. He's a good talker probably, and he's gonna go, man, do you like you like aviation? Do you like mechanics? Computers? Do you like computers? Do you do you like some action? You know what? Do you like jumping out of airplanes? And and the cool thing about the Marine Corps. I don't even know why I'm pitching this so hard. I have no idea why, I have no idea why I'm feeling this right now.

But the cool thing about it, man, is it's like zero financial investment. It doesn't matter how much you have in the bank account. It doesn't matter what grades you got in high school, it doesn't matter anything that you

have going on right now. It doesn't matter. You go that Marine Corps recruiter and he could send you off to San Diego next week, and you're on an airplane and you're going to San Diego or wherever, and that's that's pretty exciting if you don't have a you know, a wife and kids right here, and you're looking for direction and you're looking looking for the perfect career. I don't know why on this podcast I'm telling you this. I don't know why. But Georgetown, Texas Recruiting Office, Oh rah,

there you go. I need some advice, and we have the Lord. If two more, we're probably gonna have time for another one. After that, Son, I'll go back to the drawing board. Okay, I need some advice. Hey, mister Smith. My name is Amber. I'm from Southern Indiana. I absolutely love your music. And second, I need some advice. They say God won't put you through anything you can't handle. Well, I'm not sure. I could handle what is going on in my life right now. My grandmother was rushed to

the hospital for emergency surgery in August of twenty nineteen. Well, while she was in there, my grandpa got sick and about a week later my birthday. On my birthday, my grandpa was diagnosed with cancer. Sadly, he passed that January. All the while my grandma was in the hospital slash rehab and having more surgeries than In June, my dad was diagnosed with cancer. Thankfully it was they were able to remove it all with surgery. Then this past December,

my grandmother was diagnosed with cancer. Do you have any advice on how I can handle all of this? God bless you and your family? And ye he that comes from Amber in February. Hi, Amber, first, just want to say, that's a lot for anyone to handle. And I know people all the time say God doesn't give you more than you can handle. And I've said this for so long that I think that he does. I think He gives us more than we can handle because we're not

meant to carry it alone. We are meant to lay everything at his feet, and we are never alone because He is walking with us. So I just want to say that. I think the Bible says you won't be tempted right beyond what you can handle. Butt. It says anything about you will have you won't have as much trouble as you can handle. It doesn't say that. Now, that's still like an old wives tell See they say God won't put you through anything you can handle. It

doesn't say that that's the world. That's what the world's telling you. The Bible says it won't tempt you beyond what you can handle. Yeah, that's different. And I want you to say, what because one situation her grandfather went home. The other situation, her dad was healed. And I love what we saw the other day that it gave me a lot of peace and a lot of a comfort from losing our son. Was that some sicknesses, some accidents, some cancers, some things are not meant for healing. They're

meant for homecoming. And I love that word homecoming. Yeah. And Second Kings thirteen fourteen, it says, now Elisha had fallen sick with an illness of which he was to die. So I think about that for a second. Now, Elisha had fallen sick with the illness of which he was to die. Second king is thirteen fourteen. Now here's the deal. Elishah was a prophet. He divided rivers, he undid poison, he'd made axe handle's float, he caused oil to flow. He healed leprosy, he raised the dead. But now God

says this sickness is for homecoming, not healing. I just I love that tweet us all because yes, God can perform miracles, and God will heal certain people, but other times it's meant for homecoming. He's calling you home, and I pray that you're a grandmother and grandfather had a long, beautiful life, you know, and I pray that you got to spend so much time with them, and I'm so glad that you have your dad. I know it doesn't take away the pain. It hurts, and it doesn't seem fair.

But we always talk about renewing our mind and changing the channel in our mind, and I hope that you can try to flip it to that perspective and know that if you are a follower of Christ, you will see them again and they're home. And I love that they wouldn't want to come back to this earth even if they could. I was in a meet and greet recently,

and there was a guy telling me something similar. He had a lot going on in his life and he was just pouring it on me in the meet and greet and he just said, I just have so much and I just don't know how I could handle it. And I said, well, you don't have to handle it for five years. You don't have to handle it for ten years. You don't have to handle it for one month. You just have to handle it today. Yeah, that's all you have to do, just today. If today's too much

for you, just this hour. Yeah, just handle it this hour, man, that's too much. Okay, this minute, Just handle it for sixty seconds. You can do anything for sixty seconds. That's too much. Breath by breath. And I've been there in my life. I've been in a place in my life

where I couldn't handle an hour. So I had to just deal with the next breath and guess what it came, and the next one after that came, and that turned into a minute, and then that turned into an hour, and then it turned into months and then turn into years. That's all we could do, guys. We're not built to handle all this for a long period of time. Now, we're not built. That's why we're being renewed day by day. That's why the mercies are new every morning. Are only

built to handle it one days. It's like what I said in the Men's sermon, It's like a Tesla car. The battery has to be recharged every day. I don't personally know. I don't drive a Tesla, but you have to recharge the battery every day. On your cell phone. The cell phone that's not made to last for months, you got to go back and charge it every day. So that's like us. We got to go back, and we got to go back to the source of our power, which is Christians. We believe it's God and the Word

of God. And we go go back. We open our Bibles and we open them and we look at it and we go, God, I can't can't do this. I got too much going on. I got there's sickness, and there's death, and there's cancer going on in my life. Or can't do it. And God goes, yeah, I know you can't, because I made you. I know you can't. So I'm going to sustain you just enough to where you have to keep coming back to me and I'll keep powering you. I'll keep recharging that battery, giving you

that motivation. I'll give you just enough why so that you keep coming back to the refilling station. Yeah. And his power is made perfect in our weakness. We're not meant to try to be strong. And it's not some power hungry god that goes on knew due to come to me. He knows because he made us. That is, if we keep coming back to him daily, then he's going to give us enough energy and then then that gives us peace and hope and love. And that's what

we need, that's what we crave. And so and Paul sayes, the light momentary afflictions, Yeah, are preparing us. These light momentary afflictions are preparing us for an eternal weight of glory. They're preparing, they're doing something. This affliction you're going through, Amber is doing something for you and for your soul and for your happiness and for your peace and for your love to do. It's working for you, that's what

it's doing. So when you asked me in your last sentence any advice on how do I handle all this? I say you can't. You can't, not alone, not alone. Yeah, And there's so much peace in that. Yeah. And just one more thing I think you said in the second to last sentence. This past December, my other grandmother was

diagnosed with cancer. So enjoy every moment you have with her, and be in this present moment, like Granger said, take it hour by hour, minute by minute, spend as much time with her as you can, and pray for healing. You know, we can pray for healing, but we also have to pray for God's will and for strength to make it through whatever we're facing. But enjoy that time together, spend those extra moments with her. Yeah. And then none of this means that you don't research doctors and research

hospitals and try to help them with their diet. None of that. Of course, you're going to try your best to do. That's part of That's part of God's will for you as well. But through it, don't let it start affecting you so much that you can't function, you get paralysis. Don't don't let that happen because you can't handle it all by yourself. And just remember that advice that people gave you, that say God won't put you through anything you can't handle, is not true. It's not

real advice. It's about temptations that's misunderstood. So when it gets heavy, and when when it seems like it's stacking on, that just means your your battery's going out. It's time to recharge. It's time to take a Tesla back to the to the garage. I wish there was a good pickup truck analogy for that, because Tesla's we'll just use gasoline,

but diesel. It's like when you're driving down in the county road and you're in the middle of nowhere and your your your little needles on empty and you can't see it a station. You how how much anxiety do you have in that moment? You're so worried, and you got the windows down and you're turning off the air conditioner and you're just you don't know what to do.

But then you go over the hill and you see that Texico station, that excellent station, and you pull in there and you start refilling that diesel in your truck, and what do you get. You get, Oh, there goes all the anxiety. It's gone. It's relief and peace, and you just go, I made it. This is where I needed, This is what the truck needed it needed to refuel. You can't run on your fumes, so don't try to amber. You're not. This is look through human history. You can't

do it. You can't this this time. This type of stuff leads to depression and anxiety and anger and anger and guilt, and you can't function like that. You can't. So thanks for the email. I hope this helped a little bit. And I'm not trying to make it sound like what you're going through isn't hard, because it sounds sounds so hard, and it sounds like you're handling it with a lot of gray stuff. Thanks for emailing. One more here and the little group that I brought, and

then we can go get more if we need. This one is called the Lord says Hey Granger. My name is Nate from coll Colorado. Have been following her music since two thousand and eight. Haven't stopped since. I've been to every single show in Colorado and Wyoming since twenty thirteen. I've been dating this girl for four years. Here it comes, and both of our first priorities were to build our relationship on the foundation of God. The problem is she loves her big church in the city and I love

my small church in the country. He didn't say country. I just wanted those say Earl dibbles. I love my small church. I've been attending for fifteen years. She came to me recently saying that if I can't bring myself to switch to her church, it just won't work out in the long run. I don't know how to go about this because I love my church and the people that go there, and her only reason to not come to mind is because she feels being like she's being

judged by the small town atmosphere. I hope you could help. I love your music and your beautiful family. I'll be a fan till I die as a fan. Before you met me, Nate is say how old? No, he is a lifer man, lifer, EVI nation or brother you were, You're my dude. This email came in January. Okay, so it's been a few months since he said it. It's

been in the queue. What's your first reaction. My first reaction when you were reading that was I was trying to put both of us in that situation, and my gut reaction would be for us to go to both with each other, both of us go to the small one. Both of us go to the big one. I know what time constraints and schedules and all that that might not work. But when you're trying to build a relationship, it's a lot of give and take and compromise and communication.

And I feel like if you felt so strongly, but it sounds like you both do. But if you came to me and said, I really love my small church, I really want to keep going, I would go with you, and vice versa. You know, what was your first impression. There's a couple of things here. One there's great, there's great news. They're not married. Yep, if you're married, this is a different conversation. This is a much harder email to talk about. Here's the discouraging part. Four years, been

dating for four years? Yeah, you've been in four Have you ever been in a four year relationship? Besides now? I haven't. Yeah, I've been maybe like three's kind of max, you know, so, Nate, I would say, dude, first, why why are you still dating this girl after four years and you haven't pulled the trigger? Why? Why haven't you? Why haven't you popped the question? Is it because you're too young? Is it because you lived in different cities.

Is it because you're unsure, you're afraid to commit? And any guys girls, let me say as girls, if you're guys too afraid to commit, that just means he's he's not all in. He's not all in, because there is no such thing as afraid to commit. If you're all in, you're just like, I don't care, I'll commit. I'm all in in this girl. I want to spend the rest of my life with the girl. I don't care. I'm in.

It doesn't matter what kind of commitment worries you've had in the past, So I kind of worry about that, Like, why are you else dating? It's been four years and there's people listening right now that are probably disagreeing. Yeah. Another thing that was a little discouraging is she said if I can't bring myself to switch to her church, then it won't work out. Bye goodbye. Like that means

she's just cutting it down, Nate, goodbye. Yeah, if that's the deal breaker, like you won't switch the church, So I'm done with our I'm throwing our whole four years away, You're out. That's kind of discouraging. I hope she's not a podcast listener or maybe she could maybe maybe only maybe she is Nate get out. This is episode ninety, Episode ninety for eighty nine episodes. I've been softer and I'm getting harder and harder. But hey, man, I build

this up. That build these podcasts up, like like we're friends. And Nate he's my dude. Man, he's a Yuege nationer since two thousand and eight. He's been to almost every show in Colorado and Wyoming since twenty thirteen. We have a bond. My shows in Colorado and Wyoming are crazy. Those people not because of us, but because the people.

We have a bond. Nate is my bro, and so I'm not gonna sugarcoat this for him when I know he's a life for a Yege Nation or I'm not gonna sugarcoat this if I was in there, if I was sitting with him and we're sitting there in a campfire and he dumped this on me, but I'd say, bro, get out, because that's weird. It's a weird way for her to say this is not gonna work out. If I can't, you can't switch churches. That's just weird, right well, And it's good that they're, like you said, they're not

married and they don't have kids involved. Because if you do get married and you guys haven't resolved this, it's going to cause a lot of friction in your marriage and with your kids and how you raise them. Yeah, let me rephrase. It's not weird, it's actually normal if you're not totally in love. Yeah. I would have said something weird like that to a girl if I wouldn't totally end he or I might have said, like, you know, this might just not work out if you can't do this.

So man, I just there's a lot of pride going on and kind of on both sides. Or maybe maybe she's she is way into him, but she's mad that it's been four years and he hasn't off the question. Yeah, maybe that because of another thing. But regardless that, Nate, I feel like you would have done it by now if you were totally in As much as we read comments on these podcasts, now, I can just hear them ringing at me right now, like, yeah, dare you say

that about them? That's my situation. But that's just not that's not a good enough reason. There's there's a marriage is a compromise and you're not married, but you're in a long term relationship and there's a compromise that has to happen. And if Amber, if Amber's right, hey, let's go to both. Then what do you say to that, Nate? If that's what, how much are you holding back? Nate? I should say that, how much are you resisting? Like?

Maybe maybe this is a good cop backcop Maybe you have told her the same thing, but you're not mentioning it on the semol Maybe you've told her I ain't going to your big city church. And yeah, and we don't know how often have you, guys both been to each other's I guess she said she feels judged when she goes. Maybe you nix both churches and find a new church home. Idea, find a new church home together, start from scratch. That's a good idea to meet new people.

Let's hey, babe, I can't go to your church. I just don't feel comfortable. You can't go to mind you don't feel comfortable. Let's find a new one that we both agree on. Yeah, and if you can't agree on one, bye, that's like there you go, that's your son. Yeah, Okay, I still think Nate needs a dumper. I do. That's my The female perspective is like, let's compromise, let's work. Yeah, Nate needs a dumper. And just because he's my boy, I could just tell he's my dude, he's a he's

a lifer. Let's get a couple of shout outs and we'll we'll let everybody go back to their Monday. Okay, this is a shout out to Lee Hadden and Keenan fur thirteen years old and Stevens. Let's see Stephen. That's all it says. Shout out to Stephen Short, Stevens, Stephen Shortz Philipe. Why are my shout outs harder to read? Philip from Sweden? What's up? Brother? Thank you for listening from Sweden, Casey Morton, Connie Barnes. And then we have a birthday shout out that just happened on June eighth.

Jen from Maryland, Happy birthday, says, Can you shout out to miss Williams on her birthday? It would make her day? Love your podcast, keep up the great advice. Thank you, Jen from Maryland and John h. He's from Southwest Florida. Thank you for listening to my brother. He wants a shout out. Landon Williams says, I really want to meet you on fifteen and my birthday is July thirty first, so happy early birthday, Land and thank you for listening, dude.

And Royce Thrantham says, my name is Royce Thrampam. I'm from Southeast Alabama, and he says, what's what's your biggest hit in your music career? Earl Dibbles Junior? And an anniversary shout out goes to Adam Shuster. What's his name? Is sothing? Familiar? Adam Schuster Shuster from Central Wisconsin. He says, can you shout out? Give a shout out to my wife Melissa on her nine year wedding anniversary on June twenty third, and as we record, that is yesterday, yesterday, awesome,

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