Crossing the Jordan: New Beginnings and the Slow Work of Grace

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New Year's resolutions.
I do them every year.

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I'll be honest, I don't
necessarily see all of them all

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the way through.
This is my philosophy.

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I'll get your take.
Sometimes I'll make.

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Like that's my take.
That's my take.

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Sometimes I'll make like a lot
like 7 or 8 resolutions.

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I remember last year there were,
there were quite a bit when we

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talked about.
It and then some fall to the

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wayside and I end up like
latching onto a couple.

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I found for me that works better
than putting all my eggs in one

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basket and being like not
feeling it or you know what I

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mean?
Like seeing what naturally fits

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my rhythms and stuff.
So were there any predictions or

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not predictions resolutions from
last year that you, that you

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know, like I, I didn't keep up
with that one.

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That's a good question.
I should look, I should look

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back at what I wrote down.
The ones that I did well with

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were tried to work out 100 days
out of the year and I'm counting

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a lot of things I was working
out, but I was very, I found a

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good rhythm consistency with
that, you know, not a lofty

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goal, but trying to read, I got
a book list I was trying to read

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through like did pretty good
with that trying.

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I don't know, those are the ones
I really latched onto.

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What about you?
Yeah, so I I adopted the same

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100.
I think I said like at least

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want to close my rings 100
times, which I did more than

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that.
And I think I'm on track to

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probably even doing 100
workouts, although I maybe just

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like where, you know, sometimes
I'm just walking all over my

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workplace because it's big and
I'm like, go.

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And so I looked down like, oh,
my rings are closed.

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And it wasn't like I plan to
work out.

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But, you know, if you're walking
for 45 minutes, then you can you

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can close your rings that way.
So yeah, I don't know.

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It's hard to remember what the
other ones were.

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I was trying to think I should
have come more prepared.

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Things I'm eyeing for this New
Year's we're this is airing on

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New Year's, but we got a couple
weeks to put together in real

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life.
I'd like to do some sort of like

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some not a task is the wrong
word, but achieve like I would

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love to be able to like walk on
my hands for 10 feet like like

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do some sort of skill is what
I'm trying to get at like learn

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a skill like that's on my
agenda.

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Can you?
Spin a ball and have it like sit

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on your fingers.
No, not good.

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I have tried like I I've not
like done serious.

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Work for eight years, 20 minutes
to 8.

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You know, there was a time when
I played basketball in high

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school and you can do it.
No, no, no.

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I would sit and try and be like
I can't do.

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This No, I I actually saw a
video recently.

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There's like black, like Blaster
a couple of rounds ago, US

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Olympic team Steph Curry can't
spin a ball on his finger.

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Good.
And it's like that made feel

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better and they did it and like
most people could but there are

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like 5 people on this 15 man
roster that could do like they

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would try, it would just throw
off and that made me feel better

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too.
I wonder what it is?

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I wonder what it is 'cause like
Steph Curry was like, he's like,

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I just played basketball.
I didn't focus on this.

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Well, he's like, I tried it when
I was a kid, but I was like, my

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dad had me shooting the people,
like a lot of the people, you

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know, 2/3 of them could do it.
They were like, weren't you just

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bored as a kid?
Just sat around all summer and

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just had a ball and you know,
and like some people did that.

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Some people like I just dribbled
it instead.

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But it is something like I same
with you.

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It's not like I've spent 20
minutes a day, but it's like I'm

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not making progress on it.
It's like I try it for 2 minutes

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and give up and it's like I
could never do it.

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Speaking of Steph, I saw this
video who's a really tall guy,

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Wimby.
Wimby Yeah, yeah, yeah.

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I saw this video of him
practicing shots that just had

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this crazy high art on it and
they're like he's he adjusted

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his shot to allow for Wimby
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Have you seen this?
I haven't seen that exact video

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but Wendy's ability to block
people's shots it is weird.

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It's insane.
Yeah, so, so the, so these

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shots, like they they look like
they're launching to the moon

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and it's like, wow, that's
crazy.

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It's pretty pretty cool.
Dude, if you if you look at a

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like a normal NBA player shot
anyway, like they just shoot

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with so much more arc than
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And it's, yeah, it's, it's and
said I found New Year's

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resolutions that I made last
year on my notes, worked out 100

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times, eat during the work week,
eat out one time a week.

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Did not keep that.
That was the one that did not.

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So I was like, and so I started
out doing that.

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Then I changed it to like OK
this just means I can eat out

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during the work week 52 times
out of the year.

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I remember I remember you
talking about this adjustment,

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but that probably didn't hold
either.

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Caught up with me, finished my
masters, that was good.

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And then some like read through
some family devotional plans

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that I got, which we didn't make
it all the way through.

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We made, we, we made some
progress on it.

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But you know, it's like we start
these things as a family and

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sometimes we don't get all the
way all the way through it.

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I was gonna look, I thought I
made a note about potential

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resolutions for this year. 1 was
a skill like walking.

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I had one more skill besides
walking on the hand.

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I was like, maybe I'll try.
It's not showing up in my notes.

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So I guess what?
That would be like something

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interesting.
Yeah, that's pretty cool.

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Something like that would be
would be fun.

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I found my resolutions from
2023.

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Also did 100 days of working
out.

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This is similar to the eating
out, but I was like, I'm going

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to do 55 Cokes in a year or
less.

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Did not do well with that.
I started tracking it and it did

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not go well.
I was going to memorize John 15.

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I don't think I did that.
And if you were at a restaurant

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and you like ordered something
with and they refilled it, would

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that count as 2?
Is that I had to.

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Roll that, that, that, that was
one, yeah.

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And so we'll, we'll see I, I
need to do a nutritional one

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would be good to clean up.
I feel like I'm active, did a

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lot with like exercise.
I just my nutrition.

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That's the, that's the weak
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And I don't think I drink water
a lot, but man, you just can go

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on like not benders, but there
could be a week where I drink a

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Coke like 4 days in a row and
it's like, or I might go a week

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without it.
But then it's like, to me, it's

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like Thanksgiving, Christmas, my
family, it's like I'm just

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drinking a lot, you know?
And those are the times that

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like get.
You.

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Full diesel coke, Yeah, yeah.
The the real, the real deal, not

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the diet, Could maybe, Yeah.
So no, I I mean, as opposed to

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you're not using Coke as a
standing word for like soda?

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You mean like Coke?
No, I mean it could be any kind

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of soda.
Yeah.

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OK, so you are using Coke as the
as the South uses it, Yeah.

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Yeah, yeah.
It's like I only had 100 Doctor

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Peppers, but only one Coke.
I was being healthy.

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So yeah, you know, I should
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I'm trying to think of the other
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I had some good ones for my
kids.

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I want Jayden to be able to
juggle a soccer ball 10 times

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for this new year.
He can like do it like two or

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three.
He's not very good at it, but

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it's like these are skills you
should learn as.

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A Jayden.
Let's get.

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Let's get with.
Get together.

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But that's something he could
do.

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He's like getting excited.
He had a great terrible soccer

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season.
We lost every game.

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But he got he got good at
soccer, he's getting good at

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soccer.
So it was good.

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So should parents have New
Year's resolutions for their

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kids?
I think so.

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I, I and I've done a bad job of
following through this one.

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I should follow through.
I've set some in the past with

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Jay and it's just hard to get
it, but that'll be a good skill.

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I think he'll see the the
payoff.

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But all that's to say, we're
talking New Year's resolutions.

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Anything else you can think of
on on this topic before we jump

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right into?
It I mean, everyone should put

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on their New Year's resolution
to read through Lord of the

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Rings at least once at.
Least once.

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This year.
You know, maybe I'll give

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another try.
I have read through like the

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first quarter of Fellowship of
the Ranks when I was in like

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10th grade and then, you know,
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I think I have read the entire
Hobbit as like a ninth grade.

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Like we had to do it or.
Something The Hobbit in in Lord

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of the Rings are clearly
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they're kind of miles apart in
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It The Hobbit is definitely
written at a easier reading

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level I think.
Yeah, probably I made.

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It and it's more trophy, I think
then Lord of the Rings, Lord of

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the Rings.
It can be pretty heavy going

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sometimes, especially with like
he describes landscape and like

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vegetation stuff on like, Yeah,
it can be.

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It's this is the part with art
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It's like some of that stuff I
never like depicting the scene.

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Some of it's good, some of it's
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I have to bring this up.
Home groups yesterday.

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It was in, it was just it I, I
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You were like Lord of the Rings.
There was a river they couldn't

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drink from.
And Jonathan was like that,

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like, like it was, it was too
much.

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It was too much like detail.
And it was, it was just like, I

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was like dying.
But you know, that's what I

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signed up for.
Yeah, yeah, there was.

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So there's one river over in an
Ausgiliath.

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Yeah, maybe he.
Was menus Menus Mobil can't

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drink that water.
No, that's the name of the town.

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But you couldn't drink the water
around me.

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Meanest mobile.
But I wasn't trying to talk

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about that river.
I was talking about the river

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that's just east of the misty
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I think it's the the Nimrod or
Nimrodel or something like that.

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But it's like too cold, like you
can't drink out of it.

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But it does mix with the end
doing and eventually you could

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drink that.
You could drink the Anduan

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water.
Yeah, it was something like, you

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were like this river and you
said something and Jonathan was

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like the meanest mogul.
Like, like, like you knew what

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you were talking about.
But he like had like, he had

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some, you know, discrepancy.
Like, I don't know what he said,

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but I was like, it's, it's too
specific.

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We're saying funny words.
The point was the point, like,

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to me, like, that's a good
analogy for resisting sin.

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Yeah, yeah, yeah.
That was like, you know what's

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bad?
You shouldn't do it.

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And like, I think like orcs,
like they drink out of that

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water and that's where that led
them.

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You know, I'm sorry, but yeah,
yeah, yeah.

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That's.
Great.

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I love it.
Well, New Year's resolutions,

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Lord.
Of the rings.

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Lord of the Rings, we got it all
the way.

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Let's take it to the next level.
Let's fire up that twanga music.

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From the hearts of the Low
Country in South Carolina.

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It's the Take Two podcast, but
we take theology to the next

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level.
Now, now, Michael, we did a New

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Year's resolutions one last year
too.

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So here, here's a different
spin.

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This is where my mind was
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And and at the end, we'll kind
of jive with some of what you're

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saying in your last Sunday
School class.

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But if you listen to our
podcast, we talk, it feels like

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every other episode about names.
So why not?

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Why not keep that train going?
If you ever, I don't know if

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you've ever looked up like what
the name Jordan, my third oldest

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means, I'm going to look it up
right now.

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Literally, Jordan means to flow
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And so you might be like, why
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or to flow down?
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his name based on, you know,
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literalness, what the word
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know, not geography.
It's also said but Jordan River,

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but more theological terms.
I thought this was.

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A good place?
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Like that's, that's, that's big.
Like sometimes I think, like in

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my mind, like, Oh, Kobe Bryant
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just like make, you know, cross
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so the Jordan River, maybe we
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see it in scripture, because in
a lot of ways it's it's this

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line of demarcation into, you
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you know, we had Jayden Jackson
Jordan was like a surprise and

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it was like, Hey, we're like,
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So where I already pigeon hold a
little bit like, Oh, this, this

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fits really well.
So you mentioned crossing over

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the Jordan River I.
Was thinking about that song

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Swing, Little sweet chariot.
Don't Take Me Home.

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I looked over the river Jordan.
What I see coming forward Take

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Me Home.
Yeah, yeah, Yeah, exactly.

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So I tried to map these out.
Joshua 3 to 4, Israel crosses

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the Jordan River into the
promised land.

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You know, it wasn't, it's not
the Red Sea out of Egypt.

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That's more of deliverance into
the Jordan is like this entrance

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into inheritance, obedience,
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Really, really big deal.
We think Elijah and Elijah, you

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were mentioning, we read in
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the Jordan before being taken
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Elijah crosses it again, marking
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Yeah, he puts the he like slaps
the mantle down over it and it

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parts.
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Exactly right.
And so we keep going and 2nd

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kings, not just a few chapters
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What's his deal?
He gets baptized.

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He he go, he heals his leprosy.
I my my sister did like a speech

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on Naman.
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would like repeat it like
practicing it for like her

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competition or whatever.
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he had to watch seven times in
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cleansing.
And this is going to hit a theme

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at the end with new resolutions
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this is good.
It's like good to pick these

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ordinary things.
And then of course, we get to

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the New Testament.
John the Baptist, you know,

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repents for the Kingdom of God
is is near where we have this

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Jordan River people being
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And then the ultimate new
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We see Jesus baptized in the
Jordan, the heavens open, the

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father declares pleasure in the
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He's identifying with us.
So we see all these kind of like

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pivot points all around the
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something.
That is that is that is very

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interesting.
And so for you, yeah, pivot

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point because of, you know,
having having difficulties

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getting pregnant and now boom,
God's pivoted that in your life.

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It's like this new, new stage of
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And as I was thinking about New
Year's, it's like, man, not that

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you have to have New Year's
resolutions, but it is like this

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reset.
It's built into culture if it's

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natural moment where you can
reflects and maybe get some good

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habits, you know, jump into some
new new things.

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So I have to pause real quick
because I just realized their

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last one on names, basically on
the name Joshua.

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Yeah.
Your youngest son.

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Yeah, yeah, that's funny.
And now this is on your your

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next oldest son.
So we got to do one on Jayden

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and Jackson too, I guess
eventually.

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That's exactly right.
I love it.

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Yeah, we got.
We'll keep working our way,

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working our way up.
I'll tell you, there is a Jayden

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in the Bible.
You got to look hard for it, but

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it's spelled differently.
But you got it there, Jackson.

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Not so much.
I don't know.

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Yeah, I don't think so.
So we might have to improvise a

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little bit there, but I love it.
And so transitioning the New

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Year's and I like this kind of
it's like this Jordan River is

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really at least nowadays, it
probably was different biblical

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times, but it's really not an
impressive river.

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It's like small, it's muddy,
it's gross.

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Well, you, I mean, you get kind
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he's like, that's right.
We got better water than than

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this over there.
And he's like, I'm not doing

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this and.
I love that picture because it's

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like, why would I do this?
Like simple, ordinary, It's

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like, it's not miraculous.
It's not like this water

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everyone flocks to to be healed.
So I think that that is good.

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And I think that gets into maybe
some of the people might tell

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like the psychology of what
makes a New Year's resolution

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successful or not successful.
Everyone I think is looking for

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this quick fix.
I'm gonna like change my life.

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I'm gonna have this like
miracle.

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My life's gonna be like 100
times better.

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And maybe it will.
But it's these everyday habits

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that are gonna get you there
where sometimes what I found too

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is like, rather than me saying
I'm gonna gain 15 lbs of muscle,

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it's like, I should just find
workouts that I enjoy and maybe

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eventually I'll get or it's
like, I don't know, it's like

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you're, you're getting there
that that's important to find

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something that works for you in
the process.

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Yes, yeah, that's what I'm
saying.

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So what I hear you saying is set
a process goal, not necessarily

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a destination goal, but if you
do with, say with the process,

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you're likely to end up at the
destination that you want.

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I, I think that's exactly right.
Find something you enjoy and

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it's better to be like, like
even thinking about for Jayden,

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it's probably better to say,
hey, let's play an hour of

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soccer a week versus like you're
going to juggle 25 times.

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Or it's like, it's like, just
put in the time and I bet some

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of that will come and it's more
enjoyable and it's doable.

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You don't feel like you're
failing.

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I don't know, You kind of land
on these things.

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So and I want to kind of talk
about how that dovetails with

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sanctification because
sanctification is on one hand it

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is miraculous, but it ain't a
miracle.

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It's a slow, methodical, drawn
out discipleship.

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Process.
Right.

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Let's look at some maybe if
we're looking for biblical

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president, like, why should we?
What?

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Not that you have to do New
Year's resolutions, but there is

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this progression in your life,
right?

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If we're talking sanctification,
what what are some key

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scriptures that you would think
of?

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For sanctification.
For sanctification, yeah.

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Yeah, I think of what is it,
First Corinthians 10?

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I think it's 13.
Oh yeah.

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I think 31 is.
Whatever you're that is 30.

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One, yeah, yeah, yeah.
And 13 is no segmentation is

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taking you, but what's the
common demand?

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And with it, Lord, provide a way
out for you.

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So that I think that was one
that was drilled into our heads

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when we were younger, like, hey,
you're going to fit face

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temptation.
Everyone's face that same

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temptation, or at least some
version of it.

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Yeah.
You're not unique.

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You can you you you can
withstand this.

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Did you do Awana?
We.

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That wasn't Awana verse like
that's when I memorize every

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year that I.
Yeah, anyway.

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Yeah, so the wanna hit our
church.

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Oh, gotcha.
Yeah, yeah.

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I remember it's like you hit the
same beats over and over.

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And that was one I felt like I
was always like the wording was

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like it just stuck.
It just stuck with me.

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It was like, you know, always
worked out a little bit.

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Philippians 2 talks about
working out your own salvation.

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It's also important to know it's
God who works in you.

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It's kind of both of these.
To Will and to yeah.

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Yeah, so, so good.
First Thessalonians talks about.

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We talked about the will of God.
This is the will of God certain

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things for your sanctification
like that's going to happen,

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which is called the walk and
newness of life.

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And so it is this like steady
plotting and crossing and step

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by step.
It's not necessarily a dramatic

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we got can work miraculously and
does work miraculously in that

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instantaneous way, but I do
think we overlook the ordinary

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everyday things.
We've both been reading this

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book and Michael Horton, your
Sunday school talked about Mary

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and Joseph were like faithful
and then ordinary things and

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that prepped him for this
extraordinary moment.

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And I think a lot of, you know,
everyone says like Mary was

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amazing, like especially, you
know, Catholic tradition.

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It's like, how can you even, you
know?

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It's like she was a person, like
she was a.

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Girl, right, Another scripture.
He was 12, you know, talk about

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keeping our eyes on Jesus,
author and perfector of faith,

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who for the joy of the Lord set
for him.

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You know, he was obedient and
then he's like, who of you have

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resisted the point of shedding
blood or even death to to be,

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you know, to stay away from sin?
So this looks like a big

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encouragement, like, whoa, OK.
Now that that's good. 2nd

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Corinthians 3 Tim talked about
this as being his favorite

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verse, being transformed from 1°
of glory to another.

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And if I'm thinking in this
ordinary framework, I work with

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a lot of people from time to
time who have knee replacements.

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Knee replacements, terrible.
It's great.

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Everyone's knee hurts.
We get the knee replacement,

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it's going to hurt for like a
year.

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It's like, terrible.
You thought it hurt before you

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got your knee replaced.
Just get ready.

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It, it's one of the only times I
work with someone where for most

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people, I totally, it's like not
uncommon for them to like cry

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during therapy 'cause we're like
cranking on that knee pain and

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torture baby.
That's PT and more of this one

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right now.
And it's like you are fighting

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when I see this from 1° of
you're fighting for every degree

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of flexion, like you get to 90°,
it's good.

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You want to get to 110.
Oh, I'm getting close.

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And it's like they're everyone's
like, oh, everyone's surgeon is

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like, oh, at six weeks, are you
at this degrees?

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And so 1° is not very much, you
know, you'll get 100 and 83160°.

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You know, just being transformed
1° at a time.

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And and so I think it is it's
like we think about acts of God.

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It's like hurricanes, you know,
it's like these big things, but

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it's like man, God acts in these
little ordinary ways and we

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don't like that a lot of times,
you know, it's.

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Like getting a budget and
managing versus winning the

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lottery.
Yes, no, that's good.

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It's like man winning the
lottery.

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Wouldn't that be the best?
Yeah, I still might buy the

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lottery ticket area on them.
Right.

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No, it's, it's, it's very true.
And it's like, man, how can we

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get in this mindset to just, you
know, do do these little things?

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And so we can talk a little bit
of this goal versus process.

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Both, both are important.
Like you don't want to totally

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say the goal is not important
because what in in Christianity,

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you know what, what are we
striving towards?

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Christ likeness.
Saints of Christ, Saints of

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Christ likeness.
That that that's right.

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Exactly right.
Yeah.

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Mission of CBC to get there
looks, I think a lot of

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different, different ways.
What do you say?

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Among all nations.
Yeah, don't you wish to finish

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the phrase?
This daily obedience, this

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faithfulness in the small
things?

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I like your Sunday school.
How, you know, you were you were

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framing it all back to these,
you know, little small decisions

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and you know, maybe one day that
that primes you up.

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It's like, man, if you set your
budget, you're good with your

447
00:21:43,760 --> 00:21:48,520
money, one day you can, you
know, be in a position to bless

448
00:21:48,520 --> 00:21:50,600
someone, maybe major significant
or whatever it might be.

449
00:21:50,600 --> 00:21:52,920
Or you can, you know, be in this
position, but you ain't going to

450
00:21:52,920 --> 00:21:55,440
be in that position if you're
not, you know, taking these

451
00:21:55,880 --> 00:21:59,240
steps every day.
And Paul, maybe you can look,

452
00:21:59,240 --> 00:22:01,880
you got you're good.
Philippians, let's read Chapter

453
00:22:01,880 --> 00:22:02,240
3.
I.

454
00:22:02,920 --> 00:22:05,120
Didn't even know this. 312
through 14.

455
00:22:05,120 --> 00:22:09,440
This is from our open there from
our previous podcast.

456
00:22:09,480 --> 00:22:12,320
Yeah, yeah, yeah, alright.
Not that I have already obtained

457
00:22:12,320 --> 00:22:18,040
it or have already become
perfect, but I press on so that

458
00:22:18,040 --> 00:22:22,240
I may lay hold of that for which
also I was laid hold of by

459
00:22:22,240 --> 00:22:25,320
Christ Jesus.
Brethren, I did not regard

460
00:22:25,320 --> 00:22:27,560
myself as having laid hold of it
yet.

461
00:22:28,080 --> 00:22:31,560
But one thing I do Forgetting
what lies behind and reaching

462
00:22:31,560 --> 00:22:35,640
forward to what lies ahead, I
pressed on toward the goal for

463
00:22:35,640 --> 00:22:39,200
the prize of the upward call of
God in Christ Jesus.

464
00:22:39,600 --> 00:22:42,760
I like that he's talking about
the trajectory.

465
00:22:42,760 --> 00:22:45,640
He, he even would say, hey, not
that not that I've like

466
00:22:46,000 --> 00:22:50,480
accomplices and I'm up there
yet, but pursuing that right

467
00:22:50,480 --> 00:22:54,880
direction very, you know,
ferocious, like he's headed

468
00:22:54,880 --> 00:22:56,440
there hard.
He's putting a lot of emphasis

469
00:22:56,440 --> 00:22:58,280
there.
And, and I think that I think

470
00:22:58,280 --> 00:23:01,920
that's good.
And, you know, goal setting, I

471
00:23:01,920 --> 00:23:04,080
think can be tough.
And then different things work

472
00:23:04,080 --> 00:23:05,360
for different people.
You know, it's great.

473
00:23:05,360 --> 00:23:07,400
You know, one person might say,
I'll read the Bible every day.

474
00:23:07,400 --> 00:23:09,480
I think it's a great goal.
That's a good goal to do.

475
00:23:09,720 --> 00:23:13,000
Another person might say, Hey,
I'm going to build a daily

476
00:23:13,000 --> 00:23:15,880
rhythm of scripture.
Maybe they'll say, hey, I'll

477
00:23:15,880 --> 00:23:17,960
listen to my audio Bible 10
minutes a day.

478
00:23:18,400 --> 00:23:20,720
That might work better than I'd
have to get in three chapters.

479
00:23:20,720 --> 00:23:23,880
Because sometimes you run into
one of the Psalms that you're

480
00:23:23,920 --> 00:23:25,560
going to take longer and you're
like, oh, I can't.

481
00:23:26,000 --> 00:23:27,640
I don't know these kind of
things where?

482
00:23:28,320 --> 00:23:32,200
Maybe 45 minutes a day.
Maybe, maybe, maybe that's it.

483
00:23:32,200 --> 00:23:35,760
We were talking Bible reading.
Plans and I think I left that at

484
00:23:35,760 --> 00:23:37,800
Jonathan's house.
I I took mine home because I

485
00:23:37,800 --> 00:23:41,120
care about Stephen Brinson, and
when he gives me something, I

486
00:23:41,120 --> 00:23:43,000
treasure it.
I don't just like, I'm just

487
00:23:43,000 --> 00:23:44,360
kidding.
You want it for Jonathan's

488
00:23:44,360 --> 00:23:47,120
edification, right?
Yeah, I was like, Jonathan, they

489
00:23:47,120 --> 00:23:50,200
need this more than I do.
And so I'm gonna give.

490
00:23:50,280 --> 00:23:52,360
It's better to be to be to give
them than to receive.

491
00:23:52,360 --> 00:23:54,000
But but, but it's good.
We're talking.

492
00:23:54,000 --> 00:23:56,920
That's right.
We were talking about this Bible

493
00:23:56,920 --> 00:24:01,600
plan that we're trying to set a
motion to encourage the church.

494
00:24:01,840 --> 00:24:03,480
Stephen Brinson handed this
point.

495
00:24:03,480 --> 00:24:06,880
He's like, hey, this is great.
It's in one hand ambitious.

496
00:24:06,880 --> 00:24:09,320
It's reading the Bible 120 days.
He did it last year.

497
00:24:09,320 --> 00:24:10,400
It's great.
It's all mapped out.

498
00:24:10,400 --> 00:24:11,960
I like you've got the check
boxes.

499
00:24:11,960 --> 00:24:15,880
You can like check it off.
I think for some people that's

500
00:24:15,880 --> 00:24:17,520
great.
For some people, that could be

501
00:24:17,520 --> 00:24:21,200
tough for some and and Stephen
Brinson is very persuasive where

502
00:24:21,200 --> 00:24:24,400
he's like 45 minutes, like just
don't watch that TV show.

503
00:24:24,480 --> 00:24:25,880
Like it kind of makes sense,
right?

504
00:24:25,880 --> 00:24:27,600
Like like it's definitely dual
we.

505
00:24:27,600 --> 00:24:31,680
Got 24 hours?
Let's use 3/4 of one of them to

506
00:24:31,680 --> 00:24:35,120
read the Bible.
That's really not asking a whole

507
00:24:35,120 --> 00:24:37,720
lot.
So anyway, you know, there's,

508
00:24:37,840 --> 00:24:40,280
there's different, different
things you can do and, and

509
00:24:40,280 --> 00:24:45,480
probably on one level, most of
us don't operate to Max or near

510
00:24:45,480 --> 00:24:50,160
maximum capacity anyway, right?
Here's 1, you know, and I think

511
00:24:50,480 --> 00:24:52,600
you said a vague goal.
You ain't going to get anywhere.

512
00:24:52,600 --> 00:24:54,960
Like my goal for this year is
going to be to stop sitting.

513
00:24:55,720 --> 00:24:58,200
Maybe you want to like put some
specifics in there, like there's

514
00:24:58,200 --> 00:24:59,600
specifics.
I don't know, these kind of

515
00:24:59,600 --> 00:25:03,760
things, these are good little
steps to, to, to get there,

516
00:25:03,760 --> 00:25:08,120
build, build these habits.
So anyway, hope and.

517
00:25:08,120 --> 00:25:11,520
It could even be think about
stop sitting like maybe you're

518
00:25:11,520 --> 00:25:16,000
like, I want to stop being in
the situations.

519
00:25:16,000 --> 00:25:18,680
That's a great.
That I find myself sitting in

520
00:25:19,160 --> 00:25:25,520
more, more often, like if you
get particularly irritable when

521
00:25:26,200 --> 00:25:30,200
you've been intermittent fasting
all day and you come home, maybe

522
00:25:30,760 --> 00:25:32,840
grabs, you know, maybe pack
something small.

523
00:25:32,840 --> 00:25:35,080
So like right before you go
home, you can be like have a

524
00:25:35,080 --> 00:25:37,400
little bit of that sugar rush or
something, something like that.

525
00:25:37,400 --> 00:25:39,640
Feel like that was oddly
targeted towards me.

526
00:25:39,800 --> 00:25:41,680
No, I'm just kidding that that
just cuts me a lot.

527
00:25:41,680 --> 00:25:44,040
That's when I get.
That is when I get it's like,

528
00:25:44,040 --> 00:25:48,120
man, if I can just get over get
over like 45 minutes of just

529
00:25:48,120 --> 00:25:50,920
feeling like irritable sometimes
it's like you get past that

530
00:25:50,920 --> 00:25:52,400
wave, you're like, I feel great,
you know what I mean?

531
00:25:52,400 --> 00:25:54,920
But man, yeah, it can be can be
tough, but that that's good.

532
00:25:54,920 --> 00:25:56,880
We are.
We'll hopefully share it with

533
00:25:56,880 --> 00:26:00,760
everyone We're our trying to
recommend or at least provide an

534
00:26:00,760 --> 00:26:03,600
Ave. for a Bible reading program
if you like.

535
00:26:03,600 --> 00:26:04,960
Don't a lot of people have
theirs.

536
00:26:04,960 --> 00:26:06,080
They love it.
They know what they're doing.

537
00:26:06,080 --> 00:26:08,360
A lot of people.
I've done mine so many, so many

538
00:26:08,360 --> 00:26:10,960
Times Now that I'm like, I'm
looking for something different.

539
00:26:10,960 --> 00:26:13,960
So I'm I'm probably gonna adopt
this, but I've done the the

540
00:26:13,960 --> 00:26:16,240
dwell chronological.
Oh yeah.

541
00:26:16,280 --> 00:26:21,080
Probably at 5 or 6 times.
And so I'm like, I I need

542
00:26:21,080 --> 00:26:24,120
something, something a little
different just to.

543
00:26:24,720 --> 00:26:28,680
Yeah, keep it fresh so we we can
share this with you.

544
00:26:29,440 --> 00:26:34,320
I think where we're going to
land is on Pastor Joel really

545
00:26:34,320 --> 00:26:38,800
was wanting this too.
It's in one way it's similar to

546
00:26:38,800 --> 00:26:42,400
what Steven was proposing in the
fact that you're drawing from

547
00:26:42,400 --> 00:26:47,480
different parts of Scripture.
It's by the navigators do like,

548
00:26:49,040 --> 00:26:52,520
you know, it's like you, you,
you do a reading in Genesis, one

549
00:26:52,520 --> 00:26:56,120
in Matthew, one in Acts, one in
Psalms, and it's like maybe a

550
00:26:56,120 --> 00:26:58,920
chapter or a portion of a
chapter and you're kind of in a

551
00:26:58,920 --> 00:27:00,880
different place.
It's probably just a scaled down

552
00:27:00,880 --> 00:27:03,280
version of something very
similar to what?

553
00:27:03,280 --> 00:27:07,200
And then Steven was mentioning
he liked it because you're kind

554
00:27:07,200 --> 00:27:09,320
of like seeing these connections
in the Bible.

555
00:27:09,320 --> 00:27:11,080
Oh, you've read this about
Abraham and you're in Roman.

556
00:27:11,080 --> 00:27:13,440
It's like you're kind of like
seeing how these things you're

557
00:27:13,440 --> 00:27:14,680
reading about Jesus.
Yeah.

558
00:27:14,680 --> 00:27:17,880
And the the Psalms and you kind
of see these things together.

559
00:27:17,880 --> 00:27:22,640
You also might get a break from
like OK I've got to do 1 chapter

560
00:27:22,640 --> 00:27:25,840
in Leviticus, maybe half a
chapter in Leviticus.

561
00:27:26,280 --> 00:27:27,040
That's.
Right.

562
00:27:27,040 --> 00:27:30,080
And then and then you get to do
some psalms or something 'cause

563
00:27:30,080 --> 00:27:34,080
I know that some, some, some are
a little bit tougher to get

564
00:27:34,080 --> 00:27:35,520
through than others.
Totally agree.

565
00:27:35,520 --> 00:27:39,200
And I'll find myself, I might
say like, oh man, I'm like on a

566
00:27:39,200 --> 00:27:41,760
roll and I'll this might be
cheating.

567
00:27:41,760 --> 00:27:43,720
I don't think it's cheating, but
I'll be like, man, I'm really

568
00:27:43,720 --> 00:27:47,160
loving Ezra right now.
I'll read 5 chapters in a row

569
00:27:47,400 --> 00:27:50,560
and I'm kind of like I can be
like good for my weekend as I

570
00:27:50,560 --> 00:27:53,680
don't know, I can kind of, I can
kind of like categorize it by a

571
00:27:53,680 --> 00:27:56,080
week and pick and choose and
I'll get there eventually.

572
00:27:56,440 --> 00:27:58,120
If there's something and it like
you're saying, if it's something

573
00:27:58,120 --> 00:28:00,320
that's a little bit tougher
sledding, I can have these

574
00:28:00,320 --> 00:28:04,080
brakes built in where it's not
like 'cause that is discouraging

575
00:28:04,080 --> 00:28:06,400
where you're like, how much
longer do I have in this book?

576
00:28:06,440 --> 00:28:09,280
If it's like, you know, hitting
a tough, tough part.

577
00:28:09,280 --> 00:28:12,520
So hopefully you will come
alongside us.

578
00:28:12,520 --> 00:28:15,320
I'm trying to set up like it's
easy and you version, you know,

579
00:28:15,320 --> 00:28:17,720
to set up.
You should check this out, see

580
00:28:17,720 --> 00:28:20,120
if it worked.
I set up like a CBC.

581
00:28:20,400 --> 00:28:22,400
Sure, you can set up your own
order.

582
00:28:22,600 --> 00:28:25,240
Yeah, I, I I set up our church
at our sermon time so people can

583
00:28:25,280 --> 00:28:26,960
find us.
So maybe you should see if you

584
00:28:26,960 --> 00:28:28,440
can find us.
I put it in this e-mail I sent

585
00:28:28,440 --> 00:28:30,600
to you all that no one responded
to besides Pastor.

586
00:28:30,960 --> 00:28:31,760
It's great.
That's fine.

587
00:28:31,880 --> 00:28:33,440
I said I'm off.
For it, no.

588
00:28:33,800 --> 00:28:34,840
I replaced it all for it.
Yeah.

589
00:28:35,000 --> 00:28:36,840
So did you actually did?
You did.

590
00:28:37,040 --> 00:28:39,360
Is the plan that you had already
in your?

591
00:28:39,360 --> 00:28:40,600
Version it is.
It's because it's the

592
00:28:40,600 --> 00:28:42,400
navigators.
It's like there, it's like, can

593
00:28:42,400 --> 00:28:44,200
you?
I'm looking for a place where I

594
00:28:44,200 --> 00:28:47,440
can customize one that I can
listen to because I I want a

595
00:28:47,440 --> 00:28:48,720
chronological one but I want to
do it.

596
00:28:48,720 --> 00:28:50,400
Differently to your own.
That's what.

597
00:28:50,400 --> 00:28:52,360
You should work on that should
be your New Year's resolution

598
00:28:52,360 --> 00:28:54,440
for this year so we all can
listen to it.

599
00:28:54,440 --> 00:28:56,320
In the next year, yeah.
Yeah, you know what I mean.

600
00:28:56,320 --> 00:28:58,360
Like.
So 'cause it would be simple to

601
00:28:58,360 --> 00:29:01,440
just like put it into like some
type of Excel.

602
00:29:01,720 --> 00:29:02,800
Yeah.
And then just.

603
00:29:02,840 --> 00:29:04,960
Upload it and like OK there's my
plan.

604
00:29:05,120 --> 00:29:08,200
No, do that.
Yeah, I'm telling you, we'll

605
00:29:08,200 --> 00:29:09,400
check.
We'll check in the next year and

606
00:29:09,400 --> 00:29:10,800
see if you did that.
That'll be, that'll be good.

607
00:29:10,800 --> 00:29:13,600
And then we'll be like good.
Yeah, yeah, it'll be, we'll get

608
00:29:13,600 --> 00:29:18,720
the real, the good chronological
version, you know, but great.

609
00:29:18,720 --> 00:29:20,680
Any anything else you can think
of on New Year's?

610
00:29:20,720 --> 00:29:22,560
You want to read your closing
line here.

611
00:29:22,560 --> 00:29:24,200
No, this is for your matic.
I love it.

612
00:29:24,200 --> 00:29:27,120
Yeah.
The same God who part of the

613
00:29:27,120 --> 00:29:31,160
Jordan still meets his people in
ordinary waters and carries them

614
00:29:31,160 --> 00:29:34,320
forward one faithful step at a
time.

615
00:29:34,880 --> 00:29:35,880
That's great.
It's good.

616
00:29:35,880 --> 00:29:37,680
Don't neglect these ordinary
means.

617
00:29:37,680 --> 00:29:41,040
It is extraordinary.
God works in amazing ways over

618
00:29:41,040 --> 00:29:43,160
this faithfulness.
So New Year's resolution, get

619
00:29:43,160 --> 00:29:46,120
some down, share them with us.
We'll we'll share some info on

620
00:29:46,640 --> 00:29:49,360
our Bible reading plan, but
that's our take.

621
00:29:50,920 --> 00:29:52,160
Thanks for listening to Take
Two.

622
00:29:52,760 --> 00:29:55,520
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623
00:29:55,520 --> 00:29:57,240
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