Encouragement

What if the quickest way to steady your heart is to change the voices around you and the words that leave your mouth? We start with real life—hikes that humbled our lungs, caves that tested our preparation, and job shifts that revived old anxieties—to show why encouragement and discernment are survival skills, not side quests. From there, we open Scripture and get practical about how to build a life that resists panic, tempers frustration and speaks life when it’s hardest.

Hebrews challenges us to keep meeting and encouraging daily so our hearts do not harden. Ephesians teaches us to let our words build rather than corrode. James confronts the split stream of praise and cursing, pushing us toward a single, clean source. Along the way, we share field-tested ways to reset your mindset: pray before your thoughts wake up, tape verses where your eyes land, treat mistakes like incomplete passes rather than doom, and choose friends who pull you toward wisdom. We talk about finishing what matters, letting go when it can wait, and refusing the temptation to perform anger as courage.

You’ll hear simple, repeatable practices to encourage coworkers, kids and friends: name growth early, celebrate character, interrupt negativity with a blessing, and keep humor clean. We also talk about when to bite your tongue, how to invite God into your headspace, and why iron only sharpens iron when we actually show up. If your week has felt heavy or your words have been running ahead of your heart, this conversation will help you slow down, breathe deep and choose a better sentence.

If this resonates, follow the show, share it with someone who needs a lift, and leave a review telling us your go-to verse for encouragement. Your words might be the nudge someone else needs today.

Chapters

• 0:00 Back Together And Life Updates
• 6:07 Trips, Trails, And Tough Lessons Outdoors
• 17:22 Government Shutdown Surprise On Cadillac Mountain
• 24:07 Caves, Bats, And Better Preparation
• 28:07 Turning To Scripture On Encouragement
• 34:07 Fellowship, Company, And Wise Influence
• 41:07 Work Stress, Anxiety, And Resilience
• 48:37 Words, Negativity, And Guarding The Tongue
• 55:37 Practical Ways To Encourage Others

Transcript

Back Together And Life Updates

SPEAKER_01 1:14

Counters. I mean, they are adults, but they still count that yes.

SPEAKER_00 1:18

Oh yeah. Yep.

SPEAKER_01 1:22

Whoa, what was that? So which are we doing first? The encouragement. Discernment? Encouragement. Encouragement.

SPEAKER_03 1:28

Roger, what do you prefer? Does it matter? Either encouragement or discernment.

SPEAKER_04 1:35

Encouragement.

SPEAKER_03 1:36

Encouragement.

SPEAKER_04 1:37

We all need encouragement. Encouragement to get to the discernment.

SPEAKER_03 1:40

Yeah, there you go. We are, I just hit the button.

SPEAKER_00 1:42

They do kind of bounce off each other a little bit.

SPEAKER_03 1:44

They do. The reason I asked it that way, but the reason I asked Roger is because he might dip out after one.

SPEAKER_04 1:51

So we'll see.

SPEAKER_03 1:54

We'll see. Okay.

SPEAKER_04 1:56

Sitting's not too bad. It's the getting up and walking's problem once I've sit for a while.

SPEAKER_03 2:02

Well, he probably shouldn't have been working here before this then.

SPEAKER_04 2:05

Oh, I went to work this morning.

SPEAKER_03 2:08

Are you back to work?

SPEAKER_01 2:11

No.

SPEAKER_04 2:12

I had to work on a one of them wheelie weed eaters. What an ordeal that was. Four and a half hours. Later. And it's still now it needs a new belt. Because the belt's too tight. I'd change, put different motors on it. Different kind of motors. Went from Tecumseh to a Honda. So it was drill some holes, cut some sheet metal out. Well, that won't fit. There's humps are in the way. Just cut them out. Cut them out. It's a good thing it was aluminum. Works.

SPEAKER_03 2:54

That does it?

SPEAKER_04 2:55

Yeah. Other than the it needs a needs a new belt. The belt needs to be a little bit longer because you know you're supposed to be able to run it and then pull the lever like on the lawnmower. And uh the blade runs all the time.

SPEAKER_03 3:11

Oh.

SPEAKER_04 3:13

And it scream.

SPEAKER_03 3:17

Yeah, best you get another one then.

SPEAKER_04 3:20

Well, geez, you gotta tear the whole front end of the thing apart to get the belt off. I thought, well, this will be easy. No.

SPEAKER_03 3:26

Not.

SPEAKER_04 3:27

Nope.

SPEAKER_03 3:28

But well, we're all back in a room after how many weeks.

SPEAKER_00 3:32

We are a couple weeks.

SPEAKER_03 3:33

Three? It's it's been three weeks.

SPEAKER_00 3:35

Yeah. I think so. That ain't been three weeks.

SPEAKER_03 3:37

Well, we had two in a row that we were off.

SPEAKER_00 3:39

Yeah, for two for sure. I think it was two.

SPEAKER_03 3:41

Okay. Yeah. So two.

SPEAKER_00 3:42

Yeah. Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 3:42

Yeah. So this is week three.

SPEAKER_00 3:44

Because I yeah. I went on vacation.

SPEAKER_03 3:47

Mm-hmm. And Beth went too. Mm-hmm.

SPEAKER_00 3:51

Oh yeah. It seems longer than we get stuck in the week. It does seem longer than two weeks, I'll tell you that. It does. It seemed a lot longer.

SPEAKER_03 3:58

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 3:59

And think about it. We're going into the last quarter. We're already, you know, we're November, December. Six and a half weeks till Thanksgiving. Yeehaw. Right there.

SPEAKER_03 4:10

Yeah, don't remind me. I uh signed up for a turkey trot for Thanksgiving morning. It's a 5K.

SPEAKER_00 4:17

Oh, why would you do that?

SPEAKER_03 4:19

Because I'm trying to hold myself accountable.

SPEAKER_00 4:21

Is this after you eat? No, no, no. It's before.

SPEAKER_03 4:24

It's before. It's in the morning. My friend always runs it every year. And then my cousin, who's kind of in becoming friends with my friend, there, she was like, I've been really wanting to run a 5K. And I'm like, well, let's all run the turkey trot together, you know? Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 4:40

That sounds like some encouragement.

SPEAKER_03 4:42

Yeah, yeah. So, but I've done couch to 5K before, which is like a program that you know gets you trained trained up for it. And I started it Monday. It looks a little different this time because I've got Cooper. I'm plugging him around in the wagon behind me.

SPEAKER_00 4:59

You're like Rocky.

SPEAKER_03 5:01

That's what I felt like. I'm like, all right, let's go. Yeah. And then he's in the background going, dun, du. I'm like, I'll put your song on, buddy. That's about all you guys miss from me.

SPEAKER_00 5:16

You're curling him above your head.

Trips, Trails, And Tough Lessons Outdoors

SPEAKER_03 5:20

He was starting to get bored, and I'm like, oh, hold on. Let me see if I can find a stick. So I go and get a stick and I broke it in half, and then he just just like used it as drum, like a drum set. I'm like, oh man.

SPEAKER_00 5:33

You gotta start that kid early on something. Drums or I know keyboards or something.

SPEAKER_03 5:38

I thought about getting him a drum set, but then maybe keeping it at my dad's. Yeah.

SPEAKER_04 5:44

But he'll love it.

SPEAKER_03 5:45

Yeah.

SPEAKER_04 5:46

Oh, your dad'll love you too.

SPEAKER_03 5:49

Mm-hmm.

SPEAKER_02 5:49

I know.

SPEAKER_04 5:50

You know where that drum set would be if it was at my house? Mm-hmm. It would be on your front porch.

SPEAKER_03 5:56

Well, you know, my dad actually had one like growing up and then got rid of it because I came along. Maybe. And then they he just recently bought one. Or no, he didn't even buy it. His friend gave it to him. It was his neighbor. So he would he'll go over there for some fires, and each night he'd come back with just one more piece. Then there'd be a next weekend. He'd come back with another piece. But I think they're kind of playing a game like giving it back to him, but I can't, I could be wrong. I don't remember. Because he he's not playing on it. But I I know Cooper was playing on it in like 4th of July, I think. And yeah, he was going to town on it. So Roger.

SPEAKER_04 6:41

We'll have that worship band one of these days.

SPEAKER_03 6:43

Yep. Yep.

SPEAKER_04 6:44

Let's see how old's Cooper. What he's 18 months.

SPEAKER_03 6:46

Yeah.

SPEAKER_04 6:48

Another another 12 and a half years.

SPEAKER_01 6:50

Yep. Yep. Yep. Well, I've been blessed with the work with your friend this past year.

SPEAKER_03 6:56

That's what she told me. I went to lunch with her on Monday. And I was like, well, hold on, I think you know Beth. And she's like, yeah. She's like, she's actually what rooming for the following day? Did you room for a Tuesday?

SPEAKER_01 7:08

Tuesday and today. And today. Yeah. The rest of the week. That better be it.

SPEAKER_04 7:14

I see you have scrubs on.

SPEAKER_01 7:16

Yeah.

SPEAKER_04 7:17

You actually have to work.

SPEAKER_01 7:18

I do. And the worst of it is, is I feel like that I'm letting the doctors down, not doing what I'm supposed to be doing on my job, but they put that to a complete halt. So they did? Yeah, at least for this week. So I don't know what next week's gonna bring. I feel bad because I I basically don't know how to do anything. I've never been trained. There's not here. Go.

SPEAKER_03 7:39

Okay.

SPEAKER_04 7:40

Oh, JT.

SPEAKER_03 7:44

Well, how was your trips, Nick?

SPEAKER_00 7:47

Excellent. Yeah. I should have trained before the trip. I'll tell you that. Some of them hikes, Cadillac Mountain in Maine, 1,530 feet straight up.

SPEAKER_03 7:55

Oh.

SPEAKER_00 7:56

Oh yeah, it was rough. But we did it. Margie and I did it.

SPEAKER_03 7:59

That's almost like the Manitou Incline, which is in Colorado. It's like 2,000 feet, I think, or 1,800 pretty close.

SPEAKER_00 8:06

I think it's like two, two and a half hours, I think, to get up to the top.

SPEAKER_01 8:09

I would need oxygen by the time I got to the halfway mark.

SPEAKER_00 8:13

It's like well, it's like the first, I don't know, first half hour or so. It's rough. Like chest is burning, you know, legs are aching. You just think there's no way, you know, I I can get up this hill. But after a while, it you kind of work yourself into it, everything kind of eases up, and then you don't feel too bad. But then going down, back down, it just kills your calves, yeah. Your shin splints, you know. It's rough.

SPEAKER_03 8:41

What's it called?

SPEAKER_00 8:42

Cadillac Mountain.

SPEAKER_03 8:43

Cadillac.

SPEAKER_00 8:44

Maine.

SPEAKER_03 8:44

Okay.

SPEAKER_00 8:44

In the Acadia National Park. So we did that one. We did a few other ones, like the Bubble Rock Trail, Jordan Pond Trail. Yeah, they were all pretty. They were, I mean, they say most of them are considered moderate, not too stressful. It's a lie. But when you're 45, you know, Seth and his cousin Samuel, they're just sprinting right up to the top. You know, they're they totally get out of sight because they're not waiting on us. You blame them? No, I don't blame them. Because I'm leaning up against a tree at one point.

SPEAKER_04 9:21

Do they have do they have do they have oxygen stops along the way?

SPEAKER_00 9:25

I wish. No. Nope. No stop, no, no stops at all. And that's the thing with these young kids. They won't even stop to look around the scenery for just a little bit to let you catch a breath. I was there. Been there, done that. Yeah. Do something else. But it was fun though, and it was definitely worth the view once you got up there. Yeah. Top of Cadillac Mountain, if you look across the North Atlantic Ocean, you can see Nova Scotia out there.

SPEAKER_03 9:48

Really? Wow. That's neat.

SPEAKER_00 9:50

It's very tough to see, but you could see land way, way, way out there. That's so cool. Yeah. I would love to go up there in wintertime.

SPEAKER_03 9:56

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 9:57

Now the but the real slap in the face, as you know, the government shut down.

SPEAKER_03 10:02

Uh-huh.

SPEAKER_00 10:05

So we heard you couldn't go up there by vehicle anymore because the guard shacks weren't working. You know. So we'd in order to go up, we decide to hike it. So we do the hike, we get to the top, and there's all these cars parked at the top. And a trolley going up the road. The trolley was even going to. So it was just like a slap in the face. Like, you mean to tell me I just climbed this for two and a half hours?

SPEAKER_01 10:32

I would have taken that trolley back down though.

SPEAKER_00 10:35

No ticket.

SPEAKER_01 10:37

Sorry.

SPEAKER_00 10:37

No tickie, no laundry. Yeah. So yeah, I would love to go back in wintertime, drive up. Yeah. And see the view then. I think that'd be pretty cool. So maybe someday.

SPEAKER_04 10:49

I don't know. My daughter lived up here for four years. She said that they got snowed in for three weeks. Nice.

SPEAKER_00 10:55

I wouldn't mind getting snowed in for a while. That one bothered me a bit. No power. I mean, as long as I had as long as I had the essentials. Yeah.

SPEAKER_04 11:04

No power. Oh. Well. They had no power. They lived in a s they lived in a split level. So they put blankets and everything up, you know, over and they basically lived in the bot in the split level because it had a fireplace. And that's basically the only way they stayed warm. And my wife asked her, Well, how did you keep your milk warm or milk cold? And she says, I just left it set on the kitchen table. Just set it outside, plunge it in. Yeah, didn't have to sit it outside, just set it on the kitchen table. It stayed cold.

SPEAKER_03 11:37

Yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_04 11:39

But it was, it was, it's pretty up, it is pretty up here. It is. Yeah. Did you go whale watching?

SPEAKER_00 11:46

No. We decided not to because you had to reserve it in advance. Yeah. And we didn't know what the weather was going to be at the time. And we all thought, well, if we reserve it for a cloudy, rainy day, it's not going to be worth it because you're not going to see anything. Now we had picture perfect weather all week. So we kind of regretted not doing it, but at the same time, we would have been on the boat like six hours. Yeah. And you're still not guaranteed to see a whale. So yeah, we decided against it and didn't see no whale, no moose. I think all we saw was a porcupine. Squirrels. Squirrel.

SPEAKER_02 12:20

Squirrel.

SPEAKER_00 12:21

Yeah, nothing. Didn't see no bears. No bears. You know, so nothing exciting. We all wanted to see a moose. You didn't see a moose. Wasn't it wasn't in the cards. We saw a bear when we was out in Washington.

SPEAKER_04 12:33

In the mountains.

SPEAKER_02 12:34

Yeah.

SPEAKER_04 12:35

Because it was it was kind of funny because my my son says, She's he says, Boy, it'd really be funny if we'd see a bear. And his mother says, Well, look right over there. Right there's a bear.

SPEAKER_00 12:48

So Beth, where'd you go?

SPEAKER_01 12:50

I went to Florida. Went and visited my son. Soaked up some sunshine, sat around the pool in what part of Florida? There in Tampa.

SPEAKER_00 13:00

I've been no further south than Jacksonville.

SPEAKER_01 13:04

We went to uh clear water over to the ocean one evening and watched the sunrise or sunset. It was beautiful.

SPEAKER_00 13:11

Oh, that was the other thing about that hike to Cadillac Mountain. We started up not late, late, but 3 34. So we caught most of the sunset. But thank goodness we had the uh flashlights on ourselves.

SPEAKER_03 13:24

That's what I was thinking.

SPEAKER_00 13:25

Because it got dark. You know? And there was no way we could have climbed down the cave in the dark. Because you know you're climbing over rocks and boulders, tripping over stuff.

SPEAKER_04 13:34

I got a story for you. We went caving in uh Washington when I was up here visiting my son. He says, let's go to this cave. Okay, well, we go to this cave. It was close to Mount St. Helens. So we go in this cave, you know, and it's all lit up. It's pretty cool, you know. Well, they had another part. So we said, okay, well, we'll go to that. We'll we'll we'll go and go up the mountain and then we'll come in. We start down. I mean, there's like a hole in the ground with a ladder. So we start go down. We get down here. Okay, well, it's not too bad. And it starts getting dark. You know, the boulders and stuff that's kind of hanging over. Oh, ow. I said, we need to go out the way we came in. My daughter's my daughter-in-law's phone went dead, so we have no light. I told him, I said, the next time you want to go caving, we are going to the store first. We are buying batteries, we're buying headlights, and we are buying flashlights. I mean, you know, like you said, just stumbling around on the rocks, and I mean it was, I mean, it was kind of it was kind of funny in a way, but it was stupid in a way. Yeah. Because, you know, we could have really got hurt. You know, you could have broke a leg in there or knocked yourself out. Oh, yeah.

SPEAKER_00 15:04

I thought you were going to tell me like bats came out or something.

SPEAKER_04 15:07

Well, they may have been in there.

SPEAKER_00 15:10

That'd been it for me.

SPEAKER_04 15:13

But it was still daylight outside, so they, you know, they could still see the light in it. There was still light in the tunnel.

SPEAKER_00 15:22

But yeah, that was. Yeah, sometimes you do things and you don't really think about time.

SPEAKER_04 15:26

Yeah, that yeah, that was that was don't think that far ahead. And the worst part was you you could have you you could have got there through the tunnels that we were in that were lit. But but then I guess you know, the light runs out, so I don't know.

SPEAKER_03 15:43

But then you wouldn't have had the story to tell. That's true.

SPEAKER_04 15:46

That really felt stupid. But it was it was it was fun. Well, the best part was walking up there because you was walking also that volcanic ash.

SPEAKER_03 15:57

Oh, yeah.

SPEAKER_04 15:57

It was like six inches thick, you know. Every time you'd step, it'd kind of like soot. Yeah. Only it was it was white. It wasn't black, it was white. It was pretty neat.

SPEAKER_02 16:10

Huh.

SPEAKER_04 16:12

That's another one of Roger's dumb stories.

SPEAKER_03 16:18

No. Well, I can start us out with a Bible verse. Oh. Oh.

SPEAKER_04 16:24

Do we do we have to do we do that? Yeah. Oh, okay. Go ahead.

SPEAKER_03 16:29

All right. I'm gonna go into Hebrews.

SPEAKER_04 16:32

You don't have it memorized?

unknown 16:34

No.

SPEAKER_00 16:35

Okay, this one is actually I like that because I don't have Hebrews out of all the yeah. So it's good. And he's got three and a half pages. I do. So let's go.

Government Shutdown Surprise On Cadillac Mountain

SPEAKER_03 16:43

Hebrews 10 25, which is kind of almost piggybacking off of like the last few weeks, almost how we were saying like that we would kind of we don't want to call it a routine, but sometimes we would get into a routine and a rut, and you know, just going about our day. And but this right here is Hebrews 10 25. Let us not give up meeting together as some are in the habit of doing, but let us encourage one another, and all the more as you see the day approaching. I thought that had something to do with a habit. Oh my goodness. Well, I also had Hebrews three, Hebrews three, twelve, and thirteen, which is three, twelve. Okay. May the Lord make your love increase and overflow for each other and for everyone else, just as ours does for you. Oh no, I'm sorry, that's first Thessalonians. I'm all over the place, guys. Okay.

SPEAKER_00 17:46

Sounded good.

SPEAKER_03 17:47

It did sound good. Three, what would I say? Twelve and thirteen.

SPEAKER_00 17:53

Three twelve and thirteen.

SPEAKER_03 17:55

Hebrews chapter three, twelve and thirteen. Okay, see to it, brothers, that none of you have a sinful, unbelieving heart that turns away from the living God, but encourage one another daily, as long as it is called today, so that none of you may be hardened by sin's deceitfulness.

SPEAKER_00 18:23

And what is your what is your take from this? Yes.

SPEAKER_03 18:28

That we need to encourage each other and lift each other up and especially That's why we should should fellowship. Yes. Yeah, yeah. I think staying in good company is probably a good part of encouragement.

SPEAKER_00 18:43

Is just you have to be around the right people. Yes. To to get to get the type of encouragement that you need. That was actually a lot of people can encourage you to do a lot of different things.

SPEAKER_03 18:53

Yeah. That was actually one of my bullet points for discernment was like how do you discern things? And it was saying be around Is this an Easter egg? No.

unknown 19:05

Okay.

SPEAKER_03 19:06

No, just being around the the right group of people and the Christians and everything.

SPEAKER_00 19:10

Well, it was looking at me like an Easter egg? What are you talking about?

SPEAKER_03 19:12

It could possibly be. Maybe this should just be one episode. Yeah, I don't know. I think they're gonna go hand in hand a lot, though. Yeah.

SPEAKER_04 19:24

What squirrel and he shrinks?

SPEAKER_03 19:29

If you want them to.

SPEAKER_00 19:33

Yeah. Good company. Uh because what I take from that is, as I said, you know, it's so important that if you find good people, if you find people to fellowship with, that you make the time to be with those people. You know, that you don't you don't waste your energy and your time on people that are negative, that are not living in God's word, that are gonna, as I said, encourage you to do other things than you know what God is seeking you to do. Uh so that so yeah, fellowship, good company, all those things, encouragement, you know, unless you yes, you can be encouraged by the word alone. But I think having good company is is very important to that. You know, you want to be you want to be able to share God's word with other people. Yeah. It really, I think, helps you stay involved and keep you in the word. Because the more that other people build you up and you feel that that encouragement is, you know, I I think that's just that's a huge helper.

SPEAKER_01 20:42

Well, I think also when you build up that relationship with other Christians and you build that friendship and bond, that when you're having bad days or you're having weakness, you know, they usually can tell without ever you expressing and they're lifting you up and encouraging you.

SPEAKER_00 21:01

Right. Yeah, in the workplace is one of those things where, you know, if you're around the if you're frustrated and you're around the wrong person, then you'd be like, Well, I think you need to go up in the office and tell them exactly where to stick it. And it's like, that's not good encouragement. That's encouragement. Certainly. Yeah. It's not, it's not what you should be doing, it's not what God would have you do. Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 21:26

That's just like the situation with my job. You know, I'm not happy with what I'm presently doing, but I also realize that we're in a crunch and I have to be a team player. Right.

SPEAKER_00 21:36

Yep.

SPEAKER_01 21:37

One of the girls said to me, Well, I was shocked to see you come back. I'm like, really? You gotta do what you gotta do. Yeah. Yep.

SPEAKER_00 21:45

Yeah, it's so important for people, again, that you know, that are competing, that you know, that have a job to do. I think it's very important at home to really try to encourage each other, to try to stay positive, even when things are not going well, even when certain things arise, you know, unforeseen circumstance that will set you back. It's very important that you try to encourage each other instead of trying to make each other hopeless, you know, and looking at all the negative things that could come out of the situation. You want to be around people that will encourage you, stay positive, yeah, you know, see through the problem. Yeah. And that's just, you know, that's very important. And and I think with good fellowship with Christians, you get a lot more of that as opposed to, hey, go up there and you know, tell them to stick it. I mean, you know, we we had a guy that just quit his job just on a whim. I mean, he's got a wife and a kid, and but he got so frustrated. And this was when I was on vacation, and I worked quite closely with him. And I think a lot of it was just, yeah, you you get this mindset that well, I'm gonna show them, I'll just quit. Well, okay, that might hurt them for a little while.

SPEAKER_03 23:06

Yeah, but not forever.

SPEAKER_00 23:07

But hurts you. The reality of it is any company, they're gonna move on.

SPEAKER_03 23:11

Yep, yep.

Caves, Bats, And Better Preparation

SPEAKER_00 23:12

Life goes on. But now if you're standing there with no job and a wife and a kid, and then it's it's not easy to find another job. It's easy to lose it, yeah, to give it up. But it's not so easy to find another one, especially if if you've been in a good position. You know, you were you were making decent money, you worked your way up. And now, you know, you might have to start at the bottom again. So again, it could be because people's gonna question your integrity if you were just willing to walk off the look at that and be like, hmm, what's what's underneath here? You know, why is this person so apt to just follow his temper and in instead of his discernment?

SPEAKER_01 23:53

She walked in at 7 30, packed her desk, and out the door she went.

SPEAKER_00 23:57

Yeah. Yeah. And it probably and it may have felt good at the time. At the time for a little while, but then once everything sinks in, you're like, oh, yeah, why did I do that? I think it was like George Costans in Seinfeld the one time. He quit his job and then he pretended like I'll just go back. Yeah, well like I never quit. And he walks in and he sits down at the table as we're all kind of talking, and all of a sudden the bosses look at him like, didn't you quit? He's like, What? What are you talking about? He goes, Yeah, you told me I was this, told me I was that. And he's like, What? You took that seriously? I was just joking. That was just a joke. And he's like, uh-uh. Out of here.

unknown 24:36

Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 24:36

It's almost like the oh my goodness. I can't even think of the TV show. But he he's like the UPS driver. What is it? Oh my gosh, it's not UPS.

SPEAKER_00 24:50

It's uh What King of Queens? Yes. Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 24:52

And when he gets that job, it's because Carrie's following him to like his new job, and he just walks and he's like, I gotta act like I'm working here. And then all of a sudden he gets a job there. Yeah. But that was from her encouraging him to have an actual job. A big boy job.

SPEAKER_04 25:13

A big boy job. Yeah. I'm sure my wife don't do that with me. Oh man.

SPEAKER_01 25:21

I I'm thankful for the my friends that do encourage me because I think sometimes I wouldn't always make the right choice. Oh yeah.

SPEAKER_00 25:30

Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 25:31

Well, I even like it happened today. Like I can tell you I was at the mall with Ashley Caldwell. We ran into each other and we were leaving. Oh, Ashley Johnson and JJ. And we were getting ready to leave and we were talking, and we were in front of like a handicapped parking lot or parking spot, but the person right beside them was more than halfway over. So I'm like, well, no one's gonna try to park here, you know? So this lady all of a sudden comes up, and I thought she was just waiting for this other car to leave. And then she didn't even beep her horn or anything. It was probably minute, minute and a half. Then she finally yells, Are you two gonna move or what? And we both looked at each other. I'm like, Oh, Jesus, spread Jesus, just spread Jesus, Ashley. Just and she's like, I'm glad you said that because I almost didn't, I almost spread the devil. I'm like, I know me too. I said, but me standing there with you, it was like right away I knew like this is my friend and God, you know, like it just prompted me, like, hey, we're not to act that way, you know. But yeah, I'm like, oh, biting my tongue, walking, like, oh you have a good day. So yes Roger, what are you looking at? What are you looking at?

SPEAKER_04 26:51

I don't know. I'm just looking.

SPEAKER_00 26:52

You got something highlighted there.

SPEAKER_04 26:54

Oh, is it prayer and con prayer prayer and confessions?

SPEAKER_00 27:00

Does it have anything to do with what we're talking about?

SPEAKER_01 27:03

Encouragement.

SPEAKER_04 27:05

Well, yeah, prayer's encouragement.

SPEAKER_01 27:08

Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 27:14

I just keep going back to the discernment too, because I'm like, yeah, also you can get discernment on your brain.

SPEAKER_04 27:23

Get guidance. I need a lot of guidance sometimes.

Turning To Scripture On Encouragement

SPEAKER_03 27:28

Me too. Man, yeah.

SPEAKER_04 27:33

Guidance and forgiveness.

SPEAKER_03 27:35

Yes.

SPEAKER_04 27:36

Kind of rhyme, don't I? They go together.

SPEAKER_03 27:41

They do go together when you say them together.

SPEAKER_01 27:48

Well, I suffer with a lot of anxiety over change and new things. I don't I don't do well with it. And uh I it's been rough making this a little bit of a transition. And so by you know, having to dig in a little bit on words that are encouragement and it's brought you. It's helped me.

SPEAKER_03 28:11

Yeah, I I agree.

SPEAKER_04 28:13

Oh whenever whenever whenever you've did a job for so many years and then you get out of that job and then you get thrown back into it, it's like you're like you're starting all over. You know, because everything that you actually have learnt and was taught is old school. Now we got all this new new medicine, new machines, yeah, everything is new. And it's I know when my when my daughter first came back from uh where were they at? Maine, Texas, I don't know, someplace. And uh she got a job at Barberton. And she said, I can't believe it. They're still charting on paper. They're you know, the the that that's that's the way she that's the way she learned. But then, you know, when I don't know, I don't know how they do it now. I mean, on a computer or tablet or whatever, you know. Then she got used to that. Yeah. Then she had to go back to the old way, you know, and it was she said it was a big change.

SPEAKER_03 29:37

That's kind of that's like we do paper charts and like going from the dental office that I started at, I don't know, six years ago, like they were very like very advanced and very and then I'm like but it is like taking a step back because it was how I learned, like you said.

SPEAKER_04 29:55

So yeah, it's and then then there's a change.

SPEAKER_03 29:59

Mm-hmm.

SPEAKER_04 30:00

And you and that you don't like change. I mean, and that I don't like change either. I mean But then some somet sometimes change is good.

SPEAKER_03 30:09

Yeah.

SPEAKER_04 30:11

Sometimes change is still good, but you don't think it is until you've did it for a while.

SPEAKER_01 30:18

Well, I you know, I've been a nurse for 35 years. And the last 15 years of my life or more, I've been a paper nurse. Yeah. I audit charts, I do patient education, you know, I prepare things for the physicians. So to go back and on the clinical side. On the clinical side, hands-on. Hands-on, it's I mean, I can still go in and get a blood pressure, I can still do a treatment, I can do that, but where do I document? Where do I find this? How do I do this? I'm lost. And I'm always hunting for somebody. Hey, can you come help me?

SPEAKER_04 30:54

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 30:54

But they've been very kind and very helpful.

SPEAKER_04 30:57

Well, I mean, you know, ninety percent of those people have been in that situation themselves. You know, they're they may maybe they've came from someplace that does it completely different. You know, so they had to learn, they had somebody had to show them.

SPEAKER_01 31:12

And I'm computer stupid. That's Pastor Michael, down you go. So I knew how to do on the computer to do my job. Now I'm doing some somebody else's something totally different. You know.

SPEAKER_04 31:23

Well, that's that's like that's like after uh well I don't know, well we'll say the last year of my job, you know, I still worked out in the shop, but then he wanted me to do I I had to do spreadsheets. I never did a spreadsheet in my life. You know. And you know, you then price it and put put it. I mean, it's it's a it's a process. Yeah. You know. I mean, it took me a long time, especially when you, you know, you got one finger typing, or sometimes two. I was getting really good at two.

SPEAKER_03 31:55

Well, don't feel bad because when my dad took over like to be the plant manager, same thing. He's like, I've never worked with an Excel spreadsheet. Like he was like, he was getting on Amazon, I need all these vitamins for my brain health. I'm like, oh dad, like good for him, you know. But it he was like hyping himself up, just freaking himself out.

SPEAKER_04 32:15

But I mean, you know, and then and then you know, moving stuff around and changing this, and then you when you make your spreadsheet, you didn't make it big enough because you have to add something. So you know, you got to figure out how to do that.

SPEAKER_01 32:28

And all of a sudden you shrunk this cell and you don't know how you shrunk that cell and you gotta figure out how to make it bigger.

SPEAKER_04 32:32

Oh no. I just I I put I put a piece of tape over the delete button. That was that was a do not touch. But you know, once you once you do it for a while, you know, you kind of figure it out.

SPEAKER_02 32:48

Yeah.

SPEAKER_04 32:48

I mean, I had a lot of questions for the secretary, believe me. I said, I wanna do this. She said, Well, move. I says, I need to do it myself so I know how to do it.

SPEAKER_01 32:57

And see, that's what the younger generation, they've done this all most of their lives. So it's nothing for them.

SPEAKER_04 33:04

It's easy. And it's it's it's easy it's easy.

SPEAKER_01 33:07

It's easy for them to jump in and just I'm like, no, no, no, no. I gotta I have to do that, or yeah, wait a minute, I gotta write step one, step two, step three.

SPEAKER_00 33:15

Yeah, I'm definitely a type of has to do something countless times before.

Fellowship, Company, And Wise Influence

SPEAKER_03 33:19

Me too. I can't just do it once or twice. Like, even if someone says honestly, probably when learning a job, like, well, didn't we already do this once? Yeah, I need to do it ten times. I can't just do it once, especially when you want me to do a thousand other things. You know what I mean? Yeah.

SPEAKER_04 33:36

Yeah, it's like yeah, yeah, like like doing that, you know, you know, actually be out in the shop and doing stuff. I had to clean up, so I could go in the office, so I didn't get the computer dirty.

SPEAKER_03 33:50

Yep.

SPEAKER_04 33:51

You know, and then then I had taken call call for prices, you know, call this place, call that place, call this place, look this up in the book, go to another book and look that up, get a price, get the best price there is. Ay, ay, aye. I mean, you know, I'm 75 years old, I don't need to know all that crap. You know.

SPEAKER_01 34:12

So when I was thinking about encouragement, I was not just only thinking about encouragement in each other, but the word that is encouraging. So I have Philippians 4 13. I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me.

SPEAKER_03 34:24

Yep.

SPEAKER_01 34:26

And I have Deuteronomy 24, because the Lord your God is going with you to fight your enemies for you and to save you. That's a good one.

SPEAKER_00 34:36

My approach to anxiety is always this. Like if something goes wrong or or you make a mistake, you gotta look at it as it's just an incomplete pass. It's not a fumble. Yep. It's not a penalty.

SPEAKER_03 34:53

Yeah, you tried.

SPEAKER_00 34:54

You didn't throw a tantrum on the field and get yourself ejected from the game. It was just an incomplete pass. Yeah. But you're still moving down the field. Yeah. Johnny Unitis, who was a Hall of Fame quarterback for the Baltimore Colts, so his approach always was he had this sense of amnesia when he played. If he made a bad pass, he didn't fret about it. He didn't settle on it and keep thinking about he'd he'd say, I just forget it, completely put it behind me and look at the next play. And that's how he was so successful because he never went back, let's say he never went back to the bench after four downs if you know they they didn't go downfield and score a touchdown. He didn't dwell on it. Right. He's just like, Oh, okay, that series is over, and it's just an incomplete pass, but we're still gonna move downfield. By the end of the game, we're gonna win this thing. So you can never, you know, you can't expect always to be a hundred percent perfect.

SPEAKER_01 35:48

This is the thing. Everything that I worry about and increase my anxiety. Yeah, never mind. Right. No, it's not good. I didn't make that mistake. I didn't do this, I didn't do that. It's just stuff that I allow Satan to get in my head. Yeah.

unknown 35:59

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 35:59

Because he knows that that's something that I check, double check, triple check. I'm just that's the way I was trained when I was a good thing. And that's but that's that's what I do.

SPEAKER_00 36:07

But to me, that's not so much anxiety, that's just that's just a good work ethic. That's a great approach to how you do things. But the anxiety part is, yeah, if for whatever reason you forgot to put this on the chart or it's not the end of the world.

SPEAKER_01 36:20

Yeah, no.

SPEAKER_00 36:21

You know, it's just an incomplete pass. You're gonna continue to move forward in your job. You're still great at your job. It doesn't set you or anybody else back. But it can if you let that anxiety build and build and build to where now guess what? Now you're making more mistakes because you're still dwelling on what happened two hours ago.

SPEAKER_01 36:39

Before I get up in the morning this week, I have said, Lord, get in my head before I do. Yeah, get in my head. And that's the thing I do.

SPEAKER_00 36:46

You know, yeah, you got you gotta have that frame of mind when you start, that positive encouragement that, yeah, it's I'm gonna do the best I can. It's gonna be a good day. God, you're in control of it. Yep. And that's how I'm gonna approach my day. And and if everything doesn't go quite how I thought it was going to, you know, we're gonna we're gonna adapt and overcome.

SPEAKER_01 37:05

Well, and that's funny because yeah, I if I have to be there till seven o'clock, I'm there at seven o'clock because I have to do I want my stuff done. Yes.

SPEAKER_00 37:13

Yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_01 37:14

So they're like, it's five o'clock, it's time to go home. What isn't done we can deal with tomorrow.

unknown 37:20

Okay. Like, fine.

SPEAKER_00 37:22

Sometimes you gotta encourage yourself to say, I need to get this done before I go. Yeah. And sometimes you have to encourage yourself to work just a little longer, a little harder to meet the goal, other than saying, time to go. Yeah, I'll leave it for tomorrow and leave put yourself in a bed.

SPEAKER_01 37:37

No, it matters, and that's not right, you know, that's one that's not me. And I don't think it's her either. She's she's not real busy yet. So once she's busy, there's not going to be leaving anything.

SPEAKER_03 37:49

That's what I was thinking too, because that's that's my logic. Like, man, it'd be so nice to keep this for the next time I work. But I mean, as soon as nine o'clock hits, that phone is ringing. I'm the only one up there. I'm trying, you know, I'm checking patients out every 15 minutes. I'm like, ah, like there's no time. And then it just starts building up, and you're like, oh great. But you said something about dwelling, and I think we need to dwell on the word rather than like there's a the problem. Yeah, yeah, exactly. And the oh, I don't know if it's still a service or not. I'm sure it is. It's like a subscription box. I don't know, it's like$11.99. It was a few years back, but it gives you a verse to memorize each month, and then it gives you like these temporary tattoos that I might have talked about them one time. Like say, for God so loved the world, like that, you know, in John 3.16, it would say John 3.16, but then it would have an F as for because and then G for God. It's just the way your brain, I don't know, it's like a a fast way to memorize scripture, I guess. But came with that, and like maybe an index card with the temporary tattoo design. And I've seen people do that, and then they'll actually like get that actual tattoo as a tattoo, you know, and but I it's neat, it's just like a different way to actually dive into the word. I think it might have been on one of the Christian podcasts that I was listening to, like a advertisement or something. But yeah, that's what it reminds me of.

SPEAKER_01 39:19

I do um I have some taped to when I'm in my office, I have a I don't have a laptop, I have a regular computer. Yeah. So my screen, I have Bible verses taped on it. It's a good idea all the way around. And then I have a couple that's taped to my mirror in the bathroom. So when I'm brushing my teeth in the morning, I'm running those through my head. Yeah, that's a good idea.

unknown 39:39

Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 39:40

Just yeah, it encourages you.

SPEAKER_00 39:43

Well, I've been thinking about lately, and I I can't quite get the verse right, but it's, you know, seek me, follow me, and I will give you rest. Sometimes when things are getting so overwhelming, you're like, wow, if I could just if I could just relax for a little bit. If I could just, you know, but usually there's no time to do that. So a lot of times I'm just thinking about that. Like, okay, even if, even if I'm still moving, even if I get home and I can't sit down, somehow God's still gonna give me rest through all that.

SPEAKER_01 40:13

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 40:14

He's still gonna provide me with what I need. Keep going.

Work Stress, Anxiety, And Resilience

SPEAKER_01 40:18

Yep. And that's where I was last night when I had myself so worked up and finally I'm just like rolled over in bed, and I'm like, okay, God, we gotta you gotta calm me down here. And then I just started praying, I'm praying for myself, praying for this person, that person, and before I knew it, I was all snuggly and warm and was at peace. Yeah. One, he helped me get my eyes focused on everybody else's problems instead of my what I thought was my own.

SPEAKER_03 40:45

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 40:48

He was just showing me random people that I needed to pray for.

SPEAKER_00 40:51

And maybe sometimes that's the best way out of it is you know, when you start helping other people, then it maybe makes you realize your problems aren't so big.

SPEAKER_01 40:59

Yeah, exactly.

SPEAKER_00 41:00

And you're not the only one with the problem.

SPEAKER_01 41:02

Yep. I still my husband, he has the best word for problems. He said if money can fix it, it's not really a problem.

SPEAKER_00 41:10

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 41:11

And it's that's so, so true. Yep. Yep. Even if you don't have the money, if it's fixable with money, yes, exactly. It's not a problem. Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 41:20

Yeah. Yep.

SPEAKER_03 41:22

Yes. Well, we're 44 minutes into this one. All right.

SPEAKER_00 41:28

Well, but we had some banner at the So the only thing I want to tackle about this was you know, there's there's always this idea out there. I I'm just a big believer that what comes out of your mouth has a lot to do with what's in your heart. What's in your heart and what's going on in your mind.

SPEAKER_03 41:46

Yes. Oh, I agree. Yes.

SPEAKER_00 41:48

So I think the more neg negative that you speak, and I will say this even for cursing, profanity, the more you speak such negative things, the less encouragement you're gonna have.

SPEAKER_03 42:06

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 42:06

Oh, it's impossible to stay encouraged when everything that's coming out of your mouth is negative. Yeah. You know, and a lot of people are like, you gotta get it out, you gotta get it out. Well, I'm not gonna argue with that.

SPEAKER_03 42:23

But you don't have to get it out 24-7.

SPEAKER_00 42:25

No. I think we have to be very careful about what we say, how we say things, especially to other people and to ourselves.

SPEAKER_03 42:35

Yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_00 42:36

In order to have that healthy mind and body. And Proverbs 420 says, My son, pay attention to what I say, listen closely to my words, do not let them out of your sight, keep them within your heart, for they are life to those who find them, and health to a man's whole body. Exactly. Above all else, guard your heart, for it is the wellspring of life. Put away perversity from your mouth, keep corrupt talk from your lips, let your eyes look straight ahead, fix your gaze directly before you, make level paths for your feet, and take only ways that are firm. Do not swerve to the right or to the left, keep your foot from evil. So it's expressing that idea that you know even if you're thinking it, you know, you you need to try and have this keep keep those negative things from spurting out. Yeah. Because I think they just I just it's kind of like I guess it's kind of like a water fountain. Like once they spew out of your mouth, guess what? They fall right back down on you. They don't go out. They don't think they go out sometimes because they just come right back down on you.

SPEAKER_03 43:43

Well, and on to you and on to other people, and other people might take that for something else and you know make it because if we don't realize how many people out there in the world are actually watching us.

SPEAKER_01 43:56

Oh, yeah. You know, we might be the only Bible they ever read.

SPEAKER_02 43:59

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 44:00

Absolutely. And I had an old pastor who used to say, remember who you are and remember who you represent.

SPEAKER_00 44:08

Yep.

SPEAKER_01 44:10

Yep, like an ambassador. And not only that, when we speak those, and I'm catch myself doing it, you know, my worry, what if this, what if that, but I try to cut back on that because I don't want to give Satan that foothold. No.

SPEAKER_03 44:25

Yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_01 44:26

No, that's what I'm saying. Well, yeah, and you don't want to speak something in the way. You don't want to label it. Yeah. Yes. Mm-hmm.

unknown 44:31

Yep.

SPEAKER_00 44:33

Yeah, Ephesians 429. Do not let any unwholesome talk come out of your mouths, but only what is helpful for building others up according to their needs, that may benefit those who listen. And do not grieve the Holy Spirit of God with whom you were sealed for the day of redemption. Get rid of all bitterness, rage and anger, brawling and slander, along with every form of malice. Be kind and compassionate to one another, forgiving each other, just as in Christ God forgave you. Again, it's you know, the more negative that you are, the more that you are willing to be negative to others, I think it comes right back. I think it comes right back on you.

SPEAKER_03 45:16

Oh, yeah. I hope the even when you're in the right. Yeah. I hope the right people are listening right now. Because I don't know. I just think for such a time as this, there's just and you know, even in the future, maybe it'll just resonate with other people. As far as encouraging others, I had a couple tips and tricks. But just tell others that you can actually see how God is working through them, you know, and because I think a lot of times people think, why am I even doing this? Or, you know, everything's going unnoticed, like unnoticed. And it would be a lot easier if I just went with my old ways. And I think you know, just I think even just showing them that you see that that change in them, that is going to encourage them just to keep pushing forward, you know.

SPEAKER_00 46:10

I mean, I suppose that's why you know a lot of people they want to go on a diet, they want to get in shape.

SPEAKER_03 46:16

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 46:17

And it at first sounds like a great idea, but then they're not really seeing any gain. Yeah. And then you decide to quit because you're not seeing it. But sometimes all it takes is somebody to say, hey, I think you're getting really good. Yeah, exactly.

SPEAKER_03 46:28

Yeah. And you know, I I actually meant to say that to someone on Sunday. It wasn't anyone here, but I know that she kind of struggles sometimes with how the way she looks, and like we've talked about it. And I went home later that evening, I'm like, dang it, why didn't I tell her? Because I do know that she struggles with that and like has for years. And I'm like, and I actually thought, like, as soon as I saw him, like, hey, you know, but I didn't think to say it then and there.

SPEAKER_01 46:55

And so yeah, but but I think too, our children, we need to speak encouraging. Yes. Of our children. Yes. There's so much negativity, so much pressures that are put on them in the schools, and not necessarily what you know, what the school systems, you know, but are they wearing those name brand clothes? Are they that? And yep.

SPEAKER_00 47:16

Yep. Got it. Yeah. Whatever's the hot ticket on YouTube or TikTok, or they gotta have it. Yeah. They don't have it, they don't feel like they're in.

SPEAKER_03 47:25

Yep. Yep. Yep.

Words, Negativity, And Guarding The Tongue

SPEAKER_00 47:27

Yeah. I got Colossians 4-5. Be wise in the way you act toward outsiders, make the most of every opportunity. Let your conversation be always full of grace, seasoned with salt, so that you may know how to answer everyone. So think about what you're going to say before you say it. Make sure that it is something that's actually going to be useful to people, not just something that is going to like I said, it's easy to try to make yourself feel good in in front of others in a negative way. And we're all we're all guilty of that.

SPEAKER_03 48:05

But yeah, because you want to be heard, you want to be seen, and but yeah. Yeah. And there's nothing wrong with that. But when you're when that starts to become your identity, and you know, when people start to think, hey, when they think your name, then they're like, Oh, I don't want to hang out with her all she, you know, she's so negative. And then honestly, that brushes off on other people. It does, it truly does.

SPEAKER_01 48:31

Well, being working in an office environment, you probably know all it takes is one person to come in with a negative attitude, and before you know, the trickle-down effect has come.

SPEAKER_03 48:40

Yep, yep. I actually just bought a uh a goose, you know, like the little porch geese. I bought one for my desk. It's like six and a half inches. I'm like, this is gonna brighten my day. It'll be a conversation starter, like it'll just kind of encourage me throughout the day, if anything. And like, I think all those teenagers that come in to get their braces, they're gonna get a kick out of it. And I'm gonna be changing his outfits.

SPEAKER_04 49:05

And you have way too much time on your hands.

SPEAKER_03 49:11

No, I don't. I'm just trying to make my day a little brighter. I'm trying to encourage myself.

SPEAKER_00 49:17

Where do you buy such outfits?

SPEAKER_03 49:18

At the store, Amazon, but I actually got it off of Timu. Yeah, Timu was a little cheaper. But the outfit that I bought was for Halloween and it makes him look like a ghost. I just think you could have got a Hankin, didn't you? Well, it's a sheet, but it's also you know what though? It's it makes him look like a a pumpkin and a ghost now that I think about it, because it's got a pumpkin face, but it's got like a sheet ghost or a sheet. I don't know. For yeah. Never mind.

SPEAKER_00 49:54

This makes me think of like weird kids with you know, you had Barbie and different things or G.I. Joe's, and once you bought the figure, then they'd have the little blister pack of outfits excessively. Yeah, that you could buy for them.

SPEAKER_01 50:06

Yeah, about the it's it's just a grown-up way of still playing Barbie. Yep.

SPEAKER_03 50:10

Yep. I was so mad though. I I meant to bring it Tuesday when I worked, and then I forgot it. And I told Chase, because when I opened it, Cooper was up as soon as I took that thing out of the box. He was like, like he wanted it. And I told Chase, I'm like, dang it, I forgot my goose. He's like, ah, it's Cooper's now. I'm like, oh no, it's not. It's cute though.

SPEAKER_04 50:32

Aye, as long as you get enjoyment.

SPEAKER_03 50:35

You know what? I've got a picture, I'll show you guys. Oh, right. All right, yeah.

SPEAKER_04 50:39

Too bad we don't have a camera here. I know to see your picture. Does it have his ghost house fit on?

SPEAKER_03 50:44

He does.

SPEAKER_00 50:46

Wow.

SPEAKER_01 50:48

Oh, how cute.

SPEAKER_04 50:51

I told you, you could you could have bought a big hanky and magic marker and yeah, magic marker. It probably only cost you 99 cents.

SPEAKER_03 51:01

I really I if I was thinking they had like a cute hoodie with a backpack, I'm like, that would have been perfect for back to school, you know.

SPEAKER_04 51:08

But well, you have next year.

SPEAKER_03 51:10

I yeah, if I'm still there. Uh well, you put that goat.

SPEAKER_00 51:15

You gotta dress him as a turkey.

SPEAKER_03 51:17

I know, I know, I know. I already need the get on the ball. Maybe I'll make that one. Yeah. Like out of feathers. Mm-hmm. You can help me, Roger.

SPEAKER_00 51:26

Okay. See what you've done? Just gave yourself one more project.

SPEAKER_03 51:30

It's Roger's fault. You mean a glue?

SPEAKER_00 51:32

Yep. What is that? Uh Peacock? No, it's a turkey. Glue gun? Hey, no problem.

SPEAKER_03 51:41

That's all you need.

SPEAKER_04 51:42

Glue gun and some feathers. You're gonna have to give up one of your boas.

SPEAKER_00 51:52

I got 2 Timothy 215. Do your best to present yourself to God as one approved, a workman who does not need to be ashamed and who correctly handles the word of truth. Avoid godless chatter, because those who indulge in it will become more and more ungodly. Their teaching will spread like gangrene. I wonder if that's the only time in the Bible that the word gangrene is in there.

SPEAKER_03 52:21

What if that what translation do you have?

SPEAKER_00 52:26

This New International Version.

SPEAKER_03 52:31

Oh, the NIV. Okay. I like that scripture.

SPEAKER_00 52:38

What was that? What was that? Second Timothy 2 15. Fifteen through 17.

SPEAKER_03 52:52

You gonna read it for us, Roger? Oh yeah, yours would be different.

SPEAKER_04 52:59

Yeah, yeah. I'm always different.

SPEAKER_03 53:01

This is the NIV too. Twelve ten.

SPEAKER_00 53:13

Second Timothy. Two fifteen through seventeen.

SPEAKER_04 53:27

Two fifteen to seventeen. Study to show thyself approved unto God, a workman that needeth not to be ashamed, rightly divided in the word of truth. But shun profane yeah, profane and vain babbling. For they will increase unto more ungodliness, and their words will eat eat as doth. And canker canker. They get that they get some medical terms in here. In other words, it's a local Bible. Yeah, in other words, it's infected.

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Seriously, though, that's a good way of looking at it. Yeah.

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Well you got.

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I've got the same as you. Same as me? Yeah.

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What you got?

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Oh, I haven't even turned it. Listen. What is it?

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Second Timothy 215 through 17.

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I'm gonna look up like the messages, like that one. Yeah. And see what that translation is.

Practical Ways To Encourage Others

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Two fifteen. Work hard so you can present yourself to God and receive his approval. Be a good worker, one who does not need to be ashamed and who correctly explains the word of truth. Avoid worthless, foolish talk that only leads to more godless behavior. This kind of talk spreads like cancer. As in the case of the Hymeneus and the Philetus? Philidus.

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Yeah, what is in my book too.

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They have left the path of truth, claiming that the resurrection of the dead has already occurred in this way. They have turned some people away from thy faith.

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Cancer, okay.

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This says the message, it's da da da da basically everything that you said. But then it says words are not mere words, you know. If they're backed by a godly life, they accumulate as poison in the soul.

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Yeah. Take it from there. All right, and I'm gonna close with this one. James three. Sorry, three, nine. With the tongue we praise our Lord and our Father, and with it we curse men who have been made in God's likeness. Out of the same mouth come praise and cursing. My brothers, this should not be. Can both fresh water and salt water flow from the same spring? My brothers, can a fig tree bear olives or a grapevine bear figs? Neither can a salt spring produce fresh water. So, yeah. You have to decide if you're gonna be salt water or freshwater. A fish cannot live in both. They're one or the other. Which one are you gonna be? Which one you gonna live by?

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Yeah. You know what though? There is a there's a place on Lake Erie. It's one of the only ones left in America that it's a salt mine? No. I'm trying to think. It's not a pond, like a reservoir. Okay, but it's where freshwater well that wouldn't make sense because the Great Lakes is freshwater. I don't know where that was then, but it said it was where freshwater and saltwater meet saltwater meet, but that wouldn't be up in Lake Erie. I don't know where that was.

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Zambezi.

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Yeah. But it was very like you can't do anything around there because you basically can just look and not touch because it's like just a spot that and there's still like living creatures there, and that I think that's kind of why they're like, hey, you know, we're only gonna let you guys observe this location because we don't really understand how all these things are living together. Yeah, you know. I can't remember where that was though, but yeah.

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Interesting.

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Any words of wisdom?

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Parting parting encouragement.

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Encouragement.

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Read the word, love God and your neighbor. Watch what comes out of your mouth. Yeah. Try to be more positive.

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Yeah. Bite your tongue.

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Fellowship.

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If I did that, I wouldn't I wouldn't be able to talk. I'd bite it off.

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Fellowship is a big one because of the encouragement that we can give the women. Strength and numbers. Yes. Yes. Yeah. Iron sharpens iron.

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Yeah. I don't know whose turn it is to pray.

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I'll pray. I pray.

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Wow. Let me get a scoin if I can remember. Hit this little button here.

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I don't. There it goes. Oh Heavenly Father, we do thank you, Lord, for this day. Lord, we just ask that you would just take and be with those that are listening, Lord. Just encourage them, Lord, to to do better in their lives, Lord. Yes. Encourage each one of us, Lord, to do better in our lives, Lord, and to to glorify you better, Lord, than we do, Lord. We just thank you for this privilege, Lord, of of being here and and to just to broadcasting your word out through the through the through the airways. Yes. Pretty much. And we just thank you and praise you for all that you've done for us, Lord. We just ask you to just take and watch over us and give us peace and understanding, Lord, of your word. And we just thank you and praise you. We give you all the glory. And we ask us all in Jesus' most precious name. Amen.

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Amen.