Mondays with Adam - Episode 79

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SPEAKER_02 0:13

Anyway, it's a beautiful Friday here.

SPEAKER_00 2:53

I think smart.

SPEAKER_01 3:14

That was old Louis Armstrong right there at the end. Yeah, bringing all the big hitters in today for this episode of Mondays with Adam. Thank you for joining us today. And I say us, I mean me and my split personalities, evidently. May 1st. It's gonna be May. This is my favorite time of year, other than the whole allergy thing. Anyone else dealing with the allergies? The pollen is just extra pollen y today. Some would say it's uh polynesian. That made no sense. Uh a lot of good things happening in my life. And I'm gonna talk about a few fun things today, and then maybe sing one more time, and then try to give you a little message that's gonna encourage your heart. That's gonna encourage your blood pump and muscle because that's what we're here about. That's what we're here, me and my personalities. Uh lots of good stuff. Last month, I don't think I said anything about this yet, which I can't believe it, actually. Pretty cool story. I don't get that many cool stories, but this was pretty cool. I believe this happened in the month of March. In the month of March, I was invited to go down to Nashville, Tennessee. Um Tennessee. You're the only two. Anyways, I was invited to go down there for an event that my sister's production company was putting on with the choir room. Now, if you don't know who the choir room is, you need to right now hit pause. Um, or don't do that, but think about it later, and Google them and look them up on social medias and the interwebs and listen to the great music that's coming from the choir room. Started by a wonderful man who just wanted to get choirs back going. When I, you know, I grew up in church, and when we grew up we used to have choirs in church. Anybody could join the choir, just get up there and sing to your heart's content. You learn a number, you learn a little song, and you learn your part, and then the goal was just for everybody to sing the right words at the same time, and then to sing your part, so it it sounded pretty. And most of the time choirs would sing, you know, every Sunday in church when I was growing up. Or we'd even have special events where choir the choirs, the choirs, where the choir would do some fun things, and I remember I think we used to call them like cantatas, which is a word that I haven't said in a long time. And I don't think I liked it the first time I said it, and I don't like it anymore than that now. Um but choirs used to be a big thing. Everybody'd get together and sing. I don't know who offended the choir people, why people started stopped having choirs, I have no idea. I think musicians just got probably bored or something. Or it could have been some singers just wanted to steal the microphone. Because you always got them singers that like always want the lead part because they think they're better than everybody else. They got that little ego.

SPEAKER_00 6:29

Let go of my ego.

SPEAKER_01 6:32

Maybe that's what took choirs out, but I'm not sure. But they used to have choirs a lot. And uh my sister put on event with the choir room. So they've what they've done is they've they started in Nashville and they started going around and just posting, hey, if you want to come sing in the choir, join us, we're gonna have a night of song and worship or worship and song. And they just started gathering around the city and hosting these events, and um it just it started it started growing, started booming, and people started connecting to it and being a part of it, and it's grown into something really, really big, and I'm thankful that I got to be a part of it, got to experience kind of some of the things on the inside a little bit just to see the hearts of the people that are involved. It's amazing. And I was invited to go down there to Nashville, Tennessee, and I don't remember the date, but you think I know the date? You think it would be more special to me than this? Maybe it was early April, mid-March, who knows? In that time frame, it doesn't matter. Insignificant detail. But they asked me to come down and I went down to help. I'm a helper. I grew up helping, you know. We we go to church service early so my mama could have us helper. We'd set out music, you know, we get stuffed the bulletins. Ever stuff a bulletin before? You haven't truly lived until you stuffed a bulletin, I don't think so. Thank you. You have not lived one moment in your life until you stuffed it in a bulletin. And it meaning paper. Okay. But uh, I went down there to help, and so we had to get ready for the day. A lot of people were showing up, and it was at this really cool spot in downtown Nashville and this really, really, really cool theater-like type place in a hotel. Which, if you haven't been to Nashville lately, is crazy. There's things everywhere. There's there's skyscrapers that just seem like they sprung up like a weed in the spring. I got that reference because I'm looking outside my front yard and there's all kinds of weeds. I probably should use some of that Scots or whatever, yard treatment stuff, but it's too late for that now. Yeah, so there's just it's just a booming city, and so we got there early and we just started setting up and getting ready for the choir room to show up. And the musicians and stuff started arriving, and all the team and started to arrive. And uh it was really cool. And I backed, I even got to stuff some bulletins that day. They had some uh song books that all the choir could hold so that the song books, so the choir folks could sing the lyrics, the correct lyric. That's important. Especially if you're recording it, it's super important because it'd be crazy if everybody should sing them whatever. But the cool thing about it was just to see people coming in excited to worship God, excited to sing together. And I'm telling you what, these musicians that came in for that that requires room, I I people ask me all the time, are you a musician? And they I and I say all the time that in fact I think I've been asked twice or something like that, so not all the time, I wouldn't think, but people have asked me that before, maybe twice. And I say I can play. I can attempt to play an instrument, I play piano a little bit, and I play the drums a little bit, I can play three chords on the guitar a little bit, and uh a really cool blues riff that I learned when I was like eight years old that I still got that, you know. But uh I'm not technically a musician by trade. I d I can play and I can lead worship with the piano. I do enjoy doing that. It's been a while since I've done that and uh to probably get that to get that going again. But just to hear the quality musicianship from these guys and the humility that they walked in was just absolutely amazing. And um one of the fun things that happened, and I won't get too too into much detail about this because you know I don't remember a lot of the details, but um, we got there and I knew the choir room was singing, um, and they had their list of songs, but they had some special guests coming. And one of the special guests was an artist that's pretty well known in the Christian music world, and and even in the what we would, I guess, call the secular music world, which it's really just music, you know. Some's better than others. And and the best music's the kind that glorifies God, if you can agree with that, say amen to that. The enthusiasm is contagious. Um but there was a special guest coming in, she was she her name was Lauren Daigle. I don't know if you know who she is. You can also Google her. I'm just giving you a list of things to Google. Lauren Daigle, um, a very popular gospel artist. She sang with the choir room, and boy, that was something special. She's got a voice on her that man, she can she could probably just power her vehicle without any gas. But her voice is so strong. And that was a stupid analogy, but it worked. Because it has to now. So she was there, and that was cool. Got to talk to her for a minute, which was nice, you know, just to realize that they're just real people and normal people and all that. They're just way better singers and more connected than I am, but whatever. Um, but one of the fun surprises that had happened, oh, also Matt Maurer is there too. Gospel artist, great guy, Matt Maurer. He was there singing too. But one of the fun things that happened was when we got there, I I learned that there was a really special guest coming. And I was not expecting him to come. And some people live their whole life like this, and we'll get to preaching in a minute. But I found out that Jonathan Rooney was coming to the event and wanted to play the drums. Now, if you don't know who that is, you really need to start Googling because that guy he's he's a cool art, he's an actor, he's he's a really great guy, he's a speaker, he's a carpenter, he breaks bread, and some some would say he does miracles, but he only does the miracles when he's acting on a really, really popular television show. And I don't know if it's still I don't know if it's called a television show at this point. It's a show that is on the television called The Chosen. I don't know if you've ever heard of that. It's about the life and ministry of Jesus. And he stars as Jesus, which is pretty that's a big role. If you're an actor, I don't know if you could get a bigger role than playing Jesus. That's you know, the King of Kings and the Lord of Lords. I don't know where you go from there. You've arrived. You have hit the pinnacle of your acting success when you're playing Jesus of Nazareth. Can I get an Amen, somebody? Thank you. Thank you. Yep. And we heard he was coming. He was actually gonna play drums. He's real close friends with uh Matt Maurer. I think that's how you say his name. We'll have to ask. Matt Maurer and him are good friends, and the event was um sponsored by the Halo app, which the Halo app is a prayer appt. Prayer app, not an apt. Um it's a prayer app, and you can download it, and I guess you can pray while you're downloading the app or pray that the app downloads in time or something. But it was sponsored by the Halo app, and he's a part of that. I think so is Lauren Daigle, maybe, and a few other people that were there were a part of that. Got to meet them, they were cool. But he wanted to play the drums. But Jesus didn't have any drumsticks. So one of the guys from the the choir room, he came up and we said, Hey, um, we have a we have a favor that we need to ask you. And he looked at us and said, you know, what's that? Um Jesus is coming tonight. And he kind of looked a little crazy at us as he should. And he's I said, He he he needs he needs your drumsticks. The Lord has need of thee. He needs your drumsticks. And he said, What? So we explained to him the situation, and uh, I said, just think about this, man. You're just giving Jesus your drumsticks. But imagine how many more drumsticks you're gonna get back because you followed a simple act of obedience. Can I get an amen somebody? When I'm preaching good, he ended up just getting his drumsticks back. There's just two of them, but it was kind of fun to talk to him and you know, to see him play drums. And he came out with uh the band. And would you not know it? Would you just not know the song that he was playing drums to was the song by the Doobie Brothers. I think that's the one who sang it originally. Jesus is just alright with me.

SPEAKER_00 15:26

Jesus is just alright. Oh yeah.

SPEAKER_01 15:30

So I'm standing there experiencing this wonderful music, and I look up and I hear Jesus is just alright with me being sung by the choir, and I look back there, and Jesus himself is playing the drums to Jesus is just alright for me. And it was just one of those moments that, like, I couldn't believe it was happening. It was kind of like pinch yourself kind of moments. And I know, I know everybody, that's not Jesus sitting at the drum set, but he looked just like Jesus in my brain, and he I saw that man feed 5,000 people on television. I saw it, I've seen it. With my own two is. So that was fun. That was in Nashville. We're going back again to the choir room, I think, in a month or so. What day is it? May. Oh, two weeks, three, two and a half weeks. And that'll be a good time of just, you know, seeing everybody and all the friends that we met previously, and hopefully they're still friends with us now. But one more quick story about Jesus before we transition into something else. Uh, not that we're transitioning to something else, but you get what I'm saying. So at the end of the event, I'm helping logistics. I'm like running whatever my sisters are telling me to do. I have learned it is just easier just to do it. And so my sister Sarah was there, my sister Hannah was there, family was there, I got to see my nieces, my niece and nephew, and and uh my brother-in-law, Jeremy. It's always good to see those guys. But we're closing up, we're cleaning up, and uh we're kind of in the back, we're like what they call the green room, and it wasn't green at all. I don't know why they call it that, but we're in the back and I see Jonathan walk in. And Jesus has entered the building.

SPEAKER_03 17:13

You know.

SPEAKER_01 17:15

And he looks and introduces himself to me and says, Hi, I'm Jonathan. And I'm like, hey, how you doing? You know, I'm trying to play it cool. Because it, you know, it's I'm not starstruck that much, but it was just a cool experience to meet somebody like that. And uh he looked at me with those eyes of love and said, Is do you have any water? And uh the comedian inside of me wanted to go all kinds of crazy with it. But I didn't. I behaved myself, which is hard to believe, and I handed him a bottle of water. And there was, you know, we got jokes for days. We could have talked about the winking of the water with a wine, and you know, I'd be like, I see what you're doing, I see what you're doing here. But uh it was just a really great experience, and I say all of that to say this, and I'm just really thankful of what God is doing in my life, and just thankful to be a part of his plan, and it's not always easy. You know, we go through stuff, we go through trials and difficulty and circumstances, all the things. And we get to sit and talk about how tough it is, but I think more so than that, we should just focus on how good God is and good how good God has been to us in our life, and how Jesus has brought us from a very long way, as they used to sing in choir. And so I want to close this out just kind of singing about him because he's the one that we need. We don't need everything else, all the things of the earth grow strangely dim in the light of his glory and grace, the song Turn Your Eyes Upon Jesus, one of my faves. So I'm gonna just close this out by just singing to him, and I hope it encourages you because you know, he's been good to us, he's been good to you. And if it wasn't for him, we wouldn't be here today.

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So if you know this one, sing it with us, Jesus, bright as the folding star, Jesus, how can I tell you how beautiful you are to me, Jesus, song that the angels sing, Jesus, dearer to my heart than anything, sweeter than springtime, pure than sunshine, ever nice Jesus, your beautiful Jesus, right as the morning star. Jesus, how can I tell you how beautiful you are Jesus? Sweet high ever, your beautiful beautiful, beautiful. So beautiful, so beautiful, Jesus, you're beautiful, beautiful, beautiful, beautiful, Jesus, you're beautiful, you're wonderful, you're heavenly, you're beautiful, Jesus, you're beautiful to me, morning star, Lord, you are beautiful, Jesus, you're beautiful to me, beautiful, sweeter than springtime, purer than sunshine, ever mind song will be Jesus, your beauty to meet you.

SPEAKER_01 24:02

Thank you for listening, and I will see you guys next week.