The New Life Podcast
The New Life Podcast is hosted by Pastors Devon Patton and Luke Evans. Two pastors. One decade apart. Both Pastor's kids who grew up together and now serve side by side - one as a youth pastor, the other an associate pastor. Each episode they dig into Scripture, share real ministry experiences, and teach to help others grow in their daily walk with God.
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Fruit of the Spirit: Kindness
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In this episode, Pastors Luke Evans and Devon Patton wrap up this series on the Fruit of the Spirit talking about Kindness, and how we can approach this fruit in our everyday life.
What's up? Welcome to another podcast. The New Life Podcast. The New Life Podcast podcast. We need merch. Oh, I was gonna say something else. I was like, should we come up with a cooler name? Or no? It's just so easy. 21 episodes in, just change the name. Yeah, that's probably it rolls off the tongue. Like New Life Youth, New Life Kids, New Life Church, New Life Podcast. New Life Worship. CD coming out. Yeah, right. No. No. We need it. We need Pastor Dev's solo album. No, no, no, no, no. Me and Leland were doing a collab. Alright. So welcome to another podcast. 20 episodes, as we found out last time, we were lied to. The big 2-0. Yeah. Yeah.
SPEAKER_00This is 21. Yeah.
SPEAKER_04Wait. 21, 21. Oh, yeah, you're right. Because we were off by one because we recorded it early.
SPEAKER_00So I was away.
SPEAKER_04Well, I'm glad that you guys are sticking around and listening. I know Pastor Luke is too. I'm just looking at that camera over there. I know we're already recording, but doesn't it look like it's about to fall over? It is tilted definitely to the left. 1000%.
SPEAKER_06Tilted to the left, but look at it for like it looks like it's leaning forward.
SPEAKER_04Also, the screen on this one's not on.
SPEAKER_06What is happening?
SPEAKER_04This guy's got meaning.
SPEAKER_05Spencer is there was some big news for Spence, so he's a little preoccupied. Breaking news.
SPEAKER_04Almost, I feel like the world found out immediately. I feel like it was breaking news. Yeah, yeah. Most people like to kind of give it a day or two. Spencer was like Let it linger, if you will. We gotta get this job. Job Cranberry. He moved out of his parents' basement. Finally. Pretty soon. That's not the news. Pretty soon.
SPEAKER_07Pretty soon because our very own Spencer got engaged.
SPEAKER_03Yeah, play the track of clapping and stuff. Post the picture.
SPEAKER_04Post the picture and post of the He's giving us a thumbs up and saying thank you to everybody for their congratulations. Congrats, Spencer and Soph. We are so excited for you. We can't wait. Very excited. It's awesome. It's the best. So we're gonna talk about marriage today. No, we're not. We're gonna continue on in our series, but before we do, I need to know some interesting facts from you guys. Also, just before we give the facts, I said that out loud, and now that I said it out loud, I can't stop thinking about it. We we need merch. Yeah. Yeah. I need like a sick like New Life podcast hat or something. Yeah, so I can stop wearing this dumb Bass Pro hat. Dude, don't knock the Bass Pro hats. They're great.
SPEAKER_00The thing with making hats is I can't wear them on Sundays. Where else am I gonna wear them?
SPEAKER_04Every other day? Every other day of the week.
SPEAKER_00Just sit in this bot in this room all day.
SPEAKER_04Yeah, I wear a hat every day. Yeah. That is very true. I like waking up. Spencer's nodding his head, but he didn't have a lot of things. Spencer is nodding his head with his hat on. Me and Spence, the hat boys. Well, I know whenever I need a haircut, I always wear a hat too. So anyway. You do need a haircut getting long. Dude, every week, my the where I have hair, it grows way too fast. Yeah, look at it. I want to just shave it all, but my wife says that I can. That would be sick. Bro, I don't have hair here or here. How am I gonna do a mohawk? That's crazy. That's my bad. What's your fun fact?
SPEAKER_06I want to hear yours first to see if you actually did it.
SPEAKER_04I have two. Well, I have two. They're just quick, but they're they're quick.
SPEAKER_06And we're not gonna make fun of Mateo this week. We're not.
SPEAKER_04No.
SPEAKER_06Well, unless he says, fun fact is we are gonna remain silent.
SPEAKER_04This one you might know. Let me ask you this question. I found this while searching for my other fun fact. Do you know what the national animal of Scotland is? Yes. It's a unicorn. It's a unicorn. I did not know that. You didn't even let him finish the sentence. How about that? I knew he'd do that because he's it from Ireland. Yeah, so in Boston, there is uh like I don't know if it's the whatever that is, the courthouse right next to Quincy Market. Yeah. So on there, if you go in gold, there's a lion, a dragon, and a unicorn for Wales, England, and Scotland. You know what? The crazy part is when you say unicorn, you're like, that's so dumb. It's not even a real animal. But then you just said dragon for mythical creatures, big, big, big mythical creature people. Bald eagle. Yeah. We don't need to go back into that. Okay. Uh still sending me videos. Uh okay, my my actual fun fact is do you know where the phrase raise a toast came from?
SPEAKER_06No, but me and Nicole always we think it'd be fun. We talk about this, it'd be funny if you went to a wedding and they were like, all right, we're gonna raise a toast, and you brought a piece of toast with you.
SPEAKER_04The phrase, I don't know if this is real because it's the internet.
SPEAKER_05Uh dude.
SPEAKER_04The phrase raise a toast came from the ancient Romans would drop a piece of toast in their wine for good health. And that is where the phrase raise raise a toast came from.
SPEAKER_06Everyone, raise your toast.
SPEAKER_04It's not British. It's ancient Roman.
SPEAKER_06Have you seen all the movies? They're all British.
SPEAKER_04Russell Crowe and Gladiator, just to full on British. Are you not entertained? Yeah, dude. So next wedding you go to, bring some toast with you. Thought it was an interesting fact. Spencer's wedding, dude. That is super funny. Let's go. Bring in some toast. A whole baguette, dude. Just toasted. From Subway. Raise a sub. A sub above.
SPEAKER_07A sub above. Come on. Let's go, dude.
SPEAKER_00That's Jersey Mikes, isn't it? Um, I was in Nashville last week, so mine is related to Nashville. Bumble Brag, dude. Who's at a work conference? And uh, so I looked up what do you worry about a banker? That sounds crazy for what we're doing. Oh, here we go already. I was at a work conference. Um the spicy fried chicken. Do you guys know the origins of it?
SPEAKER_04Um, we talked about made fried chicken and they put spices on it.
SPEAKER_00Yeah, so uh a girlfriend was making her boyfriend that she was upset at a sandwich, and she made it super spicy, and they got and he liked it and made it a business. Like the Nashville Hot, right? Yeah, like that's how Nashville Hot.
SPEAKER_04They tried to like, yeah, get him. Oh, it's gonna be so spicy, you'll never want to eat this again. Is that her Hattie B is her? No, it was it's a different one. What's Hattie B's? You said that in the text, but I didn't know what that was. I can't believe you've never been to Ryan. I've never been to the Ville in Tennessee.
SPEAKER_00Go from a Velo. It's super cheap. Is it? It was pretty good. I expected it to be like mid, but it wasn't.
SPEAKER_04Dude, that's your take on everything, dude. This guy doesn't think. I've never been like, that was the most outstanding meal.
SPEAKER_00If it's not Chipotle, he doesn't want to eat it. It was good. I thought it was gonna be bad, but it was great. Alright. You guys ready for mine? Yeah. I don't think so.
SPEAKER_04Probably not, yeah. Okay. Sloths are an animal, like one of mammals who can hold their breath for the longest underwater. Do you know this fact already? You're a Mr. Animal Man. I knew that they could hold their breath for a long time. Do you want to guess at like how long they can hold their breath for? Underwater. Two minutes.
SPEAKER_00Okay. I'd say 35 minutes.
SPEAKER_0640 minutes, dude. 40 minutes.
SPEAKER_00I can hold my breath for two minutes.
SPEAKER_06Sloths can hold their breath for 40 minutes underwater.
SPEAKER_07You don't need a pool. Hold your breath, bro. This guy. He's like giggle to a pool right now. You do it to yourself.
SPEAKER_04Yeah, underwater. I mean, hold their breath for 40 minutes. Uh, just in comparison, humans on average, it's 90 seconds to two minutes, is what like the average person can do. You can't. That's cap. I'm just telling you. This summer this summer, we're we'll you'll we'll see. Dolphins, an aquatic mammal, right? Correct. They live in the water. Did you want to guess on this one? Mateo, stop holding your breath. Dolphins? Dolphins. Well, they sleep underwater. I think their blowhole is out of the water when they're asleep, though. I don't think so. They sleep, they sleep with one eye open like that. That's where the phrase comes from? Yeah, dude. Dolphins.
SPEAKER_07One eye open.
SPEAKER_04Alright, guess guess how long for a dolphin?
SPEAKER_00Can you repeat the question?
SPEAKER_0411 hours. Sloths can hold it for 40 minutes. Dolphins can hold it for how how long do you think?
SPEAKER_00That's gotta be a trick question, though. They live in the water?
SPEAKER_04Yeah, but they have a blowhole, bro. They have to come up and breathe. This guy's out of control, man. The public school system really failed him. Three hours. Uh I'm gonna go uh somebody just fell downstairs. An hour and 45 minutes. 15 minutes. Oh that's it, huh? That's it. Uh frogs. Which makes sense why you see dolphins so much. The last one I got is frogs. Frogs? Frogs or toads? Frogs specifically. So the uh the water version. Uh longer than a dolphin. Longer than a dolphin, longer than a sloth. Two hours. Three hours. Four to seven hours, depending on the species of frog. That's crazy. But 40 minutes. And they say there's not a god. And they say that there is a god. The real question is, and we'd have to do some research. I'd have to go watch some shows. Like, why are they even like why would they even need to hold their breath for that long underwater? A sloth. Frogs? A sloth. No, frogs, frogs and dolphins make sense, obviously, but like why sloths love to swim. They're great swimmers. I know, but like 40 minutes swimming to the bottom to get to the house. They gotta get away from predators. They gotta spend a lot of time in the water, maybe. That's how they travel. They better hope they're in the water, because if not, they're not getting away from the predators. I've seen a sloth in. We saw sloths in person and when we went to Costa Rica that the first time it was crazy. Yeah, and Devin looks like one. Nice. Nice. All right. Zoom in on that face. Don't. Uh, what are we talking about today? Our fruit of the day we are talking about kindness. The last one, too. Is it? Yeah. That's what Mateo told me. Are you sure? There's only eight. Whoa.
SPEAKER_06That was the most cartoony noise of all. That was Devin's knee. Um.
SPEAKER_04Wow, this really flew by. I thought we had more. All right. Sweet. I don't know what we're gonna do next, but yeah, write in. Get give us your suggestions on what you want us to talk about next. Oh, yeah. But kindness, I can't read that the thing. I can read it right now. Kindness is arising from or characterized by sympathy or forbearance. Not a big word. That is a lot of big words. That's an old definition. 1828. Sympathy. Forbearance. Harshness, apathy is the opposite. Is the opposite of what kindness is, which I can see that now. But yeah, kindness is tough, dude. I mean, it it's not and it is at the same time. Like I think not just being nice, but like being genuinely kind is it's a tough thing to do. Well, because I think there's a big difference between being nice and being kind. Like it says it says on there, you know, the the world provides surface level niceness, you know, whereas kindness is like it says in the definition, it's sympathy. Like if I if I see somebody hurting, I we would all consider ourselves nice people to be like, Man, I'm so sorry that you're hurting. Like, you know, I'll pray for you, and then we go away. Oh, that was really nice. Whereas I think sympathy or the the sympathy that comes from kindness draws us to do more. Like, yeah, oh, I'm really sorry that you're hurting. What can I do to help you not hurt anymore? And I think a lot of times, especially as Christians, we we would deem ourselves, oh, I'm a nice person because we care about people, but do we care about them enough to be moved to actually do something about it? Yeah, and that's what kindness is. Well, that's a story that we were talking about before, is right, the Good Samaritan. Um funny little story. I thought I'd just share it anyway. My mom is a preschool teacher, my son's in her class, and they were talking about kindness and sympathy and caring for others and doing those different things. Um, and she was like, Oh, we'll show the kids a little cartoon of the Good Samaritan. Um, and so they put it on, and she was like, Yeah, like 10 seconds into it, like the guy is getting beat up.
SPEAKER_07And and all the kids are like, Ah, turn this off, this is terrifying, please. Miss Lorda, this is so scary.
SPEAKER_06And that's why she was like, I was like, Do you have to like write a letter to these parents? Be like, I'm so sorry, just watch somebody get assaulted on TV.
SPEAKER_04So, but it's this man, this Samaritan man who helps this this Jewish man who gets hurt, beat up, and takes care of him, brings him to an end, and then again goes above and beyond to say, No, I'm gonna pay for him to stay until he can get better and I'll come back and I'll pay. And it's it's this idea that again Jesus is sharing the story, but it's this idea of just going above and beyond, like you're saying, acting, not just again, yeah, no, I hope you feel better, hope things are good. No, no, no, acting kind and doing something that you didn't necessarily need to do, but showing compassion in that way. Just going the extra mile. I think it's I think the best way to to judge it for the most part. I think the best way to judge it is is me helping this person inconveniencing me in some way. Yeah. And I think that if it is, then good. I think you're doing what Jesus has called us to do, which is like you're saying, you know, you walk by the Samaritan man and you don't just, you know, oh, I'm really sorry. I'll pray for you as you walk by. It's let me help you up, let me clean you up, let me take you somewhere, let me financially now, you know, we know the story that he he left money with the innkeeper. Let you know, let him stay as long as he wants, and if he stays longer, I'll I'll pay for the nights. Like you're going above and beyond basically inconveniencing your your time, your money, your efforts to help this person, and that's what true kindness is, real kindness. I wrote down, yeah, kindness shows up most clearly when it costs you something. Yeah. When it's not just okay, I guess I'll do this. No, no, no. When it costs you financially, when it costs you of your time, when it costs you of your effort and your empathy and your sympathy for people, um you're emotionally invested. That's kindness. Like you are taking the time, you're bearing that cross with them, you're helping them through it. Um, and then I said if it's easy, it's probably just niceness. If it was easy, it's probably just niceness. Like, I okay it's not hard to be nice. It's not hard to be nice, no, but it is difficult to be kind. It really is. And then again, like all these other fruits, right? With it's clear in people's lives when they're kind. Like we can see it in the lives of people that we know when they are again generous, when they're kind. Um, it's evident that the Holy Spirit's working through them. I think another way to uh at least in my own life, another way that I measure kindness is when I think when people I think people when people care about you and they're kind enough to like rem remember you. Does that make sense? Like if you talk to somebody, like I've uh there's people I interact with and and I can think of a few people in my head that are that I know that are just like so kind because every time I see them, it's how's Brody doing? You know, how's that like they how is that you know, that situation like we haven't talked in six months, but they're like, How was that situation? Like, did you ever get it worked out? Like they genuinely care, and you like walk away and you're like, Man, they're so kind when all they're really doing is just remembering you. That they're taking time to and you know, and and studies show st statistics show, like in church culture and especially in youth culture, like if you remember a kid's name and you see him next week and you call him by you know, yeah, that that kindness it it draws people, and I mean there's no wonder why people were drawn to Jesus, right? Because he's the ultimate example. That and you mentioned like Brody, but like our kids, like we notice that when people are super kind to our kids, it's like this game changer. Like, I think of our soccer team with uh like I coach a girls' varsity soccer team, but the anytime I'd have to bring Cy to practice, like the girls are like the nicest, and and we did this team activity and something came up with a schedule, so I had to bring Cy with me, and one of our girls, Lou, I don't know if Louisa watches this or not, but she like sat with him on the bus and smiling. Like, yeah, she's super smiley. But she sat with him on the bus and then got him like a little dino toy and gave him a bite of a donut, like all this different stuff. And it was like I like told all the girls at the end of the season, I was like, those things like when you extend your kindness to me as a parent, like those are things that like I can't repay that. Like, that is that's amazing. Like it's it's that genuine kindness of taking on something. They don't have to do it, but they did, and like we see that again. We see it with we were talking with our leaders this past week of like with kids in our youth group. When they walk in and they have a prayer request or they have something, it's like, yeah, follow up with them. Like, but like you're saying, it's like that's a huge thing for people. Is when they reach out to you, they entrust you with this information because they want your help, they they need some compassion, they need somebody to to come alongside them. Then it's your job and your responsibility through kindness to to go back and it's like all of these things, right? All the fruit that we've been talking about, all of them are involved with going the extra mile. Yeah. So, like, do I like someone enough to care about them, or am I gonna go the extra mile and actually show them the love of Jesus? Am I, you know, am I kind or am I gonna go the extra mile and just say, Man, I'm I'm I'm gonna show you what kindness really looks like. I'm not just gonna talk about it, I'm gonna actually act it out in this way. And it's that that going the extra mile in all of these things, and that's what Christ has called us to. And that's the story that I have um in Mark chapter one, verses forty through forty-two. So everybody pay attention. Um and a leper came to him, imploring him and kneeling, said to him, If you will, you can make me clean. Moved with pity, right, compassion, he stretched out his hand, this is Jesus, and he touched him and said, I will be clean. And immediately the leprosy left him and he was made clean. Um, and so again, I said, kindness doesn't just fix problems, it restores people. Um, it's something that it's it's doesn't just fix your problem, it's not just being nice, no, it can help restore people, it can help people gain their confidence, it can help people um again feel more assured in what they're doing. Um, and so Jesus again, he this man comes to him and he sits and he's like, Jesus, if you can heal me. One, Jesus shouldn't be around a leper anyway in their culture. Certainly shouldn't be touching him, touching him. Um, and then again, the man's faith, but Jesus to actually do it, like he didn't have to do it again. With everything that Jesus did, he never had to do it, um, but he did because of kindness, because of compassion. And there's no there's no accident to write like Jesus is in everything in the Bible is there for a reason, and Jesus is all about the details, right? So, like you're saying, Jesus didn't have to heal him, certainly, but he also could have just healed him by not touching him. Yeah, right. But Jesus shows us that picture of kindness and compassion of hey, sometimes it means I might have to get a little dirty, I might have to go somewhere or do something that I don't want to do, that I'm uncomfortable. We just had a team come back from El Salvador, and every single person that's ever been on a mission strip, myself included, when you come back, you t you kiss the ground when you land and go, thank you, Lord, that I was born in America. Yeah. But while you're on that mission trip, you're doing things that are completely out of your comfort zone. And in that moment, you are being like Jesus. You are being kind to the lost, to the broken. You're going into, you know, people that are sleeping on dirt floors and that are dirty. And so Jesus goes into this situation, like you're saying, of a place he shouldn't be, a person he shouldn't be talking to, and then goes the extra mile of, well, let me just show everybody here that hey, in order to be kind, like you, you might have to get your hands dirty, you might have to do something that makes you a little uncomfortable, and he touches this leper and immediately he's healed, which is you know, just Jesus. Amazing. So it's incredible. But we take these stories for granted sometimes, I think, you know, especially with it being close to Easter and the series that we're in and just reading more about the life of Jesus. I think sometimes we take these stories for granted, like, oh, he's Jesus, it's no big deal. It's like, dude, like the guy just touched someone with leprosy and they were immediately healed. And it's like, but that's what kindness is. It's it it's not just watch what I say, it's watch what I do, and watch watch what I do to make that kindness. Like, Jesus didn't just entertain the guy of like, yeah, no, I'll hear you out, man. I heard you have a lot of people. I'll go pray for you, I'll pray for you. Or it's like, I'm not just sitting here, it's like, yeah, okay, I hope you feel it's like no no no, he is active, he's he's he's again, like you said, doing these miracles and these things, but it's changing that person, it's changing not only that person, but other people around them, which again is this goal. Are you okay? I'm just getting choked up. Can I go get you some water? That would be very kind of you, all right. In a little bit, but again, it's it's those situations and those things. Uh again, I just think of kids, like you have a really like biblical example that you just used, but I was immediately thinking of like uh like Georgie, our baby, like when she has a runny nose, we have that nose sucker thing. Have you seen that? It's like I if I ever think thought of that like before I had kids, yeah. It's like a straw. Have you seen it? Yeah, it's like a straw. Yeah, it's disgusting. But it's like after kids, it's like, oh yeah, Georgia needs a she can't blow her nose chisel, she's nine months old. But it's like it's the grossest thing on earth, but at the same time, because of the situation, because of who it is, because I actually care and want her to feel better, I don't mind. What do you got a slinky over there? Yeah, dude, it was guys playing his his dad's rain stick, dude. Um the uh the the thing too that I was thinking of like uh that's a a great example too because it you know the things that we do for our children we go above and beyond and we go out of our way. Um but just the the Whole the whole idea, I've completely lost my train of thought. And what I was gonna say totally, totally and completely.
SPEAKER_00Dude, we can cut this whole piece out. No, no, no. I remember minutes ago we were locked out. Jesus touching the leopard, Jesus touching the leper. Because you had mentioned like it's gonna cost you something, and I think a lot of times like we associate that literally with money. But I think Jesus touching the leper is so prevalent to how we have to navigate our society right now because we're pretty much watched all the time. Like, especially us in this room, you know, like in in ministry, but like even as a Christian, you said it on Sunday. Like, if people know you're a Christian, they're gonna be like trying to trip you up, trying to see what you're doing, seeing what you post, all these things. It's like sometimes the kindness that comes from knowing God looks different than the world. And I think uh Jesus touching the leper is a huge parallel to that.
SPEAKER_04That and I think we need to understand that kindness is like there's not a limitation on it. I think some of us are more willing to be kind to people who are like really sick or really hurt, but not kind to people who have made us upset or kind to people who are uh well they're prideful, they're this, they're that. And it's like, no, no, no, that's not what grace is. That's not what kind of is okay. It has no like Jesus was kind to Zacchaeus, who was a tax collector and took the time to go spend time at his house in the same way he showed kindness to a leper who was sick, who was hurt. And so I think there's that balance that we need to understand that kindness in general, like all these fruits are it's not just this one specific area. No, no, no, kindness is a whole thing that we need to do. And that's what I was gonna say before when I lost my train of thought. It just came back. Now we're back. Is is there's there's always little opportunities for us as Christians, and I'd encourage people that are listening or watching as Christians, there's always opportunities for you to be kind that, like you're saying, don't have to be these big grand gestures of you know, going on a mission trip or going to the hospital and I'm helping they people it's like yeah, like hey, you know some that's great. You want to go to the hospital with somebody, awesome. But how about if you know they're going to the hospital? Sure, pray for them, but instead of just saying, pray say, Hey, can I bring your family some food? Yeah, can I can I can I help you with with something while you're can I take you, you know, can I pick your kid up from school and bring them home because you gotta do this? Like there are ways to go about life seeking again, all these fruit of the spirit. We we've talked about each one about how it's not a character trait, it's something that you can pray that the Holy Spirit would place in your life. And I think kindness is exactly the same thing that you can pray, Holy Spirit, help me to be kinder, but then also give me opportunities to be kind. And when you pray that, God will give you opportunities to be kind. Absolutely. Certainly. And again, it's just gonna take the action on our part to step up and actually do it, and not for anything other than it's what Jesus would want us to do, it's what he did. Jesus wasn't doing this right, going to heal a leper, so everybody would be like, Wow, did you see that amazing America? No, no, no. That person needed him, he knew that it would transform that person's life. Had that opportunity and he did it. So that's why we need to be kind.
SPEAKER_00Matt closing notes. Uh he said exactly what I was gonna say, but I'm glad like we knew because I want to go back a little bit to something that um under what the world provides, uh, it's kind of like a two-for-one judgment without grace um and cancel culture, which I felt like I was on an island. I mean, I know we are kind of on the same page, but like I felt like I was on an island when cancel culture was super prevalent because like you couldn't do anything, like there was no grace in any even in like the Christian influencer world, like the pastoral role, like obviously there's big mistakes and things like that, but like the whole idea of cancel culture just completely negates grace, you know what I mean? And all these things. So, like you see a lot of you know, the world characterizes uh Christianity as this judgment without grace, but it could not be less true. You know what I mean? Like we are all judged and yet we receive grace from God and and all these things. So um you know, I just think that's on the flip side of kindness, like, yeah, you can be kind for no reason and kind to people and and and be loving. Um but even in like, you know, you two have done it to me where hey, you know, I shouldn't be doing this, or hey that and I want you to go in this direction and work or in ministry or in personal life, whatever, but you do it with kindness, it's not like you know, you're not trying to you make it known that it's coming out of a place of love, it's coming out a place of you know, I want you to grow, it's not, hey, I d I know more than you, so you need to listen to shut up and listen to me. You know what I mean?
SPEAKER_04Um hopefully when you tell people the truth that they know that if you didn't love them and care about them, that you're doing it out of kindness because you love them and care about them, and if you didn't love them and care about them, you wouldn't tell them because you wouldn't care. You wouldn't you wouldn't like I don't there there's people in my life I don't care to tell like stuff to because I'm like I don't I don't really we're not friends like I don't but the people that I care about the people that I that I love like obviously you want to tell them the truth you want to be Yeah, I agree.
SPEAKER_00And that's the difference between kindness and like you said, niceness. Because you could lie to somebody and be nice to them, like, oh that's not a problem, or you're not sinning, or you're whatever, and that's niceness. But kindness is I want to see you grow.
SPEAKER_04Yeah, I agree. That's good.
SPEAKER_00But yeah, my note was just to look for opportunities to help somebody and show kindness.
SPEAKER_04So do it. This week this week look for somebody that you can be kind to and not just talk about it, but be about it. Be about it. Be about it. Go do it. Alright, that's it. That's our series, dude. That's a series. That's it for the series. What are we gonna talk about next week? Armor of God. Ephesians. Dude, that is not a bad idea. That's not a bad idea. Alright, next week. Join us next week. We're gonna be talking about the armor. We're gonna put on the full armor of God, and we'll do a different piece every week of the armor of the game. How many are there? I like to have like five. Five, six helmet, breastplate, sword, shield, belt, belt, boots.
SPEAKER_00Boots that's like shoes, boots. I don't know. We'll find out. Kilt.
SPEAKER_04Alright, that's it, guys. I thought you had a game. I got a game for everybody. Devin Devin tells us Devin texted us the other night and said, I got a game for you guys, but I can't wait, and I'm not telling you guys what it is. Alright, so you guys have been joining us on Sunday mornings, and if you have not been, then if you could see that on there. They're not gonna be able to see that. They're not gonna be able to go. Zoom it in. Go ahead, show them. Get up. Devin's. If you're watching, boom. If you're just listening, it's a bracket. Just wait so we've been we've been in the series bracket busters. Mateo, this is for you. Alright, and then I'm gonna text you something else. I don't get one. Nope. Alright. You're on the spot. So you're texting him live. I'm texting live on the podcast. Okay. Um, let's see if I make a number still. Mateo, it's not in your favorites. Unpin, don't act like that. Okay. Speaking of favorites, you're not. We're gonna build a bracket. Pastor Luke is is on. So I'm gonna need you to take that text I just sent you, put it up on the big screen. We'll add it in post, okay, Spence? He's not paying attention. He's been texting us. No, he's been texting fiance the whole time. Look at him. He's again they're wedding planning already. Ridiculous. So Pastor Luke's got to build a bracket really quick. Oh my gosh.
SPEAKER_07Can you read this? Pastor Luke's favorite for the New Life podcast.
SPEAKER_04This is March Madness. This is so funny. Oh my god. Here we go. So how much Devin knows me. Alright, coming out of the East. Oh, I can't read that. That's too small. Can you zoom it in a little bit more? Why is it doing that? Yeah, sorry. It just got a Mac for the first time. Okay, here we go. So East Side number one seed is Ice T with Armin. Nope. Going up against the number eight seed, which is a good plan. Oh, I do love when a good plan comes together. Pastor Luke loves that. And then we have the five seed, which is ice cream cake. Going up against the number four seed, it's the Battle of the Cakes. Pancakes from Trumbull Cafe. Battle of the Cakes. And then in the three seed, why not? We have Men's League Basketball. Okay. Number six seed on the East is a CIA or FBI.
SPEAKER_07Dude, I really do love all of these things. This is crazy.
SPEAKER_05Number seven is a fresh haircut. If you know Pastor Luke, he loves it. I'm not sure my wife could build a better bracket than this. Totally not. Number two is the Boston Red Sox. And then on the West, number one seed is Michael Jordan. Going up against number eight seed Chili's. Dude, love a little sizzling machillita for heals.
SPEAKER_04The number five seed on the West is late 2000s Hill Song. Oh man. Again, it's a musician battle against John Mayer.
SPEAKER_03Dude, got my John Mayer right now right now. And then the number three is quoting the office.
SPEAKER_06Number six. All animals. Number six, animals. Number seven is air drumming to search the city. Dude.
SPEAKER_04Go check it out. Clocks and tickets. Number two seed, another food one, but Andy's frozen custard. Man. Alright. So they make me look like a fatty with this list. Let's build our bracket. Mateo will fill it out and then we can put a final one in posts. I'm going to start from the left. I'm going iced tea with lemon. There's one on my desk. Number one seed right now.
SPEAKER_05No Cinderella story.
SPEAKER_04Ice cream cake, pancake. I'm going to go ice cream cake with an upset because I eat, I probably eat that more than the pancakes. Even though pancakes from Trouble Cafe are goaded. Which ice cream cake do you get? Sunny days. What flavor? They got a they have a peanut butter one that I get sometimes. Regular. Or regular, yeah. The one with chocolate. No fudge, though. No fudge. Only the crunchies. Can't do it. Can't do it. Alright, men's league basketball or CIA FBI TV. That's tough. I'm going men's league basketball. That's crazy. That's a no-brainer. Fresh haircut or the Boston. Or the Boston Red Sox. Oh man, that's tough. Because I do love a fresh haircut. The boys know I love a fresh cut. No, that's a this is a contest. This might game my go in overtime. I'm going to go with the Boston Red Sox. Because the World Series championships brings more joy on my life. Let's bounce over the West then, get that first round. Michael Jordan, obviously. I do love Chili's, but not as much. I was like, all right, we got to throw that in. Chili's fajitas specifically. I'm going to go with another upset 5'4. I'm going to say late Hills, late 2000s Hill songs, although that game's a toss-up.
SPEAKER_03Over John Mayer.
SPEAKER_04That game's a toss-up. Quoting the office, I'm going to go with that.
SPEAKER_07I love all creatures great and small, but I love nothing more than quoting the office. The boys know that. Oh man, this one's tough. This might be an upset, guys.
SPEAKER_04Air drumming to search the city. For those of you who don't know. I'm going to push the seven seed through. I'm going to go airdrum and the search city. He already has ice cream cake. Yeah, you should have put ice cream cake there and uh Andy's. But it was the Battle of the Cakes. Alright, and we'll go from there. I'm going to go quoting the office into my final four. I'm going to am I unspiritual if I put Michael Jordan over late Hill Songs 2000s? Yes. I'm going to go Michael Jordan into the final four. Dude, that's going to be a great one. On the other side, I'm going to go Icy with Lemon into the Final Four. And then in my other one, I'm going to go men's league basketball into the final four. Nothing like hoops. That's your team. I don't even know if I can pick this. Alright, so we have Ice T with Lemon versus versus men's basketball league. And then Michael Jordan versus quoting the office. Oh man. Dude, this is tough. I'm not going to lie. Alright, I'm going to go into the finals. Into the finals. You know what? I'm going to go upset. Just I'm going to go based off strictly what I do the most of every single day. And I'm going to go iced tea with lemon versus quoting the office in the championship. As much as I I love nothing more than Michael Jordan, other than Jesus and my family sometimes. But but I'm going to go based off just consistency of what if he was still playing, I'd probably put him up there. He almost made me watch NASCAR the other day. That's how much I love him. So iced tea with lemon versus quoting the office. Let's think about this. Yeah, let's really break it down. Yeah. Alright. Break it down. How many iced teas do you have a day? You need it. Probably like two. Need it like a pizza. I love that.
SPEAKER_00You just made it in your office right there, dude. Drinking it like in an open container. Like it's like a mason jar.
SPEAKER_04Or like he brings like a solo from my office right now with it in the eyes on the ice drives me crazy. Like when the ice when the cold touches my lips, I'm gonna drink it out of a straw like a woman, dude. Um mess my lipstick up. He finishes the drink and then he's like, Oh, I can't drink. Devin hates when I crunch the ice, it's the best.
SPEAKER_03I'm like, oh my gosh, it drives me crazy.
SPEAKER_00Wait, you don't use a straw. Nah. Nah. I don't like ice.
SPEAKER_03When I get it for when it's to go. He does his he does his protein shakes in a solo cup as well, and he'll come in with the tiniest little bendy straw. I don't like to drink protein.
SPEAKER_04I don't like to drink milkshakes without a straw. Any kind of milkshake. Any kind of milkshake. Like protein shakes. I can't believe how well you know him.
SPEAKER_03I have known him in the case.
SPEAKER_04I can't believe it, but yeah, now I'm starting to think he like studies me. It's a little weird, but that's okay. You could do the same thing. Yeah, I definitely could. Um one I took off of there was ripping cards because I thought that was more recent, so I was like, I gotta go back to the card. Do love a good rip. No sneakers either. You guys pick which one? Which one you think? Quote in the office, I think. I think quote in the office. Like, dude, it's it is it's it can be applied to every situation. It can be laugh anywhere.
SPEAKER_00But the same drink twice a day, every day, 365.
SPEAKER_04Yeah, like that's gotta be his favorite.
SPEAKER_05I mean, dude, your your Xbox handle was iced tea with lemon. Was it, it is, like Brandon is, yeah.
SPEAKER_07Alright, all right, we're going Pastor Luke's favorite.
SPEAKER_04We're going iced tea, unsweetened iced tea with lemon, not hot, not without ice, and not without lemon. You bring it without a lemon, I send it back. You bring it without ice, I send it back. You bring it hot, I send it back. Man, caught in the office in the iced tea with lemon. Dude, that's hilarious. You're wild. I can't wait till Summer watches this.
SPEAKER_07She's gonna go, oh my gosh, that's everything that you love to do.
SPEAKER_04Alright, since you got to share some things that you like to close, I wanted to share some of mine. Yeah, cool. Let's make it all about you. Okay. Listen, these are just things that make me smile. All right, they just make me happy. They're not my favorite things. I love this. Not your favorite, just make you smile. All right. Showing somebody a song or a TV show and they like it. He does love that. Great feeling. He does love that. That's a great feeling. Just makes sense. You have given me some like bangers of a song to play.
SPEAKER_06Um you guys ever watch those marble races on YouTube?
SPEAKER_05Marvel? Marble. Marble. Marble? No. They're awesome. They're exhilarating, dude. Picking the right marble on a YouTube marble race, dude, and getting it right. It is exceptional. Yeah, it's awesome.
SPEAKER_04Dude, it's so good. What, like, people just have two marbles and they go like they like flick it and then you just watch.
SPEAKER_06There's like five of them, and you'll like pick at the beginning, it'll be like three seconds, pick your marble. And it's like, I pick red, and it'll do the whole race. Maybe you do have ADD, bro. It's great, dude.
SPEAKER_04Uh, another thing that I really like, I really like like if somebody, like a waiter or waitress, or like somebody at the grocery store, like I like making like them laugh. Oh, that's the best. Like, that's that's always makes like you make a joke. It's like a corny joke, or like a dad joke. Oh, that's the best, dude. The next one was Oh, it's digital. This isn't even it's not even. Oh no, there's a real one. That's not one I used to do. That's crazy, bro. Yeah, there's one. There's one.
SPEAKER_06Yeah, jealous. Bruce Marble runs. Go and watch this.
SPEAKER_00How many views does that video have? Almost 500,000. 500,000.
SPEAKER_05Dude, look, they got a podium for the Marvel. What are we doing?
SPEAKER_04How are we not making money on YouTube yet? That's what's true. Sai used to love those toy shows where it's people just playing with toys in Ryan's world. And Nicole's like, please do that. It'd be way like a$20 million deal.
SPEAKER_00That's insane.
SPEAKER_04I've seen people do them with the cars too. Like they do them with uh matchbox cars. Like the Pinewood Derby back in the day. Yeah, but they have a whole track. Yeah, look it, it's marble. So like I picked the yellow. Oh, they got a track.
SPEAKER_05Dude, Luke, how does telling you it's a but how does one catch up once one's in the loop? Just watch, dude.
SPEAKER_00You'd think there's like loops and stuff. So like sometimes it gets so great. Look at them.
SPEAKER_04I got the yellow.
SPEAKER_00It's like Mario Kart.
SPEAKER_04Yeah, but with mar it's marble. Which yellow when there's two yellow ones on there. Eight-minute video. This race is a little bit more. Look at them, dude.
SPEAKER_07They're at the beach. They're not actual things. Like, look at them. Look at them go. Look at them, they have a bridge for the suckers move down that track, man.
SPEAKER_04I wasn't done with my list. Alright, go ahead. Go ahead. Go ahead. Okay, so that was my um. What was your last one? Making some like laughs. Like somebody like somebody, a worker. You're dressed just like the servants. There it is. Alright, and then I said, uh taking a deep breath after a long day of swimming. Oh, and you get that makes you cough. And it's like, I don't really like that feeling. I love it. I call it swimmer's breath. Um, yeah, I like that. It's like I put in a lot of work in this pool today. You earned it. So I've earned that breath. Earned that breath. And then also, last one, socks that have a L and an R on them to indicate what foot they go on. Oh, I love that. Yeah. I don't like them. Love it. Dude, if I pull them up a pair of socks and I'm like, they is an L and a right. The only thing I don't like with those is when you own multiple pairs. Oh, and then in the wash, then you gotta coordinate because you don't want to fold a right with a right and a left with a left. I have one pair, so I just rock that one. I just got these socks. How about this? These socks make me happy. Look, the the this is folded already, so it doesn't like cut off the circulation to your leg. Why is it cutting off the circulation? I got bad circulation, bro. That's why my toes and my fingers and my nose are always cold. Where are those compression socks, dude? Nike sock imprinted. See, look at the dent in his life. You got the logo imprinted into your whole leg. These don't have it. Yeah. Alright, well, that was it. That was just some things.
SPEAKER_03Go watch some marble races, dude.
SPEAKER_04That was mostly a good list. I like that list a lot. What was wrong with that? Mostly. Mostly. Well, I mean, I'm not gonna sit and watch marble races. And the theory is a little bit more. Let me ask you this. When was the last time you were putting so much work in the pool that you uh had that feeling? Uh every summer, dude. You're crazy. Pool basketball? I spent more time in the pool with Cy last year than. I go to swimming lessons. He was calling me dad in July. Okay. We're gonna move on from that pretty quickly. He does love Uncle Luke, though. Who taught you how to swim, Cy? Uncle Luke. Uncle Luke? Dad? I mean Uncle Luke. Pool basketball really does take it out of you, though.
SPEAKER_01Pooh. Pooh. Pooh basketball. Pooh basketball be taking it out of you. Really be taking it out of you, guys. That poo basketball. That poo basketball. He's done. He's done. Y'all ever played that poo basketball? Remember when I was a kid down at the park playing poo basketball, my friends.
SPEAKER_07Oh cry spot on whatever.
SPEAKER_02Then you take that big gulf of air after and take it a go bag. You really feel it in your lungs. Got that swimmers whip.
SPEAKER_05That's it for our podcast today. We'll see you guys next week for the armor of God. Yes, let's go. Peace. Peace.