MID WEEK MOTIVATION - February 25, 2026 (Grant Stegall)

You're listening to the Midweek Motivation Podcast from DeSoto Hills Baptist Church in South David, Mississippi.

Here's your host, Mark Lewis, David Burgess, Laura Ulrich, and Pastor Grant Steagall.

Welcome to the Midweek Motivation Podcast for Wednesday, February the 25th, here at DeSoto Hills Baptist Church.

I'm Mark Lewis.

I'm Grant Stiegel.

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We have been on again, off again the past couple of weeks just because we've had different things come up that have affected our record time.

We apologize for that, but we are certainly glad to see you guys here listening on the weeks that we can bring the content to you.

And we are going to start right out of the gate with calendar because we've got some things coming up.

Grant, tell us what we've got coming up on our calendar.

Right now, the closest thing to us is preteen retreat.

That'll be this weekend, the 27th and 28th.

That is for uh fifth and sixth graders.

So if uh you are a fifth and sixth grader, you have a fifth or sixth grader, or you know a fifth or sixth grader, and they have not signed up for preteen retreat, it's not too late tomorrow, is the deadline.

So they need to sign up for that ASAP.

You can do that on the website.

Um, just click on that banner that scrolls through the top and you can sign up uh for that.

Should be a great time.

I mean, it is a mini disciple now for fifth and sixth graders.

Um we've done this event a long time.

As long as Laura's been here.

Yeah.

And uh one thing that I do pride myself on or our church on is our programming.

Um we do a really good job with a lot of our programming for kids and students, and so I'm always really proud of that.

And we've got um a band coming in for the weekend, we've got a speaker, she's got lots of activities, they've got good food.

It really is everything that D now is, with the exception of um obviously they don't have the same type of structure as far as small groups and all that goes.

It's basically they all do stuff together, right?

And then they do go home um at nights and then come back on Saturday morning.

But it is it is a brief weekend if you're worried about if you've got things going on with the family, it's really only Friday that you're going that they're gonna have, and then Saturday morning.

Friday night and Saturday at morning.

It's over by lunch on Saturday.

Um it's not gonna take the entire weekend, and uh I would encourage you to sign your child up because this is the type of weekend where they build a lot of good, strong relationships with their peers.

So and then what do we got after that?

After that, um the next big thing is spring break, uh, spring break mission trip.

Uh, we got a group of folks going to Orlando, they're leaving March the 7th.

We'll come back on the 14th.

Uh, should be a great trip.

We are working with a church plant down in Orlando.

Should be awesome.

We've got a good group going.

David is heading that up.

Uh, so uh please be in prayer for that team as they head out to be gone that week.

And then also during that week, the first part of spring break, uh that Sunday at the first of spring break, March the 8th, is daylight savings time.

Spring forward.

Look, you lose an hour of sleep, but it's worth it.

I am all about having that light later in the evening.

Like I just it's and and the days are longer anyway, but I get depressed, Grant, when uh it's winter time and at 4 45 it gets dark, and I just can't stand it.

So I'm all about that daylight saving time.

Um the applause would have been appropriate at spring break as well, because I'm all about I'm all about spring break too.

Well, and then we've got uh and then it's gonna be Easter right around the corner.

Uh Palm Sunday is March the 29th, and then Easter is that first Sunday in April, uh April the 5th.

We've also got Impact uh month coming up, although it's it kind of flows from one month to the other.

We've got four weeks of impact and go into March and April.

And impact, if you don't remember, that's just we want to help our church know where what ministries and what availability that we have for them to serve, opportunities that we have for people to serve.

We highlighted uh in the fall, we highlighted our prayer ministry, our student ministry, our children's ministry, and our preschool ministry.

Uh this spring, we're gonna be highlighting security, um, media, uh, women's ministry, and kitchen ministry.

So uh opportunities for not only for you to learn about those, there'll be some videos that are played so people can learn about those, but opportunities for you to go sign up down in the grand hall.

There'll be a table so you can go go ahead and get signed up to uh begin helping in those ministries.

So uh we I that's a new thing that we started this fall.

I've enjoyed it.

I think it is it's a good thing just to highlight some of our ministries.

We we like to encourage everyone to actually plug in and serve, not just be served.

So uh anyway.

All right, that is our calendar.

That wraps up our calendar.

I did want to do a couple of table topics with you.

All right.

Table topics.

All right, so table topics are uh those cards that we have.

Um we get them in like these cubes on Amazon, and I'm starting to run into that thing where I can't remember which ones I've done with you and which ones I haven't.

So hopefully these are some fresh questions.

This is the only one I had questioned that it was questionable.

I couldn't remember.

What's your favorite breakfast?

I don't really eat breakfast.

Are you not a breakfast eater?

Not a breakfast eater.

Um I guess probably my my favorite breakfast at breakfast time would probably be chicken minis from Chick-fil-A.

Um we know you don't do that every time because that would get expensive.

No, no, no, no, no, no.

I guess my favorite, like now I like breakfast foods at supper.

I like breakfast.

We do that food.

I like to I like that.

And I I mean you name it, like biscuits, sausage gravy, tomato gravy, bacons, uh sausage, eggs.

Like I I like all of that hometown, down home country breakfast.

I just don't eat it at breakfast much.

I don't eat much breakfast.

I like a good sausage, egg, and biscuit.

Homemade sausage, egg, and biscuit.

Although the biscuits I like, I don't like a lot of the homemade biscuits that people make are kind of flat and crumbly.

I like big, huge, fluffy biscuits, and that's because I like the sausage patty and the egg to fit on it.

Yeah.

My favorite, absolute favorite breakfast, and I've gotten pretty good at making it through the years uh because I've watched some of these celebrity chefs online and copied what they do.

But French toast with some good crisp bacon, and when I say crisp, Jennifer would say burnt.

But crisp bacon and like stone mill grits.

Okay.

That's that's my go-to.

Now, are you I mean, your dad is a biscuit maker.

Yeah, I don't I don't like his style, but he knows it.

Yeah, he knows it.

I'm not throwing any shade that he doesn't know.

He knows I'm not a big fan of that type of biscuit.

And the rest of the family loves that type of biscuit.

I've heard I've heard legendary stories.

Love it.

And Jennifer makes really good homemade biscuits, but they're the little flat crumbly kinds.

So like I will get some of those huge Pillsbury inflatable ones that you throw out of the bag and put in.

Yes.

And uh it offends her every time.

She'll roll her eyes, but you know, it's it's part of life.

She she understands that's just that's that's just me.

I just like the big, huge, flaky, fluffy.

So anyway, what's your favorite family story?

Ooh, I know man, that's a tough one because there's so many.

Um what's a really good one?

Well, I'll tell you what I've told a lot recently because of the ice storm.

So, you know, this ice storm that recently came through is we really got in North Mississippi, you got two different storms.

And I don't know if people remember it.

I remember it oh so much.

As much as the 94 ice storm that we got.

Like I remember that, okay?

That we that hit Pontiac.

I was in high school, like I remember, I can tell you all kind of things from that.

But I also remember in the 80s, I don't know what what year, but I know it was in the 80s.

In Pontiac, I don't know how far stretching or how far reaching it was, but we got six inches of sleet.

And so, I mean, it was on the ground, six inches of ice, which is kind of what we got.

We didn't have six inches, but we had about four inches of straight ice.

Like when I walked out on it one day with the girls, and it didn't give bad news.

It reminded me of that ice storm in the 80s and things that we did.

And I remember some guys who lived in Troy who were in VoTech in welding, like they were doing welding in Vodec, and they had made a sled.

Now I'm talking about they had steel bars.

Thing had to been heavy.

I mean, it I don't remember it being heavy, but it was it was awesome.

And you get and they came to our house because we had a pasture with some big old hills out in it, man.

And we had a big hill in front of the house and we started on it and practiced we practiced on that hill because it was it was big, but it wasn't quite as big, and it was, hey, when you get to the bottom, roll off and all those things.

And then we walked back over into the pasture and we went up this huge hill.

And I remember Clay and I uh got on that sled.

Clay was in front and I was behind, and we started, and I don't know why, because we'd already done it so many times and rolled off at the bottom.

And I just for some reason, I just clay, what do we do at the bottom?

And he said, just hold on.

So we got to the to the bottom and he rolled off, but I held on, and what was at the bottom of the hill was an old fence row.

Oh now the fence was not there anymore.

The fence had been taken down, but it has was grown up with like briars and things like that, and I just held on and I went straight through that thing.

Didn't get a scratch on me.

The only thing it did was took my toboggan off.

I was going so fast down that hill.

Um, it's pretty incredible.

You rolled off the second time?

Yes, I didn't I didn't hold on anymore.

I rolled off.

Lesson learned.

Oh my goodness.

What's the habit you're proudest of breaking?

Hmm.

I used to bite my nails.

I don't bite my nails anymore.

I'm pretty proud of that.

Now I've created other bad habits, but right.

I can't think of what I've broken because I um my roommate in college made me aware, and I don't think I do it anymore.

Is when I went to sleep, I would sniff.

Not because I needed to, it was just something I did.

And one day he's got a tick.

Yeah, he made me aware of it, and I really worked hard to break it.

I don't think I do it anymore, so I guess that would be a big one.

Final.

What music reminds you of your childhood George Jones.

Yep.

I mean, I guess maybe all co country music like that, but George Jones especially.

We had a now this was I was a teenager, but we had a a truck, and I I mean I I shared a vehicle with dad.

Like we rode to school, I didn't have my own to and from together.

We lived 20 minutes from school, and I remember I don't we were on some trip and he was at a somewhere and they had cassettes there at at the checkout, and he George Jones greatest hits, he bought that cassette.

Now, the greatest thing about this truck, we thought we were uptown now because it would turn the cassette over without taking it out.

Right.

I remember and he put that George Jones cassette in there, and I don't know how many weeks that would just keep flipping and just stayed in there.

I learned some good old George Jones songs.

I can't remember.

Did y'all listen in the house much?

See, there was a time period when it was really record-dominated, and my parents didn't go put records on.

Right.

No, we didn't listen in the house a whole lot.

Now they mom and dad had a it was a a record player with a cassette player.

Ours had an eight-track built onto it.

An eight-track and a radio.

I remember my parents would listen to the radio when I was growing up, and then I I don't I really don't even r have recollection of them putting records on.

I think that I think the record was just too much because you know they they run down in 20 minutes and you have to flip them and all that.

I don't remember like us listening like that.

Now, Mandy listened to the radio in her room and stuff a lot, and I guess Clay and I got to some to do in that because we then after we didn't have we just had a radio cassette player and you could record from the radio.

So we kept a cassette in the radio so if a song came on we could record it real quick.

Uh well I remember being all of that I just told you was when I was real, real little in Corinth.

When we moved to Meridian, I remember CD players had come out and I was first grade, second grade.

And I remember James Lewis went and bought a new receiver and then he started collecting pieces.

You know, he was he was into it.

We had a little local shop called Hooper's.

Still remember it because the Hooper family group was in our neighborhood, and uh the Hooper's shop is where you went to get anything.

And he also bought a C that was when CDs were coming out, like in the in the mid-80s.

This would have this probably would have been 86, 87.

And I remember him getting a CD changer and it took the big cartridge, which looked like an eight-track, but you would slip the CDs into that big cartridge.

And he was really into um a lot of instrumental music at the time, so like oak arena music and stuff like that.

So when I think of music growing up, obviously I think of folk music, and my parents were big into folk rock, gym crochet, and a lot of that stuff.

But I also remember all the mornings when he was playing that instrumental music.

So isn't it funny how music triggers memories like that?

All right, that's table topics for the week.

Table topics, table topics, table topics, table topics, table topics, table topics, table topics, and we're now going to shift to our devotion portion of the podcast that we call the midweek moment.

So last year, as we were reading through our Bible together, when I did devotion, I would kind of talk about what we were reading.

Um, but that's my Wednesday night class now.

I'm teaching a Wednesday night class, and um I thought there's no reason to do that for this podcast because I'm doing that in in my class.

So doing something a little bit different, but today for the devotion, it's not what we were reading, but it's concerning what we were what we're reading.

We've been in Leviticus, and um Leviticus can be a difficult book if you're just trying to to go through it.

Um but um when I read Leviticus, I I think about Hebrews uh in the New Testament because he points to a lot of lot of Leviticus.

So today I I want us to look at it at Hebrews chapter 10, uh just real quickly and and talk about in Hebrews 10 verse 1, he says, For since the law was but a shadow of the good things to come, instead of the true form of these realities, it can never, by the same sacrif sacrifices that are continually offered every year, make perfect those who draw near.

Hebrews 10 · chapter mention Hebrews 10:1

And so what he's talking about here is in Leviticus, we've been reading about how the priest, I mean, how they offered sacrifices, step by step, how they did it.

And we saw when they offered them incorrectly, I mean, two of Aaron's sons were killed because they offered it incorrectly, and so you you had that, and so they you you see, but but they had to continually offer these sacrifices because none of them ever really atoned for the sin.

If the sacrifices they offered atoned for sin, then they wouldn't have to continue to offer them.

But they they continually had to had to offer these sacrifices because they they weren't they weren't good enough.

Uh they couldn't do it.

But then if you go down to to verse 11 uh and start reading there in Hebrews 10, it says, every priest stands daily at his service, offering repeatedly the same sacrifices which can never take away sin.

So see that the priest stands daily offering sacrifices that never repeatedly, that repeatedly that never take away sins.

But then it says this in verse 12, but when Christ had offered for all time a single sacrifice for sins, he sat down at the right hand of God.

So while they had to stand and daily offer sacrifices, Christ, when he offered his one sacrifice of his life, he sat down at the right hand of God because it was enough.

The sacrifice that he made was sufficient to cover all of our sin, sin for all time.

So he sat down at the right hand of the throne of God.

And now in verse 13 he says, He is waiting from that time until his enemies be made a footstool for his feet.

For by a single offering he has perfected for all time those who are being sanctified.

So hear that.

One sacrifice he perfected for all time those who are being sacrificed.

So here's the message of salvation that Christ did for us.

He's he laid down his life one time, offered one sacrifice, which perfected those who believe in him, yet those who are perfected are being sanctified.

And so while we are perfected at the same time, salvation continues for us daily in us becoming what we are.

We are holy, but now we've got to the we've got to go through the process of becoming holy, being sanctified.

And so Christ, though, in his one sacrifice, set all that up to happen.

That's why he can say in Philippians, he who began a good work in me will complete it in the day of Christ.

He began the good work, he is carrying out the good work through us, he will complete it on the day of Christ because through his because his one sacrifice was sufficient for our salvation.

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God bless.

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