Bible Bibs and a Prayer Season 3 Episode 55

Singer: Brother Jim's got the mic in hand.

Singer: David's laughing like a one man

Singer: band, talking disco bellbottom

Singer: flares and a little bit of

Singer: scripture to say your prayers in

Singer: the past.

Singer: It's the present.

Singer: It's the holy.

Singer: Sit back and join us.

Singer: Bible bits and a prayer Bible.

Singer: Beams and a prayer.

Singer: We're keeping it real.

Singer: From the red, white and blue to the spinning wheel.

Singer: It's stories and devotion.

Singer: Good vibes to share.

Singer: Come on and listen to Bible.

Singer: Bibs and a prayer.

Brother Jim: Hey, it is time my friends.

Brother Jim: Time for Bible bibs and a prayer.

Brother Jim: Good morning family.

Brother Jim: Good morning friends in the

Brother Jim: whole wide world and welcome to

Brother Jim: our daily.

Brother Jim: To your daily start.

Brother Jim: Hopefully this is your go to space to wake up, to stay

Brother Jim: informed, focused, and ready for the day ahead.

Brother Jim: Whether you're sipping that coffee hot or cold, a little

Brother Jim: tea, maybe some OJ, or if you're like me, you can't go wrong with

Brother Jim: the good old orange Sunkist.

Brother Jim: I had to lay off the V8 because

Brother Jim: it was just getting too

Brother Jim: expensive.

Brother Jim: So I tell you.

Brother Jim: But hey, even if you're heading out the door, you still can tune

Brother Jim: in to us.

Brother Jim: Uh, or easing into your morning routine.

Brother Jim: We've got just what you need.

Brother Jim: Quick insights, a little inspiration and a clear look at

Brother Jim: what matters today.

Brother Jim: And of course, you might say,

Brother Jim: well, Jim David, that's your

Brother Jim: opinion.

Brother Jim: But hey, that's all right.

Brother Jim: Let's make this morning count.

Brother Jim: Speaking of that.

Brother Jim: Hey folks, I told a joke about construction, but I'm still

Brother Jim: working on it.

Brother Jim: Let you and I thank God for another day.

Brother Jim: We didn't have to set the alarm for.

Brother Jim: Because we're ready.

Brother Jim: We are awake and we are blessed.

Brother Jim: My name is Brother Jim, one half of the dynamic duo here on Bible

Brother Jim: bibs and prayer.

Brother Jim: And I'm gonna have to change

Brother Jim: that, David, because we got Ida

Brother Jim: Lee and Mr. Dan the chicken man

Brother Jim: here.

Brother Jim: So yeah, we're a quartet.

Brother Jim: Yeah, we're a quartet now, boy.

Brother Jim: And we're down on the street as I was putting.

Brother Jim: Hey, what else would you like?

Brother Jim: So who knows what the people

Brother Jim: will bring to Bible bibs and

Brother Jim: prayer?

Brother Jim: I did mention an alligator again.

Brother Jim: I'd love to have a pet alligator.

Brother Jim: Remember?

Brother Jim: Uh, uh, Miami Vice Crockett had his pet crocodile.

Brother Jim: Elvis.

Brother Jim: Yeah.

Brother Jim: If we get one, that's what we're gonna name him.

Brother Jim: David.

Brother Jim: Elvis.

Brother Jim: There you go.

Brother Jim: By day, a pastor of Rock church.

Brother Jim: And by night.

Brother Jim: I want to be funny guy.

Brother Jim: Unfortunately, most will say

Brother Jim: you're not really funny, just

Brother Jim: funny looking.

Brother Jim: So welcome to the show.

Brother Jim: Let's turn this from a conversation into an experience.

Brother Jim: And now the moment.

Brother Jim: Yes, I know the moment you've all been waiting for.

Brother Jim: I am joined by the only person who thinks just one more episode

Brother Jim: is a personal trait.

Brother Jim: The man that brings the jokes,

Brother Jim: the chaos in just enough

Brother Jim: questionable opinions to keep

Brother Jim: things interesting.

Brother Jim: And if there's a tangent to go on, he will find it.

Brother Jim: If there's a snack nearby, it is already gone.

Brother Jim: We're still waiting on our snacks, by the way, people.

Brother Jim: Yeah, yeah, come on, come on, give it up.

Brother Jim: For my partner in podcasting crime.

Brother Jim: A face that only a mother could love.

Brother Jim: Ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls, children of all ages.

Brother Jim: The one, the only, Mr. David Keener.

Brother Jim: Plus, he's one of my best friends in the whole wide world.

Brother Jim: Good morning, my friend.

David: Good morning.

David: How are we doing today?

Brother Jim: Yeah, we're doing, you know, we're doing.

Brother Jim: It's a bit of a new.

David: We made it through Easter.

Brother Jim: Yes, Easter.

Brother Jim: A little bit of a break.

Brother Jim: I understand a lot of pastors take that time off afterwards.

David: Unfortunately, I can understand why.

Brother Jim: The train keeps rolling here.

Brother Jim: So maybe one day.

Brother Jim: Maybe one day.

Brother Jim: Uh, but how is life in general, my friend?

David: It's it's good.

David: And you may not know this, but

David: we've got kind of a tradition on

David: this program.

David: Well, at least on our previous programs, something I've done

David: for probably twenty years now, the program that is for Easter

David: or right after Easter, I always play the same song.

David: I get a little method, if you.

Brother Jim: Will. Oh, here we go, here we go.

David: So this is something we've done.

Brother Jim: Oh, allow me to turn the hat backwards.

Brother Jim: Yeah, baby.

David: I don't know if you're familiar

David: or not, but this is Pastor Clint

David: Brown.

Speaker 4: I'm glad he got up.

Speaker 4: Shout he got up.

Speaker 5: Oh, yeah.

Speaker 5: He's up.

Speaker 5: Get a little crazy in here.

Speaker 5: I said he got up close.

Speaker 5: Give you a little bit of a taste there.

David: It gets a it's a little it's a

David: little awkward when you're, you

David: know, in front of the camera and

David: have to sit there for eight

David: minutes.

David: So we won't do that.

David: But yeah, yeah, yeah.

Brother Jim: Could you imagine if I did that at Rockford Church?

David: Oh, I could see you up there doing a little, little.

Brother Jim: Little.

David: Strut.

Brother Jim: Yeah. Yeah. Little strut.

Brother Jim: Yeah. I was watching one the other day where the pastor was

Brother Jim: walking across the pews.

David: Yeah.

Brother Jim: I mean, he was leaping and he hit every pew all the way down

Brother Jim: and all the way back.

David: Nice.

Brother Jim: And then right up on the pulpit, I'm like, well, number one, I

Brother Jim: don't think Brother Jim is coordinated enough now.

Brother Jim: And number two, I don't think the pulpit would hold it.

Brother Jim: So yeah.

David: So I had to keep the streak alive there.

David: Yes.

Brother Jim: Well. Thank you.

Brother Jim: Thank you.

Brother Jim: We'll have to try that one day.

Brother Jim: You know.

David: Fire up some Pentecostal music and just see what happens.

Brother Jim: I like the idea, I really do.

Brother Jim: Yes.

Brother Jim: Yeah.

Brother Jim: I'm Pentecostal.

Brother Jim: Got something going on.

Brother Jim: I said, as long as they ain't got the snakes.

David: Yeah. Yeah.

Brother Jim: Or strychnine or any of that stuff.

Brother Jim: Yeah.

David: We'll stay away from all that stuff.

Brother Jim: Yeah. Because Brother Jim and snakes do not mix.

Brother Jim: I do not discriminate, David.

Brother Jim: When it comes to snakes, I kill them all.

Brother Jim: Kill them all.

Brother Jim: So, uh, how was everything going?

Brother Jim: Good Easter.

David: Good Easter, good Easter.

David: Yeah, good.

David: Decent weather.

David: We had decent weather, so that's good.

David: Yeah.

David: A lot of rain last week.

Brother Jim: I know, I know, uh, Tuesday night, this past Tuesday night.

Brother Jim: Man, it was beautiful outside.

Brother Jim: I was thinking what we could have filmed.

David: Oh, yeah.

Brother Jim: Bonfire until about ten, oh five, ten, fifteen.

Brother Jim: And then the rains came and it's

Brother Jim: like, was this like the day of

Brother Jim: Noah?

Brother Jim: As I was watching through the security camera there and man,

Brother Jim: it was coming through sideways, upside down, you name it.

David: I broke out the Blackstone Tuesday night again.

David: Did some smash burgers.

David: Yeah, yeah, it was good.

David: Good grilling.

Brother Jim: Yes. Uh, I, I still got a big grease stain to clean up for my

Brother Jim: attempt on the Blackstone over there at the life center.

Brother Jim: So, uh, yes.

Brother Jim: How about you guys?

Brother Jim: How are we doing?

Brother Jim: How was your Easter?

Brother Jim: Let us know.

Brother Jim: Hopefully.

Brother Jim: Hopefully you went out to church.

Brother Jim: You found a good church.

Brother Jim: Hopefully you took us up on our invitation as well.

Brother Jim: You know, come on out to Rockford church there.

Brother Jim: But, uh, we're still busy, busy, busy.

Brother Jim: Uh, it just does not slow down,

Brother Jim: which is a good thing, but, uh,

Brother Jim: I think we all need a little

Brother Jim: break sometimes.

Brother Jim: And, uh, you know, it's too bad

Brother Jim: parents don't get spring break,

Brother Jim: too.

Brother Jim: Wouldn't that be nice?

David: Yeah. Really?

Brother Jim: At least for a day or two.

David: I get into that.

Brother Jim: Yeah, until we're driven.

Brother Jim: Absolutely.

David: We should get spring break the week after.

David: When the kids go back, that's when we get spring break.

Brother Jim: How about all you moms out there?

Brother Jim: Can I get an amen on that one?

Brother Jim: Yes, yes.

Brother Jim: Because if momma ain't happy, nobody's happy.

David: That's right.

David: That's right.

Brother Jim: Just kind of that ripple effect, huh?

Brother Jim: So you come across any good dad jokes lately?

David: I did, and I recently found out that the word icy is the easiest

David: word to spell.

David: I see why.

Brother Jim: Did you smoking me on the dad jokes, man?

Brother Jim: Smoking me?

Brother Jim: Yes, yes, that was a good one there.

Brother Jim: Oh, man.

Brother Jim: I need to find out where your

Brother Jim: source is coming from here,

Brother Jim: because mine are not doing the

Brother Jim: job.

David: I looked it up and found it about three minutes ago, so.

David: Okay.

Brother Jim: All right.

Brother Jim: Yeah. Uh, there's so many of them, too.

Brother Jim: Trying to find the ones that are appropriate and.

Brother Jim: Yeah, and I need I saved so many online there from, uh, the two

Brother Jim: dudes, uh, that sit there drinking their coffee.

Brother Jim: Yeah, yeah, those guys are good.

David: Oh. They're great.

Brother Jim: Yeah. So. And my mother just found, uh, dad jokes and she's

Brother Jim: like, oh, look at these two.

Brother Jim: They're so funny.

Brother Jim: I'm like, yeah, mom, they're just there's aliens.

Brother Jim: There's hunters, the two dudes

Brother Jim: out on the you name it, AI

Brother Jim: creates it.

Brother Jim: So. All right, let us remember.

Brother Jim: Another sunrise.

Brother Jim: Another chance to shine.

Brother Jim: A chance to show the whole world and everyone around you that you

Brother Jim: are one special person.

Brother Jim: Yes you are.

Brother Jim: We have been blessed.

Brother Jim: You.

Brother Jim: David, myself and these two beautiful animals here, even

Brother Jim: though they're not really alive.

Brother Jim: Hey, we're going to pretend they are.

Brother Jim: So let you and I thank God for another blessed day.

Brother Jim: Whether you're driving, working,

Brother Jim: or just starting your morning

Brother Jim: coffee, we are glad you are here

Brother Jim: with us.

Brother Jim: And you know what?

Brother Jim: We're alive.

Brother Jim: And even with the aches and pains, we're still blessed.

Brother Jim: Yes.

Brother Jim: Now I know right now, springtime, everybody's getting

Brother Jim: into that, uh, mowing, weeding, getting gardens and flowers.

Brother Jim: But, uh, remember, uh, and of

Brother Jim: course, I don't take my own

Brother Jim: advice.

Brother Jim: Make sure you stretch a little bit.

Brother Jim: If you're getting up there in age, you know, and make sure

Brother Jim: you've got plenty of Bengay, icy hot heating pad, ibuprofen, uh,

Brother Jim: anything else I'm forgetting?

Brother Jim: David.

David: No, I think that's pretty much

David: it until you have to get the

David: prescription stuff.

David: Yeah.

Brother Jim: Prescription stuff.

Brother Jim: Yeah. We'll leave that one up to you.

Brother Jim: But yes, we are still blessed.

Brother Jim: I was out mowing the other day.

Brother Jim: They're checking it all out and it's like the list keeps growing

Brother Jim: and growing, you know?

Brother Jim: And, uh, it's like, where do I even start at?

Brother Jim: So I think I'm gonna start with the mailbox first because the

Brother Jim: mailbox is about ready to fall off the pole.

Brother Jim: So yeah, it did not, it wasn't

Brother Jim: healthy going into winter, but

Brother Jim: it's really looking unhealthy

Brother Jim: now.

Brother Jim: Remember as a kid when you had that tooth that was so loose,

Brother Jim: just barely hanging on.

Brother Jim: That's what my mailbox looks like right now.

Brother Jim: So come on and join Mr. David

Brother Jim: and I as we say, thank you,

Brother Jim: Lord, for another day of

Brother Jim: opportunity.

Brother Jim: Just waiting for you now to make our mark.

Brother Jim: Find that good in life and forget the bad.

Brother Jim: Yes, forget the bad.

Brother Jim: And you know what?

Brother Jim: Because all of this really

Brother Jim: doesn't matter at the end of the

Brother Jim: day.

Brother Jim: Because you are not alone.

Brother Jim: Why?

Brother Jim: Well, again, I am so glad you asked.

Brother Jim: Jesus and Jesus alone rejoice that you are alive.

Brother Jim: And when you're looking at me, oh yes, even though it might not

Brother Jim: be the best looking thing looking back at you, at least

Brother Jim: for my in my experience, Remember, you are beautiful.

Brother Jim: You matter in this world.

Brother Jim: And most of all, oh my goodness.

Brother Jim: Goodness, goodness, you are loved.

Brother Jim: Now the teacher noticed that al

Brother Jim: had been daydreaming for a long

Brother Jim: time.

Brother Jim: She decided to get his attention.

Brother Jim: Excuse me.

Brother Jim: David.

Brother Jim: My bad.

Brother Jim: David had been daydreaming.

Brother Jim: David, she said, if the world is twenty five thousand miles

Brother Jim: around and eggs are sixty cents a dozen, how old am I?

Brother Jim: Thirty four, David answered, and didn't hesitate one bit.

Brother Jim: The teacher replied, well,

Brother Jim: that's not far from my actual

Brother Jim: age.

Brother Jim: Tell me, David, how did you guess?

Brother Jim: Oh, there's nothing to it, David said.

Brother Jim: My big sister is seventeen and she's only half crazy.

Brother Jim: Boom boom bam.

Brother Jim: Yes.

Brother Jim: All right.

Brother Jim: Our thought of the day.

Brother Jim: No man knows how bad he is till

Brother Jim: he has tried very hard to be

Brother Jim: good.

Brother Jim: Only those who try to resist

Brother Jim: temptation know how strong it

Brother Jim: is.

Brother Jim: C.S.

Brother Jim: Lewis Now we've been talking about Satan and the devil these

Brother Jim: last few, uh, well, about a week and a half here and how he works

Brother Jim: on us, who he is, how where did he come from?

Brother Jim: And we just scratched the very

Brother Jim: tip the surface of it, if you

Brother Jim: will.

Brother Jim: But one of the biggest things and we talked about last

Brother Jim: Thursday was temptation.

Brother Jim: Now, temptation is not a sin until we act on it.

Brother Jim: I believe David pointed that out very clearly.

Brother Jim: Why we are led into temptation.

Brother Jim: You ever think about that?

Brother Jim: Why are we led into temptation now?

Brother Jim: We all have our temptations.

Brother Jim: If I was to put a big old bowl

Brother Jim: of broccoli in front of David or

Brother Jim: a Ben and Jerry's Cherry Garcia,

Brother Jim: for example, which would be more

Brother Jim: tempting.

David: Depends.

David: Does broccoli have cheese on it?

Brother Jim: Nope. Just a nice thing of bowl of steamed broccoli.

David: Nope. We're going for the Ben and Jerry's.

Brother Jim: Going for the Ben and Jerry's.

Brother Jim: All right.

Brother Jim: If we would put a tofu burger in front of Brother Jim, or.

Brother Jim: I just had the other night, a sixteen ounce rib eye.

David: Oh, yeah.

Brother Jim: Yeah. I think we all know what Jim's going for.

Brother Jim: Yes.

Brother Jim: Now we're just joking around.

Brother Jim: Temptation.

Brother Jim: But food is a temptation we all have that.

Brother Jim: We all have our desires, our wants, our temptations.

Brother Jim: But here's a clear, honest list of common temptations people

Brother Jim: face today relevant, practical, and grounded in real life.

Brother Jim: And that's what we try to do here.

Brother Jim: We try to keep it real, you know, for our listeners.

Brother Jim: And we got nothing to, uh,

Brother Jim: what's the word I want here,

Brother Jim: David?

Brother Jim: It ain't like we're like this

Brother Jim: big old rooster here strutting

Brother Jim: around.

Brother Jim: You know, what you see is what you get.

David: There's no errors here.

Brother Jim: Yeah, yeah.

Brother Jim: Faulty.

Brother Jim: Guilty, guilty, faulty right here.

Brother Jim: You're looking at it, number one.

Brother Jim: Ooh.

Brother Jim: Materialism and greed.

Brother Jim: The constant desire for more

Brother Jim: money, money, money, possessions

Brother Jim: and status.

Brother Jim: How true it is, David.

Brother Jim: Yes.

Brother Jim: feeling like your worth is measured by what you own.

Brother Jim: And does our society promote that today?

David: No. Absolutely.

Brother Jim: Yes. Yes. Yes. Oh my.

Brother Jim: A lot of times when I'm doing a funeral service, I talk about an

Brother Jim: individual's obituary and how easy it is for society to judge

Brother Jim: us by what is said in obituary.

Brother Jim: True.

Brother Jim: And, you know, and especially when it comes time for the

Brother Jim: reading of the will.

Brother Jim: Oh, what's in the four hundred and one K?

Brother Jim: What's in retirement?

Brother Jim: What are his investments?

Brother Jim: The list goes on and on.

Brother Jim: Because at the end of the day, we want to know what do we get?

Brother Jim: What do we get?

Brother Jim: And a man or woman can work all

Brother Jim: their life, try to raise their

Brother Jim: children right, do the right

Brother Jim: thing.

Brother Jim: And how many times does it come down to that, David?

Brother Jim: What am I getting?

Brother Jim: Forget about all the the learning experiences.

Brother Jim: Dad or mom or grandpa.

Brother Jim: Grandma showed us the love, the warmth, the acceptance.

Brother Jim: What do I get?

Brother Jim: And, you know, I mean, good

Brother Jim: golly, David, you look at the

Brother Jim: contracts for professional

Brother Jim: sports.

Brother Jim: I mean, it just keeps getting more and more obscene.

Brother Jim: Now you say, well, Jim, you know, if you break it down and

Brother Jim: I've heard a couple of them break it down, you know?

Brother Jim: Okay.

Brother Jim: But still, you're playing a ball game at the end of the day.

Brother Jim: Now again, I'm no pro player, so I don't know what it's like.

Brother Jim: But what do you say?

Brother Jim: Enough's enough.

Brother Jim: When is enough enough?

Brother Jim: America.

Brother Jim: World.

Brother Jim: Uh, you know, uh, who did you

Brother Jim: say our number two country was

Brother Jim: right now?

David: Uh, Singapore. Singapore, I think.

Brother Jim: Okay. Singapore. How you doing?

Brother Jim: Good morning to you, our

Brother Jim: brothers and sisters in

Brother Jim: Singapore.

Brother Jim: How about over there is wealth, greed, materialistic items.

Brother Jim: Is it that high up on your list?

Brother Jim: Because I know in the I don't want to get in trouble here, but

Brother Jim: like the Asian culture.

Brother Jim: Yeah.

Brother Jim: You know there's still I know

Brother Jim: they're they're starting to lose

Brother Jim: that.

Brother Jim: But respect.

David: Respect.

Brother Jim: To.

David: Elders, right?

Brother Jim: You know, but again, Singapore,

Brother Jim: some of our other countries

Brother Jim: listening in.

Brother Jim: What about your country?

Brother Jim: What about your world that you

Brother Jim: live in is money, possessions,

Brother Jim: status, titles?

Brother Jim: Oh, gotta love the titles.

Brother Jim: David.

Brother Jim: How many of us and you see that go to people's head?

Brother Jim: Title.

Brother Jim: Title.

Brother Jim: Title.

Brother Jim: Well, this is who I am.

Brother Jim: Really?

Brother Jim: Who cares?

David: I don't even know what my official title is at work.

David: I have no idea.

David: That's how much I care.

David: Yeah.

Brother Jim: I'm more worried about the paycheck.

Brother Jim: Okay, well, if I was in the secular world working, that's

Brother Jim: what I would worry about.

Brother Jim: Is the paycheck okay?

Brother Jim: I got to clear that up before we get hate mail.

Brother Jim: All right.

Brother Jim: Uh, anything that on that one, David?

David: No, I don't think so.

David: I mean.

Brother Jim: We.

David: Got a list.

David: Yeah.

Brother Jim: So I want to set the list up first.

Brother Jim: Ah, here's a big one, a big one.

Brother Jim: Lust and sexual temptation.

Brother Jim: And I'm not talking about the group.

Brother Jim: Oh, I should have gave you a forewarning.

Brother Jim: You could hit a little temptation.

David: Yeah, I will throw it in a post.

Brother Jim: All right, but sexual immorality, pornography and

Brother Jim: unhealthy relationships distorting love into something

Brother Jim: selfish rather than meaningful.

Brother Jim: What do you mean, Jim?

Brother Jim: All right, let's just throw the dagger right at the throat.

Brother Jim: Today or tonight?

Brother Jim: Tomorrow, whenever you're

Brother Jim: listening to this, how about

Brother Jim: living together?

Brother Jim: What does that do?

Brother Jim: Oh, I might step on some toes here, but what does that do to a

Brother Jim: man and a woman?

Brother Jim: Are you saying to the woman

Brother Jim: she's not good enough to make

Brother Jim: her your wife or vice versa, you

Brother Jim: know, want to keep it equal

Brother Jim: here?

Brother Jim: Uh, do you ever think about the

Brother Jim: what it does to the people,

Brother Jim: though?

Brother Jim: I mean, hey, David, you know, I went and shacked up with, uh,

Brother Jim: uh, what's a generic name here?

Brother Jim: Uh, Jane.

David: Yeah. Jane Doe.

Brother Jim: Wayne went and shacked up with Jane Doe.

Brother Jim: Lived with her for about three years.

Brother Jim: That didn't work out.

Brother Jim: And then I found, oh, Jane Doe's sister, Penny, A little better

Brother Jim: looking and a little nicer.

Brother Jim: So I shacked up with her for four years.

Brother Jim: What am I doing to myself?

Brother Jim: Because if I if I ever find that right person, look at the

Brother Jim: baggage you're bringing with.

David: Yeah.

Brother Jim: You can't get away from that when you sleep around.

Brother Jim: And I'm just being honest.

Brother Jim: But you're also stealing that experience.

Brother Jim: Isn't that the great thing about marriage?

Brother Jim: You know, all the new stuff?

David: Yeah.

Brother Jim: You know, and you're going to find out stuff.

Brother Jim: Wait a minute.

Brother Jim: This is what he looks like in the morning.

Brother Jim: She snores.

Brother Jim: You see what I'm saying?

Brother Jim: You take that away.

Brother Jim: You're stealing it from the person you love.

Brother Jim: And especially if that's the one you are meant to be with that

Brother Jim: God wants you to be with.

Brother Jim: You're bringing in all this prior experience.

Brother Jim: It's a tough one, is it not?

Brother Jim: And I mean, as we've talked before, I mean, sex sells.

Brother Jim: Look around.

Brother Jim: Oh my goodness.

Brother Jim: It just keeps getting skimpier and skimpier and tighter and

Brother Jim: tighter as I call them, Satan pants and yoga pants.

Brother Jim: Why in God's green earth do women.

Brother Jim: And I'm picking on women wear yoga pants to to the Walmart.

Brother Jim: Bad enough having to see people in PJs.

Brother Jim: I'm just being honest.

Brother Jim: I'm a dude.

Brother Jim: I'm a red blooded American male.

Brother Jim: I like meat, I like guns and women.

Brother Jim: Let's be honest.

Brother Jim: And it's tough when you've got these.

Brother Jim: Prove me wrong.

Brother Jim: Okay, now I know most men will lie.

Brother Jim: Especially married men will lie about this.

Brother Jim: Or you go to the beach.

Brother Jim: David, you're setting yourself up to to battle.

David: Yeah.

Brother Jim: The temptation of.

David: Lust, whether you want to or not.

Brother Jim: Exactly. And I've said before, I try to prepare.

Brother Jim: When we went to the beach last

Brother Jim: October, I prayed to God saying,

Brother Jim: give me eyes of discernment so I

Brother Jim: don't look.

Brother Jim: But when you got this, you know, very nice looking lady wearing a

Brother Jim: thong bikini right next to you.

David: Which is supposed to be illegal in Myrtle Beach, by the way.

Brother Jim: Yeah, well, she didn't get the memo on.

David: That one, buddy.

Brother Jim: You know what I'm saying?

Brother Jim: How are our kids?

Brother Jim: We don't even.

Brother Jim: Do we even sit down and explain that to people, to our children?

Brother Jim: Let me say that to our children.

Brother Jim: You know, you got you got twelve year olds looking like they're

Brother Jim: twenty one, twenty two.

Brother Jim: Yeah.

Brother Jim: Doing things.

Brother Jim: Talking the way they talk, the way they think.

Brother Jim: Come on, be a kid, be a kid.

Brother Jim: Enjoy life.

Brother Jim: Moms, dads.

Brother Jim: Why are you pushing your kids?

Brother Jim: And I'm.

Brother Jim: Oh, I'm fired up now.

Brother Jim: I'm going off on another one on moms.

Brother Jim: And I've seen it.

Brother Jim: I've experienced it.

Brother Jim: You go to example, a cheer competition.

Brother Jim: You got thirty, forty year old

Brother Jim: moms dressed up like they're

Brother Jim: going out clubbing and they got

Brother Jim: their kids.

Brother Jim: So peaked out, you know, dressed up.

Brother Jim: It's one thing to look nice, but a cheer competition.

Brother Jim: You're looking like you're going clubbing.

David: Yeah. Come on.

Brother Jim: Well, you could say to you, well, Jim, you're fat and kind

Brother Jim: of ugly and you don't know how to look good.

Brother Jim: True, but come on, I got enough common sense.

Brother Jim: And, David, what would you do if I showed up on a Sunday morning

Brother Jim: in skinny jeans?

David: Probably turn right around and walk out the door.

David: What is the word?

Brother Jim: Yeah. So we could go on and on

Brother Jim: about that one, but it's

Brother Jim: everywhere.

Brother Jim: But it's our job as Christians to fight it, to stand up for

Brother Jim: what is right.

Brother Jim: Doing it in a loving way.

Brother Jim: And, you know, maybe a lot of

Brother Jim: times, David, kids probably just

Brother Jim: want direction on that because

Brother Jim: they imitate.

Brother Jim: Yeah, they imitate.

David: And maybe they weren't even told any better.

David: Maybe they don't know any better.

Brother Jim: Exactly, exactly.

Brother Jim: So we can do better on that one, my friends.

Brother Jim: All right.

Brother Jim: Number three, pride and ego.

Brother Jim: Oh, another big one.

Brother Jim: Wanting to be seen as better than others.

Brother Jim: Struggling with arrogance,

Brother Jim: self-centeredness, or needing

Brother Jim: constant validation.

Brother Jim: Ooh.

Brother Jim: I gotta hold the bat on this one.

David: Brother Jim, can I just tell you

David: how blessed I was to be able to

David: go?

David: I went and spent all day with sister Sally all day, and I was

David: such a blessing that I was able to do that for her.

David: And yeah.

Brother Jim: Yeah.

David: Who who are you honoring here, yourself or God?

David: Right?

Brother Jim: You know, it's one thing to speak up.

Brother Jim: Hey, has anybody heard about sister Sally?

Brother Jim: Hey, I was there the other day.

Brother Jim: She's doing okay.

Brother Jim: Or she had this.

Brother Jim: But to, you know, to inform

Brother Jim: somebody of the situation,

Brother Jim: right?

Brother Jim: But.

Brother Jim: Yeah.

Brother Jim: Or, boy, I gotta watch how I say everything here.

Brother Jim: Whatever happened?

Brother Jim: Just doing it without the approval.

Brother Jim: Without the nod.

Brother Jim: Yeah.

Brother Jim: You know.

Brother Jim: Yeah.

Brother Jim: Knowing.

Brother Jim: Hey, God's watching.

Brother Jim: Chalking it up to a personal

Brother Jim: quiet victory that hopefully I'm

Brother Jim: making a difference in

Brother Jim: somebody's life and leave it at

Brother Jim: that.

Brother Jim: Yeah.

Brother Jim: Uh, self centeredness, which

Brother Jim: again, this is what our society

Brother Jim: produces.

Brother Jim: I mean, going back to and I sound like a broken record, but

Brother Jim: I mean, you see it on social media all the time.

Brother Jim: I mean, when we first started

Brother Jim: out with selfies, oh my

Brother Jim: goodness, everybody and their

Brother Jim: brother.

Brother Jim: selfie sticks.

Brother Jim: Whew.

Brother Jim: I don't even know if there's still a thing.

Brother Jim: Now.

Brother Jim: Selfie sticks.

David: I think they are not very

David: popular, but I think they're

David: still good.

Brother Jim: Just. Well, Jim, what are you doing right now?

Brother Jim: David and I have a purpose here.

Brother Jim: We're not out here trying to, uh.

Brother Jim: What's the word?

Brother Jim: What's the word?

David: We're not promoting ourselves.

Brother Jim: Yeah, we're not promoting.

Brother Jim: Oh, we're we're having a good time.

David: There's nothing here to promote.

David: But Jesus, let me tell you.

Brother Jim: Yeah. I mean, look at it.

Brother Jim: You got a fifty three year old guy with a wristband on holding

Brother Jim: a baseball bat.

David: Next to a chicken and a pig.

Brother Jim: Talking to a chicken and a pig.

Brother Jim: What's there to promote other than maybe a a one way trip to

Brother Jim: the the special place?

Brother Jim: But yeah, and again, that's why

Brother Jim: I said, that's why I go by

Brother Jim: Brother Jim because oh, in a

Brother Jim: joking way, I got called

Brother Jim: Reverend Jim the other night and

Brother Jim: I'm like, oh, who's Reverend Jim

Brother Jim: again?

Brother Jim: Not disrespecting that.

Brother Jim: But and that's the one thing I

Brother Jim: never want to be put up on a

Brother Jim: pedestal.

Brother Jim: I pray you know.

Brother Jim: No, it's.

Brother Jim: And should we all be like that, David, in our Christian walk.

Brother Jim: Humble with humility.

Brother Jim: You know.

Brother Jim: And it works for me.

Brother Jim: Uh, and again, we could go on and on with this one.

Brother Jim: Uh, how about number four?

Brother Jim: Anger and bitterness.

Brother Jim: Holding grudges, seeking revenge or reacting harshly, letting

Brother Jim: hurt turn into hatred.

Brother Jim: Uh, nothing like a good baseball bat to the kneecaps.

Brother Jim: Let's add a little frustration.

Brother Jim: Uh, have you ever been to one of those?

Brother Jim: Uh. Oh, you go in and you just bust stuff up their rooms.

David: No, I want to go.

David: But I've never.

David: I've never been to one.

Brother Jim: Well, it's kind of funny.

Brother Jim: We got an old TV.

Brother Jim: Well, you know the TV over there at the life center?

Brother Jim: Yeah.

Brother Jim: Uh, brother of ours, Caleb.

Brother Jim: He called to see if we could

Brother Jim: take it over, and I said, no, we

Brother Jim: don't want it because it might

Brother Jim: have mercury.

Brother Jim: And I'm like, what do they call those, uh.

David: Rear projection TVs?

Brother Jim: Oh, no, I mean the rooms.

David: Oh, rage room.

Brother Jim: Rage rooms.

Brother Jim: Yeah. Which, you know,

Brother Jim: Sometimes, whether I'm right or

Brother Jim: wrong, you got to let it out

Brother Jim: sometimes.

David: Yeah.

Brother Jim: And to me, if you're letting it out in a healthy way.

David: Yeah.

Brother Jim: You know, um.

David: As long as you're not Michael

David: Douglas in Falling Down, you're

David: alright.

Brother Jim: Ah, yes.

Brother Jim: We've talked about great movie, great movie.

Brother Jim: Yeah.

Brother Jim: If you're walking around with a

Brother Jim: rocket launcher, an RPG, we, we

Brother Jim: need to talk here, but please

Brother Jim: put it down before you come talk

Brother Jim: to us.

Brother Jim: Yeah.

Brother Jim: Yes.

Brother Jim: Holding grudges.

Brother Jim: That's a big one.

Brother Jim: Oh, and I see it in the church.

Brother Jim: I know it's in the church.

Brother Jim: Well, aunt Sally did this back

Brother Jim: to my brother back in nineteen

Brother Jim: forty two.

Brother Jim: And for the love of let it Go.

Brother Jim: They're both dead, you know?

Brother Jim: Yep.

Brother Jim: Gang bangers, the gangs of LA, the Red, the blood, the blue, or

Brother Jim: the Crips and the Bloods.

Brother Jim: Yeah, you took out my homie.

Brother Jim: So I'm going to take out your homie.

Brother Jim: When does it ever end?

Brother Jim: When does it ever end?

Brother Jim: And you know, you can say, well, Jim, that's out there.

Brother Jim: No, that's in our own lives.

Brother Jim: Let's be honest.

Brother Jim: Look in the mirror.

Brother Jim: How many of us?

Brother Jim: Quietly.

Brother Jim: Oh, there's a country song.

Brother Jim: Came out quite a few years ago,

Brother Jim: and it was a funny one about I

Brother Jim: wish you.

Brother Jim: I pray for you.

Brother Jim: I pray your motor in the

Brother Jim: airplane stalls and stuff like

Brother Jim: that.

Brother Jim: And it's like, we'll have to see

Brother Jim: if we can find that one because

Brother Jim: it's a, it's a funny one, but

Brother Jim: there's a lot of truth in that

Brother Jim: too.

Brother Jim: Oh, I'm praying for you, honey.

Brother Jim: Yeah, that the brakes go out on your car.

Brother Jim: Uh, but yeah.

Brother Jim: And reacting harshly, uh, how we react, we're so quick to judge.

Brother Jim: We're so quick to react.

Brother Jim: And usually nice words do not come out of our mouths.

Brother Jim: Think of your customer service rep on the other end.

Brother Jim: They're just trying to make a living, man.

Brother Jim: You know, uh, I'd say, what, ninety nine point nine nine nine

Brother Jim: percent of the time?

Brother Jim: They're not the ones who write the policy.

Brother Jim: Correct?

David: Right?

Brother Jim: Yeah, yeah.

Brother Jim: Yes. Uh, like me getting I'd get mad at David because the

Brother Jim: internet's not working.

Brother Jim: David's got no control over the internet or the power goes out.

Brother Jim: We got no control over that.

Brother Jim: Why get mad at.

Brother Jim: Hey, I'm rooting for AEP.

Brother Jim: Yes.

Brother Jim: You're the man.

Brother Jim: That's right.

Brother Jim: Yeah.

Brother Jim: Alrighty.

Brother Jim: But don't let it turn into hatred.

Brother Jim: Number five.

Brother Jim: Dishonesty.

Brother Jim: Lying.

Brother Jim: Cheating.

Brother Jim: Exaggerating.

Brother Jim: Ooh, I once caught a fish.

Brother Jim: Ooh.

Brother Jim: This big.

Brother Jim: Or cutting corners for personal gain.

Brother Jim: Ah!

Brother Jim: Lying.

Brother Jim: Cheating.

Brother Jim: Exaggerating.

Brother Jim: That comes down to.

Brother Jim: I think a lot of it comes down to how you was raised.

Brother Jim: In your environment.

Brother Jim: Yeah.

Brother Jim: The environment you.

Brother Jim: Because I've seen it, dude.

Brother Jim: It gets passed down from generation to generation.

Brother Jim: You ever encounter somebody that

Brother Jim: you can't believe a word they

Brother Jim: say?

Brother Jim: And the sad thing is they believe it themselves.

Brother Jim: Yeah.

Brother Jim: You know, it just a lie turns into another lot where the whole

Brother Jim: life that they're living at that moment is just a big old lie.

Brother Jim: It's fantasy.

Brother Jim: Yeah.

Brother Jim: You know, now, I used to have days and nights of dreaming of

Brother Jim: playing in the NFL or pro ball, that kind of stuff, or being a

Brother Jim: big time pro wrestler, you know?

Brother Jim: Yeah.

Brother Jim: You know, now maybe I'm exaggerating a little now with

Brother Jim: the Nacho man.

Brother Jim: More living out a fantasy, which, hey, the nacho man's

Brother Jim: coming back next week actually at his ability.

Brother Jim: So, uh, but yeah.

Brother Jim: Um, so again, where do you fall into that category?

Brother Jim: Here's a big one and it's

Brother Jim: hitting home so hard, it's hit

Brother Jim: home forever.

Brother Jim: Addiction substances, alcohol, drugs or behaviors, gaming,

Brother Jim: gambling, social media.

Brother Jim: Yes.

Brother Jim: Social media.

Brother Jim: Can you put the phone down for more than an hour?

Brother Jim: And it's funny, I it's not funny, but I've watched my mom,

Brother Jim: she's become addicted.

Brother Jim: Yeah, yeah, she and she loves

Brother Jim: her dancing cats and singing

Brother Jim: cats.

Brother Jim: Anything.

Brother Jim: Here we go.

Brother Jim: Anything that begins to control

Brother Jim: you instead of you controlling

Brother Jim: it.

Brother Jim: Now, that list could go on and

Brother Jim: on, but I mean, you look around,

Brother Jim: man, just.

Brother Jim: From over the counter stuff to, you know, prescriptions.

Brother Jim: Uh, what did I hear the other day?

Brother Jim: Someone.

Brother Jim: I mean, they were, they were so, so hard up.

Brother Jim: I mean, it was coughing or cough syrup, you know?

Brother Jim: Yeah.

Brother Jim: Just anything.

Brother Jim: The great late Keith Whitley,

Brother Jim: who was just an icon in country

Brother Jim: music.

Brother Jim: I mean, he was a severe alcoholic and he was actually

Brother Jim: drinking, rubbing alcohol.

Brother Jim: Oh yeah.

Brother Jim: Yeah.

Brother Jim: And it cost him his life.

Brother Jim: Eventually.

Brother Jim: I think of how many greats this world has lost.

Brother Jim: Entertainers.

Brother Jim: Yeah.

Brother Jim: Professional sports.

Brother Jim: Remember Len Bias?

David: Yeah.

Brother Jim: He hadn't even made it.

Brother Jim: Oh, this was back, I think in the eighties.

Brother Jim: He was the number one draft

Brother Jim: pick, I believe for the Boston

Brother Jim: Celtics.

David: Mhm.

Brother Jim: OD'd on Coke. never even got to

Brother Jim: set a foot on the floor to play

Brother Jim: for Boston.

Brother Jim: You know.

David: So, Tiger Woods, let's be real.

David: Tiger woods I mean, Tiger Woods clearly has a problem.

David: I mean, come on.

David: The guy just with women.

David: No, no. I mean he's had so many surgeries.

David: He's clearly addicted to painkillers.

David: Oh, okay.

David: He's clearly addicted to painkillers.

David: The guy needs help.

Brother Jim: Then you got a guy like John Daly.

Brother Jim: He don't care.

David: I saw I saw a meme the other day that was hilarious.

David: It had a picture of both of them, and it said DUIs, and it

David: had a two over top, a tiger and a zero over John Deere.

David: Who would have thought John Daly never had a DUI?

David: Right?

Brother Jim: And if you don't know who John Daly is, he's a big old Haas

Brother Jim: golfer that just.

Brother Jim: He don't care.

David: No, I forget how many.

David: I don't know if you drink alcohol anymore, but he used to

David: just pound the beers and smoke cigarettes all around, and.

Brother Jim: Then he could go play like a great game of golf.

Brother Jim: So anyway, we're not endorsing that.

Brother Jim: No, no, not by any means.

Brother Jim: But, uh, again, anything that begins to control you instead of

Brother Jim: you controlling it?

Brother Jim: And that, my friends, is

Brother Jim: something we need to look on the

Brother Jim: inside because we each have that

Brother Jim: inside us.

Brother Jim: Number seven peer pressure.

Brother Jim: Compromising your values to fit in or be accepted especially

Brother Jim: strong amongst youth.

Brother Jim: Amen to that.

Brother Jim: Uh, my daughter, our daughter Ellie.

Brother Jim: I mean, dude, David.

Brother Jim: Girls.

Brother Jim: And I'm not picking on girls, but the drama, thirteen years

Brother Jim: old, what she goes through and it affects her and me as a dad.

Brother Jim: I'm like, who cares?

Brother Jim: Yeah, but I'm not living in her world.

Brother Jim: Yeah.

Brother Jim: And I don't remember it being like that.

David: Oh, that's because when you went

David: home, I mean, there was no

David: internet.

David: You go home at the end of the day and you're you're you're

David: done at three o'clock.

David: You don't deal with the next day.

Brother Jim: The worst thing you might got a note saying at the end of the

Brother Jim: day, end of the school day.

Brother Jim: Hey, I want to break up with you.

Brother Jim: I don't like you anymore.

Brother Jim: Yeah.

Brother Jim: Can't we be friends?

Brother Jim: I just want to be friends.

Brother Jim: Yeah.

Brother Jim: Yes.

Brother Jim: I mean, yeah, that was the biggest worry there is.

Brother Jim: Getting a note at the end of the day, you know?

Brother Jim: Uh, but peer pressure, not that anywhere from the job site to

Brother Jim: school at home.

Brother Jim: Uh, that's a tough one.

Brother Jim: That can be a tough one, too, but temptations of.

Brother Jim: Okay, peer pressure.

Brother Jim: What am I going to do?

Brother Jim: Ooh, man, I'm just calling the kettle black here.

Brother Jim: What we put in our body to keep us moving and grooving.

Brother Jim: Oh, David.

Brother Jim: I just kind of just to keep us moving through.

Brother Jim: Yep.

Brother Jim: How much caffeine do we consume a day?

Brother Jim: How much nicotine?

Brother Jim: How much?

Brother Jim: Uh, energy drinks?

Brother Jim: Yeah, I just bought two, uh, big old packs of V8 energy.

David: Mhm.

Brother Jim: Not the regular V8, but the energy I test.

Brother Jim: Yeah, man.

Brother Jim: Why did I bring that one up?

Brother Jim: I'm feeling very guilty right now.

Brother Jim: Uh, but you know what we do because it's peer pressure.

Brother Jim: It's pressure to perform.

Brother Jim: Uh, you know, and that's everywhere.

Brother Jim: Look what we put on our kids.

Brother Jim: You know, to be the next Tiger Woods or the next Babe Ruth or.

Brother Jim: Yep.

Brother Jim: Yeah.

Brother Jim: So. All right.

Brother Jim: Number eight, envy in comparison, constantly comparing

Brother Jim: your life to others, especially through social media, feeling

Brother Jim: jealous instead of grateful.

Brother Jim: That happens all the time, you know.

Brother Jim: And I just love how David, look

Brother Jim: at this beautiful can of

Brother Jim: lasagna.

Brother Jim: I opened up and put on my paper plate, put a little parsley

Brother Jim: around it, you know?

Brother Jim: Yeah.

Brother Jim: Really?

Brother Jim: Who cares?

Brother Jim: I'm sorry.

Brother Jim: Now, if David made this amazing ten layered chocolate cake with

Brother Jim: cherries and everything in it.

Brother Jim: I want to see that.

Brother Jim: Yeah.

Brother Jim: You know, and then I'm hoping to get an invitation to come over.

Brother Jim: But, you know, we put ourselves out there.

Brother Jim: Well, little Jimmy did this.

Brother Jim: Little Jimmy did that.

David: Yeah.

Brother Jim: I've seen your kid.

Brother Jim: He's out there eating dirt and looking at the train go by.

David: Well, I was gonna say, you know,

David: we'll post pictures of the kids

David: on Facebook.

David: Sometimes it's like.

David: And they're the most perfect picture, or at least the most

David: perfect we could get.

David: Yeah.

David: They don't see the forty five minutes it took of screaming and

David: yelling and all the pictures of the kids looking this way and

David: that way, the fingers up and you know you're only seeing what you

David: know, what's what's curated for you to see.

Brother Jim: And any parent that's went through that knows exactly what

Brother Jim: you're talking about.

Brother Jim: And usually you get the kid

Brother Jim: finally into and then you're the

Brother Jim: one, yeah.

David: You're done or you're.

Brother Jim: Yeah, yes.

Brother Jim: But now we've created this

Brother Jim: competition even more with

Brother Jim: social media.

Brother Jim: Thus the peer pressure.

Brother Jim: Thus, I mean, it's just a ripple effect.

Brother Jim: A train effect keeps coming around.

Brother Jim: All right, number nine, laziness and lack of discipline.

Brother Jim: Avoiding responsibilities, procrastination,

Brother Jim: procrastination, or choosing comfort over growth.

Brother Jim: Now procrastination.

Brother Jim: I'm going to say I perform better under pressure.

Brother Jim: David.

Brother Jim: That's my go to there.

Brother Jim: So when something you know something's due, I'm usually at

Brother Jim: my best come crunch time.

Brother Jim: Crunch time.

Brother Jim: Yeah.

Brother Jim: And that's a bunch of horse poo too.

Brother Jim: So. avoiding responsibility.

Brother Jim: Oh my goodness, where is our responsibility at?

Brother Jim: I'm going to throw out there

Brother Jim: with raising our kids and

Brother Jim: grandkids.

Brother Jim: How about that when something to chew on America.

Brother Jim: How about Singapore?

Brother Jim: How about the rest of the world?

Brother Jim: You all got that problem too.

Brother Jim: It seems like boy America, we can make them, but we can't take

Brother Jim: care of them.

Brother Jim: Ooh!

Brother Jim: Ouch!

Brother Jim: Hey!

Brother Jim: It's true, it's true.

Brother Jim: Uh, not everybody though.

Brother Jim: Hey, like anything, there's good and bad.

Brother Jim: Good mommies and daddies.

Brother Jim: There's bad mommies and daddies.

Brother Jim: You know, it's just sad, though.

Brother Jim: Where is our responsibility?

Brother Jim: Government.

Brother Jim: Ooh.

Brother Jim: How about it?

Brother Jim: Government.

Brother Jim: Where is your responsibility?

Brother Jim: To the American people?

Brother Jim: Why?

Brother Jim: You were elected.

Brother Jim: Throw that out there, David.

Brother Jim: I think they seem to have

Brother Jim: forgotten what they were elected

Brother Jim: for.

Brother Jim: Responsibility.

Brother Jim: You hold accountable.

Brother Jim: We trust you to put you in

Brother Jim: there, to make the right

Brother Jim: decisions, to do what's best for

Brother Jim: America, not what's best for

Brother Jim: you.

Brother Jim: And the line, your pocket.

Brother Jim: And that goes Democrat,

Brother Jim: Republican and everybody else

Brother Jim: involved.

David: Federal and state.

Brother Jim: Yes. Federal and state.

Brother Jim: Even local.

David: Yeah, right.

Brother Jim: Yes. Come on now.

Brother Jim: Give me an amen on that one.

Brother Jim: Alright.

Brother Jim: Or choosing comfort over growth.

Brother Jim: Oh, we all love to say stay in

Brother Jim: that little comfy circle, don't

Brother Jim: we?

Brother Jim: I'm guilty of it too.

Brother Jim: Uh, Dave and my little comfy

Brother Jim: circle is my recliner with the

Brother Jim: heating pad.

David: Oh, yeah.

Brother Jim: Ooh, it'd take a. You know what I'm trying to think of somebody

Brother Jim: that I really dig.

Brother Jim: Showing up at the door.

Brother Jim: It would take somebody very

Brother Jim: impressive to get me up out of

Brother Jim: the chair at this stage of my

Brother Jim: life.

Brother Jim: You know, I think if Kerry said

Brother Jim: there's a tornado coming, I'd be

Brother Jim: like, I'll be all right, you

Brother Jim: guys.

Brother Jim: We'll see.

Brother Jim: Yes.

Brother Jim: Comfort over growth.

Brother Jim: I'm struggling with that right now.

Brother Jim: I was just complaining to David.

Brother Jim: You know these classes we got to take, man.

Brother Jim: I have not exercised the brain in a long time.

Brother Jim: And yes, folks, the brain, the memory even gets a little rusty.

Brother Jim: When you don't use it.

Brother Jim: So, uh.

Brother Jim: Man, I'm looking at this chicken right now, and, uh, I'm very

Brother Jim: jealous of him.

David: He don't have to take any classes.

Brother Jim: He don't have to take any classes.

Brother Jim: Yeah, he don't have to grow any in his line of business.

Brother Jim: That's not good to grow.

Brother Jim: So.

Brother Jim: Alrighty.

Brother Jim: Number ten.

Brother Jim: Doubt and loss of faith.

Brother Jim: Questioning purpose, truth or

Brother Jim: God, especially during difficult

Brother Jim: times.

Brother Jim: Pretty self-explanatory.

Brother Jim: Explanatory there.

Brother Jim: Is it safe to say we've all lost faith at times?

Brother Jim: Questioned.

Brother Jim: How about that question?

Brother Jim: Or maybe loss of faith,

Brother Jim: questioning purpose, truth or

Brother Jim: God, especially during difficult

Brother Jim: times?

Brother Jim: Number eleven power and control.

Brother Jim: Wanting dominance over others.

Brother Jim: Manipulating situations or people for personal benefit.

Brother Jim: Oh, I know a couple like that

Brother Jim: I've experienced throughout my

Brother Jim: life.

Brother Jim: Yeah, and you know what?

Brother Jim: Sometimes, yes, we can manipulate to benefit from it.

Brother Jim: You know, I hate to say it, but, yeah, we can, you know.

Brother Jim: Um.

Brother Jim: Uh. Oh, what was that old one there?

Brother Jim: Where, uh, if you had a split between two kids, like a, a big

Brother Jim: piece of pie, you know, and to keep them from manipulating, you

Brother Jim: know, the one that cut it, the other person got to choose it.

Brother Jim: So then, you know, as even as even can be.

Brother Jim: But yeah, you know, it's easy to manipulate sometimes.

Brother Jim: Oh, look at our elderly.

Brother Jim: How bad they are manipulated.

Brother Jim: Yeah.

Brother Jim: These, uh, yeah.

Brother Jim: Yeah.

Brother Jim: Taking advantage, scamming people.

Brother Jim: That's horrible.

Brother Jim: Horrible.

Brother Jim: Number twelve.

Brother Jim: Entertainment and distraction overload.

Brother Jim: Being so consumed by media, phones and pleasures that you

Brother Jim: neglect what truly matters.

Brother Jim: Enough said on that one.

Brother Jim: And number thirteen.

Brother Jim: Fear and anxiety, leading to wrong choices.

Brother Jim: Letting fear drive decisions instead of faith or wisdom.

Brother Jim: Number fourteen self-reliance over dependence on God.

Brother Jim: Believing you don't need

Brother Jim: guidance, help, or

Brother Jim: accountability.

Brother Jim: Wow.

Brother Jim: Been there myself, my friend.

Brother Jim: Been there myself.

Brother Jim: Yes.

Brother Jim: Number fifteen.

Brother Jim: Compromise.

Brother Jim: Gradually lowering standards.

Brother Jim: Telling yourself it's not that bad until it becomes a habit.

Brother Jim: Yeah, my belly's not that bad.

Brother Jim: It's okay.

Brother Jim: I just had to put an extra or a loosen up, you know?

Brother Jim: I'm wearing sweatpants now instead of my slack.

Brother Jim: It's all right.

Brother Jim: All right.

Brother Jim: These temptations are not new, but they are louder, louder and

Brother Jim: more accessible today.

Brother Jim: And I have to agree with that.

Brother Jim: The key is not pretending they

Brother Jim: don't exist, but recognizing

Brother Jim: them and choosing how to

Brother Jim: respond.

Brother Jim: A lot that we covered today.

Brother Jim: This morning.

Brother Jim: Think about it.

Brother Jim: Go back if you want to.

Brother Jim: You can agree or disagree.

Brother Jim: Or maybe you've got some yourself.

Brother Jim: Hey, Jim, you missed out on this one.

Brother Jim: Let us know in the comments.

Brother Jim: Well, that just about does it my friends for this.

Brother Jim: Tuesday, April seventh, twenty twenty six.

Brother Jim: Mr. David, my friend, closing

Brother Jim: thoughts or comments for this

Brother Jim: segment?

David: I don't think I have any.

David: There was a lot there to digest.

David: I'm still digesting it.

David: Yeah, we'll we'll follow up on Thursday.

Brother Jim: I should have brought you some Tums.

David: Thanks.

Brother Jim: Yeah, this is one you might have

Brother Jim: to go back and look, if you're

Brother Jim: that interested.

Brother Jim: But our friends, as we close, please remember you.

Brother Jim: Yes, you.

Brother Jim: You have meaning.

Brother Jim: You have value.

Brother Jim: And most of all, you are loved.

Brother Jim: May God continue to bless you just as well.

Brother Jim: May you and I continue to thank our Lord above for our blessings

Brother Jim: each and every day.

Brother Jim: And if we meet again, well, then we will smile and rejoice.

Brother Jim: And if not, then this parting was well made.

Brother Jim: Thank you for joining David and myself this morning here on

Brother Jim: Bible bibs and a prayer.

Brother Jim: This is the big guy, Brother Jim out.