Bible Bibs and a Prayer Season 4 Episode 8

Singer: Doo doo doo doo doo doo.

Singer: Brother Jim got the book in hand.

Singer: David grins with a backbeat planned.

Singer: Pickin up the truth on a six string ride.

Singer: Rolling out faith with a whole lot of drive.

Singer: Set it up now.

Singer: Count it in.

Singer: Here that train.

Singer: We're coming in, we're comin in.

Singer: Bible bibs and a prayer Bible.

Singer: Bible in a prayer.

Singer: Brother Jim and David.

Singer: Their Bible bibs and a prayer.

Singer: Boom boom boom boom boom.

Singer: La la la la la la la la la la.

Singer: From the front porch to the jam packed room.

Singer: Dust on the boots and a room full of doom.

Singer: Sermon with a grin and a stomp and clap.

Singer: Truth so loud it knocks you back.

Singer: Lift it up now.

Singer: Let it fly.

Brother Jim: Hey, good morning world.

Brother Jim: Good morning to you.

Brother Jim: How are you doing this fine day?

Brother Jim: Our beautiful friends.

Brother Jim: Welcome to Bible bibs and a prayer where we open God's Word.

Brother Jim: Strengthen our faith.

Brother Jim: Oh, yeah.

Brother Jim: Make a big muscle there and take

Brother Jim: everything to the Lord in

Brother Jim: prayer.

Brother Jim: And again, as I've said many times, we have a whole lot of

Brother Jim: fun doing it.

Brother Jim: And guess what?

Brother Jim: No, we're not pulling your leg.

Brother Jim: This is for real.

Brother Jim: A little bit of fifties right there.

Brother Jim: I'm one half of the dynamic duo.

Brother Jim: The big guy, Brother Jim.

Brother Jim: We are celebrating here on Thursday, the nineteen fifties.

Brother Jim: And there is a possibility we

Brother Jim: might just be a little tutti

Brother Jim: frutti.

Singer: Wow. Bom bom.

Singer: To the boot on.

David: I was a little slow on the draw there.

Singer: Tutti frutti.

Speaker 6: Tutti frutti, tutti frutti.

Singer: Oh, Rudy. Oh.

David: Yeah.

Brother Jim: That is a good tune.

David: Yeah. It is.

Brother Jim: Who sings that one?

David: Little Richard.

Brother Jim: Little Richard, I gotta give it out.

Brother Jim: I'm gonna tip my hat to Little Richard there.

Brother Jim: Yes, a little tutti frutti.

Brother Jim: And if you've been watching us,

Brother Jim: you know we are little tutti

Brother Jim: frutti ourselves.

Brother Jim: Uh, maybe a lot more tutti frutti, but hey, you know.

Brother Jim: But hey, welcome.

Brother Jim: Grab your Bible, open up your heart.

Brother Jim: Put down the distractions and

Brother Jim: cut off that crazy noise of the

Brother Jim: world.

Brother Jim: Get yourself ready to spend a few minutes discovering what

Brother Jim: God's Word has to say to you.

Brother Jim: Because when?

Brother Jim: Again, I can't stress this enough.

Brother Jim: When the Bible gets into your

Brother Jim: heart, into your mind, and

Brother Jim: prayer gets on your lips, good

Brother Jim: chance your life is going to

Brother Jim: change.

Brother Jim: Yes.

Brother Jim: So how about it, folks?

Brother Jim: What do you say we get this party started?

Brother Jim: So turn up the volume, grab your

Brother Jim: Bibles, straighten up those

Brother Jim: bibs.

Brother Jim: And if you notice, today I'm wearing suspenders this week.

Brother Jim: Sit back, relax.

Brother Jim: And for crying out loud, that's

Brother Jim: another one we're going to get

Brother Jim: started.

Brother Jim: This is Bible and prayer where the word is alive and the Holy

Brother Jim: Spirit is always invited.

Brother Jim: Let's go.

Brother Jim: And of course.

Brother Jim: Oh yes, I am not doing this show alone.

Brother Jim: Of course I've got the barnyard here with me.

Brother Jim: They're cool, but not as cool as this guy.

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

Brother Jim: It is time to introduce my co-host.

Brother Jim: And you know what?

Brother Jim: When I look at this man, there

Brother Jim: is something I. I can't get out

Brother Jim: of my mind every time I look at

Brother Jim: him.

Brother Jim: Because there's a whole lotta shakin goin on.

Brother Jim: When this man straps on the mic and he picks it up right.

Brother Jim: Give it up for my co-host, Mr. David Keener.

David: We must have missed something there, because I don't think I

David: have that song queued up.

David: Oh, man.

David: I don't know if I missed when

David: you were telling it to me or

David: not, but you got to find better

David: help.

David: That's all I can say.

Brother Jim: No, no.

David: But, you know, since since we're talking about the fifties this

David: week, uh, can we refer to you as the Big Kahuna instead of Big

David: Kahuna instead of brother big guy, brother Jim.

David: All right.

Brother Jim: I like that, the big kahuna.

Brother Jim: Wait a minute, I can't.

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

Brother Jim: Let's hear it for the man,

Brother Jim: because he is definitely

Brother Jim: unforgettable.

David: There we go.

David: As a as.

Brother Jim: A.

David: As. I just went to go look for the other one.

David: Now we've got.

Brother Jim: Ah, yes.

David: Little Nat King Cole. We are so

David: going to get copyright stricken

David: these weeks.

Singer: Unforgettable.

David: Yes.

Speaker 7: That's what you are.

Brother Jim: That is what.

David: You.

Brother Jim: Are.

David: We won't say if that's a good

David: thing or a bad thing, but

David: unforgettable.

David: Yes.

David: Yes.

Brother Jim: I will say it's been fun going

Brother Jim: through all these and all these

Brother Jim: old songs.

Brother Jim: Some I know, some I don't know.

Brother Jim: Yeah.

Brother Jim: But yeah.

Brother Jim: And again, from the favorite foods, the favorite slang, the

Brother Jim: songs, the movies, the dress code, if you will.

Brother Jim: Yeah.

Brother Jim: It's been, I don't know if we'll

Brother Jim: venture into the forties or not

Brother Jim: because I know we got the

Brother Jim: nineteen nineties.

Brother Jim: We kind of started in the eighties and went backwards.

Brother Jim: But, uh, I don't know what what generation are they?

Brother Jim: The nineties?

Brother Jim: Are they still part of?

David: I think it's still considered millennial.

Brother Jim: Millennial. All right.

Brother Jim: Okay. Well, we can't leave them out.

Brother Jim: Yeah.

Brother Jim: And Lord only knows what we're

Brother Jim: going to get into when we get

Brother Jim: into this.

Brother Jim: The two thousand.

Brother Jim: Oh, boy, oh, boy.

Brother Jim: Yeah.

Brother Jim: Yes.

Brother Jim: We might get banned there.

Brother Jim: So because opinions might fly a little bit.

Brother Jim: Yep.

Brother Jim: Yes.

Brother Jim: So, uh, and you won't catch Brother Jim coming in with his

Brother Jim: pants on the ground, pants on the ground, looking like a fool

Brother Jim: with your pants on the ground.

Brother Jim: How you doing, my friend?

David: Doing good.

David: The weekend is upon us or almost upon us.

David: So that's always a good thing.

Brother Jim: How is life in Kernersville?

David: Good. Pretty. Pretty uneventful, I think.

David: Uh, not too much going on now.

Brother Jim: Any plans for the weekend?

David: Not that I know of.

David: I mean, not that I've been told of, at least so far.

Brother Jim: I understand.

David: Yeah.

Brother Jim: Yes. Yes.

David: But the only thing I did recently was I made a chicken

David: salad, and it turns out they like grain, so.

David: Uh.

Brother Jim: That was a good one.

Brother Jim: I, I took it as you made chicken salad at first and then.

David: Gotcha.

Brother Jim: Gotcha. Yes. All righty.

Brother Jim: That was a good one.

Brother Jim: Uh.

Brother Jim: Uh. That's why he's the best

Brother Jim: color commentator in the league,

Brother Jim: folks.

Brother Jim: Yes.

Brother Jim: He is.

Brother Jim: Yeah.

Brother Jim: I'm just a bit.

Brother Jim: Oh my goodness.

Brother Jim: Uh, I was telling David I finally got to the yard.

Brother Jim: Not all of it are yards, let me put it that way.

Brother Jim: But oh my goodness, I had to run down and pick up my yard sweeper

Brother Jim: from my son in law because it's going to need a lot of sweeping.

Brother Jim: Oh my goodness.

Brother Jim: Yes.

Brother Jim: And the one thing David has going living in the big town of

Brother Jim: Dover, as he's told us, he can get away with using a battery

Brother Jim: powered mower now, correct?

David: No. The mower still gas, I haven't.

David: Oh, I thought you upgraded to.

David: No, I've got a battery, a gas powered mower.

David: Got a nice Honda mower.

David: Shout out to Honda.

David: I'm not sponsored yet but uh yeah, my my edge trimmer.

David: My weed whacker and my blower and my leaf.

David: No, sorry.

David: My leaf blower and my snowblower.

David: And I just bought a set of hedge trimmers.

David: Uh, battery powered.

Brother Jim: Okay, I was talking to another

Brother Jim: dude, then I was cheating on

Brother Jim: you.

Brother Jim: Talking to somebody?

Brother Jim: Oh, no. Yeah, they bought the battery pack, whatever.

Brother Jim: And they said it was really nice.

David: I'm sure I could get away.

David: With what?

David: My yard's not that big, so.

Brother Jim: Yeah, and I. Yeah, he said he was really impressed.

Brother Jim: But again, no oil, no fuel, none of that.

Brother Jim: So, uh.

Brother Jim: Yes.

Brother Jim: How about you guys?

Brother Jim: How's yours looking?

Brother Jim: Are you getting ready for fall?

Brother Jim: Fall is here.

Brother Jim: I smelled it the other day when I was mowing.

Brother Jim: Just that smell of the leaves.

Brother Jim: And it was like.

Brother Jim: Oh, yeah.

Brother Jim: And people have been having fires.

Brother Jim: We had.

Brother Jim: Well, I burned a bunch of, uh,

Brother Jim: Dave and I was talking about

Brother Jim: this.

Brother Jim: Politicians, for the love of Mary, would you quit sending out

Brother Jim: flyers in the mail?

Brother Jim: Okay.

Brother Jim: Number one, I don't even look at him.

Brother Jim: David, you look at him.

David: Just to throw him in the trash can, just.

Brother Jim: To throw him in the trash.

Brother Jim: All those poor little trees dying to try to get you elected.

Brother Jim: Stop it.

Brother Jim: I hate to say it.

Brother Jim: It ain't going to change my vote one way or another with your

Brother Jim: little ads in the mail.

David: Well, here's another thing.

David: In the same vein two yard signs.

David: Has anybody's political opinion ever been swayed by the fact

David: that, oh, that guy's got a lot of yard signs?

Brother Jim: Man, that sign looks cool.

David: Yeah. I mean, for him, that's the same thing.

David: Like they do nothing.

David: They're just a waste of money.

Brother Jim: Yes. And what happens to them?

David: They get thrown away or recollected.

Brother Jim: Yes. So yeah.

Brother Jim: How about it, folks?

Brother Jim: Let's put that money into the economy.

Brother Jim: Now, I know people are making

Brother Jim: money off of making the signs,

Brother Jim: but again, oh my goodness, the

Brother Jim: paper.

Brother Jim: I had a fire.

Brother Jim: Now that's a fire burning all the ads the other night.

Brother Jim: Geez, are we something else?

David: I'm about sick of hearing Jon Husted blah blah blah blah blah.

David: Oh, stop with the political commercials.

David: Nobody believes your political commercials.

David: Both of you are lying on both sides.

David: There you go.

David: Shut up!

Brother Jim: Just. That's why I call him the wise man.

Brother Jim: Yes.

Brother Jim: And the other one.

Brother Jim: Liberty.

Brother Jim: Liberty.

Brother Jim: Oh, whatever that is.

Brother Jim: Oh, my.

David: That's for an actual product.

Brother Jim: I know, but still.

Brother Jim: Uh, I don't know, Netflix or

Brother Jim: whatever it is that comes up all

Brother Jim: the time.

Brother Jim: Oh my goodness.

Brother Jim: Oh, and there's another one.

Brother Jim: It's just as they're all annoying.

David: Yeah.

Brother Jim: You know, and you get on YouTube or anything.

Brother Jim: You gotta have the ads and oh,

Brother Jim: sorry folks, I'm kind of going

Brother Jim: off a little bit, but how about

Brother Jim: you?

Brother Jim: Do you agree?

Brother Jim: Let's save some trees, man.

Brother Jim: Uh. You know.

Brother Jim: Oh, my goodness, enough's enough.

Brother Jim: All righty.

Brother Jim: Uh, plans for me?

Brother Jim: Uh, I tell you, I, I am, thankfully, weddings are done.

Brother Jim: Yeah, weddings are done.

Brother Jim: Had two back to backers and that is a lot there.

Brother Jim: And of course, uh, had to get an extension on my paper.

Brother Jim: So the paper was due last Thursday.

Brother Jim: Now I got a paper due this Thursday.

Brother Jim: Well, today actually, so it never ends.

Brother Jim: It never ends.

Brother Jim: And, uh, unfortunately now we got a funeral coming up with our

Brother Jim: we got our big baptism ceremony coming up here October eleventh.

Brother Jim: Fourteen individuals will be baptized here at Roxford church.

Brother Jim: So that is awesome.

Brother Jim: Plus it's Brother Jim's first time.

Brother Jim: Or wait a minute, the big Kahunas.

Brother Jim: Yes, first time ever baptizing

Brother Jim: somebody that they've entrusted

Brother Jim: me enough.

Brother Jim: Which.

Brother Jim: Oh boy.

Brother Jim: And I've already been told, make sure you don't drown anybody,

Brother Jim: even if you don't like them.

David: So have your have your duck

David: floaties come in and all that

David: stuff.

Brother Jim: I think we need to get a lifeguard in with the whistle,

Brother Jim: the whole thing.

Brother Jim: So yes.

Brother Jim: Uh, yes.

Brother Jim: Going to break in our brand new baptismal we got.

Brother Jim: So I was thinking about trying

Brother Jim: to take a bath in it, but I was

Brother Jim: discouraged on that frowned

Brother Jim: upon.

Brother Jim: So like whatever, you know, but how about you folks?

Brother Jim: What's going down in the neighborhood in your backyard?

Brother Jim: What?

Brother Jim: Come on, guys, you're killing us here.

Brother Jim: Let us know.

Brother Jim: Please, please let us know.

Brother Jim: Just one little comment.

Brother Jim: Hey, big kahuna, and, uh, wise man, this is what we got going

Brother Jim: on, you know, uh.

David: Thankful for Peg Abram, though

David: she is always faithful to

David: comment something.

David: Thank you.

David: Peg.

David: Yes.

David: Glad to know you're out there.

David: We enjoy that.

David: You're listening.

Brother Jim: Yes. Oh, but anybody else out there listening?

Brother Jim: Anybody.

David: You know, we could probably save a lot of effort and time if we

David: just invite Peg into the server or the studio, and she can just

David: sit here and enjoy it.

Brother Jim: That is true.

Brother Jim: She can have a front row seat.

David: That's right.

David: That's right.

Brother Jim: Yeah. We'd probably lose her after the first round.

Brother Jim: This is especially the after parts.

Brother Jim: All righty.

Brother Jim: Uh, Mr. David already hit us

Brother Jim: with that great joke on the

Brother Jim: chicken salad.

Brother Jim: Caught me hook, line and sinker.

Brother Jim: Why again?

Brother Jim: I've started doing on Thursdays, brother Jim thoughts.

Brother Jim: And again, this goes to the nineteen fifties as we salute

Brother Jim: the nineteen fifties.

Brother Jim: A nineteen fifties church service was different.

Brother Jim: Nobody had a smart watch telling

Brother Jim: them how long the sermon had

Brother Jim: been going.

Brother Jim: They just had grandma looking at the clock.

Brother Jim: In the nineteen fifties, church parking was simple.

Brother Jim: You didn't need GPS.

Brother Jim: You just followed the cars with the Sunday clothes in them.

Brother Jim: Ah yes.

Brother Jim: Somebody asked a nineteen

Brother Jim: fifties kid, what do you do when

Brother Jim: you're bored?

Brother Jim: They said, I don't know.

Brother Jim: I've never been bored.

Brother Jim: Mom always finds something for me to do.

David: That's right.

Brother Jim: Yes. How about it, folks?

Brother Jim: Well, we're done with the jokes

Brother Jim: and thoughts, at least for the

Brother Jim: moment.

Brother Jim: And you survived it.

Brother Jim: Oh, my.

Brother Jim: My mind is just rolling and rolling.

Brother Jim: That might be a dangerous thing.

Brother Jim: Now God is asking you to survive the spiritual struggles that you

Brother Jim: are going through.

Brother Jim: Hey, everybody's got spiritual struggles, David.

Brother Jim: You got spiritual struggles.

David: Yep. Sure do.

Brother Jim: I do sometimes it might not be

Brother Jim: trying to not choke somebody in

Brother Jim: the congregation.

Brother Jim: Of course.

Brother Jim: I'm just kidding.

Brother Jim: Oh. Here's here's one for you, my friends.

Brother Jim: Now, I understand some of our

Brother Jim: elderly, you know, they fall

Brother Jim: asleep.

Brother Jim: And that doesn't bother me one bit.

Brother Jim: But what do you do when you got people that just fall asleep?

Brother Jim: What?

Brother Jim: We're asking you for comments.

Brother Jim: What would be a good way to wake

Brother Jim: somebody up with just a little

Brother Jim: bit of embarrassment, but not a

Brother Jim: lot.

David: I got a funny story about that.

Brother Jim: Fire away brother.

David: Way, way, way back in the day, there was a former pastor here.

David: I won't say any names because I don't want to embarrass anybody,

David: but this goes way back.

David: Somebody fell asleep in church and got.

David: He got right down next to him in the pew and shouted, fire!

David: Fire!

David: He got awake and said, where?

David: Where, where in hell for sleeping in church and went

David: right on with the sermon.

David: Oh wow.

Brother Jim: I don't think I could be that bold.

Brother Jim: That would, uh.

Brother Jim: Oh, my.

Brother Jim: I've got an idea who might the pastor you might be talking

Brother Jim: about on that one.

Brother Jim: Have you fallen asleep in church?

Brother Jim: Ah, there's a good question.

Brother Jim: I gotta admit, throughout there are times, you know, and again,

Brother Jim: I think I've mentioned this.

Brother Jim: My daughter or our daughter, excuse me, Ellie, the thirteen

Brother Jim: year old, if she can't fall asleep, sometimes she turns on

Brother Jim: one of the sermons recorded and listens to my voice.

Brother Jim: She says, you have such a soothing voice, dad.

David: I'm not sure if that's a

David: compliment or I know I don't

David: know, it's kind of both, but

David: yes.

Brother Jim: And it was so cool.

Brother Jim: I gotta say this and I'll shut up and we'll get to it.

Brother Jim: Uh, Ellie's playing volleyball, uh, Canaan Valley, eighth grade.

Brother Jim: And it's so cool because our

Brother Jim: oldest daughter, Kylie, is

Brother Jim: coaching one of the two head

Brother Jim: coaches.

Brother Jim: And Kelsey, our one daughter, helps out.

Brother Jim: The only one missing is Mikayla.

Brother Jim: We have all four man back girls

Brother Jim: on the bench, but I'm always

Brother Jim: telling Kylie about motivation,

Brother Jim: and I had to take Ellie over the

Brother Jim: other night early for the game,

Brother Jim: so I'm one of the first ones

Brother Jim: there.

Brother Jim: The kids are warming up and I got to sit on the coaches seats

Brother Jim: where the team sits.

Brother Jim: David.

Brother Jim: Yeah, and those chairs are so

Brother Jim: nice versus bleacher chairs, you

Brother Jim: know.

David: Oh, do do they need a trainer on the team or anything that you

David: could, you know, volunteer for just for that seat?

Brother Jim: Well, I, I deemed dubbed myself motivational speaker.

Brother Jim: You know where.

David: I'm going.

Brother Jim: With that one.

Brother Jim: So anyway, I said, and I was given the girls all this stuff.

Brother Jim: I was hyped, I was jacked, you know, the hat was backwards.

Brother Jim: I'm like, come on.

Brother Jim: I said, come on, Kai.

Brother Jim: Just let me talk to him.

Brother Jim: She's like, all right, dad.

Brother Jim: And so I had them all at seventh and eighth graders and I'm like

Brother Jim: giving it to them.

Brother Jim: They're all fired up.

Brother Jim: I'm like, I won't even go into it.

Brother Jim: But let's just say they were motivated.

Brother Jim: So throughout the game, I'm like, yeah, and Ellie's up on

Brother Jim: the the front line on the net.

Brother Jim: And they, I won't mention the school, but the girls, she heard

Brother Jim: them talking like, who is that guy up there?

Brother Jim: And when I was leaving the school, it was weird because I

Brother Jim: had Apple songs or whatever, you know, where you can download

Brother Jim: songs and then discontinued it.

Brother Jim: But this thing came up and it had a Dana White on.

Brother Jim: It was a motivational weird how

Brother Jim: I was talking to Ellie, taking

Brother Jim: her over.

Brother Jim: Yeah, talking about motivational

Brother Jim: and this popped up, but there

Brother Jim: was some such good key points in

Brother Jim: that.

Brother Jim: And I was like, I had my speech

Brother Jim: all ready for Saturday morning

Brother Jim: and I didn't get asked, so

Brother Jim: bummer.

Brother Jim: So yeah, I'm trying to be the official motivational speaker.

Brother Jim: There you go.

Brother Jim: So yeah.

Brother Jim: All right, enough with all that nonsense.

Brother Jim: Well, you know, I guess as a

Brother Jim: pastor, you are a motivational

Brother Jim: speaker.

David: Well, yeah, in some regard.

Brother Jim: Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Brother Jim: So which goes back to the point, if you're falling asleep in

Brother Jim: church, how can I motivate you not to fall asleep?

Brother Jim: So if you got any ideas, any

Brother Jim: stories like David had, let us

Brother Jim: know.

Brother Jim: That would be a great one to share.

Brother Jim: But also, how do you wake somebody up that's appropriate

Brother Jim: to wake them up?

Brother Jim: So Dave is already thinking on this one, so.

Brother Jim: All righty.

Brother Jim: How about we get to it?

Brother Jim: Yes.

Brother Jim: Quote of the day.

Brother Jim: Worship.

Brother Jim: And we're still talking about worship, my friends.

Brother Jim: Worship takes our eyes off of

Brother Jim: ourselves and places them where

Brother Jim: they ought to be on God, where

Brother Jim: they belong.

Brother Jim: Now, Tuesday we got into what worship is to you and we just

Brother Jim: scratched the surface.

Brother Jim: But here's a question for you.

Brother Jim: Has church gotten away from true worship?

Brother Jim: Oh, David, get your mind spinning on that one.

Brother Jim: Now we we hit a little bit of what we do in worship.

Brother Jim: Again, encourage you to go back, check it out there.

Brother Jim: But, uh, you know, we, we all have our ideas of worship, but

Brother Jim: again, true worship, are we inviting God into worship?

Brother Jim: Are we putting ourselves into worship?

Brother Jim: And is God the main focus of worship?

Brother Jim: Now we're going to be looking at

Brother Jim: John four twenty three to twenty

Brother Jim: four again.

Brother Jim: But Mr. David.

Brother Jim: Well, I am so curious.

Brother Jim: You being the wise man, the big kahuna is asking you, what is

Brother Jim: your opinion to that question?

Brother Jim: Can you see as a body whole of the church?

Brother Jim: Yeah.

Brother Jim: Do you believe could it be moving away from what true

Brother Jim: worship should be?

David: I think so.

David: I mean, we're distracted by so many things today, you know, or

David: got the phone all the time.

David: And it's hard to you know, I

David: feel like everybody has some

David: form of ADHD anymore because

David: there's so many things drawing

David: your attention.

David: It's, it's really hard to focus

David: in and lock in, if you will, on

David: worship.

Brother Jim: Yeah. Very true.

Brother Jim: Have we, as the church, gotten away from true worship, not

Brother Jim: worship as a Sunday routine, not worship as a particular style or

Brother Jim: music, not worship as something we watch from our seats.

Brother Jim: But true worship.

Brother Jim: Jesus said in John four twenty three to twenty four, the true

Brother Jim: worshipers will worship the father in spirit and in truth.

Brother Jim: And again Jesus said, true

Brother Jim: worshipers, so are you a true

Brother Jim: worshiper?

Brother Jim: AM I a true worshiper?

Brother Jim: That means there can be worship

Brother Jim: that looks right right on the

Brother Jim: outside, but isn't coming from

Brother Jim: the heart.

Brother Jim: So we touched on that again.

Brother Jim: Uh, the self-righteous who look at me, you know.

Brother Jim: Uh, yes.

Brother Jim: Or maybe the person that doesn't say a word.

Brother Jim: And I get that there's a lot of quiet people out there.

Brother Jim: They don't want to make a spectacle because maybe they're

Brother Jim: they're not sure how to react.

Brother Jim: And again, are the churches, our

Brother Jim: pastors teaching people, our

Brother Jim: Sunday school Bible studies, all

Brother Jim: this stuff?

Brother Jim: Are we teaching people how to worship?

Brother Jim: And again, we can sing the songs, we can bow our heads and

Brother Jim: cross our fingers.

Brother Jim: And I can't help but think of Cousin Eddie and Christmas

Brother Jim: vacation when he's at the table and does that.

Brother Jim: If you remember that one, we can raise our hands.

Brother Jim: We can listen to the sermon, we can even take notes in the

Brother Jim: sermon from the sermon.

Brother Jim: And again, we can say all the right words on a Sunday morning

Brother Jim: to the people around us.

Brother Jim: And yet our hearts can be somewhere else.

Brother Jim: As David said, he hid it on the head.

Brother Jim: We must have been a little bit

Brother Jim: of unagi going on there because,

Brother Jim: uh, yeah, we're drawing away the

Brother Jim: fidgety person that's always

Brother Jim: looking around, the person

Brother Jim: looking at the clock, the person

Brother Jim: on the phone, the person writing

Brother Jim: out their checks or balancing

Brother Jim: their checkbooks.

Brother Jim: And we got long pews at Roxford.

Brother Jim: So you can kind of see what your neighbor's doing, the one that

Brother Jim: has to get up and go to the bathroom twenty times.

Brother Jim: Again, not.

Brother Jim: But you know what I mean.

Brother Jim: Those are all distractions that should stop us, hopefully make

Brother Jim: us stop and think.

Brother Jim: Have we made worship about us?

Brother Jim: Ooh.

Brother Jim: And again, going back to music, Did I really like the music?

Brother Jim: Did I really like the sermon?

Brother Jim: Do I like the pastor?

Brother Jim: HMM.

Brother Jim: Let's break that down.

Brother Jim: All the things the pastor did wrong this Sunday.

Brother Jim: All the things that the bulletin.

Brother Jim: Oh, there we go.

Brother Jim: The bulletin.

Brother Jim: David.

Brother Jim: There's one that is great.

Brother Jim: Let us look at the bulletin and find any misspellings where the

Brother Jim: hyphen was not supposed to be.

Brother Jim: Oh my goodness, they got the wrong date or the wrong time.

Brother Jim: Oh my what?

Brother Jim: I hear what the poor office people go through.

Brother Jim: Who cares?

Brother Jim: I mean it can always be corrected.

Brother Jim: But again, you're drawing your

Brother Jim: attention so much to the

Brother Jim: bulletin that you're not even

Brother Jim: paying attention.

Brother Jim: And again, I love to watch.

Brother Jim: I wish, David, you could get me a camera up front, like on my

Brother Jim: glasses to where I could zoom in on people singing.

Brother Jim: That would be great.

Brother Jim: MM. Brother Jim, I want to hear song six thirty two.

Brother Jim: All right, let's sing.

Brother Jim: Six thirty two.

Brother Jim: Not a word, not a word.

Brother Jim: Did I get something out of church today?

Brother Jim: Did I get something out of the sermon?

Brother Jim: Oh, my.

Brother Jim: Were you really listening or

Brother Jim: were you thinking about that

Brother Jim: delicious meal that's in the

Brother Jim: crock pot?

Brother Jim: Or it's going to be on the barbecue?

Brother Jim: Or if we're going to beat the Baptists down the famous recipe.

Brother Jim: Uh, but perhaps the better question is, did I give God?

Brother Jim: Did I give God my worship today?

Brother Jim: Worship isn't about entertaining us.

Brother Jim: It's not about impressing us.

Brother Jim: It's not about making everything comfortable.

Brother Jim: Oh. Feel good.

Brother Jim: Yes.

Brother Jim: Have you seen some feel good ministers out there, David?

David: Oh, yeah.

Brother Jim: Oh, yeah.

Brother Jim: Making you feel good.

Brother Jim: I'm going to tell you how to

Brother Jim: make money, money money money

Brother Jim: prosperity preaching.

Brother Jim: Oh my goodness.

Brother Jim: It's like a Baskin-Robbins.

Brother Jim: Back in the day.

Brother Jim: I forget how many flavors they had.

David: Thirty one.

Brother Jim: But you can pick what you want to listen to.

Brother Jim: And is that a problem, David?

Brother Jim: When we pick what we want to

Brother Jim: hear, which kind of, we can bend

Brother Jim: it around to make sure we're

Brother Jim: hearing what we want to hear,

Brother Jim: right?

Brother Jim: Instead of hearing.

Brother Jim: The truth is your pastor is your church preaching the truth?

Brother Jim: Are they inviting worship?

Brother Jim: Because again, worship is about God.

Brother Jim: True worship requires, again, this word from last week.

Brother Jim: It begins with an S surrender.

Brother Jim: Hope you guessed right.

Brother Jim: Romans twelve one calls us to

Brother Jim: offer ourselves to to God as a

Brother Jim: living sacrifice.

Brother Jim: Now I am sure in some places that could get bleeped.

Brother Jim: Sacrifice.

Brother Jim: That's not cool.

Brother Jim: You know how they take out

Brother Jim: certain words or cover them up

Brother Jim: now?

Brother Jim: Yeah, that's where worship

Brother Jim: becomes personal again, as we

Brother Jim: said, relationship.

Brother Jim: That is what Jesus wants because

Brother Jim: it's easy to sing, I surrender

Brother Jim: all.

Brother Jim: It's much harder to actually

Brother Jim: surrender all our time, our

Brother Jim: plans, our money, our

Brother Jim: relationships, our attitudes,

Brother Jim: our priorities, our routines,

Brother Jim: our unforgiveness, our control,

Brother Jim: our future.

Brother Jim: That is worship.

Brother Jim: We hit it last Tuesday.

Brother Jim: Again, this kind of goes hand in

Brother Jim: hand like peanut butter and

Brother Jim: jelly.

Brother Jim: So have we gotten away from true worship?

Brother Jim: Maybe the question is not simply what the church is doing.

Brother Jim: Oh, and we are so in tune to

Brother Jim: what we have our activities

Brother Jim: going.

Brother Jim: Are we not?

Brother Jim: David who?

Brother Jim: We got the big breakfast.

Brother Jim: Yeah.

Brother Jim: Big breakfast.

Brother Jim: I get to fill my belly.

Brother Jim: Oh, what do we got next?

Brother Jim: Oh, senior luncheon.

Brother Jim: Whew.

Brother Jim: Another meal?

Brother Jim: Yeah.

Brother Jim: Oh. Or whatever.

Brother Jim: You get my point.

Brother Jim: Yes.

Brother Jim: Us Methodists, we like to eat.

Brother Jim: But again, are we so drawn away with the distractions that we

Brother Jim: simply forget why we're there?

Brother Jim: Maybe.

Brother Jim: Maybe we need to ask, have I ou we become accountable?

Brother Jim: Have I gotten away from true worship?

Brother Jim: Because revival does not begin with somebody else changing.

Brother Jim: It begins when God changes you, when God changes me.

Brother Jim: Maybe today we need to stop asking what can the church do

Brother Jim: for me and start asking, what can I give to God?

Brother Jim: Church people?

Brother Jim: Let us not settle for going

Brother Jim: through the motions in a Sunday

Brother Jim: morning, Wednesday night

Brother Jim: whenever you come together, or

Brother Jim: better yet, in your daily life,

Brother Jim: let us not simply attend

Brother Jim: worship.

Brother Jim: Let's become worshipers.

Brother Jim: Let.

Brother Jim: Let's worship him with our

Brother Jim: voices, with our obedience, with

Brother Jim: our service.

Brother Jim: Worship.

Brother Jim: Let us worship him with generosity.

Brother Jim: Let us worship him with our love.

Brother Jim: Let us worship him with our entire lives.

Brother Jim: Because God is not looking for a perfect performance, he's

Brother Jim: looking for a surrendered heart.

Brother Jim: And maybe, maybe the greatest question we can ask ourselves

Brother Jim: today is this.

Brother Jim: When God looks at my worship, does he see my routine or does

Brother Jim: he see my heart?

Brother Jim: How about it, folks?

Brother Jim: I've seen a lot of dog and pony shows going on, and I've been a

Brother Jim: dog and pony show performer myself, just enough, David to

Brother Jim: get me through.

Brother Jim: Just enough to sneak in and sneak out.

Brother Jim: I'll be honest with you.

Brother Jim: We're a bunch of messed up people, aren't we?

Brother Jim: We all are.

Brother Jim: We're all little.

Brother Jim: Tutti frutti.

Brother Jim: If you know what I mean.

Brother Jim: And it doesn't help when our

Brother Jim: tutti frutti ness carries into

Brother Jim: the church.

Brother Jim: A lot of bad attitudes, a lot of good attitudes.

Brother Jim: Again, it's that balance of where does the scale fall?

Brother Jim: Where do you where does your own personal scale fall when it

Brother Jim: comes to worshipping God, when it just comes to loving, when it

Brother Jim: comes to being compassionate?

Brother Jim: What is your agenda?

Brother Jim: Is an agenda for God or are you self seeking in your own agenda?

Brother Jim: I kind of like that there.

Brother Jim: Alrighty.

Brother Jim: Before we go to prayer, David.

David: Yeah.

Brother Jim: Any closing thoughts you'd like to share with the people?

Brother Jim: The mass multitudes of people joining us.

David: Maybe we just encourage the

David: ladies and gentlemen to try to

David: set aside.

David: Let's start.

David: Easy.

David: Set aside ten minutes every day

David: just to focus on on worshiping

David: God.

David: There we go.

David: And then, you know, increase it.

David: You know, once you get that mastered, go to fifteen, then

David: twenty, then thirty.

David: And I think if nothing else, I think you'll be amazed with how

David: your attitude improves, if nothing else, because it's hard

David: to be in a bad mood when you're, you're, you're spending time

David: with your father, you know.

Brother Jim: And through spending time with your father.

Brother Jim: One of those old sayings, you know, when you're feeling down,

Brother Jim: go do something for somebody.

Brother Jim: Yeah.

Brother Jim: That's worship.

Brother Jim: We talked about that.

Brother Jim: Yeah.

Brother Jim: You're spending time and again, it's kind of hard not to get a

Brother Jim: smile on your face when you start doing something.

Brother Jim: Yeah.

Brother Jim: When you start seeing a smile on

Brother Jim: somebody else's face and you're

Brother Jim: not doing it for you, you're not

Brother Jim: doing it for your glory, better

Brother Jim: not be.

Brother Jim: You're doing it for God.

Brother Jim: You're doing it for that person.

Brother Jim: Yeah.

Brother Jim: Think of Jesus, what he did for us.

Brother Jim: Think how he served, how his disciples served, who?

Brother Jim: We got a lot of work, my friends.

Brother Jim: But we can do it.

Brother Jim: We just need to buckle down, get a little dirty.

Brother Jim: Yep.

Brother Jim: Get a little dirty.

Brother Jim: It's going to take a lot of hard work, but we can do it.

Brother Jim: But the question is, are you willing?

Brother Jim: AM I willing?

Brother Jim: Is the body of Christ the church willing to do that?

Brother Jim: Because, my friends, I don't know about you.

Brother Jim: Time is running out.

Brother Jim: You know, David, I had an opportunity.

Brother Jim: Uh. Young man.

Brother Jim: Good guy.

Brother Jim: Really like him.

Brother Jim: He comes out and deer hunts on a

Brother Jim: property, bow hunts, and opening

Brother Jim: day.

Brother Jim: He got a nice doe.

Brother Jim: But I, I, I was talking to him,

Brother Jim: and he's got two girls and a

Brother Jim: beautiful wife.

Brother Jim: And I said, hey, man, let me ask you something.

Brother Jim: I said, I don't want to be

Brother Jim: preacher to you, just talking to

Brother Jim: you.

Brother Jim: He's like, no, go ahead, man.

Brother Jim: I said, do you understand what's

Brother Jim: going to happen when Christ

Brother Jim: comes back?

Brother Jim: And he was very honest, like,

Brother Jim: ah, Um, a little bit, but I'm

Brother Jim: not sure.

Brother Jim: Yeah.

Brother Jim: And that's what I wonder, David,

Brother Jim: how many people out there have

Brother Jim: just enough knowledge, but yet

Brother Jim: don't understand what's going to

Brother Jim: happen and what can happen

Brother Jim: regardless when Jesus comes back

Brother Jim: that time now to when he comes

Brother Jim: back, how better your life can

Brother Jim: be.

Brother Jim: We we're just we're so

Brother Jim: distracted you that that was the

Brother Jim: wise man hit the number one word

Brother Jim: distracted.

Brother Jim: Let us pray.

Brother Jim: Heavenly father, we just thank you again for another day that

Brother Jim: we are alive, that we can serve, we can love, and we can have

Brother Jim: some fun doing it.

Brother Jim: Lord David, uh, he hit it on the head.

Brother Jim: Our distractions.

Brother Jim: What distracts us from spending time with you?

Brother Jim: What distracts us, distracts us from true worship.

Brother Jim: Lord, I pray that we seek that answer.

Brother Jim: Guide us.

Brother Jim: Lead us.

Brother Jim: Lord, I just pray a hedge of protection over our friends out

Brother Jim: there listening in their families as well their friends.

Brother Jim: And Lord, we, David and I both, we just pray that this little

Brother Jim: show we do inspires just one person out there to take a look

Brother Jim: at themselves and their relationship with you.

Brother Jim: And Lord, I pray if they don't know you as Lord and Savior, I.

Brother Jim: We just ask seeds to be planted.

Brother Jim: Let them grow and nurture to where they.

Brother Jim: They reach out to where they're screaming.

Brother Jim: They're yelling, I want this Jesus.

Brother Jim: I want to know this Jesus.

Brother Jim: I want to have Jesus in my heart and my life.

Brother Jim: Lord, be with our friends and we thank you for this opportunity.

Brother Jim: In your name, Amen.

Brother Jim: Alrighty.

Brother Jim: Well, folks, the nineteen fifties is coming to an end.

Brother Jim: I don't know, should we head to the nineties?

Brother Jim: Yeah, I mean, the forties.

Brother Jim: I really don't know much as far as hip hop or not hip hop, but

Brother Jim: the music and all.

Brother Jim: Yeah, I don't know.

Brother Jim: We'll have to decide that one.

Brother Jim: It's either the forties or the nineties.

David: Maybe they can leave a note in the comments, whether they want

David: us to go forties or.

Brother Jim: Accountability on you guys.

Brother Jim: That's right.

Brother Jim: Right.

Brother Jim: Ain't that right, Beauregard?

Brother Jim: Yeah.

Brother Jim: We had to change.

Brother Jim: Oh, man.

Brother Jim: You can tell it's getting late, folks.

David: Well, I just winter's coming, so I'm just getting prepared.

David: That's all.

David: It's on the way.

David: So we're.

David: We're ready.

Brother Jim: How can I finish out the show?

David: Maybe this was a hat from the fifties.

David: When did these come out?

David: I really don't know.

Brother Jim: That would be a great thing.

Brother Jim: Maybe someone can tell us.

Brother Jim: If nothing else, we can Google nineteen fifties Russia.

Brother Jim: Uh, but you know what, friends?

Brother Jim: You know what I say.

Brother Jim: You got me.

Brother Jim: You got value and you're loved.

Brother Jim: Never forget that God created

Brother Jim: you with purpose in the world is

Brother Jim: a better place because you're in

Brother Jim: it even.

Brother Jim: Even.

Brother Jim: David.

Brother Jim: O. I pray God continues to bless you.

Brother Jim: God you, strengthen you and walk beside you through every moment

Brother Jim: of every day.

Brother Jim: And may you and I continue to thank our Lord above for all the

Brother Jim: blessings and yes, Lord, I thank you for David.

Brother Jim: Even with that hat.

Brother Jim: I gotta break mine out here.

Brother Jim: Where the Bobbsey twins.

Brother Jim: Yes.

Brother Jim: And if we meet again?

Brother Jim: Well, then we are gonna smile.

Brother Jim: And we're going to rejoice together.

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

Brother Jim: Thank you for joining, David.

Brother Jim: My. Oh, man, there's not enough

Brother Jim: time to describe what this man

Brother Jim: is joining.

Brother Jim: David and myself here this morning on Bible bibs in prayer.

Brother Jim: And hopefully you have all made.

Brother Jim: You've all made in the shade.

Brother Jim: You have made in the shade kind of week.

Brother Jim: That's what I'm trying to say.

Brother Jim: And weekend.

Brother Jim: So hold your horses until next week.

Brother Jim: Until next time.

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

Brother Jim: Out.