May 9, 2026

The Blockhead Project: Tell Us A Story

The Blockhead Project: Tell Us A Story
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Well, Blockhead Nation, good grief, good afternoon, good evening, whatever

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time you've tuned into this little podcast, I thank you

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for stopping by once again. You are listening to your

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favorite Blockhead. Come on in, take a seat, relax. You

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are welcome here at the Blockhead Mansion as I sit

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here with my feet up, with my three dogs at

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my feet, and we sit here and present another podcast.

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It's been two weeks so I've officially changed it to

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bi weekly. It used to be come on every week

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and I would combine two worlds. It didn't work very well,

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but now it's a little bit different. We are in

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the phase the chapter of the Blockhead project, and I

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can tell you the numbers and the downloads have been amazing.

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Thank you from the bottom of my heart to all

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you that have been listening to and into what I

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have to say, which, just like you, I'm a sinner

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in need of a savior. I'm also a huge Peanuts fan.

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I've always loved the comic strips. I've loved the TV shows,

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the movie, the Charles Schultz Museum, you name it. We

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could talk about it for hours at a time. And

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really it seems like also a lot of you are

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wanting me to draw the curtain back and just reveal

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more about who Brian Little truly is, and I get

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to do that with this episode. I'm not on a

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quest to be clever or have some of these zingers

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or these catchphrases that just make you keep coming back.

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I'm just gonna be wrong with you and tell you

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a lot of my personal stories. And before I begin

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with that, if I want to distinguish who I think

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was possibly the greatest storyteller of all of the Peanuts characters,

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it has to be Linus. If we're gonna go with

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Charlie Brown as a baseball manager and the guy who

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keeps plugging away and can't fly a kite or has

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never won a game of chest I don't know if

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he qualifies as a storyteller. He does qualify as America's

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favorite kid that everybody's cheering on that wants to see

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him succeed. That's true. Snoopy doesn't even qualify for that either,

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because he's the most interchangeable. He becomes what you need

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him to be. He can do all things, whether it's

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Christ that strengthens him or just the fact that he

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can almost like Superman step into a phone booth and

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can become what you need, whether it is the mass Marvel,

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it's the World War on flying. He doesn't really qualify

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as a storyteller either, unless you're talking about music he's

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playing on his harmonica in certain episodes, or if he

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is getting involved in band practice. That might kind of

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be true, but that kind of qualifies more. In Schroeder's corner.

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He can tell you a story through his music, through

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his obsession with Beethoven. I'm gonna have to say it.

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I think Linus is this story. Is the storyteller you

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go to Lucy who got the psychiatric booth on unwanted

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advice or advice that is not relevant to the patient,

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So we're gonna have to go with him. Linus would

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be the most philosophical. He's the one that was definitely

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the most biblically sound of any of them, even though

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he had a security blanket. He had his flaws, for sure,

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but still he qualifies as the best storyteller of all

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of them. And he always was ready with some kind

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of reasoning. We're getting into summer, he'd be telling you

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why he doesn't want to go to summer camp because

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they're full of queen snakes or rock snakes. Yes, those

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were re discussions. There was an episode called it was

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a Short Summer Charlie Brown. He didn't want to go

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to camp because of the queens snakes. Or in Race

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for Your Life Charlie Brown, he talks about a rock snake.

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Apparently it would sneak up behind you and throw a

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rock at you. But they're not too dangerous because they

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hit you at the lower part of your legs. This

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was a real discussion. Maybe there was something about man

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being on to stomp on the serpent's head, kind of

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like the curse of the Serpent in the Garden from

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Old Testament. That could be something that Charles Schultz was

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weaving into the discussion. Maybe, but he was such a

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good storyteller if you listen for it. There's an episode

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called It's Magic Charlie Brown, No I apologize, It's a

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Mystery Charlie Brown, where his storytelling is told more in

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parable and it's told more in a poetic style. While

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Snoopy is looking for woodstocks missing bird's nest, he's sniffing

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around Lucy's house. He's checking for fingerprints dust in the place,

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and what does Lina say, ashes to ashes and dust

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to dust when there was a problem in snoopy, we trust.

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So his storytelling was very poetic, It was very much

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parable based throughout that one which he annoyed his sister with.

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But Linus was the most profound storyteller of all of them.

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And so a lot of you have asked me, what

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are some of my stories? Well, how did those stories

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get carried forward in your life? Well? I can honestly

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tell you this Blockhead Nation that shouldn't surprise you at all.

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What I have always wanted to be, besides being loved

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by my heavenly father and my earthly father and by

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my grandfather, who the two greatest men that I ever knew,

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to be a fraction of what they were in this

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lifetime means more to me than you'll ever know, a

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block At Nation. But what I've always wanted to be

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a storyteller. I mean, having this little podcast allows me

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to do that. Teaching adult Bible class on a Sunday

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morning allows me to be a storyteller. Teaching history, whether

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it's world history, Texas history, US history to a group

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of middle school kids that are a tough crowd. Let

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me tell you what that allows me to still be

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in a collective sense, but also sometimes on a limited basis.

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It allows me to be just that, a storyteller. And

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when it comes to American history, storytelling is easy because

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the documents are recent. If you go back throughout the

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scope of world history, I mean, you have the Declaration

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of Independence with an exact date preserved, you have the

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Constitution fairly recent in the scope of history, you have

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the Gaysburg Address by Abraham Lincoln preserved. This really isn't

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hard to follow those stories. They're fantastic stories to tell.

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But if you look back through world history, it gets

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more frustrating because all you have are theories the land Bridge,

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the ice Age, What happened to the dinosaurs? Did we

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lose them in the flood or was it something else?

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What happened to these tribes that were left behind it.

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All we have are their artifacts, their dwellings, their tools,

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their weapons, the stories that are told to weather harsh

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conditions to live in. I mean, one example that's really

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good would be the Aboriginals of Australia. Ancient storytelling. Let

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me tell you, I can give you many, but there's

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just one that I'll use here that's somewhat relevant. There's

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an ancient story of a man walking through Australia, probably

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somewhere on the outback, and he sees this tree filled

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with sleeping bats. For whatever reason, he takes a stick

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and he throws it at the tree, waking the bats up.

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And these gigantic bats swoop down and carry this man

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into the night sky. And if you look up at

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the night sky and the star constellations, you can still

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see him, and you can see the long trail of

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bats behind him. You ever hear the milky Way, there's

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a story for you the past down from the older

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generation to the younger generation, and that's what happened in

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my life. My grandfather, veteran of World War two of

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yesterday's war, would take the time to teach me stories.

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And there's one I was very fond of one that

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I think that he probably, I don't want to say skewed.

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Maybe he may it child friendly because there was a

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listen included in it. It was entertaining, but it was

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educational too. So here's what I would do. I would

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go to my grandfather's house and I'd ask him to

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tell me the story about the campfire. Well in a nutshell.

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Here is almost verbatim, and he would tell me the

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story in the most creepy and a voice that he

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possibly could, just to have fun with the story, but

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also to make a point, and the story would go.

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One night around the campfire, the captain said, Brian tell

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us a story. So Brian began. Now I got a pause.

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I believe the original story of that was John tell

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us a story. And then you would include whatever John's

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story would be. But since this is his grandson, he

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includes my name, and the story goes in poetic fashion.

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Once there was a little boy and he wouldn't say

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his prayers, But when they sent him off to bed

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way upstairs, his mama heard him beller, and his daddy

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heard him ball told in that southern twang style. But

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when they turned the cover back, he wasn't there at all.

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So somehow this little boy had been snatched out of

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his bed, and by the time they got there it

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was too late. That that's kind of the story being

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told here. So who didn't say his prayers? And as

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soon as he would get done saying that to me,

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he would open his hands up and he would lunge emmy.

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He would go and the goblins will get you if

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you don't watch out and be a good boy, and

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mind your mommy and daddy, and mind your teachers. So

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that was the story of my grandpa would tell out

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of love. It would always have shock value. A couple

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of times he'd tell it to me, and then I

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started to go, Okay, I'm gonna I'm gonna hide when

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you tell me the story. I would hide in his shower,

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in his walk in shower while he told the story.

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Must have been about three or four years old, but

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even then he'd tell the story. But as soon as

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he gets the part about the goblins, he'd take his

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hand and he'd slam it on the shower door, just

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so I would still jump out of my skin. He

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was good at it. And so a varied story, something

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passed down in love from one generation to another. And

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that's it in a nutshell. So the storytelling probably began

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with my grandparents, carried down from my mom and dad.

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You're listening to a guy who had this thing called

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a tape recorder cassette tape player back in the day,

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and I would play these stories over and over again.

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That turned the tape set over and record my own

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and that evolved into this thing called podcasting. Some of

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us have points to make. Some of us are trying

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to expound on our business and bring traffic to our websites.

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You got a guy in here who just wants to

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tell you a story, who just wants to share this

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blockhead project, who's walking through a life without either of

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his parents, who have gone on to glory, no doubt whatsoever.

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Thousand percent they are in victory. They're in Jesus' presence,

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but not long for that one day. But this is

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what I have. This is my medium to carry on

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their stories, carry on their legacy until I see them again,

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until I am wrapped in the love of our Savior's arms.

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So I share all that just because as a Peanuts fan,

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this is what I long for. And the greatest stories

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can be found in the Bible, they can be found

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in your history books. If you'll just take some time

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to get away from social media and turn your TV

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off and spend some time looking at these amazing stories,

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which I plan to carry into the next part of

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this podcast. Stick around and we'll get some more insight

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from the greatest book ever written. Join me for part

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to our scripture. Readan for this podcast comes from Galatians three,

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verse twenty six, For ye are all the children of

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God by faith in Christ Jesus. Reflection from Blue lay

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A Bible says, one of the most intimate relationships God

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created can be found between a parent and a child.

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Parents naturally find satisfaction and enjoyment in nurturing and loving

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their children daily. As believers, we have the incredible privilege

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to share that same cherished relationship with our creator. He

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has our loving Father, who tends to our every need

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and law for us to be near him. This remarkable

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privilege is only attainable by faith in Jesus Christ, who

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destroyed the separation between man and God with his blood.

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Through the beautiful gift of Christ, we are given the

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excellent honor of being sons of God, given to place

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in Heaven. Now, if I can expand on that a

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little bit, we need to go back to the Sermon

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on the Mount. Anything you need to know, whether you're

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facing anxiety, or how to pray, or anything that matters

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in what it means to know salvation. Matthew chapter six.

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Spend some time in that chapter. What you were given

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is one verse from a website that I use often,

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but blockhead Nation, just as Charles Schultz used parable through

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his Peanuts, through his comic strips, through his TV shows.

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You can find that all through Matthew Chapter six. And

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one big topic that I wanted to spend time on

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with you now, because yes, tomorrow being Mother's Day, it's

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an important day from me. I get a chance to

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serve the ladies of our church tomorrow morning, love on them.

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We have roses that are in remembrance of those who

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have gone on before. So this would be my first

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Mother's Day without my mother. But for many years I've

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been serving these ladies in our church, and I just

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want to bring something up just in case there is

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a boundary between your family, your mother, whatever it might be.

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And I'm simply going to go back to what Jesus

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said about laying up your treasures in heaven if you would,

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if you've got a Bible, let's take a look at

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a very important topic here Matthew Chapter six, verses nineteen

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through twenty four. We're gonna focus mainly on the twenty

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fourth verse. Here's what it says, do not lay up

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yourselves treasures on earth, where moth and rust destroy, and

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where thieves break in and steel, But lay up for

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yourself's treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust destroys,

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and where thieves do not break in and steel. For

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where your treasure is there, your heart will be. Also.

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The eye is the lamp of the body. So if

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your eye is healthy, your whole body will be in

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full light. But if your eye is bad, your whole

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body will be in full darkness. If then the light

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in you is darkness, how great is the darkness. No

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one can serve two masters, for either he will hate

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the one and love the other, or he will be

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devoted to the one and despise the other. You cannot

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serve both God and money. Now am I coming at

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you with financial advice? I would tell you you can

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go listen to Dave Ramsey. There's a guy that's actually

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cheaper than him. It's got a book that tells you

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the same thing for half the price of his products.

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The guy's name is Steve Diggs. No debt, no sweat.

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But if you are in this predicament, which most of

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us are according to the numbers, I can bring up

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something that Dave talked about years ago. It was a

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sports illustrated article that came up with a very disturbing

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statistic at that time, seventy eight percent, meaning eight out

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of ten former NFL players are bankrupt or broke within

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two years of leaving the league. Men that made a

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minimum of four hundred thousand dollars a year. These men

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made more than the president of the United States, and

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eight out of ten were either bankrupt or broke within

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two years of retiring from the National Football League, which

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proves that old dodge that NFL stands for not for long. Yes,

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the average player would move it up to what three

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to four years. Then you have your phenomenal players that

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stay there for decades. They're raised the average a little

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bit closer to four. So we have to look at it.

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And it's so easy to sit back and judge these athletes, which,

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by the way, most of them are brilliant. Many went

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on to get their masters. They're smarter than you've ever

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dreamed of being. Not to sound sarcastic, but you know,

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when you have coaches that bring together guys from lower

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socioeconomic development, tremendous poverty, that are handed millions of dollars

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in a contract. Never seen anything like this, and they're

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not advised, they're not given wise counsel, they're not given

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discernment of any kind. And they're just given all of

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this money and they hire somebody to do it for

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them that doesn't have their best interest in mind. They

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don't look for a fiduciary of any kind. None of

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that happens two years. I mean, the proverbs of the

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Bible will tell you on how when you gain your

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harvest what to do with it. I mean, it's all there.

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And he didn't just talk about NFL players. He talked

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about celebrities too. Ed McMahon when he passed away, his

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house was in foreclosure. I mean mc hammer. Somebody from

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my generation from the nineties, an icon ends up doing

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infomercials for bad credit. Saw that in the Barbershop movie

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back in two thousand and two. You know, this guy

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ended up broke and it happens the same way that

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it happens to us. Blockhead Nation. There's a commentary from

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Douglas O'Donnell that I love what he says here. God,

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not money, is to be our master because God alone

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is lasting, God is dependable. How did that happen to

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these players? How that happen to these celebrities, because no

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one can serve two masters. You cannot serve God and

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serve money. Now, for those of you that have learned

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how to use money as a tool to be useful

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in your life, you know that there are STIPs that

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Dave Ramsey teaches every single day, or guys like Steve

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Diggs or others like Siue's Orison. There's so many out

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there that are financial gurus. Those of you that go

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on to TikTok and go on to YouTube and you

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find your favorite influencer who still doesn't have your best

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interest in mine, but I do you work your whole

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life and the average American earns between three to eight

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million dollars, and what are you left with? So it

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comes down to simply what we have to do is

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we have to one live on less than we make,

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be on a written plan, a written budget. The boring stuff,

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the things that make you yawn while you're sitting in class,

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but keep you having to face the heartbreak when you're

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taking on debt that you don't need to buy things

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you shouldn't have had in the first place. Then you're

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not allowed to give. You can't give graciously with your

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time and your capital because it's too bound up to

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another mass or MasterCard. Discover there can express visa, that

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student loan that never goes away even if you pass away.

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So I just bring all that to you friends. If

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there's anything, especially you men, that can bring you down

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and bog you down more, know what master you should

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be serving. So live within your means, preferably less the

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same thing your grandma will tell you. Savely. The Bible

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tells you all through the Book of Proverbs to have

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peace of mind and to have freedom means that you

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have no debts. I'm sorry, there's no other way to

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put it. Yes, I know there's people that tell you

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to have business debt and leverage it. I'm not saying

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that there are not strategies out there, But what I'm

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telling you is the Bible will tell you can't serve

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two masters. And when you become a slave to righteousness

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instead of a slave to sin, you can feel the difference.

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So it feels like I'm preaching to you from the pulpit,

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I'm really trying not to. But there are people out

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there that do have your best interest in mind, and

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I'm one of them because I've lived on both sides.

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I know the desperation, and here's a Brian little term

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for it. You can use. The less desperate you are,

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the better you can serve your fellow man. If you're desperate,

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how can you make sure that kids get money for

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summer camp? If you're desperate, how can you help at

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your local shelters? When these dogs that are treated like

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they're expendable end up in shelters that are overflowing, end

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up being euthanized by no fault of their own. You

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can't help with that if you're serving another master. And

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everything Jesus talks about on the Sermon on the Mound

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is absolute truth. Spend time in Matthew chapter six. Make

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your mom's proud, it's their day. But if you adapt

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to these principles that our Lord and Savior gave to

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you in Matthew chapter six, imagine how much more you

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can serve your mama. You can serve your parents, your

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earthly father, your heavenly Father, your earthly mother, those that

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you love. Imagine what more you can do when the

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master you serve is the one true, Sovereign God. I

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give that to you to spend time with this week

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blockad Nation and I don't know if this is convicting

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you or not. Please know that also, I cannot know

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unless you specifically reach out to me that this was

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convicting for you. I don't know. The downloads online are

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a direct audit from the Internet. All I see is

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those who downloaded are those who partially downloaded. I don't

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know where you're from. I don't know if it's you.

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All I see is the numbers. So if you want

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to talk about this more and reach out and comment,

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I need to specifically know that it's you. But if not,

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if it's resonating and this information matters to you, the

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greatest story ever told is Jesus died for you. Please

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know that to be the truth and nothing but the truth.

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Happy Mother's Day to all of your beloved mothers out there,

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those that have passed on, those that are still here,

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those that are being both father and mother, it's their day.

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Sending love over here from the Blockhead Mansion. We'll catch

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you again in two weeks, same Blockhead time, same blockhead

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cham today went today, day today,