Jesus Breaks The Chains Of Addiction

This is Andy Thomas from the Masculine Journey Podcast where we discover what it means to be a wholehearted man. Your chosen Truth Network Podcast is starting in just seconds. Enjoy it, share it, but most of all, thank you for listening and for choosing the Truth Podcast Network. Once again, God has given us a phenomenal lineup here today on Kingdom Pursuit. So, coming up on the bottom of the hour, it's going to be God in Hollywood with Paul Long Brad Silverman and their guest Tyler Sansom. So, we're going to get to hear that. I'm very much looking forward to that.

And we got Stu Epperson coming up. He's going to be talking about Wake Forest Church Day event that's actually going on today. And we have all kinds of tickets to give away for that, so you want to listen to win for that.

And then we have with us a brand new podcast with the Truth Network Podcast. It's called Jesus Break the Chains and Michael Bowman. So, welcome, Michael. Michael Bowman How you doing today, Robbie? Darrell Bock I am excited. Michael Bowman It's a pleasure to be good.

Me too. I just want to first thank you for having me on your show. And I've been reading all about all the things you're doing in the ministry, and I'm really excited for it. Darrell Bock I am too.

I've heard so many good things about your story, and we have several friends in common, obviously. Michael Bowman Yeah. Darrell Bock So, wow.

You know, I guess we'll just jump into our riddles here, so then we can get to your story. But, you know, you can imagine that, speaking of chains, right, because Jesus Break the Chains, right, we're going to do a few chain jokes here. Michael Bowman Yeah. Darrell Bock All right. So, speak free if you think you know this. You know the name of the hotel chain La Quinta. Do you know what that means in English?

Have you thought about that, Sean? Michael Bowman No. Darrell Bock La Quinta.

Do you know what it means in English, Michael? Michael Bowman Well, I think it means the check. Darrell Bock I think it actually means next to Denny's. Michael Bowman There you go. That's true.

Darrell Bock Yeah. So, you know, if people are going to take offense, I'm just saying, you know, would that be a chain link or a picket? There you go. And this is really good.

You're going to really like this one, I think, Sean. It's right up most young people's alley. Why did all of the pizza chains fall? You know, all the, you know, pizza chains that they had, why do you think they fell? Michael Bowman Too many toppings?

Too much top heaviness? No. Darrell Bock Do you want to give it a shot, Michael? Michael Bowman I don't know.

I don't know. Darrell Bock I'm told it was a domino effect. Michael Bowman There you go.

Darrell Bock All right. So, speaking of you, after all those bad jokes, you're probably going to have a chain reaction of some kind. We have so many tickets to give away. We just figured we'll give you an easy question.

And you can, there are lots and lots of answers to this. So we got so many to give away. All you need to do is call in and tell us or to name any chain in the Bible, any chain whatsoever that you think is mentioned in the Bible. We would love to hear it at 866-348-7884. We have these Wake Forest tickets we want to give away.

And, Sean, you can tell them a little bit more, you know, okay. Sean O'Toole Yeah, so the Duke Blue Devils are coming to town to take on the Wake Forest Demon Deacons, I believe they are. And it's a four o'clock kickoff. I'm not sure the name of the field, but it's right in Winston-Salem, so it's not too far from our studio. So come in, grab your ticket, go to the game. It'll be great. Darrell Bock Yeah, plus you got the Church Day event where Stu Epperson is actually the emcee.

And we're going to hear from him at 1115. So yeah, and from what I understand, Wake Forest is undefeated. And so I know that Duke's a pretty good team.

So this is a real opportunity, real game that's coming up. So all you have to do is tell us any chain in the Bible. It's a really easy question, okay? Just any chain, 866. The lines aren't lit up, Sean. I'm shocked. 866-348-7884, 866-34-truth. So Michael, I'm told you have a phenomenal story.

And so why don't you share that? Tell our listeners kind of how you got to where you are. Michael Scott Well, you know, I grew up in Dallas, Texas. And you know, Texas is big for football. And I excelled in the sport and grew up loving the Dallas Cowboys and the SMU Mustangs and was very successful through my high school years and went and played college football, three years at Southern Methodist University.

And then we had the death penalty back in that time. And I spent one year at the University of Georgia and did very well. And my senior year, I was team captain of the SMU Mustangs, offensive MVP, and ended up getting drafted into the Canadian Football League. And I went up to the Edmonton Eskimos into training camp, and I only lasted about a week.

And I was pretty devastated by that. I thought I was going to be a professional football player. I came back to the United States and began using drugs. I had always used drugs recreationally, or I thought they was recreationally, not knowing what was about to happen to me. And very quickly and very quickly after I returned back from Canada, I fell into addiction and into crack cocaine. I became addicted to crack cocaine and for 25 years, lived that life in and out of drug rehabilitation centers, jails, prisons, and even a few mental hospitals along the way.

And the last time that I landed in prison was in 2013, about eight years ago. And I finally surrendered my life to Jesus Christ on the prison chapel floor. I just cried out to the Lord in surrender and said, I can't do this anymore. I hate my life. I hate this world. I hate myself.

I don't want it anymore. All I want is You, Lord. If You will save me, I will serve You the rest of the days of my life. And in that moment, the Lord heard my cry, and He moved on me, and I was able to kind of come up off the ground.

I was laying on the ground crying and weeping to Him. And when I came up and stood up for the very first time, I felt His presence in the most profound way. And from that day on, my chains were broken, and I've not had a desire to use drugs or alcohol since that day when I surrendered my life to Jesus Christ. He did break the chains. Yeah. And the neat thing is that now, you know, you've been comforting other people with the comfort that you receive, right?

Because you actually go around the world doing this. Well, this is, I know, and it's, I never knew when I laid on my face in that prison, on that prison chapel floor, what the Lord had in store for me. I'd read the word, and I had the prison ministers come in and speak to me and tell me how good my life would be if I just gave it to Jesus and let Him have it.

But I could not, I wasn't ready for what He was going to do in my life. I came out, and I went into a discipleship home called Texas Reach Out Ministries here in Austin, Texas, and went through that program, joined a Spirit-filled church, and went to Bible college during my bachelor's in theology and became a licensed, ordained minister. And I go into the Texas prison system and preach. And then on top of that, I have made some relationships, well, the Lord did it, connected me with some people in Liberia, West Africa, and now I'm a missionary in Liberia, West Africa, and I work with the drug-addicted population of that country, the former child soldiers who became addicted to drugs during the Civil War, and the men, women, and children that are living in the ghettos and cemeteries that are addicted to drugs, and we have many projects going over there. Actually, I'll be there.

I'm leaving for Liberia in nine days. So I'm really excited about that. I'm excited what the Lord's done in my life. And yes, He uses broken people to help ticks broken people, because I understand what's going on in the mind and hearts and soul of a drug addict, because I did it for 25 years. And so I can identify with that. I know their struggles, and they know that I've been where they are. And they build hope from a story, not just my story.

It's the same way that I built hope when the people would come in and speak to me in prison, the prison ministers, and tell me about how they overcame prison, how they overcame their own addictions, and how Jesus changed their lives. And so, like you said, the domino effect, it's a domino effect. What happens is one person's story, one prison minister's story, touched my life, and now my life will start touching others' lives.

And then it's the domino effect and the multiplier that goes on throughout the kingdom, and people are coming to the Lord. Darrell Bock All right. This is just an amazing story. Well, we've got to go to a break. We have Amy Cabo with a cure. She's going to share what's coming up at one o'clock. We've got Stu Epperson coming up in the next segment, and more from Michael Bowman.

Then don't forget, we've got God in Hollywood coming up at the bottom of the hour with Paul Long, Brad Silverman, and Tyler Samson. So much more. Kingdom Pursuits coming up.

Stay tuned. You're listening to the Truth Network and truthnetwork.com. Darrell Bock Welcome back to Kingdom Pursuits, where we hear how God takes your passion and uses it to build a kingdom. And we've got so much loaded on Kingdom Pursuits today. God in Hollywood's coming up in the next segment with Paul Long, Brad Silverman, and Tyler Samson.

And now we've got Michael Bowman. And just in a moment, we're going to have Stu Epperson talking about Wake Forest Church Day. Michael Bowman's new podcast, by the way, is Jesus Break the Chains.

And you can find that all at kingdompursuits.com. You can get linked up to Jesus Break the Chains. Just saying. But anyway, we've got Amy Cabo with us. She's got a great show coming up. Amy, what do you got on tap for us today? Amy Cabo Well, hello, Robby. Today we're going to speak about the intruder in our head that produced negative thoughts. It starts with the terrible twos, and it's the reason millions of people suffer from depression.

And they can have this in their heads for their entire life, which I call big pocket. But we're also going to discuss how does the intruder thrive during this COVID-19 pandemic, and what to do about it. Darrell Bock That is awesome. And again, Amy's show is live, and it's going to be on at one o'clock. You can call in and share, just like you do with our shows.

And we'd love to have you listen in today at one o'clock. Thank you, Amy. God bless.

Amy Cabo Excellent. You too. Have a beautiful day.

Darrell Bock You too. Bye-bye. So I know that if you're like me, you're like, how come nobody is called in to win these tickets and talk about the chains that are in the Bible? That's a pretty easy question. Okay, I'll give you a few answers. Several references in the New Testament, you know, where people were in chains, just saying.

And then there's lots of references in the Old Testament, because people wore chains around their necks. 866348. We've got tickets to give away, guys. You know, you can go see Wake Forest.

8663487884. So, Michael, I'm really curious, when you go to Africa, and those people that are addicted, you still see a big similarity in the addiction that they have to the one that you have. Darrell Bock Addiction is addiction. And it affects us all the same.

We're all the same. And I can I just tell you this, I, what I saw in Liberia, and there's a lot of poverty, it's very difficult in that population, because there's so much poverty in that country. And so drug addiction is asked, exacerbated greatly over there. But I just say, when I saw those people, I knew that if I was addicted to drugs, and had I been born in Liberia, I'd be right where they are. Because drug addicts, we go where the drugs are, I would have been in the tombs, I would have been in the, in the cemeteries, I would have been in those ghettos, because that's what happens when you get addicted to drugs is, is you go to where the drugs are, and your life gets broken down.

And, and everything stripped away from you, and you become a drug addict with all the other drug addicted people. Darrell Bock And so do you have an interpreter that works with you there? How do you how do you communicate with these guys? Darrell Bock Well, they speak English in Liberia. It's their first language. I don't know if everybody knows the history of Liberia. Darrell Bock But Liberia was founded by emancipated slaves, American slaves, and freeborn blacks from from the United States in the early 1800s and became the first free republic in Africa. So there is a great history with life between Liberia and America, the first six presidents of the Republic of Liberia were all from America.

Darrell Bock Well, that shows how much I know. Darrell Bock Yeah, they also they also speak the dialects of the different tribes, because when they came to Liberia, the American came to Liberia, they mixed in with the indigenous people, and there were 16 different tribes with 16 different dialects. So they all speak a dialect of their tribe, and they all speak English. And so it's just been great, no, no need for an interpreter. And the communication is great. And I'm just enjoying myself over there. Darrell Bock That sounds awesome. I did not know that.

But that's cool that they speak English. Well, we have Scott, as in Winston-Salem, may have an answer for us on this chain. You know, we need a chain reaction out of Scott is what we need. So Scott, what you got for us?

Scott Well, I just thought I'd take a stab at it. I guess the chains are very symbolic in the Bible. Rings and chains in general. I was thinking when Pharaoh gave the ring and the chain to Joseph.

Darrell Bock That's the first time. You're exactly right, Scott. And yeah, it is very symbolic.

Because they would end up with a lot of chains as a result of that particular chain. And fortunately, Jesus ended up breaking those chains too, didn't he, Scott? Scott Absolutely.

Darrell Bock That's a beautiful thing. Well, great. Well, we got some tickets for you. I'm going to put you on hold.

And Sean will tell you how to get those. And I appreciate you calling in so much today. Scott Great show. And I love it. And you're doing a great job. And happy birthday. Darrell Bock Oh, thank you, Scott. I appreciate that very, very much. So getting back to Michael. So I'm curious, you had mentioned the death sentence at SMU.

I guess I'm a little bit ignorant. But what there sounded like there was a story in there too. Scott Yes, it was probably at the time, one of the most talked about events in sports at the time, the death penalty, when Southern Methodist University in Dallas, Texas, had their football program killed for two years, because of violations, recruiting violations, paying players, things that were going on all over college football at the time. But SMU got caught with their hands in the cookie jar. And they they killed the program. And it devastated the football program for many, many years. But just like your Wake Forest, Dinks are seven and oh, my SMU Mustangs are seven and oh, right now, ranked 20th in the country.

So it's been a resurrection of the program. And matter of fact, I went back, I, the death penalty happened in 1986, when I was a true freshman at SMU. And I played as a true freshman. And with then when the definitely came, I went to University of Georgia and played there in 1987. And then I returned back to help the program come off the death penalty, and and found good success there. Joe So what happened in Calgary?

Scott Do you think? Well, it was just one of those things where I wasn't as prepared as I should have been. I at the time I had my addiction was starting to move into my life before I went. And you know, I was doing drugs and drinking, I was through drugs, recreation and drinking.

And I went up there and I just wasn't in the greatest shape or the mindset. There were professionals up there. And they were very talented. And they were big and strong. And this is what they did for a living. And I was totally unprepared for that.

I have what I just and I got cut after a week. Joe Wow. So take Can you take us back into prison for a minute?

I know I'm jumping all around, but I don't have a lot of time. So I cover as much ground as I could. So was there something that, you know, obviously, you'd been through a bunch of programs, you'd heard about Jesus, like for years. Was there something in particular in those last days that you feel like made an impact or got through the clutter so that you actually saw that there was hope in Jesus that you hadn't seen before? Scott Well, I'd run out of everything else I had tried in my life. And I was so tired, and so broken and so hurt. And I really didn't want to live anymore. I told the Lord when I was laying on my face, I said, Lord, if I'm going to walk out of this prison this time, because I've been to prison before, and it didn't work. I said, if I'm going to walk out of this prison, and I'm going to go smoke drugs again, kill me now. I want you to take my life now. I can't do it anymore.

But if you will save me, I will serve you the rest of the days of my life. So I just had come to the end. I didn't want to live anymore as a drug addict.

I couldn't do it. The weight of that sin was so heavy. I was so crushed and so broken and so pressed down that I couldn't do it anymore.

And that was it. It was just it was that the, like the scripture says, Godly sorrow produces repentance that leads to salvation that leaves no regrets. And it just came, the actions in my life and the decisions I've made my whole life, all those decisions put me in that prison. I did it to myself when I looked in the mirror, and I stopped blaming everything else and everyone around me. And I looked in the mirror and said, it's your problem, Michael, you did this. You did this. And I took full responsibility. The weight of that was so overwhelming that it just brought me to my knees in surrender. And I finally just surrendered and said, I need you, Lord. You're all I have. He's the only hope I had.

I tried everything else. And so in your new podcast, which obviously is Jesus Break the Chains, you can go to truthnetwork.com and find out more about that. But what kind of what kind of stuff goes on in your podcast? Well, we just talk about testimonies and how we can use our testimonies as a powerful tool to help God draw others to him. And he'll use it and not to be ashamed of your past. It says, therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation. Old things have passed away. Behold, all things become new.

The shame and the guilt of your past is what keeps you locked in your addiction. When you can take this scripture and own this scripture, then you understand now you have had a separation of the old man and the new man. And so you don't have to carry that old man with you and all the shame and guilt. The shame and guilt is in the old man. When that old man has passed away, he's dead and gone.

Then you can just refer to him to bring glory to Jesus Christ. Hallelujah. So again, the name of the podcast is Jesus Break the Chains. You guys have two episodes so far? Two episodes, and I'll be in the studio recording more shortly.

That is absolutely awesome. Again, you can find that at the Truth Network podcast page. So we got God in Hollywood coming up with Paul Long, Brad Silverman, and Tyler Sampson coming up in the next segment.

So stay tuned, Michael. Thank you so much for being with us today. God bless. Thank you. God bless.

You're listening to the Truth Network and truthnetwork.com. After decades of serving the Hollywood system, these insiders at Kappa Studios are now unashamed to live for Christ right at the epicenter of the film and television industry. This is God in Hollywood. How fun today in God in Hollywood. We have Brad and Paul and a new guest, Tyler.

Brad, take it away. Robbie, always good to hear your voice, my brother. You have like this soothing voice and it just makes my Saturday morning here in California. Me too. Thanks for having us, Robbie.

You're the best, man. Well, Robbie, you're going to love this. We have a very cool guest with us today. His name is Tyler Phantom. And Tyler, he's a former college football player, which alone is cool for me anyway. But he spent the last nine years, this was cooler, in full-time ministry. And he was recently called to be the lead pastor of his church in Indiana.

Okay, but here's what's interesting. Along the way, somehow, Tyler found the time to rally his church in Indiana to make a movie. Robbie, as you know, Paul and I, we spend our time, we're looking for film and television projects that'll impact the culture for Christ. And even though we're the Hollywood guys, we're finding these projects really pretty much all over the planet. And so we stumble across Tyler and his film.

And at Kappa Studios, we were just privileged to be able to help him finish it. And we did it through our Christian Film Finishing Fund. We had a donor step up and give money toward Tyler's film. And we'll talk about that later, but that's really not why we're here to talk about it.

Well, it's not why we're here to talk about it. See, because Tyler did something that blew us away. He did something with his movie after it was complete that was so different, so unique, so wonderful, that we were just so touched and we just wanted everyone to hear his story. So, Tyler, man, first, thank you, brother, for being with us today. Yeah, thanks for having me. I'm excited.

Cool, man. Well, look, your film's called A Father's Fight. What's the film about? Yeah, the film is about a down on his luck, former promising boxer. And we get to meet him when he's at the end of his boxing career.

And he's chosen a life of addiction over his marriage, over his kids, that kind of thing. And he gets one last chance to fight an old rival. And his trainer kind of teaches him how to fight for things that actually matter, like his faith and his family. So, the movie's about boxing, but it's really about a man stepping up and becoming a better husband and father.

All right. Great movie. It's on, what, Amazon Prime now. I know it's getting a ton of amazing reviews on IMDb and Amazon. And we'll definitely tell everyone where they can watch it.

But check this out, Robbie. So, Paul and I, obviously, we've been in the business for many, many, many, many years. Some filmmakers open their movies in theaters. Some maybe on television. Some, even in our space, they might even open it in a church. But Tyler, with this heart for ministry and for people, he opens his film at the Harrison County Correctional Facility. I know.

There's more. It's a jailhouse opening. A jailhouse is opening.

Dude, Tyler, man, what in the world? How did it even come about? What made you decide to open this film in a jail? Yeah, man, we really wanted the people that we wrote the movie for to see it first.

So, it's a challenge specifically for fathers, but really for adults in general to start choosing their families and their marriages and things like that over things like addiction or whatever they're caught up in. And we thought there'd be no better audience possible to see that that would need to hear that message more than the people that are incarcerated that need that hope. And so, we worked out a deal to where we got to not only in person show it locally at the local jail, but it got to be on every inmate's tablet in the state of Indiana. So, about 29,000 inmates got a chance to watch it. This is why we love this guy.

This is why I love Kappa Studios. This is why I love the Christian Film Finishing Fund. Like, oh my gosh, how amazing. Tyler, what an opportunity and what an open door God gave you.

Because that's no easy thing to get into, I can assure you. Yeah, it was a whole God thing. It was one of those deals where we said, what if we did it in the local jail that turned into through a couple chaplains getting in the hands of every inmate in the state, which is just crazy to think about.

No other way that would have happened without God zipping it. So, go ahead, Robbie. I think I heard it right. Is it a father's life? A father's fight. Fight? Oh, that makes a lot more sense. A father's fight. And you said it's on Amazon Prime and then how do you say that IMGB?

Yeah, IMGB. That's the International Movie Database. So, that's kind of where NC reviews and things like that for it. Because I know that I've got to go to a father's fight now on Amazon Prime and watch it tonight. You know, guys, this is every father's fight. I think the ideas of addiction and all that stuff are there. That's a key point of Tyler's film.

But I think this translates and transfers into every father because there are a lot of good things that we can do that take us away from our family, take us away from reading the word of God and serving God, and being that father that the scripture is very clear about. And so, I think that's what we love about this film. It's multi-dimensional.

It goes off in every direction. And yeah, having the guys in the jail, awesome. That is awesome. But there's just a whole other set of rings around that movie that I think are going to go forth and God would use it in a mighty way. Yeah. Hey, Tyler, man, there's one specific part of the jail opening that always, literally, Robbie, I've told this story a number of times.

And when I get to one point, I actually get choked up every time I hear it or even say it. Tyler, I want to hear from you though. Like, you open the film at the, you know, live at the facility and talk about that week and the three times you came back.

Sure. So we hope because of COVID, we could not open it like prison wide. We had to do it in segments. So we'd, by the end of that week, I had watched it like 48 times, something crazy, because you could only fit like 30 people in the room and social distance. So they'd watch it, then we'd stay for another showing and another showing.

But we gave an invitation time. I actually brought some of the cast and crew with me into the, into the prison. And they were like, me into the, into the prison. Many of them, it was the first time they'd ever done any kind of jail ministry. And we gave an invitation time and inmates were coming forward and like, cast members that had never prayed with people before were praying with people. And we ended up baptizing 13 inmates on the third night, which was incredible. Yeah. So it was just me guys, but every time I hear that, I literally just now I got chills and he said, and we ended up baptizing 13 inmates on that third night. Well, I'm trying to picture a baptism in the, how did that, how did you facilitate that?

Yeah. So that, that's a, prison baptisms are often the most makeshift thing. This one was actually in a horse trough. It was a horse trough filled with water.

It's the old story in the Bible of, well, there's water over there. Why not do it right now? That was kind of the mindset.

Yeah. Did you, did you see that coming at all, Tyler? I did not see the baptisms come in at all. I mean, I had prayed in Hope. I actually, I posted, there's a large Facebook group for Christian filmmakers and I posted in there like, hey, we're doing this jail thing. Will you guys pray for life changes? So I know we had filmmakers from all over the country praying specifically that night. So I think there's power in knowing that when we come together and pray for God to make a move that he will. So I didn't, I didn't know it was going to happen, but I was expecting that the Holy Spirit would do something.

That was great. And the power of the cast being there with those small groups, what an impact, right? That all these people cared enough about, about me to, to show up. I mean, that's just, it's, it's, the generosity of that is just phenomenal. And it's really good for them as well.

I mean, discipleship wise, huge for my cast. This show is the power of film, guys. It just bears witness once again, the power of story. Boy, you can say that again. Again, the movie is called A Father's Fight.

You can see it on Amazon Prime or IMGB, which again, if you've got a fire stick, you can do that. So we got more with Tyler. I'm sure everyone wants to hear the scene just like I do. So thank you, so thank you, Brad. Paul, we'll be right back with more Kingdom Pursuits. Welcome back, Brad and Paul. And now we got Tyler Sampson. So Brad, take us away.

You got it. And this is, um, so, so as you know, Robbie, we, Paul and I, we involve ourselves in massive projects and, and things that are all over the world and over the planet. But man, what Tyler's doing right now, the impact he's having, this is our heartbeat at Kappa and the Christian Film Finishing Fund. This, I mean, we've told all the projects we're involved with this one, Tyler, I don't know if you know this Tyler, but we talk about you all the time, man. This is what gets us going.

This is what, as Paul likes to say, this is what, this is why we get up in the morning. So like, Tyler, there's one more thing that, that, that, that really touched me as well. You had two cousins involved in this project and I just read about this like online. This is like last week.

And I was like, oh dude, man, God is not done with a father's fight. I think you know what I'm talking about, right? Your two cousins involved? Tell us about that.

Yeah. So Travis Hancock was the lead of the movie and we were casting his trainer. So the, the two main roles, we had one of them, we were looking nationwide for his trainer and we had like 93 people audition, like kind of people submitted. And we cast a guy named John French who lives about five hours from us. And without knowing it, we cast Travis's third cousin that they hadn't seen each other in 25 years. So one, God used this movie to connect cousins who hadn't seen each other in a quarter of a century.

It was amazing. But we did a script read before we started shooting. And through that script read, John, who we cast as the trainer, broke down and said, after the, after it was over, came up to me and said that he would, he would like to give his life to Jesus. He's been going to church since he was a little kid and never made a decision for Christ. And something about that script spoke to him that evening and being around our people. So his cousin Travis actually got to baptize him about two months later on set, which was one of the coolest things I've ever experienced in my life. Yeah. Man, you can't see God's providence.

It's like, oh my, I am, you know, there's just so many ways that God's favor is over this, this project. Are there plans to put it into more prisons? Well, we got it in every prison in Indiana. And so we had a theatrical release as well. So we did the whole prison thing a week before we did the theaters. So right now, we don't have any more plans to put it into any more prisons, but it's still available on the tablets for the inmates in the state of Indiana.

So any prisoner in Indiana can still view the film. Hey Tyler, I know a guy after the show's over, call me up. I know a guy. That's awesome. That's so cool.

Yeah. You know, look, this, maybe I was going to come out and say it, man. What I love was that when a donor stepped up, Robbie, like we, we put the film out there, right? And a donor steps up and says, yeah, I want to help this film.

And I don't know how to transition the conversation. I don't want to make it about us or the fund. This is about the Lord and what the Lord is doing. But man, we couldn't have even been a part of this, if not for donor stepping up to the Christian film finishing fund. So you can imagine Robbie having a front row seat to this and watching God work through a donor to give to the fund and then, you know, allowing us to be able to help him get right. He was already there. He did all the heavy lifting.

Tyler did all the heavy lifting. We just kind of helped to get a little bit to the finish line there, but to watch God work through the fund, allowing us to be a part of it. We had no idea of this very, very specific plan or anything, but I mean, if anyone's out there, we just encourage anyone.

You can check out kappastudios.com. Go to the, you'll see the tab, the Christian film finishing fund. You can see what that's all about. And if anyone's moved to give to Tyler and projects like Tyler, they can make the tax-deductible donation to the fund. All right, there's my shameless plug, but this is way too much for us.

I couldn't have said it any better, Brad, because here's the deal. Just like, you know, God used that connection to put cousins together. He's using this connection that somebody, you know, can go to Kappa, and I would mention that Kappa is spelled with a K. Oh, thank you very much.

It's K-A-P-P-A, and you go there, and very much so. You know, we air this segment on The Truth Network, because we want people to have an opportunity to see what God is doing in Hollywood, and to give all our listeners, you know, obviously there's an opportunity to give financially, but prayerfully, what Tyler pointed out was happening in those prison systems, you know, everybody got to pray that God was going to do something. And 13, was it 13 baptisms?

Yeah, 13. And so as we can be praying for the Christian Film Finishing Fund, and for what God is doing in Hollywood, right, Paul? I mean, that's always been your heart. That's right, and things are happening day by day and week by week. People are coalescing, people are coming to faith, and they're saying, wait a minute, I can serve God in the entertainment industry, and where do I need to go? I've got to quit doing the projects I'm doing, I've got to quit working on the shows I'm working on, and it's causing people to start to trust God instead of themselves. And that's really what this is all about. It's radical dependence on God.

Wow, you guys blow me away. I gotta tell you, I'm absolutely—Tyler, man, I'm a fan already. I can hardly wait to see the movie.

It is A Father's Fight. You can find it on Amazon Prime and IMGB. So thank you once so much, Brad and Paul and Tyler. And oh, by the way, The Chosen has a special announcement. If you got the app, you need to go find out about that, because the movie theaters are selling out. So you got to find out about that.

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