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Hallelujah! Etched in Stone. It's Memorial Day 2025, Etched in Stone. Plymouth Rock, I don't know if you ever thought about that, but it's sort of an Ebeneezer for America, right?
It was the original place that the pilgrims landed. And so much is etched in stone, especially when you think about Memorial Day. And we're so blessed in this country to have such a heritage and such traditions as Memorial Day. And we did a Truth Talk Live show this week where we had people call in and share their thoughts on someone that had given it all or how they felt about Memorial Day. And I have an amazing soundbite that's coming up in just a minute about that that we're going to share that came from that show that really led to the question that I want to ask you today. How do you feel?
How do you personally feel? Memorial Day should be celebrated. Or maybe you have someone in your life that you want to memorialize that was, you know, that served in the armed forces and that, you know, I love those stories. To say I love those stories would be an understatement. I've been praying for them all day.
866-348-7884 is the number to call in and share, you know, how you feel about how Memorial Day should be celebrated or, you know, somebody in your life that you feel like you want to talk about. And with that idea of you may know that I am recently, in fact, last week I came back from Israel. And so I have all sorts of ideas about etched in stone that I would not have had prior to going to Israel. So I want to share some things I learned there that may actually, you know, change some real paradigms you have about the Bible or Israel and those kind of things when it comes to stones.
Like, oh, my goodness, it's pretty amazing when you actually get to visit there. But also it's a Jesus Labor Love Weekend. And so I got my good friend Scott Barton, who is our chief volunteer with Jesus Labor Love, and he tells me, and it's really cool, that God has blessed us to be busier than we ever have been.
We've been able to help more people, and fortunately God has provided the donations to be able to help more people than we ever have in this period of time. And so we've got some of those folks who are going to be calling in again at 866-348-7884 to share those stories. But I want to get right to this sound bite because it takes about three minutes. And so if you don't mind, I want to play this that we heard from this combat man, a Navy veteran.
Go ahead and play that, Nick. So I'm a 23-year veteran of the Navy. I've got two combat deployments, one to Iraq and the other one to Afghanistan.
You know, this holiday, if you will, can be very difficult. One thing, I was in direct support of Special Forces on both my deployments, Army Special Forces, Navy Special Forces, the whole, whatever they needed, we supported. I was a Navy CB. Well, thank you for your service. Before we go anywhere else, man, we honor you. Like, wow, and I imagine it got really close and personal, didn't it?
Yes, very close and personal. But one thing that we did, and I was in leadership in both of my deployments, and when we were in the rear or behind the wire, if you will, on base, when we had a member get killed in action, there was what the military refers to as a ramp ceremony. And at a ramp ceremony, they take the deceased member and pay honor to them and load them into the back of an aircraft, and they leave country. And there's no words that can explain what that ceremony's like. The Memorial Day services here in the States pale to compare to what those ramp ceremonies are like. And when you have the groups of people that I was in support of, shoulder to shoulder, you know, honoring their team member as they have to bid farewell, because the mission has to go on.
You know, they can't just stop and travel back to the States. You know, they load their team member up and give their final farewell and then go right back into it and do the job we ask them to do. And those ceremonies and those scenarios are very, very difficult. And I struggle with this holiday because, you know, there's just not a lot of heartfelt memories.
As much as people want to honor and remember, and I appreciate that, but not to give it the homage and the honor that it deserves. I struggle with a great deal. You know, scripted speeches and people speaking on things that, you know, they've not experienced. I really struggle with that. Wow.
So I personally have not experienced it. But it was really an honor that Bill from King, and that's who that was, called in this week on Truth Talk Live, shared that. And it really helped me put Memorial Day a little bit more in perspective.
I hope it did you. But I would also love, I really would love to know, how do you feel the day should be celebrated? And, you know, if there's somebody in your life that you really want to memorialize, because the whole idea is it is etched in stone. Like, that's what's on, you know, grave markers is it's etched in stone, you know, that this person did this.
And this is what their life stood for, and all of us at some point in time will get one of those. And it's a fascinating thing when you think about how stones are used throughout the Bible, especially, you know, when you consider that, you know, Jesus is the, you know, the stone the builders rejected. And, of course, Peter was the stone on which he would, right, or on this rock I will build my church.
And if you ever go to Israel, you're going to see plenty of stones. But interestingly, also, you know, as we give an opportunity to sacrifice in all sorts of different ways, one of the ways that we do that is through the Jesus' labor of love here on the Christian Car Guy show, where people, you know, donate at ChristianCarGuy.com. You can just hit the donate button. And the money is available so that all these wonderful, humble people, right?
Scott, because one of the most difficult things it is to do, in my opinion, is to ask for help. Absolutely. And so they have the courage to say, hey, I can't do this on my own.
I need some help to get my car fixed. And they're calling in, and we get an opportunity to pray with them, and we get an opportunity to help them in a lot of cases. And occasionally, like, we even were able to give away a Taurus, right?
Absolutely. We've had an unbelievable, I guess it's the fifth month now, the start of the year. It's the busiest we've ever been. And first thing, when I talk to the people on the phone, I ask them what they're going through and what their life experience is and what we can pray about. And I also ask them how they found out about us.
And you'd be surprised. It used to be a lot of people were at a mouth or were local or they'd hear it on the radio station or they were familiar with our website, Truth Network. But more and more are out of state or they were just googling or they just found it on the web. Had somebody the other day through another agency out of Greensboro.
I guess I can say it on the air. But they had signed up, and it was Wheels of Hope, and they just received a car from them. And so they thanked us.
They said they were just hedging their bets, applying for both. And they thanked us. So again, it's ChristianCarguy.com is the actual website for The Jesus Labor Love.
It's Christian, just one word, ChristianCarguy.com. There you see The Jesus Labor Love and those kind of things. When we come back, we really want to dig into these stones.
Because I think you're going to see some fascinating things. And I would love to hear your comments on Memorial Day 866-348-7884. You're listening to the Truth Network and truthnetwork.com In stone today, Memorial Day 2025, right? And for those of us car people, we always will remember Plymouth as one of those rocks that things were built on. Think about how do you feel, you know, I hope you listened to the first segment and you heard Bill and King talk about his service to us wonderfully in the Navy as a CB and helping support those special forces and witnessing those ceremonies that they called ramp ceremonies that I was not familiar with, but I'll never forget his heartfelt testimony about those things. And, you know, it's a really opportunity, neat opportunity we have every year to celebrate this. And so as I was thinking about this idea of an Ebenezer stone and how beautiful that is, we set up remembrances. And it's a fascinating thing that the word to remember, which Jesus said that, remember me, right, when you do this, every time you take communion, that that is a huge part of the word strength. To remember is fundamental to like the remember the Alamo or you think about all these different ways that we won over, you know, different ways that people were remembering, you know, what past sacrifices had been and clearly, you know, Jesus being one of those. So one of the things I found more than fascinating in Israel, if you go there, you're going to find that there are stones everywhere, lots and lots and lots of stone.
What's even more fascinating to me is that when we went into like cities like Capernaum, which is right there on what they call the Sea of Galilee, which is actually a pretty large lake, that those cities are completely available. You can go into Capernaum and they have Peter's house right there. Well, guess what Peter's house is made out of?
Rock. Correct. In fact, all those buildings, and that's the reason why they can excavate them and they can go this is this and they can tell from different things that this was what this was used for. And of course, Peter's house had to be pretty large if they're going to remove the roof from it and lower the person down in it.
And when you actually see it, it's in stone, you can go that's fascinating. Well, one of the things the tour guide pointed out to us, and this may mess with your paradigm on Jesus, but here you go. He said Jesus was not a carpenter.
Oh, wow. He said that word is a builder. And a builder in Israel at the time, they built everything out of stone. They didn't build it out of wood because… There weren't a lot of trees.
There weren't a lot of trees, and clearly in that climate, wood was meant for other things to burn, but what they built their houses out of and what they did all those things in was stone. Well, when you begin to think about these buildings have lasted for thousands of years. And then if you go into Jerusalem, and one of the neater things that Tammy and I got to do when we were in Jerusalem, and I could talk for hours on Israel, but Hezekiah built a tunnel through the stone underneath the city of Jerusalem, which is one great big huge rock. And this tunnel, I'm guessing it must be a mile and a half or something because it took us 45 minutes.
It's pretty cool. It's like taking an Indiana Jones tour because they send you through the tunnel with a flashlight. It's still dark, and there's water running through the tunnel to this day because the reason he built the tunnel was to take the springs and get the water to flow inside the city so that when Sennacherib put on the big siege deal, people wouldn't die of thirst. So this tunnel was built through solid stone, and it has to be a mile. It took us 45 minutes to get through it, and we were walking fairly quickly because it's a little… But you're way down under the city of David going through this stone thing, and you're just like, man, I'm hoping there isn't going to be an earthquake right now.
You're completely surrounded. It was really fascinating how much they worked with stone. But when you think about that from a Bible perspective, right, that the stone the builder rejected, right, and the fact that stones last… And I don't know if you knew this, but I didn't know it, that in Israel when you go to visit somebody's gravesite, you know what they do? They leave a stone on the top of the casket. And so if you look down on the Mount of Olives, there's a huge Jewish graveyard right there, and there are stones piled all over the top of these caskets from people that have come at a visit to leave, you know, homage to some kind of thing. But they leave that stone.
It ain't going anywhere. Isn't that fascinating? And if you actually, when you go to the Holocaust Museum there in Jerusalem, they took the stones and put them under the caskets. How big are these stones? Like a pretty good size stone.
I mean, you know, it would be a little bit bigger than your hand, and they're just piled all over the caskets. And again, the idea of memorial and the idea of stone is a fascinating thing, and I just wanted to mention that the word stone, you know, when you look at it in Hebrew, it's the basic building blocks of that are like the fathers. It's in Aleph is the first word, which has to do with the father and the bet.
It has to do with his house, okay? So the father's house in the last word letter in the word stone is a nun, which has to do with faith or the word of God. And so it's like the word of God in its own way is etched in stone as it was in the Ten Commandments, right? Which were etched in stone.
Because, you know, his word will never break down. I mean, it's just simply set in stone, right? And something that we have thought about and used for years. And so as you begin to think through how we celebrate Memorial Day, and can you picture all those grave markers, right, in Normandy? Yes, yes, yes.
Right? And can you picture the grave markers that are at Gettysburg, right? Or maybe you've seen that and think that these were sacrifices, but don't forget that there was this one stone, and it was rolled away because he's not dead. Big stone. Right, big stone, and it was a rolling stone.
And so, you know, I was just pondering all these things, and the more you think about Jesus being a stonemason, I think it's fascinating to think of the ramifications of all that, because he built his church on this foundation of a rock, right, which was Peter. Now we have Wendy and Carrie, which I shouldn't have made, hold on so long. We're going to get to you, Wendy, in the next segment, because this is Jesus' Labor of Love Week, and we want to talk to her, but we would love your Memorial Day thoughts or a Memorial Day tribute, if you like, or something on the Jesus' Labor of Love. We'll be right back, 866-348-7884.
You're listening to the Truth Network and TruthNetwork.com. From the halls of Montezuma To the shores of Tripoli We fight our country's battles In the air, on land and sea First to fight for right and freedom And to keep our honor free We are proud to claim the title Of United States Army Etched in stone today on the Christian Car Guy show, it is Memorial Day 2025, and what an opportunity we have always to, you know, memorialize somebody that really had an effect on your life. I would love to hear that story, 866-348-7884. And right before the break, we were talking about the, essentially, cemeteries in Israel, the Jewish ones, they put stones on the graves, and one of the people in the studio said, Robbie, what exactly does that look like?
Well, because, you know, the whole thing is stone, they take the vaults, and they're above ground, and so there's a concrete vault, and it almost has the headstone across the top of the vault, and that's where they place the stones, and that's what they look like. But again, this is the Jesus Labor Love Weekend, and we have Wendy calling in. Always wonderful to talk to her. Wendy, you're on the Christian Car Guys. Good morning, Wendy. Good morning, everyone.
How are you this morning? Wonderful, wonderful. We are blessed.
So what have you got for us? I was loving your conversation on Ebeneezer stones and thinking about how you guys have been living Ebeneezer stone in my life. You guys gave me a Pontiac, as you know, and it's doing great.
My son and I are loving it. I'm a single mom, and not only that car, every time I get in it, but calling into the show and hearing the show is a reminder. You know, sometimes we forget. We sort of take for granted something God's given us through somebody, and you guys have been that conduit, but it just keeps reminding me of how he provides for us. And so calling the show has actually been a blessing to me to keep reminding me, like, he's been faithful in the past, like those Ebeneezer stones, and he will be faithful in the future.
So yeah, thank you so much, guys. What's fascinating about that, Wendy, is this week I was thinking about something similar, like how come I'm not as grateful as I should be for all the different things you give me, God, like this amazing life that you've given me. And one of the amazing things that he gives me and the thing that I really, really, when I try to count my blessings every morning and I really try to do that with him, is I always count my blessings for the people, because that's the really spectacular part of what you get. I mean, obviously, I start out with him, but after that, you know, it's amazing the people, and you are that for us.
I know Scott feels the same way as I do. Oh, yeah, I love to hear your voice. That, you know, you had the courage to ask for help. God met the need. We got to see all of it happen, and clearly, the whole idea of gratitude, when I think of that whole concept, I can't help but think of Wendy, right?
Can you, Scott? Right, yeah. She's just so grateful. So humble and kind. It's a beautiful thing. But the AC is working? The AC is working, and I'm so grateful. It's hot outside, you know?
Thank you. And getting hotter. It's a blessing. Yeah, well, we are.
It is getting hotter. Well, as always, we're so grateful for you, Wendy. You are a light for a lot of us, and we thank you for calling in today. God bless.
And tell Trey we said hello as well. Oh, and may he keep doing what you're doing. Thanks. God bless you too. Bye-bye. Thanks again, Wendy. And she held on so long, so how about you? I know. 866-348-7884.
866-348-7884. And so, you know, again, as we enter into this Memorial Day weekend, you know, I realize Monday's Memorial Day, but I think it's an amazing thing. And I love that Stu, my boss, if you heard that during the break, he did the tribute to his dad, Big Stu, and his love for the poem Flanders Fields, which, you know, I love to hear that poem every Memorial Day.
And, you know, it's a really cool thing. So I wonder, you know, in your life, like what is it that's special about Memorial Day from your perspective? What is it that when you celebrate the holiday that just makes that feel like okay? You know, it's really, I really do feel like I have honored, I've thanked God, I've done, you know, this part of what God gave us, is this opportunity just like, I guess, Wendy was talking about, that the show is an Ebenezer, but how is Memorial Day an Ebenezer for you?
So how is it for you, Scott? Well, historically growing up, Memorial Day always marked the beginning of the summer. And so we had kind of some traditions, cooking out, visiting with relatives, no matter if we were watching the Indy 500, which is very patriotic, very patriotic, and all the races, there was always these flyovers, and there was always such an opportunity for prayer and forgiveness and gratitude. And so just growing up, I've just felt like it was such a patriotic time, a time to give back, a time to be proud and just humble gratitude. I love that.
I love that. Because it was things like that that meant Memorial Day to me. Like at church, you know, I don't know if your church did it this way, but I loved it.
They would play those themes that we're playing here throughout the Christian car guy. They would play the one for the Marines, the one for the Army, they even did the Coast Guard, and then those people in the building that served, right? You know, they would stand up, and then often they would have like the song, thank you for giving to the Lord, and different service members would give up, stand up there and give their testimony to some extent of what that meant to be in the service, because some of us didn't get a chance to serve for whatever reason. You know, it was a strange time when I was actually had a draft card, but right at the point in time when my draft number, I mean, it really did come up, but they dissolved the draft, and they really weren't looking to get more people in the service at the point in time, because Vietnam was over, and it was just a different time. But it looked very close, like I was going to get a chance to serve. That was what that looked like in my life. But I've heard so many wonderful testimonies of what it meant to serve our country, and I have dear, dear friends who have served, and I think it's an amazing thing that you would write a check with your own life that the government can cash it.
That's what they need to do. Did you have somebody in your family that served, or did you serve, Scott? I did not serve. My father and my uncle did. They did some tours in Korea and Japan, but no active duty. Nobody in my family had any active duty.
But I imagine for your father, Memorial Day was a little different than it is for those of us who didn't do that. And so, again, I would urge you, we would love to hear what your thoughts are, 866-348-7884, 86634 truth. And getting back to these stones, right, and I don't know if you knew this, but when you look, if you walk around Israel, you're going to see all these buildings that were made by stone, and the reason why the excavation is so amazing is because they can really uncover the previous cities. And so I stayed at the Magdala Hotel when we were in Galilee, and right outside my back window, like as I walked out onto the little terrace that was behind my room, I looked into what was the city of Magdala. There was a synagogue, which when Jesus came into the area of Galilee, he would have come between these two mountains down a valley.
The very first place he would have come was Magdala, interestingly, and that synagogue was like to that window for me right now. That's how far it was from the synagogue to the back of my room, and there sat the Magdala stone. Now, the Magdala stone, speaking of stones, was this amazing stone that they found in this synagogue when the Catholic church went to build. They were going to build this resort that is the Magdala Hotel back about 15 years ago, and when they went to do that, they have to excavate first in Israel before, and they see if there's any archaeological where they were going to build their hotel.
Guess what? That was where they found the remnants of this synagogue, and so they began this giant excavation of the city of Magdala, and here they found this unbelievable synagogue that was exactly from the time of Jesus. So there's almost like no doubt that Jesus spent time reading Torah in that synagogue, right where I was like looking out my back window, and what they would read the Torah on was this Magdala stone, and I interviewed these people back at the National Religious Broadcasters Convention 15 years ago and seen the stone then, but to then be in the place, seeing where it actually was, was more than amazing, but if you go Google the idea of the Magdala stone, there is a picture on the top of it, or it's a relief that's done in the stone, that is of the actual curtain that got ripped in two when Jesus, and it's the only authentic one that they know what that curtain looked like. It's more than amazing. So when we come back, we need your calls.
866-34-TRUTH. Etched in stone today on the Christian Car Guys show, Memorial Day 2025 from Plymouth Rock, there onto, you know, those, you know, I guess we can always see all those grave markers on, you know, Omaha Beach or, you know, there in Normandy. You know, it's unthinkable to some extent for those of us who never experienced that, but if you heard again our friend that was in the CBs, Bill and King, and his, the honor that was involved in those services that they called a ramp service for their fallen comrades, and you can think of those band of brothers arm in arm reflecting on what their brother did in sacrifice, you know, and I heard him struggling, right, with how some of us celebrate this holiday because it's sacred. And, you know, I love the fact that in our military, honor is still a gigantic word, and it's a gigantic concept, and we could use a lot more of it. You know, I know I could use it in my own life, and I love that he pointed that out because I've thought about it, you know, ever since he did. And so maybe you've got something like that on your heart. We would love to hear it.
866 is the number to call in, 866-348-7884, 866-348-7884. And as I mentioned, this is the Jesus Labor Love Week. And, of course, you know, I just want to honor my friend Scott, who is our lead volunteer with the Jesus Labor Love. And while I was off having a blast in Israel, he was in the trenches, you know, calling and praying and helping folks like we've never had, as he was talking about, more chances to help people. I guess that's the beautiful thing about it because he has experienced the same thing I have, is that although we may get 20, 25 applications in a week, that we actually do, in fact, help because a lot of people, they'll ask for it, but then when you provide it, they don't show up, right, Scott?
Yes, yes. That's really common. And they'll tell me that they're going tomorrow or they're on the way, and something just comes up. And a lot of them are struggling so much, and then they'll call me about a month or two later, and they'll say, Mr. Scott, Mr. Scott, did I lose my place in line?
Are you still able to help me? I'm so sorry. I'm like, yeah, go get your car fixed.
We don't have a line. And I'm not mad at you. My daughter got sick and all this, and I'm like, life happens. So they're just, a lot of them are really struggling. So I hear a lot of that.
So it used to break my heart that out of ten people, I'd want to try to help at least eight, but it's more like four or five simply because... Right. It's hard. Yeah. It's hard. Life is hard.
Yeah. And so we appreciate your prayers. The Jesus Labor Love, again, it's at ChristianCarGuy.com, where we help out single moms, families in crisis with car repair, and sometimes we replace cars. And again, you can find that information at ChristianCarGuy.com, both to donate, to pray, all those things that we are so grateful to be part of. We've got Doug, is in Indiana, has got a comment for us. Doug, you are on the Christian Car Guy Show. I'm excited.
What you got for us? Good morning, sir, and God bless you. Hey, I just wanted to call in this morning. I'm a veteran, and I was blessed to have been able to serve in Desert Storm.
And this is just... This Memorial holiday is very different for me this year, because I'll tell you that everything that this country went through in the past four or six years, with all the anti-Semitism going on right now and everything, I just want to pray for everybody out there to come to grips with everything in this life. I mean, everybody's looking at all the wrong things in this world, and I just want people to try to get to realize what they're thinking about.
I mean, things that are just tormenting other people's lives that isn't even that important as far as our living and living a life for Christ. It's so surreal this year, you know? I'm with you, Doug, and I couldn't help but reflect on that scripture that says, in the last times, the love of many will grow cold. I hope that we can continue to pray and lift them up so that they won't grow cold. So, Doug, I'm going to take you up on your idea. Let's pray.
Let's do it. Father, thank you for Doug. I thank you for his heart. I thank his heart for you. Lord, I thank you that you've given him the insight on what's needed is prayer. Lord, if we touch base with you, you can show us what's important.
You can show us how to love, as you are love. And I am in locking arms with Doug and all those veterans out there that are listening, that they fought so that—and their comrades died so that we could be a country that loved one another, a country that held life in high esteem and your values and you in high esteem, Lord. Again, I thank you so much for a chance to pray with Doug today. And I'm going to open the floor for him to pray. So, Doug, in Jesus' name, what would you like to share? Well, Father God, I just come to you, Lord, with a heavy heart. I just pray, God, for all the people out there, Lord, to come together and love one another like you tell us to do. You know, just treat each other like they want to be treated and just love each other, you know, with open arms.
And don't worry about the little silly stuff in life. It doesn't even matter that everybody's fighting about money, greed, and all the evil stuff that's going on out there, Father God. I just pray that you bind that and chain it. In the name of Jesus Christ, Lord, stop the evil. And, Lord, I just want to put a big prayer for Israel out there, Father God. They're in dire need of your help, Father God, because they've got so many countries against them right now, Father God, and I just pray for Israel. They are your chosen children, Lord God, and I love them, and I thank you that you let me be drafted in that family with them, Father God, as your chosen people, and I thank you, Father God, from the bottom of my heart. I love you. In Jesus' name, amen. Amen, Doug. And I can tell you, having just been in Israel, that they feel our prayers, and they are so thankful for Christians like yourself and so excited about what it says in Isaiah 56, that that house is going to be a house of prayer for all nations.
Yes. And I got to tell you, I have never received a greeting in any foreign country. Like, these people, they could not be more genuinely delighted that you were there knowing that, of course, you were a Christian and whatever the situation may be, and they came and talked with us, gave us lectures. I think you would be so encouraged about what God is doing in Israel as it's being repopulated and it's booming, but you're right, they don't have many friends out there, and we need to be praying for them. You couldn't be more right on that aspect, but I just thought I would. Yeah, I mean, they're such a loving people, too, and all they want is peace, you know? Right, right. I mean, they did not start all this.
They just want to live a peaceful life, you know, for Christ, and they've just got so many, you know, Satan's running wild out there right now, and, you know, I know, you know, it's in the Bible, it's expected, so we just got to keep praying for them, and we know God's got a plan, and he's in control. There you go, my friend. He is in control. Doug, this is Scott. I just want to say thank you so much for your service. Yes, thank you for your service. You're welcome, sir. You're welcome.
I've been very blessed. All right, well, we got to go, but thank you, Doug. Thank you, Scott, for all that you're doing. Remember that Jesus' labor love is there at ChristianCarGuy.com, and, Lord, we thank you so much for all you listening today and pray you have a blessed Memorial Day. In Jesus' name, amen. Amen.
