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And now, here's today's Truth Talk Live host. Welcome to Truth Talk Live. I am Emily Curtis, and I have a question for you today. Who is someone from your childhood or your young adulthood? that had a big impact on your life.

We wanna hear all about them. The number is 866-348-7884. Again, we wanna hear who impacted your life as a child or a young adult. And I am joined today with John Prentiss, and we're gonna talk about some people that impacted us. You know, yesterday was just Mother's Day, and so certainly our mothers had a big impact on our lives, but those are not the only people that have impacts.

So John, who comes to mind when you think of someone that had a big impact on your life? When I think about that question the first two men that I think about are two men that were involved in my life. They were elders in the church. And uh my father was a pastor. And so the one was my What they used to call junior boys Sunday school teacher.

So my 12, I was 12 years old. And uh his name was Alan. King. And um Mr. King?

Said I should say Sergeant Major King. uh was retired Army Um Non-commissioned officer who happened to be the drill commandant at West Point.

So you can imagine this man just You know, his socks were starched. And for 12-year-old boys, He was perfect. and and nothing slipped by him, And he was, his own son was in the class. I was good friends with his son. And uh, you know, he was just one of those men that you You always knew he'd have an answer if you had a problem.

But he was very forward-looking with all of us. Like he could kind of read us, figure out what we were thinking. Even when he was teaching the Bible. You know, like he would I remember he would take his head. I remember he had big hands and he would take his fingers and Just kind of stripe them together.

and he would say, Don't ever forget. God at any time. Can just snuff you out. And as a 12-year-old boy, I was like, okay, you know, because all of our fathers would tell us things like, look, I brought you in, I can take you out.

So if you're, you know, you got problems, well, we can take care of that. But he was just, you know, a very He he was wise. But yet he was kind and considerate, He was godly. But yet he still had that kind of military backbone with everything he did. It didn't ever leave him very far.

Yeah. You know, and so. He was just an amazing individual. Did that kind of inspire you to be a more like structured young man? Uh no.

I have a thirteen-year-old son, I get that. The the the matrix, yeah, you can't and having worked with teenagers most of my life. you're not going to change their basic bent. Yeah. Like it it did not make me have any greater desire to become a soldier, to be, you know, a drill instructor, anything like that.

But it I did see and and I'll tell you one of the things that he taught me how to do. Is he taught me how to tie a necktie and a bow tie? I've completely forgotten how to tie the bow tie. I've been trying to learn again. But.

Yeah, I I learned how to tie a necktie from him. And then I remember one time. I was in his bedroom and I saw him pull open a drawer Oh my goodness, Emily. Everything. You know, socks are real you know, and socks were not balled up, they were folded.

You know, the the t-shirts looked like they they were in a package that just come from the store. Wow. But, you know, he got that from the military. Yeah. You know, you got to have everything in your foot locker squared away, you know, and so Yeah, I yeah, I I mean, I learned so many things from him.

But I didn't know. I don't think it changed my basic personality, who I was. Um In fact, he would encourage that. He would say, well, you know, you like to talk. Much more than I do.

I'm not a talk guy. I'm an action guy. You know, and he would see that. And so, no, I don't think it changed that.

Okay.

So, well, and I think it's interesting because now you teach kids too. And I mean, again, we want to hear who inspired you, whether you were a child or a young adult. Call us at 866-348-7884. And again, I'm Emily Curtis. I normally host the Hope in the Morning show.

And occasionally, I co-host with Robbie Dilmore. And as many of you who listen may know, he hosts the Christian Car Guy Show.

So we are going to sweeten the deal a little bit here for the callers to call in. And I'm going to give you a riddle. And it is a car riddle. And the riddle is this: it is, what car did all of the disciples? Drive in.

If you can answer that riddle correctly, I am going to send you a copy of Alistair Begg's Daily Devotions. It's this beautiful book, it's a fairly new book that he put out. And if you can answer that correctly, then you're going to get that book.

So call us at 866-348-7884 and tell us who inspired you and answer the riddle of what kind of car did the disciples drive in.

So going forward from there, Um, did that inspire you at all for working with kids now? I I that I think I got that more from my mother.

Okay.

My parents uh were married twenty-three years. before I was born.

Okay.

They were 42 years old. And I I am an only child. And they were very concerned about the, I guess you could say, geopolitical, the nuclear issue in the world. My father fought in World War II. And uh in fact um my parents were married Uh in 1937.

And you just shortly after their third wedding anniversary coming home from church. you know, they they heard about Pearl Harbor. Wow. And the next day my father, my uncle, Ah, uh my father and two of my uncles. they went down and enlisted in the United States Navy.

Now they didn't matriculate into the military until about five weeks later.

Okay.

Yeah, you know, you gotta have a medical and your inoculations and all that stuff. And so But yeah, they all all three of them went in the Navy.

So You know, my father fought in World War Two, you know, anyway, you know, my my father ultimately became a pastor. He went to college when he got out of the military, went to seminary, And then um I was born in nineteen sixty.

Okay.

And So My mother though had always been a teacher, college professor, high school teacher. In fact, my mother taught public high school until she was 89 years old. Wow. My mother was not just my mother, but she was also my She was my high school history teacher. She was one of my college professors.

In my career as a public school teacher, I actually got to teach in the room next to her for two years. And then At one point when I first started my administrative career during the summer, I got to be your boss. Oh, that's funny. You know, so I I You know, I think there's a within part of that. I think God, you know, wires us to do certain things, enjoy certain things.

And I always enjoyed. Working with children.

Now, for me, the high school kids, I've always worked with. you know, in secondary education, high junior high and high school young people. What I'm doing in Sunday school, teaching dying and 10-year-olds, that's kind of a stretch, but I've always done that. in that when when we lived in California, I I always taught first and second grade.

Okay.

So I've gotten kind of a flavor for each. You know, you manage them differently. Yeah. They have they have different you know, they obviously have different kinds of conversations, but Um no, I I No, I I don't think that any of my mentors Any of the people that really inspired me moved me on to move with children or to work with children.

Well, we want to hear who your mentor is and how it impacted your life at 866- 348-7884. And again, call us and solve that riddle. What kind of car did the disciples drive in? Truth talk live. Nope, never saw my girl.

Welcome back to Truth Talk Live. I am your host today, Emily Curtis, and we are talking about who is someone from your childhood or your young adulthood that had an impact on your life. We just celebrated Mother's Day yesterday, and you know, obviously, it makes me think of my mother. I love my mother deeply. I mean, my mother is not only, in my opinion, one of the best mothers in the whole world, but she's become one of my very best friends.

You know, I think now as an adult and as a mother myself, like I look and see the many things that she taught me, but she really taught me a lot about what it looks like to be a loving mom. And, you know, even when I was little and we would play dolls together, like, she just was so nurturing and affectionate. And she instilled in me the value for motherhood. And honestly, I think that that's kind of a fleeting value for. For my generation, at least, you know, people more and more are choosing to either not have children or they're choosing to have one child, maybe two, maybe two.

But my guest today, John, he has nine grandchildren. And actually, you have 10 grandchildren because you have one that's with the Lord. And we, as I mentioned before, I host a show, Hope in the Morning. And we've had both of your daughters not only in our book, but also on our show, both of them. And right now, real quick before we get into the story, I want you guys to call in at 866-348-7884 and tell us who inspired you?

Who had an impact on your life? Surely it's your mother or your father or maybe a teacher or a coach or a music teacher. There's so many people that kind of have just this molding effect on our lives.

So call us at 866-348-7884 and tell us who had that effect on your life.

So I know you had mentioned before we went to the break that your mom and your dad, they waited 20 years. 23 years before they had you, partly because of the war, actually, probably largely due to the war. What what was it like for you as you grew into manhood and got married. When you decided, like, this is valuable to me, and I definitely want to have children, what was that like for you? I I have to be honest.

Just like you said, the tribute that you gave to your mother, and by the way, Emily does have a great mother. It My mom shaped me. in a lot of ways that were very positive. I guarantee if you had my wife on here, she would say, yeah, she shaped you in some negative ways too. And that's true.

All mothers do. You know, but One thing she always instilled upon me is that you need to understand How to treat people, whether they're infants or whether they're toddlers or whether they're teenagers or whether they're teenagers. It doesn't matter. You still need to, and I think that was part of the ministry motif that I was born into. When you're born a pastor's son, especially a church planter's son, we would go into situations where there was nobody, and then when we left, there were two or three hundred people.

And I'm like, why are we leaving? Yeah, no, I I I I think that there was a part of that, certainly, that came from, like you say, the nurturing of my mother. Like, when I was little, I wanted a baby doll.

Okay.

So she got me a baby dog. Yeah. Well, I remember, I, I mean, literally, I loved the hair off that thing. But, but I also learned, you know. you know, how to hold the baby, how to cuddle the baby, et cetera.

And so I think you're right. I do have nine. living grandchildren. And that's one thing that I know My wife and I both you'll try to instill in them. And their mothers have done an excellent job with that.

You know, and so You know, I get to see that in them. I think we have we just recently went to Disney World and we took the whole family. And so it was great to see my 20-year-old grandson holding his one-year-old You know, his one-year-old cousin. Yeah. And his name is Owen.

you know, she doesn't say a lot. She's just a year you know, but she still she she can mouth. You know, she'll say, Oh, oh, oh, I said, Yeah, always here. I love that. I love that we have we have Jamal from North Carolina call in to tell us about who inspired you, who had an impact on your life.

Hi, this is Jamal. Thank you for taking my phone call at the topic today, and it's More or less an impact, more so than an inspiration. And this is actually a guy that has. Co-hosted one of the shows on a Christian card guy. His name is Mr.

Scott Barton. And one of the reasons why and let me also shout out what he does a little bit real quick. He is a co-host of the Jesus Labor of Love. And he does work, fantastic work for those guys over there. giving out the or helping people out with their cars.

I think it's widows and veterans. But anyway. Scott Barton walked up to my vehicle one time. Just out of the blue, total random chance.

Well, not random 'cause God was in it, of course. And he invited me to Wednesday in the Word, Minsk Bobby's Day. And through that, I've met so many of my friends, so many Network connections. I met Fred Hagee, who Fred Hagee. Wrote a book, Give 'em Jesus.

And he goes to Pine Dale. He invited me to go to Pine Dale, and that's where I go to church now. Then I made up political connections, met Andy Bowersach, Andy Bowersox with Intertractive Ministries. And also within where has to be the place where it's due. teaches Bible study.

So that one invitation from Mr. Scott Bart Scott Barton opened up a whole lot of doors. That's incredible. That's so neat how it literally like it changes the trajectory of certain aspects of your life. Oh, yeah, definitely.

Definitely. That's incredible. I love that. Do you by chance have an answer to the riddle to our question? Did you hear it?

It is: what kind of car did the disciples drive? Do you want to take a guess at it? I actually know it. You know it. Yes, I do know it.

When you listen to the Christian Carr guy, you start to pick up on the theme a little bit. There you go. Uh I'm going to let somebody else. Win that prize, but if nobody calls in and wins it, I'll call by the end of the show and I'll answer it. That sounds great.

Well, we so appreciate you calling in and telling us all about Scott. What a special connection the Lord made. Oh, yeah. Thank you guys. Take care and God bless.

Thank you. If you have a story of someone that inspired you or changed aspects of your life, call us at 866-348-7884. Once again, that's 866-34-TRUTH. And going back to your precious daughters, which I'll just give a quick little synopsis here because our book, Hope in the Morning. We have 21 different stories in there of really deep suffering, but the book is not left in the suffering.

That's why it's called Hope in the Morning. And you have one daughter, an older daughter. You have two daughters.

So your older daughter has lost one of her daughter, her own daughter, her firstborn child. To a rare genetic disorder when she was around six months old, right, is when she went to be with the Lord. Seven months. Seven months. And then your second daughter, Brighton, she lost her husband in a tragic car accident by a drunk driver, hit by a drunk driver, and only five and a half weeks into their marriage.

That's right.

So you've had to really walk through some pretty hard things with your daughters. How have you, how have you kind of. Aimed to be a mentor in their lives, or for your oldest daughter, maybe in her husband's life. Um You know We we're never prepared fully. for tragedy.

I th I think I told you this, that that on the morning that My son in law Adam was killed. our pastor at the time, a very you know, competent and And an excellent exposer of the Word of God, a a guy that spent a lot of his life counseling. Uh young people. You know, and and He we got to the front door. And um He looked at me and he says Old old pastor.

Do you do you have any wisdom for the younger pastor? I said, first of all, you're not that much younger than me, but I said, the on this one? He says, no. I said, no. I said, other than it's like jerking a rug out from under somebody.

You married five and a half weeks. You know, you you di you didn't get married until you were twenty seven. And you finally found somebody, and they're just this amazing human being. And You know, now, you know, after five and a half weeks, they're gone. Yeah.

You know, the answer to that is no.

So, I don't care who you are, you could be the best trained counselor, pastor, whatever situation is different. Yeah, yeah, you can't prepare for it. But yeah, I do like to think that I'm doing the right things even moving forward all these years. Absolutely. Yeah.

To stand behind them, beside them, whatever they need. When we come back, we're going to talk more about that. We've got a caller on the line. When we come back, call us yourselves at 866-348-7884. Truth Talk Live.

We're back on time. Welcome back to Truth Talk Live. I am your host today, Emily Curtis, and we are talking about who is someone from your childhood or maybe your young adulthood that had a big impact on your life. We all have people that have kind of shaped who we are, or maybe they've challenged the way that we think about something.

So, we want to hear that from you. It's 866-348-7884. And again, today we are asking a riddle. And if you get that riddle correct, we're going to send you an Alistair Begg devotional book. And the riddle is this: What car did the disciples drive in?

Again, call us at 866-348-7884. And again, I'm joined here with John. And we talked about the fact that both of his daughters, both of whom I've known for a very long time, Um they've walked through some pretty hard challenges and You know, sometimes we don't even realize the mentors that we can be in someone's life. But I hope that through programs like the Truth Talk Live, or maybe you listen to the Christian Car Guy, or maybe you listen to Hope in the Morning. I hope that those programs are equipping you to be an effective mentor in the lives of others as well, because that's how we ought to be as Christians.

We should be equipped and ready to jump into what people are going through, whether it is something that we can rejoice with those who rejoice or mourning with those who are mourning.

So, I was asking you a little bit, John, about what that role looked like for you as a father and a father-in-law. Not only do you have a wonderful son-in-law, actually, also named John, who lost a baby girl with your oldest daughter, but you now have a new son-in-law. I say new, they have three children now together, but you have the Lord has given Brighton another husband as well, a wonderful man. And so, what does that relationship look like between you and these two young men? Oh, um Uh the r the relationship between the two of us Is absolutely rooted in Christ.

It's rooted in doctrine. and theology. I have no two greater men on planet Earth that I would rather discuss spiritual things with. and they will bing bring things to me. Hey Dad.

Did you see that so-and-so did this and that? Yeah, yeah, I saw about that. Yeah, and and We're obviously we're all members of the same church. And we absolutely love the Word of God. We love the Scripture.

And Um just recently my son-in-law um Brighton's husband my younger daughter's husband Who lost a husband? He said to me, He said, Dad, I just want you to know how much I appreciate the fact. that you're willing To sit with my children. and tolerate all the things that they do. But yet You're always telling them things about the Lord.

And my younger grandson, my youngest daughter's older.

son his name is weston and weston is six And um I do a lot of mission work around the world. I coordinate mission projects. In Africa, and I do a lot of that through a ministry in Shelby, North Carolina, called Hands-on Missions. And the director of Hands-on Missions is a man by the name of Stephen Hogg. and Steve has a mirrored voice.

with Larry the cable guy. Oh, how funny.

So he sounds like Mater from Cars. And so, you know, and the other day, Weston said to me, he heard Steve's voice on the phone. He says, Again, my friend's last name is Hogg.

So his nickname for years has always been Porky, a porky pig. And so he'll say, were you talking to poor key? I said, Yeah, I was talking to Porky. And he says, Were you talking about Jesus? I said, We were.

You know, and so You know. I think just natural. Yeah. You know, there's things that rub off on your children, Emily, whether you like it or not. Yeah.

They see, they hear, you know. Yeah, and we know the bad things that they learn from us, too. Right, absolutely. You know, what do you say when you stub your toe? Yes.

And your son says, I'll tell you what he says. Yeah. I've got a funny story for you regarding that in just a moment. Right now, we have Becky from Richburg on air. Becky, welcome to the show.

Yeah. Hi. Hi. Who was someone that had a profound impact on your life? Oh, gosh.

Uh, my dad was. Yeah. Yeah. Can you tell us about your dad?

Well, he's been a pastor for a number of years, and he was a. Humble, kind, and gentleman. He, um He knew he knew how to love like Jesus, how to love sacrificially.

So is that something that you have taken from your dad and tried to apply in your own life toward others? Oh yeah. Yes, he's definitely been an inspiration. Um I do my best to try to be like him, definitely. What's your dad's name?

A Harold. What a wonderful thing. Do you have a specific memory? from when you were young, something that really stands out to you is something that you just loved about your dad. Oh gosh, I have so many memories.

I remember him always being there during the hard times and Um Gosh, there's there's just so many memories. Um Yeah. It sounds like your dad was really a man of high character and just impacted your life in such a such a sweet way. Yeah. Yes, he he one of the things, the memories that come to my mind, he he loved.

uh joke books, you know, and and um riddles and such is Um that's why and one thing that inspired me, uh I have the answer. To the riddle that you have. What's the answer?

So, our question, our riddle is: what car did the disciples drive in?

So, Becky, what car did they drive in?

Well, I think they're driving around in an accord. You got it. They were driving around in a Honda because the Bible says they were all in one accord. Yeah. That's right.

All right.

Well, when we hang up with you, Becky, you'll be able to give your information to Grayson, and we will get that book sent out to you this week. And I was just gonna say that When a father has that gentle, compassionate spirit, as you described that your dad did, I think not only does that impact, it definitely impacts sons, but there's something special about the relationship between a father and a daughter when you have a dad that has just that gentle, sweet spirit about him. Yeah. Yes, definitely. Definitely.

Do you have siblings as well, Becky? I have one sister, yeah.

So, kind of like you, John, a dad of two girls. That's a special calling for sure.

Well, I appreciate you calling in. It sounds like your dad was a very special man. Yes, yes, I miss him a lot. Yeah. Well, we we enjoy having you here as a listener, and I appreciate you calling in.

If you give your information to Grayson, we will get that book to you. And I think you're you made your dad proud today solving that riddle.

So, going forward again, as we were talking about, John, you're absolutely right.

So, my funny story to you, and hopefully, my husband, I don't think he can, I don't know if you can hear this portion of the show, because the funny thing is, is that I don't know where my kids, you know, kids hear the weirdest things. Like, they didn't hear this from us, but we have a six-year-old daughter. And she, yesterday, she says, my husband overhears her saying, What the pork? And my husband goes, what did you just say? And she goes, what the pork?

And my husband goes, let's not say that. And she goes, well, is what a bad word? He goes, no. She goes, is the a bad word? He goes, no.

She goes, is pork a bad word? He goes, no. And so she goes, well, why can't we say that? And my husband's like, that's just not a good thing for us to say. She goes, well, can we say pork the what?

My husband's like, sure, you can say pork the what. That sounds good. But it is when you said your friend's name was, was porky and that kids, you never know what they're hearing and what they're picking up. They, they say the funniest things. And it is, it's like you, you know, the old adage of like more is caught than taught.

And it's just such a funny thing because, man, I mean, you can't be on your guard at all times as a parent. You know that they're going to catch on to things that you're like, man, of all my things that I do, that's what you picked up on. Like, that's how you want to emulate me. I think one thing that I did, that I have learned. And I learned it.

not only from from my father, but from other men that I was mentored by Especially when you're dealing with young people, be careful about using sarcasm because they don't always understand the sarcasm. Having worked with many, many at-risk special needs high school students academically Yeah, you can't use sarcasm because they don't get it. Yeah, they they just They're in that situation in life where they know that they are not able to. ascertain They don't have the tools to ascertain the rest of the curriculum like a lot of their friends do. They can't access the core of the curriculum because.

They've got issues with the way they hear things, way they see things, they process things. And so using sarcasm, but. There are things you can do that are you know Uh you I've always done with my grandsons. is like From the time they were very, very little. You know, I I would always refer to them Especially when there's a line-up of them.

Because people want to know. I take them all to Costco, and the ladies go, okay, who are these guys? Yeah. These are my completely worthless grandsons. And I taught them to identify them.

They would say, yes, my name is Owen, and I'm completely worthless grandson number one. You know, then they would just count it down. You know, and of course we did a lot of we did awana clubs when they were younger. Of course, they used to stand in line, tallest to smallest, you know. And they just attach themselves to that.

You know? And so even today, they will, every now and then, one of them will say, you know. They'll text me now. This is completely worthless grandson number three. I said, and yes, what do you need?

You know, and so. I think there's things you can do. And I know when My older daughter Jillian finally had a girl? And she got old enough. Oh yeah, she came to me, Papa.

I I want to be like my brothers. I want to be completely worthless granddaughter, number one. I said, You got it. You have the job. Yeah.

And so. It's Yeah. It's it's only inside the family. Nobody else knows about it. You know, I think also too is that one thing that I was encouraged by my father, is to Entreat, if you will.

beseech, as the Bible says, Other men To make an investment in my life. Instead of answering a question that you can answer, You know, look, tell your your child to reach out to somebody else that might be better. Than you are at that. And, you know, I had that privilege, you know, growing up. I grew up right across the road from Edwards Air Force Base.

So when I had a science project, oh, you know, I I I went and visited with a guy that was one of the key guys at NASA. You know? Yeah. And you're just like, Okay, Dr. Saltman.

That's a pretty cool advantage to have. Yeah. If you have a mentor or someone that has inspired you either in your childhood or your young adulthood, give us a call at 866-348-7884. Truth talk. Like that, you know, adhesive.

Yeah. Welcome back to Truth Talk Live. We're talking today about people that influenced our lives, whether from your childhood or your young adulthood. And we have Mike on the phone today.

So, Mike, thank you for calling in today. Who is somebody that had an impact on your life?

Well, I've called in before and about, you know, my father. And uh he was He was an awesome person. Matter of fact, I got I just got from my mom a whole bunch of books of the Bible, just a different spiritual books. I mean, we've got cases of them that he, I know that he's read. and I have his Bible as well.

And every time I want to underline or or put something underline something and when I read his Bible, it's already underlined and it has the margins and the notes in the side. And um He He was an awesome man. He was just a janitor. At our church. And, but he touched so many lives in our church.

That people have come up to me and say, Hey, your dad was awesome. He did this for me. He did that for me. And matter of fact, my dad did that for me. Um she's made me a I love the commercial that Chuck Swinzal just did.

He had. He made me with good character. Uh um He showed me a relationship. He could talk about his relationship with God. And he would also tell me about, you know, hey, you could have that same relationship.

And there's been many times where he says, you know, Mike, I'm not going to listen to this rock and roll music on the radio anymore. Drive as we were driving, we're going to listen to the Christian radio. This was when I was 14, 13. It just doesn't help my spirit. That's what he would tell me.

And I'll never forget things like that. You know what I mean? It just. He was this Open and honest about his relationship with God and what he was going through. And um, was he a perfect person to me?

No. But He was He was always forgiving. He always said, I'm sorry. He always said I made a mistake. But he showed me good character.

And I mean, he taught me with good character. It was. It was I I miss him. Uh he's dead. Uh he passed away.

He's in heaven. He's with God, obviously. Um Uh But You never you never forget this the as a kid. and he taught Sunday school classes with me. I never forget as a kid how wonderful and how loving he was.

We would be watching T V, Lassie on the kid on the T V. And he would reach down and touch my head and pat my head and tell me that he loves me. And those are the things that we need to do as fathers. You know, just the little gentle things. He was always there playing baseball for me.

He was always in the backyard passing ball, even though he was tired from work. Um He was always a person that just made time for me. And, um, I did that with my children, and they're doing it with their children. And I just love to pass that along, you know? Mike, what was your dad's name?

His name was Mike as well. Mike as well.

So he passed a lot of things down onto you. Yeah, I'm a junior, yeah.

So, um It's hard to live up in the shoes, you know what I mean? You know what I mean? He had some big shoes and Um And people look at me at church saying, you know, man, you're come up to me and go, you're filling your dad's shoes well. And I'm like, I don't ever think so. But it's sweet, you know.

It is sweet. I really have mentor people. I I feel like uh that you know you are led by the Holy Spirit to tell people certain things and And um and be a friend with them and love on them like my dad always did. Um he's he wasn't a type of guy that just ran or well, not run, but just Pre-shit people. He loved people.

He played games with them. He hold her hands. He played king pong with them and and and pool and and was a It just wasn't a great example. Mm. One of the one of the things that you said kind of I just brought a point to my mind, which is that you said that he wasn't perfect, which, as we know, especially those of us that are parents, none of us are perfect.

In fact, we fall far from it. But it made me think about sometimes that lack of perfection when it's paired with humility is one of the most powerful things that a parent can actually imprint on the lives of their child. And it sounds like your dad did that for you, and that you then in turn did that for your children, and your children in turn did that for their children, which shows just this legacy of. Humble men, which I think is humility is so much more powerful than pride ever could be. Yeah, yeah, it is.

I'll tell a quick story. I'll never forget when our Volkswagen turned over 100,000 miles. And he stopped the car and said, Okay, everybody jump run around seven times and we're going to have a new car And that was a little little and he ran around and I was so disappointed that the car didn't turn new. But Yeah. I said my car just turned 100,000 miles on it and I ran around it seven times today.

So I thought I'd tell you that. I think that's a cute. That's a very cute story. And just, you know, the imagination of children, too, when a father or a mother can kind of bring that to life and bring some fun into parenthood, I think that that's a very special thing.

Well, it sounds like your dad was not only a very kind man, but a very servant-hearted man. Yeah, he was. Um very servant hearted. Um Yeah, he'd clean the toilets at the church. Yeah.

He turned off the lights, he straightened up the chairs. And he did it with pride. And um Excellence. He used a rope to put for the chairs to be straight. I said, Dad, what are you doing?

He put Velcro on two ends of the rope and put A chair uh streamlined the chairs for service. It sounds like he did everything with excellence, which is that's how we're supposed to serve the Lord, no matter what the Lord calls us to do. Amen. Amen. Amen.

I really believe that. Work hard for God. Yes, absolutely. And you'll fly like an eagle.

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So, going forward with what you were talking about, with the impact that you see even your grandchildren having on your other grandchildren and the way that they love each other with just this. Deep love, and I think kind of what you were talking about before, too, as far as like the sarcasm and that kind of stuff, is that there can be almost like a There can be an element of unity that happens within a family when there's kind of this joking within a family. And, you know, it's like you know, that almost becomes like a term of endearment that, you know, you're a worthless grandson, number five, and number six. And mind you, you have a lot of grandsons. I do.

And here, here for me is. I don't know, maybe the proof in the pudding. that I was directed to do something positively. But about a year ago my oldest grandson, Owen, Uh he'll be 21 on the 17th of this month. He came to me and he said, I think I need a mentor.

I said, Okay. Who are you thinking about? He said, You. I said, Oh, I'd be honored to do that. Yeah.

So we're going through J.C. Rowlet's book on.

Now, advice for young men. And it's just been a blessing. And, you know, like the other day, I, you know, we have a rule. I said, look, I said, this is, I said, we're both adults. This is we're having an adult conversation.

Yeah. I said, You know, and I said, And I'm not playing peek-a-boo with your mom and dad either. You know, and so I don't send them a report after every one of these sessions we have. you know and So For me, I'm like, wow, it's just come full circle. Yeah.

But it started. With you know, he being interested in football. and us watching football on the television. and I'm a big University of Southern California Trojan fan.

So he has a that's one of his favorite pictures is he was about a year old and I my friend got him a a sweatsuit from USC. And he's in that sweatsuit. And my daughter took him to a photographer, and that's one of the clothes, you know, the outfits he wore for the picture.

So. You know, and he says, Yeah, I remember that suit. You know, and I said, You do not remember wearing that suit? He said, No, I remember the pictures.

Okay, yeah. You know, and so. I think that it it's all Uh think about it this way. One thing in the curriculum that we've been going through this year From generations of grace, uh Sunday school curriculum is we're going through Israel's history. We're going through the history books of the Old Testament.

And what did God tell them to do when something happened? Even if it was really bad, what he said, set up a remembrance. Say, remember, pile up some rocks. Don't forget what happened here.

Okay.

And then when you think about it, what happened there? Was God judged? Akan. What did he do? Oh, he had him killed.

Then they cut him in quarters and they burned his quarters. Not him, but his entire family. Yeah, and you're just like, okay. You know, really, we want to, yeah, God said, I don't want you to forget this day.

So pile up some rocks and share it with your, you know. And that was the first question that some of the kids ask.

Well, are those rocks still there? I said I kind of doubt that. But I guarantee Because it's in the Bible and it was supposed to be a monument, I guarantee somebody built a monument there. And they're selling trinkets right next to it or something. You know, I said, because that's just kind of the way the Holy Land is now.

It's a tourist trap. And I said, but. But I don't think we do that. And when you told me what the topic for the show was today, the first thing I thought about, you know, is. I have memories of this because I made sure I put it in my mind.

Yeah, yeah.

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