THE LIVESTREAM - What’s Next For Right Response Ministries？
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In this final episode of the year, we talk about our vision for 2020 and what you can expect from Right Response Ministries in 2020 and beyond. We talk about the vision of the ministry, the vision for the new year, and what we have in store for you!
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we're back it is now monday december 15th and today is going to be our final episode for the
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year for right response right response is continuing we're going to tell you guys some
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of the vision and what you can expect and we have a lot of new things that are going to be unveiled
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in the new year right after new year's day january 2nd will be a debut video and and then there will
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be multiple other live streams following that up you're going to see a lot of new stuff but there
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are questions to answer before we start answering the questions about what you know what's right
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response going to do next year what are some of the new things coming out that you guys have
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been hinting at for several months now and it has been several months i mean for the last six months
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We've been doing a ton of stuff, and it's been really hard to keep a lot of it quiet and under wraps, but all preparing for the new year.
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We have a lot of stuff that we're going to unveil, not just, oh, you know, by December of 2026.
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No, in January, a ton of stuff will come out and be revealed all at once, and it is big and exciting.
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We're going to share a lot of details in this episode today, but not everything.
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A couple of things you will have to wait till January 2nd, which is not long.
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You can enjoy your family, worship the Lord Jesus Christ, and have a Merry Christmas.
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Go offline for a week, Christmas to New Year's.
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That is the best week of the year to go offline.
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and um you know it all began with telling my wife she couldn't read a book
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when i think of the origin story no it's i mean it began before that but uh but that was kind of
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the first big controversy um but yeah right response ministries that the origin was just
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having a sense like we all did right it wasn't unique or original or special you know there's
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nothing special about me. But just all of us going through 2020, hell on earth, 2020 was such a dark
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year. And it was followed by four very dark years. And so during that time, especially in 2020,
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we just had a sense, I had a sense that I wanted to see theology, Christian theology from the
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scripture applied. And I remember that was kind of the first basic premise was, you know, thinking
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that just in the pulpit as a pastor, I was thinking, you know, a good sermon is comprised of at least
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three primary elements. One, revelation, not standing before the people of God saying, I have
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a dream or I have a church growth strategy or I have a plan or 13 steps to fix your marriage or
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whatever it might be, a new seminar, a new book. No, when the minister stands before the people of
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God on the Lord's day, he preaches a sermon and the sermon has three primary elements. The first
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a revelation and the revelation is not a dream, not a plan, not a strategy. It's a text. I have
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a text from the word of God. The revelation is not man's preference nor his devices or innovations,
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but the god-breathed text it's the infallible word of god so preaching expositionally through
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books of the bible is what by god's grace i've done for years now i've done it well by god's
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grace i've done it poorly because of me and my own sin but i've been committed for several years to
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standing before the people of god and preaching the bible i have a text revelation the next
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interpretation um you know we have many followers many are reformed and protestant many are not
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reformed and protestant many are catholic and they're not protestant at all and then there
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are some who aren't even christian and they follow our channel they appreciate the political
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analysis cultural analysis those things um but you have to humor me i am a reformed protestant
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and so when it comes to reform protestant preaching i have a text that's what people
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expect expositional preaching, exegesis reading out of the text, what God intends, not eisegesis
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reading into the text, the opinions of man. So I have a text, Revelation. Second, interpretation,
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meaning this is what God means by the text. R.C. Sproul famously said that when it comes to
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interpretation of the text, I know that there's a lot of modern, you know, Protestant Bible studies,
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many of them, let's be honest, are women's Bible studies, and they go around the room sitting in a
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circle, sharing, and they'll read a Bible verse or two, or maybe a whole chapter or a paragraph,
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and they'll go around the circle asking one another, you know, what does the text mean to you?
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And the proper answer to that question, of course, is, you know, kind of like
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the rock wrestler or something. It doesn't matter what it means to you. And it really doesn't.
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I'm being silly, but truthfully, it doesn't matter what the text means to you.
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Not your interpretation, but what does God actually mean by this?
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Not eisegesis, but exegesis, expositing the text.
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And like I said, you have to humor me as a Reformed Protestant pastor.
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Um, that's pretty much all preaching is within the reformed world. It stops at those first two
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elements, revelation, interpretation, and never gets to the third. And so around, you know, a
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little bit before 2018, 2019, but really solidified for me in 2020, seeing all the political problems,
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problems with our government, problems in the culture, all these things. And I started realizing,
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you know what, if all we do is revelation and interpretation in a 45 or 60-minute sermon,
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whatever it is, at your Reformed Protestant church, then at the end of the day, if we're honest,
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all the minister is providing is an audible commentary on the Lord's Day. It's a commentary,
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but it's not a sermon because a sermon gives us something to do. It gives us something to do,
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But it does give us something to do in obedience
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as a response of gratitude for the free gift of salvation
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we've received by grace through faith in Christ.
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but you guys, you think that we get the gospel
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And yeah, it is. But some of you, you're heretics. You've gone way too far. You're no longer
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cherishing and esteeming the gospel of free grace. You're antinomian. You're against law. You
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actually hate God because you hate his very nature. The law of God, your hatred for the law of God
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is a hatred of God's own essence. God is not God because he somehow has achieved a moral standard
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outside of himself. The moral standard, the law of God, is a procession, a reflection of his own
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divine holy nature. What God says is moral and true and right, it is immutable. The moral law
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of God is immutable, unchanging, because the very nature of God is unchanging, and his law stems from
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his nature. It stems from his nature. And so the law of God is good. Under the new covenant,
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as New Testament Christians in the year of our Lord, 2025, we still should delight in God's law.
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Do we delight in his grace and his gospel? Of course. But we love the law of God. We love the
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law of God precisely because God loves the law of God. He loves his holy law. And we're not seeking
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to obey his law so that he might love us. 1 John 4, 19 tells us we love because he first loved us.
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So God is the great initiator. God is sovereign over man's salvation. God first loved us in Christ
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while we were yet sinners. Christ died for us, right? Very rarely would anyone die for a good
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man or a perfect man, a righteous man, though for a good man one might possibly dare to die.
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but God demonstrated his love for us in this. While we were yet sinners in our worst state,
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God sent Jesus to die for us. So God doesn't give us salvation through his son Jesus because
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we loved him and obeyed. No, he saves us because we weren't obedient and we required saving. Man
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contributes nothing to his salvation, but the sin which made it necessary. However,
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good preaching still gives us something to do. We don't preach the gospel in an antinomian
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fashion. We don't preach grace in a way that it makes it cheap grace, in a way that makes
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that completely salvation is free, but there is a cost to discipleship. Jesus tells us this.
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And if we somehow siphon away every element of the cost of discipleship, then we've ultimately
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wound up with some other religion beside historic Christianity. So good preaching, again,
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Revelation, not I have a dream, I have a strategy, I have a text.
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Interpretation, not your interpretation, not what does it mean to you.
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not to be saved, but what must I do as a free response of gratitude for the salvation I've
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already received? We love him because he first loved us, John 4.19. And then Jesus says to his
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disciples, if you love me, you will obey my commandments. So God loves us first, the great
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initiator. Step one, we are given new hearts. Ezekiel, the heart of stone is removed. The heart
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of flesh is replaced. It's malleable and softened, spiritual eyes to see, spiritual ears to hear. If
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any man be in Christ, he is a new creature in Christ Jesus, a new nature. So God loved us
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salvifically through Christ, gives us new hearts and the gift of faith and repentance. We now love
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him. And the very first question for a genuine Christian born again by the Spirit of God is,
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God, I love you. I want to demonstrate my love for you. I want to show my love. How can I show
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you my love? And Jesus very helpfully answers this question, if you love me, you'll obey me,
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which means that the minister in his preaching must preach the commands of God, not as a means
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of earning salvation, but as a response of obedience through gratitude for the salvation
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that Christ has merited for us by his obedience. That is Protestant. That is Christian. That's not
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a works-based righteousness, but anything less than that is an antinomian heresy. So that was
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the development, the basic fundamental development in my theology as a Christian,
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as a husband, as a father, and as a minister. I realized it's not enough to be this modern
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reformed pastor who just gets up and provides for people a 45-minute audible commentary on
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the Lord's Day and calls it a sermon. It's not. You look at John Knox, you look at John Calvin,
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you look at Martin Luther, you look at all the Puritans. You can't read a book by the Puritans
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without two-thirds of it, at least half, being application. So let's say in the first instance,
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this text says, and the meaning and exegesis behind the text is, and of course, the application.
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In the first instance, as it applies to the man as a husband with his wife, and as it applies for him
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as a father and as it applies as a churchman and as it applies as a civil father in the city gates
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sitting among the elders his influence in the town as it applies and being a cobbler or being a
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blacksmith or being this or being that um the puritans were constantly giving application
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constantly they weren't legalists they weren't making it a works-based righteousness but they
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were saying that God, after having saved us, calls us to good works. So I realized that if I was
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going to be faithful as a Christian, and of course, much less as a minister, I was going to have to
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add that third piece, revelation, interpretation, and then application. And then I started thinking,
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well, wait a second, does the Bible only apply to marriage and family? Because that's kind of how we
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act a lot of times. A lot of Protestant churches, if there's any application at all, it's just
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a marriage seminar, a parenting seminar. It's as though the Word of God and all the commands of
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God and all the principles and precepts, they only apply in our homes. And how convenient,
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because our homes are private. It doesn't require nearly as much grit, spine, courage.
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that I started thinking, but doesn't the Bible kind of apply to not just marriage and family
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and the home privately, but to public life? Does the word of God have something, anything to say
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for not just husbands and fathers and wives and mothers, but to civil rulers and to CEOs of
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corporations? Does it have something to say for the marketplace, for the public square,
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for the government, for the arts, for all these different things? Is the Bible true or not? And
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if it is true, why wouldn't it be true for everyone in every facet of life and human society?
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And so I started preaching and applying the Word of God to government, to politics,
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to culture. I started speaking to those things. And as I did, I just realized that
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the people of god christians in america were famished starving for application they had gone to
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a couple dozen of the five solas conferences reformed conferences by this point they had
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gone to their you know their doctrines of grace conference annually every single year where their
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reformed favorite celebrity ministers would kind of dress up and basically larp and pretend to
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relive the reformation from 500 years ago and the reformation continues semper reformanda the
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reformation in 2025 is probably even more necessary than it was at the time of luther you know and
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tetzel and and we bought the calvin roasters coffee bag of course you were smoking the pipe
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and growing out your beard and all that kind of stuff you know and and that's just kind of what
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modern reform protestants let's just be honest that's what we did for like 20 years the last 20
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years and i realized man these people and i'm one of them i represent we are starved for application
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how do we live besides just growing out the beard and smoking a pipe and and drinking triple ipas
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um and marriage and family god bless and going to you know seven conferences every year about
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the five solos. It's great, but is there anything else? Is there any other application from the
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word of God? Because we're doing this, but everything around us, the whole world, our whole
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country is going to hell in a handbasket. It's not right. Something's broken. And so that's what
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I did. I just started applying the word of God in my preaching. And like I said, it was evident
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right away, immediately, that there was a deep, desperate need, that people had been starved for
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this. They're like, what is this? What kind of preaching is this? Is this great? And of course,
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people hated it and still hate it, but there also were many who loved it. And I started getting
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phone calls and emails and with prayers for me and my family and encouragement. And Right Response
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ministries just started taking off at first it was just kind of posting the sermons and maybe
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one weekly podcast interviewing a different guest you know piping them in remotely and then we
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started doing a live stream and that's when wes and michael hopped on um and that was at the
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beginning of last year so we're coming up at the end of two years ago yeah right and then we started
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doing the live stream more often to uh apply christian principles even even more regularly to
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more current events and cultural phenomenons and political happenings. And that's kind of it,
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you know, and along the way, controversy after controversy. So Joel won't let his wife read a
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book. That one is interesting because, you know, people really ran with that one. They're like,
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Joel makes his wife ask permission to use the restroom. They really kind of get that one
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tangled up because I was talking about my children who at the time, my children were, I believe,
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I was talking about how a husband and a father,
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The scope of his authority is over far less people.
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A politician has a much broader scope of authority in terms of the citizens, the subjects who are under his authority, but his authority is not nearly as deep.
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Allie Beth Stuckey was one of them because what I was articulating was basic Christian historical patriarchy, which she hates.
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when their livelihood depends on them not understanding it.
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i wish she was but she's actually not she's not dumb she's quite sharp um but but her she you know
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she's a a girl with a dream after all i mean who are we to tell a little girl with a dream that
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she can't be what she wants yeah she's got a dream you know and and yeah that dream is a walking
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oxymoron a walking living breathing contradiction of i'm a conservative complementarian
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wife and my husband is ultimately the head of my house and yet i'm on the conference circuit and
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speaking to both men and women and instructing them in theology and blah blah blah so that was
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the first controversy and i only reason i mentioned ali is because she clipped that portion of the
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sermon the transcript and read it aloud on her podcast and caused a lot of a lot of backlash
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and then other people picked it up and then and then it was off to the races and then it feels
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like it was like, you know, every month something would get clipped out usually by others, not by
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us. Uh, my greatest hits are usually not my choice. It's usually someone else chooses it for me and
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it goes viral. And then it became like, you know, I feel like over the last year, year and a half,
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it's like every week, um, world magazine just wrote an article, CNN reached out to me today.
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Uh, Houston Chronicle just finished an article last week about me being a chauvinist. And, uh,
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And that's only like maybe two and a half months
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after a Houston Chronicle wrote their other article on me
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but beloved by thousands i wish the numbers were swapped but the lord ultimately decides that i
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don't um and honestly it's worth it i i you know this is something i me and my wife talk about on
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a regular basis and as a family you know we'll pray for god's favor and his protection from any
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who would seek to do us harm and um but we've we've kind of my wife and i've agreed for you
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know for quite a while now that um we don't want to be hated we're not trying to be hated but um
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better to be hated by millions but the lord and his providence use that as a mechanism to be seen
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by millions so that even if it's you know only a tenth of the number of people that
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have an aversion towards you so hated by a million but a hundred thousand that would have
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never seen you otherwise are now being engaged with your content and truly helped in their life
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and their Christian walk and their vocation and their family. It's worth it. It's worth it. It is
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worth every Houston Chronicle article is worth it for just one individual emailing me and saying,
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you saved my marriage. It's easy now to think, oh, there's lots of guys out there doing great work.
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But man, 2020 to 2021, COVID and then Black Lives Matter was another big one.
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Nearly every big reformed pastor fell absolutely flat on his face as he tried to do any type of application of scripture.
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I remember our pastor at the time up in New Jersey, he got up and related to George Floyd.
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He said, if you're white, you need to sit down and shut up.
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I mean, I'd have to say probably 95% of Protestant churches in America were closed, not just a couple weeks, but probably months on end, some of them over a year.
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There were so few people standing up and saying, Caesar doesn't have the right to shut down your church for months on end.
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You don't actually have to submit to struggle sessions because you're white and feel guilty for things that you didn't do.
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The things that are being said today now without being censored, they were not possible to have been said four years ago.
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That's how much the Overton window has shifted.
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But by God's grace, that's a short amount of time in which nothing could be said.
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Nobody could broach the topic to where we're now openly discussing very, very important ideas.
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And that's how far we've come in really a short amount of time.
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I was still in Southern California and hadn't moved to Texas yet.
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We moved in December, the end of that year, 2020.
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And I was preaching a sermon at the church there that I was one of the elders at.
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And I remember thinking, this is going to be a banger.
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Not just it's going to be provocative, but it's true.
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And I remember saying in the wake of George Floyd, and it was just weeks, the turnaround
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I said, I don't know how to evangelize a black man
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He needs to repent and worship Jesus while being on my knees,
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So I don't know how to deify a black man and yet tell him that he's a sinner
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in need of the true deity, the Lord Jesus Christ.
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And I remember preaching that and seeing friends in the congregation,
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And there were some black people that were there that Sunday and they were kind of pointing at them from behind them saying, look, there's a black person here.
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And I was like, and I remember like, and I tried not to get distracted and had to just keep preaching through it.
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Try not to be distracted and lose my train of thought.
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But I remember thinking like, you know, and I told, you know, I told a couple of them afterwards, but I remember thinking like, I'm not colorblind.
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so this point of my sermon is true whether there's a black person in the congregation today or not
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and the fact that there are some black people here don't doesn't make this point any more true
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but it makes the point all the more necessary to be made yeah so you're you're pointing saying
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knock it off pastor and i'm and i'm like yeah i see who you're pointing at i feel like i should
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say it again i feel like i should say it again because i love that black man who's here today
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And I don't want him to be led astray by the heresy and false doctrine of George Floydism, King George, that black people are entitled and just eternal grievances, that everything is the white man's fault and only one part of the population actually has sin and needs to repent and needs a savior.
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And I mean, it's a damning. What we did in 2020 for black people was essentially, if not for the grace of God, God ultimately is sovereign. But if it was just left to us, what we attempted to do, I think God has intervened for many black people, praise God.
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but what we tried to do was damn every single black person to hell we essentially attempted
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to preach a doctrine that says um white people are sinners need to repent and need a savior
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and black people really don't they really don't which is the most unloving hateful message you
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could ever give to someone ever and i remember being angry like angry at this this damnable
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black worshiping doctrine being preached in christian churches and so yeah like by god's
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grace between that or rejecting masks you know or rejecting the vax or i just we got a lot of heat
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a lot of backlash and and the usual suspects you know they came in once the coast was clear
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once you know they could put their finger up in the air and feel which direction the wind was
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blowing once there was a little bit of of cultural you know shift then other people came out and oh
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yeah it really is bad the government is overstepping its bounds and oh yeah you know
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george floyd you know that we went way too far with that and but um but we we got backlash at
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another level because we were early. We were early. Jesus says to the Jews during his earthly
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ministry, was there ever a prophet that you didn't kill? And here's the deal. I've said it several
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times, but I'll say it again because it's kind of a walk down memory lane. Some of the greatest hits
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of right response over the years. I've always said of that concept of Jesus, you know, saying
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your fathers killed the prophets but here you are building monuments tombs to their honor and you
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you console yourselves and assure one another that like we wouldn't have killed jeremiah or
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isaiah or such and such and so and so we never would have done that oh you know prior generations
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yeah they i mean they killed every single prophet the lord ever sent them but we were different we
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wouldn't have done that we recognize that they were sent by god that they were good men and
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we're building tombs to their honor. Meanwhile, they're trying to kill Jesus. And spoiler alert,
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if you've never read the Bible, they did, in fact, succeed. And they did kill Jesus. But Jesus is
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pointing out their hypocrisy and saying, no, you're just as stiff-necked and just as rebellious and
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just as hateful of God and his prophets, his servants, his word, as your fathers were.
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so then why did they honor jeremiah after long after he's dead building but hate jesus because
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here's the deal and this is the way that i've worded it over the years they don't kill the
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prophets for being right they kill the prophets for being first they don't kill the prophets for
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being right. They kill the prophets for being first. And that, I assure you from experience,
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is a timeless principle that I have quickly learned over the years through the school of
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hard knocks. Plenty of people can say plenty of things. In fact, even the same things. In fact,
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even some of the same things in precisely the same way but six months later and be just
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hoisted on shoulder top and seven day parades thrown in their honor and here's a check and
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you get a check and come to this conference come to this tp usa event oh snap he's got a
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speaker slot for you yeah yeah we've got this opening we've got this opportunity you get a
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show on the blaze, you know? That's just kind of the way it goes. Jesus told us that, right? I mean,
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it shouldn't be rocket science. And I'll be honest, to my own shame, I was surprised by this
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experience. I shouldn't have been. My Lord and Savior told me in His Word, it's right there in
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the Bible, this is a timeless principle. The prophets don't die for being right because
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eventually people come around and everyone wants to be right. The prophets don't die for being
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right. They die for being first. Any courageous man will eventually be honored once he's safely
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buried under six feet of dirt. But courage, while it's living, is hated. Courage, once it's dead and
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safely buried, is esteemed. But courage, while it's living, is hated. A dead prophet, praised.
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a living prophet hate it that's the principle jesus tells us and i can tell you from personal
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experience i'm no jesus not even close from the little bit that i've gotten right and the little
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bit of courage by the grace of god that i've exerted over the years this principle is profoundly
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true. And so out of all these things, right response just evolved and it developed. And
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that application piece, because we could sense, I could tell that so many people, Christians,
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Protestants, Catholics, even unbelievers were so starved to hear people apply, not just hypothesize,
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not just principles, not just theory, but practice. They were so starved for it, we just did more and
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more and more of it. So eventually we got to the point over this last couple of years, but especially
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this year being the most recent, the year of our Lord 2025 is the best example. It's the freshest,
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it's the most recent. And I would say by this point, up to date, it's been about five years,
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this year, 2025, with right response, it's 80-20 in terms of percentage, 80-20 of application,
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culture, politics, current event, and about 20% of the foundational theology, the principles.
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And I guess what I'm building up to is, and we're going to go to a commercial break in just a
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moment and then we'll give some more details of what's to come, specific details. We won't leave
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you hanging. But what I've realized is we need both and I want to do both as much as I can. I'm
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just one guy and I'm not even, there's other guys so much more gifted than I am. But I want to be
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faithful with whatever opportunity the Lord's giving me and I've realized we really do need
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both. We need theology, principle. We need application, practice. We need both. And
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right response is kind of just, to be honest, it's just become a little bit more of,
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you know, this is what happened today in the news. And that's what we're talking about.
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And there's nothing wrong with that. We need that.
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A lot of people have found it really, really helpful. Thank you for your guidance.
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Really, really helped me understand, broke it down for me in a way that I got it.
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It's like, but don't we have enough political pundits?
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Oh, we have Christians in media, right-wing.
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I won't name names, but let me just be honest with you.
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You're a Christian, conservative, right-wing political pundit is doing cocaine.
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No, you don't have an abundance of genuine moral men
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who are both courageous but also principled in media doing news shows.
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You don't have an abundance of that, I assure you.
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You have an abundance of Christians in name only who really have courage
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but do not have character or really have character at the private family level they're probably a
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really sweet guy their wife very patient their wife probably adores them patient and kind and
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polite but they're spineless right and they're just really kind of um exercising their gifts
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of hospitality to communists hey come on in and take away my grandkids you know future we need to
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listen to people we need to turn down the temperature yep turn down the temperature
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just turn it down and listen have a dialogue correct so you have that so you have christians
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who have character in some regard without courage or courage in much regard but without character
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you actually do need some solid christians in media with the news culture politics current
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events these things so there is a need there and theology applied applied to the the conversations
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that everyone is having the the most relevant issues of our day some somebody's got to be
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doing that and we're not the only ones right we don't want to have the elijah complex i'm the only
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one left. And the Lord responds and says, I've reserved 7,000, a remnant, who have not bowed
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their knee to Baal or the Asherah poles. They've remained faithful. So we're not the only ones,
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but it is, and I think I can say this truthfully, few and far between. So we see, I guess what I'm
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getting at is we see two needs, and we've realized over the course of this last year especially,
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that these two distinct needs require two different tactics, two different ministries
00:37:56.400
of sorts, and we'll get to that in a moment, two different avenues, two different platforms,
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because they're two different needs. We still need principle, theology, foundation,
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theology in the church, and we need relevance, application, courage. This just happened in the
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news. A Christian man is going to speak to it. We need both. And early on right response,
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more theology, principle, kind of evolving right response, more application, practice.
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And so what we want to do is we kind of want to get back to the start. We want to get back to the
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origin. We want Right Response Ministries to focus more exclusively its attention on theology
00:38:47.360
and the church, equipping the saints, not just evangelistic for those who are maybe interested
00:38:53.620
in Christianity, but those who are already Christian. They love Jesus, and they want to be
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equipped with the principles and the doctrine. That's what we want to do with Right Response.
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and also we are starting something else because we also see the need for a broader audience
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that is christian and protestant and catholic and even some unbelievers with the relevant topics of
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the day culture politics and application and courage both so right response our goal is
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to return as the kids would say theology in the church the principles the foundation
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and then starting something new that will tell you about exactly what it is in this second
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segment after the commercial break it's going to keep doing what right response has been doing
00:39:48.680
most recently namely application courage relevance culture and politics those kinds of things last
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thing real quick here with Right Response. What you can expect from Right Response in the year
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of our Lord, 2026, next year, beginning first week of January, is we're going to produce a couple of
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podcasts each week. It's probably going to be two, but a couple of podcasts each week,
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probably Tuesdays and Thursdays is what we're thinking, Tuesdays and Thursdays, not a live
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stream, not doing a bunch of Q&A, not hitting the news cycle, not current events, principles,
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timeless doctrines that equip the saints, that they can take those tools and then apply it as
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they live their lives with everything that the Lord throws their way providentially.
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And in addition to a couple podcasts, also doing a few articles every single week. So you're going
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to have a Tuesday and Thursday show, principle, doctrine, theology, the church. And then you're
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going to have a few articles in that same vein every single week with right response. And then
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so right response ministries the year of our lord 2026 a couple podcasts every week tuesdays
00:44:49.420
and thursdays related to theology and the church principles in addition to a couple of podcasts
00:44:57.580
each week also two or three articles every week same kind of focus theology and the church still
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a non-profit organization that can receive charitable giving and offer a tax deduction
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getting back to our roots in addition we are also starting a separate organization
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that will be an llc it has been established and the name of it is nxr studios in new x christian
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are right the new christian right nxr studios is going to be focusing on live streams
00:45:39.300
hitting news stories when they happen taking culture taking politics all the relevant
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conversations that are happening right now not just with 14 people within the reformed ghetto
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but on the world stage, that everyone is concerned about, applying Christian principles to it,
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but speaking not just theology and the church in principle, but culture and politics in practice.
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And that's going to be a Monday, Wednesday, and Friday live stream. It's a right response,
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Tuesday and Thursday, pre-recorded principles, theology and the church. NXR Studios, three times
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a week monday wednesday and friday live streams hitting the current events following the news
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cycle hitting big talking points big global conversations that are relevant that are
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happening hitting them hard with courage christian courage culture and politics theology applied the
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times what we're going to do across the board again tuesday thursday right response theology
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in the church. Monday, Wednesday, and Friday, not pre-recorded, but live streams, Culture and
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Politics with NXR Studios. Five days a week in total between these two organizations, all at
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11 a.m. Central Time. 11 a.m. Central Time. Now, you're also going to have two or three of the
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articles that I talked about. That's with Right Response related to Theology in the Church, just
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like the two podcasts on Tuesday and Thursday. You are going to have many articles, many articles
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every single week with NXR. NXR Studios, we have the fortune of God's favor and his blessing,
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something we've prayed about for a while and we've actively pursued and God has blessed it,
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where as an LLC, we have backing. We have investors. We have capital. We have a team.
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we have a fairly large team. We've been assembling this group and building this media company
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for the better part of this year. All behind the scenes, all waiting to unveil. And we have a lot
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that you will see. It's going to be really exciting. We're going to have great writing,
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great articles about stories that are happening now. We're going to have three live streams,
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and we're taking our live stream to a whole other level the video production you will see
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motion graphics and design and logos and all these things that will make right response and
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what we've done so far although lord knows we've done our best and i think we've done well
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but right response in previous years will pale in comparison to what you will see with nxr
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just next month it won't be this studio with like some new colored bulbs correct that's safe to say
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this studio will be the studio continued for right response um for nxr we have a new media
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company nxr studios three live streams probably five six seven articles almost daily uh with
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writing sub stack then we also have not just one but two new studios that are beautiful
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great studios different theme different design uh two new studios that are awesome you're going
00:49:17.540
to enjoy it we also have a special series it's queued up it is highly produced it's already been
00:49:26.100
recorded highly produced um great stingers and all the kind of visuals and all this stuff in a
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great new studio that's never been seen and yes for those of you who might have caught that
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that slip of the tongue i did not say a new special episode i did in fact say a series
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a 10 part series 10 episodes average of hour long for each of those episodes
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and not just with us but with a special guest covering all the most important topics in our
00:50:08.720
world today with expertise with clarity of thought um it's not just going to be
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you know the the reformed women of both sexes like did you see um no the world will talk about
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it it will be big it will be big that's not all new media company three live streams a 10-part
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special series a sub stack with five six seven articles weekly not one but two new studios and
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a new book not a book like i've written in the past i'm not the best writer i do my best
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but this is not a glorified pamphlet like the book that's sitting on the coffee table here
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it's a good book but it's simple it's small it's about 100 pages in length uh no this is um
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this is what you would call a door stopper this is a uh 250 260 page book thoroughly footnoted
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lots of citation lots of um academic rigor which means as you could probably guess
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Joel did not write this book alone. Correct. Joel did not write this alone. Um, I am one of the
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writers and I was involved in the process and vision for it and these kinds of things, but I
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decided to have a coauthor and you will see who that is when we release the book, which will be
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January 2nd, this new 10 part series, January 2nd, the unveiling of NXR as a company, NXR studios,
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and to see the physical studios themselves january 2nd the sub stack starting to roll out january
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2nd the book debut january 2nd what is the book about joel you'll see january 2nd what's the title
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you'll see who's your co-author you'll see uh but the book will make a splash it is not just
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oh there's another book on the five solas the five solas parenting you know um
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No, it's a book on the very topic that everyone is talking about.
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Uncovering the history, citing the sources, getting into the doctrine and the theology and the foundation.
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And I don't like to talk things up because you set yourself up to look stupid.
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but I'm going to in this case. It will sell. I believe that thousands of people will buy this
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book. They will buy it the moment that it debuts, and it is going by the grace of God and his grace
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alone to be a quintessential resource for winning the war, a spiritual and civilizational war that
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we are up against in our present day it's going to be resourcing and equipping
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soldiers for the fight so that they have the arguments they have the knowledge
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they can compel they can persuade they have the history they know what actually happened and how
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we were hijacked how we were hoodwinked it's going to be phenomenal this book and this
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10-part series together with the substack and the three live streams um and nxr studios and the high
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production excellence i can't even can't even put it into words you will see um is i think it's gonna
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be uh it's gonna be a big deal i think it is i think a lot of people not just christians even
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and we're about to throw our first serious punch.
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You think that we've been on the offense all these years?
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uh but not like this we're um we're about to to put it into overdrive um significantly
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and i'm excited i think that the lord has um has blessed us i believe that it is his will
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and that we have his blessing and i think it's going to be significant and by god's grace we're
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going to do all of it in xr studios culture and politics and live streams and hitting things
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striking when the iron is hot we're going to start publishing books with our first book which will
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be a banger debut and special series with big notable guests who are in person in the studio
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on the quintessential topics of the day and multiple articles every single week all of it
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and we have found a way and you might say there's no way we have found a way by the grace of God
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to be able to do all that and for right response to continue Tuesdays and Thursdays two pre-recorded
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episodes the principles the foundation the doctrine theology in the church and a couple
00:55:48.420
articles each week and for that um to serve those who already are christians and want more theology
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while we also can reach over here with nxr studios a broader audience in a way that helps
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politically culturally religiously and also my prayer is that it would be evangelistic and that
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some people who would be on the edge and say i like the politics i like the culture that we can
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say, yeah, all of that. And you don't get it without Jesus. Christ is king. Say Christ is
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Lord. Christ is king. Christless conservatism is broke. It's dead. It doesn't work. We don't need
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conservative, Christless conservative pundits as sodomites marrying another man and then purchasing
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two little boys on the market. We don't need that conservatism. Keep it. Who needs liberals?
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Who needs progressives when we have conservatives like that? I truly believe that NXR not only will
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be formidable politically and culturally, but I believe by the grace of God, it'll be formidable
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evangelistically. I think that many, by God's grace and by his grace alone,
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will come to saving faith in jesus every good and perfect gift it doesn't just suspend in mid-air
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it comes down from the father of lights there is a source to everything that is good and true and
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beautiful in this world and it's christ it's christ it's not enough to just oh western
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civilization or oh my european descent or these things matter natural affections matter i want to
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save the west white people are going extinct my kids are white i want to save white people
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and i'm unashamed about it i recognize race as a real category and you can have all of it
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what does it profit a man if he gained the whole world but forfeit his soul
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it's got to be jesus guys it's the basics it's everything we believe it's everything
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we believe we're not interested in a utopia here on earth for 85 years and then dying and going to
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hell people need christ they need christ and right now all we have is people who preach christ
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but they're retarded and colorblind what is race race is just a social construct it doesn't even
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exist and you know what if america becomes you know completely indian and brown over the next
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50 years and it's no longer white and then who really cares as long as it's christian are they
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christian brown immigrants you know then that's you got that plenty of that and then you also
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have guys who get it they understand the times but guess what they're not really that interested
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in jesus let's be honest they understand the dire straits that western civilization is in they
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understand that race is a real category they understand the flood of immigration and it takes
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political will if we're going to be able to save our country. They understand the friend-enemy
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distinction. They understand all these things, but they don't really have passion and zeal for Jesus.
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And we need both. And that Venn diagram, those two circles, if it overlaps at all,
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it is a thin sliver with like like five people in the whole world that operate within that slip
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really has to be jesus christ is king not just as a slur to tick off a jew but i mean it he's
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king jesus every knee will bow every tongue confess that christ jesus is lord your knees
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will bow by grace through conversion salvation or your knees will bow because he who rules the
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heavens and the earth will bust your kneecaps with an iron scepter and make them bow on the final day
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christ is king that plus plus everything else knowing the times reading a little bit of history
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books right the person who understands like violence is never the answer and then reads
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one history book and violence is kind of always the answer but lord help us is there a way to do
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it without violence and what kind of political will must be exercised and and what's really on
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the line and these natural order natural categories how do we defend these and at egalitarianism is a
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lie liberalism is a lie hierarchy is inescapable it's inevitable it is a natural good that you've
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created for your glory? And how can we uphold these things and Christ is King? I'm not interested
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in Christless ethno-nationalism. I'm not interested in whiteness without Jesus.
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I'm also not interested in superfluous cliches about love for Jesus without any appreciation
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or defense for kin and family and country and heritage.
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and by god's grace we're committed to operating in that small space that exists
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in both of those worlds not compromising on either side of the equation it's a tall
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task and we believe that to do it well we need to so that one the tail doesn't wag the dog so that
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one doesn't eclipse the other, we need to bifurcate. We need to distinguish. And we need
01:01:48.420
to give everything we have with right response and its mission and NXR Studios, New Christian
01:01:54.960
Right, and its mission. And I think if I could be so bold over months and months now in preparation
01:02:06.420
and lots of time, lots of capital, I think we might have a solution. I think that by God's
01:02:16.260
grace, what you'll see in January, just a couple of weeks from now, in the year of our Lord,
01:02:22.420
2026, is that this lofty goal God has graciously empowered us to achieve. And I, for one,
01:02:32.820
am incredibly excited and you should too one more practical piece then i'll give it to wes
01:02:39.360
and we'll take some super chats one more practical piece okay where will i be able to find on the
01:02:47.120
world wide web on the internet where will i be able to find nxr studios well the answer to that
01:02:53.300
question is that you're asking the wrong question because actually what you will soon find out is
01:02:59.920
you'll be asking the question, where can I find Right Response? So what we've decided to do as a
01:03:05.780
board, unanimous votes with Right Response Ministries, is to not just hand over everything
01:03:11.760
that's been done legally and ethically, but to sell at fair market value the assets of Right
01:03:22.080
Response Ministries as a 501c3 organization, assets being the social media pages. Three,
01:03:28.600
primarily the the youtube the uh apple and the spotify so for podcast apple and spotify and
01:03:35.660
youtube to sell these three social media pages to nxr studios and so what we did to do it by the
01:03:44.260
book is we hired a third party uh professional evaluator who is approved by the irs getting our
01:03:51.940
ducks in a row one of our goals is to not go to prison and uh and he gave us the price and took
01:03:58.100
time to do it and got other eyes on it to get it confirmed. And we voted on that. I recused myself
01:04:06.360
because I'm involved in both organizations, but the Board of Right Response Ministries voted on
01:04:11.660
that sale of the assets, YouTube and Apple and Spotify. And that passed unanimously. And we took
01:04:18.160
the bill of sale and we went and got it notarized and all those things and signed it over. And so
01:04:23.200
what you're going to see effective immediately at the end of this live stream is we're going to
01:04:26.940
spend the last couple weeks of this year. This is our last live stream of the year, our last
01:04:31.920
broadcast. You'll see for the next couple weeks, going through the holidays as we lead up, getting
01:04:36.580
prepared for January, you will see the YouTube channel, Right Response Ministries, begin to
01:04:42.040
convert over to NXR Studios. And you'll also see on Apple and Spotify the same thing. Right Response
01:04:50.380
Ministries on Apple and Spotify converting over to NXR Studios. And so NXR will operate on these
01:04:59.820
channels that you're watching us from right here. And Right Response Ministries will not have those
01:05:06.100
channels anymore, but it will have capital because NXR Studios, for a great price, is purchasing
01:05:15.040
those assets. A great price meaning a high price, a fairly uncomfortably large number. And so NXR
01:05:23.660
is purchasing that. And so Right Response now has financial runway to operate, which is why the
01:05:29.880
board thought that it was fiscally an ethical and wise decision. And NXR will use some of its
01:05:37.040
platform and notoriety to draw attention from time to time to Right Response Ministries, which is,
01:05:43.720
I think if you're going to go one direction or the other, that's the better way to do it.
01:05:48.220
The LLC, giving credence to the nonprofit rather than using a nonprofit to give credence to an LLC.
01:05:56.100
So we've thought this through, doing this the most ethical way, not just most strategic or efficient or effective, but ethical way.
01:06:05.240
The way that we think is legal, but most importantly, honors Christ.
01:06:09.500
so nxr will use some of its status in the new year to draw attention to right response ministries
01:06:16.700
and right response ministries because it sold these assets now has capital and we'll be able
01:06:21.920
to use that as runway and build new social media platforms and so all that being said where do i
01:06:28.280
find nxr next year here this youtube page right this this x account this apple or spotify that
01:06:38.620
you're listening to um will be in xr and with right response we will start new pages and we
01:06:46.380
will alert people hey on youtube search for blank blank blank for right responses new youtube page
01:06:54.580
or blank blank blank on twitter on x for the new x page or apple spotify and we'll notify a few
01:07:02.400
times over the course of this next year with nxr to help kind of kickstart and boost the new pages
01:07:08.360
for right response ministries that will now be more distinct and exclusively devoted to theology
01:07:14.040
and the church so all of you who are interested in that kind of getting back to our original
01:07:19.640
mission theology and the church the foundation and you're like man that's that's my favorite
01:07:25.320
thing about what you guys have done and i'm really looking forward to that then you're going to want
01:07:29.620
to stay tuned in to nxr at least long enough to go find those pages and join subscribe on apple
01:07:36.120
subscribe on on on spotify and youtube etc so everything's starting first week of january both
01:07:43.960
right response it's new pages and getting back to its old mission new social media pages old
01:07:50.220
mission those podcasts those articles starting first week of january nxr its mission politics
01:07:57.320
and culture and relevance and courage these kinds of things with its live streams and 10-part
01:08:02.900
special series and new book debut and sub stack and articles and in the two new studios that
01:08:08.560
you'll see unveiled all that also first week of january we'll be starting in terms of where to
01:08:13.580
find an xr you find it here these right response social media pages will be an xr where do you
01:08:20.840
find right response those pages are being created as we speak i've even seen in the chat a couple
01:08:26.580
people saying the the x account for a right response all of a sudden only has two followers
01:08:31.840
um that's not a mistake it's uh we just started that today it'll have to build like anything has
01:08:39.040
to build and and it's okay because what we can do is occasionally there's an episode with right
01:08:45.700
response ministries um and we can just take the the nxr you know account and and boost it um as
01:08:55.540
people are finding right response its own distinct pages and subscribing so that's some of the
01:09:02.660
practical and so that account then with 75 000 followers is now just at joel webin on x so that
01:09:08.480
account didn't it's like all right we're wiping the slate starting it new that account is now
01:09:12.140
joel webin that's where you can find everything that you do right so the main x account that was
01:09:17.080
right response is now at joel webin yep and you'll see all the nxr stuff on twitter posted from there
01:09:22.780
and nxr also might start a couple other accounts um and right response will start an account but
01:09:28.500
you'll see the main account at joel webin posting both nxr and right response content yep yep and
01:09:34.260
then if you're a subscriber on the patreon for right response that's still going to offer
01:09:37.660
benefits to you so totally understand if you're you're more in it for the culture for the news
01:09:42.480
and roll say at the beginning of the year um everything that that subscription whether it be
01:09:47.140
a patreon or supercast with nxr what that gets you so no harm no foul if you're going to switch
01:09:51.700
right over but if you're here for the theology and the content um it's going to be i think early
01:09:56.140
and ad free on the right response side of things so the content that we put out there's still a
01:09:59.820
reason for one it's just supporting us and we appreciate it and we appreciate your generosity
01:10:03.900
but two we still are committed to those that are subscribed to our patreon and right response
01:10:07.880
we're going to keep that up we're going to be there we're going to be putting content out on
01:10:11.240
it so as far as youtube x apple spotify those become nxr the patreon will not we will still
01:10:17.960
continue to offer value for those of you that have supported us there for a long time the patreon
01:10:21.600
will stay as right response meaning the the old mission returning related to theology in the
01:10:28.120
church and there will be certain perks and benefits with remaining subscribe to that
01:10:33.600
patreon to get right response early access ad free kind of content related to theology in the church
01:10:39.260
there will be a new patreon for nxr and that will be like this new special series and getting
01:10:46.060
you know ad free early access to binge watch all 10 parts instead of waiting weekly for them to
01:10:51.760
come out things like that yep and some people ask that will this 10 part series be on youtube
01:10:55.980
yes yes here this series will be um and we made that decision very early on we first decided to
01:11:03.220
do it uh that we're not going to indefinitely paywall something uh it's too important we
01:11:10.520
believe that the public has an interest in it and a right to it so all 10 episodes of this series
01:11:17.380
will be made publicly available um we're not going to sandbag we're not going to reserve
01:11:22.440
and nickel and dime people but we're not going to drop all 10 episodes at the same time we think
01:11:29.140
that's just silly so what we're going to do is we're going to drop each episode each of the 10
01:11:34.880
episodes, one per week, and it's going to be on Wednesdays. But we will have available more
01:11:43.760
uncut, less produced, a little bit more raw, all 10 episodes available right away without ads
01:11:58.340
and more uncut less produced uh to get all 10 episodes immediately for subscribers so we're
01:12:05.940
going to have that option you'll hear about it hey if you want to subscribe and you you're really
01:12:10.680
excited about the eighth episode on this particular topic and i can see the title you know
01:12:15.100
um or the the ninth episode and i don't want to wait eight weeks you know nine weeks i don't want
01:12:20.760
to wait over the course of two and a half months you know for all 10 episodes to come out they will
01:12:25.000
come out to the public for free but if you want them ad free and you want them early access right
01:12:33.760
away all 10 parts um and and i think some of you will because i wouldn't want to wait some of these
01:12:40.500
episodes are just incredible and people will be talking about it and the thing that you know
01:12:45.180
everyone will be talking about you know six weeks from now five weeks from now um for you to be able
01:12:50.280
to get a head start i think is appealing and so we're going to make that option available but that
01:12:54.920
will be um a subscription yep so all right that's everything that's everything at least for now
01:13:01.400
yep so let's go to our last commercial break we'll come back because we've seen some super
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chats and some of them have been some mondo very generous christmas spirit super chats and we're
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grateful so let's go to our last commercial break and we'll come right back for the super chats
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all right we're back we're gonna uh take the super chats and by the way i just wanted to say
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in the chat uh the whole time that we were kind of laying out the vision and our reasoning and
01:15:45.240
motivation and the mission that we want to achieve um i mean like 95 of the chat was just
01:15:51.860
positive yeah encouraging um and that means a lot to us and some are excited for right response
01:15:58.280
they're like right this is my favorite content like good we're getting back here and then others
01:16:02.040
are like oh cool like so because it's kind of like what right response has evolved into
01:16:06.500
basically nxr is like nah we're just going to go all the way we're going to go even further
01:16:10.860
after careful consideration we've decided to become worse and then for guys like oh yeah but
01:16:15.220
i missed the like it's like yeah and we're also pulling i didn't sign up for palantir i signed
01:16:19.360
up for theology exactly and it's kind of been like you know it just it feels like this last
01:16:24.080
year we've just been kind of doing the splits you know what i mean it's just like we're doing the
01:16:27.560
splits and and we're realizing they're just not um it's just both matter both are ethical both
01:16:35.360
have virtue we believe both please the lord but they're just not the same thing and so we've
01:16:41.200
realized we want to do both but we can't do both from the same organization in the same live stream
01:16:46.460
at the same time it's it's um it's just two different missions and so um so i feel like it's
01:16:52.560
the best of both worlds it's like so the guys are like dude joel just just go you know it's like
01:16:57.760
nxr like i'm telling you you're gonna as soon as it comes on you see like even just the countdown
01:17:02.780
and the stinger we have a countdown finally many have been asking you see you see this countdown
01:17:07.780
you're gonna be like oh babe wake up let's go they're doing it get the kids gather them around
01:17:15.620
cosmic treason is gonna lose his mind he's gonna be so so so the guys are like guys just
01:17:22.400
go all the way nxr is going to be us going all the way you might even we might even get a few
01:17:28.780
comments like okay maybe not that far pull it back come back uh but then other guys are like
01:17:32.740
yeah man i i like what you're doing but man i miss this because this has value to theology the
01:17:38.200
church the foundation the principles the basics um that's the beauty is like we're we're gonna do
01:17:45.220
the by god's grace the best of both worlds yep and i think it's gonna be awesome and the chat
01:17:49.240
also asked where did you get that awesome quarters up so the answer of course for me is i have no
01:17:53.940
idea where any article of my clothing comes from um but the beauty is that during the commercial
01:17:59.300
break uh west came over and checked the tag careful careful because we can get another
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jokes here the tag was way up here very appropriate position for another man to check
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um and we'll just leave it says weatherproof vintage which is its own brand but also typically
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sold at costco yep and that checks out because my wife gets all my clothes for me i i don't buy
01:18:22.520
hang on hang on i help get you some suits sometimes that's true west so if he looks good in a suit
01:18:26.820
west yeah west gets me some some suit if he's wearing a hoodie and and my wife gets me clothes
01:18:32.560
and uh and as soon as you said i think it's from costco knowing that my wife got it from me
01:18:37.500
so it's like my wife would she go to costco yes she would and purchase clothes for me that sounds
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about right. That sounds right. Yep. Okay. First Super Chat comes from Tennessee Conductor. $20.
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Thank you so much. That's very kind. He says, incredibly excited to see how God continues to
01:18:54.300
lead y'all in the new year. You are in my family's prayers. Thank you. Appreciate that. Next.
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J.D. Peabody, longtime supporter. My goodness. $50 Super Chat. Very kind. Thank you. Right
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Response Ministries has been such a blessing in my life. I love the live streams, but the sermons
01:19:24.820
I like that, With Honor Be Based, $50 super chat.
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He said, I've arrived at many of the same convictions
01:19:40.380
the young men in my great state of maine not that great of a state but it used to be great
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make maine great again so there we go okay we're with you we're with you uh you're gonna need a
01:19:51.860
lot of prayer for that task but god can do it uh so hoping to stir up the young men in my great
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state of maine to righteous action amen theology applied let's do it let's apply next uh the ed
01:20:03.760
row whistle uh sent in a super chat thrilled all caps to hear about nxr praying for all thank you
01:20:09.020
so much yeah thank you we're super excited yep it's gonna be great big time supporter this dude
01:20:13.980
rocks uh super chat said very interested to see what comes next i've been busy for the last three
01:20:18.660
weeks in a major time zone away but i'll catch up soon merry christmas merry christmas to you
01:20:23.400
because we will not see you again until the new year that's right uh bishops he gave us a super
01:20:28.640
chat and said thanks for the follow last night um at reformed regime is his handle i think it would
01:20:36.440
be a banger if you were on joe rogan that would be amazing joe rogan oh well that's that's so
01:20:42.820
crazy you know what he's here in austin i didn't even realize the only reason i haven't been on
01:20:46.900
joe rogan is i just didn't think you know so like i mean i've i've got him on speed dial i'll just
01:20:52.340
give joe a call give him a call just give him why did we think of that that's crazy yeah so we'll
01:20:58.800
give joe a call i'm sure i'll probably be on there next week uh no we appreciate the super chat very
01:21:04.300
kind yeah we're not picking on not picking on you i know you know we're picking on ourselves
01:21:08.100
because it's probably what once a week that we're like dude is there any way we could get on joe
01:21:14.660
so we're not picking on you do we know anyone who knows we're picking on our shameless selves
01:21:20.040
and thinking yeah uh you want me to go on joe rogan um i know someone else who wants me to go
01:21:25.780
on joe rogan it's me me of course i know him he's me so uh maybe maybe god will do it pray
01:21:33.080
if it's god's will it'll happen all right next uh hhs 9045 what's the status on your classical
01:21:40.380
christian school uh good question painful question to be honest yeah it's a good question though
01:21:47.060
um so we started the process got pretty far had good bit of interest and then just honestly we
01:21:57.000
just we just got to the point where we had a few key people that um that we were doing stuff with
01:22:02.840
and had differences in vision and uh and we just realized you know what um we could try to make it
01:22:10.480
work you know but it's it's just it doesn't feel wise at this time so we put those plans on hold
01:22:16.380
committed them to the lord um and and the reason why is like i'm telling you guys about you know
01:22:21.060
right response and nxr and obviously there's a lot of stuff going on there but in addition to that
01:22:25.220
our church and this is a huge answer to prayer i don't always share a lot about the church because
01:22:29.500
honestly, I'm just trying to be wise and careful. The flock comes first. And the reason why it
01:22:35.900
doesn't always seem to be prioritized in my rhetoric is actually by intention, absolutely
01:22:41.240
by design, because I want to protect our local church. That is, aside from my family, my chief
01:22:48.840
ministry is my local church. And I have to be careful. It's the same thing with my family.
01:22:55.620
like one of the critiques that i get uh fairly often is they'll say like joel you know he just
01:23:01.920
he just wants to be a big deal he's just platform building you know like i never see you know i
01:23:06.660
never see his wife i never see his kids you know or i don't see a lot from his church and uh yeah
01:23:12.200
there's a reason from that uh for that and and the reason is uh for those of you critiquing me for
0.95
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those things in your case the reason is uh because of you you're terrible people you're a terrible
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human being. And if I involve my wife or involve my kids or involve my church, people like you
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will torment them. You'll show up and you'll protest at our church. I've had people show up
01:23:36.760
and protest at my house and I'm not going to do it. And I don't care. You can criticize me all
01:23:41.760
you want. All you want. Please send me another email. Please, Houston Chronicle, write another
01:23:47.700
article. No, don't leave a voicemail. Oh no, oh no. Yeah, you guys can criticize me all you want,
01:23:53.640
but what I'm not going to do is I'm not going to hide, as a grown Christian man, I'm not going to
01:24:00.500
hide behind my wife and children and my local flock that I pastor and use them as a shield.
01:24:06.960
And I'll be honest, that is what a lot of ministers do, even good ministers that I agree with in many
01:24:13.280
regards in order to make themselves in the public optic appear more palatable and therefore garner
01:24:21.200
less criticism they have pictures with their kids oh he can't be that bad look look how cute his kids
01:24:28.360
are pictures with their wives but there are sinister people out in the world that that tactic
01:24:33.760
does not work for and all you ultimately have achieved is for those monsters out in the world
01:24:40.380
is you've just given them a visual of your family,
01:25:10.280
a whole lot. And I don't show you a bunch of pictures. And that's why I don't talk about the
01:25:16.440
local church that I minister to. It's not because it's not a priority. It's not because it doesn't
01:25:21.080
get the majority of my time. It's not because it's not where my heart is. It's because we live
01:25:26.900
in a world filled with monsters and me appearing more palatable with my public brand by showcasing
01:25:35.360
my family and my church is not worth endangering and jeopardizing my family and my church.
01:25:41.020
So I actually am loving my family and church more than myself by not talking about them
01:25:48.800
and not showcasing them. And I hope that maybe a few other ministers might hear this and heed
01:25:55.820
that counsel and apply it themselves. That said, in terms of our church, one thing that I will say
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Literally massive and also a massive answer to prayer.
01:26:25.040
it wasn't just, oh, the comfort or the convenience
01:26:29.160
No, the biggest thing is that because I'm constantly under attack in the news, in the headlines, this controversy is trending on X or whatever, we just, as a congregation, we can't afford to be at the mercy of renting from somebody else.
01:26:51.300
knowing that that my enemies what they'll do is because they can't they can't stop me they'll
01:26:57.900
indirectly try to stop me by going to whoever's renting to our church on sundays and do a facebook
01:27:04.800
campaign and try to tank their business and this is what they've been doing for four years to try
01:27:09.640
to keep get us off the streets correct on the streets and and it's uh and it's worked actually
01:27:15.620
And we had to find another place and barely got another.
01:27:22.300
So the biggest thing is not the convenience or the aesthetics or the comfort.
01:27:29.160
And so all that being said, this year has been incredibly busy,
01:27:35.620
not just because behind the scenes for over half of the year,
01:27:40.880
the majority of the year have we been building behind the scenes an entire company and stockpiling
01:27:47.740
content and writing a book and doing a 10-part series and building two new studios and all this,
01:27:55.660
but also getting a church building, setting that up, moving locations as a church, which is not
01:28:07.120
a small task, getting that building completely ready to go. There's been a lot. I can't even
01:28:16.140
remember the original question because it's gone away now. Oh, and so my point is we just realized
01:28:23.380
there were other pressing things. So I said that the reason why I talked about the church building
01:28:27.780
in that transition is that I wanted to be able to articulate that it's not that we put the school
01:28:33.160
on pause for the media company the official answer and it is the official answer is there was some
01:28:42.000
differences of vision it felt like it wasn't quite the right time wanting to postpone we wanted to
01:28:47.200
do it when we when we do it we wanted to do it well but also um we were very busy and not just
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with social media but predominantly the the first priority was our local church and um to put the
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media company before school is questionable uh to put the church before a school uh feels just
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right um i think that that's that's proper and appropriate and so that's one of the reasons why
01:29:14.200
we we postponed the school one of the big reasons is we just realized we need all hands on deck and
01:29:19.640
in terms of order of priority sense of urgency the first order of business we've got to get our
01:29:25.820
church a permanent home where we can't get kicked out so that's my answer uh cousin rey sent in a
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two dollar super chat trying to imagine wes and joel shopping together so i will say this we had
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a mission one time we had to get a painting from a big department store we made a decision in what
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270 seconds or less women it would it literally metaphysically wouldn't be possible we walked in
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we looked at the walls that one we both said yep and we bought it it was under two minutes
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incredible and we're efficient it wouldn't be metaphysically possible if we were with them if
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what if we were with them i don't know if we if women were there oh it would be metaphysically
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impossible for two women to walk in correct and in 270 seconds decide on a piece of furniture
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yeah shopping pros and cons right shopping with another man the cons you might be gay right
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we just we got to say we got to admit it yeah i'll just there's some downside yeah there is a
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downside the downside is you might have to you know call your dad afterwards and break the you
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know the the hard news and hey your son's gay all right so that's the downside uh the upside though
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is that shopping is exceedingly efficient so efficient when you go uh shopping for what whether
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it's a painting for a studio whatever it is with another dude instead of a woman god bless women
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but uh the shopping experience is elongated it's not a half day's journey it's like all right i
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gotta i gotta clear my schedule i need to take this entire afternoon you finish shopping with
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your wife and you feel like you need to be writing you know uh there and back again a husband's tale
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you know something you know some great novel about the journey and how you barely made it back you
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you're like you're kissing your children on the forehead i never thought i'd see you again they've
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grown up like three years in the time since you've been gone it's a big deal uh davis dakota sent
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snuck in a very generous super chat right here at the end uh they said i've been a weekly listener
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for four years now wow they've seen a lot i'm so excited for this move god bless right response and
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Please pray for the life of my wife and my daughter
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that the Lord would preserve both of their lives
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If it be your will that you would indeed preserve your hand,
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sustain uh davis his wife's life the life of his daughter their health their strength their
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vitality all for your glory in jesus name amen amen all right that's it for the show and that's
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it for the year i was about to say that is it uh you will probably see me you know just randomly
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sending out some spicy tweets because i just i you know at this point at joel webin if you're
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just tuning in so yep right response m that's right responses correct if you're already following
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me you know your grandfathered in you're good to go but for anybody who's new at joel webin now
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at joel webin is the handle i'm keeping the same profile picture at least for a while i don't want
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to change both the profile and the handle at the same time because people be like who is this
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um you know so there's some kind of continuity there plus it's christmas and i already got the
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hat on already got the santa hat on the profile pic and uh and you just got to hold through the
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holidays right you got to get through christmas um next year we'll probably do a new profile pic
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but for now uh same profile pic and it's at joel webin uh we are done though with live streaming
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broadcasting episodes video content for the year um but you probably will see some some tweets from
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at joel webin uh over the next couple weeks and january 2nd right so new year's day it's a holiday
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let's celebrate but friday january 2nd the year of our lord 2026 uh stay tuned babe wake up babe
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wake up. It'll be a doozy dropping some big things. All right. Thanks for tuning in and God bless.