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One Changed Man: Part Four
June 17, 2026 · 54 min
Our culture wants everything fast. Overnight delivery, immediate results, fad diets, and microwave faith. Yet Christ formation so often takes a lifetime. How can we remain faithful as God changes us?
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In this video 0:00 The Hidden Battles of Men4:09 The Transformative Journey of Timothy36:50 Identity and Purpose in Christ
The Hidden Battles of Men 0:00 Greetings, men. Kenny Luck, founder of Everyman Ministries. You know, after 30 years of helping men in the mental health, pastoral, and coaching context, the 1 working assumption I've operated on is0:12 this. Men, they're like icebergs. You only see the tip. Under the waterline of the image that they are projecting and the lives that they are living are massive spiritual, emotional, and relational0:24 battles they recognize, but they're just not talking about. And it creates a dissonance. It creates spiritual plateaus. It creates unresolved tensions0:35 within that start to eat away at their faith, eat away at their hope. It opens them up to spiritual attack and lies to the point where so many, if they were honest, would say, I believe in God and I believe his0:47 promises are true, just not for me right now. Have you ever felt that or thought that? Well, here's the thing. So many men I counsel and coach say the same thing. I'm attending church. I'm reading my bible.0:59 I'm going to men's group. I'm praying. But I'm not sensing or experiencing God the way I see it promised in the bible. You know, that abundant life that Jesus speaks of. I'm I'm not breaking1:11 through, and I know there's more. I just don't know how to get there, and it's confusing me. It's affecting my relationships with God and other people. Now, if you've ever felt the same way, if you've ever had any of1:22 those thoughts, welcome to the club. As men, we go through different seasons of personal, professional, and, yes, spiritual life. And listen, that calls
1:34 for new Christ formation, new faith steps, new discoveries, and new thinking. You see, there's no big mystery here. The big wheels of life, of relationships,
1:47 Christ formation, and of fulfillment turn on the hidden axles of what the Bible calls your inner man. So when the Bible says, watch over your heart with all diligence for
1:59 from it flow the springs of life. It's not calling for new outer spiritual behavior management. It's calling for a new you. You say, how do you know, Kenny? Because God called
2:10 me personally into a new season of Christ formation after 25 years as a pastor and counselor. And you know what I needed? I needed a community of brave brothers, of
2:22 professional men who were spirit filled, and I needed a solid process and godly coaching to walk me into a new place of strength, a place of powerful sacrifice, a place of complete
2:35 tenacity in my purpose, a place of growing authentic generosity, and a place of meaningful insight into myself first and for other
2:47 people. That's my promise land. What's yours? If you're like me and you want a new place of growth, if you want the dissonance to go away, if you want an inner breakthrough in Christ, if you want to discover what is
2:58 it that is holding you back spiritually versus continuing to say some narrative to yourself and other people, just lean in right now. There is a next adventure in God
3:10 and in life waiting for you. But the old thinking, the old victories you cling to, the old patterns of living, just the old thought processes are not
3:22 going to cut it in this next adventure God has for you. The promised land that he has for you. And that's why I'm inviting you into the every man promised land living experience, where Christ
3:34 formation advances in new ways, where the language of the heart is spoken. And where the enemy, he takes it on the chin and strongholds are broken. You want your next
3:46 adventure in Christ to begin? Then fight the good fight like I did. Believe. God is at work. Register. Get into an every man promised land group. Our team of trained coaches
3:58 are eager to meet you and to start getting you prepared for the greater works of Jesus in and through you for this next season and adventure of life.
The Transformative Journey of Timothy
4:20 Well, hello, and welcome to the men's global livestream. I'm Dusty Davis with Everyman Ministries. And I really wanna welcome you to our fourth and final session in our brand new series, 1 Changed Man.
4:32 And for the last 3 sessions, we've studied the lives of men that God changed. Men that were transformed by their encounters with the living God and then were sent out to be used by
4:44 God to change the life of others. Right? We saw that through 1 changed man, our God can change much. These are men that God gave new frameworks for thought, new identity, new
4:55 purpose, and then ultimately an entirely new trajectory for their lives. We looked at at the lives and the impact that God had through Paul, through Moses through the demoniac, the
5:07 man who lived amongst the tombs, Joshua. And in our last session, we looked into the life of Peter. This is Peter the coward. This is Peter the rash. The the
5:19 unstable who ultimately was changed and became Peter the rock. Made completely new and made strong by the power of God's Holy Spirit. And so today in our final
5:31 session we're gonna look at a unique character in scripture. We're gonna look at a man who had been changed already largely before we meet him. A man who reveals
5:43 to us that true change often takes a lifetime. And the results of this man's life will give us some encouragements, hopefully some challenges, and some clues for us to follow. So
5:55 today, we're gonna be looking at the life of Timothy. So grab your bibles. We're gonna be jumping all around the New Testament in several of the letters, that we read in the New Testament. But also make sure that you
6:06 take a moment and download our session notes. They're right there in the description. They're in the link of right where you got access to this message. If you receive this via email, it will be right there in the email.
6:17 But you can follow along all the scripture that we're gonna discuss today. There's some fill ins to kind of keep you engaged with this. And there's some questions for you to pray through by yourselves or with your
6:29 forever brothers at a later time when you get together with other men of God. So like we said, the life of Timothy was really 1 of life long change in transformation. His life
6:41 shows efforts in the same direction. Timothy's is a life that's a picture of, of long term obedience and faith. It's something that
6:53 unfortunately brothers is very rare today. But but but why? But we live in a world of fad diets. A world of get rich quick schemes, of self help strategies
7:05 that promise immediate and impactful results. We live in a world unfortunately of microwave desired faith and shortcuts to real character formation.
7:16 But Timothy's life is a picture of real faith of kind of that slow cooked beauty of good barbecue. Right? That doesn't happen momentarily that takes
7:28 hours to slow heat to carefully turn and season and render all that goodness out. And so brothers Timothy's life reveals the encouragement that so often
7:41 true Christ formation happens over a lifetime. True Christ formation happens over a lifetime. Becoming like the sun is a process of transformation
7:53 that God does in us. You know, changes that God makes within us that begin to slowly leak out of us and almost always these changes are not quick.
8:05 Because discipleship is not a short game. You know, when Jesus left this world, when he entrusted his mission to the disciples and us with the calling
8:17 of raising up every new generation of disciples with ensuring that long term and meaningful change would continue to happen in the movement of the kingdom.
8:30 We have to remember brothers that this often takes time, but I want to be clear because I'm not talking about salvation which happens in a moment. I'm not talking about the miraculous
8:42 spiritual transformations, freedom from long term behaviors or beliefs, prisons, addictions that men are stuck in that God delivers them from instantly because our God is certainly not under any form
8:54 of restraint. There is nothing which limits Him. He can do whatever He wants, whenever He wants, as quickly as He wants. But I want to encourage
9:06 you to know that true life on life discipleship, you know, studying the word of God, unpacking it, applying that word to our lives, learning how to hear from the
9:18 Holy Spirit, learning how to listen as the spirit identifies lies that we're believing, untruths that we're stuck living under, false identities that we've been talking about a lot in this
9:30 series that maybe we're believing and living into. This is not usually a short term or an immediate effort. And so if our hope is to follow Jesus to become
9:42 changed man and then to watch as God changes every man then buckle up boys because it's gonna take some time. And I said that it's rare and it's rare because slow
9:54 is not a popular world in our culture today. I mean we want stuff now. Have you found yourself as often impatient as as I am? Quick quick
10:06 self assessment. Okay? Wherever you're listening, I want you to run this self diagnostic. When you come up to a stoplight, Do you quickly run a logistics test to see which lane has the fewest cars
10:18 which type of car will probably drive fastest and then maneuver to get into it? You go to the grocery store or any store where there's multiple checkout lines. Are you sharking that
10:30 finish line trying to settle into not only the shortest line, but maybe the line with the most proficient clerk? Or do you find yourself frustrated when you're buying something on Amazon and it says that it's
10:42 not gonna be delivered tomorrow? What 2 day delivery? What is this a stone ages? We so often lack the type of patience, perseverance,
10:54 and really focus that long term discipleship that real life change is gonna require. Now I'm not talking about effort. I'm talking about long obedience.
11:06 So let's consider it honestly, my brothers. How do we think that we can live such hurried impatient lives in nearly
11:18 every area of our lives and then not allow that type of thinking, that type of behavior to creep into our spiritual lives. I mean when we're not willing to
11:30 demonstrate patience or any type of endurance or long suffering or or obedience in any other area of our life, is it really any surprise that we've settled for
11:42 surface level discipleship? As we unpack the life of Timothy, this changed man, I pray that you're encouraged or maybe outright challenged
11:54 to slow down, to dig deep, but also to be patient with yourself. Not become tolerant of sin. Not believe that this is the best
12:06 that things are gonna get for me, but be patient with yourself with the men in your lives that God's using you to transform that he's transforming through you. Trust God's process.
12:18 Remember where men began. Choose to celebrate movement, spiritual motion, progress. Celebrate the small wins. Don't stay there, but pause long enough to praise God,
12:30 high 5 the spiritual first downs and small gains of your life. Because this journey is gonna take a lifetime. In fact, Timothy is such a perfect picture of the long
12:42 game of faith. So long in fact that his faith began before his birth. Now, I'm not saying that he was like John the Baptist. We don't have record that Timothy was filled
12:54 with the spirit even before he was born. But Timothy was the recipient of generational faith. So let's dig into the life of Timothy. Turn with
13:06 me to second Timothy. You have your Bibles? Second Timothy, which is a letter that Paul wrote to Timothy in order to encourage him. Now the quick backstory of their relationship is simply that Paul had
13:18 become a sort of spiritual father to Timothy. He loved Timothy. He cared deeply for him. He had taught him over years. He had encouraged him. He had sent him out
13:30 on missions to the churches. He had shared his very life with Timothy. And so Paul was writing to Timothy on a couple different occasions in scripture actually to encourage and strengthen him.
13:42 So listen to Paul's account of the faith that he saw in Timothy. Second Timothy verse 5 says this. I remember your genuine faith.
13:53 For you share the faith that first filled your grandmother, Lois and your mother, Eunice. And I know that same faith continues strong in you. Paul says
14:05 that as he prayed for Timothy, as he thought about Timothy, Timothy's faith came to mind and the word that came to mind was genuine. Now depending on your translation you might have seen the word sincere. They both
14:17 convey the same idea. They're both referencing the Greek word, anupokratos, which it carries this idea. This is something without hypocrisy.
14:29 Something that is unfeigned or pure. In other words, Paul is saying Timothy's faith is the real deal. Timothy had true faith,
14:40 pure, genuine faith. But genuine faith as opposed to what? As opposed to faith that was merely an impression, a perception. Faith that was merely surface
14:52 level for show. But that's not the kind of faith that would have carried Timothy. That's not the kind of faith that's gonna carry us not through the trials that we're gonna face in this life. That
15:04 type of faith will be revealed for what it is. But Timothy had real faith Paul said. Faith that was beyond idea or emotion only or just considerations. It was not just an Instagram
15:16 Christian bumper sticker, Christian meme type of faith. What Paul saw in Timothy was a real faith, a strong faith, a faith that had been handed
15:28 down. Now we've already spoken at length about the responsibility of the current generation of God's men to prepare the next generation of God's men. We saw this in
15:40 the life of Moses and Joshua. We saw the impact of when a man steps into this. We saw the catastrophic effects when a man fails to equip the next generation. The responsibility of this generation
15:52 is to ensure that the movement of Jesus continues. And we do that by passing on that which the Lord Jesus has revealed to us. And so Timothy's life is a beautiful
16:04 example of that exchange of the current generation preparing the next. Timothy had a genuine faith. Why? Because his mother had a genuine faith.
16:16 And she had a genuine and a strong faith because her mother Timothy's grandmother also had that faith. That is what we need. That is what we need to
16:28 continue to create legacy. Godly lineage. An unbreakable chain of faith passed on so that the next generation would
16:39 know the hope we had. Boys, we need generations of changed men. And that's only gonna happen when the sharing of our faith and the equipping of the next
16:51 generation happens intentionally and in the home. Intentionally and inside our homes. I want
17:03 to encourage you and I want to also challenge you. Any of you that are listening that are fathers, this reality I I want to impress upon you. Even if you're a kid's 10, a
17:15 private Christian school. Even if they are connected to, I pray they are connected to a godly church under the supervision of a godly youth pastor with leaders that are pouring God's truth into
17:27 them, maybe even on multiple gatherings during the week. You are your children's primary pastor. And right away,
17:39 the enemy of your soul wants you to feel ill equipped. But you don't need a degree in seminary to step into teaching God's truth. When my
17:51 kids wanted to learn how to throw a football, did I say, I never played in the NFL? I I I have not been through collegiate football training. I cannot throw you how to teach you how to throw a spiral, son. Did my
18:02 wife tell my kids I I'd love to teach you how to cook but I lack a Michelin star. There's nothing that I can teach you. Absolutely not. What do we do in those scenarios? We give away
18:14 what it is that we have. And so we step into our face in the same way, intentionally giving away what we've received from the Lord.
18:27 We do that intentionally. And we do that by starting to blend the things of God into every corner of our lives. We don't just reserve these
18:38 conversations for bible time. The Jews understood this. The early believers had a very holistic view of life. They did
18:50 not believe that there were moments that were spiritual, that there were moments that were unspiritual. They didn't believe that there was a time for the things of God. They just believed that there was life with God.
19:02 You know, in Hebrew there's not even a word that describes an object or a time as being either sacred or secular because to them all life was spiritual. And so as such they had
19:14 a prayer called the Shema. They would recite over and over again. It was a prayer that informed and really reinforced, this type of thinking. It's found in the sixth chapter of Deuteronomy.
19:26 Now in the context of generational discipleship, as we're talking about sending our faith on to the next generation, I want you to just listen to this prayer, thinking about God's call in
19:38 your life to equip your children. Deuteronomy chapter 6 verses 4 through 9, it says, listen, oh, Israel. The Lord is our God, the Lord alone. And you must
19:50 love the Lord your God with all your heart, all your soul, and all your strength. And you must commit yourselves wholeheartedly to these commands that I'm giving you today. Repeat them again
20:02 and again to your children. Talk about them when you are at home and when you are on the road. When you're going to bed, and when you're getting up. Tie them to your hands, wear them on
20:13 your forehead as reminders, write them on the doorposts of your house, and on your gates. Isn't that beautiful? It starts off by saying, we must love the Lord our
20:25 God with all that we are. First and foremost, this is talking about that genuineness of faith, that real faith that we saw in Timothy. That authentic belief. And then it says, commit
20:37 yourselves wholeheartedly to the commands of scripture. And that's that intentionality that we're talking about. That's gonna be essential to true discipleship. The true Christ formation.
20:49 But what I really love about this prayer is that it doesn't just tell us what we ought to do. It instructs us about how and when all of this is supposed to occur within the home of
21:01 God's man. And it debunks the myth of us creating some sort of structured organized homeschool seminary experience for our kids. It says that we're to repeat God's truths to our
21:12 children. It says we're to do it again and again. But where does it say this is supposed to happen? Everywhere. Always. We are to talk about them, it says, while we're at
21:24 home and while we're out on the road, going to bed and rising up as god's men, as changed men. We have to break this idea of the sacred
21:36 and the secular. Because it creates the wrong view that there are parts of our lives which are spiritual and parts which are which are not. It then starts to get us to
21:48 believe the untruth that parts of our life are for the Lord and parts are not. We'll be tempted to compartmentalize, to divide our lives. And we'll begin to have places in our lives
21:59 where our faith informs our actions and places where it does not. But what we need to pass on to the next generation is a consistent faith. A
22:11 faith that is fully integrated. A belief system, a Christian world view that informs how we treat people. How we
22:23 spend the money that God's entrusted to us. How we vote. The things we say. The things we talk about and think about. The things that we watch. The things that we're willing to
22:35 exchange our time and our lives for. Our faith in Jesus must become what we're known for and not just what we say. But what
22:47 we do, the teachings of Jesus Christ both verbally and non verbally have to become our very reputation as God's men, as changed men. And we see this in the life of Timothy. Now we already said that Paul
22:58 looked at Timothy and encouraged his faith that it was genuine that it was strong. But look what he says in acts chapter 16 verse 2. How was Paul seen by those around him or rather
23:10 Timothy? Timothy was well thought of by the believers in Lystra and Iconium. Timothy was well thought of
23:23 by those in his area that were following Jesus. His faith had been put on display. He was not simply known for what he spoke of. People had encountered Jesus by encountering
23:35 Timothy. The things that Timothy believed on the inside were working themselves out on the outside. People were taking notice. And while our motivation is God's men is never
23:47 to impress people. Even with our faith, we're not seeking the approval of men. Being well thought of, that's not our aim. We're just trying to please the Lord Jesus whether anyone's watching.
23:59 But it's a healthy exercise for us to consider. How is our faith impacting the people around us? If they were asked, what would the people in
24:11 our closest circles say about our faith? It's important for us because a changed man considers how others experience him.
24:24 A changed man considers, what his life is like to those around him. He constantly asks himself. What is it like to be on the other side of me? But we
24:36 don't just leave this up to self assessment. No. No. No. No. No. No. As God's men, we invite the holy spirit to search us. To reveal to us
24:48 places that God still is doing work. Psalm 1 39 23 and 24 is a beautiful prayer of David's heart echoing this sentiment. He says, search me God. Know my heart.
24:59 Test me. Know my anxious thoughts. See if there's any offensive way in me and then lead me in the way everlasting. What this is a picture of is God's man
25:12 inviting God into every room in the house of his heart and life. There are no areas that are off limits. No spaces
25:24 that this man reserves for himself. No places where he bows to another. Allows anything other than the Holy Spirit to control. And in that authenticity
25:37 is freedom. Complete freedom. Because when we start to invite God into all of the spaces of our life, as we start to bring God with us into all the places of our life, God will not
25:49 bring to us the voice of guilt, shame, or condemnation about all of the ways that we're blowing it. That's the voice of our enemy. As we learn to hear the
26:00 voice of our father, the Lord will speak loving correction that comes not in the form of condemnation, but in the form of conviction a conviction that moves
26:12 us motivated by God's love for us scripture says he disciplines those he loved and then our response is that instead of running away in shame and guilt and fear, we move towards God. We move towards
26:24 men of God in honesty and in confession desiring change. Ultimately, this experience culminates in repentance which is
26:36 just a word that means turning around. This is back to that new trajectory. But what we have to fight to keep clear in front of us through this process
26:48 is our identities as sons. Sons who can't earn the father's love because they already have it. Sons who can't lose the father's love because nothing can separate
27:00 us from it. Sons that never have to hide ever because they are the beloved son of a perfect father. See Timothy knew who he was
27:13 because from the time he had been a child, he had heard that spoken into him by his mother, by his grandmother. He knew who he was in Christ and Timothy had learned how to
27:24 live into that. It's 1 thing to know who we are. It's another thing to live as though it's true. And then we don't know about every single decision that Timothy ever made. We
27:36 don't know his life's track record, but we do know based on scripture that amongst those who knew him and encountered him often, he was highly regarded as God's man. But
27:48 let's not kid ourselves. Timothy's life was no doubt full of struggles. We see it in the way that Paul encouraged him. We hear it in the things Paul is helping him to
28:00 navigate. His life was not perfect, but his genuine faith performed. And so as we read about Timothy, let's not cling to this fairy tale
28:14 that we can pass on to our kids a faith that hasn't been tested. That Timothy somehow had a genuine faith that it never had to walk through fire. That's not where the trueness, the
28:25 realness, the genuineness of faith is developed. It's developed within the struggle and Timothy's life had been full of struggle. See Timothy grew up in a mixed cultural household.
28:38 We just said his mother Eunice was a follower of Jesus. We talked about her faith, but she was also Jewish. Unlike Timothy's father who was Greek.
28:49 And we don't know the exact temperature of Timothy's home life. But it's safe to assume that due to the large disparities between these 2 cultures, things might have often gotten a little spicy in Timmy's
29:01 house. But Timmy's ministry and impact would actually grow out of these very struggles.
29:14 Like we said, that fire was shaping him. Those experiences, even those struggles were molding him, were preparing him. Because the challenges in
29:26 Timothy's life wouldn't only build strength and resilience that that genuine faith, that trust in Jesus, but he was also gaining life experiences.
29:39 Various encounters, situations, conversations, cultural traditions, so much more. Timothy would have been perfectly versed in both the Jewish and the Hellenistic or the Greek
29:50 culture. And so for that reason, Timothy would have been uniquely equipped to encounter both Jew and Greek gentile. And he would be
30:02 effective in sharing Jesus with both. What if what if the things that you've gone through in your life were not merely unusable happenstance?
30:16 But what if the circumstances that you grew up in? The DNA, the cultural makeup of your home was God's way of beginning to prepare you for the ministry into which he would call
30:27 you. I I look back at my life. My my undergraduate degree is in psychology. Behavioral mental health was very interesting to me. But then I spent 15 years not
30:39 as a therapist, but in corporate sales. Before heading into international missions work amongst the poor and hurting in South America. I spent over 6
30:51 years in local church ministry before stepping in to help lead the movement here at Everyman. Along the way, I've been surrounded by God's
31:03 men. Forever brothers have marked my journey starting in college when I was invited into my first men's bible study into being taught by Kenny Luck whom I now work with as he
31:15 launched a movement of men where 400 men were gathering weekly to study the word of God to launching a new bible study in my own home, to attending countless conferences and seminars
31:27 before I ever spoke at 1 of them. In those moments, I had no idea what the Lord was preparing me for. Feels like I rarely know what's happening in my
31:39 life in the moment. Hindsight is the only place that I see the beauty of God's story, the tapestry he's weaving, even even the more painful parts. Because I have no doubt
31:51 that growing up in this mixed cultural home was often challenging for Timothy. At least confusing. I imagine there were days he felt singled out. I imagine there were situations in town he felt left
32:02 out. And I know that there was parts of that that were painful. But just like Timothy, so often, our most impactful ministry will
32:14 grow out of our most painful moments. Out of your deepest wounds will often come your greatest capacity to be used by God to impact the life of
32:26 another because you're able to empathize. Not just ethereally as in I imagine that that's hard. There are people that you can connect with. There are brothers that
32:38 you can care for only because of the most painful seasons of your life. There are people that you can lift up, encourage, and support only
32:50 because you've been down as low as they currently are. You know, there once was a man who was walking down the road, wasn't paying attention, and he fell into a
33:01 huge hole that had been dug. The sides were sheer and it was far too deep for him to crawl out of and so he began shouting for rescue. 1 of his professors walked by and looked down
33:13 into the hole, And he stood there perplexed. The man thought that he was saved. But the professor couldn't get through the idea that this hole simply shouldn't exist in this part of town. There
33:25 was no reason for it. And so he took out a pad and he began sketching the dimensions of it. Taking some some dimensions to walk away. He wanted to study this anomaly. Sorry, I can't help you right now. He said to the man
33:35 in the hole. But I'm gonna figure out why this hole happened, what could have caused it, and how we might avoid these types of holes in the future. The man was left alone and frustrated and a little confused. But
33:47 luckily a few minutes later a member of the city council walked by. So he shouted again, get me out of here. The councilman looked down with a concerned look on his face said, there shouldn't be any holes like this in my
33:58 city, not under my watch. I'm gonna begin at council. We'll start a position. We'll get all these holes fixed. Don't you worry. And he walked away. Now completely dejected, he
34:10 just sat down. Until sometime later 1 of his best friends walked by and shouted down to him to get his attention. He looked down at him and said, are you okay? He said, no. I'm stuck
34:22 in this hole. Can you help me get out? His friend looked for a moment and then jumped down into the hole. Now you've done it, he thought. He's now
34:34 confused and a little bit agitated. And he started shouting at his friend and said, you idiot. Now we're both stuck in here. Why would you do that? Why did you jump down into the hole? His friend just smiled and put
34:46 his hand on his shoulder and said, why did I jump into the hole? Because I was in a hole just like this. And God showed me how to get out. Come on.
34:58 I'll show you. God doesn't waste our hurts. So neither should we. We're called to steward everything that's been entrusted to us. 1 changed man looks at all
35:10 the changes of his life and knows he's called a steward not just his gifts, his resources, his abilities, but his experiences as well. Everything that God has entrusted to
35:21 us. We effort to use everything at our disposal even the moments, the decisions or even the seasons that we're ashamed of or that are
35:33 painful to empty back into in order to watch God change another man. But for all I know Timothy's life
35:45 was incredible. Let's say it was free from a lot of those struggles. Let's say that it was full and rich and fun diverse. Let's say that whatever his story, God was using it for
35:57 his purposes. And I want to encourage you with that today. Ask yourself, what has God entrusted to you? Personally, I'm a surfer from Southern California.
36:09 My wife and I have 4 incredible kids. So we don't enjoy silence, but we enjoy community. People. Our house is always full of high schoolers and college age students hanging out with our
36:21 kids. We love the ocean. We love being outside. We love hiking. That's who we are. And so we steward that towards the Lord. How do you want to use us? Ask yourself, who has God made you to be?
36:33 What what desire do you have? What are the things you're good at? What is it that you love doing? Offer that to the Lord and ask him. What is it that you wanna do with this? Look at your life, the experiences even those
36:44 painful places and say Lord Jesus, what do you wanna do with this? We have to understand who we are and who God's made us to beShow more
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