Experiencing God's Love Through Scripture and Family

1) "How many of you have a guardian angel? You can all raise your hand. Cause you got one. Whether you like it or nothing. And sometimes people are like, well, I gave my guardian angel a name and I'm like, well, first off, he's not your pet, okay? Your guardian angel was created way before you were created. And he was he or she, it, the thing of angel, they don't have gender, they're like in heaven, they were created by God and then they were purposed from all of time for you. The only thing, the only thing that they do in this life be with you. That is how much God loved you when he created you." [02:07] (39 seconds) (Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)


2) "We love being priests, at least we particularly do. We love Jesus, we love giving our life to the Lord and letting him do what he wants to do. And we love being able to communicate that love to other people because it's Jesus's love to you. But we are nothing the primary educators of your children, you know that? Who is the primary educators of your children? Yeah, you are. That's right. Can you just say we are yeah, you are. Say it with some pride there. We are the primary educators of our children, particularly in the faith." [04:33] (36 seconds) (Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)


3) "Can you just say God has a love letter and it's written to me and it's called the Bible? Woo. Yeah, the Bible. How do you say, how do you say library in Spanish? Anybody know Biblioteca? How do you say Bible in Spanish? Bibia. Biblio. How do you say it in other languages? Bibia. Same thing. So what is the Bible? It's a library. Of what? Of stories." [07:09] (35 seconds) (Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)


4) "The God in the Old Testament is the same God as the God of the New Testament. Amen. Yeah. You may not understand it because that's what we've been taught, but the God of the Old Testament is the same God as the God of the New Testament. Where do we have. Where can we get that? Finding Nemo. Anybody ever seen it? Nobody? Finding Nemo. Let me say that again. I didn't think it was a different language. Anybody ever seen finding Nemo? Okay, you all have children. That's why you're here. I expect that you've seen finding Nemo." [19:56] (29 seconds) (Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)


5) "That the God of the Old Testament is about vengeance and violence, and the God of the New Testament is about love and gentleness and butterflies and rainbows and unicorns. No, it's the same God, and he's ferociously in love with you. He's fervently in love with you. In the book of Isaiah, he says, I would trade nations for you. I will wipe out countries for you because of my unconditional, unrelenting love. I will trade nations for you. You are worth more than nations. That's how much you're worth." [23:03] (50 seconds) (Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)


6) "The reality that there's a God, and I'm going to live my life in accord with that, and then I die and find out that there's not. Well, at least I lived a pretty darn good life because the people who follow a lifestyle of godliness are actually happier than people that don't. The other option, I live my life like there is no God. And then I find out that there is, and then there's punishment, there's eternal fire. That's just basic philosophy. That's called Pascal's wager." [38:12] (33 seconds) (Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)


7) "The thing I love most in this life, besides Jesus, it has to do with Jesus, is helping other people encounter the voice of God. Because there was a long time in my life where I didn't hear his voice. I didn't believe it was possible. I went on a retreat and I asked the Lord for that grace. I begged him for that grace. God, I just want to hear your voice. I just want to know you're real. Because it's hard to believe that you're real when I see all the chaos around me." [48:37] (27 seconds) (Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)


8) "How do I know if this is God's voice or if I'm just making it up? We'll get to that. All right. All right. So we're going to start off with the first question. We're going to ask God a question. Close your eyes. Or if you don't want to close your eyes, that's okay. Don't look at me, though. I want you to look at Jesus up there. If you're looking at your phone, you can put your phone down. You can look up Jesus up there, or close your eyes, whatever you prefer. And I want you to say out loud with me, say, Jesus, do you love me? And wait for the first thing that you heard." [56:06] (32 seconds) (Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)


9) "If there's nothing else you do as a father or a mother, bless your children every night. Simple blessing is this. I take my thumb. Everybody show me your opposable thumbs. Hey, thumbs up. Thank you. I did a great job. Thank you very much. Thank you. This opposable thumb filled with power. Say, my thumb is filled with power. My thumb is filled with power. You don't believe that, but that's okay. We'll get there. And what do we do? We put it on their forehead and we say, I bless you. Say this. I bless you in the name of the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit. Amen." [14:49] (34 seconds) (Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)