Faith, Community, and Hope Amidst Crisis
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"Faith is God, I have confidence in you and whatever you choose to do or not do, I have confidence In you. I don't have confidence in an outcome. I have confidence in the one who controls outcomes. And the thing that our audience may have missed in all this, this all happened during the Easter season." [00:39:53]
"I think the whole time through, from the very first night, I was confident that God could heal him, but I didn't know if he was going to choose to. And my couple of things through the whole process with my family is I didn't want this to tear us apart and I did not want my relationship to God, for them to see a change in me, regardless of the outcome." [00:35:47]
"Once something becomes personal to you, it becomes deep. And this is the harsh reality that once this virus became personal to us, it becomes deep. And I think our deepest conviction is not for people necessarily to feel sorry for me, or to be even excited for me, even though I appreciate that, our deeper conviction, we feel like it is, because it's real, it's not a conspiracy theory, this is not a political agenda." [00:42:58]
"I think we have the wrong job description for love. As humans we're always trying to avoid pain, as parents we're always trying to protect our children from pain, as friends we're all always trying to fix each other's pain and no wonder we always feel like failures because life is, it's the human drama, it's pleasure and pain." [00:54:42]
"Why would I trust anyone but him? Because he's the only thing that doesn't move. He's the only thing that doesn't change and he's really the one working this in and through us for his own good. Paul says that it works together for good, he doesn't say that everything is good. Not one time have we asked, not because we're more spiritual than anybody, but I haven't asked, 'Why me?'" [00:52:26]
"I think from now on every time we think about doctors and nurses, that's what we're going to think about and that's what I was thinking about rolling out of there. These men and women are clapping for me, survivors get way too much credit. It's the men and women and I mean friends like you and all over this country that prayed and loved me home." [00:30:11]
"And the blue heart, we ended up framing it. Because as we left the hospital, all the nurses and doctors signed it and wrote like a note to him. And for us, it's become like our 12 stones. And I don't ever want to forget two things, what God did and then what this population of doctors and nurses, just the human decency that they loved us so well and cared for us so well, that helped create the miracle." [00:53:00]
"I think it was March the 11th, the National Basketball Association had canceled their season. So that was starting to happen as well. And we had brought, both of our daughters had to come home from college. So, I mean, the progression was just happening and then it's just like all of a sudden these symptoms and you're going, no, this can't be. How are we getting this virus? Where did it come from?" [00:07:02]
"I would sit in the parking lot and I would scream Psalms 91 our the window just saying I declare, and every one of those verses and then I would scream 'This Is A Move' by Tasha Cobbs Leonard and just scream at the top of my lungs, We need a move in room seven. I knew he was capable, I knew he could perform a miracle, but I didn't know if he was going to choose to." [00:37:30]
"At the crux of it all is what we have experienced is people being selfless toward us, whether it's through their prayer, love. James said, you show me your faith, I'll show you my deeds. You know how grateful I am that men and women who were working in the hospital, didn't just pray for me. They put feet to their faith and worked and fought for me." [00:44:22]
"I think we all have this propensity wherever there's a contradiction, we'll set up an opposition to it. Like if something contradicts our certainty, like with COVID, for example, it's a contradiction in our certainty, so we go, well, it's a conspiracy theory or it's a political agenda. There's something in us that has to reconcile everything with our worldview." [00:49:38]
"Have you placed your trust in your theology or the God of your theology? And that's really easy for us to get confused and the way that Kellee and our children have really inspired me is exactly what you're saying. The right of Hebrews says that we can approach the throne of God with confidence and he'll give us grace and mercy, but those are not the outcomes we really desire." [00:40:25]
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"I think the whole time through, from the very first night, I was confident that God could heal him, but I didn't know if he was going to choose to. And my couple of things through the whole process with my family is I didn't want this to tear us apart and I did not want my relationship to God, for them to see a change in me, regardless of the outcome." [00:35:47]
"Once something becomes personal to you, it becomes deep. And this is the harsh reality that once this virus became personal to us, it becomes deep. And I think our deepest conviction is not for people necessarily to feel sorry for me, or to be even excited for me, even though I appreciate that, our deeper conviction, we feel like it is, because it's real, it's not a conspiracy theory, this is not a political agenda." [00:42:58]
"I think we have the wrong job description for love. As humans we're always trying to avoid pain, as parents we're always trying to protect our children from pain, as friends we're all always trying to fix each other's pain and no wonder we always feel like failures because life is, it's the human drama, it's pleasure and pain." [00:54:42]
"Why would I trust anyone but him? Because he's the only thing that doesn't move. He's the only thing that doesn't change and he's really the one working this in and through us for his own good. Paul says that it works together for good, he doesn't say that everything is good. Not one time have we asked, not because we're more spiritual than anybody, but I haven't asked, 'Why me?'" [00:52:26]
"I think from now on every time we think about doctors and nurses, that's what we're going to think about and that's what I was thinking about rolling out of there. These men and women are clapping for me, survivors get way too much credit. It's the men and women and I mean friends like you and all over this country that prayed and loved me home." [00:30:11]
"And the blue heart, we ended up framing it. Because as we left the hospital, all the nurses and doctors signed it and wrote like a note to him. And for us, it's become like our 12 stones. And I don't ever want to forget two things, what God did and then what this population of doctors and nurses, just the human decency that they loved us so well and cared for us so well, that helped create the miracle." [00:53:00]
"I think it was March the 11th, the National Basketball Association had canceled their season. So that was starting to happen as well. And we had brought, both of our daughters had to come home from college. So, I mean, the progression was just happening and then it's just like all of a sudden these symptoms and you're going, no, this can't be. How are we getting this virus? Where did it come from?" [00:07:02]
"I would sit in the parking lot and I would scream Psalms 91 our the window just saying I declare, and every one of those verses and then I would scream 'This Is A Move' by Tasha Cobbs Leonard and just scream at the top of my lungs, We need a move in room seven. I knew he was capable, I knew he could perform a miracle, but I didn't know if he was going to choose to." [00:37:30]
"At the crux of it all is what we have experienced is people being selfless toward us, whether it's through their prayer, love. James said, you show me your faith, I'll show you my deeds. You know how grateful I am that men and women who were working in the hospital, didn't just pray for me. They put feet to their faith and worked and fought for me." [00:44:22]
"I think we all have this propensity wherever there's a contradiction, we'll set up an opposition to it. Like if something contradicts our certainty, like with COVID, for example, it's a contradiction in our certainty, so we go, well, it's a conspiracy theory or it's a political agenda. There's something in us that has to reconcile everything with our worldview." [00:49:38]
"Have you placed your trust in your theology or the God of your theology? And that's really easy for us to get confused and the way that Kellee and our children have really inspired me is exactly what you're saying. The right of Hebrews says that we can approach the throne of God with confidence and he'll give us grace and mercy, but those are not the outcomes we really desire." [00:40:25]
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