Unashamed with the Robertson Family - Ep 700 | Jase Nearly Ruined the Wedding Night of His Niece & Jep Admits He Loves Chick Flicks

Episode Date: June 15, 2023

Jase nearly ruined the wedding night of Jep’s daughter Lily by forgetting the last and most important step! The guys and Missy have no problem rehashing his entire performance as the wedding officiant. Missy talks about her experience with fasting for spiritual purposes and encourages people to do their own fasts in their own way. Al compares the ways Jesus and his disciples fasted to the way John the Baptist’s disciples did it.   https://philmerch.com — Get your “Unashamed” mugs, shirts, hats & hoodies! "The Blind" hits theaters on 9/28/23. Get sneak peeks, updates & insider exclusives: https://theblindmovie.com — Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

I am unashamed. What about you? I'm a little nervous about that. Well, I mean, you show up the day after I do a wedding. What are the odds of that? I just show up. Yeah, I feel like I'm in, like, halfway into a trap. You feel like this is an intervention day? We started yet?

Yeah, we started. I guess we have. The time is rolling. I feel like, you know, Phil always being paranoid about the undercover game. morning, you know, like we had guests hunting. We'd show up in the morning and he'd look around and he would see somebody that's not usually there. He said, you know, my instinct is to run. Well, he would always ask him because he thought it would neutralize them. Are you a federal agent? Well, he read somewhere that if you ask a federal agent, if they're a federal agent,

they have to say yes. They have to say yes, but I don't know if I believe that. Well, our federal agent Missy is here today. Welcome to Anna Shaghy. Thank you. I'm not really sure. Missy, we are an award-winning podcast now since the last time you were on. Have you heard about it? I've heard about that.

She was there. She witnessed the whole thing. It was really good. It was awesome. It was a fun, fun, fun night. Well, that's where I wanted to start today anyway, since we were, we've talked about it a couple of times on here, but we haven't heard your perspective. You were there.

What did you think about the whole evening, about the whole? You know, us winning and all that. I mean, we're not huge on award shows. We don't watch them. We don't go to them. We've never really done that. But for me, just having all of that, the Christian artists together in one place and some that we have gotten to know through the years that are the real deal and have become some of our really good friends to see them all in one place and then to hear all their music. To me, it was like going to Disney World.

That's like the ultimate for me, but I'm such a music person. and worship person. Before Disney World was, I mean, is that back when that was cool? Before I boycotted them from our house and home on TV? Okay. You brought it up. I know, but for me, to everybody else, just to say, it was like what used to be going to Disney World was.

I loved it. It was super fun and worshiping the Lord and just seeing other people worship the Lord. And then the honor of watching y'all, like, receive that award that you never thought was, I mean, that's not the reason you're doing this. Right. And so, and I... You never set out for that, but it's a nice, humbling blessing. When you're acknowledged for hard work and turning people's hearts to the Lord,

you should be honored. Yeah. And I thought it was wonderful. And I see the hard work that Jace puts into preparing for this. You know, I think some people think, I'll just get on here and just start talking. No, it tastes a little bit more. That does happen occasionally. Like today?

Maybe today. We still are prepped even today, Missy. We're prepped. Just in case the Bible study breaks out, we're ready. I mean, I'll secretly send some notes after I'm asleep. Yeah, it was late night last night. You magically show up and, you know, it just seemed a little weird. I told you last week I was coming on.

He's always a little paranoid when you're on the podcast, Missy. I know. Bless his heart. I know. Bless him. That's what I always say. So, yeah, but it was a great experience, obviously. And it was obvious for me watching you guys because you knew a lot.

I mean, I knew a few of them, but you guys knew a lot of people there. That what a joy that was for them and for you guys. So it was fun for me to watch that. Oh, we have some good friends in that world. And sadly, you only bump into them on things like that. Because everyone's busy doing the Lord's work. And I think that's amazing. And you get to catch up on what everybody's been doing for the Lord.

And it's been, it's just, it was so fun. I mean, I could just go on and on about everybody we saw and how we caught up and the fun moments and the funny things that were said, you know, backstage and things. But it was just, it was great night for me personally. And to have Jace with me at my own Disney World night that I loved so much that he really enjoyed too. Because he says we don't have a whole lot of things in common, which I have come on here and thwarted something like that. We all remember the list. But my point is we had fun together on that night. No, it was fun.

I mean, we genuinely love these people. So if you wonder what happens backstage during moments like this, we're just, it's like a big hangout. Yeah. Discussing. And different people come through because everybody's doing media at different times. And so kind of when you just catch people when you can. So everybody's working and doing something, but then everybody's enjoying it too. So that would be my description.

It was great. It was fantastic. And I don't have a lot of experience in that, so it was fun for us, too. Well, it was because Missy led the whole arena in a worship song, 500-year-old. Which, by the way, if you only watched the TBN show, you wouldn't see that. But if you go on their, I think it's on, I saw it on their Facebook feed, but online, they've got the whole show. Really? Yeah, so you get all of what you guys did when you presented.

Oh, you're back in, babe. Yeah. We went road. me that so yeah yeah well i went off the teleprompter and we thought it would i don't mean but it wasn't just uh y'all it was everybody got it i abandoned the teleprompter for five seconds and the teleprompter employee abandoned me for the rest of that well he said you want to go rogue boom the brim the all the way to the end it said and the nominees are we just looked at each other's like here we go which is kind of funny missy because on the show i don't know if i

I watched the actual show, but I watched it. And so, Jace comes out and says, you know, it was 10 years ago. We were here. And, you know, it's hard to believe 10 years ago by it. And you say, and the nominees are. Oh, really? On the edited version? That's it.

On the edited version, that's it. It was literally one line from you and one line from you. Did they leave in my jokes about the number 37? No, no. No. You had one line. You said, we were here 10 years ago, but now we're back. I think they might have got offended at my job.

I was only kidding. They had to cut. 45 minutes days. I mean, but all of that, everything I did is in the online version. I actually thought it was funny. I was like, there was only 37 people here. We were in the basement at the rhyme. None of this is true.

I was just embellishing for humor. And I didn't know. My response came just a blurb. Well, and then I said Brandon Lake was sick. I said Brandon Lake, who won like three or war, I wasn't sure he was going to even win. I had no idea. I did ask me if she wanted to peek because they gave the envelope backstage and I was like, babe, you want to peek at it first?

She went, no. I want to be surprised. I'm all into this. It's not written. And, you know, I was just kind of wanting to know. But so I said he was. What would you have done if you had opened the envelope and it was just blank? We would have given it to Brandon Lake.

I probably, well, I do think that should have been worship. Does he both love that. And that is a great. We've seen that song at her. All you have to do is go to assemblies where they're singing that song, and that should be worship song of the year. I mean, it's just, well, it's an incredible song. Yeah, that's really good.

But I said he was 16 and had a crew cut. And I looked at him because I thought, I hadn't really officially met him. So I hope he's not sensitive because I'm fixing to make a joke. And, oh, he laughed. You know, he thought it's funny. Yeah. He kind of took it on a stride.

He seemed kind of like us, just kind of. humble to be there. Yeah. Well, it was amazing when we left. We happened to be walking out with his wife and had a nice conversation with her. So there was some of my dad that I noticed when I rewatched the show, there was a guy that had pink hair. Do you all remember seeing him? I mean, like, I should have, but I just.

It was seriously pink. But so anyway, so he came up to die and we were about to leave at that night. and he said, Mr. Phil, I just want to shake your hand and shook his hand. And remember, Dad, you said you almost said something about his hair, but you didn't, which I'm glad you did. That's shocking, Phil. He didn't, he just shook his hands and said, yeah.

Hey, some people just have pink hair. But then I was watching the show, and he's a guitar player for one of the groups. Okay. I can't remember who it was. It may have been Matthew Wes. It was one of the guys that sung, and he was a guitar player. So I recognized him then on stage and said, oh, there's the pink hair guy

that, obviously he respected. Obviously, he respects dad because he made a point to come over and shake his eyes. I just want to shake your hand and tell you how much I appreciate. So I thought that was pretty neat. Yeah, it was some interesting looks, you know, the dress. Yeah, we the kingdom. Yeah, I mean, that's a flamboyant outfit. They were, yeah.

But, man, they were great. Makes all kinds and make up the kingdom of God. It does. Well, I mean, babe, look at us. I'm not noticing these people because. Well, you did have a $7 dollar dollar general t-shirt on, so. I can't believe that thing was $7. You know, I'm saying that's pretty expensive for a dollar general.

Babe, you like to slick. Yeah, you were good with your unashamed head. I thought she did well. So speaking of slick, so let's talk about the wedding because we teased it a little bit in our last podcast because that was yesterday, which was the wedding was last night. So Missy's here as well. So, so first of all, I want to correct Jay's. Jay's was wrong. Well, I figured this is where this was going.

Well, yeah. So Jay said that they could do better. And now after being there, I say that was wrong because they could not have done better. Nice. Yeah. I thought it was very, very good. I thought we were really good. Done better in terms of picking someone to do their wedding boughs to preach their wedding ceremony. That's perfect. Yeah. So you did a fantastic. And look, I do a lot of weddings. And so I'm just, I'm telling you, Jay's, it was really good. So it was, I guess you would call it non-traditional in the sense of it didn't have all the typical words in a wedding, which I thought was refreshing. It didn't? No, I mean, you used a few, but that wasn't my plan. The old time evals. You let out. You let out.

We gather that it didn't let this one. Oh, no, I didn't do all that. Yeah, yeah. Well, I... It was very personal. It was like you were doing it for somebody in your family, which it was. Well, they said when they asked me, they said there were two reasons. I mean, I guess I can share her speech a little bit.

Because, you know, they asked me to do the wedding. And I said, well, you can do better. and she just was like, no, we want you to do it because you love Jesus and you're real. And that's what we want. We want it to be real and centered on Jesus. I said, well, I can do that. For Robertson Weddings, it was small and intimate. I mean, most of ours are big, so it was small.

Yeah, which was nice. I mean, I thought that was. That was their idea. Yeah, and that's them. I mean, their personalities are like that. It's Lily. Yeah, it hurt. Lily is very simplistic and simple.

I mean, just simple and just sweet. Right. Well, I was surprised they allowed the TV people to film, which was, I never even realized they were there. They did a nice job of staying out of the way. I thought they did well. Yeah. Yeah, so for you fact checkers on reality TV, they actually filmed from a distance, I guess,

is what you would call it. They did. They were there until Lily and Austin ran out under the sprinklers. sprinklers sparklers sparklers not the sprinklers the sparklers yeah and then the bottom fell out

yes that's very true I wondered if that had hit because we had already left well it waited we left and so I'm assuming but it hit us on the way out so but it wasn't late Lily had I mean just watching her

last night she had such a good time she's sensitive in the fact that she doesn't really like a lot of attention on her And so, you know, I was concerned about that. But I watched her dancing last night with her sisters and her friends, and she was having so much fun. Which isn't that great? She didn't you enjoy your wedding? And that's why sometimes if it's super big, you feel a lot of pressure of having to perform for everybody.

Yes, she did not want that at all. And I just thought it was just beautifully sweet and simple. It was exactly what they wanted. And so Jessica's happy. She's happy this morning. She was happy last night. she was like, you know, her first wedding to put on. And so she, she asked me for the last few months, should we do this?

Should we do that? What should I do? What about this? What, you know, what's the tradition? I was like, whatever you want. That's it. There are no rules for weddings. You know, there's a lot of expectations, but you don't have to meet them.

You can do whatever you want to. And she did. And Lily did. And I thought it was absolutely perfect. So tell the things as you did at the very first, because I thought, that was, I'd never seen that before, but I'm going to use that in the future because that was brilliant to just like relax them. And even, Jeff said he was even relaxing. Yeah, a friend of ours, uh, who's a taught Bible at the school you went to. At OCS. Yeah, at OCS. He, uh, we had

seen him do that, I think at the last wedding that we were at. And, uh, and a few. Well, that's, I noticed it then, but, and I thought, I wasn't sure I was going to do it. this because I just I said if they seem nervous I'm gonna do it yeah if not I won't do it well they seem nervous not not at the situation just at the yeah you're up front and they're not used to be in yeah and so I just said I kind of just started off like I can't remember exactly what I said I didn't have that written down I just did it but I said uh take a deep breath and soak it in because you know your your minds are racing this is this is your moment and so i was like take a deep breath and when they both took a big deep breath you could just see them relax and i thought okay

this was a good idea and then i said and just in a word or phrase whisper to each other how you feel right now and no one else can hear that right yeah of course and subconsciously you know when you think about marriage, you just think about how many times you whisper to your wife. I mean, how many times have we had these whispering moments in the last 32 years? So I might have said something about that, but when Austin whispered to her, she just busted out laugh. I mean, like a belly laugh. So I figured it had something to do with the honeymoon or what.

We won't know. That's the good point. It's between them. That's probably the road I would have gone down. Let's take a break. But then she did something to him. And I think it really changed the tone from that day. And look, to be honest, I felt relaxed in that moment, too.

Because, I mean, I love them. And I'm super impressed with Austin. You know, because you just think he's, you don't get a choice. And you look up. and here's Austin from Austin, and we're going to get married. But, I mean, I'm ventured to say that is an impressive young man. So I'm not shocked that she chose him. Yeah, he is easy to love for sure.

No doubt about it. So he feels like family already. So, I mean, you know, I was actually thankful. I mean, I just didn't want to screw it all up. And I think that was my goal, is not to be, you know, make it about me in any way. Which that's it. I mean, I figured that out a long time ago, that that's the key to be having a good

wedding is make sure you keep the focus on them and Christ, I mean, which is what they're. And that was short. You did it. You did it short. It was part of it. You didn't go too long? I mean, I asked Reed. I said, no, how long was it?

He said, seven minutes. I was like, I think it was longer than that. I would have guessed about 12. That's what I said. 12 to 15. And the 12 to 15. I actually thought it was longer. What made it even extra.

simple and sweet was that it was in the courtyard at Logtown that I haven't seen a wedding there before in between the main house and the little cottage. So it was in front of the little cottage. And it wasn't grand looking, but the aisle was super short. So whenever everyone came down the aisle, it took you literally about 10 seconds to do that. And so it was great. It was, and she only had five attendants, just so small and again, just perfect for a little. And then Mia and somebody were singing. Recks. Mia and her friend Rex.

Okay. Good was that. Because we couldn't see them. They were like on a little porch that was out of our side. We couldn't see them. But we just heard it. And it was beautiful. And Lisa leaned over speaking of whispering.

She was like, is that tape music? I said, no, that's somebody singing live. I didn't know who it was. But they have fantastic. It was. They have some chemistry. and some harmony there that's hard to describe. Rex's mom, they're our next door neighbors.

They actually live in between you guys and Jeff and Jessica, so it was kind of neat. Arronic, yeah. Because it was basically our whole street, and then some of Austin's family. Austin's family, that's it. That was who was at the wedding. I did notice that.

And some of their really good friends from Austin when they lived there for five years. Yeah, but we were commenting on that. They just, well, you're talking about, it was, most of the, people don't, they don't sound that great live, but that was amazing. They've sung together for a while these past few years and they did fantastic. It was beautiful. And she was proud. She was like, I mean, I'm not going to brag or anything, but I mean, I think we did really good.

Oh, it was fantastic. I would say it was professional quality. In fact, it was, Lisa thought it was recorded music and singing. So that's how good it was. But it was, it added to the atmosphere you're describing because we were outside. It was perfect. tax it was just, you know, the sun was down already. It was, it had rained in the area, so it wasn't super hot. It was a little sticky Louisiana, but it was just a, it was really a nice. Well, I think, too, I love the fact that they had the people there who really have invested in their life, and it makes it more meaningful. And we had a bridal luncheon the day before, and I was looking over the guest list, well, I hosted the bridal luncheon. And so I was looking

over the guest list before we left to go there, and I had a little speech, and I had a little speech, I said to all that these women there was like 25 of them. It was very small. And I looked around and I said, Lily, this is a fun weekend. There's a lot of activities. I said, but just look around this room. Had it in the old barn that we just renovated at the, at logtown. And I was like, these women right here was all family and her best friend. I was like, all of these women are, you're doing life with these women already. And none of these women are here out of obligation or for Instagram photos or anything else besides they want to be here to support you because they love you and they do life with you. And so, you know, her, Austin's family started tearing up like when I were talking about it because I said,

you can call anyone in this little group right here and they will be there for you. You can look around these are the ones, the women that you can depend on from here on out into your future. And I think that that's important for young women to know that, you know, they're going to make mistakes. and they're going to need help in their marriage. And we need to be the non-judgmental type and really be authentic and true and say, we messed up too. We had a hard time too. You can do it.

We're here for you. And that's what that was about that right on luncheon. I thought it was really sweet for her. She was just smiling and a little tear in her eye, you know. But it went in with what I said in the presentation. And we didn't collaborate on that. Yeah. No, and I thank you.

Of course, Jeff and Jessica both are, or emotion, they tend to be emotional, but they were, they were not, I mean, I expected a lot more tears and stuff out of them yesterday, and there were some, but Jeff, you know, we talked about it, because this is a big deal in the family. Jeff is, you know, the youngest, and so this is the first time. I mean, all of it, most of our kids are married and now having children. And so it's, you know, it's a big deal for them. Okay, kind of joined into our ranks as now having a married child and, you know, we'll have grandchildren. He shared last night, he said he was super nervous. Like he and Lily were standing at the back about to walk down.

And he was like, I started sweating, you know, and I was just starting shaking, you know. And he said, I was just getting nervous. I thought, oh, you got to hold it together. You got to hold it together. Of course, I'm laughing when he's telling me this. And he said, I looked at Lily and I said, are you nervous? And she said, I'm so nervous. And he said, once I realized my daughter was nervous, I went into parent mode.

He said it was actually really good because then I went into, there's no need to be nervous. You know, except... It was scared as he was like... He was like... Then he started comforting Lily, but he was like, but if there's ever one moment in your life to be a little nervous, it's this one. This is a big moment.

That's good. I thought that was really good. So Jay's read a couple of things that Jessica had sent him some things to some... What were there? Like, words of wisdom? Is that tutta? Yeah, that was funny. The thing you did with Jeb was hilarious.

The Jep and Jessica came over there, or I think Jessica was over at our house. Because I kept asking them, what do you all? This is at the beach house and we were on vacation. What do you all want to do? I mean, it's your wedding and they're like, whatever. I mean, that went on for days because I thought, well, we'll plan the wedding while we're on vacation. So I'd ask Austin Lewis just whatever, whatever.

Well, after a while, I'm like, hey, I want something to go by just to get me started. Well, Jessica's like, oh, okay, well, she just sends me all this stuff. It's like a seminar on marriage. A bunch of Tim Keller stuff and clips. I picked one, the shortest one, which was things that Jesus didn't say. I don't know where she got it from. It was fantastic. It was really good.

It was fantastic. Really good. And the list was like, you know, be yourself and do what makes you happy. Yeah, do what makes you happy. I thought it was powerful. It had an awareness. that home place that y'all have there that thing's about 1798 i think it's when it's over 200 years old and we were under them big trees and old big pecan trees the cornfield grew right up to her the backdrop

was was amazing it was beautiful oldest house in washington i mean i have my notebook here which i'm going to give these notes to i thought i should give it to austin and lily Why not? Would they keep that? Probably. Okay. So, Jessica, so I picked this. Listen to your heart. Jesus, thanks Jesus never said.

Listen to your heart. Be true to yourself. Trust your instincts. Feel good about who you are. Happiness is what matters. Just be a good person. Yeah. Never said that.

Never said. What he actually said, and they have a quote here, Luke 923, if anyone would come after me, let him deny himself and take up his cross daily and follow me. I thought that was really good because being unselfish and having a surrendered spirit, especially in the eyes of your relationship with Jesus, because that was the whole point of my presentation. You know, the Ephesians 5, it was like, know your role. Husbands love your wives as Christ loved the church and gave himself up for, you know,

wives submit to your husbands out of reverence for Christ. And I was like, people debate the roles and they miss the. the commonality is you you both get to play the Jesus role in the marriage. Well, they bury the lead because Ephesians 521 says submit to one another out of reverence for Christ. Don't bury the lead. I mean, that leads you into. And the conclusion, this is a profound mystery, but I'm talking about Christ and the church. I mean, but you should also, you don't love your wife. So it is about that Ephesians 5. And so.

Hang on before you read Jep, let's take a break. So then Jep, you know, he, he just offers one quote. And I was like, so Jessica sends a book. A book. It's like. And Jeff sends one thing. Of course, you got to remember why I did this. I was in the roles of marriage.

I was also, I looked at Austin and I held the Bible right in his face. And I was like, you need to live in this book. I was thinking you lead your family through this. And then when I got to Lily, I was saying another thing is to get advice from spirit-filled people. Because it's at the ready because we all struggle in our marriages. We all are looking at this. So I used as an illustration when I asked Jessica, well, she just, it's like she had all this material on Rolodex. It just kept coming.

way too much. So Jep had sent one thing. And so, you know, as I'm reading it, I'm like, I've never even, what, what it? I knew it wasn't a Bible verse, is my point. But so Jep's quote was, I guarantee that we'll have tough times. I guarantee that at some point one or both of us will want to get out, but also guarantee that if I don't ask you to be mine, I'll regret it for the rest of my life because I know in my heart, you're the only one for me.

So does that ring a bell? It's very romantic. It didn't ring any bells. It's from a movie called Runaway Bride, which I had never seen nor heard of. I remember what you said. I'm like, my brother, your first thought. It's a chick flick. It's runaway bride with Richard Gere and, what's the?

girl's name, Julia Roberts. Was she a prostitute in that? No, that's a wrong movie. Oh, okay. I'm getting to my genres. But it was kind of embarrassing to Jeff, because I figure when in doubt, if you're trying to obtain humor,

he just set it up on a tee for himself. It was sweet. Well, when you said it and everybody was laughing, I turned around to the road behind me and said, that means Jep watched that movie. Oh, did he? No, Al, he didn't just watch it, because then when I saw Jep,

after that was submitted, I was like, Jeff, that's pretty embarrassing. He's like, hey, it's a good, it's a good movie. That's what he told me last night. Because I said, Jeff, you're out of it now. You watch that movie. He said, I've watched it multiple times. It's so good. I said, Jeff, please stop.

So anyway, I want to love you. That was that. So I used that for humor. It was funny. Then I kind of gave my challenge with Grace. I made them nervous when I said about the, because I was like, you know, you got to forgive each other because I did this deal about Jesus and His Grace in your walk with Christ,

but it's the same thing in marriage. Yep. Then I did a little funny thing about finding their funny bone and laughing at the little stuff. I know you got nervous on that because you thought I was, when I got into human anatomy that you're going to explore. Like, it's not about us. It's not about us. I know, but I thought I did it.

Okay. And then, because then they laughed. Anything to help them relax. It was good. You did a great job. So then I got the vows out, the rings, and we had a prayer. I liked the families coming up and then circling them.

Yeah, that was a neat way to kind of, toward the end, everybody came up and prayed over. I mean, I felt pretty good about it. The moment I had, the scary moment is when I was leaving. And you call me, I figured that's where we go. Oh, goodness. There was a scramble mode, I just happened to be standing there.

Panic ensued. Jessica panicked. Babe, you were pretty panicked. Well, because Jessica was panicking to me. And she looked at me and she said, they're, because I was like, oh, they can do that later. She went, no, it's about tonight. And they are not officially married. So they can't.

So Jay's left. I think we had some phariseical. Is this going to be the leading? This actually fits a perfect lead into our taste. No, so Jason, he left before they signed the marriage. license. Because it's been, the last wedding I did was my son Reed. So how long have they been married?

Six and a half years. It's been six and a half years. So, okay, I forgot to sign the marriage license, you know. But I would just, I had just left. Yeah. I mean, I didn't turn around. Which is kind of funny because you're basically there as a representative of two things. First, God, which you did that part.

And the second, you're a representative of the state of Louisiana because you're an officiant to make this legal. So that party, not shockingly, by the way, to Unashamed Nation, that Jace would forget the legal side of his responsibility. I was already stepping in. I was like, I told him, because they were panicking, so I told you up, I said, look, I can fill it. I mean, I'm an efficient as well.

So if he doesn't, if we can't find him, it's okay. You are the witness to the efficient. Right. So then I kind of shepherded Jayce through the process of getting it filled out correctly. Although we did it in purple ink. I hope it holds up. We couldn't find a pen. No one had a pen.

Who brings? I do because I've done a lot of weddings. That was your purple pen? No, I didn't bring one to that because I wasn't doing it. I said I bring one to my weddings. So I, when you said, do you have a pen? I'm like, I'm sitting there with a baby on my hip. And, you know, I'm like, no, at the reception.

You said it about like that. And I looked at you. I was like, babe, you had one job. It was to get them officially married. You like she does field go kickers, right? You have, no, no, NFL, only NFL field go kickers. You have one job. That's it.

I figured it was coming. But why just NFL kickers? Because we've gone through this. College kids have, they have college work. So you're forgiving them. Have one job. Because it is a job because they're getting paid to. do it. A lot of money.

I'm going to say it for the record because a lot of football fans watch this. Kicking is hard to do. Okay, I'm not getting on it. You can't make every kick. I'm not getting on this. You should. It's your only job. She has zero grace for kick.

I know, I know. There's no great. It comes down to that a lot. So you better do your job. Pretty funny. All right, so while we're here, we will touch a little bit on Luke 5 and 6, But before we get there, Missy, we're talking about the Logtown Estate. And I mentioned this a few podcasts back.

Well, you guys are hosting a really cool event there. And so tell again, I mentioned it and kind of gave some of the particulars, but tell the audience what it is and why you want to do it. I think it's grown, babe, since the last time you and I talked about it. So some of this might be able to you. No, it's going to be a Jesus Day. It's going to be a sharing Jesus Day. So it's, we're titling it, faith, family, freedom, freedom, because it's on July the 2nd, which is a Sunday. We'll be celebrating, you know, Independence Day around the fourth.

But it's really going to be about freedom in Christ. And because we have freedom in our country, because our founders had freedom in Christ. And we're so blessed to have that day. Yes, that's true. So what we would really like to do, and it's growing because. we're actually talking about this on Unashamed Nation. So whether, you know, I'm like, it's kind of solidifying it in my mind that this is going to be big because we're actually saying it out loud that we're doing this.

But it is at Logtown at 4 o'clock on July the 2nd from 4 to fireworks is what we're doing. And we're going to have food trucks and games and inflatables for the kids. Bring your blankets and sit down on the lawn and, you know, just. have family day. We're also, Jessica and I are going to open our little antique store, the treasure box, in the old barn that day, grand opening. But the way that we're kicking it up a notch is, and I talk to my dad about this too, and he is fired up about sharing Jesus.

On the back porch is always shady in the afternoons, and we're just going to set up on the back porch. Come to the back porch and hear more about Jesus. Round the clock, people are going to be sharing, and then we're going to have baptismal tubs out there too. So if you're just not sure about what this Jesus is all about and you want to hear more, come and spend the day with us at Logtown, hear about Jesus, and if you decide to surrender your life to him,

we're going to have baptismal tubs ready and people ready to baptize you. Which is really cool. So just to let you know, you can go to Logtownestate.com to see where that is. The information is there in terms of how to get there. Also, WFR Church.org, because dad's going to be doing his unashamed class that day. And you're welcome to come and be a part of that. Yes. Come all day to West Monroe.

Come to Fields Class at 9. Come worship with us at 10 a.m. at White's Ferry Road. Go eat lunch with your family. And, you know, tour Duck Commander, if you want to. I don't even know if they're open on Sundays. But see where we live and then come out to Logtown because it's going to be a really fun-filled day. And that evening, we're going to move everybody to the front lawn.

and do some worship. Jace is going to give us five, ten minutes speech on Jesus again. Oh, I thought she had fixed to say I was going to sing or something. Really? You thought I was going to say that? Well, you said, we're going to do some worship.

Jase is going to sing a solo. No. And I would love for Phil to say a prayer for our country about that time. And then we're just going to end the night with fireworks. And we've done this once before, not this big, for July 4th.

And it was awesome over the river. It was great. So we're looking forward to it. We're going to have plenty of stuff to do, plenty of people to meet. Our church is going to be serving as the serve teams there. So lots of stuff, booths, brave books is coming. My bag company, Oak River.

We're going to have Miyamu there. So can donate or buy a t-shirt to help that cause and just kind of see the companies that are involved in our life as well. So what happens if more people show up than the property will hold? I think God is just going to have to take care of that. Well, a lot of you have come from time to time. You've made the trek over just to come to church or to meet us or whatever. So this is a great opportunity to be able to do that.

If you've been thinking about it, it should be a long weekend, the July 2nd, the 4th, I think is on Tuesday. So maybe you get a little time off and you can come and spend it in Munro and Westman, so we would love that. So thank you, Missy, for putting that on. Before we take our last break, Missy, just a little update on the kids, grandkids. We've had Maris most of this week. So she's 18 months.

This is a little bit of why I'm tired. I told them about the bonding. Yes. I told the story. And actually, yeah, so your daughter-in-law confirmed that last night that you had had a bonding week, which was good. But it was only when there was no other option available, no other human. But once she was safe with you during that moment, then she was fine with you from there on out.

She was good with you. So y'all were singing and play in and all that. And the little foster baby is doing well. I saw you guys recently together. And so that's all going well because people ask a lot about you. We're blessed to be able to get him a lot. He is, you know, we have a bond with him. It's physical and emotional.

And he loves us. And so something kind of cute just this morning, we got a text. And he's been getting to know his birth mom, and she's been spending some time with him. And she's doing well. And she texted me this morning and said that she had him while they were watching a repeat of the K-Love awards yesterday on TV. They were just playing, and she was feeding him and cleaning up. And they went and sat down in their living room there. And we came on, Jason and I came on to do the presentation for the award for Brandon Lake.

And A.K. looked at the TV. And his new word is gook, which means look. And he points. And he pointed to the TV and said, gook at us on the TV. And so, and he was smiling, you know, and happy. And then kind of cried and whined when we went off. Well, that's what happens. You get canceled. Right. So I was like, oh. Oh, so I could just picture him saying that and showing her. Look, I know them. So that was really cute. So we love him, of course, and hopefully he'll always be a part of our lives. So he's doing well.

Our kids are doing fantastic. And I know a lot of times when people say, you know, how are you? How are your kids? Good, good, fine. I can honestly say all of them are doing fantastically well. in the Lord spiritually with their lives independently they're adulting and they're being successful in what they're doing and so and and of course region brighton are just knocking it out of the park in the parenting world yeah well they got too little ones so so we got they were there for what

three or four days yeah i don't think we mentioned this but uh you guys met for the first time all of us did, but you guys for the first time. Col was dating a young lady now, and first meeting was at the K-Level Awards, which was really interesting. That's a lot of pressure for her and for us, too. But she, you know, she seemed great and seemed to accept it. Welcome to the circus. It was a weird place. It is weird because you're down there with all these people and lights, and we're at the Grand Ole Opera, you know. Yeah. But she seemed to take it in stride, so that was all good. Let's take her last point. All right. So in our last section here and leading in our overtime, I wanted to make this transition because we were talking a little bit before we came on air about fasting because you remember we've been talking about, we kind of did, let's see, we talked about what we call the untouchables, was Jesus having a ministry where he began by healing a leper, then this paralytic. Then he calls Matthew, this tax collector, and goes and eats with him. So he's creating these issues because he's saying, I'm going to do life with people that, you know,

aren't necessarily touchable. And so then it leads us into this last text in chapter five, which was the Pharisees approached his disciples and said, look, John's disciples, our disciples, fast, but you know, you don't. You know, why is that, you know? And so our action approached Jesus about it, about his disciples. And so then Jesus gives them some answers,

which we talked about in the last podcast, but you mentioned about fasting because that's been kind of a, big thing for you. So tell a little bit about that and then we'll lean, we'll lean back in. Well, you know, I was challenged a couple of years ago from Church of the City in Franklin. It's where we go a lot whenever we're there at our place in Tennessee when I'm there with the kids. And they are great about just really challenging what's going on in your life and how you can combat it and with spiritual warfare. And so at the beginning of every year, so I learned, they have a 21-day fast. And I thought, oh, that's so good, good for them, you know.

Somebody needs to do that. I mean, January is already hard. It's duck season. It's the end of duck season. We won't go into all the reasons why that is hard, but just take my word for it. It's very difficult and has been for 30-plus years. And so I thought, I just can't take anything else on. I felt like I was being called to do this.

And so I went on their website the day before. It was like on New Year's Eve. I was like, let me just check this out. And they had three options. And one of them was juice only, juice and broth for 21 days. And I was like, wow. No way. No way possible can I do that?

The second option was juice, broth. And I think maybe then you add like the second week you add like one meal a day. And then the third week, you would add like two meals a day when you would still have juice and broth. And I was like, I think I could go the middle ground here. I think I could do that. So I got up on that, it was on a Sunday, I think. Sunday morning was the first. And I don't, I go a long time without, I don't eat in the morning.

I just never have. And so I thought, I think I might could do this. And I ended up, and I haven't really shared this. I think fasting is a personal thing. So I'm not saying to do this, but this is just my personal decision of what I felt like I could do with praying to the Lord to guide me. So I feel kind of strange talking about it, but I will. I did juices and broth for a week. Nothing else.

And I thought after that, I could add some veggies. And I just did that for 21 days. I added one meal of vegetables for the rest of that, the two weeks. And it was hard. It was really hard, especially whenever I was hosting other duck hunters for meals, meatloaf and cream potatoes and reins and rice and Mexican cornbread, and I would have to walk away. I was like, I can cook this, but I cannot watch you eat it. I have to walk away, go to my bedroom or whatever.

I was like, it was rough. But I don't know. I just felt the strength come from the Lord, and I wanted to do it, and I wanted to be in his word, and I was really feeding on him. It's amazing how my body responded to that through prayer. And so I would go to other places here in town and churches and assemblies who were doing a sort of combination of different things. And they would say, isn't God working in amazing ways during this time? And people would applaud and like, oh, and just see these huge light bulb majestic moments.

And I'm like, I'm not seeing that, you know? I'm just hungry. I'm hungry. I'm hungry, and I just, I feel like I just need to just get back in the word. So that's the whole deal is when you're hungry, pray or get in the word. And I was able to do that and feed off of God. You're shifting a physical for a spiritual. And a couple of things I want to add to that, because I'm so glad you brought this up,

Missy, because in the last discussion we had about this, we, in the context of what Jesus was talking about to them, because they were basically saying, you're not doing right because you're not fasting like we fast. And so we never really got into that Jesus is pro fasting. I mean, one, he did it himself for 40 days after his baptism to prepare himself for ministry, 40 days. And again, same reason. So he could make a spiritual, in tune relationship with God to prepare himself. And then also, you described it in Matthew 6, which is the sermon on the mouth.

He said, when you fast, put it on your head, wash your face so that it will not be. be obvious to men you're fasting, but only to your father, which is the sort of private nature you're described. So Jesus is pro all this. And so that's why I'm glad you're talking about it, because I didn't want us to create the picture from our last discussion that Jesus was like down on fasting. He makes a point that you guys are looking at the way you do it and saying it's the only way it can be done. And I'm saying, my disciples are here and they're not fasting because they're with me. Right. It's the point he makes. It's not about how you do it. It's what you're doing, what you're fasting from. That's why I've actually advocated for the last couple of years on my social

media is for people to do that because it had such an impact on me. But people say, what did you do? What did you eat? I'm not answering any of that. That's not your business, really. Right. That's why I kind of feel strange talking about it. But it was what I decided personally that I could do. And then I exceeded my own expectations because of God's help. And so at the end of the 21 days, I really never saw any huge moments. And I really started questioning, like, maybe I didn't do it right, or, you know, I just had never done that before. And then, less than three weeks later was when the hospital called and said, a baby has been born and signed over to you. Oh, wow. And so I thought, okay, I mean, of course, I wasn't thinking about

fasting. But later on, as I'm reflecting on the past months or year of my life, to fast again, I thought, do I want to fast again and take a chance for another phone call? I really thought about that, you know, but. But you know, who's to say if you hadn't fasted and prepared yourself spiritually and still faced it, you wouldn't have been able to face it the same way. I may not could have said yes. I may not could have handled the things that came our way from that for sure. That's a great point. Yeah. So, I mean, I'm so glad that we had this discussion because I wanted to go back there at some point, talk about that because I feel like when looking back we had this discussion, we never really talked about the positive nature of fasting. It's not just food, by the way.

It can be a lot of different. It's a lot of things you can give up that matter to you that you're saying, I'm taking a break from this to focus then on my spiritual walk and my prayer and my getting into the word, which is the point of it. Now I look forward to it. I really do. like January's hard, like I said. Now I'm like, I'm going to look, I look forward to starting that fresh and that new relationship with the Lord that might have gotten lost in the busyness of the holidays beforehand or just life in general. And so now I'm looking forward to that. It's really a great way for me to get back to my priorities of putting Jesus first. Yeah. And I, you know,

I've practiced fasting at different points in my life, uh, in different things, but always there's a blessed. I've never, never been there where I didn't get blessed as a result. It's also good for your body, too. It is. The body just really can use a good cleansing. Right. And it's really good for that, too. I think that's just an added benefit.

That's right. Even dietitians say that, you're going to do a new diet or whatever. Always best to start it with a fast because it allows your body then to cleanse and do what it needs to do, which is important. Anything you want to add to us? Well, I was just going to say in this story, I mean, the Pharisees get thrown under the bus. a lot, but they actually were, this was a good idea. That's right.

They were promoting a godly principle they got from God. He just uses it as an opportunity to say, well, God is here. I'm him. That's why they're not fasting. Right. When you're actually with the son of God, you don't have to go take time to commune with God. He's here. But I think it's good that it's brought out that I do think sometimes the Pharisees, they were

representing. They were kind of the conservative, let's get back to the principles of God group of people back then. They just, they miss Jesus a lot of times. And that's why, you know, they're cast in a negative light. But they were right on the fasting question. And part of their, part of their ploy was to use John's disciples against Jesus because John was the forerunner, you know, for Christ. And he was said, well, we're, we're together with John's guys. You know, why aren't you guys doing what we're doing? So, well, my point, though, is if you look at the pagan, the worldly compared to them, well, these would, you'd have thought, these are our people.

You know, they're like, let's get back to the true values and doing things God's way. So they were better than the alternative if you were in that culture. That's right. That's why it becomes weird when they conspire with the Herodians on how to kill Jesus. In this moment, you know, Mark's version says that all of a sudden, the last two people on the planet you think would be together. are together because they're not in on Jesus. No, that's right.

And they combine together. All right, we're out of time. We're going to go over and overtime. We're going to talk a little bit more about this. I want to talk about the worship night me I had with 40 of her closest. Yeah, we've heard. It was awesome. We've heard a little bit about it.

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