Podcast appearances and mentions of jacob erdman

This week JD chats with guest Jacob Erdman. Jacob is a standup comedian from Fort Collins, Colorado. Topics discussed include but are not limited to: the history of Fort Collins comedy, the effect The Comedy Fort is having on new comics, and fist fighting in Nebraska. Please remember to like, subscribe, rate, review, and tell a friend!Follow LHRB on Facebook, Instagram @lefthandrightbrain, Twitter @LHRBpodcast, or just hit us up old school on the website lefthandrightboainpod.comCheck out all the other podcasts on The Mile High Life Network!

2 (3s): This morning. So I'm 100 says come before his cousins 1 (13s): With joyful. 2 (14s): He said this morning, 1 (15s): the passion. the cross at these? No, 3 (4m 29s): All right. Welcome. Welcome everybody. My name is Curtis. If we haven't met before, it's great to see you. I've got a couple of announcements, but before we do that, you can sit down and give somebody a high five while you're doing it. And also give the other person a fist bump and whatever else you can think of greet each other. All right. Awesome. As you can see, we've got these awesome kids lined up behind me. We've got a kids choir coming up right after announcements. So that's going to be super fun. Yeah. So if you're unfamiliar with this space, we've got restrooms behind this wall and then there's handicapped restrooms downstairs, more restrooms upstairs. 3 (5m 9s): We've got water back there as well. Water fountains and battlefield stations we have out on the courtyard. We have coffee and next week we've got graduation Sunday. So if you have kids that are sixth grade, eighth grade or 12th grade, we're going to be honoring them next week during the 11 o'clock service, it's going to be super fun. So we're excited to do that. So make sure you bring them here during the 11 o'clock service, and we're going to have a little thing for them. So it's going to be great as well. Just, just FYI for everybody. We're working on the chapel venue had some technical issues, first service. So we're not opening it, this service, but hopefully next week we'll have that all up and running and operating well. 3 (5m 53s): So with that, let's put our hands together for the kids. 2 (11m 41s): Awesome. Job choir. Let's give them another round of applause. Awesome. Church. Will you stand with us as we continue to worship this morning? 8 (12m 40s): How I love to breathe. it is God in mercy fields, the street to look upon the one who pled to save me, walk with . 1 (13m 10s): Yeah, we'll be heard today. When all little bow before him will be when death will be no more standing face to face with he who died and holy, holy And DeVry when he reads to why there will be Dawn that day we join the rest and Sam beside hear Rosa, the thing with one boys, a thousand shit seeing worthy is the lamb who was I just want to speak the name of cheese over every hot. 1 (17m 36s): Yes, I know there is please within your pres hi speak. Geez. Hey, just want to speak the name of Jesus. That'd be dark. Diction starts to Bray declaring. There is hope and there is freedom. I see. Jeez, your name is Shout Jesus from the mountain Jesus in the street. 1 (20m 5s): Jesus saying doc. So me. Jesus for my family. Hot speak, the whole name 10 (21m 47s): Lauren. It's great to celebrate your name, the name by which people are saved and sanctified, healed, and delivered and set free. God. It's your name? That is powerful and full of healing and grace and kindness. Lord God, it's your name? That challenges us to live differently and to live according to your plans and purposes, it's your name that gives us the power. It's your spirit that gives us the power to your grace. That gives us the power to do what you've called us to do to live the way that you've called us to live and to be who you've called us to be. So Lord God, we just continue to invite you. 10 (22m 28s): We invite you into this place, Lord, all over this campus, God is people are gathered online and watching and just in different venues around this place. Lord, we just invite you to download your grace and your truth and your power. God, for those of us who sing about it, but don't really fully grasp it. Lord, I pray that we would get it out on a whole new level. Lord for power, for deliverance, for freedom over addictions, Lord for a new faith for our marriages and for the people in our lives, Lord God, we want to have renewed faith and confidence that you're able to save and sanctify our kids and our grandkids and every future generation that we know, Lord God, that you would do a wonderful and mighty work. 10 (23m 10s): God, not just here at harvest, but in every church on the central coast, that lifts up the name of Jesus. God that we be United in one pursuing you, Jesus, going into all the world, making disciples Lord, that we would make disciples that we would, that we'd be discipled Lord. That would become the people that you've called us to be. So Lord that, I just know that we want to reflect you and honor you with our lives. So, so Lord, as we gather on a Sunday morning for corporate worship and to be equipped to go back into the streets and into the lives that you've called this into God empower us, equip us, give us what we need. Strength, hope, confidence, vision, and purpose. We pray. Thank you for who you are. 10 (23m 51s): We love you. We bless you Lord in Jesus name. Amen. Amen. Attorney greet your neighbor. We will come back in just a moment. 11 (24m 5s): Jesus 10 (25m 23s): Alrighty, come on back. Grab a chair, grab a chair. How many it's your first time in this new venue here today. First time in the new venue today, I'm still getting used to it. Now, here we go. I'm still getting used to it. I'm so grateful. You know, for service, we're able to look out and see people that used to be kind of scattered in different venues. And now we get to look at a second service the same. It's just delightful to see your faces in person. And I'm so grateful for what God has given to us here. We're so, so excited about that. Hey, we're going to take a moment and pray for Eva. Is Eva here today? Eva Kessler. Come on up. 10 (26m 3s): Yeah. So Eva has been, how long have you been at this church? 8 (26m 10s): As long as I can 10 (26m 10s): Remember, as long as you can remember. So I remember when you came in our, so you're 21 now almost 21. So you were about to, I think when you showed up. Yeah. So you were about right here, right here. Yeah. And when you and Nolan and your parents showed up, it was just, just such a blessing. And so we've had a chance to watch you grow up. You're getting, you just graduated from quest to college. Congratulations. And now for summer missions. Yeah. Give her a damn that's awesome. And for summer missions, Eva's dedicating the next two months of her life to go to south lake Tahoe. 12 (26m 44s): I 10 (26m 45s): Know it's hard. It's a hard sell, right? Like support me. I'm going to south lake Tahoe to do the Lord's work. Right. It's a hard sell David is another guy that's going out about a month and he's going to Hawaii to do the Lord's work, but he's going actually, he's going to Kona, Hawaii to be a part of a submission standing there with why wham and then D Jacob Erdmann is in Juneau, Alaska. Yeah. So he's there doing where he's already left. He left so quickly. We didn't get a chance to bring up, up to pray for him, but we'd like to pray over him today. And so tell us what's going to be happening in south lake Tahoe. 12 (27m 23s): Yeah. So it's with crew, which also is called the campus crusade for Christ. And what's really cool is they've been doing this summer mission for, at south lake Tahoe for 50 years now. So they have a really awesome community in south lake Tahoe. And part of our missions there is holding a full-time job. So I will be working at heavenly mountain resort as a recreation attendance. Super exciting. And, but yeah, pretty rough. But the other part of our missions up there is going to be discipleship training and evangelism to the locals because there, there is a good like religion up there, but it's very much like new age. 12 (28m 12s): So not good in that sense, I guess, but 10 (28m 15s): Sorry. 12 (28m 16s): But so a lot of these people have a sense that there is a higher power and there is no greater things beyond our own life. However, they're putting their trust in the wrong things. So it'll be a really cool opportunity to serve in our own nation and yeah. Get a taste of that. 10 (28m 33s): Yeah. I'm excited. I heard that there's a possibility after south lake Tanya, that you might be going off to Spain as well. Is that a possibility your dad told me he whispered in my ear that Spain might be coming. So Hey, we just want to say thanks for going. Thanks for committing two months of your summer to this and possibly three months as you go to Spain to do some missions, work there as well. We just want to bless you. Have you raised all of your money, how much you need to raise? 12 (28m 57s): I have $598 left and I leave on Wednesday. So, and then Thursday is our official start date. So I am praying to be fully covered by the time I get up there 10 (29m 9s): And you will be. Yeah. Yeah. If you'd like to give to missions work that these three young people are going to do, just let us know on your check. If you say, Hey, harvest church and the memo, we just put missions and we'll make sure we get it out there. Jacob, Erdman raised all of his money. Eva's almost there. And David Salamanca has got a long way to go. So we will, if you want information about what David Solomon is doing on the info center, there's a flyer there that will help you understand what he's doing. And then in about three, four weeks before he goes, we'll bring him up and pray over as well. So let's, let's go ahead and stand up, extend our hands. And let's pray for this woman of God, Lord. We pray for Eva. She is. 10 (29m 51s): She is so awesome. Lord. So grateful for the years that we've known her really, since the beginning of harvest shirts, she's been here, Lord, her family I've been serving here had been a part of what we're doing here at Lord. So we bless her. Lord, God, we say, thank you for bringing her into this community of believers, Lord. And we believe in her Lord. We believe that you've called her for this purpose Lord to go be salt and light in south lake Tahoe. As she serves at heavenly ski resort, Lord, that she would be salt and light that people who are searching would be drawn to her, that she would have insights and wisdom, what to share. She would have versus a scripture to communicate and, and just the opportunity to pray powerfully for people and speak powerfully into people's lives Lord. 10 (30m 35s): So that the people that she comes in contact with with her whole team, Lord, that they would never be the same again, that they would have seeds planted into their lives and that they would be haunted by that truth in a good way, Lord, God, they'd be haunted by your goodness. And they would, would surrender and submit to you. So we bless her Lord, keep her safe from the schemes of the enemy. We pray God that she would be safe and productive and fruitful for the kingdom work that you've called her to do. And, and director steps regarding Spain as well. Lord, if that's an open door, I, we pray that you would direct her heart. Give her wisdom about that. Lord. We pray for David Salamanca. Who's going to be going to Kona, Hawaii. Lord bless him, Lord. As he's trying to raise money and he's going to be spending an extended amount of time there, we bless David Lord in his work there. 10 (31m 20s): We pray for Jacob Erdman as he's already in Juneau, Alaska Lord, we just pray that you would watch over him and for the things that he's about to do and is involved in, we just pray for fruitful, powerful kingdom type stuff. Lord God, that, and that each of these young people going out would never be the same again, they'd be impacted and that their lives would be marched for your work and that they would just move forward in life, whatever they do that they'd be salt and light. So bless them. We pray in Jesus name. Amen. Amen. We love you. Thanks. Yeah. So as we send out, people just make a note and remember to pray for them. You know, they're gone kind of, you know, the 10 tendencies, maybe it's out of sight out of mind. 10 (32m 2s): So just write their names down and then just remember to pray for them every day, they're really making a kingdom impact in the places that they're going, Hey, I was made aware of this Ukraine relief efforts. And so what we'll do is we're going to be teaming with brace, infra coast and a host of other churches. And so we're going to try to get containers of supplies out to people in Ukraine, people fighting on the front lines and that sort of thing. So we'll put this on our website and we'll make you aware of it. The they're trying to get stuff like right away. So if you'd like to be a part of that effort to bless the Ukrainian people in their time of need, then we'll make this available to you. So it'll be on the email updates going out this week and it'll also be on the website. 10 (32m 45s): So my team's like, what, what are you talking about anyway? So that's what, that's what we're going to do. So anyway, just like to encourage you to do that. So, Hey, we're going to be in James one 19 through 27. We're talking about becoming people with godly integrity, people with godly in Tegrity that's that sounds like a tall order, right? You're like, you don't know me. I've struggled with integrity and being a person of my word my whole life, but I just tend to look at people in scripture and I find encouragement there. You know, as we study the book of James, we realized last week that James couldn't even believe that Jesus was the Messiah until after the resurrection, James is the half-brother of the Lord, Jesus Christ. 10 (33m 32s): And so James watched his brother grow up and all of his perfection, I'm sure there was some competition there, some cat competitive brotherly sibling type stuff going on. And so when James finds out or has heard that his brother's the Messiah, he's like, whatever, right? I can't believe that's true. And so he just, he and most of his siblings, I think maybe all of his siblings just failed to get ahold of the reality that Jesus is the Messiah. And so James who doubted in the beginning until he saw evidence of the resurrection, that his brother was indeed the Messiah, he began to press in and begin to believe that Jesus is indeed who he claimed to be in. 10 (34m 14s): His life was completely transformed. We learned last week that they called him camel knees. James was called cam on these because he became such a man of prayer that he just wear his knees out and they look like little Campbell's knees. And so he became a man who was completely transformed. They called him James. The just because he was well in their estimation, the most righteous man that they've ever met. And so we see that transformation. We think through guys like Peter, and we think through Matthew, the tax collector, we think about all of these people who had their lives radically transformed by the gospel, the same gospel that we hopefully proclaimed the same gospel that we believe the same gospel that we have embraced and want to live out in our lives. 10 (34m 57s): And so there's this transformational process that's possible for each of us. Why? Because as we trust Jesus to be our savior, to be the one who forgives us, he's the one who sets us free. He's the one that fills us with this holy spirit. He's the one that empowers us for transformation. He's the one that empowers us for new life in Jesus Christ. We're actually born again, according to John three, three. So we're born a new born, a fresh, and God's given us fresh purpose, fresh identity. And part of that fresh purpose and fresh identity has godly integrity. Our lives need to be marked by godly integrity. 10 (35m 39s): You know, when we sin, we sin and either word thought or deed, these are the ways in which we sin and word, we say the wrong thing. We think the wrong thing, we do the wrong thing. And so James challenges us to allow the word of God to accomplish its intended purpose in our lives. This scriptures are written to give us God's story that written so that we might understand who God is and what he's accomplishing in the year. And so we get his story. Other otherwise known as history. We get the history of God in the pages of scripture. Also we get his plan, his desire for our lives. 10 (36m 21s): We get his blueprint as it were for our lives. And we get this plan for this world. He's got a plan for this world. He's got a plan for eternity. As we study the pages of scripture and the old and the new Testament, we get to see what God intends for his people. What he has designed us for James speaks to us in this section about God's plan for our personal integrity and really throughout the five chapters from the book of James, it's really much about our personal integrity, where James is just nailing us with some pretty sober truth, sober reality about how we are meant to live our lives. 10 (37m 2s): And so if you haven't done it yet, go back and re reread. All of James, it'll take about a half hour or so to read those five chapters, but just soak yourself in the book of James, as we teach through it these next 10 weeks or so, and just watch what God will do. What does integrity mean? Even? I mean, what if we're talking about integrity? What does that even mean? So I've got some definitions for us, integrity, steadfast adherence to a strict, moral or ethical code. The state of being unimpaired, soundness, the quality or condition of being whole or undivided completeness sounds like a heavy duty, heavy duty load, right? 10 (37m 47s): And it kind of is a heavy duty load, but listen, everything that God wants to do in us and with us and through us requires that we're empowered by the supernatural power of God. So we look at this, we think in our own strength, we'll never gonna, we're never gonna measure up, but I'm right there with you in my own strength. I'm never going to measure up, but with God as my source and my resource, God is the one who strengthens us to do this stuff that he's called us to do and give us the grace to be the people that he's called us to be. We can, we can measure up by his grace, God, we're called in the scripture to be perfect, even as God is perfect. So we have this responsibility and this opportunity to raise the bar in our own lives and not no longer settling for what we've maybe settled for along the way, person with integrity is the same in private as they are in person. 10 (38m 44s): Not interesting. That's a challenge, right? And by the same here in front of you, as I am in private, that's the challenge. That's the personal integrity that God has called us to step into by his grace. So it's overwhelming because there's a big tall order, but by God's grace, we can do it. And James encourages us because he has lived a life where he has seen transformational things happen, where he's become, he's become more and more like Jesus, the sanctification process, where it becomes less and less like his old man who is fearful and unbelieving and maybe jealous and angry. And now he's become a man of prayer, man of conviction, man of righteousness, a man of integrity. 10 (39m 28s): So being people with becoming people with godly integrity is the title of our message. Today. James one 19 gives us opened up here. Let's jump in to James chapter one verse 19. It says, understand this, my dear brothers and sisters, you must all be quick to listen, slow to speak and slow to get angry. Why? Because human anger does not produce the righteousness, God desires. So number one in your notes, allow God to develop in you his righteousness. We have to cooperate allowing God to develop within us, his righteousness. 10 (40m 13s): What does the word righteous mean? Well, let's define the word righteous in a broad sense. It's the state of him who is assay ought to be righteousness, that condition acceptable to God. So God's got a standard, a condition for our living. He wants us to live a certain way. That is acceptable to him. The doctrine concerning the way in which man may attain a state approved by God. So we're saved by grace through faith. And we have the righteousness of God imputed to us. And we it's called the great exchange where we give God our sin. 10 (40m 54s): He takes our sin and our failures, any imputes to us righteousness. And so we have the righteousness of God. We are the righteousness of God in Christ Jesus for salvation, but then beyond that, he calls us to live righteous in our personal lives. And so we're given the righteousness of God that gives us an invitation into heaven that takes us into the family of God. But then we're challenged through these books of the Bible to live as righteous men and women in the faith. So this is the doctrine concerning the way in which man may attain a state approved by God. It's speaks of integrity, bird shield, purity of rightness, correctness of thinking, feeling and acting. 10 (41m 41s): This is what we're talking about. Integrity. And in righteousness, we have a tall order before, but by God's grace, he gives us the ability. This is why we challenge people all the time. You gotta be in the word, you gotta be connected to who Jesus is. You gotta be filled with the holy spirit because in doing so, you will have the desire and the ability and the power and the grace to do the stuff that we're called to do in the scriptures. Verse 20 says human anger does not produce the righteousness that God desires. So God in his mercy gave us steps. He's given us steps to avoid anger and we see it right there in the scriptures. You must all be quick to listen, slow to speak and slow to get angry. 10 (42m 25s): I wrote this message, finished it up on Friday. And I live this message on Saturday because I was in a conversation with my wife on Saturday and things begin to get a little heated. She said something that I didn't like. And then I said something that she didn't like, I think it was kind of tense the rest of the day. Have you ever experienced? Not just me. Okay. For me. Let me just tell you firsthand experience. It was a little tense yesterday, right? So like you have these moments of disagreement, like, so all throughout the day, I'm like, Hey babe, are you mad at me? She's like, no, just thinking if she's still mad at me. So then we call them bed it last night. And I put on my C-PAP machine. 10 (43m 5s): So I look like an astronaut and I'm laying in bed and my dad feels like things are a little off between us ever since that conversation. Are we okay? You don't want the, you know, the sun go down on your wrath. And so I'm like, are we okay? And she's like, we're okay. We just need to talk some more or whatever. She's like, okay. We're okay. We're going to survive the night. So let's go to sleep. And so I read this and wrote the message on, you know, finished it up on Friday and then actually lived it on Saturday. I said, I wish I would have just listened. Right? Because once a word is spoken, you can't get it back. 10 (43m 45s): Mean it's like out there for all eternity. You can't get it back. It must be quick to listen. I believe this is the solution to anger, deciding to, to listen and just deciding to not speak until the time is right. It's a decision, right? It's and it's about self self control. And it's not. It's about wanting to honor the other and bless God and live in right relationship with people in our lives. And so if I would've just listened a little bit longer and waited just a little bit longer to speak, I would have spoken something that would have been more gracious and kind. 10 (44m 27s): So we need to practice what we preach and we need to practice what read, not listening, hinders our ability to understand fully the situation. So sometimes we hear something we're like, no, that's not it. Or we want to react or respond quickly. But if we'll just stop and just listen, God will give us the grace to respond in a kind and appropriate way. So holding your tongue is always a good idea. And James talks about it a little bit later in this chapter. Again, once a word is spoken, you can't, you can't get it back. So these two steps are a good remedy to help us keep our anger controlled human anger is to be rooted out of our lives. 10 (45m 12s): If we are to be people of integrity, we can't allow ourselves that permission to be angry people and still pursue integrity in our lives. We actually have to root it out. We have to prayerfully ask God for help. We have to slow down, not react to the circumstances of our life, but allow ourselves just to be prayerful. Lord, I don't like what's going on. Would you help me to respond to it with a humble way, Lord? I dunno. I don't like what was said. Would you help me to understand the heart of the person who communicated it? Lord, I don't understand the circumstances of my life. Would you give me grace to walk through this in a way that honors you on what? 10 (45m 52s): My, my words to be seasoned with salt, to be seasoned with grace, to be seasoned with compassion. And I want my life to be a life of integrity. You know, last week we talked about the testing of our faith and our faith is tested when things don't go our way, our faith is tested. When, when we don't get our way, w will we get angry or will we choose to trust the Lord in those circumstances where we get angry about it? Or will we take a place of faith and trust and say, Lord, I don't understand. I'm going to trust you. I don't know how this is all going to pan out, but I'm, I'm going to believe you. 10 (46m 33s): And I'm going to trust you. And I'm going to move forward as a believer, as a follower in the Lord, Jesus Christ it's is our trust in our is our trust in our ability to make things happen or in our ability to believe that God's plan is unfolding. It will change the perspective of your life. When you believe that you don't have to make everything happen, that you don't have to control everything or pressure people to make your plans on folder God's plans unfold. If we just believe that God is sovereign, he's omnipresent, he's omniscient. He knows everything. He's every word president. Once he knows exactly what is needed in every, in any and every given situation. So we can just rest in him. 10 (47m 15s): Will we respond to heart and maybe even unfair circumstances with human anger or supernatural faith and integrity. As we yield ourselves to God and his plans and purposes, as we allow the spirit of God to fill us in the word of God, to teach us, we will more and more, not with perfection, but more and more becoming more like Jesus, less like our old person will be well. We'll become people, men and women of integrity who properly reflect the person and work of the Lord. Jesus Christ human anger does not produce the righteousness that God desire. So verse 21 says, so get rid of all the filth and evil in your lives and humbly accept the word God has planted in your hearts for it has the power to save your soul. 10 (48m 6s): So number one, allowed God to develop in you, his righteousness and part of allowing God to develop in you, his righteousness, his righteousness is by being proactive. So number two, in your notes, get rid of all the filth and evil in your lives. I told you, James goes right for the jugular, you know, so he uses a word filth and this word filth is actually not used in any other part of the Bible, not in the old or the new Testament. It's a word that is only used in this burst. And this is what it means. It's the word filth. And it means exactly what you think it means. There's actually no fancy definition for it. 10 (48m 48s): It just means to make filthy. It's talking about our anger and our sinful compromises. It's they use the word, be foul B E F O U L. And it means to make dirty or to pollute to defile or this honor. So we gotta be proactive in getting rid of any filth that is in our lives. Then, then there is the word evil in verse 21, get rid of all the filth and evil in your lives. He's, he's a bit being a little bit redundant, but the definitions of the two words are different. 10 (49m 29s): And so that second word evil actually has a definition, a deeper definition that will really challenge the way that we live our lives, the word evil. It means the wickedness remaining over in a Christian from his state prior to conversion. So whatever sins we dealt with and wrestle with and fought and enjoyed in our lives prior to Jesus, if those things are allowed to stand our lives after conversion, that's the evil that James is talking about. So he's challenging us to root out the filth and the evil. So sometimes we get saved and we go along as followers of the Lord, Jesus Christ. 10 (50m 14s): We give our lives to Jesus and a lot of things change in our lives, but then there's those sins. Those things that we're not quite ready to deal with, those things. And sin is just something that is, it separates us from God. And so really we don't want any kind of evil, sinful filthy things left in our lives. And it's God's plan that he would deliver us from all of those things as we were even singing about the name of Jesus. And so James is dialing in a little bit, the filth, but also the evil, those things that we've just allowed to stay in our lives. Maybe the, maybe the pet sins, you're like, man, I'm 90% better and I've done so good. 10 (50m 57s): And God's glorified in that. But what he's not glorified in is the permission that we're giving to that other 10% of our lives, the other areas of our lives, where we haven't fully surrendered and fully submitted to God. And so that other 10% is often the problem that the area that gives us the biggest problem, moving forward as followers of the Lord, Jesus Christ. So we need to get rid of the evil. In other words, God considers whatever residue, any wickedness remaining or leftover from our days before knowing Jesus, he actually calls it evil. He actually calls it evil. He challenges our purity by zeroing in on our lives, in the nitty gritty, the details of our lives. 10 (51m 48s): We must be intentional about removing any remaining wickedness from our lives. Peter grease first, Peter two, one through three says, so because you are born again, get rid of all evil behavior, be done with all deceit, hypocrisy, jealousy and all unkind speech like newborn babies, because we've been born again in the kingdom of God, like newborn babies, we must crave. You must crave pure spiritual milk so that you will grow into a full experience of salvation. 10 (52m 28s): We don't grow into a full experience of salvation, the freedom, the joy, the peace, the relationship with Jesus until we work on this stuff, that's polluting our lives is filthy stuff. That's remained this evil stuff that's remaining in our lives. If you want to experience the full experience of salvation, you got to deal with like stuff. You've got to get rid of it. Some people say, I don't know why Christians are so happy and because they've been dealing with stuff and others are so sour and you didn't wonder why, why it's all because of the stuff that's left over in a person's life. We got to deal with that stuff. So like newborn babies, we must crave pure spiritual milk so that we will grow into a full experience of salvation cry out for this nourishment. 10 (53m 11s): It's like, there's a desperation there. We need to pursue it with desperation. Like I want this nourishment now that you've had a taste of the Lord's kindness. I'm, I'm kinda getting the feeling that Jesus wants his church to be like a bride without spot or wrinkle. He's actually got expectations for the way that we live our lives. He desires purity and humility and integrity from the people of God. And fusions five tells us that this is true. Ephesians 5 25 B through 27. He, Jesus gave up his life for her, the church to make her holy and clean wash by the cleansing of God's word. 10 (54m 1s): He did this to present her to himself as a glorious church, without a spot or wrinkle or any other blemish. Instead, she will be holy and without fault. You think about a bride on her wedding day, walking down the aisle with her white dress, everybody's dressed to the nines of his looking great Evers. And when the bride walks and everybody stands up, right, because she's just beautiful. And she walks down the aisle. This is a picture of the church. We are the bride of Christ, and we need to pay attention to the details. Even as a bride pays attention to every detail, every tiny little detail in her gown. 10 (54m 41s): There's just attention to detail because she's going to get married. So we've been married into the kingdom. We've been adopted into the kingdom. We become the bride of Christ. And now we need to make sure that our apparel, that our lives inside and out represents who it is that we're married to and who it is that we're serving. So James 1 21 tells us humbly, accept the word. God has planted in your hearts for it as a power to save your soul. So we have to humbly accept this word. It has the power to save our souls. Becoming people with godly integrity requires that you, number one, allow God to develop in you, his, his righteousness. 10 (55m 25s): So it's his standard. It's his plan. We've had our own standard, but it always falls short of what God's standard is. Number two, get rid of all the filth and evil in your lives. And number three, you must humbly accept the word. God has planted the word God has planted in your hearts. Why, why do we have to humbly accept it? Why is it has the power to save our souls? It's not just a good idea. The word of God. It's not just a thought that God had, but it's the power of God that has the ability to save our souls. What is your soul? Your soul is your mind, your will and your emotion. It's eternal. 10 (56m 5s): Your soul is actually E the eternal part of you that will live forever. Endeavor a man. The soul is the seats of the feelings, desires, affections, the versions. It's our heart. It's our soul. The human soul is in so far as it is constituted that by let me read that again. The human soul in so far as it is constituted that by the right use of the aids, offered it by God. It can attain its highest end and secure eternal blessedness. The soul regarded as a moral being is designed for everlasting life or everlasting conscious separation from God in hell. 10 (56m 53s): So your soul is essentially who you are. The word of God has the power to save your souls, to redeem your life, to put you on a path of righteousness, a path of integrity that the word of God is the only thing that has the power to do that in your life. Your soul is essentially who you are. It differs from the physical body and is not dissolved by death. Your physical body will. We're all getting a little older. Aren't we, even if you're young, you're getting older and your body will begin to break down. And when you get after death, it will decay. And then you'll be given a new body, a glorified body in heaven, but you'll keep your soul, your mind, your will, and emotion. 10 (57m 37s): So when we are told to humbly accept the word, God has planted in our hearts for it as a power to save our souls. That's a powerful promise. I love Matthew 10 28, the king James version. I grew up reading the king James version. I memorize lots of the king James version, but we don't use it as much. It's just hard to read. And so, but I love what it says. And we're gonna look at a couple of verses in Matthew from the king James version. It says fear, not them, which kill the body, but are not able to kill the soul, but rather fear him, which is able to destroy both soul and body in hell. 10 (58m 19s): That word destroy means to give over to eternal misery in hell and Matthew 16, 26, it says for what is, what does a man profited? If he shall gain the whole world and lose his own soul, or what shall a man give in exchange for his soul? We, we decide, what will we give in exchange for our soul? Will we give well, it's, it's my own desire that I want. It's my own plans that I want. It's my own, whatever. And you fill in the blank. Well, when we give an exchange for our soul, it's the word of God, the transformational power of the word of God that has the ability to save our souls. This is why we must humbly accept the word. 10 (59m 0s): God has planted in our hearts. When we're wrestling with God's word it's because we've got some arrogance in us that says, no, I want my will to be done. And so that's why throughout the scripture, we're told to humble ourselves before God, it says that God opposes the proud, but gives grace to the humble. So we're told to humbly accept the word that God has planted in our heart to summit. It's really a matter of spiritual life and death. We have a challenge before us, what will we do with God's word? Will we allow it to have its full impact in our lives? The apostle John understood this power of the word to be true. 10 (59m 41s): He writes in first, John, two 14 in the new living translation, he says, I've written to you who are God's children? Because you know the father I've written to you who are mature in the faith because you know, you know, Christ who existed from the beginning. I've written to you who are young in the faith because you are strong. Why? Because God's word lives in your hearts and you have won your battle with the evil one. You want to win your battle with the evil one and stop wrestling with this flesh, the world, the flesh and the devil. You want to give up your old life, man, just allow humbly. 10 (1h 0m 22s): So the word of God to be planted in your life. So how do we humbly accept the word God has planted in our hearts? How do we humbly accept that? Let's look at verse 22 because it tells us James 1 22 James says, but don't just listen to God's word. You must do what it says. Right? Pretty straight forward. Don't just listen. Don't just read it. But like listen and do do what it says. You must do what it says. Otherwise you're only, you're only fooling yourselves for, if you listen to the word and don't obey it, it's like glancing at your face in a mirror. You see yourself, you walk away and forget what you look like. But if you look carefully into the perfect law that sets you free. 10 (1h 1m 8s): If you look into the law, God, that sets you free into the perfect law that sets you free. And if you do what it says, and don't forget what you heard, then God will bless you for doing it. If you claim to be religious, but don't control your tongue is another verse about the tongue. If you claim to be religious, but don't control your tongue, you are fooling yourself and your religion is worthless. So we've got this challenge before us through this half-brother of the Lord, Jesus Christ, to he to think soberly about our lives, to take a personal inventory of our lives in the begin to one by one, allow God to just take control of those areas and deliver us from sinful distractions that have plagued our lives maybe for ever and ever verse 27. 10 (1h 1m 58s): James says, this is what pure and genuine religion is pure and genuine religion in the sight of God. The father means caring for orphans and widows in their distress and refusing to let the world corrupts you. So he's calling us into ministry, caring for widows and orphans, but then also refusing to let the world corrupt us. And we have to be intentional about that. 24 7 with all of the media and social media, all this stuff coming in our lives, 24 7, we're being bombarded with information, temptation distractions, hindrances. And so we just have to be careful that we don't allow the world to corrupt us, that we actually refuse it. 10 (1h 2m 40s): So it's an, it's a decision I'm refusing by God's grace to allow the world to corrupt me. That's what needs to be our decision. As we get up every day, I'm not going to allow the world to corrupt me. If I stumble, I'm going to keep short accounts with God, because we might stumble from time to time, right? We're all going to stumble throughout the day. So we just say, okay, Lord, I'm, I've stumbled there. I don't want to stumble there anymore. I'm giving you this area of my life. I'm refusing to let the world corrupt me, a guy in our church, Shane Koch read this. And a lot of, you know, Shane, he was reading James chapter one and he read this part pure and genuine religion. The sight of the father means caring for orphans and widows in their distress. 10 (1h 3m 21s): And so he goes online and he Google searches, orphanages that he might be able to serve in. So, you know, Shane's a single guy and he's got freedom and flexibility and he read what the scripture said and then wanted to do what the scripture says. So he's in Baja, California, about three hours south of the border for 10 to 14 days, just serving in an orphanage there. And so he emails me while he's already there. And he said, Hey, I didn't have a chance to say goodbye. I'll be gone just for a little bit. I'm serving in an orphanage in Baja. And the decided this verse says, perfect example. Now we can all uproot and go to Baja, but some of us can, we can do the work of God in other ways in our community and our culture. 10 (1h 4m 10s): But what are we going to do about the word of God? When we read something, how will we respond? And so the answer is, Lord, I AF what I want to do this. We just bring everything to the Lord and pray, Lord, I want to do this. I don't know what that looks like. Maybe I give financially. Maybe I go personally, maybe I pray for, and we participate in the kingdom work that God has called us to do not allowing, not allowing the world to corrupt us. In fact, refusing to let the world corrupt us, becoming people with godly integrity. Let's invite the worship team up, becoming people with godly integrity requires that you, number one, allow God to develop in you. 10 (1h 4m 52s): His righteousness that we get rid of all the filth and evil in our lives. Number three, that we must humbly accept the word God has planted in our hearts without it's going to stand up, we're going to worship some more. I would encourage you just to, as you worship, think about what has been communicated. Think about the message that God has spoken. Then ask the Lord. Okay, right now, Lord, what is it that you would have me to do right now? Lord, what is it that you're calling me to do? And then just be committed to begin to walk in that direction and watch what he will do. So Lord, we just avail ourselves to you this Sunday and every Sunday and throughout the weeks and months and years, Lord God for the rest of our lives. 10 (1h 5m 34s): We're committed to listen and obey become people who are filled with godly integrity. So Lord shape us, make us God, help us to honor you and glorify you with our lives. God, as we worship, help us to worship in spirit and in truth, watch over your people. We pray. Lord, we love you in Jesus name. Amen. 1 (1h 8m 1s): Jesus 15 (1h 10m 26s): Amazing. As you love for us, Lord, we just pray that this would be our song on our heart for the rest of this week. Horrifying you thanking you, praising you for how much you love us in Jesus name. Amen.

2 (3s): Hello. Hello, welcome. Welcome. Good to have you all here. Wow. This is kind of surreal our last Sunday of, of being doing churches. We've done it for a long time. And so next Sunday, we will be in the worship center, just down the road. Yeah. So we got our permitting to assemble and everything this last week. So we are all good to go. So very exciting stuff just for the parents. So zero through 23 months, we have kids classes over at the worship center and then all the kids up from that next, this is next week. All the kids up from that are going to be still in their same classes here. 2 (47s): So, but today is family Sunday. So kids first grade and up will be in service with their families. And then, yeah, so first grade and up, we'll be in service with your families. And we've also got donuts out on the, by the patio there. So definitely go check those out and that's all I got for you. So we got a video here and we'll get that going. 4 (1m 40s): God brought me to this school and this school brought me to gun. 5 (1m 43s): I like her school because it's a lot easier to connect and grow closer to God. 6 (1m 46s): I have teachers and Christian friends at this school that I can talk to 7 (1m 49s): For once. I feel like I belong. 8 (2m 9s): I like CCS because I feel accepted as myself. 9 (2m 12s): I'm here because I get to see other people connect 10 (2m 15s): With God. I like how the school gives me good influences. 11 (2m 18s): This school has shown me how to love God and not follow the world. 12 (2m 22s): The teachers are always open to talk about God and problems. He with 7 (2m 25s): You can feel his presence all over this place. Jesus picked me, chose me and loved me for a reason. And being here has made that reason more clear. 10 (2m 40s): I'm excited to build a better relationship with God. He's like my best friend. 13 (2m 45s): He's going to love me no matter what I've done, he does 14 (2m 47s): Keep his promises, any promises, good things. 13 (2m 50s): I want to show others the way he moved to me so they can see that he's real and he's there and he can change your life just as much as she's changed mine. 15 (3m 4s): Well, good morning. My name is Tom . I'm the head of school here for coastal Christian school. And I just appreciate so much that your church has been a great supporter of our school and a partner with us. And many of your people here have been a part of the work that God does at coastal Christian school. And that video that was just made how was filmed during COVID, which means kids can still have fun out there in this world. And even during that time of the craziness, but it shows you that our school just isn't a kind of a normal Christian school is more of a Christian experience. There's other ministries that kind of feed into what we do. There's a church influence. Obviously we have chapels and Bible classes. 15 (3m 45s): We have a camp kind of influence when we go to spiritual emphasis. And, and so it's, it's a Christian experience. And so during these, these years here, it coastal Christian, we're celebrating our 50th anniversary this year. Yes. And it's really a celebration of God's faithfulness to that work. And I define Christian education this way. It's I define it as having truth and wisdom, saturating their knowledge and truth is obviously Jesus. He is the way the truth and the life. And so we want God's word to just permeate. What, what they're hearing in, help them develop a biblical worldview, where they're actually taking the word of God and creating that as the lens to see the world, because you guys know education's not neutral anymore. 15 (4m 33s): There's an agenda at everything. I have an agenda. I want these kids to know Jesus and be able to have a personal relationship with him and be able to go forth into this world, knowing their mission and, and be able to think well and everything. So we're kind of like a think of our school is like a five legged stool. There's there's we have our mission, our philosophy. We have really our, our academic program. We have our kind of business model that we operate out of there. We have our strategic planning and then we also have a, a kind of a community that we want to nurture. And so we've grown, we've added another campus. We're actually renting from new life. 15 (5m 14s): We have a trail that goes up the hill for us that connects the two campuses. We've seen performing arts grow. We're using the Clark center to do some performances there. Sports have grown because the Lord has just blessed the school during this time, in this last year to illuminate what we're doing in a lot of families have said, you know what? I want to have my kids be a part of that. And so if you're interested to learn more about our school, I'll have a little table out back and just connect with you. Be able to share with you some more information about our school. Cause I'd love to be able to have you guys come on campus to see this goal for yourself and experienced coastal Christian. So thank you so much for the time. 2 (5m 56s): Thank you, Tom. Awesome. All right. Well, I'm just going to go ahead and pray and we'll get into worship. So if you'll stand with me, that'd be great, Lord, Jesus. We just want to come before you this morning and we just want to open ourselves up to you. We want to worship you this morning. Jesus. And so you're the reason we're here. We just pray that, that you would fill this whole place that you'd fill every venue where people are meeting and the people who are meeting online. Jesus, we, we are here. We avail ourselves to you. And we just ask that you would fill us that you would minister our minds, hearts, souls, body, spirit, every part of us. Jesus. And we just come before you Jesus name. 2 (6m 38s): Amen. 17 (7m 7s): We worship the God. We worship the God. We worship the God who ever ball. He open the prison doors. 17 (7m 21s): We see the God. 17 (8m 8s): We see the God On that cross that he rose up from that gray And we were the bag. 17 (8m 56s): Now we were the press. Now we all forget, except his friends, that the house of the We are forgiven by his grace, the house There's joy in the house, just in the house. 17 (9m 45s): We won't be quiet In the house. God is shot. We won't be quiet. You worship you this morning. 17 (10m 55s): Jesus. There's a name that metal smell Comes out high. We used to see, I've seen it's powered Rob of bad. I've seen his praise and rabid right off the giant falling strongholds. 17 (12m 11s): Greg DASA palate. she Oh, Oh Nothing else. 17 (20m 8s): 21 (20m 28s): Or we're so humbled by your presence today. And we thank you that we've had the opportunity that we've got the opportunity to gather in this place that has been our church home for the last 17 years and will continue to be our church home, but it's bitter and sweet that we're gonna be moving next week into new worship center and solar. We just want to say thank you for the many miracles that we've seen over these last 19 years, but especially here the last 17 that we've been just on this campus. And now Lord, as we expand, we pray Lord that our ability to be salted lights is the only reason for expansion as kingdom people is that we might have a broader reach, a greater reach, deeper reach in the kingdom and in the world that you've called us to bring your kingdom to. 21 (21m 23s): So Lord God, we, we realize Lord that if you've given us more space, Lord, it is the expansion of your kingdom and all for your glory and for your purposes and God, you get all the credits. And we say, thank you, Lord, God, you've been so faithful. As we've been working on that project for these last 55 weeks, Lord, you have been so good to us. And Lord, we just, as we get ready to launch that next week, we pray God that all of the little details we get wrapped up and all of the little things we get finished and that as we move into that space or that our ability to disciple people, to see people come into the kingdom and see people baptized and see whole family lives and families and generations be impacted with the gospel or we pray. 21 (22m 16s): That would be the case. Lord, we thank you for the, the growth that coastal Christian school has experienced in these last couple of years, Lord, you've taken this crazy COVID thing and you've made it a blessing in so many ways, Lord to that school. And it's been hard and yet good. And it's just all of the above Lord. So we just pray blessing upon CCS Lord upon their, their effort to partner with families, to see their people, their young people discipled, and to become strong leaders and followers of followers of you first and strong leaders within the kingdom, within the community. Lord God. 21 (22m 56s): So strengthen their work. We pray where Jesus, God, I'm so grateful for the young people who are going out to think about Eva. Kessler is going to be on mission this summer. And I think if Jacob Erdman who will be on mission this summer, he's already gone. And so we bless those young people or God, we bless them as they, as they sacrifice in a sense, air quotes sacrifice their summer so that they can be equipped and to release into the culture, to make a difference, Lord God, to be salt and light. So bless, bless them. I pray that this experience would transform their thinking and their understanding about you and about their role in the culture and that they would have new found purpose Lord as a result. 21 (23m 43s): So bless Jacob and Eva and others. She would be traveling this summer to do missions work, bless them. Lord God. We pray blessing upon our dear friend, Darlene Buchanan, who has been with us for these last 10 years or 12 years or so, whatever it's been, it's been so glorious. Lord God, she gets ready to move to Washington states to be closer to family and friends. Lord bless her. Lord, bless her. We are so thankful for her. We love her so much, Lord God. And we've walked through a lot of hard seasons as she's lost her husband. 21 (24m 28s): And we've just as a church have done our best to come alongside her. So bless Darlene Lord. As she transitions, we will see her again. You're there or in the air. We will see her again, Lauren, and think about Andrew and Stephanie who were moving to Idaho and the Martins, Lord blessed the Martins or God and so many people in transition. Lord God, I just, we just pray blessing upon your family here at harvest church, whether we're here or somewhere else in the world, Lord, we just pray that we would take the kingdom with us, the gospel with us, and that we'd be salt and light wherever we go or Jesus, thank you, Lord. For who you are. Lord, we pray for the health of People like David Rue. 21 (25m 10s): She was just battling cancer. People like candy welt shoes, just recovering from heart surgery and Shaun bath. My cousin who's recovering from surgery and is in a deal, did great deal of pain. We pray blessing and grace upon these people, Lord, for all, I know that we could spend an hour just naming people or God. And so we just pray God for the health Of our people here at harvest church, your grace upon our lives or God that you would bless families. Lord God, especially those who are struggling right now that you would strengthen them and bless them and help them and encourage them more. 21 (25m 52s): God got to remind us that prayer is so powerful. Lord, it's not a last resort. It's a first resort. It's what we have the privilege to do and the opportunity to do, to enter into times of prayer for the people in our lives for our loved ones. Lord God. So thank you Lord, for this time, pray God that you would be ministering to every soul in this place. And every buddy gathered on this campus and everybody tuned in online, Lord God, we pray that just a release of healing power know so many people deal with chronic pain and sickness and we just pray God for your divine grace, upon our bodies, Lord, that healing would be just experienced and enjoyed. 21 (26m 35s): And there be a blessing of healing, physical, physical healing, Lord God, upon our bodies that mental and emotional and spiritual in every way, Lord, that we'd be experiencing your grace in a fresh new way. So Lord do wonderful and supernatural things. As we gather, Lord God, give us grace and faith for the seasons that we enjoy and endures both or it. And so Lord help us. We pray bless this time. As we open up the word as we've worshiped, as we've fellowshipped, as we prayed, Lord, continue to move powerfully in our midst Lord, we ask Jesus name Jesus name, amen, turn and greet someone. That's you have never ever greeted before. 21 (27m 17s): And we will come on right back. 21 (28m 34s): Good morning. There it is. Hey, did everybody receive communion elements as you came in, we're going to be taking community's family Sunday. So for Sunday, the month donuts and communion, all of these things to enjoy and as well as kids jokes, we've got some kids jokes today. Look at this. I came into my office Monday, I think. And I had these two little envelopes in my stackable there where I received my mail and I said, well, what are these to receive some jokes from Tessa? And she said, dear, pastor Steve, my name is Tessa. 21 (29m 17s): I go to church with my grandma, Tracy. Here's some, here's some jokes for, for Sunday sermon. So I'm going to be using some of Tess's jokes. And if Tesla's here as promised, I do have a $5 bill for her. Sometimes you just gotta pay for resource. You know, you've got to pay for resources. So I'm willing to do that. If you're, you know, you know, under 18, if you're over 18, then you just got to get them to me free. And, and that that's all right too. So we're taking, we're done with Hebrews. And so we were going to start a new series today in James, but it seemed more, more appropriate to start that James series in our new worship center. 21 (30m 2s): So interesting story in 2002, before we planted this church, we were in prayer about what to do with our lives as a family. Cause we just wrapped up a tenure stint at another church. And so we were just prayerful about what Lord wanted us to do. So we, we were just having a small Bible study in a friend's home and, and as a precursor to planning this church, I was teaching through the book of James. And so it's really interesting that, and I've taught through James since then as well, but it'll be really interesting to and fund as we kind of experienced maybe a little bit of a rebirth in our new space to teach through James again. 21 (30m 44s): So I'll touch on it a little bit today, but mostly we'll get going on that in the next week or two. And so it'll be really, really fun, but they were in Matthew chapter seven and we'll be looking at some passages. They're just kind of a topical message we're teaching through the scripture there, but title of the message today, the making of a true disciple of Christ, kind of on the heels of what we learned last week and really all through our Hebrews study and really kind of in preparation for James, James is going to get our attention and it will challenge us in ways that maybe we've not been challenged in a long way. 21 (31m 29s): So get ready for that. I would encourage you is five chapters. I would encourage you to read ahead. And you just, as a primer for the study, just read through all the five chapters. It won't take you very long. You can get it done and you know, 30 or 40 minutes, but read through that. And, but before we go there, let's say this, let's do this. What did the horse, why did the horse cross to the cross? The street? I'm trying to remember. I'm trying to read the writing, pour a little test. Your, what did, why did the CRA horse cross the street To visit his neighbor? 21 (32m 12s): Here we go. Jim said, I want to build a gigantic boat, but I'll need some help. Bob said, well, I just happened to know a guy. I love kids jokes. I've got more. I'm going to save them for next family Sunday. And if I use them again, if I use her jokes against you, you get five bucks next family, Sunday as well. So the making of a true disciple of Christ, what does a disciple? What, before we kind of get into this topic, it's helpful for us to understand what a disciple is. It's kind of old language. 21 (32m 52s): We don't use it in our culture per se. We're not Jewish. So we don't fully understand some of us are Jewish, but we don't fully understand discipleship and what that terminology is and what that means for us as Gentiles. But Jesus said, go and make disciples of all the nations, baptizing them in the name of the father, the son and the holy spirit. So what is he asking us to do? What is a disciple of Christ? A disciple is literally a learner. Someone who follows the teachings of another saved or unsaved, we are all disciples of someone. 21 (33m 33s): So we're all learning. And in that respect, emulating, copying the behavior of others around us, whether it's celebrities or, or sports stars or teachers, or just people that we admire or respect, we're emulating, we're copying the behavior. We're learning from others and then imitating their lives. When we give our lives to Jesus, we become Christians term really is little Christs. We often talk about being Jesus with skin on meaning we're to represent him in the flesh in this world, in our culture and our lives were to represent Jesus, the Christ. 21 (34m 16s): We, this is the transition that takes place when it would be when we become born again, we literally are born a new we've got new purpose, new life, new focus, and a new power to do what God has called us to do. So when we give our lives to Jesus, we become Christians, little Christs to denounce the teachings of this fallen world system and adhere to the instructions found in the Bible. So it's a total transition that takes place. That's meant to take place. When we give our lives to Jesus, our, our lives are meant to be focused completely on something different disciples or followers of Jesus who learned from him, how to live and love and lead others to him. 21 (35m 3s): So when we're called to be disciples, we're actually called to go out and help others to follow Jesus. They are imitators of their teacher, mimickers of their master, the Lord Jesus Christ, Easton, Bible dictionary, Easton's Bible dictionary defines a disciple of Christ as one who believes his doctrine. So as we come to faith in Jesus, we declare that we actually believe what he taught. We believe his doctrine. We rest on his sacrifice. We fully trust that the sacrifice that Jesus made for us on the cross at Calvary is it was, it is. 21 (35m 48s): And it will always be absolutely sufficient. So we, we rest on his sacrifice. Eastern goes on to say that person imbibes his spirit. We don't use that word. Imbibes very much, but it means to drink or to absorb. So we're to drink in or absorb the spirits of the living. God, we're promised that when we come to faith, that we are filled with the spirit of the living God. And then that spirit is in us to convict us of righteousness, to teach us, to instruct us, to comfort us. The spirit is the comforter and the convictor. 21 (36m 29s): He's the one who is within us, constantly in us. And we're to drink him into soak, absorb the spirit of the living. God, Ephesians five talks about continually being filled with the holy spirit of God. So we have this responsibility to continually invite God in. So we're saying spirit filming, overwhelming. I want to drink you in. I want to absorb you and your life. And then we're to imitate his example. So as, as disciples, we're to imitate Christ's example in John 8 31, the king James version, it's not on the screen, but it says, this then said Jesus to those Jews who believed on him. 21 (37m 12s): If you continue in my word, then are ye my disciples in deed. So there's a way to determine whether or not we are disciples. If we continue in his word and understanding and applying and obedience to his word, then indeed we are his disciples. So we need to examine our lives and evaluate our lives all the time. And I love to do that. As I open up the scripture every day, I say, okay, Lord is my life in alignment with your word? And what I'm reading is it, does it reflect who I am? I want to be a proper disciple, a follower. 21 (37m 52s): And once you mimic who you are and what your word says, the disciple of Christ is not simply a believer in Jesus, but one who actually obeys what Jesus says, disciples embody the message. James can Fe conveys to the elders of the, of the church there. He said, be doers of the word and not hearers only deceiving your own selves, sorta be hearers and doers, be doers of the word. So we hear it. And we could argue that we're not actually hearing if we're not actually doing so, we can hear something go in one ear and out the other. 21 (38m 38s): But we demonstrate that we've heard when we do what God has asked us to do. So be doers of the word, not hearers, only deceiving your own selves, James 1 22. So let's get into our text here in Matthew, chapter seven, verses 21 through 29, Jesus said in the sermon on the Mount here, he said, not everyone who calls out to me, Lord Lord will enter the kingdom of heaven. Only those who actually do. And here it is, again, only those who actually do the will of my father in heaven will enter that. Interesting. Let me read it again. Not everyone who calls out to me, Lord, Lord will actually enter the kingdom of heaven. 21 (39m 19s): Only those who actually do the will of my father in heaven will enter. So number one, in your notes, true disciples of Christ. Do the will of the father. It's it's it's in the definition of what a disciple is that we are actually to do the will of the father, Matthew 7 22 on judgment day. And we talk about this a lot. When we will stand before the Lord and give an account for our lives. Jesus talks about this in Matthew 7 22 on judgment day, many will say to me, Lord, Lord, we prophesied in your name and cast out demons in your name and performed many miracles in your name, but I will reply. 21 (40m 8s): I never knew you get away from me. You who break God's laws. None of us want to be in that position. We want to hear well done, enter into your rest. This is what we want to hear when we stand before Jesus, well done, good and faithful servant. Enter into your rest. We will do that as we've trusted Jesus for our salvation. And as we become genuine disciples of the Lord, Jesus Christ. So it's separates in a sense, the sheep from the goats, from those who declare but live differently from those who are lukewarm or just playing the Christian game. 21 (40m 54s): I played that for a number of years, got saved, I guess, in junior high school. But then I kind of, I've shared this story before, but I I've asked slated and I didn't really know what to do with my faith. And so by junior year of high school, I was still doing the same thing. And one day I felt like the Lord drew a line in the sand and said, you have to choose, will you choose me or the world? And it was like, the Lord was saying, you can no longer live your life this way. You have to choose. And by God's grace, I chose to follow him. Not perfectly, none of us do it perfectly, but that was the decision. And so maybe you're here today and you're at that same crossroads where you're saying, I just, I am done teetering and having a foot in the church and a foot in the world I'm done with being confused about who I am and about what God has called me to do. 21 (41m 50s): And I just know that I need to follow Jesus. How would encourage you to choose Jesus today? You become a disciple. Maybe you're struggling and vacillating and feeling lukewarm because you've given your life to Jesus, but you haven't understood what God is actually calling you into. He's calling you into a new life of servitude. I've following him. Jesus said to his disciples, come follow me. I'll make you fishers of men. Leave, leave all of that previous life behind and come and focus on something completely different. I never knew you. It speaks to the desire that Jesus has to have an intimate connection, knowledge and knowledge of his followers in an intimate relationship with us in all of our brokenness, his grace is sufficient and he calls us into intimacy with him. 21 (42m 44s): I never knew you get away from me. You who break God's slob, breaking God's law is actually the opposite of true discipleship. If we follow Jesus example, we will do what the father calls us to do. We will obey the laws of God and John five 19. So Jesus explained, I tell you the truth. The son can do nothing by himself. He does only what he sees the father doing whatever the father does. The son also does. So he's establishing who he is. 21 (43m 26s): I am the son of the father, and I will only do what I see the father doing. I will only say what I hear the father saying. I'm so intimately connected to God's plan and purpose for my life. I will emulate and follow him. And I will only do those things that I see him doing. George Mueller wrote. There was a day when I died, died to self my opinions, preferences tastes and will died to the world it's approval, or since your died to the approval or blame even of my brethren or friends. 21 (44m 21s): And since then, I have studied only to show myself approved unto God. Mueller's speaks of living his life before an audience of one, not disregarding others' opinions, his own desires, his own plans, whatever, what others thought of him. And he said, I will do the will of the father. I have studied only to show myself approved unto God. So he's looked at the scripture and said, I'm going to do that. I he's filled with the spirit of God. And he's determined by God's grace to do the will of the father back to Matthew seven, verse 24. 21 (45m 6s): It says anyone who listens to my teachings and follows it is wise. Jesus said like a person who builds a house on a solid rock. So the person who listens to what Jesus is speaking and communicating and his word and follows it, that person is wise like a person who's building their house on solid rock. So we're all building our house on something. We're all establishing our lives on something. Jesus said the only way that you're actually going to build your lives, your house on solid rock is by listening and obeying everything else is like building your house on the sand. 21 (45m 49s): You know what happens when the St you build your house on the sand, the waters come and erodes the sand. There's no solid or permanence about that. There's nothing solid or permanent about them. The foundation of sand is shifting constantly. And so it's constantly moving. You can't build your life on something that is that unstable. Anyone who listens to my teachings and follows it is wise like a person who builds a house on solid rock. So what's the foundation of your life and of your spiritual house. What is the foundation of your spiritual life? What are you building your life upon? God calls us to build. 21 (46m 29s): And we obviously play a part in this. We build on a solid foundation by listening and obeying by hearing what Jesus has called us to do, and then just doing it. I tell you, it makes life a lot simpler. If we're not wrestling all of the time with what God says, if we're not constantly evaluating and deciding, am I going to do, am I going to do the will of the Lord in this area of my life or in this area of my life or in this area of my life? If the answer is always yes, Lord, that it just simplifies life. And it, it clarifies the life and it, and it makes life so much easier to live because we know that we're just going to do the will of the father. 21 (47m 11s): And so when we are confused about the will of the father, God's been so gracious to give us these 66 books of the Bible, 39 old Testament books, 27 new Testament books, books that communicate the heart and the mind of God so that we know what we are to anyone who listens to my teachings and follows it is wise like a person who builds a house on solid rock. Number one, true disciples of Christ. Do the will of the father. Number two, true disciples of Christ are able to endure storms. Well, their foundation is solid rock, right? 21 (47m 55s): Solid rock. They're able to endure storms because their foundation is firm. It's not shifting. It's not questionable. It's, it's filled with integrity because God's word is filled with integrity. And it strengthens the, and builds into the foundation of our life. Something of strengthened and something that will not shift. Sure. Disciples of Christ are able to endure storms. I've watched it over and over again in the church. People who are solid in their faith, things come difficult, things come, and they just endure year after year, decade after decade, a friend of mine, Benny Katz, who I've known for a better part of 30, 40 years, he's home taking care of his wife. 21 (48m 42s): They've been coming to this church for years and Ethel's got hip issues and she can't walk very well. And so, but they're watching, they're probably tuned in right now watching, Hey, Benny, Hey Ethel. So we, we go back decades. And when Benny came to church to visit, I don't know, probably six weeks ago, man, there was just something about his countenance and his character. I just w I had to pray with him. You know, I just wanted some of that to rub off on me. And so we do the parking lot by his car, and we just prayed together. And man, I tell you the anointing of God, the power of God on that guy's life, the presence of God on that guy's life had carried me the rest of the day. 21 (49m 31s): I was just, I came into the office. I'm like, I just pray with Benny man. It was just the greatest thing. It was just the most powerful thing. And so there's something about godly people who carry godly character and intentionality, they're determined to do the will of the father. And they endure storms, physical storms, financial storms, relational storms, whatever they may be. They just endure. And they continue. We a year after year, decade after decade to stay focused on Jesus. I, I think about men like that, women like that who have invested their whole lives to follow Jesus and they carry something. They may, they carry something that's, that's attractive and contagious and strong and wonderful and something that we all absolutely can learn from. 21 (50m 22s): True disciples of Christ are able to endure storms. Why, why do they endure again? Because they build their lives on a solid foundation of hearing God and responding with obedience to God. So it's not like I'm reading the word and I'm deciding, am I going to do this? Now you read the word and you say, oh, I'm not doing this. I'm going to do this. It's not optional. Right? It's like, I'm just going to align my life with Jesus and his word. They have built their lives on a solid foundation of hearing God and responding in first, John two, three through six says this, and we can be sure that we know him. 21 (51m 5s): If we obey his commandments, if someone claims, I know God, but doesn't obey. God's commandments. That person is a liar. It is not living in the truth. But those who obey God's word surely show how completely they love him. That is how we know we are living in him. Those who say they live in God should live their lives as Jesus did. So John, the apostle wrote this brief book first, John second, John third, John revelation. 21 (51m 47s): So they tried to kill John because they didn't like his message. He didn't like what he stood for. So they try to kill him. What do they do? They boil him in oil. Hm. He survives. If God's not done with you, they cannot kill you. And so they can't, they don't know what to do with John. So they exile him to an island and he endures hardship as a faithful faithful man of God. And while he's on that island and angel, the Lord appears to him and speaks to him, gives him the book of the revelation. 21 (52m 34s): So he's exiled, but he's a man of integrity. He's able to endure hardship. And in the midst of hardship, do incredible and wonderful things for God, because he's just figured out how to endure because he's a disciple, a follower of the Lord, Jesus Christ. Those who say they live in God shall live their lives. As Jesus did, Jesus was faithful and was able to endure the storms of life. And his 33 years of life endured, obviously the last three years, especially he endured some hardship. 21 (53m 18s): If he was faithful and enabled and able to endure the storm storms of rejection, maybe you can identify with some of these storms, storms of rejection storms of Tim Taishan says he was tempted in every way, but without sin, he endured the storm of temptation storms of ridicule, storms of false accusations, storms of abandonment, storms of pain and humiliation. 21 (54m 0s): Finally, the storm of death, he went to death as a faithful, as a faithful servant of God. He on the cross, he's told one of the thieves hanging next to him today, you will be with me in paradise. He was always about the father's business because no matter what was thrown at him, he was able to endure because his life was built on a solid foundation. So no matter what is being thrown at us, we have a responsibility and opportunity, a even an obligation to make sure that God is glorified in the midst of the storm. 21 (54m 42s): If we can only glorify God when things are good, are we really his disciples that we really built on a solid foundation? If, if our good works are the fruit of our life is only dependent on the good things that are happening in our lives. And we're, we're not really demonstrating a solid foundation. We're demonstrating that anybody can do good when things are good. What do we do when things are bad? When really things are really bad, we endure because of the solid foundation. If we haven't been able to endure, we need to go back and look at our foundation. What is the foundation of our lives? Is it Jesus, his word? Is it obedience to Jesus? 21 (55m 22s): And to his word, Jesus was faithful and was able to endure the storms because he was here to do the will of his father. He was here to do the will of his father. Maybe we're not here to do the will of our father. And so our ability to endure during the storms is questionable. But if we understand what our purpose in life is, as believers in Jesus Christ, then we are here to do the will of the father. And to only do the will of the father. Now God blesses us with the ability to do other wonderful things, but foundationally speaking, our role as believers in the Lord, Jesus Christ as disciples, is to make disciples, to make sure that our lives reflect that priority in every arena of our lives, that we are building a solid foundation of understanding that we are here as God's kids with God's purpose, with God's understanding and power to do the things that he's called us to do. 21 (56m 30s): So we have to figure out how to endure. The only way we can endure is by having a solid foundation. The only way we can have a solid foundation is by just constantly being in the word of God, by constantly praying. So we pray without ceasing. I don't know if you've tried that lately, but it's really powerful. It's like, really? Life-giving, it's really good. It's just, you're just walking around whatever you're doing, you're driving your work. And you're just praying, always inviting God in always asking for the power of the holy spirit in your lives, always seeking the wisdom of God, availing yourself to the word of God so that you can do the will of God. This is just what God has called us to. He's called us to be in constant communion, intimacy with him, availing ourselves to his plans and his purposes. 21 (57m 12s): No matter what, if we do that, we will endure the storms back to Matthew seven, verse 25, though, the rain comes and the rain always comes. If you're not in a rain storm right now, you will be soon. It just always comes as part of the fallen nature of the sin sick world that we live in, though, the rain comes and torrents and the flood waters rise and the winds beat against that house. It won't collapse because it is built on bedrock. It's built on bedrock, Matthew 7, 26, but anyone who hears my teachings and doesn't obeyed is foolish. 21 (57m 57s): Like a person who builds a house on sand. We watched these old repair shows. And last night we were watching shows about these old a hundred year old houses that you know, all over the country and people are wanting to restore these old houses. You know, these houses have survived the, the, the decades and even more than a century because they built, been built on a solid foundation. There there's something of stability and strength in the foundation of these houses that allow them to stand after a hundred or 200 years. And these people are able to come through and refurbish and rebuild and fix so that they last another hundred or 200 years. 21 (58m 44s): There's something about the stability of a good foundation that each of us need. And when we don't have it, we're always vacillating. We're always confused. We're always lukewarm or always half in and half out. We're always just marginal in what we believe in. And our convictions are marginal and our obedience is marginal and it's dependent on what's going on externally instead of the decision that says, no matter what's going on externally, I'm just going to make Jesus my priority. I'm going to be obedient to his word. This is what Jesus has called us to when the rains and floods come and the winds beat against that house, the house built on Santa will collapse with a mighty crash. 21 (59m 26s): We don't want that because storms are promised in this Christian life storms are promise. We will experience storms. And so we might as well get ready by building our foundation on bedrock on solid stone. When Jesus had finished saying these things, the crowd were amazed at his teachings. People were always amazed at what Jesus said, because he spoke. He spoke with such wisdom when Jesus had finished saying these things, the crowds were amazed at his teachings for, he taught with real authority, quite unlike their teachers of religious law. 21 (1h 0m 11s): Why did Jesus speak with authority? Because he knew what his purpose in the earth was, what he was called to do. His mission was to make disciples to die for the sins of the world. Go to be with the father and forever, make intercession for the saints. Number one, shoe disciples of Christ. Do the will of the father. Number two, true disciples of Christ are able to endure storms and number three, true disciples of Christ submit to God's authority. We cannot be true disciples of Christ. If we're not willing to submit our lives to God's authority, what does submitting to someone's authority look like? 21 (1h 0m 59s): Let's take a look at Roman Matthew eight, the faith of a Roman officer. You probably read this story before Matthew eight, five through 10, when Jesus returned to Capernaum, may Roman officer came and pleaded with him. Lord, my, my young servant lies in bed paralyzed and in terrible pain, Jesus said, I will come and heal him. But the officers said, Lord, I'm not worthy to have you come into my home. Just say the word from where you are. And my servant will be healed. I know this because I under the authority of my superior officers and I have authority over my soldiers. I only need you say, go. And they go or come. 21 (1h 1m 40s): And they come in. If I say to my slaves, do this, they do it. This Roman soldier understood something of about authority. And Jesus said, Matthew, eight, 10. When Jesus heard this, he was amazed. Turning to those who were following him. He said, I tell you the truth. I haven't seen faith like this in all of Israel and all Israel. When, when God is our authority, when God is your authority, he oversees every arena and area of our, he is our authority. 21 (1h 2m 23s): His plan is what we follow is just he's our authority. So we follow his plan. His purpose is now our chief purpose. The word slave do loss in the Greek is the, in this verse is the word the apostles use for themselves that the apostles understood that they were slaves of God. They were bond servants of God. They were do loss. They were slaves. And so, because they understood their place, they had no problem doing the will of God. Sometimes we forget who we are. We are sons and daughters, but we're also bond servants. 21 (1h 3m 4s): We have decided to come under the authority of the Lord, Jesus Christ. We have that responsibility, that calling to be not just sons and daughters, but slaves of God to do loss is a slave of God. If you don't want to be God's slave, you have signed up for the wrong God, because old Testament, new Testament, this is the message that we are called to be servants. I do loss of God, Romans one, one. This letter is from Paul, a slave. 21 (1h 3m 47s): I do loss, a slave of the Lord, Jesus Christ, James. One, one. This letter is from James, a slave of God and of the Lord, Jesus Christ, Paul and James. They understood their role, their purpose. And it wasn't a, it wasn't even like a demeaning thing. It was like a life giving thing. Like I've got purpose. I'm here to serve the king. I know what my life is about. I'm not confused about my purpose and my calling. I know who I am and to whom I belong. And so I will serve Jesus with joy and with peace and with gratitude and appreciation. There's nothing oppressive about it. It's life-giving and good. What's oppressive is when we're trying to balance our affairs with God's affairs. 21 (1h 4m 32s): And we're trying to figure out who it is that we're serving Paul and James and Peter. Second Peter, one, one, this letter is from Simon Peter's slave and apostle of Jesus Christ, Jude Jude. One, one. This letter is from Jude, a slave of Jesus Christ and a brother of James and revelation. One, one, John writes, this is a revelation from Jesus Christ, which God gave him to show his servants. His do loss, the, the events that must soon take place. So John understood. 21 (1h 5m 13s): He was writing to the church, the people of God who are the servants of God, the do loss of God. We are bond servants. We have decided. And if we haven't decided to be the bond servants, the due loss of God, then we haven't decided to follow Jesus. That's the reality. If we haven't decided to be a servant of God, then we haven't decided to serve Jesus where to do what Jesus did. You just said, I didn't come to serve or to be served, but to serve and to give my life as a ransom for many. So do we understand the authority of Jesus in our lives? Do we submit to his authority in our lives? 21 (1h 5m 55s): And if not, where in our lives are we not submitted to the authority of God? And what are we going to do about that? We will constantly be made aware of the areas where we're not submitted to his authority. And the answer is, yes, Lord. I want to submit, I want to align. I want to fix repent of and follow you Lord. There was a blind spot in my life, in my understanding, in my experience and Lord, I am seeing clearly now that you would have me to be a servant, and that means every arena of my life. It's all under your authority. Lord, I submit to you in all things, whereas Jesus authority not recognized in our lives. 21 (1h 6m 40s): What are we doing about that? We can't really see clearly on this. We just open up the word all the time and avail ourselves to the truth of God's word. Be students of the Bible and that you can't call yourself a student. If you're just showing up here and listening to me, teach or going to a Bible study where somebody else is teaching or where you're tuned into a podcast or to a radio station or to a TV station to let somebody else teach you. You're a student of God's word. When you open up the word yourself, when you decide I'm going to learn the Bible, I'm going to figure out what God has communicated through the pages of scripture. 21 (1h 7m 24s): And I'm going to become a disciple of Jesus Christ. So you just have to open up the scripture and just see what God will say. Maybe you're not a very good reader. I tell you you'll become a great reader. If you just commit yourself to reading the scripture, maybe you don't know how to read it all, just get Bible on tape or whatever it is. There's plenty of that. Just figure out how to get that word in your soul and your heart. And in your mind, are we disciples of Christ or do we just go to church? Are we disciples of Christ or would he just kind of keep Christ marginalized in our lives? 21 (1h 8m 6s): The making of a true disciple of Christ, true disciples of Christ, do the will of the father. So we ask ourselves this question, am I a disciple? We all need to ask ourselves this question. Am I disciple? Do I follow? Do I do the will of the father? Am I able to endure storms? Because my life is built on a solid foundation or my wishy-washy and lukewarm and tossed to and fro constantly confused, disappointed, frustrated in sin, doing the wrong stuff because my life is built on sand. Only. You can answer that question. Sure. Disciples of Christ are able to endure storms. Number three, true disciples of Christ submit to God's authority are we submitted? 21 (1h 8m 51s): And if not, let's get submitted, we're gonna take communion. And so hopefully everybody received their elements. I'm going to be reading out of first Corinthians 11. So listen, communion is a celebration of the cross and what Jesus accomplished on the cross 2000 years ago, Jesus died on the cross for your sins and for my sin. So we celebrate communion. We break bread as it were. We drink juice. We do this in remembrance of Jesus. So if you are a disciple of the Lord, Jesus Christ take communion today. 21 (1h 9m 33s): If you are not, please don't take communion today. Communion is for believers, disciples of the Lord, Jesus Christ. And so maybe it's a moment for people in the room who have figured out. I'm not really a disciple, but Lord, I want it to be a disciple. So maybe this is your prayer. As we bow our heads, Lord, I, I haven't been a very good disciple. I, your, your word, the teaching this morning is, has helped me to see that I've been about my own agenda. 21 (1h 10m 15s): Fill with my own desires, following my own lead and doing the stuff that I shouldn't be doing. I, I haven't been submitted to your authority. I have I'm wishy-washy I, I, the storms blow me around. I'm not really doing what you've asked me to do Lord. So God, I repent. I I'm changing my mind about how I'm living. God. I give my life to you. I want to do this. I want it to be a disciple, a true disciple of yours, Lord God. So if that's your prayer today, maybe you've prayed that prayer for the first time. Maybe you've prayed for a thousands of time. God hears the humble, broken and contracts. 21 (1h 10m 58s): Prayers of people. He, he hears in his heart is to help you to do what you're created to do and belonging to do as a result of his, this understanding of what it means to be a disciple. So have you here today and you are a disciple of the Lord, Jesus Christ. Let's go ahead and take communion. Paul wrote in first Corinthians for I pass onto you. What I received from the Lord himself on the night, when he was betrayed the Lord, Jesus took some bread and gave thanks to God for it. Then he broke it in pieces and said, this is my body, which has given for you. 21 (1h 11m 39s): Do this to remember me. Let's take the wafer. Thank you though. You allowed yourself to be beaten, crucified pierced, Because I am a sinner in need of redemption. Thank you for the redemptive work on the cross. 21 (1h 12m 21s): Thank you Lord. In the same way, verse 25, he took the cup of wine after supper saying this cup is the new covenant between God and his people and agreement confirmed with my blood. Do this to remember me. As often as you drink it for every time you eat this bread and drink this cup, you are announcing the Lord's death until he comes again. Let's take the cup. 21 (1h 13m 1s): Thank you, Lord. For the juice that represents the blood, that was spilled because I'm a sinner because I need your forgiveness. Yeah, we are centers. We have missed the mark. The Bible says there's none righteous. No, not one. So Lord, thank you that on the cross, Because of the cross, because Of your body and blood, God, you've imputed righteousness to us. 21 (1h 13m 46s): Our sin was imputed to you and your righteousness has been imputed to us. That means we have become the righteousness of God and Christ Jesus. When we are covered by your blood and filled with your spirit and adopted into your family and called servants of the living. God. So thank you, Lord God, that you've imputed your righteousness to me and to those who have come under your authority and Lordship and leadership. So Lord we say, thank you. We honor you today. We bless you today. We're so humbled by your presence and your grace and your love. Florida's we get ready to worship, pray God that you would just be glorified by our hearts. 21 (1h 14m 27s): Lord, let us worship in spirit and in truth. And then as we go over to the open house, the new worship center, I pray that it would be a time of celebration and just thankfulness Lord. So thank you for who you are. We love you in Jesus name. Amen. Let's go ahead and stand and we will worship some more. 25 (1h 15m 10s): Speed. speed. To speak the name of Jesus, Dark addictions Declaring there is hope and there is free speech. 17 (1h 16m 2s): Your name is Your name is your name. 17 (1h 17m 30s): shine through this Jesus. Jesus for my family. High speed the whole day. 25 (1h 19m 30s): In the name of Jesus. We have hope we have peace. We have love, we have power. We have authority. And I just pray that we would just go this week with the name of Jesus. Ready on our lips. Thank you, Jesus. Thank you. Holy spirit for your sweet presence here this morning In Jesus name. Amen.

In today's episode, we have a conversation with 970 Comedy's Jacob Erdman about how the Northern Colorado comedy scene is responding to complaints of a sexual predator who was within its midsts. Jacob reached out to me to give another perspective in response to the interview I did with comedian Kevin Dumont on April 4th. An interview with 970 Comedy's Jacob Erdman responding to our interview with comedian Kevin Dumont. Get full access to The Colorado Switchblade at www.coloradoswitchblade.com/subscribe

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After Jacob's aunt passes away suddenly, strange things start happening in his family home.

After Jacob's aunt passes away suddenly, strange things start happening in his family home.

We have guest Jacob Erdman from 970Comedy as our guest this episode. Oh boy was this a doozy of a movie. Like a lot of these movies, it was based off a book, which Holli read 72% of. Join us as we dish about the stars of the movie, we metaphorically rip the fashion to shreds, and see if you agree with how not great this movie is... but we still want to see the sequel. If you want to find ways to support our awesome guest, Jacob Erdman, here's where you can find him:Facebook  InstagramTwitter Snapchat: @970Comedyprobably real soon tiktok: @970Comedy Disclaimer: This podcast contains spoilers and swears.Be sure to rate, review and subscribe to us wherever you get your podcasts.  Don't forget to follow us on social media: Twitter, Instagram, and Facebook.If you love our show, please consider subscribing to our Patreon.  You get early access to episodes, bonus content, and rewards at every level!  This helps us with our production costs and to create even more holiday cheer!Thank you for listening and have a very merry NetfliXmas!All our links in one place: http://linktr.ee/netflixmaspodcast

This week I traveled to Ft. Collins and the Casa de Edrman to chat about his experience producing shows as well as growing as a comic. We also talked about his trip to Asia and his exposure to new cultures. Oh and we also say a lot of dumb shit so take it for what it is guys =D

Ailis Kennedy, Ryan Nowell, Jacob Erdman, Kyle Pouge

Ryan Nowell, Kyle Pouge, Ailis Kennedy, Jacob Erdman, Nick Holland

Ryan Nowell, Kyle Pouge, Nick Holland, Jacob Erdman, Ailis Kennedy

Ryan Nowell, Kyle Pogue, Ailis Kennedy, Jacob Erdman, Nick Holland

Ryan Nowell, Ailis Kennedy, Kyle Pouge, Jacob Erdman, Nick Holland

Ryan Nowell, Jacob Erdman, Kyle Pogue, Ailis Kennedy

AIR DATE: Jan. 15, 2018. Things get extra rowdy in this episode featuring two powerhouses in the Colorado comedy scene, Kyle Pogue (of Fort Comedy) and Jacob Erdman (of 970 Comedy). Try to keep us as the conversations take some really strange turns! Tune in LIVE every TUESDAY at 6PM MST on Facebook

Read the article at ComedyWham.com! On location at Altercation Festival 2018, Valerie Lopez sits down with Jacob Erdman to discuss how performing comedy and producing comedy have become simultaneous passions, how he cultivated a thriving comedy scene in Fort Collins, Colorado, and how attaining success by accident is no accident at all.

This week JD takes the pod on the road (The Boot Grill and Comedy Club) to shoot the shit with guests David Rodriguez, Jacob Erdman, Matt Cobos, and Chris Munoz (kinda). Topics discussed include, but are not limited to: book learning, The Fort Collins comedy scene, what it’s like to win the Comedy Works New Faces Contest, and poker. This is what everyone looks like. Even Chris Munoz. You can see what going on at The Boot Grill and Comedy Club at there Website Find out what David Rodriguez is up to by following him on Twitter and Facebook Check out Jacob Erdman’s podcast Beer and Banter Hour and follow him on Twitter, or Facebook You can find Matt Cobos on Twitter You can see what Chris is up to by following him on Facebook    

This week we are joined by the ever cherubic Pat Bell. He teaches Weston and Nick the workings of Fort Collins Public Transit. We talk about ghosts, which when you stop and think about it, we should talk about way more on this podcast. Pat talks about getting recruited for a double date by Jacob Erdman (you are probably familiar with that sinister presence by now, he was on last weeks episode). We also all thank God that we weren't rich and/or famous when we were 19. And now for the usual awesome links you won't click: Like us on facebook: https://www.facebook.com/pages/GhostPee/1435972356658377 Check out Weston and Nick's personal comedy pages: https://www.facebook.com/westonucomedy https://www.facebook.com/mystagogueholland

Sorry we missed ya during the holidays folks! Happy New Year, have some GhostPee! For our big first 2015 years we are joined by "the best guest ever," Jacob Erdman, he's that guy who does Beer and Banter and is sort of the Newman of our show. He lets us know what we are doing wrong and we review the big ol' documentary filmed here in town just last month. We talk about seeing yourself on tape, whether or not to make resolutions and whatever changes we might make in 2015.

GhostPee returns with our very good frienemy of the show and popular Beer and Banter Hour podcast host Jacob Erdman. Jacob has visited the show in many ways over the past year but this time he means business. Jacob is heading a documentary project that will be filmed over a four day period the end of December and he wants to get the word out. And some other thoughts about Ghosts, fighting Nick, and just the usual weirdness we can expect from Jacob Erdman. Like us on facebook: https://www.facebook.com/pages/GhostPee/1435972356658377 Check out Weston and Nick's personal comedy pages: https://www.facebook.com/westonucomedy https://www.facebook.com/mystagogueholland

On this episode of GhostPee Weston Unruh (@westonunruh) and Nick Holland (@kickholland) go deep into the vault for an experience with show frienemy, Jacob Erdman. It has been quite awhile since Episode 5, the show that Jacob first made an appearance. Due to Mr. Erdman’s late entrance, he ended up only being on episode 5 for about the last 10 minutes. Today we air the rest of that interview and what a time it was. Jacob, host of the critically acclaimed podcast “The Beer and Banter Hour”, has had some wild experiences, some of his own doing and some just happened upon him. It was a great time listening back to the stories of him getting jumped riding a bike, crying in a parking lot, moving to New England, traveling through Europe, and many other stories told only the way Jacob Erdmania can tell them. We hope you enjoy our time with Jacob because we sure did and can’t wait for him to return to the show to share more of his bizarre story. It should also be noted that GhostPee is not responsible for the musical selections on this episode. Songs were chosen by Jacob Erdman and he and the Beer and Banter Hour should be held solely responsible. Joining our live studio audience this week as always Mr. Jason James (@dirtyJJames – for the love of God people, please follow guy on the couch, he is desperate for your love and does not dissapoint on Twitter), Roommate Will and Beth Unruh (@bethmunruh). Don’t forget to like and share our Facebook Page: https://www.facebook.com/pages/GhostPee/1435972356658377 Make sure you mark July 19th on your calendar! GhostPee is excited to present “Blunted Comedy at the Cheeba Hut” on July 19th at 9:00pm. This will be the first of many (Dog willing) monthly showcase shows presented by Nick and Weston at the West side Cheeba Hut. Stay tuned for the line-up and all the details! Thanks for listening and sharing! iTunes: https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/ghostpee/id876958223 Stitcher: http://www.stitcher.com/s?fid=48946&refid=stpr https://www.facebook.com/mystagogueholland https://www.facebook.com/westonucomedy

This week on GhostPee Weston Unruh @westonunruh and Nick Holland @kickholland (broadcasting live from a submarine apparently) take some time to catch up on a few major life milestones in Weston’s life that happened in the past week including a puppeteer adventure and Kevin Durant winning the NBA MVP award. Although there are many similarities between professional wrestling and professional basketball, Weston and Nick have found one major difference between the two. GhostPee welcomes one of Fort Collins most interesting, high energy, and hilarious comedians, the great Kevin Bennett (@pianoman69) aka French Accent to the show this week. Kevin gives us a small picture into his start in comedy, which involves a failure to pay his taxes. Then we have some fun giving Kevin a few scenarios to improv with the hosts using one of his many not at all offensive accents. We had a great time and we hope you enjoy the show! Joining our live studio audience this week is a new addition, Kirsten (don’t call me Kristen) Eckert (https://www.facebook.com/kirsten.ecker.9?fref=ts), who has a super power of instantly creating super-fans after stand-up performances, Roommate Will, Beth Unruh (@bethmunruh), Jacob Erdman (@beerandbanter) and of course the guy on the couch Jason James (https://www.facebook.com/jasonjamesco?fref=ts). You can find Kevin Bennett aka French Accent hosting a Friday night show at Pateros Creek Brewery in Fort Collins. Kevin also travels all over doing shows as the great accordion playing French Accent. Check out Kevin’s schedule at https://www.facebook.com/thefrenchaccent . Thanks for listening and sharing! https://www.facebook.com/thefrenchaccent https://www.hanbonjovi.com https://www.facebook.com/mystagogueholland https://www.facebook.com/westonucomedy

On this episode of GhostPee, Weston Unruh @westonunruh and Nick Holland @kickholland talk about Weston’s big break, which included getting vomited on, the illness and disappearance of this week’s guests, tigers, and whiskey. This episode will give you a great picture of the disjointed lives of aspiring comedians. Joining our live studio audience is the great Jack Martin (episode 2) and Jacob Erdman @beerandbanter. Missing from the show is our featured guest for this week and great friend of the show, Jason James. Jason did join us shortly after this episode ended and we recorded another hour with him. But true to form for the day, that hour had disappeared from the computer the next morning and will go down as lore of the show never to be heard. Thanks for joining us this week and keep sharing! https://www.facebook.com/mystagogueholland https://www.facebook.com/westonucomedy https://www.facebook.com/jasonjamesco?fref=ts https://www.facebook.com/jacob.erdman?fref=ts

On this episode of GhostPee, Weston Unruh @westonunruh and Nick Holland @kickholland, discuss walking around Fort Collins, an infamous eggnog incident, theories about Flight 370, and the sketchy nature of this weeks guest.  Jacob Erdman @beerandbanter, a local podcast rival, shows up over two hours late with a hangover and a six-pack and quite a story about why he was late.  Jacob hosts a hilarious podcast called Beer and Banter Hour (Itunes, Podomatic, Stitcher) and can be seen throughout Fort Collins at various comedy shows wearing sunglasses like a washed up poker player. Also joining our live studio audience is the great Jason James ( https://www.facebook.com/jasonjamesco?fref=ts ) and his jorts, Beth Unruh @bethmunruh and roommate Will. Check out some links below of different things discussed during the show including an incredible show my Musketeer Gripweed at the Aggie Theater the night before the podcast and a YouTube clip of Episode 3 of the Mystagogue Holland Show. https://www.facebook.com/mystagogueholland https://www.facebook.com/westonucomedy https://www.facebook.com/jacob.erdman?fref=ts https://www.facebook.com/MusketeerGripweed The Mystagogue Holland Show episode 3: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kN4PqFEJrDQ