And you're listening to Live From The Path. We're coming from the Pathway Studios here in Johnston proper. I'm a working mate. Oh, yes. I am. Am a special to lay something heavy on people. Wait a You're gonna you're gonna sit down where? Well, it's it's hard to notice my posture because the camera's kinda close, but I'm I'm really leaned into it like we're gonna have an intimate moment, you know, like a speech of some kind. I don't intend You're serious. I don't intend to have. Yes. You did. Picked up on my vibe. Alright. Here's what we got going on in the show tonight.

So I did there was an article that I it's been sitting in my in my list of stuff for the last three weeks. It was a New York Times article on torn over Donald Trump and cut off by culture wars, evangelicals despair. And I

like I say, it was, there were some local folks that were, like, part of that article. And, like, I'm not sure that we should be happy about how how Jesus' people are portrayed in this article. Oh. So so, anyway, I I thought I'd like and I think, frankly, I think that's political affiliation and or current leaning agnostic.

I'm not sure as a church that we should be happy with, like, how whether we control this or not, how are that behavior is otherwise reflecting on the culture where they're like, yeah. We know how those people are. Like, if this is what they're getting from how how we're behaving, we might need to reconsider how we're behaving. So,

anyway, I I just we we might touch on that. And then, Mike, we got a we got a dog pile of news. Right? Or or, like, advice. Yeah. Yeah. The the the first one coming through is a heavy handed nine one one operator, which I I'm pretty sure they're making good sense, but, I mean, it's I mean, it's gotta be six paragraphs long. I might have to truncate it a little bit. It's basically, you know, when here's here's what it boils down to. They're basically gonna say, look. Have your stuff prepared when you call 911. Well, when you call 911, you're kinda freaked out. Organize your emergency. Yeah. I mean, obviously, most people are not are not apt at at handling terrible emergency situations. I can't I've never I've called 9111 time when I set my own field on fire, and that was embarrassing enough. You know? And they're asking a bunch of questions, and I'm like, I don't know. The field's the the fire's getting out of out of control. You guys gotta get here. And they're like, well, what's your address? I'm like, I don't know. The fire, look at it. It's really going nuts. And so I I mean, it's really hard to put your your get you all your senses together when bad stuff's going down. And so I I know why they're gonna where this is gonna come from, but, I mean, I could sniff it coming a mile away. I mean, you're used to taking some pretty anxiety ridden phone calls, and and Joe Schmo's like, bad stuff happened. You're my only outlet. I'm gonna stammer a little bit. You know? I'm I'm always like, I haven't called 911 because I might have a legitimate situation. And I I you know, they they're so, like,

probably what your your your question's gonna be, you know, freaky about stuff. I'm like, I I just maybe I shouldn't call. The the I mean, they're not bleeding out yet. You know? Maybe I'll just call the regular police. You think they're gonna mock you for overreacting? Yeah. It's like, no emergency. It's like, bud. Who do I call if, there's, you know, someone in my house? I don't I don't know. I just I'm just always second think. That was exactly my process. I called my wife first. Yeah. Yeah. And I set the field on fire, and I called my wife, and I said, hey. Where are you at? She goes, I'm up at the school picking up the kids, like, five minutes away. I said, that's not gonna be enough time to help me decide whether I should call the fire department or not. I kinda set the whole field on fire. Wow. She said, well, you're gonna have to make a decision. I'm not there. I'm like, man, this is what I use you for. Right? Like, I mean, I'm I'm prone to making ridiculous calls. And so I'd I'd called the fire department. It was a good idea. It was really getting out of hand. So this was an article that came out that said

It's a people are wanting advice. And sometimes, like, when they write into the to the dear life from the path asking for advice, sometimes they use it as their own to you know, stump speech as if they're like, by the way, as long as I have the microphone, here's what you guys are screwing up, and I rock. You know? And so, like, that's basically what the first one's gonna be. It's like a cashier at the at the gas station writes in and says, quit calling it Bavarian cream. It's from New Jersey. It's not from Bavaria, and you look silly, and I think you should tell your readers. Yeah. So I had this type of thing. I had this happen to McDonald's when I was recently when I was I started with McDonald's on the for breakfast or whatever on the way to work, and, like, somebody somebody with me ordered a they're like the menu says sausage McMuffin. Uh-huh. And he said, and I'll have cheese on that because it doesn't say with cheese. And the woman goes, it already has cheese on it. Like, okay. Alright. Calm down. You don't say this. Honest mistake from a guy that does not work here. I think you've overreacted.

Right. Hey, man. If cheese is important, I feel like that's worth a checkup. Yeah. And then she yelled at me because I said, I said, I'll take the steak, steak McMuffin. And they're like, we don't have the steak anymore. We also don't have the bagels. Alright. Making a McRib McMuffin. Yeah. I'm like, I tell you what, what do you have? You know? I I mean, I I don't keep track of your daily menu changes, obviously. You know, don't call McDonald's on the every morning, be like, what's new here? You know? I'm just coming in what I'm used to and trying to order the thing, man, she was snipey. She was not happy. Bad mood. Alright. So we'll see if we can straighten that out with a proper Jesus worldview perspective on reaction to that advice. Also, we Aaron DeWitt is in studio. Aaron is Aaron is the worship leader at Simple Church, and

we we know Aaron. Aaron and I go way back. I mean, way back. Yeah. Way back. But we recently were we're catching up, and he's got a cool worship event coming up. And he's just an all around sweet dude, so we thought we'd have him in. And, he's gonna do a couple tunes and kinda share about the worship event. So, actually, why why don't you just, for for the folks who who are not familiar with you, just tell them a little bit about yourself. Like, how did you get into, being a worship leader? And, you know, what what what gets you excited about that? Well, I, you know, I I've I've always grown up Christian.

You know, I grew up in a Christian household and everything, and, and I think a lot of the times we take that for granted. You know? And, and, it's, you know, it kind of misleads us at times because when we do take it for granted, we can, we just get lost in, you know, in what we're what we're trying to pursue. And, you know, I was pursuing more of a, career for myself. You know, I wanted to, play secular music and songs and stuff. And, you know, my heart every time I would try to write a secular song would always bring back to, like they would they would always be deeper. They would always be something there that was pulling at my heart.

And, and God just led me to, to to to him and to and to worship him more. And, you know, I'm gonna be singing a song that had a big impact on my life called, I surrender, because it seems like so many times, you know, I would I would screw up and I would forget about God and take him for granted and everything. And then I would, you know, I would I would return to him and be like, you know, I I surrender you, God. I'm so sorry for the discourse that I took, you know, through all the the the years and, you know, how I get distracted so easily. So and then that kinda leads into another song that, that I'm gonna do. It's called, No Longer Slaves, one of my favorites. And it talks about how, you know, there's we're no longer slaves to fear. You know, we're children of God. And, you know, that fear of of what people think and, you know, is such a big distraction in our lives. And and and, so that's had a big impact for me. And, yeah, I, I I I moved recently from LA.

I was out there for seven years, and I studied music. I did keyboard performance program there at MI in, Hollywood and met my wife Amanda out there, and we have two kids now. And Do do you have any only in LA stories? Like, you could tell the story, and it's only believable because it happened in LA. Do you have any stories like that? No. I I when I was a server, I served, like, a bunch of famous people, Leonardo Leonardo DiCaprio and

cool things. I don't know. What did he order? Well, it was a it was an all you can eat. Went to a Terrazkari. Yeah. Well, that seems that seems over. No. That's, like, 78 pounds. No. No. No. This is a Terrazcaria, though. This is a high end That's not a buffet. No. Have you guys ever had a Brazilian steakhouse? Oh, yeah. Yeah. One of those joints. Well, you know,

I accidentally, I so I was at a Dan and I were at a Brazilian steakhouse, and I was unaware of what I'd actually walked into until they started bringing the slabs of meat around. That's right. With and there was no, like, prices or anything. I thought was me, by the way, that brought that slab of meat. Were the gaucho. I was the gaucho. I served and prepared the meats.

I mean, that's a cool gig, but, like, I mean, we it takes a dullard like myself a little bit to catch on when they when they're not when there's, like, wheels of great, like, aged Parmesan on the salad bar that you chop off yourself Yeah. And there's no prices on menus, I thought, oh, good night. What have I wandered into? Had I frankly, had I had I thought about this and, like, actually known, I probably would have had more meats, to be honest with you. I probably would have doubled down on what I was eating. Right? Up on the salad stuff. Yeah. They still I mean, even at the expenses when they try to snake you in with bread and greens. You know? Like, oh, on this, fool. Eat this huge piece of garlic bread. You'll love it. Some Niki Gaochu. Yeah. Managers are always like, sell the garlic bread.

Cut down on our couches. I mean, how do you sleep at night as that manager? You know what I'm saying? Like, you know what you're doing to people. Come on. $700. Although, I mean, I'm suckered in by the places that give you, like, a full crouton that look like a grilled cheese sandwich kinda. It's like a big crouton. You know? I'm like, I gotta break it myself. It looked like it was made like this, and I get super excited, and then I'm full on crouton. And then I'm like, yeah. Prime rib buffet. I'm I'm half full of crouton. I'm not interested in any of that stuff. That's No. I I count that. That's an only in LA story. Yeah. Well, you know, but,

yeah, my wife worked there. Well, my soon to be wife worked there. She was a bartender, and I was a server. I started out as a gaucho. Uh-huh. Moved up the ranks to server, but, you know, it's a it's kind of a a lot of people are servers out there because, you know, it kinda gives you the time during the day to do your whatever. Did did ever practice what you might say to someone famous when they came in? What's that? Did you ever practice what you might say to someone famous if they had come in? No. Uh-uh. Man, I I I do that sometimes when I'm driving. I think if I were to someone famous, I would say Yeah. Hey. Do you ever see anyone famous here? That'd really get them. Alright. So alright. So, Michael, let's check this out. So you're you're a gaucho in a Brazilian steakhouse. All of a sudden, John Travolta

is at this table. He's your fave. And you come by, and and he says, hey. How's it going today? What do you how do you respond? Hey. Pretty good. I know that there have you ever seen anyone famous in here? Yeah. No. That's good, Mike. Yeah.

I haven't said I've perfected it. Hey. Have you got your second life? I couldn't say anything. I'd be so starstruck. Why would you I mean, what am I supposed to say? Hey, John. I mean, that seems a bit forward. Maybe I'd say, what would you like to drink, sir? Did you fly in today? Yeah. So my so Big pilot. I guess maybe what I'm getting at is maybe you should spend less time pondering. You you've not come up with anything that's anything fancier than you would say to just regular Joe. Any interaction that I've had with people at a higher position of a social status than me has always been a disaster. Yeah. In fact, I did one today. I was the owner of the company happened to be at my place, and I didn't know it was the owner of the company. Of course. And so there was a food truck coming to work, you know, and there and there's a bunch of people standing around, and I can't he can't even figure out where the discernible line is to get in line for this pizza. And so this guy in a in, like, a, I don't know, pretty fancy outfit come rolling by. He said, hey. How's it going? I said, how long have you been here? And he goes, at this company? I said, no. No. In this general area. How long have you been here? I can't figure out where the line is. You know? And he goes, oh, you know, I don't know. Half hour, I think the line is over this way. And I'm like, yeah. Okay. Thanks, man. And then he comes stand by me, and he said, you know, I bought a food truck at an auction one time. I said, really? Because usually, I'm bidding on, like, a line of shovels, and I get to pick one for, like, $5.

I said, you went with the food truck. He goes, yeah. I think it'll be a good investment over the long run. I said, well, I felt the same way about the shovel. So congratulations. And then we parted ways. Not only to find out five minutes later, someone's like, hey. Saw you talking to the owner of the company. I'm like, disaster. Every time. Every time I run into one of these guys, I was in the I don't know. Running my yap like it's some kind of blue collar fisherman I met on the road. You know? So I bought a food truck. I bought a shovel. Who goes to an auction and buys a food truck? Salacious. Hey. Did you guys see that Internet video of the guy playing the shovel? Like, that electrified shovel got three strings on it? No. No. I think I saw a picture of it, but I didn't actually click on it. It's awesome. I mean, it's see that. It's swear word awesome. Like one of those cigar box guitar type things? Yeah. I might try to see if I can find the audio, but this guy's whiz bang great. I mean, do you ever go to bed at night and think this is what I did with my day? No. I watched a man play the show. I frankly, I watch it at work while I'm supposed to be doing other things. Oh, okay. Good. Like Ben does. Does. Yeah. I I know know you you know. Know. Does it in the church setting. I do it on the corporate day.

Alright. So let's do this. We we we kinda learned a little bit about Aaron formally. Let's let's hear from him musically. So, the first song you were gonna do, you said it was, I surrender? I surrender. Yeah. Mhmm. Well, sweet. And so you said this one had a had a pretty big impact on your life? Yeah. You know, I Yeah. There's times when you just come you just come to on your knees to God. You know what I mean? Yeah. And,

and I think it's not until we come to that point, you know, what it's just when he really starts to work, you know, when we just let him take control of our lives and, and just, you know, surrender all to him. And so this song, you know, I there was just this night in my in my apartment in LA that it just, you know, I just was on my knees singing it, and it just had such a big impact in my life. And and from there, you know, I just I just love the worship music. You know? One of the big things, that has made a big impact is listening to Christian music. And I think, you know, I said this at Sunday morning, this last Sunday.

But, you know, it's like if we have Christian music playing in our head and that's going through our heads throughout the day because one of the biggest things, you know, I think as Christians that, that that is bad for us is is that we forget about, you know, after Sunday morning, come Tuesday at 03:00, we're, you know, we have we're so distracted from everything else going on and and, and,

having these songs stuck in our head, waking up in the morning singing praises to you know, I wake up Yeah. In the mornings now, you know, singing, you know, Lord, I need you, you know, and, and, you know, God, I surrender to you. I'm no longer a slave to fear. You know, I It's weird how that works because, like, I'll I'll that'll happen to me on songs that I haven't heard for, like, three or four weeks. Like, I'll just I'll just wake up in the morning, and and I won't even realize that it's going through my head. And then,

you know, maybe I'm brushing my teeth or taking a whiz or something. And, like, this I I finally it comes I realized the song is playing, and it wasn't one that I heard yesterday. It wasn't one that we sang recently. It's just like, that just is is the soundtrack of that morning because this tune is going through. And, like, every once in a while, I realize it clear enough that I can say thanks for it. Mhmm. Right? To recognize that that's in there, and that's you're you're right. It does. It kinda just kinda carries the day. Yeah. And it and it gives you a grounding in times where otherwise, you're in kind of an atmosphere,

where it's that type of thing that is your grounding Yeah. To whatever's going on around you. Yeah. Music is so powerful, man. Yeah. It really is. You know, is are you gonna have Jay z flowing through your head during the days? Are you gonna have, you know, the praises of God throwing flowing through your head? You know? So what's how is that gonna influence you? You know what I mean? So it's, I think it's such a big thing that just gets overlooked a lot of the time. Yeah. No. That's hey. That's that's true. In fact, that hit my life maybe two or three days ago as I caught myself jumping around jumping around and jumping up and jumping up and getting down. And it's because I'd put the wrong thing in my head, Aaron. That's right. And that's So that'll happen? That's what happened in my life. Right. Not to say it's a bad thing, but, you know, it's just to each their own, I suppose. Yeah. I don't know. Deuteronomy is pretty clear. There ain't no jumping. We don't. Yeah. The Lord don't dig on that. Yeah. The Lord don't like me jumping around. Because it's a crisscross. Hey. Yeah. Hey. It's fun on Christianity. What do you do with the Lords leaping for Christmas?

Those lords are leaping. That's hilarious. It's not biblical, biblical. No. That's shoot. I'm gonna have to rethink my most of my theology is based upon that tune. I've been celebrating Christmas before. Dang it. Alright. Cool. Well, go go ahead and fire it up. This is Aaron DeWett, and I surrender. You're listening to Live From The Path. Cool. Lord, I'm desperate for you.

I surrender. Mercy and grace on folk,

a hunger and thirst. Yes, God. A hunger and thirst.

And with thorns stretched wide, I know you hear

my cry. Speak to me now. Jesus. Lord, have your way.

Lord, have your way in me. Yeah.

Like a them. Don't have your way. Don't have your way.

Don't have your way in me. And, Lord, I

surrender. But I surrender. I think it's really cool. You you don't think of someone saying, hey. I'm going off to LA to find Jesus. Right? Yeah. I mean, you always think, hey. You're running off to LA to kinda escape Jesus a little bit. So I don't I think it's kinda cool I mean, had

Jesus before, but but you kind of got went to a deeper level within there. I think I think that's kind neat in the context of of all that there is, you know, hanging out with Halloween Halloween. Halloween. We keep Halloween here. Sorry,

people who aren't me. On a different level than Mike and I. That's kind of cool that in the midst of that, you're in your apartment, you're singing this song and it's becoming real. I don't know. Think that's awesome. Yeah. Totally. Yeah. And I I you know, I they totally was. You're absolutely right. I totally took it deeper than than I'd, ever imagined because, like I said, you know, when you're a Christian, your your whole life, you do take it for granted. You know? You don't

don't really realize. You know? You know, you go to church every Sunday with your parents and and, you know, it's just the thing you do, you know, and it doesn't hit your heart. Yeah. Like, sometimes it does, you know, especially for new believers, you know, I think they, when they find God and they really understand, you know, what they've been missing out on, then it's such a bigger impact, you know, a lot of the time. You know? And I think we can take that for granted as Christians sometimes. But, and that's what, this worship night that we're doing on the October 23.

It's called the theme of it is going deeper. And so I that's exactly what I did in LA. You know? And I I didn't expect that because I went out, you know, pursuing you know, I I wanted to do composing Mhmm. Initially,

and and I did. And I, you know, I I composed for some independent films and did a bunch of projects, and I'm still a composer today. And I I just did the Service Legends commercial here in Des Moines. Sweet. One of them. But

but, yeah, God tugged at my heart, and I don't wanna do anything but serve him and and Yeah. Live my life for him because that seriously is the most fulfilling life there is. I mean, I he takes away all my fears. He he gives me life, you know, and abundantly, and and, I don't see any other way. So so tell us a little bit more about that, about the worship night. So you have the date. Like, what's, is it open to the public? Can anybody come? Absolutely. Yeah. Yeah. You know, it's it's

sponsored by our church, but, yeah. And this is the first time the church is doing anything like this. And so, you know, you can't buy tickets online, but you can, go to our Facebook page and message us if you want a ticket. We'll put your name on a list. For $5, they this door is open at 05:00, and they have a little dinner going on. From five to 06:15, we have some food there. And then from 06:15 to 07:15, they have the the worship night. So And the dinner is included with the $5? Absolutely. Yeah. You guys come up with little slabs of meat? Totally. So sure I'll go to you. Yes. Is mister Travolta I serve and prepare the meats and serve them prepare the mutate. Yes.

You know, something you said that that that actually got me to thinking a little bit was, like, where that like the situation in which that song was allowed to to to grow and make a difference. Right? Yeah. I'm like, you know how often I find myself and like, I feel like I just wanna get down on my knees and and and pray and and talk for a minute. And then I don't do it because I'm like, I don't know. Is all that really necessary right now? I mean Yeah. That seems a bit much. You know? But, like, the truth of matter, I've talked myself out of it way more times than I than I care to admit, where I wish I would have just done it because it it it was God grabbing and pulling. You know, like, I need to talk to you, son. I just I need to talk to you, and you need it more than I do. Come this way. And I'm like, you know, maybe I'll just maybe I'll just keep praying on my way out the door. Yeah. You know? I you know, I'll I'll get it. You know, we're we're tight. We're tight. You don't know, me and the Lord are we're good here. You know? And, like, it's it's it's abundantly necessary for you to do that. Like, I I I like, I I'm certain the Lord just yearns to speak with you in a way that you are open to,

not only speaking and hearing. And, like, I I did not prepare Pope style advice, but I'm gonna hit you with my short version of today based off what Aaron DeWitt is saying. But, like, I mean, don't pass that stuff up. That's the good stuff. You know what saying? That's So good. That's where it's at. That's that's where the stuff happens. You think that, like and and I'm I'm guilty of this too. Like, you think it's gonna happen because you decided you're gonna read the book of Job this week or you're hit your you know, because you're fairly faithful on hitting your bible reading before you go to bed or you always get the prayer in right when you wake up or you hit it at meals and you're like, these are the things that are that are solid and put me in the Lord's army like the bible study says. Like, I'm in. Yeah. And really, it's the down on your knees, hey, dad. Mhmm. Here's here's me today. Right. You know? And, like, that's where it's at. And all the other stuff is very helpful in getting you in that position. But, like, man, don't ignore that. Don't please don't ignore that. Like, that is where it is. And then if you can shed whatever whatever is blocking you, whether it's convenience or for me, it's generally pride and

inconvenience. You know what I'm saying? Of why I feel like I don't have time to do this right now. Mhmm. That's standing ten ten feet away from it, I look really foolish even to my own self. You know what I'm saying? I'm like, what an idiot. Man. So, yeah, I'm in complete agreement with with Aaron. Although, I've attempted to sing, like, really heartfelt worship songs during one of those, and, like, he doesn't fix that for you. Kinda ruins the movie, doesn't he? Yeah. I mean, I I always imagined that, like, if me and the Lord were just having this conversation that my voice would suddenly fix itself to me of a heavenly quality. It's like angels.

It's the same. It's the same. Yeah. It turns out that, like, crowders come as you are, not in my key range. Not in the one he's using. Yeah. Terrible. So, anyway, don't don't ignore that stuff. It's it is that's where it's at. That's where it comes from. That's that's where you're you're when he says, you know, my my my burden is light, he can't really take it from you if you don't give it to him. And, like, those are the times where you're doing that. Yeah. Absolutely. I taught a class tonight. We're talking about prayer, and we were talking about the real key of the whole thing of prayer

is the scripture where Jesus says to abide in me. You know, I am the branch, and you're the vine, and and abide in me. And we kinda talked about that a little bit, like like, it because it's then it it's after that context, he says, oh, and and whatever you ask in my name, you'll you'll you'll receive. Well, what are you gonna ask if you're inviting to him? You're gonna be asking his will. You're be asking you're you're connected with him. And that that is that's just key to every area of our lives is that connection. And and we get lazy with that, and and and we'll go through ups and downs in our spiritual life with that. But but that's the discipline that we really have to to endeavor to keep strong is that that strong connection with with with God. And it's it's you know, it's kinda crazy that that's coming full circle. Right? But, like, who knows that the bagels and the steak and cheese McMuffin are off the menu? The people are biting in the McDonald's where they belong. Yeah. And you're like, what's wrong? That's right. They are thinking the way that McDonald's thinks, and they know there's it's not a surprise to them that there's already cheese on the thing. You know? And see, that that's why oftentimes our our prayers are not answered is because we're not inviting in God. We don't know what's going on. We don't know what's in his heart and is at will. It's an emergency. All of a sudden, we have this request. Well, God, I need my leg fixed. Yeah. He's like, well, that's not really in the cards right now. I'm Yeah. I'm I've moved on to bacon. Yeah. God, I want the bagel sandwich. Well, son Yeah. You'd know that if you stopped in more often, don't have the bagel sandwich here. You're asking for the wrong thing.

Yeah. And the Lord's brought it full circle. The grouchy woman at the McDonald's knows more about Jesus than I do. Lessons from McDonald's. Actually, I was it's it's weird you said that I was reading in Jonah this morning. I was reading the story of Jonah this morning. And

And it was funny like I never get that from Jonah. You said Job? Wait, you're No, it's Jonah. Yes, okay. That's why. It's never Yes, really. If there's no humor in that, I don't know what there is, Dan. I mean, he could've been a pelican, but whales are still funny. But, like,

when the big storm is happening and Jonah starts to describe this thing, like, the people that weren't God's people had had the right reaction, a healthy fear of God, a right understanding of the circumstance is way better than the disobedient God man that was on the boat, jacking it up, causing the problem, one way from Jesus to begin with. And, like, sometimes it just is the deal that God uses people that don't or don't really belong to him. Yeah. But, like, they just nail it better than Christians do. Christians are still caught up in whatever it is, other framework that they've kinda perverted a little bit, and people on the outside are going, hey, man. You're just you you shouldn't you fear the Lord that you're talking about, though? Because, like, if he can do this, I feel like you should have a different reaction than what you're having. And, anyways, just interesting rereading that in the story of Jonah this morning. Mhmm. Hey. You're listening live from the Path. Thanks for hanging out with us so far tonight. We're talking with Aaron DeWitt. He's he's got a worship night coming up on the it was the twenty third. Right? Twenty third. Twenty third. That's $5 at the door. Get you some eats and some worship time. Can't beat either one of those. Either one of those are worth the $5, but they've combined them. Yeah. Mean, it's it's a package deal. Package deal? I don't wanna I don't wanna use the word fool lightly, but, I mean, it's a package deal. Raca. Yeah. I'm with you. Raca beans. Raca. I mean, come on. If there's food and worship combined, is it well, do you have any idea what's on the menu? No. I don't. Salmon. See, it doesn't even matter. It's salmon probably. It'll be well worth $5, though. Yeah. Don't take I mean, it's I mean, this is a fine oh, what are you gonna do? Wait. Where else are you gonna eat for $5? Yeah. You can't even get the steak McMuffin no more. No. That's true. You can't buy anything for $5 anymore. No. But, anyway, so people interested in tickets, is the easiest way to do it is you find a simple church on Facebook and then do the message. Is that the right way to do it? Yes. Is there more than one simple church in The United States? Well, you can go to our website and kinda decipher the logo, which is simple.church.

Super easy. So just That's the whole website? Yeah. How do you do that? Simple.church. Very carefully. Why don't you have why don't you dainty manner? We don't have our ways. The org or nothing? You can do nothing. There's now a .church. Well, I mean, we better get on it. Right? People be turn trying to take especially pathway.church.

People have there's all kinds of pathways about. Right? Yeah. Dan, you better get the a year or two ago. What about realmen.church? Hey. Speaking of real men Started it up. Hey. So if if you have if you haven't gotten a chance to check this out, Dan's firing up this this dude's podcast.

And the the initial one went through this last week, I think. Was it just last week? Yeah. Was just last week. And so, anyway, I had a chance to listen to it. And, like, here's the deal. Like, we we fool around with this on the show quite a bit, and sometimes we end up in the heavy handed slapping dudes around category, which actually where I feel most most comfortable.

But, like, there are some some, how do I want, substantive? Substitute. Substitute things

to to helping disciple dudes. Right? And, like, I I feel like that's exactly what Dan and and Mike are doing. And so, Dan, when did you say this thing's coming out? We're on Wednesdays. Wednesday, 10AM. And we'll guests and everything as well. So, yes, same type of thing. We're talking about guy issues and connected with the Real Men Ministries and the conference we have once a year, which it was a way to expand what we're doing there rather than make it one day

a year. It's it's something we can do every week and and keep the conversation going. So it's very much like what we're doing here, conversation, talking about Jesus, you know. And you can go you can catch that generally live at youtube.com/realmeniowa is where you can catch that. And then also the archive shows will be there, so you can dig on that. And I'm sure and the website,

just for the other content or for the conference and stuff is realmaniowa.org.org, I believe. I think I think it's .org. Realmaniowa.church should be done. Yeah. Done. It'll be hard. Cost you $5. For $5 to eat? Right. Now you're getting the eats, worship, and a website. That's right. Fabrics.

Salmonfillet.church. Okay. So anyway, that's that's make sure you check that out, and go go find Simple Church on Facebook or simple.church so you can pick out the logo so that when you go Facebook searching,

you can dig that up as you as you see fit. Let's see. What do have here, Mike? What what do we we got people that need some help? Yeah. Hold on. We're gonna get through this this white horse nine one one dispatcher first. Oh, hey. Hey. Just an update, Twitter update from a conversation we're having, maybe it was last week. We're talking about try had having to rename your significant other. Yeah. Like because Dan said when you you can't say boyfriend girlfriend when they're, like, 40 or 50, and it was a wrong thing. So it came up on the Twitter this week. It says we we can't do Bo because I was voting for He Bo and She Bo. Yeah. And Twitter says that

yeah. Twitter says that bo is specifically referring to a dude. And I said, aren't we past that? Isn't that isn't that the benefit of the ambiguous nature of language these days? Can if if people can say dude and not mean dude, can't I take hebo and shebo and let it do what I want? What are your thoughts, Mike? Transbo? Well, how do you say it?

That's what I'm saying. It's like like, I I it just seems archaic to have to be that specific about a gender. Yeah. Man, I you so I listened to I just wanna say evil. I I was listening to the show, and I had, like, 10 good ideas that I was really I mean, I was I was cursing you boys in my car. I'm like, these are what you should've used. And now I can't think of none of them. What did he what did he the the Twitter suggestion was love interest. And I thought, yeah, nothing feels nothing feels better than Mike. Sounds very sultry. Yeah. It's not doing relationship. It's got a love interest. Yeah. Damn. Yeah. It either sounds like guy behind binoculars or someone who's not committed. Yeah. I mean, I'm interested. Is that guy running for never mind. Likely. Shebo. Alright. Go go ahead, Mike. I'm sure we could discriminate against those guys too. Here we go. Dear live from the path. I am a nine one one dispatcher

with some hints for your for your listeners in case they need emergency services and must call 911. I'm a write these down so I can keep the card in my wallet. Go ahead. Please pay attention to where you are. The most important information we need is the address of your emergency. If you're on the highway, tell us the interstate and closest mile marker. Isn't that why we have E911? Right. It tells them. I mean, I take my Come and Go knows where I'm at. I got I've opened my phone and they're like, you're 15 miles away from a Come and Go. Come and Go could figure it out. The guys that are sending life saving ambulances can't seem to get there. That's a bunch of crap. Yeah. Yeah. It says, if you're on the highway, tell us the interstate and closest mile marker, which I don't pay any attention to, as well as your direction of travel. Many people assume that we can trace their number to their location. Bummer. While that may be true for landline phones, it's not for cell phones. Oh, really? Only the cell phone company can ping a phone. You would you think you'd be open open to that as a as an American? We just need an app. Yeah. Like, the apps do it. An app for that. Like you say, come and go. Target tells me when I'm 10 miles away. I mean, I open it $5 for it. Yeah. Hit the button. Everything's $5.

You open it up and you hit the button, and that's your agreement to share your location with the nine one one folk. Yeah. That seems pretty easy. I feel like $5, you weaseled to win. This is an emergency. Kidding. You're a terrible person. No. A vulture of a mind. He's a mean entrepreneur. Nine one one dot church. Someone's gonna pay for that food. Yeah. No. Totally. The salmon fillets aren't really $5. Yeah. Continued advice. It's it's windy. Here we go. Okay. I would also like to caution parents about letting their children play with a deactivated phone. If you want to let them play or practice, first remove the battery. Oh, yeah. That's real fun. Many calls we received come from the kids playing on a deactivated phone, we're and unable to call those numbers back to verify if there's a legit emergency. These calls also type emergency lines for people who have a genuine emergency. Now hold on a second. That doesn't make any sense because by that standard, she said you can't trace the cell phone. They're not really sending out an ambulance. They wouldn't know where to send it on a deactivated phone.

Agreed. I suppose it it's just that they're putting labor into trying to figure it out. Like, really an emergency? No. I mean, I I get that. That's a that's a legit thing. Right? But, like, I mean, I suppose if the kid's, like, 1.5, yeah, I'd probably pull the battery out. But, I mean, if your kid's five and you're like, here, play with this phone. I keep the phone around, actually, so they can dial 911 with it. Well, touche. I mean, not for teach them to Not for grins, but, like, I don't have a landline. They said they were having a lot of problems with kids these days because they'd hit 911, and then no one would hit send

because you gotta hit send. Oh, yeah. And then and then the the the call would not go through. So, like, they they had to change a bunch of posters and cards and stuff to be like, 911 send. Yeah. Oh, yeah. Yeah. It's tough to think about. Right? Yeah. That is tricky. Continued, Blabber. My last comment is this. If you dial 911 by accident, please tell the dispatcher that it was an accident. We never get angry if someone inadvertently dials us. Our job is to make sure the public is okay. If it was accidental, say so. Otherwise, we must call back to make sure there is not an emergency. Or are people just hanging up, is that the deal? Yes. Oops. Yes. Oops, sorry.

I think I did that once because I didn't know it went through. I thought I don't know how I hit 911, but I hit 911 and and it like, it rang once and, oh, that's back when I had a landline and they showed up. I'm like, oh. Oh. Sorry. Wasn't me. I've I've done this on this is the the fool the foolish mistake of corporate America. Right? But, like, you always have to dial 9 to get out onto

a a legit phone line. You know? I'm like, why would you do that? What if I mean, because I've dialed 911 more than once trying to get out on a line on a landline at at the workplace. Final advice. Those of us in this profession do this job not because we are getting rich. Here we go. But because we want to help people. We are the most important link in getting people the help they need, but we cannot do it without knowing where the emergency is. Thanks for getting the word out. Okay. I mean, there's some good points. I mean, at the time, there's nothing to disagree with here,

I guess. I I still got I I called the police once years ago, and and we just moved to Atlantic, Iowa. And I didn't know my roads very well, and we saw a cow on the road. And I thought, maybe someone should know. I don't know. What do you do what do you do when there's cow on the road? Yeah. Right. Yeah. So I called the police department. They're what road is it on? I'm like

Farmer Road. All the well, anyway, there's there's, like, only two main roads coming. I I gave them the wrong road. Right. Because I'm like, I thought I I thought I was right, but I really wasn't. I there was, like, two years later. I thought, wait a minute. That cow was over there. And and I was like so, anyway Set the police off in a small town chasing a cow that doesn't exist. I ran into Damn cute. Order. I was I was delivering something for work down in Southern Iowa, and it crossed right into Missouri. And as soon as I crossed into Missouri, here come this cow. Right? And he's standing right in the middle of the road. And he was there for, like, ten minutes, and I thought, I don't even know what the protocol is here. Right? Like, I'm in a company vehicle. You can't, like, start hooting and hollering and bumping the cow. So I inched up on him. You know what saying? Like, every every minute or so, I get up a little six inches. And I I ain't kidding you. I mean, my bumper was touching him. I was touching this cow, and he ain't moving for nobody. He's got stuff to do in the middle of that road that you don't even understand.

And so there I sat for an hour waiting for this cow to move. I mean, when we get out, push him. You know what mean? He kinda does what he wants. That's awesome. You gotta go spank him. It was even funnier because I was driving a cat truck, and so a cow was stopping a cat from moving. And it was it I should have taken a picture of it. There were some poetic symbols. Okay. That's that's it for the for the nine one one thing. Yeah. Yeah. Okay. I mean, I I mean, I get it. It's I I hope if everybody in every occupation felt the need to, like, tell you about their business all the time. Yeah. Let me tell you why why my job's great, and you don't understand me for the greatness I am. I know exactly what's on the McDonald's McMuffins. And there's already cheese on there. There are people coming in with the wrong stuff. Why can't they just know what's on the menu? McDonald's just gives you get a sign that says, abide in me. Abide here, so you may understand where the cheese is.

Alright. Here we go. Let's see. Dear uh-oh.

What the heck, Mike? Sorry. You got one job. Sorry. Dear life from the past. I have been we have been learning about genetics in my biology class and how you have to get two recessive genes from your parents to have the recessive trait like red hair. Mhmm. I thought it was cool, so I tried to figure out which traits I got from my parents. Now I'm freaked out because there were several traits I've I have that I could have not gotten from them. At least one of my parents must have been must have been someone else. I asked my teacher without being specific, and she said I was right. Jeez.

Now I don't know what to do. I wonder if I came from an affair that maybe my dad doesn't know about. I I would've I would hope. That your mom probably knows. Bummer. Do you think I should ask? Learn too much. Well, sure.

Yeah. I mean I mean, this could become important later in your life. Right? Like, there's genetic heart disease. Is there I mean. Exactly. Right? This is stuff for you to know. I mean, if bone cancer run-in your family or something, yeah. Yeah. I mean, you probably wanna know that stuff. It's gonna be awkward, though, definitely. Yeah. Yeah. I mean, how did did we have any idea how old they are? I'm assuming he's in biology class, and he's fairly naive.

So, like, high school. Right? Junior high, high school? Yeah. Okay. Alright. Yeah. Yeah. I I'd bring it up. I okay, Mike. So what what's that conversation look like? Hey, Ma. I've been learning about recessive genes, and I feel like

I did not come from my dad. Yeah. Ma, I have I have blue eyes. Y'all don't have blue eyes. That's not possible. So is there something you wanna tell me? Yeah. Out with it. And then she'll cry, and you'll be like, man, disaster. Let's wait till tomorrow, and then you tell me tomorrow. Yeah. That's alright. That covers the whole awkward, but Gotta ask. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I mean, it's Yeah. It's gotta happen. Yeah. I think it's gotta happen. You know what? And probably, if if that really is the deal, your mom been looking to get out of that jail forever. Oh, yeah. Saying? That just gotta eat away at people. Ugh. Come on. Free your mom. I mean, it's easy for me to say I don't think that would affect my life at all, but yet,

you know, because I'm not been in that situation. I'm thinking I mean, how how I was born has nothing to do with it. I mean, I'm just like, I am who I am. Right? So Yeah. Right. Right. That That doesn't suddenly change me as a human being. Yeah. Right. You're not a different person, really. Like, I I get how people get get to that mindset, but, like, in in all reality, that knowledge one way or the other, it was true. It was true already. Right? It was already true. Whatever you just learned is part of what made you who you are today. Mhmm. So your identity remains unchanged. Yeah. God might be setting you up for forgiveness to learn about it. Yeah. The truth. Yeah. So the question was, do you think I should ask? Answer. Secular says, yeah. I do. But the people you should talk to are your parents to get the full history on family traits of relatives from other generations you may not know about. I actually got a little noble on that thing, but, like, here's I mean, here what would that actually affect? It's like, let's say that maybe it doesn't change the way that you look at your mom and dad. The situation's been explained. Right? But, like,

so your actual father turns out to have a family, and now you got brothers and sisters that you need to meet. And that that really does open up like, things really do would would change significantly if anybody was interested in getting to know you. You know, what if they're back down on their luck? What if that whole side of family is just in the real straights? You know? And, like, not saying that, like, you you don't get involved because of that, but, like, stuff you didn't see coming. You know, like, like, not only did did you find out this thing was true, but it opens up an entire another world of of people for you to get to know. And they may bring quite a bit of burdens or quite a bit of joy. You just you just don't know. Right? You could be the Joseph in Egypt whose job is to bring your family out of famine. Truth. That's a recessive trait.

Okay. Ready? Yep. Dear life from the path. My husband of twenty six years passed away unexpectedly at age 46. This was two and a half years ago. I have not yet started dating. However, I finally feel like I'd like to. I have an old friend from high school whom I'm have never dated, but I would like to explore the possibility. He lives in another town and we occasionally message on Facebook.

I need to pick up some papers from a former doctor of mine in that town and I would like to see my friend. Should I ask him to meet me for coffee? Is that what, quote, buddies do? Or should I ask him to meet me for a beer? What? Would that let him know I want to sort of have a date? What do I say? I'm amazed you got married in the first place, this coffee. Is this your game? You know what I'm saying? Like, when you were out on the dating scene, this is how you got people. You know what I'm saying? This is how you mingle with the opposite sex. I think she's overthinking it. Yeah. Yeah. Disaster. Just, you know, get together with whatever and see what happens. Coffee is a good idea. Yeah. Coffee. Dear buddy, what do you drink? I'll meet you for that. Yeah. I mean, we could go that route. Coffee and ketchup. Not the not the not the condiment kind. Oh. We're just catching up. Yeah. I hope you're into puns.

What? No. That was pretty bad. Yeah. You like that? She's she's not gonna get ahold of this man acting that way. That's terrible advice. Yeah. Yeah. Hey. Hey. I was thinking about, I'd like to get together with you. Coffee, beer, what are your thoughts? There you go. Just throw them both out there. What do you care? Nice. Yeah. I mean, worst the worst they're gonna I mean, they're gonna say no to either one. Right? If they're not interested in dating you, the answer is gonna be no either way. I don't drink coffee, and I I don't drink beer either. Yeah. So Vitamin water, please. Yeah. So no. I'm not gonna offer any beverage alternatives. We're out. Yeah. Yeah. If you'd like to go out for a water, though, I'd I'd be in. 46 years old? I dated 46 two and half years ago. She's almost 50. I mean, here's the thing. I wouldn't know how to date anybody. Yeah. I mean I mean and maybe I'm too early in my marriage. I'm only, you know, ten, eleven years into this thing, but, like, I just can't imagine doing it. I you know what I'm saying? Like, that that I that woman is me, and I you know, I can't if if she died or something,

I'm just I'm not interested. I'm just Nobody else would put up with me. It'd be I mean Yeah. You know, there's just stuff. And maybe that changes. Right? But, like, I I don't know. I'm just not interested in it at all. I I can't even think about it. I mean, I I I always think about, like well, every time I you put it into simple terms, I'm like, where do we where's the rice? The woman's like, third drawer down the bottom, blah blah blah. I'm like, what if a new woman come in here and don't know where the rice is? You know? We can starve. Not only do I not know where it is, but she don't know where it is. Now we can't find the rice. And now I'm taking on the responsibility of knowing where it is. And she could come in and fold the clothes different. Different. And, like, every decision we've made that gets it down to Mike and Jara are this. And she's gonna I I I don't know how you don't, like, disdain the new person. And and and once again, I have not walked through this. And I'm not saying it's not holy or wrong. That's not what I'm saying. But I'm saying, like, you know, when they they wanna use Tide, I'm like, we don't use Tide. We've never used Tide. We use the biz. You know? Or we make our own, you know, like, how dare you? Or, you know, like, it just seems like everything you'd have to do everything all over here. All the fresh stuff. I don't like that sheet. Well, me and Jared picked out those sheets, and they're staying on the back. And we've had them for years, and we're not getting rid of them. It'd just be a terrible I you know, there's probably is wisdom in that, like, knowing that about yourself ahead of time that you don't put someone else in that. Like, you know if you have to know that you can't be married to somebody else Yeah. Even if there's I mean, there will be parts of you that will,

you know, seek that type of connection with somebody. But, like, if you know you can't leave that behind, you just you gotta do that person the right way and just not agree to be in a relationship like that. Yeah. I think so. I think that's a no for me. Okay. Here's secular's advice. Approach it this way. This will be classic. Call or message him that you plan to be in town to collect some documents

and ask if he'd, quote, like to get together and catch up. To wit for the win. That's right. Okay. Wait, how was it spelled? That was me, though. It's spelled the Oxford correctly. Continued advice, that can hardly be considered aggressive. If he's interested, he can then ask you if you'd like to meet for coffee or beer or even go all

out and share a meal together. Yeah. I guess. Yeah. Okay. I mean, put two thoughts together, man. I don't think it's necessary to say you're in to collect documents. That seems an Yeah. Unnecessary detail. I'll be in town. Yeah. I'll be in town. What are you doing here? The word document is just overly formal for what you're going for. You know? Like,

hey. I'm picking up documents. Can we hang out? Yeah. That's a bit much. You could just say, hey. You may hang out. Yeah. Yeah. That's that's like a euphem the people who say documents is euphemism for prescription for diarrhea pills or something like that. I gotta go pick up my documents. I got some documentation in town I need to to pick up. Jeez. That's ultra fishy too because, like, you've you've left it completely vague because even if it was legit documents, I'd like, what are you getting sued? Or, you know Yeah. Yeah. What Yeah. What situation has occurred that has a paper trail that you don't wanna fill me in on that you can't pass in casual conversation? Yeah. You're just in town. Yeah. That's the right answer.

Alright. Here we go. Dear life from the path. I recently went grocery shopping with my friend, quotes April. She decided she wanted some ice cream. So she grabbed a box of ice cream bars. She then proceeded to open the box right there in the aisle and eat one of them while we continue to shop. Excellent. When we got to the checkout, she paid for the ice cream. Uh-huh. I didn't say anything at the time because I didn't want to start an argument, but I feel that what she did was not okay. What are your thoughts on this? What what do they sell it by weight? Because, I mean, if if they sell it by the box and she paid for the box, I don't know what the argument is. Yeah. So with this type of rationale, you're the type of person that gets to a stop sign and stays there forever because you're not assuming it's time to go. I mean, I I I maybe it feels a little awkward, but, like, yeah, they don't like, I know people that do that with the grapes, and I'm like, hey, man. They weigh that stuff. Yeah. That's actually That's theft. Yeah. Oh, yeah. Right? But, like, you buy a gallon of milk and wanna pop it open and chug half of it before you get it over there, I don't care. That seems reasonable. You're buying the plastic container. And if there's only half in there because you got rid of the other half Yeah. And you're still paying for the whole, everything's fine. Yeah. Right. It's theft when you don't pay for it. Yeah. Right. Like, that's the point of time where it becomes theft. If once you leave the store and have not bought it, then I think you have a problem. But if you are still in the store and you shell over the money, whether you consume it before you get there or not, I don't know what they care. Yeah. Now it technically isn't yours yet, though. So I mean, that's kind of the You are taking a loan, I suppose. Yeah. You're you're taking a and and and and the the store can't necessarily collect interest from you. But I would assume with the mass amount of money I put through your store, you're willing to grace me three minutes while I eat this Hey. Writing a check isn't an instant transaction either.

Right? Like That's true. Yeah. So I mean but by that, I mean, I'm just saying we we have a general agreement as a society that, like, proximity, check, debit, things like this are promises that we're all agreed to. That's kinda why nobody takes checks anymore. No. That's true. It's been proven a poor system. Yeah.

Yeah. Solid. Where where was I at? Hold on. Someone oh, yeah. I won a government auction for something. And and they

they would only take a cashier's check Yeah. Or a money order. And I thought, what? Like, I can't I can't pay a fee to use the debit because I'll do it. Like, if you if you pay you said it was something outrageous, like, bucks to use a debit. I'll, like, is it worth $6 my time to hunt down a cashier's check somewhere? No. It is not. I will pay your outrageous debit fee that you're filtering me over. And they still they don't offer it. Yeah. I had to go or you had to pay exact you had to pay exact change. So what I had to do was take money out of the ATM and then go to the Walgreens and buy crap to get me down so I had enough change to give exact dollars to this person because it was, like, something in, you know, 38¢ or something. And so I'd you know, I bought something I didn't want from the Walgreens so that I could have the pennies I needed to buy this thing from the government. Well, you stewarded your money poorly. You should have bought something you did want. I I I couldn't find anything I wanted for that price. You found nothing in the Walgreens that you wanted? Soda was another 40¢. I don't remember where I ended up buying. Gum or no. I oh, I bought a can of soda. That's what I did. One of the tallboy cans. I've actually been accused of this type of theft before at a store because I brought my soda in with me.

And so I had not yet to purchase one, but I had one in the car. And I'm like, well, if I leave it in here, it's gonna get all hot and stuff. You know what? I'll take it with me and drink it while I'm tooting about. It's not super cold in the Walgreens. Well, it's it's it's not it's it's warmer in the car, Ben. Yeah. It's my story. I I mean Let me tell part of it. It. You don't know how to do it. Please don't interrupt my soda story. So anyhow, there's a confrontation. A man comes up and says, you didn't pay for that soda. I said, yeah. I did. I said, I just didn't pay for it here. And he says, well, you know, you can't drink soda until you pay for it. I said, did pay for it. I said, don't you I mean, did the barcodes get entered in different stores, you know, so you can, like, scan it and go, hey. The same from here? He goes, I'm not sure. And I said, well, I watched your accusatory tone. You know, like, I brought it in with me. Check the tape or whatever you gotta do. You know? So, eventually, he dropped it. He kinda went away befuddled. Like, I maybe he'd stock shelves normally and thought this was his chance to get up the corporate ladder at the grocery store by roasting me about this soda I brought in. This is this is my glory. I mean, to be honest, I I was willing to pay for, you know, the the same soda twice if it would get him to calm down a little. But, anyway, it wasn't a great story. Here we go. Seculars I've never stolen anything myself. Go ahead, Mike. Secular's answer. Secular says, as long as your friend paid for the ice cream, I see nothing wrong with what she did. What I would find upsetting is if she had eaten something, discarded the wrapper, and then, quotes, forgot to inform the checker because that would be theft. Yeah. So if she's I would be upset if she stole something. Okay. Yeah. Seems right. Yeah. Yeah. Okay. That's fine. Alright. Alright. You got time for one more? Yeah. Let's do one more. Alright. Dear life from the path, my husband and I are going on a seven night cruise. Yeah. Big spender. Nice. There will be a formal and a semi formal night on the ship. I really want to go, but my husband says it's his vacation too, and he doesn't wanna dress up. Speak the truth, brother. Would it be okay for me to go without him? Oh, come on. Wait. To wait. On the vacation or to the formal night? I don't know. We haven't got through it. Okay. If not, what could he wear that is not a suit and tie but will be acceptable? Just so you know, he said if he has to go, it will be in a Tux T shirt and his Disney top hat. What a jerk. Totally.

On a seven day cruise, he's he's not willing to give his wife a couple hours of of joy. I mean, to be honest, she married a man. He if he owns the T shirt tux and the Disney hat already, I mean, did you expect much difference? Now if he has to buy it on purpose there. You know? Now if he's doing it just for spite, then we you know, I feel like we we need to have a conversation with the man. But if he currently owns this shirt and the hat as if it's part of his everyday apparel, I mean, did you expect this was gonna go differently? Yeah. Right. I wonder what he does for a job if he has to dress up super formal every day and he wants to get out of that and take a vacation from that or what? I I think he just doesn't do the formal. Yeah. That's how I get it. Sometimes it's nice to dress up, though. Yeah. Play play grown up and treat your wife and No. It's very uncomfortable. Cruise. I don't feel that way at all at all. You like dressing up? Not in the least. It makes me very uncomfortable.

Like, change always falls out of my pocket. And, like, my my shirts are always grabbing onto my skin, and I'm like, this is terrible. I I wish I had a t shirt and jeans on right now, and then I would feel socially fine. You you need a tailor to to have properly fitting clothes, and you'd love it. Well, not everyone's a monopoly man like you, Dan. You know what saying? We're a budget here. Well, you know. We're trying to find the rice at our house. So,

realistically, our advice to the man is, like, you you're gonna do this thing. Yeah. The man should do it. I'd I say think it's okay for the wife to go without him if he absolutely refuses. It just would be very disappointing if that's how to do it. Mhmm. Yeah. You definitely don't do the Disney hat or whatever. That's that's a bit much. Yeah. Yeah. You know? I mean, yeah, that's the end of the life. Face a little bit. Secular says, hey. Wait. If I were the wife, I'd get my picture taken with the Gaucho as if he was my date. Absolutely. Yeah. That yeah. Okay.

Segler says for a while. You and your husband are not joined at the hip. If he prefers not to attend certain events during the cruise, that should be his privilege. However, it's your vacation too, and you should have the option to observe the dress code and enjoy those evenings if you wish. If a coat and tie required on the cruise you chose, you both might be happier if you select a more casual ship next time because some are less formal than others. Yeah. That's true. Do you have to go on this hoity toity cruise? Can you go on one with just regular folk on it? Yeah. I mean, like you you can choose not to participate in the formal night. I think that's what he's attempting to do. Yeah. They have multiple dining rooms. I mean Yeah. How formal are we talking? Can we do, like, a khakis and a button a button shirt? My guess is that they're probably they probably don't well, depends. Sure they don't enforce it. But wait. Get out of here. I've heard they don't. I mean, what are they gonna I mean, how far off the ship can they push you? You know what I'm saying? Like, all the way to the rail? Like Like this is where the hobos stand to clean yourself up. Yeah. I would insist. I would lurk Yeah. Like, right outside the door in my in my not quite formal outfit Yeah. Until they let me in. Alright.

Yeah. No. I think that works. No. Solid advice. The guy should just do it. Yeah. He should just do it. Here's the deal. You you your wife will appreciate the gesture even if you hate it. Like, that in fact, that actually reinforces the gesture. You should do it. Alright. You're listening live from the Pathway. Thanks for hanging around with us so far tonight. I tell you what, we got what Aaron's got one more tune. Aaron, what's, what's the next tune you're gonna do? No longer a slave.

So what's the what I don't know. What what what how does this one hit you? Well, you know, just, kinda like what every you know, everything we've been talking about tonight. You know, a lot of the questions people have, there's just so there's fear involved in it. You know? I guess, you know, you can sum it up to questions or fear, but but, you know, it's a you know, I think when we don't you know, an answer to a lot of those is just trust in the Lord, you know, and and listen to your heart. And, you know, if you're you know, what does the Bible say about certain

things? You know? Does it say listen to your husband or you know? But, you know, fear has just drowning this country, I think. And, you know, we just need to get back to trusting God. And and, you know, when that happens, it's just the freedom that we get from that. And, that's just been a a really big, impact on my life. It's just the freedom from fear. And and, you know, this was just another song, you know, in LA when I was in my apartment, you know, going through these

songs and falling in love with worship. You know? It's, you know, no longer a slave to fear. I'm a child of God. You know? He I am in his hands. You know what I mean? And, and that's where the best place is to be for for me and for everyone if they can just take that step. You know? But,

yeah. And that's why I think worship is so important because it teaches us these things. It helps us to proclaim them to God and and really learn about it. So Awesome. Alright. Well, this is, Aaron Duitt with, No Longer Slave. You're listening to Live From The Path. You unravel me

with a melody. You surround me with a song

of deliverance from my enemy till all my fears

are gone. I'm no longer a slave to fear.

I am a child of God. I'm

no longer a slave to fear. Yes. I am

a child of God. And from my mother's womb, you have chosen me.

Love has called my name. And I've been born again

into a family. Your blood flows through my veins. And I'm no longer

slave to fear. Yes. I am a child

of God. I'm no longer a slave to fear.

Yes. I am a child God. Lord, I'm no longer

a slave to fear. Yes. I am a child I

am a child of God. You split the sea so I can walk

right through it. My fears are drowned in perfect love. And you child

of God. And I'm no longer a slave to fear.

Yes. I am a child of God. Lord, I'm no longer

a slave to fear. Yes. I am a child

of God. That was Aaron DeWitt from Simple Church. Hey, man. I love that song. I do too. Yeah. That's a solid tune. Hey. So, Aaron, a big thanks for coming in to the show tonight. We appreciate you sharing your tunes. Make sure go to simple.church for more information about Simple Church. And the worship night's on the twenty third. That's $5. It'll get you some eats and some worship time.

And again, it's it's not limited to whether you go to that church or not. So, like, it's just God's people getting together and singing, having a good time, and eating. And that's a bonus. Absolutely. And Aaron will be there. He'd love to see you out. Make sure you say hi and say I heard it on Life in the Path. But let him know that you're coming, though. Go go to that find Simple Church on Facebook and just shoot him a message and let him know that you're gonna be there. Right? Absolutely. Okay. Sweet. In the meantime, next week, we have Jeff Arendelle and and the band are gonna be on the show. And Eisenhower's back in. Haven't seen Eisenhower in a long time. Nope. Bob's coming in. Okay. Sweet. So we're gonna be packed house next week, and that'll be exciting. If you have any questions or anything you wanna add, let us know. Shoot us an email, [email protected].

Otherwise, you can check out the website during the week for past clips of the show, including from Aaron Dwitt. And also oh, hey. I saw that the Light forty five fellows are getting ready to shoot that their music video for the maze. No kidding. Yeah. I'd like to be in there. Yeah. I know. I I don't think it'll be in town, think we we're out. Well, how selfish? Okay. Alright. Anyway but you can check out the clips from those fellows. There's all kinds of good good stuff sitting out there on the website. In the meantime, hey, please be faithful in the means. God will handle the ends. You've been listening to Live From The Path.