EP: 23 "Michael Jordan”

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Howdy, and welcome to episode 23 of Hello Fairview, your local podcast made right here

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in Fairview for people in Fairview and the surrounding areas. This is a weekly show released

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every Wednesday featuring stories to aim to inform and inspire. Local radio stations and

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newspapers don't exist in small towns like ours, so we'll use Hello Fairview to fill that void

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related to news related to Fairview. This is a value for value podcast, which means you contribute

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what you can based on the value you receive. This concept was founded by the podfather himself,

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Adam Curry, and his co-host John C. Dvorak of the No Agenda Show over 18 years ago.

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Currently, this is just a one-man operation, so if you have any ideas, events, business opportunities,

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job openings, please don't hesitate to let me know and use the contact form on the website,

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and we'll work to get the updates out to the next episode. You are a producer of this show,

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you are not the product because your time and attention are not being sold to advertisers for

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their value. Some shows will be shorter, some will be longer. It just, uh, you've always trying

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to keep things relevant. Traffic time. Well, well, it's normal busy again. Uh, you can wait three to

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five minutes and sometimes you can double that, uh, depending on some of the construction stuff

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going on around the intersection. Uh, when you make a turn on old Cox, uh, on 100 or at the rec

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center, uh, and at, um, Cumberland, the size of the roads are still crowded from tree to breeze.

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we still haven't seen any exact timelines from the county or city yet when pickup will be

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um cumberland and 100 sidewalk has had a big upgrade last week with straw waddles

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yeah i had to look that up which are those straw looking tubes uh with little posts holding them

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down all up and down the road from cumberland to walmart and then all the way from there to

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the rec center they also installed some drainage culverts on the road widening area near the

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intersection, but they still have more Legos to install there. Once those drains are done,

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we might see more grading work around that intersection and the road service might actually

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start beginning to appear to have that turn lane into the schools. There's also been lane closures

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that have caught some serious backups on Monday, even when school was out. So it will have to get

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a little worse before it gets better, before they wrap up some of that phase, especially

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those road closures. Red light update, we still got three. Old Cox Publix and Walmart,

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we'll eventually get one at City Center entrance and at that Cumberland 100

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expansion and intersection upgrade. It'll be interesting to see how those help or hurt

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the city. City Center, they're still digging around over there. It appears they were doing

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some utility work from the edge of the road after they did all that other kind of grading work and

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putting the mulch and all that. So hopefully something cool will start happening soon,

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but there's still a giant pile of dirt in the back. So until that's gone, it'll be a while.

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We're growing. Well, uh, things are kind of rolling back to normal a little bit. Uh,

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the state of emergency still continues. They updated that on February 17th this week,

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um, as they are coordinating the recovery efforts for the ISO storm. Therefore they

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extended the proclamation. I'm guessing they did this based on the last meeting from the

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Board of Commissioners, where they, Williamson County Emergency Management was talking about

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that there's federal and state money that would be coming if the proper declarations were made.

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And I'm guessing this is to spread things out to make sure they will get reimbursed for the things.

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But it also seems the city may have to pay some in that. We talked about that last time where it

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was 75% from the federal government, 25% or 12.5% from the city of state and 12.5%

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from the city. So I'm not sure we might hear details tonight from the Board of Commissioners

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meeting. Bowie Park is still closed and it may be going for a while given the number of disrupted

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trees. They had a post this week showing some of those downed trees. But probably the biggest news

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of we're growing is Ascension St. Thomas and Dixon Medical Associates are planning to build a new

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medical campus here in Fairview. Fairview's first ever 24-7 freestanding emergency department will

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be located within our town limits here. Operated by Ascension, it will provide hospital-like

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emergency level emergency care as close as possible, even when that minute matters. This

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is co-located with the Dixon Medical Associates' new outpatient facility. Our services will be part

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of a unified patient there, and I put their press release on here. This new development will be

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located at the intersection of Fairview Boulevard and Audubon Cove, which after looking at that,

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It looks like it's going to be the property to the left of that entrance.

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If you're looking at it from volunteer pools, you can definitely see that.

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I pulled some of the property records, put that in there.

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It looks like our outage map for Middle Tennessee Electric can finally be removed because it

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looks like we're finally back into that.

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I know we had a power outage for a couple hours this weekend, but I'm sure it was just

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one random thing.

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there's still potholes being filled um this week and into there so be be on the lookout there they

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haven't sent a new update but i've seen them out there from tdot so pay attention to that um the

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fairview development code meeting is one of them is tonight and then another one on march 5th we'll

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have to see how that goes houses uh homes for sale it went up from uh 213 last week to 220

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and still the highest, $3.495 million for 70 acres and $240,000 priced even more reduced from $250,000.

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So it's went down $10,000 over the past couple months since we started tracking that.

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And that's for a no acres, two bed, one bath townhome.

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Town meeting updates.

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Well, there's been no new meeting since the last update.

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We covered the planning commission meeting on 2-10-14.

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but tonight there is a board of commissioners meeting and basically when we look at that agenda

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we can see basically just kind of the normal meetings and approving the minutes from the

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board of commission work session and regular session and then we see a board of resolution

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authorizing the installation of stop signs related to traffic control at the intersection of cleveland

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and horn tavern this is commissioner buffalini based on all the people speeding and things going

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on there there's another one that's talking about the signage uh for the city welcome signs

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and then a another one a new plan to uh i guess update the resolution for the ada transition uh

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plan so there must be some stuff there there's not really anything in that note from it uh there's

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another one talking about uh talking about the zoning map and the development code uh and basically

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I guess approving that officially with the 2026-02. Another ordinance rezoning 5.38 acres

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from RS-40 to R-20. So stuff more houses into place. Then we see some discussions from

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Commissioner Buffalini on some administrative communications, city correspondence to departments,

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the citywide emergency response plan. I hope a huge topic of this one will be the buoy park

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closure and like we got to get this thing open. I made some posts on the Fairview City page and the

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Buoy Park page and got kind of nothing. Mr. Dodoro reached out and replied on there that there's not

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been any plans and he's part of the Parks and Landscape Board so I don't know how much longer

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it's going to be closed. It makes me feel like all they're doing is waiting for federal money.

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I know they want to be safe because there's lots of hanging trees in there but we'll see that.

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there's also a work session for the tpudc stuff and then another one in a couple weeks too so i

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still have those notes in there with the latest 0126 version of the draft zoning map and codes

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next town meetings basically uh planning commission is march 10th board of commissioners

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is tonight and march 5th board of commissioners town hall is april 30th parks and landscape board

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is March 2nd at 7 p.m. Development code meeting is February 19th tonight. And March 11th is our

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next around town coffee with no location yet on there, which is normal. The state of Tennessee.

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Well, I think property taxes are going wild. And we're seeing a ton of that in the news. We have

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even put it in here on Fox 17 of a business owner talking about how his went from $129,000 last year

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to $600,000. And, you know, Nashville reported a 34% increase in 2020, and now another 26%

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increase in 2025. And Mount Juliet has 164% increase since last year, and they wanted 400%.

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The problem that most people are having is, is this not just the tax that's going up,

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it's the assessed value. And that's how you go from, you know, 129,000 as a business owner

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downtown to 600,000 within one year because the value of the property. So Williamson County

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is $1.30 or 1.3 between the city limits and Fairview. So it's the same there. And, you know,

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I put a chart in there that, you know, I mean, Fairview has the highest property taxes in the

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county of any city. So I don't know for better or for worse, we'll see that. Despite the constant

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uproar, Republican lawmakers have moved legislation that could punish local governments for not

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enforcing federal immigration law and require schools to make a head count of students without

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legal documentation on House Bill 1711. The Ten Commandments might finally come back to school.

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will posted public schools under legislation passed by the Tennessee House, and that was House Bill 47.

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So we'll see that. The bills, well, they're definitely busy again. There's a couple things

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here on the 19th, the Education and Health Subcommittee, which includes the Board of

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Cosmetology, Home Inspectors, Ophthalmology, Chiropractors, Nurses, and even Scrap Metal

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Registration Program. Wow, what a spread. I would love to go to one of these meetings one time

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because we never hear anything on these on the news because I guess they're not exciting,

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but we know things are happening and things like this are changing our state for better

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or for worse.

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And we don't even know.

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The last meeting on the 19th also has a pile of things related from 10 care and a prevailing

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wage commission.

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And then on the 23rd next week, there's an update on the state pension plan, which is

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real interesting.

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I posted that because basically it has references to two bills. One of them was SB2192 and House

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Bill 2117. And you know, it says increase employer contribution under the hybrid retirement plan by

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$29,127 or $197. So I pulled up that bill and it has no summary, no fiscal notes, nothing. The

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only thing it says is as introduced the employer contribution under this hybrid retirement plan

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from 5% to 10% current members of the General Assembly who have 10 years credentials in service

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after July 1 of 2026. So it looks like they're going to increase their contribution by $29,197

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for everybody who has been in the Assembly for 10 years and double the contribution from 5% to 10%.

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so uh i guess that's cool for them how's the hill well it's definitely passable it's definitely

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almost back to normal minus some stuff on the side road still getting there there's still trees

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down and stuff near the road especially as everyone's waiting for someone to come chip the

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stuff up from the city and the county i've seen some stuff actually get picked up but we'll see

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but the weather guessers are guessing uh highs from 33 to 73 over the next week and lows from

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19 to 48 with some rain possible on Wednesday and Thursday. Businesses, nothing new spotted.

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Ace Hardware is getting a lot closer. That parking lot is completely full. It looks like

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they're actually getting on the interior. They're getting it finished dried in, so we'll see that.

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And other than that, there's the same two properties for sale on Dragstrip Road and

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La Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah. And we saw that other piece of property being sold. We're still

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waiting to hear what it is across from City Center the new development and the dentist over there Farmer Market Make sure you head to the Farmer Market every Saturday morning 8 a to 12 p

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at Messick Chiropractic in Fairview Fresh Deli Donuts, located across the road from Publix.

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There are so many good places to get breads, treats, local beef, pork, fruits, vegetables,

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along with hot sauce, fishing lures, and all kinds of other things.

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Our local business highlight this week for Brick and Mortar is Lala's Dance Studio.

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This is one of our local dance studios in the first hour town.

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I've seen them in parades and events and donations and on the boards at some of the ball fields with their banners and all that.

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And I see them having recitals and competitions on the regular, which is definitely what you want on as a dance parent.

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And registration has already been opened and they offer pre-K to 12th grade combo classes.

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Classes have already started and you can reach out to them.

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We put their Facebook and their Instagram on there if you need to get in touch with them.

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to get started job openings well uh we're still at 40 from 31 from the past two weeks so it's

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basically but it seems like it's been stabilized we haven't seen the number shrink we haven't seen

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the number grow but basically you still got a police officer position uh every service industry

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business here every shopping retail almost each every gas station not every parts store

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other than just O'Reilly's has job openings right now from McDonald's to Domino's to Dollar Tree and

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General the Boys and Girls Club Subway Hardee's Destination Pet LLC SPEG still need some assemblers

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so if you have any other job openings make sure you want it read weekly just use the contact form

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on the website and we'll add it to the list because right now we're just adding these from

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Indeed and we're putting the location Fairview only so there's not that there history nugget well

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this is episode 23 and uh you know i figured i had to do this for michael jordan his name is

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definitely synonymous with the number 23 uh which he chose in high school as roughly half of his

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brother's number 45 he wore 23 throughout his college and most of his nba career except for

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a brief moment in 1995 when he wore the 45 in honor of his father and significantly new beginning

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in one game in 1990 when he wore number 12 because of the stolen jersey um so yeah i think it's real

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funny i never really knew the story of the 23 but basically he was better than his brother larry who

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won 45 and so he did that and uh then i thought it was it's uh it's interesting and then this also

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became the reason why we used him on our history nugget and the show number and the title and stuff

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is because the Daytona 500 was this weekend between shows.

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And he definitely inherited the racing bug from his father

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who packed everyone into the car in North Carolina

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on a handful of tracks every year.

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And it was part of the Jordan family vacations.

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So decades later, now he's a Daytona 5 winner

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with Tyler Reddick, was presented the trophy.

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Reddick was paused in the Basketball Hall of Fame five times.

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and now his 2311 racing team, a stream of well wishes there.

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And I mean, if you haven't paid attention,

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there was also a lot of controversy between the 2311 and front road motorsports

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between NASCAR right before this.

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So this is all the dust settled and definitely kind of icing on the cake there for him.

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This lawsuit, you know, consumed more than two years of their time.

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And this was the ninth trial where, you know,

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NASCAR relented and settled for the top motorsports series.

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before it went any further.

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So it was good that that was wrapped up

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and even better for them to win.

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And it was a great race.

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As always, Daytona 500 is wild.

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And my boy Cletus McFarlane did a good job in ARCA.

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He might've done a little bit of lawn mowing

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in the Craftsman Truck Series,

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but it's only his first couple of races there as a whole.

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And I think it's doing great.

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And it's great for the sport.

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Upcoming events.

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Recap.

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Well, you know, the Fairview Middle School boys basketball team had a lot of support going and coming back from the tournament out in Gatlinburg.

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And there was a lot of people there, too.

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And it looked really good.

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And so we can see that, you know, we've got like the CPA concert and a couple other things are coming up in this thing.

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We got some soccer matches.

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We got wrestling state matches this weekend on the 22nd.

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The winter book sale is February 26th through 28th.

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Um, and the April 28th is the Fairview Titans junior pro first annual four man golf scramble.

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Um, March 28th is our Easter egg hunt and base second is the arts and crafts fair at

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to move that or cancel it or something.

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It is election season.

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Uh, so make sure you're paying attention to that when it comes to early voting, uh, April

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15th through 30th, July 17th through August 1st, and then October 14th and 29th. That's basically

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our county primary, our state and county general, and then our federal and state general and

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municipal elections at the end of the year. So make sure you're keeping track of that because

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that really makes a big difference for the kids. Well, there's still tons of activities to do here

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in Fairview to keep your kid engaged. There are some cheer programs, recreation teams for basketball,

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baseball, football, and many others. There's a thriving Girl Scouts and Scouts BSA program.

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If you have a homeschooler, always check out Bowie Park schedule for the clubs and things

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that meet there. If you have kids that are interested in dance, gymnastics, or cheer,

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please check out Lala's dance studio, elevate gymnastics, and cheer. Vigilance Martial Arts

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is our local taekwondo and jiu-jitsu school that teaches way more than just moves. The Fairview

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Jacket Youth Wrestling program is also a great one to get into, and it has some summer care options.

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and they've made a lot of state champions out of that program.

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School news.

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Well, it was a short week this week with President's Day on Monday

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and everyone is pretty much just waiting for March 9th through 13th,

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which is our spring break.

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but we know what it is.

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It's Good Friday.

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Hawk and Tiger news.

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No new news since, you know, I guess for months really.

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Falcon news.

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The newsletter was early this week, and basically the boys basketball team, like we mentioned before, is fourth in the state.

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Congratulations.

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On the 19th today, we've got boys soccer away game at Harpeth at 5 p.m.

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The eighth grade school registration starts today, so you'll start having your students meet with counselors.

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The pre-CPA concert is at 630 tonight at the High School Performing Arts Center.

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It's free.

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Come out and support our eighth grade band and orchestra, and obviously the high school band.

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We covered that last week.

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Um, there's still some zoom webinars that are coming that are related to anxiety and vaping.

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So definitely make sure you check those out.

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And, uh, we have the high school cheerleading tryouts that are coming up.

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Oh, and, uh, oh, congratulations to the students.

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Um, two students from each grade who were selected, uh, to, for the first art Williamson

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County super attendance art show, uh, from March 7th through 22nd.

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So if you have the opportunity, make sure you go see their work.

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The high school cheerleading tryouts begin will be from March 2nd to 6th from 315 to 515 at the high school gym with a sign up form for you to go find.

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Play auditions for Charlotte's Web are still scheduled April 9th through 11th.

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So if you're interested, make sure you fill out the form on Schoology and you'll be ready to roll.

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February 20th is our spring picture day.

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March 5th is the makeup picture day.

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eighth grader course selection just like i said started on february 19th it goes through march 5th

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the high school councils are going to come meet everybody and if you have the iep then all that's

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taken already care of already the art club still needs some pottery for some mosaic projects they're

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working on um and you'll see that kind of go in there and i already have the stuff on that cpa

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concert with the jazz band and the orchestra and all that jack and news no newsletter this week uh

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They, you know, last time I had thanked all the volunteers.

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The 2026 prom is April 18th.

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Tickets are 90 bucks.

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You must be a junior or senior to purchase them.

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217 is a spring picture day, which was this week.

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And your books need to be purchased before April 3rd.

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So you'll see that.

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The FCCLA care closet is up and working.

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That was featured on the latest episode of The Hive.

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If you ever want to look at that, just go to YouTube and type in Fairview the Hive and you'll be able to see these videos that they make.

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They're really, really good.

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They do a great job.

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May 21st is our last day of school.

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And so that's kind of the everyone's marching towards that.

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We've got tests and all those things there.

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The Fairview Recreation Association still needs some umpires.

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They have information meetings.

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They have one this week.

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The last one at February 21st at 1 p.m. at the Fairview Ballpark.

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They have signs up at the Lions Club entrance there.

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applications to the innovation center and the entrepreneurship center are still open

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and a couple of those are wrapping up so make sure you are done with all that and we will see

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all that kind of wrap up in the next little bit and if obviously if you have a student

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doing their thing make sure that in their driving make sure they get their parking pass and all that

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good stuff there faith moment this week i heard about this sermon from another podcast of a

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podcast called We Get to Do This featuring Adam Curry and Pastor Jimmy Pruitt from the Bridge

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Church in Fredericksburg, Texas. They meet every Wednesday to talk about life, the Lord, current

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events, cultural things that are bubbling up that week. They always have some of the best one-liners.

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I wish I could just make a faith moment with some of those. But they mentioned, Adam mentioned that

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he loved this sermon and it was one that I must have missed somehow. It may have been when I was

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camping or something. It was a two-parter. And this is just a part of the first part, but both

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of the links are in the show notes. I trimmed them down. The first sermon is over 50 minutes

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of goodness in each of these. So make sure it's called delay your destiny,

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which looks at when you ask God for something and it doesn't happen instantly.

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And many of us think that that's denial, but most things, marination and persistence are key.

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So definitely take a listen.

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I remember when we got word that one of our granddaughters had, this girl was a songbird.

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She loved Jesus.

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She was active in church, grew up in youth group.

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She grew up in Southern California.

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And we found out she was going for a theater degree at UC Irvine in Southern California.

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Well, we've been in California.

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We spent time.

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We lived there at one point.

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So we knew the theater department at UC Irvine, that's a perfect storm.

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It's interesting, Pastor Votie Beecham, before he passed away, he said,

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if you send your children off to Babylon, don't be surprised when they come back speaking the language of the Babylonians.

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Don't be surprised if they come back as a Babylonian.

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So she went to school.

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We were all proud of her and all that, a little concerned, but she went.

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And guess what happened while she was in the theater department at UC Irvine?

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she decided that she was gay.

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And we're like, this is a girl who stood up on a Wednesday night in Nashville, Tennessee at our church,

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interrupted our senior pastor to sing a song.

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We even were going, what is she doing?

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She stood up and she began to sing a song.

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And it was a song of worship and it was captivating and it was beautiful that this young girl had the courage

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to feel the prompting of the Holy Spirit to stand up and sing over the congregation.

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The pastor was moved.

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He was in tears.

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And I remember him saying, there is something special on this lady.

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And not four or five years later, she was deciding she was no longer attracted to men,

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but she would be attracted to women.

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Do you think that granny and granddad didn't start praying?

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We went to our knees, and you know what happened?

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Nothing.

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For a long time Why Because the seed was planted We could see in our mind eye the harvest but the time just kept passing and passing and passing So much that there were times I forgot to pray

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There were times I got my mind occupied with other things and didn't. And Annette would mention,

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oh, I prayed, I prayed. Oh yeah, I need to pray too. We'd remind each other.

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And how many years passed? It was years, several years.

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and then we got word one day that she has a boyfriend and they're engaged.

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Now listen, I only tell you that because this was our crisis point where we saw a girl who

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was so in love with Jesus just walk away from it all. And we saw God do something, but it also

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taught us the power of persistence and standing and believing for our granddaughter.

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John 11, 6, listen to this. God's delays are not denials. Yet when he heard, this is Jesus,

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when he heard that Lazarus was sick, when he heard that Lazarus was sick,

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he stayed where he was two more days. Do you hear that? When he heard, he just stayed.

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He didn't go.

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Like we said earlier, he did not take off.

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He didn't go after him.

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He delayed.

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Jesus waited on purpose.

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Well, the delay was intentional.

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He waited on purpose.

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Again, I can't even imagine how the disciples felt all around him.

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What feels like God's silence is often his strategy.

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In other words, another way to say that is God is up to something.

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God is working on something.

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We used to say the check's in the mail.

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He is working on something.

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There's something happening and we don't even know it.

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God uses waiting seasons to deepen our faith and shape our hearts.

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And when it feels like he's waiting, he's working.

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You know, we have two ovens in our house.

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One's electric, one's gas.

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But you know what?

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They both have to be preheated.

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You can't just go in there, throw a frozen whatever turkey in there and just turn it on and walk away and think it's going to be good when it gets over.

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Or if you're baking, for example, and I don't love baking, but I do love licking the bowl.

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Amen, brothers?

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So I'll fight somebody to lick the bowl.

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And so when you preheat an oven and when you're baking, you have to follow the protocol, right?

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You have to follow the recipe.

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You have to follow the directions.

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And those of us who haven't, which would be me, growing up as a latchkey kid, I messed up lots of stuff, surprised I didn't set the house on fire a few times.

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But being alone and unsupervised, I would try things, and they rarely worked.

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But I could make a mean Tony's pizza, I'm just saying.

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Frozen pizza, I knew how to do that.

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But when you heat up, you hit preheat, 375, and then you wait until it preheats before you actually put something in it.

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But how much faith does it take for you to have to know that when you turn it on, it's going to be there in just a little bit?

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Well, you don't have any doubt, unless you've had one of our stoves.

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But you don't have any doubt that that's going to work.

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You set it at 375, you hit preheat, and you wait for the buzzer.

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You wait for the ding.

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You wait for the indicator, whatever it might be.

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But you know when you set it and you walk away that something is going to work.

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You may not know the inner workings of a stove, an oven.

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You don't know how it all happens.

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The gas is different than the electric, but something gets set into motion when you set it on preheat,

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and it's going to get up to that temperature eventually.

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And you don't doubt it.

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You just wait for it to happen.

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You set this temperature right here on this thermostat.

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I can't read it from here.

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What is it, 68?

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It feels good up here right now.

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It was hot in the first service.

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It was 72, and I was burning up.

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But you set that thermostat at 64 degrees,

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But what has to happen?

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The system has to go to work.

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And if you're sitting right here, you'll hear it go to work right there because that's where that main unit is.

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And you'll hear it come on, and it's beginning to bring the temperature down to that desired degree.

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This is how prayer and faith work.

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You set the oven at 375.

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You set the thermostat for the system at 68, 65, whatever you set it at, and it's going to go to work.

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Now listen, when it feels like he's waiting, he's working.

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Jesus understood when he got the word that something was going to happen.

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He knew that when he got there, something was going to happen, and it wasn't going to be a healing.

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It was going to be a resurrection.

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Exodus 14, 14.

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The Lord will fight for you.

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You need only to be still.

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In other words, you need only to wait.

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I don't, do we have any people that are really good at waiting?

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Really good at it?

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So I live out on 87 towards comfort.

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There's a few stretches of road there where it gets down to two lanes and there's four and then two.

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And the Lord's sense of humor with me by trying to teach me patience is to have the same farmer and the same pickup leave his house at exactly the same time I leave mine so that when I'm driving 71 miles an hour-ish and he's going 51, the Lord makes sure I get right behind him every time.

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I don't know how that happens.

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It's a miracle.

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It's miraculous.

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I don't do well with waiting sometimes.

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I throw a bag of popcorn in the microwave. It should be ready right away. But no,

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three and a half to four minutes I have to wait.

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We've been so conditioned to not wait for anything. We've been so conditioned to not be patient.

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And he says that we're to wait. We're to be still because the Lord will fight for us.

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At some point, we have to trust him and we have to trust that the system that he has devised,

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He has set emotion.

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And we talk about the word, the Bible.

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The word works, but you have to work the word.

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We read the Bible, but we need to let the Bible read us.

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The system works, but you have to trust the designer of the system.

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Amen?

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So when it feels like he's waiting, he's working.

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Number two, God's timing reveals his glory.

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This is what he, listen to this in John 11, 4.

427
00:31:57,286 --> 00:32:03,366
When he heard this, this is Jesus speaking, Jesus said, this sickness will not end in death.

428
00:32:03,486 --> 00:32:08,146
No, it is for God's glory so that God's son may be glorified through it.

429
00:32:08,186 --> 00:32:17,306
In other words, there was a much bigger purpose than just representing Lazarus back to Mary and to Martha.

430
00:32:18,106 --> 00:32:19,526
There was much more going on.

431
00:32:19,666 --> 00:32:21,326
Jesus didn't just want to heal Lazarus.

432
00:32:21,386 --> 00:32:22,766
He wanted to resurrect him.

433
00:32:23,526 --> 00:32:25,206
He had a much bigger thing in mind.

434
00:32:25,206 --> 00:32:33,586
sometimes God lets things die so he can show his resurrection power but could it be

435
00:32:33,586 --> 00:32:40,066
that there's a well back there somewhere maybe it was a calling that you sensed you had you know

436
00:32:40,066 --> 00:32:44,566
how many people I've met in 43 years of doing ministry who when I meet them and talk to them

437
00:32:44,566 --> 00:32:50,166
they go oh I went to seminary too I'm like oh that's awesome what are you doing now I sell cars

438
00:32:50,166 --> 00:32:55,106
why did you go to seminary well i felt called called to be in the ministry

439
00:32:55,106 --> 00:32:59,646
then why are you selling car i mean i you know it's simple math for me i'm a simple man

440
00:32:59,646 --> 00:33:04,786
i've met people through the years that have gone to bible school gone to college they've gone

441
00:33:04,786 --> 00:33:11,966
to study for ministry and something didn't go well and that well got cluttered again and

442
00:33:11,966 --> 00:33:18,326
covered over and they got distracted by having a job that paid real money and and they were

443
00:33:18,326 --> 00:33:21,906
actually able to make a living, you know, instead of youth ministry, no, no knock on

444
00:33:21,906 --> 00:33:26,506
youth ministry, but you know, they, they, they were able to do better. And so they ended

445
00:33:26,506 --> 00:33:35,366
up getting distracted by that. What about you? I bet there are callings and mantles

446
00:33:35,366 --> 00:33:43,926
laying around this worship center right now. And they look like you people that have been

447
00:33:43,926 --> 00:33:52,126
called to ministry, but life happened. Things got distracting and you found yourself doing other

448
00:33:52,126 --> 00:33:59,726
things. And then three decades roll by. Could it be that God would have you open and uncover one of

449
00:33:59,726 --> 00:34:09,686
those wells? Our timing seeks relief. God's timing reveals his glory. Here's the truth. The delay,

450
00:34:09,686 --> 00:34:17,266
which is a setback, sets the stage for a display, which is a comeback. I heard Tim's story say this

451
00:34:17,266 --> 00:34:23,866
many years ago, and I've repeated it a thousand times, that your setback is a setup for a God

452
00:34:23,866 --> 00:34:30,766
kind of comeback. But here's the problem. We get tripped up in the setback. We don't quite see the

453
00:34:30,766 --> 00:34:36,046
setup for the comeback, so we get discouraged and we grow weary and we get tired. But it is actually

454
00:34:36,046 --> 00:34:42,226
set up for a God kind of comeback that will give God glory. Isaiah 55, eight for my thoughts are

455
00:34:42,226 --> 00:34:47,366
not your thoughts. Neither are your ways. My ways declares the Lord. Have you ever thought about that?

456
00:34:47,366 --> 00:34:53,846
That it could be that God knows more and better than us. God does not always work according to

457
00:34:53,846 --> 00:34:59,886
my logic. Am I the human only human here? I mean, he does things. I'm like, I would never have done

458
00:34:59,886 --> 00:35:05,746
it that way. Well, that's because I'm not God, right? Or I would have never thought it would

459
00:35:05,746 --> 00:35:13,486
happen that way. But God thinks different. He thinks outside of time. He sees the end from

460
00:35:13,486 --> 00:35:20,986
the beginning and he can order and orchestrate things to happen on our behalf. Number three,

461
00:35:21,906 --> 00:35:28,146
God is always working behind the scenes. Have you ever been caught in a riptide on the beach?

462
00:35:28,146 --> 00:35:30,326
Now, we Texans don't do well at the beach.

463
00:35:30,686 --> 00:35:32,246
We moved to Southern California.

464
00:35:32,866 --> 00:35:34,266
I'd been there when I was a kid.

465
00:35:34,366 --> 00:35:38,406
I grew up part of my time there, but we'd never, I wasn't beach savvy.

466
00:35:38,866 --> 00:35:40,246
I was stock tank savvy.

467
00:35:40,366 --> 00:35:41,046
You know what I'm saying?

468
00:35:41,186 --> 00:35:44,086
I mean, I can handle a stock tank, but put me out there.

469
00:35:44,246 --> 00:35:50,706
I didn't realize when I walked out into the surf for the first time, first of all, it was very cold in Southern California.

470
00:35:50,786 --> 00:35:51,966
I thought it'd be warm like Florida.

471
00:35:52,106 --> 00:35:52,546
No, no, no.

472
00:35:52,746 --> 00:35:53,466
Cold water.

473
00:35:53,846 --> 00:35:54,586
Step out there.

474
00:35:54,706 --> 00:35:56,766
That's why everybody's wearing wetsuits except me.

475
00:35:57,166 --> 00:35:57,966
Typical Texans.

476
00:35:57,966 --> 00:35:58,726
So I go out there.

477
00:35:58,786 --> 00:35:59,366
I'm standing there.

478
00:35:59,786 --> 00:36:04,966
I didn't notice that there was a lifeguard stand there with a number three on it.

479
00:36:05,786 --> 00:36:07,406
Large, big painted three.

480
00:36:08,626 --> 00:36:16,146
Until 15 to 20 minutes later while I'm playing and frolicking in the surf, trying to figure out what a Texan is doing out here.

481
00:36:16,586 --> 00:36:22,746
And I look up at what I think is the lifeguard stand, and it's a number seven.

482
00:36:24,306 --> 00:36:25,086
I'm like, wait a minute.

483
00:36:25,086 --> 00:36:27,366
It said number three 15 minutes ago.

484
00:36:27,366 --> 00:36:30,366
I didn't realize I had come down the beach 600 yards.

485
00:36:30,766 --> 00:36:32,766
I couldn't even see number three.

486
00:36:33,566 --> 00:36:34,086
Why?

487
00:36:34,186 --> 00:36:36,486
Because there was something working under the surface.

488
00:36:36,626 --> 00:36:37,426
I couldn't see it.

489
00:36:37,706 --> 00:36:38,986
I didn't even feel it.

490
00:36:39,466 --> 00:36:42,006
It's just every time I did a little hop in the surf,

491
00:36:42,146 --> 00:36:44,606
I would move a foot and I didn't even know it.

492
00:36:44,906 --> 00:36:45,086
Why?

493
00:36:45,346 --> 00:36:49,086
Listen, God is working, always working behind the scenes,

494
00:36:49,406 --> 00:36:50,986
always working behind the curtain,

495
00:36:51,386 --> 00:36:53,126
always working behind the veil,

496
00:36:53,126 --> 00:36:56,966
always working on the other side where you can't see.

497
00:36:57,366 --> 00:37:01,646
And when we don't see it, we think it's not happening.

498
00:37:02,206 --> 00:37:08,646
And yet God is working out things on your behalf that you don't even know.

499
00:37:08,966 --> 00:37:18,066
He's orchestrating events, situations, circumstances, intersections of you with people.

500
00:37:19,146 --> 00:37:21,666
And he's doing it all the time, never stops.

501
00:37:22,386 --> 00:37:23,606
The system is working.

502
00:37:24,026 --> 00:37:25,386
We just don't always see it.

503
00:37:25,386 --> 00:37:26,486
John 11, 39.

504
00:37:26,726 --> 00:37:27,726
Listen to what happens.

505
00:37:28,186 --> 00:37:30,726
Jesus, now Lazarus is dead.

506
00:37:31,326 --> 00:37:41,399
And if you remember when Jesus says I going to raise him from the dead And remember the girls are like it been four days and in the King James Version it says he stinketh

507
00:37:42,579 --> 00:37:44,139
Turn to your neighbor and say, he stinketh.

508
00:37:45,239 --> 00:37:46,719
Turn to your neighbor and say, you stinketh.

509
00:37:46,799 --> 00:37:47,119
No, don't.

510
00:37:47,179 --> 00:37:47,619
I'm just kidding.

511
00:37:47,679 --> 00:37:48,019
I'm messing.

512
00:37:48,319 --> 00:37:48,839
Don't do it.

513
00:37:49,519 --> 00:37:51,419
So, I love the King James Version.

514
00:37:51,539 --> 00:37:52,179
He stinketh.

515
00:37:52,259 --> 00:37:54,499
And they're like, no, no, wait, no, he's dead.

516
00:37:54,559 --> 00:37:55,539
They're saying he's rotting.

517
00:37:55,639 --> 00:37:57,739
He's already, he's past rigor mortis, all right?

518
00:37:58,039 --> 00:37:59,039
It's been four days.

519
00:37:59,039 --> 00:38:01,299
And they're worried, and he says this.

520
00:38:01,299 --> 00:38:08,359
take away the stone roll away the stone did i not tell you that if you believe you will see the glory

521
00:38:08,359 --> 00:38:15,899
of god whoo jesus just drops the mic right there did it you're gonna see the glory of god

522
00:38:15,899 --> 00:38:20,459
what looked too late became the moment of a miracle

523
00:38:20,459 --> 00:38:29,299
this is jesus that's my jesus that's the kind of stuff jesus does what seems late what seems

524
00:38:29,299 --> 00:38:35,059
delayed. What seems like it's too late. You ever had that feeling? Oh, it's just too late. You ever

525
00:38:35,059 --> 00:38:39,579
been asked to pray for somebody and you're going, Oh, it's too late for them. They are so far gone.

526
00:38:39,719 --> 00:38:43,459
There's no way they're going to come to Jesus. Well, you came to Jesus. Hello.

527
00:38:45,459 --> 00:38:50,219
Yeah, that's just too, they're too far gone. Oh man, Lord, help us. Don't let us do that.

528
00:38:51,339 --> 00:38:57,179
But listen to this. When we move the stone, what does that stone represent? Could be our fear,

529
00:38:57,179 --> 00:38:59,139
It could be our doubt or unbelief.

530
00:38:59,219 --> 00:39:00,199
It could be our pride.

531
00:39:01,339 --> 00:39:06,959
It could be our lack of persistence, our reticence to step out.

532
00:39:07,899 --> 00:39:09,499
What is that stone for you?

533
00:39:09,599 --> 00:39:11,639
Jesus said, roll away the stone.

534
00:39:11,759 --> 00:39:11,979
What?

535
00:39:12,199 --> 00:39:13,539
It's the stone that was hiding.

536
00:39:13,779 --> 00:39:15,639
It was a stone that was covering up.

537
00:39:15,819 --> 00:39:21,219
It was a stone that wouldn't allow Lazarus, even if he woke up, even if he was resurrected,

538
00:39:21,459 --> 00:39:22,699
he couldn't have gotten out.

539
00:39:22,899 --> 00:39:24,879
He needed somebody to roll away the stone.

540
00:39:24,959 --> 00:39:26,139
He couldn't do it by himself.

541
00:39:27,059 --> 00:39:29,439
You know what you need to roll away your stone?

542
00:39:29,559 --> 00:39:30,959
Look around this room right now.

543
00:39:31,319 --> 00:39:32,879
You need the body of Christ.

544
00:39:33,159 --> 00:39:34,019
You need the community.

545
00:39:34,419 --> 00:39:37,459
You need the family of God to help you roll away the stone.

546
00:39:38,539 --> 00:39:39,999
Jesus says, roll away the stone.

547
00:39:41,359 --> 00:39:43,599
Whatever that might be for you, roll it away.

548
00:39:43,759 --> 00:39:44,439
How do you do it?

549
00:39:44,539 --> 00:39:46,099
You got to let somebody help you do it.

550
00:39:46,159 --> 00:39:47,299
You can't do it on your own.

551
00:39:50,679 --> 00:39:51,579
We're Texans.

552
00:39:51,699 --> 00:39:53,339
I am proud of it.

553
00:39:53,339 --> 00:39:56,259
pulled myself by my own

554
00:39:56,259 --> 00:39:58,439
roper bootstraps.

555
00:39:58,979 --> 00:40:00,139
I mean, I grew up that way.

556
00:40:00,899 --> 00:40:01,299
Independent.

557
00:40:01,939 --> 00:40:03,379
Man, it's in our DNA.

558
00:40:05,159 --> 00:40:06,019
I mean, it's like

559
00:40:06,019 --> 00:40:08,059
secede, please, yes, let's get

560
00:40:08,059 --> 00:40:09,319
those bumper stickers back out.

561
00:40:09,419 --> 00:40:11,639
I mean, I just grew up that way.

562
00:40:11,739 --> 00:40:14,019
I grew up with a green secede sticker on the back of the car.

563
00:40:14,099 --> 00:40:15,119
I mean, that's the way it is.

564
00:40:15,419 --> 00:40:18,119
But if there's anything I've learned

565
00:40:18,119 --> 00:40:20,219
the hard way is I need people around me.

566
00:40:20,259 --> 00:40:21,439
I need multiple anchors.

567
00:40:22,179 --> 00:40:23,259
I need community.

568
00:40:23,339 --> 00:40:24,679
I need you

569
00:40:24,679 --> 00:40:26,819
I need you

570
00:40:26,819 --> 00:40:29,319
I mean you need us

571
00:40:29,319 --> 00:40:29,899
Amen

572
00:40:29,899 --> 00:40:31,579
We need each other

573
00:40:31,579 --> 00:40:34,199
Roll away the stone

574
00:40:34,199 --> 00:40:35,959
When he does he brings new life

575
00:40:35,959 --> 00:40:38,959
I love how the story goes

576
00:40:38,959 --> 00:40:40,399
It says that he bounced out

577
00:40:40,399 --> 00:40:41,839
He literally was like a mummy

578
00:40:41,839 --> 00:40:42,899
He was wrapped up

579
00:40:42,899 --> 00:40:45,099
I mean he didn't like you know walk out like this

580
00:40:45,099 --> 00:40:46,919
I mean he walked out he had to hop out

581
00:40:46,919 --> 00:40:50,159
So here he comes hopping out after they moved that stone

582
00:40:50,159 --> 00:40:53,099
It had to be really weird

583
00:40:53,099 --> 00:40:53,959
You know what I'm saying?

584
00:40:54,239 --> 00:40:55,319
This is epic.

585
00:40:58,039 --> 00:41:05,979
And Jesus, he says, unwrap him, loose him, and let him go.

586
00:41:06,999 --> 00:41:07,799
Loose him.

587
00:41:08,079 --> 00:41:11,339
Even though he came out, even though he was resurrected,

588
00:41:11,619 --> 00:41:16,059
he still needed help moving the stone and he needed help unwrapping him.

589
00:41:17,039 --> 00:41:20,259
Do you know when you're born again, you've still got some wrappings on you?

590
00:41:20,259 --> 00:41:23,439
and you're saved, man, you're full of Jesus.

591
00:41:23,699 --> 00:41:25,059
You could conquer the world.

592
00:41:25,179 --> 00:41:26,399
Give me a Bible and a passport

593
00:41:26,399 --> 00:41:28,419
and I'll bring the second coming, man.

594
00:41:28,639 --> 00:41:29,679
I'll bring it.

595
00:41:29,799 --> 00:41:31,219
I'll go win people to Jesus

596
00:41:31,219 --> 00:41:34,419
and three weeks into it, you're like, what's going on?

597
00:41:34,459 --> 00:41:37,759
I feel like I've got, my past just keeps trying to call me back.

598
00:41:37,979 --> 00:41:39,759
Well, you're still wrapped up in grave clothes.

599
00:41:40,319 --> 00:41:42,119
You need some help to unwrap it.

600
00:41:42,179 --> 00:41:43,599
You cannot do it by yourself.

601
00:41:44,679 --> 00:41:46,259
That's called discipleship.

602
00:41:46,259 --> 00:41:49,019
This is why we come in here and do it together,

603
00:41:49,019 --> 00:41:53,219
all 120 or 150 of us on a Wednesday night.

604
00:41:53,299 --> 00:41:54,399
We need each other.

605
00:41:54,719 --> 00:41:58,019
I need your help to help me unwrap my grave clothes,

606
00:41:58,199 --> 00:42:01,079
and you need mine to help you unwrap yours.

607
00:42:01,739 --> 00:42:03,259
You can't do it by yourself.

608
00:42:03,399 --> 00:42:04,119
Sorry, Texans.

609
00:42:04,379 --> 00:42:06,239
I know I'm one of you.

610
00:42:06,339 --> 00:42:07,019
I get it.

611
00:42:07,619 --> 00:42:08,579
I don't like that.

612
00:42:08,879 --> 00:42:10,579
I want to be able to do it by myself,

613
00:42:10,759 --> 00:42:15,599
but at this age, I'm just like, oh, help, please.

614
00:42:15,719 --> 00:42:16,239
I need it.

615
00:42:16,579 --> 00:42:17,199
Show up.

616
00:42:17,239 --> 00:42:17,799
I need you.

617
00:42:18,779 --> 00:42:19,559
Listen to this.

618
00:42:20,099 --> 00:42:23,659
What you think is over, God calls on schedule.

619
00:42:24,939 --> 00:42:26,439
Did you know you're here right on time?

620
00:42:28,299 --> 00:42:32,659
Did you know you're in this auditorium this morning, today, at this very moment,

621
00:42:32,659 --> 00:42:35,539
getting very hungry because we've talked too much about food today.

622
00:42:35,659 --> 00:42:39,639
But this is you, and you are right on time.

623
00:42:39,999 --> 00:42:41,679
You're right where you're supposed to be.

624
00:42:42,899 --> 00:42:45,099
You're here because God wanted you here.

625
00:42:45,099 --> 00:42:51,039
you're watching because God wanted you to watch and it could be Thursday when you're watching this

626
00:42:51,039 --> 00:42:56,359
I don't know it's it's it's the world wide web right it could be any time could be a year from

627
00:42:56,359 --> 00:43:03,019
now somebody pulls this sermon up randomly on YouTube and goes whoa I needed to hear that

628
00:43:03,019 --> 00:43:10,539
why because it's right on time God is right on schedule we think we're not we think we missed it

629
00:43:10,539 --> 00:43:14,819
we think we delayed too long we think we should have moved we should have zigged when we zagged

630
00:43:14,819 --> 00:43:16,039
We should have done something different.

631
00:43:16,419 --> 00:43:18,199
Maybe it's just too late for me.

632
00:43:18,959 --> 00:43:20,019
Maybe it's not.

633
00:43:22,319 --> 00:43:28,159
Maybe the reason the Lord led me to do this message is so you would hear this because it's time to re-dig some wells.

634
00:43:31,179 --> 00:43:32,279
Romans 8, 28.

635
00:43:32,279 --> 00:43:34,599
I know you've never heard this verse before.

636
00:43:35,499 --> 00:43:38,459
And we know that in all things, someone say all things.

637
00:43:39,259 --> 00:43:42,839
All things, God works for the good of those who love him.

638
00:43:43,219 --> 00:43:44,619
He's working it out.

639
00:43:44,819 --> 00:43:47,119
he's working on your behalf.

640
00:43:47,719 --> 00:43:51,119
He is orchestrating and you're right on time.

641
00:43:51,579 --> 00:43:52,879
You're right where you're supposed to be.

642
00:43:53,259 --> 00:43:54,779
Does that mean it's where you're supposed to stay?

643
00:43:54,859 --> 00:43:55,599
Not necessarily,

644
00:43:55,919 --> 00:43:57,879
but you're right where you're supposed to be right now

645
00:43:57,879 --> 00:43:59,239
in this moment.

646
00:44:00,019 --> 00:44:01,199
So just in closing,

647
00:44:01,379 --> 00:44:02,339
landing the plane on this,

648
00:44:02,739 --> 00:44:03,959
we live by clocks.

649
00:44:04,859 --> 00:44:06,399
God works by seasons.

650
00:44:07,339 --> 00:44:08,139
My goodness.

651
00:44:08,399 --> 00:44:10,079
I love the changing of seasons.

652
00:44:10,079 --> 00:44:12,219
When we got fall happening right now,

653
00:44:12,299 --> 00:44:14,499
it finally starting to look like fall.

654
00:44:14,499 --> 00:44:16,739
I know that because all the leaves are falling in my backyard.

655
00:44:16,899 --> 00:44:18,659
It's starting to actually be that.

656
00:44:18,859 --> 00:44:19,839
It's not any cooler.

657
00:44:19,939 --> 00:44:21,539
It's going to be 85 degrees today.

658
00:44:21,739 --> 00:44:23,679
Welcome to the hill country in the fall.

659
00:44:23,999 --> 00:44:25,979
But the leaves are all changing.

660
00:44:26,099 --> 00:44:29,119
It seems like overnight we went from green to brown and red.

661
00:44:30,439 --> 00:44:32,859
Driving in today, we saw the fog coming off the 87.

662
00:44:33,139 --> 00:44:35,359
It looked like we were driving into an ocean.

663
00:44:35,959 --> 00:44:37,939
It was so beautiful, stunning.

664
00:44:38,079 --> 00:44:39,679
We were like, this is amazing.

665
00:44:39,999 --> 00:44:41,879
If we get to live here, we're pinching ourselves.

666
00:44:41,979 --> 00:44:42,919
We get to live here.

667
00:44:42,919 --> 00:44:51,779
it's so beautiful what is it it's the changing of a season i like new seasons and the beautiful

668
00:44:51,779 --> 00:44:56,739
thing about walking with god is he brings them he brings them seed time to harvest day and night

669
00:44:56,739 --> 00:45:03,359
winter spring i mean he just rolls the seasons keep coming and you get these ongoing divine

670
00:45:03,359 --> 00:45:09,479
do-overs that are just amazing don't rush his rhythm trust the clock maker he created this whole

671
00:45:09,479 --> 00:45:15,339
thing, he kind of knows how it goes. He knows how it works. Amen. Why not trust him in it?

672
00:45:16,619 --> 00:45:22,159
His timing may not make sense now, but it's always for your ultimate good. Oh my goodness. Is this

673
00:45:22,159 --> 00:45:28,679
true? In our in-between time, I was actually, I was in two people that are sitting in this

674
00:45:28,679 --> 00:45:35,079
congregation today in their basements. Annette and I, in our in-between time, I lived, I worked

675
00:45:35,079 --> 00:45:41,199
in Brian's basement in Nashville because he had a little office down there. So I spent time writing

676
00:45:41,199 --> 00:45:49,539
resumes. Annette counted. I quit counting after a hundred. I did over 500 resumes. Why? Because I

677
00:45:49,539 --> 00:45:55,119
know what I'm called to do, but I was getting no after no, after no, after no. But you know what I

678
00:45:55,119 --> 00:46:02,239
knew? I knew who called me. I knew who the clockmaker was. I know who promised me a destiny.

679
00:46:02,239 --> 00:46:06,399
and the whole time I'm getting rejected, rejected, rejected.

680
00:46:06,859 --> 00:46:08,399
So that wasn't good enough.

681
00:46:08,759 --> 00:46:10,239
Actually, I was in yours first.

682
00:46:10,599 --> 00:46:14,159
So I was in Malvern, Arkansas in Dr. Rick's basement.

683
00:46:15,419 --> 00:46:17,299
They had a living area down there.

684
00:46:17,339 --> 00:46:19,259
It was a really cool guest place down there, space,

685
00:46:19,399 --> 00:46:20,899
and we stayed with them for a while.

686
00:46:21,259 --> 00:46:23,999
I probably wrote a couple hundred resumes down there as well.

687
00:46:25,079 --> 00:46:27,439
My goodness, I wrote resumes in everybody's basement.

688
00:46:27,539 --> 00:46:28,719
It's the weirdest thing ever, right?

689
00:46:28,879 --> 00:46:31,519
I wrote over 500 resumes, and the only reason I know it

690
00:46:31,519 --> 00:46:33,439
because I gave up counting, Annette didn't.

691
00:46:34,039 --> 00:46:35,899
She kept counting over 500.

692
00:46:36,979 --> 00:46:39,559
We go, man, you must be quite the loser, Pastor Jimmy.

693
00:46:39,719 --> 00:46:42,259
I mean, you know, big L on your forehead.

694
00:46:43,099 --> 00:46:44,199
You know what it was?

695
00:46:44,619 --> 00:46:46,619
It wasn't a no, it was a not now.

696
00:46:47,539 --> 00:46:49,699
I needed to go work at Dave Ramsey for a little bit

697
00:46:49,699 --> 00:46:50,799
and get to know Brian Bush.

698
00:46:51,819 --> 00:46:54,139
Didn't make any money, but we had a good time, didn't we?

699
00:46:54,919 --> 00:46:56,539
I mean, it was a great experience.

700
00:46:56,799 --> 00:46:58,139
It was an awesome experience.

701
00:46:58,479 --> 00:47:00,299
And I got one of my best friends in my life.

702
00:47:00,399 --> 00:47:01,459
And because, why?

703
00:47:01,519 --> 00:47:04,779
because I was right on time and right on God's schedule, just not mine.

704
00:47:05,139 --> 00:47:06,199
Not what I thought was right.

705
00:47:06,259 --> 00:47:07,099
Is this making sense?

706
00:47:07,359 --> 00:47:08,859
I hope this is helping you today.

707
00:47:08,959 --> 00:47:09,859
We're going to land with this.

708
00:47:10,439 --> 00:47:11,539
Habakkuk 2.3.

709
00:47:12,219 --> 00:47:13,979
I know you spend a lot of time in Habakkuk.

710
00:47:14,039 --> 00:47:15,239
Most people can't pronounce it.

711
00:47:16,099 --> 00:47:19,599
For the revelation awaits an appointed time.

712
00:47:19,999 --> 00:47:25,419
Oh, man, the vision, the revelation, the understanding will come,

713
00:47:25,419 --> 00:47:26,979
but it's an appointed time.

714
00:47:27,139 --> 00:47:28,159
We already talked about that.

715
00:47:28,759 --> 00:47:29,919
God's appointed time.

716
00:47:29,919 --> 00:47:36,139
though it linger that word linger doesn't sound like a big deal until you realize it's the time

717
00:47:36,139 --> 00:47:41,379
you're in right now it's the time where you don't know which way's up or which way's front or back

718
00:47:41,379 --> 00:47:49,279
you're just in it it's limbo is another word though it linger though time has to pass wait for it

719
00:47:49,279 --> 00:47:59,559
hurry up and wait it will certainly come someone say certainly come it will certainly come and will

720
00:47:59,559 --> 00:48:05,219
not delay. You should stand before the Lord and say, it will certainly come. I'm standing on God's

721
00:48:05,219 --> 00:48:10,479
promises. I'm standing on his word. I believe it's his will. So it will certainly come, but I'm going

722
00:48:10,479 --> 00:48:18,959
to have to wait. What's one area where you felt like God is late? Just one. Don't, don't list all

723
00:48:18,959 --> 00:48:26,079
20. Just one, one big rocks in front of you. One big rock that needs to be rolled away. What is that?

724
00:48:26,079 --> 00:48:30,139
Some of you could probably call it instantly because you may be in it right now.

725
00:48:31,639 --> 00:48:36,499
Could it be that God's calling you to get in a community of people that can help you roll the stone away?

726
00:48:37,139 --> 00:48:42,159
And that can help you unwrap and loosen the grave clothes and come to life?

727
00:48:43,939 --> 00:48:46,979
How could this season of waiting be part of his preparation?

728
00:48:47,279 --> 00:48:49,199
For us, it was our boot camp.

729
00:48:51,039 --> 00:48:54,959
In some ways, ministry had come very easy for me in the early days.

730
00:48:54,959 --> 00:48:58,779
I remember my pastor in California praying for hardship for me.

731
00:48:59,419 --> 00:49:01,579
Boy, you don't want your pastor praying that for you.

732
00:49:02,459 --> 00:49:04,439
He did that in front of 600 people.

733
00:49:04,559 --> 00:49:12,359
And he's like, yeah, Pastor, Lord Jesus, as we pray for Jimmy and Annette, as they go back to Texas, Lord, just don't make it easy for them.

734
00:49:13,119 --> 00:49:14,619
We're like going, whoa, whoa, wait.

735
00:49:14,719 --> 00:49:15,959
I'm going to say stop.

736
00:49:17,179 --> 00:49:18,939
Am I hearing what I think I'm hearing?

737
00:49:18,999 --> 00:49:21,419
My pastor is calling down judgment.

738
00:49:21,639 --> 00:49:23,619
I mean, remember that?

739
00:49:23,619 --> 00:49:25,299
We were like, what?

740
00:49:26,299 --> 00:49:27,559
And you know what?

741
00:49:28,439 --> 00:49:29,679
He was right.

742
00:49:30,319 --> 00:49:31,919
I won't do that to you, promise.

743
00:49:32,159 --> 00:49:36,219
But we needed to experience some things.

744
00:49:36,599 --> 00:49:38,399
Things had come easy for us to a point.

745
00:49:38,999 --> 00:49:40,119
Ministry was easy.

746
00:49:40,499 --> 00:49:41,479
Music was easy.

747
00:49:42,159 --> 00:49:44,179
School was kind of easy.

748
00:49:44,419 --> 00:49:45,759
I did fine in it.

749
00:49:46,339 --> 00:49:49,719
So it seemed like things did seem to be easy for us.

750
00:49:49,719 --> 00:49:53,399
and then we planted our first church

751
00:49:53,399 --> 00:49:56,139
and nothing was easy after that for years.

752
00:49:56,919 --> 00:49:57,719
And you know what?

753
00:49:57,919 --> 00:49:59,099
We needed that.

754
00:50:03,439 --> 00:50:06,799
So while we're down in the basement writing resumes,

755
00:50:07,919 --> 00:50:09,159
you're here in Frederick,