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Pursuits where you hear from ordinary people instilled with an extraordinary passion together we explore the stories of men and women who take what they love and let God turn their passion into the kingdom pursuits now live from the truth. Your host Robbie Gilmore. You know I'm always excited about this when we are loaded for bear in there on the studio like cool is that so you know I'm so excited because you feel so much warmth on the rise in the studio nobody's on the phone and not only the in the studio about what these people are like oh my goodness at the poster children for how does God take your passion and use it to build the kingdom. So can somebody like from Russia with a passion for chopping off people's heads like some people called the Russian nightmare and you know he had a whole deal going on now. I mean, I can you picture this now.

How can you turn that into Jesus. Well guess what it's happened and so we have with us. They want only not keyed coal off the Russian nightmare rob you. Therefore, I think you had all of your body, and he transformed me from Russian to American. How about that the Lord is good. Good to be Robbie in studio so we are so excited here in the Truth Network as we are exploring the possibility of having a new radio show called man up with Nikita coal off and and some of the stories he has inside of what God has done in professional wrestling really just make the hair on my arms stand up. Nikita, you seen some amazing amazing things I have been very fortunate over the years to travel the world and in and certainly utilize the platform now of of professional wrestling, or as the southern viewers know what is Rasul and Rasul and don't you apparently idea, how do you spell that, but have had the fortune the good fortune of meeting people from all commie celebrity status all kinds of backgrounds and some you know who who know and love the Lord and others. You don't who have been had the opportunity to really just share my heart with Hayden and my testimony with and if nothing else.

Very the plant, plant the seed hopefully in their heart that one day that that she would take really didn't and they'd see the lights and give their life to Jesus. So yeah working excited about the potential it's time to man up boy in our day and time. It is time for man to man up and it in somewhere like were loaded. I'm telling you I've got another good friend Mike last time I saw her I was floating on my back in Nassau with my wife, my side and this lady comes up. I'm glad you not just the same way as we are on and energize ministry ministries cruise where any Bowersox my good friend is been on many many times. This ministry is out there to help pastors refresh and get them in of the time to rejuvenate and in those kind of things Hartford pastors pray for your pastor to her all at stuff. How fun that Cindy is with that ministry and you are out there ministering the pastors right there out there in the water and so is Cindy is actually here at the studio today to begin a new promo process of of helping people come in and to pray for their pastors get involved in energize ministries and some of the things that they're doing really cool.

We have some inside scoop 42 advantage here were not were not let them out of the bag just yet because you know it's all dangerous. Don't want to just get Andy on there anytime. We also have another friend of mine goes way back to action was in the car business. My kids are Calvary Baptist a school. Her burns. Some people: Herbert, but is her brain. That's right I got to Raleigh. I'm a little nervous today you been to Russia many times that this is let me know if my Haley's my body today is a second involved in the that I can get your okay so anyway her right really cool book for somebody my age it's called never stop and never stop what you question because when I finish my first book to God.

What would you want me to do now and he said never stop. So that became the title of my book was called never stop asking discovering and sharing those three words to change people's lives.

So as you might imagine, if you listen the kingdom pursuits speaking of stop it. Have you seen the new signs at the deer crossings and Siemens. They say the buck stops or they don't use a landline as you notice is that all the pigs last week. Stop sunbathing my wonder they were fake and in me to send it and I don't know if you knew this but my dentist would simply not stop working on 91, my, he was absent obsessive places that make sense right like that. I got NBC's groaning over here and you can imagine just if you know me if you've ever seen me right. And you know my tea and you're familiar with know and he got a good look at my two front teeth is that we've got to engage in some stopgap measures, and he chuckled with that handy.

I honestly cannot think what is more painful than listening to your so-called riddles regular Saturday morning hour that anyway. Thankfully, we all love you so I can be proud of her going along with your book actually against the old stuff you know no more extraction just never stop go along with hers, but don't stop and Ecclesiastes say once you're in the Salvation Army, there is no such thing as Charlie Salvation Army there's no such thing as Charlie. You know, in other words, where does it say that you have no power over your dad that no getting out of the war is no getting out. No retirement is not so if you want to call in today in 866-34-TRUTH 87884 actually asking discovering and sharing get all that just for answering where in the crazy as ever actually give you until you with chapter and verse does it say that you have no power of your death and no getting out of the war. In other words, no, Charlie 866-34-TRUTH 87884 866-34-TRUTH so getting back to Cindy actually question. I've actually been working there daily for every year I was here in March that my connection to energize case back to when it first initiated and on the idea when actually a brainchild of my husband and he and Andy were good friends and my husband was a pastor and we had some difficulties in ministry and Andy was able to get 10 and my son an opportunity to go out and had some recreation and being able to have that opportunity to be out in nature and to get away had just revitalized my has been in a way that he hadn't had that opportunity before and he thinking I'm not the only one who needs this kind of reprieve and escape and the opportunity to recharge and went to Andy with the idea and together ever coffee in a napkin. I kind of drew out an idea when energize could be a caregiver notice that if you start get your head up out of the foxhole that Satan will come away 100% I think is interesting. The timing knowing you guys know which had a conversation with the pastor yesterday.

Yesterday Jimmy six of his friends because of all this craziness that's going on right here about it. I am John Erickson, Tana and Psalm 84 where it says that no good thing does God withhold from those who walk up rightly. Years ago I used to think that if I finish matures went to church, send the prayer Myself and fighting with my sisters God would do good things for me creates a good college to attend. And all I had to do was keep my nose clean and be obedient is the way we reason is if we obey God will give us financial blessings and more to do our part, be forced into his wheelchair idea of what God thinks is good will greatly help give us courage to give us contentment. He will not withhold grace and get perseverance and endurance. All good things today friend. Remember these things. These virtues are God's idea of good hi this is that whole thing. You're listening to the radio act streaming online introduces us to researchers Marie and Peter Curie their discoveries together would lead to the x-ray machine and new cancer treatment and eventually the atomic bomb radioactive takes us behind the scenes of the Curie story. Marie's stubbornness is almost her undoing the peer helps her channel her passion, which leads to two Nobel prizes for Marie.

Speaking of passion we see a lot of the physical kind here. Marie also has an affair after peer dies tragically violent war and just turn up to some forgiving radioactivity to out of five for family friendliness. Read the full review of plug-in.com/radio I'm animals for Focus on the Family's work to provide and protect the life he created. That's what mentor when a life is created man have obligation and accountability when it comes to human life as Stephen Arterburn suggests on Focus on the Family minute when you don't do that you will eventually experience the guilt and shame from destroying that life is not just the demand that's involved with the woman there's often a physician or a minister or a father other men get involved and pressure the person and one of the things that I said to many women over the years, you might be feeling horrible that you had an abortion, but a lot of women they didn't have an abortion and an abortion done to and so men have to step up and be the man is a man, you can have strong influence in the pro-life movement. More from Stephen family pursuits where we hear how God takes so thing we have with this whole off call for Christ ministries and so much other things involved in is just amazing to see, as well as her burns. The author of never stop getting that book here shortly and Cindy Annan and Andy Bowersox with energize ministries and just trying to get everybody into the discussion to catch up. Even me because I found out during the break I wasn't completely on on the right page, but essentially well let me let Andy tell this story and get back to making a story or just a second. But you know a lot of your list or no Robbie I'm one of the founders along with Cindy's husband Dave Bannon who started this ministry to provide care for pastors and, specifically, we focus on preventive care and prayer support and during the break is to catch listeners that we're just talking about how if you're not busy doing what the Lord called me to do to making a difference that will, leaves you alone but where we focus on leadership care.

It's because people that are effectively drawing others closer to Christ and introducing him to Christ. They are under an all-out attack and so right before the break, Nikita was not tells a story about a pastor he just talking I want to hear it.

So let's get right back to that well you have my mean your ministries, a much needed ministry in and your question was, what happens when you stick your head out of the hole. I mean I mean there's a target on your back.

There's a target on your chest and you are you are targeted by by the enemy.

And so my conversation just yesterday with the pastor was with this craziness that surrounds us right now. He told me Estes literally had six pastors you just said I'm done, how could they just they don't want to confront all this, I got I did get all the details, but they did their six quote retired during this whole crazy last few months because of the craziness and they just want right so to are targeted and that ties and you don't stop will six guys chose to stop you know what I'm guessing they were called to share this amazing ministry and preventative medicine.

I was listening. Some yesterday and ounce of prevention is better than a pound of cure right so what you guys are doing.

I just commend you and even leaving your bookcase. Don't stop. That said, don't stop. And so what a beautiful thing from my perspective because I was in Randy's a good friend and and he'd loved your house and he loved your husband and his illness. We had cancer and he was dying deeply, deeply, deeply affected his brother, who loved him and and so it went after Andy's heart a lot. What went on over that period of time and how I was saying how unbelievable he cool is it dandy that his wife is not stopping.

In other words, she's taking the legacy of her husband did and and and using it to build the kingdom.

Yeah, I know we don't have time to get too deep into everybody stories here, and we certainly hear about her in his book, but you know, one of the things that I think is such so much of the redemption for their particular fan I often tell people I feel like I lead a family ministry for the Annan family because we get a chance to hear some of Cindy stories that they have been under attack for year for decades Robbie for decades, and it's not just damage pastors and Nikita like I know when you're out there doing amazing things and you see just even one life come to Christ like.

It is like it's just what we say is leadership in any level invokes a criticism of some, but leadership in the spiritual world invokes an all-out attack and the manifestations are different every time. So that's why like I I'm super proud of Cindy and the work that she's picked up after Dave Passey's command helped out some of her kids have been working in our ministry and is just excited to see literally the national and and even international impact that we have now 11 years later, super excited is about time to shut up. I want to talk you let these guys fill in the rest of it. So I'm excited some reason to call him this is a really hard riddle about you know where in Ecclesiastes is say have no power over death and no getting out of the war, but it's extremely critical little passage that was quoted to be one time by hundred and four-year-old woman who was the biggest Bible scholar I ever met my life and she she was like unbelievable unstoppable name of Miss Beck and I do this devotion at Somerset retirement home, have for years and years and years that she was the one that led it and she would charge met my Robbie got a get in there you're going to do now is this hundred and 4104-year-old lady she played the piano like electric play. I mean like she was on fire when she played it for you have a suitably written one time I said will miss back at what point in life you slow down and she called me this first and I never ever forgotten like really that's in the Bible that you never supposed to stop so Herb God gave you that they wrote a book I did and because he asked me to never stop. What more do you want me to share.

Said will look at that look at the family look at the work environment.

Look at your face and give readers guidelines guideposts to connect them to lead them to give them direction. To have wholeness in their life to ask what it is that they didn't know before, and to let me tell you there is you go to the book see a series of questions that I ask you to ask others as well in the workplace – your family members about your grandparents. Don't let life go and not know what your heritage was me. We're losing our heritage in America. If you just look at the news with what's going on. They want to wipe our heritage out so we got to never stop asking discovering and seeking the truth.

Not only ourselves but also for faith in the book talks about how to find refined your faith by asking, discovering and sharing. That's likely that supply my trucks don't get to thank you anyway so call last night was my wife's birthday and when we took her mother now in my daughter's were all out about that you can get more than six unfortunately circumstances but nonetheless I was sitting there in the Holy Spirit to sit Robbie and Nelda looks really left out. She's got hearing aids and should she's gotten turned down in a restaurant she can't hear anything now as my mother and those who know me know well know that were not the best friend that were trying to sit there and I got another seems the left out. Estes said you know she just seems like she's over in the corner. I know she's got her hearing aids turned out I said hey Nelda you are the only one he remembers the day Tammy was born what you tell us what went now and she lights up, lit up and I realize I really done some good fridge she she told that she drove herself to the hospital and we didn't even know that none of us knew the stories you know all the stuff that her husband was working in and she was freaking out so she drove herself to the house of the whole story about the and you could just see that she know the place that she had in the story which is you know obviously know my daughters would be here. None of us would be here if it weren't for Nelda and so it is really cool is is you're talking about. I love genealogy most things and so you know this and that's just part of the way that we can manner. Well it it it is again.

I just I love love God's time it was going through a bunch of the past, CD sermons and listen some CDs and and things that I didn't speak of heritage. I had this whole story for another time. How the Lord reconcile the relationship with with my own father but I didn't have for about 45 years, but I did have for blast, but the last eight or nine years of his life. In fact even brought them on the road with me in some of the churches. That's what I'm listen to the CD and and his testimonies on the CD of when he grabbed the old rugged Cross and and I mean this to tears, and he could hear the TV could. Here's voice crackling because he said I can't tell the story without thinking back to that day that I grabbed the old rugged cross, and something interesting to you in the last Father's Day had with them together.

I had 10 questions that I sat down to ask him, one of which he shared that nobody knew his lot of the old veterans don't really open up right but he shared with me a story on on how he liberated a concentration camp in Germany which is in it was and it was detailed it was like it was like you were there.

I mean that's anywhere from the first call off to man up. I my dad for me. Yeah said that led led me encouraged me to man up. That's right cell yes that's that's cool. Purview had some you want to share and we ripped the micro on your mouth. Yet it is about swallow this book also has 14 stories written by other people. One of them is called twice broken. It's about JC Martin who was a world series catcher for the New York Mets talks about when he was in playing for the Cubs and the Yankees won first place and they thought he was in a good position to win the World Series next year and the management training him down to the last place team New York Mets and he's just said God understand what you're doing to make in a year later he became a World Series national baseball champion baton based on not stopping him is not stopping. That's not stopping his wife sit down and prayed withing the table.

He was in tears honey what we do. She said just have to have faith God has a plan for you and the plan was a year later he would be a World Series baseball champion one more short story lycée Perlman in Ukraine.

At least I rush and I like that LOL most Ukrainian say Perlman when the Occupation Took Pl. in Ukraine. He's a pastor a church in the thugs took over the political structure in the thugs in government. One of the churches support the criminal activities. The church that were not, and will follow up on the story after the break. This amazing story to the leasing and all, right there where the Russian Seco and no birth itself that's in the way got got her we got it all I can find out about engineers in town and Psalm 84 where it says that no good thing does God withhold from those who walk up rightly years ago, is to think that if I finished matures. Went to church.

Prayer Myself and fighting with my sisters do good things for me creates a good college to attend. And all I had to do was keep my nose clean and be obedient is the way we reason is in it. If we obey God will give us financial blessings and more to do our part, be forced to do his wheelchair idea of what God thinks is good will greatly help give us courage to give us contentment.

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Welcome back pursuits where we hear how God takes your passion and uses it to build the kingdom and were so blessed today to have with us her burns. The author never stop any Bowersox and Cindy Annan with energized ministries and the key that coal off with coal offer Christ were loaded for the Russian bear all all all that kind of stuff but right now I really retreat my good friend Amy combo is Willis. She's the host of the cure to be on at 1 o'clock Kentucky Medicare.

She's got a cure for marriages today that are in trouble. Hopefully she's got Mark Johnson but before that Amy have to ask a question last week you had your daughter on the show, which was so wonderful. Remember yes she is she so sweet and she was talking a little bit about you know the sexuality of dancing and of how it's oversexed these days a great show, but your daughter has the ability to say your name. Like I say may combo it just sounds like Amy combo, but when your daughter says it. She has that little like twist to it.

So can you say, the way it's supposed to be set so I just here to soak it when she if you listen to the show when you pay attention this time the family that went into the trailer and now here's Amy combo and the way she says it is just like you can.

I can't say that is beautiful pretty good at it is not making much of little but it's okay I just things I like. So anyway, since I want to take one under no doubt that you have some help. I marriages today and you show I know what all I great care. My my lot and out great, but what's cool like I know this because I know the, I'm not saying it right, you know, I know Amy and Boris there and I wish everybody could see Amy and Boris together and since I've read Amy's book.

I know the story, which is is fraught with a lot of pain, especially in the in the areas sexuality and all that stuff. That would seem like it would affect the marriage greatly. But if you could see Amy and Boris together like they are having so much fun like little kids are just playing all of the place like I was in Nashville with them.

Every time I saw on their offense and they were going to they just delighted in each other and and and I bet that's really cool. Amy you guys do you delighted each other and so I'm anxious to hear your show today on marriage. I got a run, but Amy, thank you. And remember Todd at 1 o'clock on the Truth Network and you can call in live and asked her what's her secret so they can get some, thanks Amy. So when we left our hero Herb no, I didn't know I did and he wrote this and takes a nearly me. I can't write so to finish a story lycée since church and far. He moved to Western Ukraine became part of the seminary there and I was introduced to Slavic. This is a president who wrote a story in the book about how to spread and start new churches in Ukraine and it is spreading like wildfire. It's unbelievable. Wish we could track the spread of Christianity were tracking so many things I wish we could track out faith is growing in our nation today. Amazing. So our running out of time. I taught the people I'll be calling in my Ecclesiastes verse it's 866-34-TRUTH 87884 if you think you have the answer to write, you have no power over your own death and now getting out of the war. Where is that in the book of Ecclesiastes 866-34-TRUTH 87884 and when you do that you get to never stop you get the whole book, not just two or three chapters we have the whole enchilada.

So, how cool. But getting back to energized ministries and you guys are. This is a really interesting time to be an energized ministries right, you didn't see this one coming when you start planning for 20/20 digit. So what you see, really difficult. A lot of the things that we had planned and on our schedule have been canceled because it canceled. We had a golf tournament. We had a craze lined up for hundred pastors to gallant ass on that summer hits craze and that was canceled. We had a ballpark for anniversary an energized ballpark. At that ballpark in Winston-Salem and we had a wonderful artisanal sat and we had a wonderful program and a time to really celebrate five years and ours doing this and all of it has been canceled data because it however plans where is he focused your energies while you had the time to do it well. Just like the churches and had to switch gears new things and think about other ways to do ministry with gone back to the drawing board numerous times to try to figure out what God wanted us to do.

During this time, and on one thing we have been doing is on Wednesdays. We take our energized pricing's out and you concert tours and we currently treat Wednesday when we visit a number of churches, half a dozen churches or more and stop in and then physical treatments them frozen custard and then have a time of prayer and encouragement given the gift bag introduce ourselves to have an opportunity to train with them as well to let them know that we're still here for them and where their friend and want to be there to help and support them so we also have our lines energized large and said during this time, it's a place for pastors to take retreat for a couple nights and you get away with their families or a staff retreat is up in Virginia, 600 acres and I've been there and I've done all my goodness like you and you would agree Nikita that when you get out in nature what it what it means for a pastor to get out there and now there are deer and antelope playing all over the place. There's actually bearers not Russian ones, I'm afraid. And on the big ones, but their black bears in the right there in a cornfield sit there eating corn. I saw mama like what's up with that migrated from Russia, black bears, I don't know what not just amazed that that which you gazed at me in today's day and time again. I can't emphasize enough that I go back so I would. I'm not a pastor I would have.

I would say have a pastoral heart not pastoring a church that I get to quick conversations. The conversation with that pastor yesterday like they can't win for losing whatever decision they make like he's like oh my gosh I got Dr. Mike churches said what are you bringing this back together.

I got people in my church: why are you bringing this back together. My pastor goes down because I did make masks a requirement is looking grown adults. Make your own decision so that these guys can't witness you guys do have your work cut out for you that's for sure.

That's an obscene back in here.

You know, we often talk about in Christian circles, and an even sale circles like win-win situations right and how if I'm truly like serving the Lord being a steward right there. What I want is your success at the risk of my success right upon truly is like humbling myself in and stepping down, but in this situation now.

Ever. There is no win-win.

It is a lose lose no matter what.

And so you're right we hear every single day of the stress and attention to mass not the mass to meet, not meet in the parking lot need inside meet on the on the Internet like it is never in everybody's upset and tense right now so fast we should never stop until he retreated. So all have a red letter called okay man, this is your time you're here now go out there and start caregiver either emotionally and physically. Physical therapy because that's what caregivers do show the world caregiving is tougher than tough on the tour guides you need and a/counsel John MacArthur with another edition of portraits of grace in his sermon on the Mount, Jesus said blessed are the gentle, they shall inherit the earth, gentleness refers to humility and meekness, non-retaliation traits that are prideful society often equates with weakness and cowardice. Christ himself was the epitome of gentleness when he was on earth. Yet he wasn't weak or cowardly. He defended truth and never compromise his integrity, or disobeyed his father's will is power was always under control. Our society has little use for meekness macho. Do your own thing mentality characterizes most of our heroes are called to a higher standard.

John McKay looking forward to bringing you more portraits of grace challenge. Whatever the crisis whatever the disaster God has a plan and this week a new beginning pastor Greg Laurie points out how the Lord Pharaoh of Egypt in a decisive way to spare the lives of his chosen people in the process. For the details this week. Welcome back to where we hear how your story how God takes your passion uses to build the kingdom. I mean one rupees given us today like this were so blessed are the Truth Network just blows me away her burns. The author of never stop any Bowersox and Cindy Annan with energized ministries and the key to call off the call offer price and some the other things that he gets involved with that right now I have a real treat because somebody knows my rental, I think. I'm sure hoping we have play is in Raleigh-Durham so play on campus is arriving person will follow what wrestling brother. Believe it or not. With all the what made you really, when you were doing what you when you were anybody stop a person like that.

Thank I give thanks to you know Mr. Ivan know you don't play with the Lord. Everything you were forced to be reckoned with. Member back at people that like you around, you know it's interesting to know. I didn't think that you work you knew the Lord, but when I heard from brother Robbie that he went to this convention thing that you know you to call all coming of the Lord, and he was like he was anyway possible with God all things not not not all the answers and emailing me help you through it. It's in Ecclesiastes. It's it's somewhere close to the eighth chapter right and power of your death and no getting out of the war to be just let me just say that the first number of chapter is also the number Ecclesiastes 81 N. was a lady from all progress to the ball bar in Berkeley entire sport section and all of that for you are exactly right. You can get a book called never stop, never stop.

Well Clay what your last name something autograph the book for you am not related to, that didn't work today. Okay, click okay I got around that I tell you this is been awesome. I appreciate your call and in Ike I never ever forget your little and the lady with thank you very much for energy. If you would've heard me call in yesterday and told brother Matt slick about God that he had on yesterday I had my radio show because of what I was hearing.

While they cannot obviously do this about was his client were so well.

I just want to give thanks for each one of y'all that are all there today because I know that like me. The Lord has called us to be the people that we need to be able to spread God's word is not shared yesterday all I bye-bye. I felt like I do.

I just feel like this thing that's burning on inside of me that saying in the last days the love of many will grow cold. Okay we we know it says that in Barna did a little research and you're very familiar that Andy literally one third one third of the Christians in this country that attended church in February 2020 are no longer attending anything not online.

They're not doing a thing. Okay. And so I could complain about that, but that's not the answer. It's his love of many will grow cold. So what can I do I can get hotter and hotter and get more on fire and more in love with Christ and more in love with everybody that I can come in contact with his right to keep it.

If working to build this fire were to do it with love or not to do it with complaining when it is the core of all is that it's a heart issue. All of the things surrounding us are at the core really have to do with the heart and for those who have eyes to see to your point, I mean Scripture is being fulfilled right in front of us and I'm not surprised that one third if it's not, even more than that have grown cold and in an and again. What a great what a plan to the enemy right isolates isolates separate distance us from each other and give you a chance to love your pastor before really like if you listen right now in your local contact us will come visit your pastor on a weekly Wednesday gets because not a lot we love you guys and loving the Facebook course, for love for Christ and all their people all we got. We just burn hotter and and and and hotter be right thank you for listening. Thank you for listening. You got prayer followed by the