Carl Lentz
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537 appearances
7 recordings
3 series
first heard Dec 2024
last heard May 2025
Carl Lentz’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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It's not like God's like, hey, guys, you see Bryce down there? He's doing it again. I thought we had like a legion of angels are supposed to surround him. How could he be doing? It's I think the posture of heaven when we struggle is one of this is going to be a beautiful thing to grow through. And we have biblical evidence of that. That's how God operates.
So you will never see anybody go through a trial, you know, and not have an opportunity for God to redeem it.
Yeah.
Yes.
Yeah, that exactly that. That's the, that's the process. So I have an issue. Let's say I have, um, let's take something that's common. Someone has a pornography habit in addiction. Okay. So the first thing you do is say, thank God I'm equipped to get through this and not let this steal any of my joy or any of my peace. I immediately need to involve somebody else.
And accountability is wildly overrated. If the person lies to themselves, accountability is only as good as I'm honest. So I can meet with you every morning. Like I'm accountable. I had pure thoughts last night. Haven't looked at my computer, like, but I'm lying to myself. This is a waste of time.
I've already been honest with myself. I've already been honest with God. So now I can sit across from you and say, all right, Bryce, here's the truth. You know, this week had some huge misses in this area. And here's what I'm going to do about it. What do you see? How can you help me? Let's go with this plan. It's a plan of attack. It's not a plan of surrender. And I think there's a lot to that.
So for me, if you find something in your life, I immediately flip it. So if someone's like, I really struggle with negative thoughts. OK, cool. From this second on, let's think about how beautiful our mind is and how much power God's given us to renew our mind. Let's never think of it like that again. I struggle with bad thoughts. Okay.
Well, that entire strain of thinking will be defeated just like that. You'll be defeated. You'll be, you know, somebody who's kind of down a lot. But if you immediately switch and go, I have the power, Bryce, to think clear. And that's what I'm going to fight for. Here's how I'm going to do it. Negative thoughts doesn't even get in the sentence. Doesn't even get in your paragraph.
So it's a lot of... I think real, the essence of our faith is here. We look at kind of the actions of it and kind of what happens outside. And that's important. But Jesus was always looking at people's brains. Yeah. Always. And that's why even the essence of salvation is a brain move. Whoa. repent. That's a brain decision. Romans 12, renew your mind. That's a brain decision.
This is before helping people. This is before helping the needy. This is before evangelism. Renew your mind. Do not be conformed to the patterns of this world. Renew your mind. There's no action here. This is all thinking correctly. So there's so much power in that and so much freedom that if you can think right, you can be right. And when you're being right, you do right.
There's a lot of people who try to fix the doing and they never get around to the being. And that's why it's hollow Christian work if it's not really who you are.
You should be encouraged, bro, because you are doing an amazing job. Like, to be able to infiltrate this world, this TikTok insanity that I don't even fully get, and to be somebody who's bold about your faith, bro, I hope you're proud of yourself. Oh, my gosh. Oh, man. That's a demon. Demon. Well, not for nothing. What was the part of this conversation that was interrupted by that blower?
Yeah. Wow. straight encouragement to you. That's not by chance. I'll bet you there's a fee. So that's how you know, okay, there's an avenue of your heart that needs encouragement from heaven and from the right people. And if you get that right, you're gonna be a problem.
So even in this offhand moment, just taking one second just to put the spotlight on you and how great you're doing and a random lawn blower.
invade your house and your dog has a spaz like yeah sometimes I mean I'm not super spooky but I'm always looking around going was that uh no I think that uh that is a failed attempt and we're gonna flip it and make it a actually that confirms part of your calling is to be encouraged and to encourage other people wow yeah dang
Yeah. Though I like, I mean, there is a strain of thought that says basically if the Bible is not super clear on something, it's probably because there's ample evidence around it. So it's almost like the implication is like you should be able to date effectively if you're doing these seven things that God's already pointed out. And yeah, it's confusing.
So one suggestion or submission I would make to you is to maybe rethink. I can only take advice from a certain type of person, period. Just maybe, maybe kick that around a little bit because the older you get, and this is funny, bro, about life. When you're younger, you do have particular people that you listen to, but the older you get, it's like, are you winning at all? Can I steal your idea?
It's like that old adage where when you're younger, you see somebody that has the same outfit on. It's like, man, I hate that guy. But when you're older, you're like, hey, friends for life. What a great choice. You know, like what changed at your age? So I would say keep your mind open for any truth. that impacts your life in a positive way.
So if it's somebody who, because if that's, if you have like a gatekeeping mentality of like, if you're not married, I can't listen to you. Although I think it's super wise to listen to married people the most. I also find really high value sometimes in messages that come from messengers I might not, get it. And sometimes that's more about me than them.
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