Joshua Broome

speaker

381 appearances 1 recordings 1 series first heard May 2025 last heard May 2025

Joshua Broome’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.

Trend

recordings per month · last 12 months

No recordings in the last 12 months.Older appearances are listed below; set an alert to hear about the next one.

Appearances

newest first · ▶ plays the moment

The Shawn Ryan Show · #196 Joshua Broome - "Rocco Reed," Inside The Adult Film Industry · 1 May 2025 podcast

Yeah, I mean, for me... It's like, you know, so thinking about like fighting, like I wasn't the best fighter, but I was a good counterpuncher, you know? Basketball, like I was quick, but I wasn't fast. So I was a shooter, so I had to, I could create separation so I could get my shot off. All these things were technique-driven, but I understood that it would yield results.

So I believed, man, if I take inventory of the things in my life that don't line up with where I want to go, and I implement a regimen of things that will set me on the trajectory for me to go, then it'll work. Okay, so where do I start? I need a mentor. So first thing I did, it was so crazy. I go to this church. It was a pretty big church in Raleigh.

And I was like, there's a pastor I can talk to. Like, sure. Executive pastor. Around the corner. Just happened to be in there. His name's Gary Vett. And I walked in there, and I was like... can I tell you a story? Because I feel like God wants me to build a boat. But I shared with him my story.

And I was like, man, I feel like I need to build a foundation because I think there's people that God's going to use my story to rescue, to point to himself. And that's the boat that I feel like I need to build. What am I supposed to do? And he's like, Wow. And then he grabs this guy, Andrew.

And Andrew just graduated from DTS, Dallas Theological Seminary, moved to Raleigh to help open another campus. And discipleship was something that he was passionate about and gifted in, very gifted teacher. And it's funny. I used to tell a story. It was like, man, he was a new guy on staff. He had all this free time.

Knowing what I know now in ministry, the new guy on staff does not have free time. You're doing all this stuff. But he's like, I didn't have time. And honestly, my plan was to give you a Bible, tell you what to read, and tell you to get plugged into a small group. And he was like, man, just the Holy Spirit just fell on me and convicted me.

Like when you walked in my office and I was like, man, I've got to, pour out every bit of me into him. And I don't know why. And he didn't know what he was getting himself into. He's like, man, I just want you to open up my office to you. I want to spend as much time discipling you as you want to spend. So I was like, okay.

You know, I've got a little bit of a crazy work ethic where I was like, all right. So I was like doing everything I could to like, I was like giving away personal training clients and I was showing up at his office and I was spending 10 to 15 hours a week with Andrew.

And, you know, we started in the book of John where the book of John, you know, anyone asked me, what's the first book of the Bible I need to read? The book of John. The book of John is an eyewitness account of the life of Jesus. John walked with Jesus, and John wants you to know, hey, this is who Jesus is, this is what Jesus did, and this is how it matters to all that believe.

John specifically has written to not specifically a Greek audience, not specifically a Jewish audience. It's an overarching audience, so it uses language that's not confusing. It's very clear. So we dug into that. I wasn't a scholarly dude, but I could read and regurgitate stuff, but it wouldn't always conceptualize.

It's true that the Bible says that the Word of God is alive and active, sharper than any two-edged sword, divides bone and marrow. Where if you are allowing the Holy Spirit to lead you, I think it's important that we pray before we read our Bible. I was reading this text, and it wasn't just words on a page. It was words. coming into my heart and undoing things.

And it was like, I was like receiving, you know, it's, it's, you know, it's, I think it's appropriate that we talk about Jesus is the bread of life. You know, it's the water that will never leave you thirsty because once you experience like true sustenance, like if you've ever been starving and,

and then you find sustenance, like you're satisfied in a way that is almost like you can't fully articulate. It was that, and I experienced a peace that came with that that I became very hungry for and I couldn't get enough.

And for me, it used to be, man, if you come to my house or my grandma's house, her buttermilk biscuits are ridiculous and she's such a great grandma that I get out of school at 3.37, she's taking them out of the oven at 3.40, They're hitting a plate, and you can bite them. They're still crispy on the top, and they're soft in the middle. She times it perfect. You've got to try this.

The gospel became that for me. It was like, man, this really works. This really is changing my life, and it's beautiful and interesting and captivating, and it's the best story ever told. And that story, it's about a God that is personal and wants to get to know you, and man, I can't wait to tell you about Him. And that just became... all I ever wanted to do.

If I'm honest, I get to do some really cool stuff, but at the end of the day, that's the thing that fires me up most. So it started there. But I think if you're to teach anyone anything, I'm talking about Victor. Victor's going to show me how to do something with a knife. And then he was going to give me the knife, and then I need to show him what he showed me.

Because if I can't replicate what you just taught me, I didn't catch it. And you have to apply it to truly learn it. And I think when we...

reciprocate our our faith in that we we share things that god has you know implanted on us to others there's something that's solidified you think there's you know there's something beautiful that happens when there's a a physical and practical response to something that's prompted in us spiritually and that's just has been natural for me how long did it take you to learn forgiveness

A lot longer. I think the first step of that was when our first son was born. I remember, like, my wife is like a germaphobe, and she's always like, you know, Have you washed your hands? Have you washed your hands? Our kids, we will be somewhere and wash our hands and get in our car.

And if we pick up takeout, and we're going to eat it on the way home, and they're in the back watching a movie or whatever, they know you've got to get the hand sanitizer also. So when our son's born, I'm like, she's already instilled the fear in me. By that point, I'm like, are my hands clean enough to touch our son?

Showing 301–320 of 381 · page 16 of 20