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Preston Morrison: The Quiet Faith Resurgence No One’s Talking About... | DSH #1708
25 Dec 2025
Chapter 1: How did fear during COVID change community dynamics?
But I asked him, I said, what are you doing at the door during a worldwide pandemic? And this guy says, if I'm going to go, I'm going to go serving the Lord and being in the midst of my family. Wow. I mean, that, bro, it leveled me because there was so much fear back then that here's this giant of a man that most people, if most of the people listening to this saw him, they'd think he was weak.
That's a measure of strength that I don't know that I've ever seen in my lifetime.
Chapter 2: What personal battles with fear did Preston Morrison face?
Okay, guys, we got Pastor Preston Morrison here, someone who's been a pastor for 25 years. Thanks for coming, man. Thanks for having me.
Chapter 3: How does spiritual warfare manifest in daily life?
Yeah, you've dedicated your whole life to this.
My entire adult life, yeah.
Yeah, I got to hear how it started, and was it planned? Like, was this always the goal for you?
Chapter 4: Why is community essential for overcoming anxiety?
Yeah, so I grew up in the church. My dad was a pastor. My grandfather was a pastor.
Chapter 5: How does identity impact feelings of insecurity?
My dad kind of tried to talk me out of it, you know, in a good way, not just to do it to do it or because of family, but I kind of knew at 13 this was the path.
that i felt god had me on and uh it's been a wild ride this last 25 yeah that's super young to to really know what you want to do i feel like yeah it's a little bit rare you know i don't put that on my kids i've got four kids it it's it's not for everybody but i felt like the path that god had for me it it needed to be laid out pretty early because i'm a stubborn donkey so yeah yeah you're stubborn i i am a bit of a stubborn at least you could admit i got some fighter yeah there's levels to stubbornness
there is for sure but i think it comes in handy especially in the day in which we live you think stubbornness comes in handy well i mean a little bit of fighter i mean since covid right this is it's a it's a difficult and complicated time to live and i think everybody needs a little bit of fighter just to to navigate the day-to-day uh experiences of this life agreed did covet affect your trust levels with with the government
Chapter 6: What role does social media play in healing?
I wouldn't say I get into as much of that as I think it helped me to see some things that were there. And I think as it relates to the church, we had a season where the government stepped in and said you can or can't meet.
Chapter 7: How can young men find their way back to faith?
Some churches chose to abide by that. Some went a different path. And I think we saw as pastors and as the church, capital C, we saw that there were a lot of people pre-COVID. Everybody was saying, I'm doing awesome, I'm in a healthy place. And what COVID did, it's less about what happened government, all that stuff. For me, it's personally, it exposed where people actually were.
And I think what we learned during COVID was, humanity was not nearly as healthy as everyone was pretending to be. It just exposed the problems that were already there.
Chapter 8: What insights does Preston offer about mental health and spirituality?
Agreed. Yeah, I think it made me open up about my own health because I got COVID four times.
Did you really?
And the first time almost wiped me out. I feel like that was one of the worst batches, the first batch before it was like mainstream. Right. I don't know if you caught that one, but... Yeah, I did.
Oh, my God. I think I got it. So we had somebody in our church actually pass away in February before... Kind of March was... Beginning of March was when everything started to become known. But all the symptoms she had... and I went to the hospital to visit her and be with her husband. She was in a coma, and I ended up getting it. I had no idea what I had. I just thought it was a really bad flu.
But, I mean, it was wild.
That's how I felt. I still have damage from it today. I had pneumonia, bronchitis. My lungs still have some issues. Yeah.
man that first wave was it was wicked well yeah it caught me to reevaluate my health if we're being honest because even though I was young I wasn't active yeah I was just sitting in my house all day working 18 hours a day trying to make a name for myself doing that for years straight you know it's not healthy yeah you know gotta be moving yeah so did you guys keep the church open during those years
Yeah, we met. Every municipality had different boundaries and different rules. Arizona, which is where I'm from, did a fairly good job, in my opinion. Many of the pastors in our area were on a weekly call with the governor's office.
And so we kind of had a heads up on everything that was going on, and we saw what the quote-unquote rules were, and we did everything we could to continue to minister to our people. But I mean, in our church, for instance, we had a guy in his early 80s who literally wheeled around an oxygen tank.
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