The Judah Smith Interview (EP 84)
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How did Pastor Judah Smith's sermon impact Bryce?
what's going on guys welcome back to another episode of the bryce crawford podcast i'm bryce and today i have a very special guest i'm so excited for this episode we've got pastor judah smith on judah how are you doing so good thanks for having me on bryce yeah i'm excited i want to start off with a completely honest confession okay okay um uh tanner was telling you earlier about how he watched jesus love and barabbas yeah when he became a christian yeah So Tanner was the one that introduced me to this video a year ago, and I've never heard the gospel communicated in that way before. So I took it and ran with it. So if someone tells me to give a 10-minute gospel presentation at a church, I quote you word from word. So I just want to tell you it has impacted me. I have to make a confession.
I have taken your sermon from 10 years ago and ran with it super hard. So thank you. Somehow, I think you probably improved on it. So thank you. No, no. It changed my life kind of in a similar way. Like there was a period of time where, I don't know, for me, I guess when I became a Christian, my faith was very emotional and Jesus was real. Right, right. And then something happened where he came very like logical and it was all like facts. Like how much can I know about Jesus to outsmart someone or things like that? And then Tanner had shown me Jesus loving Barabbas and I would listen to it every day and I go hunting. So I'd be hunting and I'd have my AirPods and listening to your sermon on a repeat because it made Jesus so real to me. And so that's kind of what I want to talk about. I want to talk about God's love because I feel like that's something I'm still struggling with today. Wow.
Is viewing God as a loving Father, viewing God as God's love, receiving God's love. So I really want to talk about that today. Sounds good to me. That might be my favorite subject. Okay, perfect. Well, this is good. But I want to learn a little bit about you, too. I mean, where are you from? How did you come to Christ? How long have you been a Christian? Those kind of things. Yeah. Well, the short of it, I grew up in Portland, Oregon until I was 13. I moved to Seattle at that point because my dad was a youth pastor for the first 13 years of my life and started a community of faith, a church in Seattle. So I've been Northwest my whole life and now live between Seattle and L.A., And the truth is, Bryce, I'm a seventh generation preacher as far back as we can tell. No way.
It goes back to a circuit riding woman preacher in New Mexico who carried a gun and a Bible. We have one photo of her. And so I am... Yeah, I come from a long line of preachers, which also means that I have so much trauma and so much dysfunction, too, because preachers like anybody else can have their proclivities and challenges and weaknesses. So it's awesome, and I'm proud of it. I was born on my grandfather's birthday, October 9th, so my middle name is Elwood. Shout out to my friend who now has like one of the coolest companies called Elwood. But growing up, Elwood was not the coolest middle name. But my grandpa was a preacher in the 50s and he was kind of intense. That's another interesting thing is that my life has grown and you go back and you learn about other preachers that you're related to and you're like, whoa, God just keeps showing us more about him and we're learning and growing. But Married 25 years, have three kids, Zion, Elliot, and Grace, 20, 18, 15. Dropped my 15-year-old off at high school in Venice this morning, and it's wild.
My son tomorrow has a playoff game for his Venice high school basketball team. It's his senior year. He's 6'5". He's a big dude. He's maybe going to play college ball. No way. That's kind of our... our life, man. And I love, love, love Portland and Seattle. They say the theme of Portland is keep Portland weird. But if that's weird, I like it. I just love Seattle and Portland. And I love LA. I mean, I've totally fallen in love with this city. And I'm so happy to be hanging with you today.
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