>> Welcome to It Is Written
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Canada.
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Thank you for joining us.
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Some would say that it all
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started in an old country
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schoolhouse in Waldheim,
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schoolhouse in Waldheim,
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Saskatchewan with a little boy
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named Henry Feyerabend,
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whose skinny four-year-old
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legs dangled from the bench
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while his uncle, Diedrich
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Neufeld, affectionately known as
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Uncle D.D., preached an
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evangelistic meeting with the
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old charts covering the
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chalkboard, revealing the
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beast's from the prophetic books
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of Daniel and Revelation.
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>> Little Henry poked his mother
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to get her attention.
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Then he pulled her close to hear
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his announcement.
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"Mama, you know something?
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Mama! Someday I'm going to be
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a preacher and a baptizer,
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just like Uncle D.D."
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>> Instead of pin up pictures of
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hockey heroes and movie stars,
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young Henry Feyerabend papered
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the walls of his bedroom with
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pictures of Pastor HMS Richards,
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pictures of Pastor HMS Richards,
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the famous voice of the Voice of
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Prophecy Radio programs, and
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prints of the King's Heralds
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quartet.
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>> Henry had a persistent fire
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burning in his heart
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to preach, to sing,
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and to share his love
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for his Saviour,
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which took him from selling
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which took him from selling
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Christian books, to teaching,
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to being a dean of boys
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at an academy, to being a
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singing evangelist,
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to spending 11 years as a
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to spending 11 years as a
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missionary in Brazil, where he
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preached and sang to thousands
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of people from the pulpit and
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from the broadcasting studio.
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>> When Pastor Feyerabend
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returned to Canada in 1969,
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his first assignment was to work
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with none other than Pastor
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George Vandeman in an
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evangelistic campaign
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in Toronto.
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At the time, Henry had no idea
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At the time, Henry had no idea
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how the Lord was about to
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amplify his voice
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as a humble servant of God...
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....leading him to produce a
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series of weekly broadcasts
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from a tiny radio station
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in Toronto, to a series of
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short five-minute telecasts.
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First in Portuguese and later in
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English, to what today
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is a national and international
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media ministry known as It Is
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Written Canada.
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>> In a moment, you will listen
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to the stories of the many
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faithful people who have
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dedicated their lives to serving
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our Saviour sacrificially...
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...shaping this ministry,
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which took to the air
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some 50 years ago.
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[theme music playing]
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¤¤
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[gentle guitar music playing]
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¤¤
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[HENRY] If you use the Bible to
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interpret itself, you're on
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safe ground.
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And so I wanted to know what
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happens when Jesus comes
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with clouds...
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[SHAWN] Henry was a legend.
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Henry loved people.
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Henry loved winning people to
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Christ more than anything
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in the world.
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He just absolutely lived for it.
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I mean, he bought a bus at one
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point just so he could tour
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point just so he could tour
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Canada and go from town to town
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and hold public meetings where
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people could investigate the
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scriptures with him and get to
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know Christ.
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know Christ.
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I've never seen that level of
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dedication.
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I mean, he literally died
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on the job eventually, right to
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the end, serving Christ, leading
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people to Christ.
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My first impression was, man,
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I've never met somebody so
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dedicated to anything
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in my life.
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And I found it contagious.
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To hang out with Henry rubs off
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on you, and next thing you know,
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I'm doing it every day probably
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for the rest of my life.
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>> An inquiry was called to
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determine the cause of the
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accident.
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The signalman was called
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to the stand.
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"Did you hear the approaching
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train?" he was asked.
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"What did you do to warn the
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engineer of the danger?"
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"I waved my lantern
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back and forth..."
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[DOUG] I think one thing that
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people really enjoyed about
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Henry's presentations was it was
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full of stories.
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I mean, there was-
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he would never
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he would never
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cease to amaze me, these stories
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he'd come up with.
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I mean, it seemed like every
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situation in a, you know,
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every sermon he told,
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every broadcast he produced,
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every broadcast he produced,
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it was just full of stories that
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perfectly illustrated, you know,
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the principle that he was trying
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to convey.
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[SHAWN] Jesus was a storyteller.
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If you look at it, most of the
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If you look at it, most of the
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gospels are stories.
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Jesus told, what, 40, 42
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parables, something like that in
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the Gospels, and Henry was
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following in those footsteps.
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And man, could he tell a tale.
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He'd pull you in.
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He'd give you just enough detail
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that you wonder where in the
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world is this going?
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Because it would be just quirky
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enough, just interesting enough.
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Even if you kind of thought you
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were gonna leave the meeting
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early, you won't leave the
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meeting early because Henry's
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telling a story.
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And he'd pull the punch line,
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not that it was a joke, but
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there was always a punchline.
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There was always the delivery of
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either the really important fact
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from Scripture, or there was the
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delivery of a bonding moment
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where you just felt like you'd
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got to know the guy personally.
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got to know the guy personally.
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And the stories he told, I'd be
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in stitches.
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I used to go to his house in
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Waldheim, Saskatchewan, and we
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were supposed to be working on
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TV shows, but he'd end up
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telling stories till like one,
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two in the morning and I'd be
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two in the morning and I'd be
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wiping the tears out of my eyes.
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People don't know that about him
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always from the TV appearances,
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because he was always kind of
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proper, but the stories...
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I learned a lot from the guy.
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To this day, I'm a storyteller
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as well, and I think I picked a
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lot of that up from Henry
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Feyerabend.
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Stories are where people are.
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Stories are where people are.
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Stories is what people can
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relate to, and he instinctively
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knew that.
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>> Who would have thought
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that within less than two years,
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even the Kremlin, his last
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stronghold, Gorbachev's third
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floor...
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[DOUG] I have very fond memories
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of in between takes
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of in between takes
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on location, you know, in Brazil
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somewhere, we're sitting down in
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between takes, working on some
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script, and all of a sudden
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Henry pops up with some story
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that I've never heard before.
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You figure you spend enough
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years with a guy, you're gonna
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hear all the stories, right?
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[SHAWN] He got a boat, and I
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looked at the thing, and the
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looked at the thing, and the
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boat was a piece of junk.
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Oh my goodness, it was awful.
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But it's what he had and he was
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so proud of it.
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Let's go out fishing or
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go out on the lake.
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Let's have fun together.
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So we put it in the lake, we're
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in northern Saskatchewan
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and we're out having a nice day.
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The fishing's horrible, we're
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not catching much.
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And eventually he sees
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whitecaps forming on the far
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end of the lake.
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He said, "Oh, there's a storm
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brewing, Shawn, we gotta get off
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the water."
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I said, "Fair enough.
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Let's get off the water."
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He said, "But not before I show
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you what my boat can do."
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I said, "Really?"
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And I knew it couldn't do much.
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I mean, I could see it.
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It's a piece of junk.
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There's no way it's gonna...
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He says, "No, no, no, buckle up,
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man, this is gonna be amazing.
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Sit down."
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So I sit down and he hits the
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throttle, and this thing, I'll
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give him credit, it takes off
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like a rocket ship. Voop!
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I mean, we practically left the
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water over a wave.
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And I thought, that is
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impressive, Henry.
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And suddenly it came to a dead
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stop, like we'd hit a brick
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wall, which doesn't happen
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on water.
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You don't come to dead stops
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on the water.
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And I'm recovering a little bit,
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and trying to get my balance
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from stopping so suddenly, and
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it suddenly takes off again.
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It lurches at about 20 degrees
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that way, takes off again, and
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then it comes to another dead
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stop, and we're lurching across
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the lake, and I'm- we're on the
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bottom of the boat and I'm
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saying, "Henry, this is
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quite a boat.
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I mean, really, what a ride."
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And he's like, "I don't
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understand it."
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Well, it turns out we had the
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anchor out the whole time, and
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it was catching every log and
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dead head in that lake as we
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were trying to cruise across
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the lake.
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And so, yeah, lurch, stop.
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It's fortunate we didn't rip the
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back end of that boat off.
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So to the day he died, we were
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laughing about his amazing boat
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that could lurch us across.
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We just about killed us.
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We just about killed us.
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>> On today's program, we talked
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about miniature microphones.
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I'm wearing one behind my tie.
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And here is just what it
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looks like.
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[laughter]
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[SHAWN] There was one event late
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in life, he developed an
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unfortunate hematoma.
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He got a cancer in his knee.
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And I was living in the United
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And I was living in the United
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States by this point and I was
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waiting for green cards to come
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through, so I couldn't come up
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and visit because they put a
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little bit of a stay on your
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travel when you're waiting for
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immigration to deal with your
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paperwork.
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So I knew he was gonna go to the
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hospital, and I knew they were
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gonna take his leg.
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And that's tragic.
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He had the same thing
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that Terry Fox had, and it might
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have even been the same leg.
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And everybody in Canada knows
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Terry Fox, right?
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He had the same thing.
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So they had to take the leg
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eventually, there just was no
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saving it.
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So I remember calling him early
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one morning at the hospital and
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"No, he's not awake yet.
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He's still in recovery, he's
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still in recovery."
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And I'm thinking,
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"This is awful.
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Losing a limb, waking up
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and having to cope with that.
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This is awful and I can't be by
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the bedside of my friend to
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encourage him when he wakes up.
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By phone seems-
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eh, I don't know..."
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So I called him.
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Eventually I got through when
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he woke up and they punched it
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through to his room, he picked
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up the phone, I said, "Henry,
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it's Shawn.
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How are you doing?"
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He says, "Well, I'm gonna be
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really honest with you, Shawn.
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I'm on my last leg."
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And I started to laugh and I
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felt bad because now I'm
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laughing at his missing leg,
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but that's...that's funny.
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I said, "Really?" and just he's,
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"Yeah, I'm on my last leg.
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They took it away and
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they sent in a counsellor to see
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how I was doing, and I think she
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feels better now after talking
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to me."
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I mean, he rode that through
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with class.
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And later on, he was on my board
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at another institution, because
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you have to have Henry
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Feyerabend on your board.
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And he wheeled in, and I
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remember for the meeting, he
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took his false leg and he turned
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it upside down so his foot is in
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front of his face.
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I'm trying to give a
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presentation, but his foot's
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in front of his face the whole
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time and, yeah.
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He laughed his way through the
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hardest moments of life.
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I have no doubt that he was in
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a lot of pain.
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Nobody- I remember the fear that
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he felt when it was going down
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and it was going to happen.
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But somehow he managed to do
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that because he felt it was also
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important to pull everyone else
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into the room and make them feel
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better about what was going on.
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Man, he had a gift for that.
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I was- we were laughing
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all the time.
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>> Today it's my pleasure to
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introduce my associate speaker,
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Shawn Boonstra.
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>> Is alcohol really a mocker?
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Does strong drink really
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make us rage?
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According to the statistics,
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yes.
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[DOUG] One of the things I liked
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best about working with Shawn
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is where Henry would tell
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stories, Shawn would, too, but
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where Henry would tell stories
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to illustrate points, Shawn was
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to illustrate points, Shawn was
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a much more researched writer.
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You would get a lot of
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statistics with him.
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You would get a lot of
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scientific research.
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And as someone who's kind of a
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techno geek, that sort of stuff
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was very interesting.
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>> Whosoever is deceived thereby
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is not wise.
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God knows what He's talking
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about.
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[SHAWN] Henry Feyerabend, I
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think, knew he was gonna be a
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minister from about the
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age of two.
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That was not me.
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I came in really kicking and
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screaming.
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To this day, I describe myself
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as a recovering heathen.
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I really had a life in politics,
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I thought, and I was living in
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British Columbia.
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I would go down to the
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Legislative Assembly in British
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Columbia for question period.
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Oh man, did I love question
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period.
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The way Canadians eviscerate
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each other in politics is so
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polite compared to like where I
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live now in America.
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In America, they just say what
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they're thinking.
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Here, they do it through the
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Speaker of the House.
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And I could not get enough
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of this.
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I cut class so I could listen to
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the, you know, so-and-so from
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the loyal opposition stands up.
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"Mr. Speaker, is it okay if I
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call the, you know, the loyal
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member from such-and-such a
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blankety-blank?"
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"No, you may not do that."
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Well, now it's in the Hansard
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and it's been done.
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So I- that was too much of a...
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And I thought, "That's the life
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I want.
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I wanna go down there, I wanna
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eviscerate my opponents,
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I want..."
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The problem is I was terrified
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of television and public
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speaking.
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How are you supposed to run for
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office when you're terrified of
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television and public speaking?
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So that's why I spent all my
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time doing that.
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And then I started to sense that
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I wasn't going to spend my life
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in politics.
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And a little voice was saying,
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"You're not gonna do that."
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And I barely recognized
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the voice.
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I came from a Bible-believing
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home, I came from a Christian
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home, but I was living pretty
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wild at this stage.
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And I'm renting a house on
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Vancouver Island, and I remember
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sitting on the back step
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one night...
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...and I'm smoking a cigarette.
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At that point, I was a pack a
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day by the time I was 19.
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And I'm saying, "All right, God,
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if You're real, here are my
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conditions.
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If- what do You want me to do?"
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And the little voice is like,
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"Well, you're going into the
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ministry," and I laughed out
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loud at that thought.
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I mean, how- I can't run for
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office because I can't speak.
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Minister, what, really?
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Stand up front every weekend and
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talk to a roomful of people?
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Minister?
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What are my friends gonna think
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if I end up in the ministry?
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Of all the- naw," I laughed
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at the idea.
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And I couldn't shake it.
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So I...
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...I called my girlfriend
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at the time.
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She's now been my wife for 31
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years, but we were dating at the
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time and I called her.
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I say, "Look, I got this idea.
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I'm not gonna run for office
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one day.
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What are you thinking?"
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And I said this, I knew she was
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gonna laugh, "I'm gonna be
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a minister."
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And she said, "I've known that
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since the day I met you."
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And I'm thinking, "How? Because
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it's news to me tonight."
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>> In our last program, we left
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off asking some very important
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questions about Daniel chapter 8
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and verse 19.
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If you missed...
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[CHRIS] My childhood, I did not
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grow up in the church, really.
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I grew up Roman Catholic, and
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I grew up Roman Catholic, and
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we, as, you know, I would not
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call our family like super
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devout, but we were in church
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every single week.
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And when I was about 14 years
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old, my life really changed
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dramatically.
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My parents began the process of
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getting a divorce.
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I was going through a lot of
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issues myself, some real serious
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anger issues.
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I...
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...injured myself,
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pretty severely in football,
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went through a number of
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surgeries.
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And all during that time,
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I essentially gave up on church.
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I gave up going to church.
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I said to myself, you know,
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"I know that God exists, but I
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don't know where He exists."
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And I don't know that it was a
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super conscientious,
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"I'm gonna go find God,"
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but I began this journey where I
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began visiting a variety of
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different churches and
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other faiths.
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And when I turned about 20,
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I was 21 years old, I
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encountered the Three Angels
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Messages, the Seventh-day
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Adventist Church, through a
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net evangelistic campaign.
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It was Net '95 and at that time,
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the big technology was satellite
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technology, and that was
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satellited in to locations
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all around the world.
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And Mark Finley was the preacher
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of that Net '95.
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Very influential in that
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broadcast was the ministry of
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broadcast was the ministry of
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It Is Written.
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And through that encounter...
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...and through those messages,
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I met Jesus, and in meeting
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Jesus, I began to
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study the Bible, and I began to
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understand prophecy.
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And after that happened, I was
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baptized in 1995.
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And I married my wife, Debbie,
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in 1996.
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And shortly after we were
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married, I began to sense
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the desire to go and
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get a college degree.
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I didn't have a college degree.
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I was working in restaurants, so
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I was- restaurant management was
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my profession and...
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...when I began working
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for Andrews University, and one
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of the benefits of my work was
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to take a free class.
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And I began taking a class,
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"God and Human Life," which is a
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general education Bible class.
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And there in that "God and Human
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Life" class, I began to sense
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that maybe God was calling me
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that maybe God was calling me
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into ministry.
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>> Dear friend, please do not
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reject or ignore Him.
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Yield yourself to Him today.
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[CHRIS] It took 21 years for me
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to encounter the
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life-saving message of Jesus and
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the biblical truths that the
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Scripture teaches.
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And I began to feel this heavy
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burden in my heart.
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I didn't want other 21-year-olds
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to have to go through what I
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went through.
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And I went through confusion.
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I tell people my spiritual
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journey was like if you took a
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5000-piece puzzle and a
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10,000-piece puzzle and a
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thousand-piece puzzle, and you
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jumbled it all together and
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said, "Okay, figure it out."
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And so this is why I really am
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very passionate about preaching
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expository sermons, sticking to
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the biblical text, and keeping
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things simple so people can put
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it together and really
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understand.
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There is just a burning in me
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to share the gospel message with
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people that they might see the
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truth of Scripture and have a
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life-transforming experience
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with Jesus Christ.
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>> The Scopes Evolution Trial is
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a leading candidate for having
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received the most media
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attention...
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[SHAWN] My first appearance on
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television was It Is Written
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television was It Is Written
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Canada, first appearance on
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television.
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And I'm the intern, I'm the new
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kid, and Henry Feyerabend is the
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speaker director of the program,
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and he wants to do a bit on
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creation, evolution, human
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origins, and so on.
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He says, "Okay, Shawn, your job
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is to rent me a monkey.
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I want a monkey as I talk about
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the descent of man."
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I said, "My job is to rent
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a monkey?
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That's not what I envisioned
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when I..."
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"Yeah, rent a monkey."
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So I called a few animal
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handlers and so on, and I booked
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a monkey.
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And then the person who owned
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the monkey found out it was a
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Christian program and just hated
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Christians and cancelled the
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monkey at the last minute and
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we're about to go to studio.
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And so there's no monkey.
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And I'm thinking, "Now, what are
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we gonna do?"
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Well, guess what happens.
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The intern gets to
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be the monkey.
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That's me.
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I had to put up my first
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appearance on It Is Written
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Canada is in a gorilla suit,
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and that footage still exists
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somewhere.
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I'm in a gorilla suit.
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And I decide, "Well, if I'm
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gonna be a gorilla for the Lord,
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I'm gonna be the best gorilla
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you can imagine."
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So I put it on.
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I played full monkey.
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Jumped up on the desk, tousled
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Henry's hair while he's trying
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to speak the camera, smashed
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stuff on the desk, and...
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Yeah, but it was a rental suit
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and those come from costume
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companies and sometimes costume
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companies, those suits don't
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smell the best inside.
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They go to Halloween parties,
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people get drunk, they throw up
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in them, they smoke in them.
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And I'm under hot lights wearing
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a rubber monkey suit, smelling
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vomit and cigarettes doing It Is
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Written Canada.
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There is my entrance into
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television ministry in Canada.
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I am the monkey.
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It Is Written Canada
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were some of the best years
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of my career.
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I've been working in Christian
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media now for about, I don't
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know, quarter century,
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a little more.
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I'm getting old.
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You know, the grey in my beard
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tells you I've been at it for a
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while, but some of the brightest
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years were with Canada.
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The Canadian audience is
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phenomenal.
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When I was on a weekly show,
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you'd go into Loblaws or Safeway
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or SuperValu and people would
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know you.
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They're watching the show.
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I'm praying with people in the
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supermarket, I'm giving Bible
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studies in the supermarket, and
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I get to tell unique Canadian
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stories across the country to a
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Canadian audience and put it in
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a biblical context.
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So Canada
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is a really special place,
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always will be.
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And the audience for It Is
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Written Canada, well, it changed
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my life, too.
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As much as I like to think,
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"Oh, our program is really
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helping people," the people
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helped us, too.
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It was just a
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really wonderful experience.
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[CHRIS] I had no idea the impact
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that that weekly broadcast would
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have on people's lives.
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have on people's lives.
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I would be standing in line at
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grocery stores where individuals
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would be uncomfortably staring
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at me, and I would wonder,
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"Why are these individuals
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staring at me?"
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And finally they would say,
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"Hey, are you that guy from the
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television program?"
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Where I would be standing in
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line, I'll never forget, in
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Kelowna, British Columbia, I was
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standing in line there in the
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security line and...
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...the officer coming up to me
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and just whispering to me,
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"Hey, keep up the good work.
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I really appreciate your
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weekly programs."
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Our partnership meetings were
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always a highlight where we
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could spend time with our
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faithful donors, those who had
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partnered with us, through
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prayer, had partnered with us
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through participating in
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ministry, and had partnered
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with us financially.
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Just so appreciated those
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focused weekends and days where
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we would spend time.
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I appreciated the
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Canadian people and the
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leadership of our church.
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You know, our church in Canada
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is a wonderful place with godly
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leaders who want to win people
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for Christ.
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[uplifting music playing]
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[DOUG] This ministry has a
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tremendous impact on people.
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tremendous impact on people.
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And the reason it's so important
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for us to be on broadcast
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television is because unlike
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social media, which is very
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valuable, we reach people
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by accident.
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They're sitting on their couch,
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they turn on the TV early,
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they're gonna watch the Super
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Bowl, whatever, they're gonna
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watch a soap opera, they're
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gonna watch Seinfeld,
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I don't know.
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And lo and behold, while they're
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waiting for their show to start,
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you get the last ten minutes of
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It Is Written.
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And instead of turning it off
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and moving somewhere else,
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they'll just leave it there
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because they're waiting for
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their show to start.
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But lo and behold you say
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something, Bill said something,
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Shawn said something, Henry said
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something that tweaked their
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interest just a little bit,
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and they actually sat down
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and listened.
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And thought, "Well, this is
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interesting.
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Maybe I'll watch next week."
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And they do.
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It's non-threatening.
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We get the opportunity to maybe
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through the Holy Spirit's
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intervention get them a little
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bit interested in what's going
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on, and they stick around
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and listen for even like
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two minutes.
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And this is the miracle of
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It Is Written and this is why
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It Is Written is so important
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as a broadcast ministry
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going forward.
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>> When you come up against...
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[SHAWN] I am an off-the-charts
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introvert.
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introvert.
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When I was a kid,
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at Christmas dinners,
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as soon as I could get away with
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it, I would excuse myself from
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the table and go sit in the
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stairwell and read a book.
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That's what I would rather do.
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If I could go away into an ivory
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tower and collect fellowships
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and PhDs, awesome.
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You know, never have to deal
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with the public again.
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And yet...and yet I know
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that the public is going through
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what I went through.
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The Bible talks about there is
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no temptation such as is common
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to all.
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We all struggle at points with
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the meaning of our existence.
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And if you haven't yet, just let
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yourself get a little older.
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You will struggle with the
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meaning of your existence.
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You will struggle with the
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meaning of your existence, not
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just how do they end up in this
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universe, but what's my role in
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this world?
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Am I here for a reason?
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And the thought of somebody
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not finding the hope I found
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is the reason I get out of bed
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and go down into that auditorium
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and stand up there, and I make a
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deal with God every time,
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"I'll go out there and talk,
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but You have to go with me
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this time."
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And I wait and I pray until I'm
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confident I'm not alone
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out there.
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There's only one reason I do
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what I do.
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It's because so many people are
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living an existence with
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zero hope.
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Nothing.
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I will not let people go to the
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grave without hope if I can
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help it.
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So I will go on
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gritting my teeth
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and praying desperate prayers
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backstage and doing this.
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Because how do you not?
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How do you not?
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Some of you watching today have
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wrestled with some of the things
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that I've wrestled with in life.
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Is God real?
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Is there a meaning to my life?
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Why do I exist?
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Is there a way to have a happy,
00:25:16.08\00:25:17.91
content, joyful life
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with hope in my heart?
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I'm gonna pray for you
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right now.
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I don't think it's a coincidence
00:25:23.92\00:25:25.25
that you've turned this on
00:25:25.25\00:25:26.65
today.
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So I'm gonna bound my head and
00:25:27.46\00:25:28.56
speak to God in your behalf.
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Father in heaven, right now,
00:25:30.73\00:25:32.83
somebody's watching who I think
00:25:32.83\00:25:34.63
is looking for You.
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They might not know You by name,
00:25:35.80\00:25:37.37
they might be a little worried
00:25:37.37\00:25:38.50
about what that means, but
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they've been sensing that You're
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speaking to them somehow, trying
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to get their attention.
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Draw really close to that person
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right now, let them know how
00:25:46.11\00:25:47.11
much You love them, that You're
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close, and that You have a plan
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for them, and that You long to
00:25:50.65\00:25:53.25
be in fellowship with them and
00:25:53.25\00:25:54.75
put that smile in their heart.
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And I'm praying for that person
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right now.
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In Jesus?me, amen.
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>> Friends, as Pastor Henry
00:26:04.43\00:26:05.89
Feyerabend knew, there is an
00:26:05.89\00:26:07.50
evidence about God's
00:26:07.50\00:26:09.13
faithfulness that is open
00:26:09.13\00:26:11.27
to all.
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It is to the most highly
00:26:13.07\00:26:15.10
educated and the most
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illiterate, and it is the
00:26:16.60\00:26:18.37
evidence of experience.
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God invites you to prove for
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yourself the reality of His
00:26:23.01\00:26:24.98
Word, the Bible, the truth of
00:26:24.98\00:26:27.42
His promises found in His Word.
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He invites you to taste and to
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see that the Lord is good.
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Instead of depending upon the
00:26:36.12\00:26:38.03
word of someone else, you can
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taste for yourself.
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Jesus declares,
00:26:42.00\00:26:43.73
"Ask and you will receive."
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So our free offer for you today
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is our Bible study guides.
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They will help you understand
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the Bible better and become
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wiser in your walk
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with Jesus.
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>> Our free Bible study guides
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will help you to experience
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for yourself the reality of
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God's Holy Word, the truth of
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His promises, how the Bible
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has verifiable answers to life's
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existential questions, including
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God's will for your life.
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>> Practical answers that make
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sense and will give you
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assurance for the present
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and for the future.
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>> Before you go, we would also
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like to thank all of you
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who have supported the ministry
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of It Is Written Canada with
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your prayers and financial
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contributions.
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Without your support, this
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television ministry could not
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have reached so many people
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for so many decades.
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>> Yes, thank you.
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And we would also like to invite
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And if you go to our website,
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And if you go to our website,
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you can see our latest programs.
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>> Once again, our time has run
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out and it's time to say goodbye
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for another week.
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Join us next week
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at the same time,
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and until then, remember
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"It is written, 'Man shall not
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live by bread alone, but by
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every word that proceedeth
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out of the mouth of God.'"
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[uplifting orchestral music]
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