#330 - David Pollack // Forced To Carry The Cross

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Joby Martin & Kyle Thompson

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🗓️ 7 April 2026

⏱️ 5 minutes

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Are you living like every day counts in your life or are you passively surviving the ups and downs of life? Check out David Pollack’s latest book, Every Day Counts: Start Where You Are. Use What You Have. Do What You Can. — Some Bible verses sit quietly on the page until life hits hard enough to make them speak. David Pollack shares a personal, honest reflection on Mark 15:21, the moment Simon of Cyrene is forced to carry Jesus’ cross, and why that single sentence took on new meaning during h...

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Daily Blade.
0:03.0	The Word of God is described as the sword of the spirit,
0:06.0	the primary spiritual weapon in the Christian's armor against the forces of evil.
0:11.0	Your hosts are Joby Martin and Kyle Thompson, and they stand ready to equip men for the fight.
0:17.0	Let's sharpen up.
0:20.0	Hey guys, David Pollock here again for day two.
0:23.8	Excited to talk again about another verse in the Bible. We talked about the Bible and
0:27.3	what it means yesterday, if you missed it, and just the validity of it and how everyone should
0:32.1	believe in it and understand exactly how it's the greatest history book that we've ever
0:37.4	had.
0:38.1	We also talked about just the verses and how they mean something different.
0:42.1	And I'm going to take you to our season of life right now.
0:44.9	My wife's been battling brain cancer for the last year and a half plus.
0:48.9	And we've learned a lot.
0:50.9	And obviously, God's used this experience to teach us amazing things.
0:54.9	And talking about verses that have never meant anything to me in the past that now recently has really
1:01.3	shift and change the way we look at it, I want to take you to Mark 21. And Mark 1521, excuse me.
1:08.6	And it says, a certain man from Syrene, Simon, the father of Alexander and Rufus,
1:13.8	was passing by on his way in from the country, and they forced him to carry the cross.
1:20.1	That's a very simple verse.
1:22.1	It hasn't had a lot of meeting until this past year and a half for me.
1:27.2	With our family now, like we've, we realized,
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