339: By Their Fruits Ye Shall Know Them: What’s Real Always Reveals Itself
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🗓️ 12 December 2025
⏱️ 38 minutes
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Summary
In this episode, Corrine and Neil share a simple story that turned into a powerful reminder about discernment and integrity. After test-playing several Steinway pianos, Corrine realized that the one that looked the prettiest on the outside wasn’t the one with the “rich and deep” sound she loved. Instead, the piano that felt like “the soul was speaking” to her was the one that didn’t look perfect at all.
That experience opened the door to a bigger conversation about the scripture “By their fruits ye shall know them.” Corrine and Neil talk about how this same principle showed up again in an unexpected business conversation, and how true character and true value always reveals itself in the fruit, not the shine.
Neil also shares how this applies in recovery, where “you can’t fake the fruit,” and how real change only comes through rigorous honesty and the atonement of Jesus Christ.
This episode offers a grounded, faith-centered look at how to recognize what’s real, how to see people clearly, and how God helps us discern the truth beneath the surface.
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| 0:00.0 | The way this podcast episode has been hard for us to record is almost laughable to me. |
| 0:14.3 | We've had it scheduled three times this week, and then things have come up that were just unavoidable but to me when that happens |
| 0:23.9 | that's a sign to me that this is really important and that Satan doesn't want us to do and I remember |
| 0:31.1 | I had a seminary teacher who told me speaking of shout out to my handsome seminary teacher over here. |
| 0:38.1 | Seminary attire on for this morning. |
| 0:40.8 | I had a seminary teacher who told me in high school, and if you're not familiar with our |
| 0:45.0 | religion seminary is like Bible study. It's not like in other churches where seminary you're |
| 0:50.0 | going to learn. I think you go to seminary in the Catholic Church to learn to be a priest. Yeah, I think so. |
| 0:55.8 | It's like your college course. Anyway, seminary in our church is just Bible study, basically. And I had a |
| 1:01.8 | teacher in high school who said to me, Corin, the times you don't want to go are the times you need to go the |
| 1:08.5 | most because that is the adversary working double time |
| 1:12.9 | to try to get you to not go. And I find that a lot of times when we have conflict show up |
| 1:20.8 | in our marriage or when we have just things pop up, which it was not a conflict thing this time. |
| 1:25.6 | It was just stuff happening like the busiest time of the year, |
| 1:29.5 | getting in the way over and over. |
| 1:31.8 | And some service opportunities with the giving machines and things like that |
| 1:35.9 | that took priority over us being able to record this. |
| 1:39.8 | But I still feel like there must be somebody that really needs to hear this |
| 1:43.9 | or a reason we need to put |
| 1:45.3 | this out that there's been so much like pushback or whatever. So anyway, and I did want to say |
| 1:53.0 | this before we jump into today's episode that it has become more challenging for us to record |
| 2:00.2 | these episodes as our family has gotten |
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