A lot of times when you feel like God's breaking you, he's actually building you.

Demons are smarter than the best technology that we have.

They've studied you, your family line for centuries.

They understand all of your inclinations.

They watched your patterns.

Jonah shows what happens when a man rejects God's mission.

Paul shows what happens when a man fully embraces God's mission.

And today, you and I get to choose which one of those will be.

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We would love to see you in the chat this weekend and now enjoy the podcast. Well, hey, welcome back to another episode of Delivery Podcast. My name is Carlos Eraslo, and I am here today with Pastor Josh Howerton, and today we have a special guest. This is the tallest theologian in Texas. Whoa. The evangelist of, if you were to die today on a scale from 1 to 10, how certain are you that you would go to heaven? Fact. And the Shaquille O'Neill of Young Adult Ministry. Jonathan Picluta. Did you like it? I really prefer Wimby like this, you know. That would work as well. Listen, I don't know if you were in that part of the service. I thought my intro was a little better. My intro was a little, and mine rhymed. I did it my best. You rind? Oh, you'll. You already saw. What was it that rhyme? It was such a great sermon that everything else was a blur. What rhymed? I missed it. You'll see. Okay. Well, we'll tell you. I was at a dinner last night with Jonathan Isaac. The ball plier? Yeah, he plays in the NBA, but loves Jesus. And he... I love that guy. He's a foot taller than me. So I walk... And we've done, like, a Zoom before. And I walked in, he's like, I didn't know you were so tall.

And I was like, dude, I didn't know you were so tall. He's like staring down at your head. Yeah. Man, can I show my favorite JP memory? Because JP and I, we actually. Wait, let's tell him we're gonna talk about. Okay, sure. Because this is a biggie. So first of all, this guy, if people don't know,

there's a reason he said,

Shaquille and the old adult ministry. This guy is stirring like, dude, God's using you in like

generationally historic ways on college campuses. I want, I want you to tell people what you're seeing,

what you think, and why you think that's happening. We're going to talk Acts 27, how God uses and

redeems pain in our lives. And. We're gonna talk Acts 27, how God uses and redeems pain

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