Welcome to Karen Hunter's awesome.

I am Karen Hunter, and we're in the season where Jesus is the reason, right?

So this is going to be a lot of commentary, a lot of conversation over the next several podcasts about God.

And I wanted to pull the conversation I had with Dr. Daniel Black where he made a distinction between God and the creator, which I thought was very interesting.

Take a listen.

I'm not a really good joke teller, but I saw it and I said I'm going to share it with the people.

Okay.

So a pastor, you know, he's on this farm and he asks his old farmer, uh, who's decked out in his overall,

his bib and whatever to say grace for the morning breakfast, right? So the farmer began, Lord,

I don't like buttermilk. The visiting pastor opened one eye to glance at the farmer and wonder,

like, where is he going?

Okay, the farmer proclaimed again loudly, Lord, I don't like lard.

Now, the pastor growing concerned, he was like, okay, all right, without missing a beat the farmer, continued in Lord.

You know, you know, I don't care much for white flour.

Once again, the pastor opened and I glanced around and saw that he wasn't the only one curious

about where this prayer was going. Then the farmer said, but Lord, when you mix them all together

and bake them, I do love some warm, fresh biscuits. So Lord, when things come up that we don't like,

when life gets hard, when we don't understand what you're saying to us, help us to just relax

and wait until you're done mixing. It will probably be better than some biscuits. Amen. Amen. I love it. And if I could just add just a little bit. And

God, go ahead and add the heat. Oh. Okay. So there's been some, there's been some things.

And I want to do I want to really have a conversation today because, you know, last week we talked about Pastor Marvin Weinens with the lines and the tithe and the lady. He didn't have the amount of money and all of this stuff. And then, you know, there's a lot of commentary about, well, that's the church, blah, blah, blah. And it's, you know, there are people who right now who are,

you know, who've walked away from God, you know, walked away from the church because of things like

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