Ep. 354 - What Does “Retirement” Look Like for Christians?
The Living Waters Podcast
Living Waters
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🗓️ 4 September 2025
⏱️ 62 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | I think someone who spends their life busy and in sudden they retire, they can't feel absolutely useless. |
| 0:05.5 | Yeah. |
| 0:05.8 | Just cast on a trash heap. |
| 0:07.6 | And that's tragic when you've been laboring your whole life. |
| 0:11.0 | But now if you're a Christian, you can be a laborer for the Lord. |
| 0:14.1 | And I think the key to being retired and keeping your brain and not, you know, becoming depressed and feeling useless, is to be disciplined. disciplined. Absolutely. Just say, I'm going to be disciplined. I'm going to start the day off with prayer. I'm going to read the word. Then I'm going to go to my fishing spot each day and look for a sinner. I'm going to get a dog, put sunglasses, go around the block. I'm going to take gospel tracks. Give them out. I'm going to get a table and get a local Walmart and you can get permission to do this. Set up a table outside Walmart and just put free Christian books on it that people can take, evangelistic books, get them from living in waters, the scientific facts in the Bible, and they're totally free. And you just spend two hours in the morning doing that. You come back, have a snoo, say, God, please give me more energy. |
| 0:54.9 | Because that's the problem when you get your 70s. |
| 0:57.2 | Every day, so when I pray for wisdom and for energy, because energy is life. |
| 1:01.3 | And without that, you're just going to roll over and die. |
| 1:03.7 | And so if you're disciplined and make sure you do this each day, life's going to have meaning because you're tapping into the eternal. |
| 1:17.2 | What, what, what, what, what, what, what, what, what, what, Charlie Brown. |
| 1:25.2 | Very good. |
| 1:25.8 | My algebra teacher. |
| 1:26.7 | Oscar. |
| 1:27.8 | Are you making fun of me? |
| 1:29.5 | Let me just say, gentlemen, that that was one of the most clever insights into the human mind ever created. |
| 1:40.6 | It's like, how do you capture in a sound what our brains do sometimes when people are talking? |
| 1:46.3 | Right now, literally right now. |
| 1:47.8 | Yeah, I know. |
| 1:51.2 | It's frightening in marriage when you're concentrating on something and your wife starts telling you something that you don't think is that important, but it is. |
| 2:00.2 | I have no problem with that until it comes at the end with a question. |
| 2:04.6 | That's when it's funny. |
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