Hey friends and welcome to the happy hour with Jamie Ivy podcast. I'm your host Jamie and I'm so glad you're here.

Each week on this show, I invite a friend to join me and we chat about the big things in life, the little things in life and everything in between.

Hey friends and welcome to the happy hour with Jamie Ivy podcast. I'm your host Jamie and we're one week from the release of my first kids book. You guys, I am still over the moon, excited, crazy, can't believe how much fun releasing that book into the world was. God made you to be you came out last week and I'm so glad you're here.

The book that we've heard from you guys are worth everything I've ever done. I mean, it is such an honor to have a book that you get to read with the kids in your life that you love. In fact, let me read you this review.

This is from a reviewer on Amazon. She said, thank you Jamie for writing this children's book. I cried the first time I read it to my daughter. You guys, I've heard that so many times.

The message is incredible. The delivery is perfect. My girl loves it so much. We read it seven times before bed the first night and she asked to sleep with the book. Cut a little close to her heart. 10 out of 10 recommend. Thank you so much for those kind words. And then someone else said cute illustrations. Yes, I agree. Our illustrators amazing cute illustrations and great message. If you pay attention, she put her family on the pages. That is true as well. You guys your kind words are really, really sweet to me.

I really enjoy it when you leave reviews wherever you bought the book. If you leave them on Amazon or wherever you purchase the book, they're not just for me to read to like have a great little pick me up and feel good about the book we released. They actually help more people find the book. And so we would love it if you would go to Amazon and leave it a rating and or a review about the book.

And the best way to do this today's guests on the show is John Mark Comer, who just released a book who's made the best seller list and it should because it's amazing. The book is called Live No Lies. Recognize and resist the three enemies that sabotage your piece.

Conversation was one that I wanted to go on for hours and hours and hours, but don't worry. It didn't. But you're going to want to pick up this book. You're going to want to go listen to his podcast and you're going to want to check out his sermons. He's a founding pastor of Bridge Town Church in Portland, Oregon. He also released the book Ruthless elimination of hurry. And like I said, his recent book just came out some of the things that we talk through today are things like thinking about morality through the lens of identity culture wars truth versus lies. People choosing to believe lies are for truth and how to fix the people of God.

We talk about mental maps and how when you let lies seep into your mental map, you're going to start believing and living as if those are true. You guys are in for a treat with this conversation. Here is my guest John Mark Comer.

John Mark Comer, welcome to the happy hour.

I'm so happy to be with you.

This is the first time that we've actually ever met. We're looking each other over zoomed the first time you've been on our list for a long time for a couple of reasons. Let me tell you why you've been on our list.

Number one, we highly respect the work that you're doing in your city and through the work that you're doing. And my husband has just read all your books and loves them all. So I've got him in my ear asking me why I haven't have you on. And so here you are.

Well, thank you to the bad dream husband. No, it's an honor to join you and chat. I'm so grateful to have you here. In fact, your book released last week. And I got a early copy of it. Live no lies. And my husband read it way before I did. So I had to like,

it sounds like your husband and I need to hang out.

You'll definitely need to hang out. I had to beg and back for the book. Well, you are important with your wife and a pastor, but tell us about your family and everything you do there.

Yeah, we just hit our 20th wedding anniversary. Congrats. We did to the summer. Really congratulations. Yeah. Yeah. So as part of our story is, you know, we got married. She was 19. I was barely 21. Her parents wanted me to be 21 before we got married. So we got married the first Saturday after my 21st birthday.

Are you serious?

Which tells you basically all you need to know about my psychosis and my lifelong spiritual journey. I love that so much into maturity. Isn't it also funny? This is a side note. You know, how old is your oldest? Because I know you have some kids.

How old is your old 15 almost 16 is a sophomore in high school. Okay. So we have a senior. Oh my gosh. So we have this our last kid. And when you said your wife's parents wanted you to be 21 before you all got married.

We're both of us. So our family, your family, my family, we're entering into this stage where we make these like you have to be this age before you do this. And sometimes I wonder like for your in laws, what was it about 21? Like it just kind of makes me like, what is it? And I'm thinking about my own kid.

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