How to Be Loved with Bill and Laurie Lokey

Famous at Home

Josh + Christi Straub

Parenting, Relationships, Christianity, Religion & Spirituality, Society & Culture, Kids & Family

4.9 • 653 Ratings

🗓️ 24 March 2023

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Summary

We have two special bonus episodes. These may very well be the most insightful, helpful episodes we’ve ever recorded. The wisdom of Ecclesiastes says, “It is better to go to a house of mourning than to go to a house of feasting” (7:2, CSB). Bill Lokey, a man who became a father figure to me (Josh), a dear friend, mentor, and who joined us at Famous at Home to lead Leader’s Heart, lost his battle with cancer and went to be with Jesus on March 17th, 2023. As you’ll hear in these next two episodes, he wanted to live every moment of life he was given. A testament to this, we were able to sit down and record end of life wisdom just 10 days before he went to be with Jesus. In this episode, Bill gives us, in many ways, his last words. If you or a loved one are facing an uphill battle with a terminal illness, or your marriage is falling apart, or you’re hurting because of a loss in your life, or maybe you put a dream on the shelf and haven’t been able to pick it back up, this episode will bring the encouragement you need. Bill talks a lot about how he learned to be loved and how you too can enter into and receive such love. Here are some highlights based on direct quotes from Bill in this episode: “Intimacy is a real imposition on our relationships, however it’s also the most healing thing there is.” “And so I would ask the question, if we were to replace the word “I need God for this reason,” what would it be if we said, ‘Jesus, I want you for this reason?’ What would that be?” “God brought me through things because of His mercy. Not because I was religious enough or had the right spirit. It was God that called me into that. So the more humility I had that God brought to me [through my own failures] and the more He showed me His love for me continued on so that I could hear pretty much any person’s story and while someone might be disapproving it’d be like ‘So, I’ve done the same thing or I’ve done similar things.’ To be able to express God’s mercy and His love [flows from that humility of my own wrong].” Discover more Christian podcasts at lifeaudio.com and inquire about advertising opportunities at lifeaudio.com/contact-us.

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0:00.0	For some of you that are listening, it's not about cancer.
0:05.3	It may be one of your kids has made a really, really disappointing mistake in their life that you're grieving over.
0:15.1	Or maybe your marriage fell apart and you always thought God would save it.
0:19.3	Or you put on a shelf something that
0:22.6	you really always wanted to do and you finally just gave up on it because you felt like it was
0:29.2	impossible I think most of you out there that are listening to this you're hurting over something
0:35.9	that you've lost and you think the object is the loss itself.
0:40.6	But it's not the loss.
0:42.4	It's what the loss takes us to our deep, deep, deep need for Jesus.
0:48.6	You are listening to the famous at home podcast with Dr. Josh and Christy Straub.
0:54.4	Because when it's all said and done, we all want to know that we were famous at home.
1:04.8	Welcome back to the Famous at Home podcast.
1:06.8	We have an incredibly special conversation today that we want to take you into the living
1:13.0	room of this couple.
1:15.2	This conversation today is with our dear friends, our mentors, they've been family to us,
1:21.6	colleagues to us as well at Famous at Home, Bill and Lori Loki.
1:25.5	For those of you that did Leader's Heart, you will know them
1:28.6	very well. And their influence, not just our lives, but in, I mean, countless lives in their
1:37.0	work, has just been monumental. And Bill has recently lost his battle with cancer and has gone home to be with Jesus.
1:47.0	And shortly before he died, and very shortly it was, we sat down and we're like,
1:53.1	what if we just recorded this conversation one more time? And it was one of the most powerful, he was just, I mean, just nuggets of gold that
2:05.2	come out of him. And we thought, what if we just record these, Bill? And people could hear them.
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