Jelly Roll explains his “new heart” to Joe Rogan
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The Denison Forum
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🗓️ 17 December 2025
⏱️ 9 minutes
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During Jelly Roll’s recent conversation on Joe Rogan’s podcast, Rogan said to him, “You’re a totally new human being.” Jelly Roll replied, “This is a brand new heart, Joe. You know what I mean? It might be cloaked as the old one, but God touched it. It’s a whole new heart, baby. It’s a different heart.” In a day when user reviews are the currency of commerce, where people want to know if a particular technology or truth worked for those who tried it, the evidence most needed today is changed lives. Here is where Christianity faces its greatest challenge and offers its greatest hope.
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| 0:51.2 | Welcome to the Wednesday, December 16th, 2025 edition of the Daily Article Podcast from Denison Forum. |
| 0:58.8 | Today's daily article is authored by friend and co-founder Dr. Jim Denison. |
| 1:03.8 | I'm Chris Elkins, narrator. |
| 1:07.4 | Jason Bradley DeFord is known professionally as Jelly Roll. His song, Son of a Center, won three |
| 1:14.6 | country music television awards in 2023. The same year, he won the award for New Artist in the |
| 1:21.2 | Country Music Association Awards. He also made news for his weight loss of nearly 300 pounds and was recently inducted into the grand old opera. |
| 1:31.3 | But his life story is even more striking than his musical talent. |
| 1:35.3 | He was baptized at the age of 14, but says around that time he began dabbling in drugs and stopped attending church. |
| 1:43.3 | From his teenage years into his 20s, he was arrested numerous times and spent time in jail for |
| 1:49.2 | felonies. |
| 1:50.1 | He returned to his faith when he was 39 and his 14-year-old daughter expressed interest in being |
| 1:56.6 | baptized. |
| 1:57.7 | During his recent conversation on Joe Rogan's podcast, Rogan said to him, |
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