Megachurch Pastor Reacts to Billie Eilish & Jelly Roll's Grammy Speeches | Live Free with Josh Howerton

Live Free with Josh Howerton

Lakepointe Church

Christianity, Religion & Spirituality

4.8 • 2.6K Ratings

🗓️ 5 February 2026

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Does the Bible shape how you feel about culture, or how you see culture? In this LIVE FREE special reaction episode, Pastor Josh reacts to the GRAMMYs, Billie Eilish’s “No one is illegal on stolen land” moment and Jelly Roll’s bold, Jesus-centered acceptance speech, and uses Scripture to show the difference between using the Bible as a mirror and as a lens (James 1) for evaluating what’s happening in the world. You’ll also hear a clear contrast between performative courage that wins applause and real courage that risks something, plus why Romans 1 explains a culture that celebrates lawlessness while calling biblical conviction “hate.” You’ll learn: The two ways Christians must use the Bible: mirror vs lens (James 1) Why “stolen land” talking points collapse under basic history and logic How selective outrage gets weaponized to advance an agenda Why “you don’t live in a fascist dictatorship” if dissent gets standing ovations Romans 1’s warning: a society that approves what God condemns What Jelly Roll’s testimony reveals about the power of Scripture, repentance, and public witness The difference between conservative Christians vs Christian conservatives 💻 Join Live Free Nation: If these bonus reaction episodes are helpful, drop a comment on YouTube: your feedback tells us whether to keep doing them. Stand firm. Think biblically. Live free. #LiveFree #Grammys #BillieEilish #JellyRoll #PopCultureReaction #ChristianResponse #ChurchOnline #SpeakTruth #Courage #StandFirm #GospelCentered #ChristianYouTube #FaithAndCulture #BiblicalWorldview #ReactVideo #CultureWar #ChristianLeadership #TeamJesus #Romans1 #James1

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0:00.0	If you want to live an alternative lifestyle in 2006, here's what you got to do.
0:04.9	Read your Bible.
0:05.7	Go to church.
0:06.6	Love one woman your whole life if you're a man and one man your whole life if you're a woman.
0:10.2	Have kids and enjoy them.
0:11.4	Or do crazy rebellious things like stand on a stage at the Grammys and yell, I love you, Lord.
0:18.0	Why?
0:18.4	Because in our culture, obedience is the only rebellion left.
0:24.3	Okay, welcome to the most interesting React episode that we've tried so far. Real quick, we're
0:30.2	going to be reacting to, this is what they did not train before in seminary. We're going to be
0:34.1	reacting to Billy Eilish and Jelly Rolls Grammy Awards acceptance speeches.
0:42.7	Now, really quick for Live Free Nation, these React episodes, these are my little bonus spare time hobby.
0:50.8	And so this is a bit of a test drive.
0:52.3	If these are helpful to you, if you could head over to
0:55.8	YouTube and give it a comment or whatever, like, or whatever you want to do, that helps me know
1:01.0	that these are worth the time. And it helps me know that it is helpful to you. So we'll keep test
1:07.3	driving these as long as it seems like it's working. Let me know what you think. Now, that said, let's react to Billy Eilish and Jelly Roll at the Grammys. Now, really quick, let me set this up. Here's why I'm doing this. Because if you're a Christian, you need to learn how to use the Bible in a couple different ways, and most people are only good at one of them. First of all, the book of James says that the primary way that we want to use the Bible is it says we use it as a mirror, if you can see on YouTube, that we look up into the word. The Bible says the perfect law, the law of liberty, and then the Bible shows us, man, where we fall short and where we need the power of the Holy Spirit through the grace of Lord Jesus Christ to change us.
1:46.6	So we use the Bible as mirror.
1:48.2	A lot of Christians get good at that, but they don't get good at the second way that Christians have to learn to use the Bible.
1:53.9	And this is why a lot of discipleship, listen real close.
1:56.7	I'm going to get to this here in a second, especially of your children, especially of your
2:02.0	children, ends up not taking root. We don't just use the Bible as a mirror. We also need to
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