Calling is you're a mom or you're a speaker, you're a, I don't know, dental hygienist.

That's just the decanter. Our purpose is where am I go day?

We get to tell everybody about the hope that lies with us. We are the ambassadors of God.

And I hear more often than not, especially with kind of younger generations,

our culture has made such an idol of calling

that they go, well, I'm called to.

I want to go, right now what's your called to?

Might be to stack chairs six o'clock the morning

in the church.

So I think we've made calling preeminent and purpose secondary.

And I'm like, no, no, no, no.

Make sure your purpose directs your calling.

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Hey, hey, back portraitures. My name is Allison Allen. I'm the 5'12 spiritual wingwoman to Lisa Harper for Back Porch Theology. And we are so thrilled that you are joining us today. We have, of course, Lisa D. Harbor and Doc Howard, who is sitting in with us today. And I'm thrilled about it. Where are we, Lisa, in our journey?

Come on. We are in. You, Dr. Howard, we're always like looking to you like deer in the headlights.

Because it is, it's like going, you're going to eat an elephant. And you go, how do we eat an elephant?

Somebody says, go through the Bible in a year. You're like, go through the Bible in a year! Well, one bite at a time. And what we're doing is kind of one lily pat at a time. We're jumping from redemptive lily pad to redemptive lily pad. There's this massive lake, and we're like, and kind of the longer you walk, the more you're like, this is stinking cool.

Because we, this whole year, 2026 has been about, we're calling it no wasted words, which is comical coming from the two of us because we are nothing, if not with bags.

But scripture, God's words.

Yes.

There's just no wasted words.

And the whole thing is redemptive.

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