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🗓️ 21 October 2024
⏱️ 43 minutes
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0:00.0 | You are listening to the Passion City Church |
0:03.8 | DC podcast. |
0:05.4 | To learn more about Passion City Church, |
0:07.5 | including our gathering times in Atlanta and Washington, DC, |
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0:14.0 | Today's talk comes from Pastor Ben Stewart. |
0:18.0 | Years ago I read Johnny Cash's autobiography that he wrote in the early 1990s and in it he's sort of content to fade into the background. |
0:32.0 | He was admitting that his career was essentially over. |
0:34.3 | His heyday had been decades before. |
0:36.8 | He hadn't had a hit in years. |
0:38.6 | His record label had dropped him. |
0:40.8 | And so at the end, he just kind of had resolved to fade away. |
0:45.0 | Having no idea that soon after he wrote it he'd be approached by one of the co-founders of Def Jam Records |
0:52.0 | and invited to do a series of recordings and he said how |
0:56.2 | is that going to work how is the the guy who just produced run-DMC gonna take a |
1:00.8 | washed-up country star and do something with him, but he said, |
1:03.6 | I just want you to come with a guitar and sing the songs that are on your heart |
1:08.9 | as you enter the last days of your life. |
1:11.7 | And what resulted from that partnership are some of the most |
1:15.1 | iconic songs in American history. And it's fascinating because they ended up |
1:20.0 | making six records at the end, he and Rick Rubin, but the songs that got up in the most |
1:25.4 | media attention became some of the most popular of Johnny Cash's lives were |
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