Welcome to the Jesus Calling Podcast. Today we speak with two guests who have

experienced what it's like to be made whole through Christ. Christian

musician Rust Half and Proverbs 31, author and speaker, Wendy Pope.

First up, Rust-Haff has been hailed by Billboard magazine as the single most electrifying voice

in Christian Music.

He has garnered six Grammy Awards and 18 Gospel Music Association Dove Awards.

Inducted into the Gospel Music Association Hall of Fame an unprecedented three times as a soloist as well as a member of

the Imperials and the Gather vocal band. Rush shares moments from his musical journey

and his behind-the-scenes struggle growing up in an abusive and alcoholic home,

his own later alcoholism, and his lifelong battle with shame.

His experience has also been dramatized in the new film, Russ Taff, I still believe.

My name is Russ Taff and I'm a gospel singer and have been a gospel singer for a long time.

I travel, I sing, I talk about Jesus and what he's done in my life.

My father was a Pentecostal preacher, but he is also an alcoholic and one year we would be in

church and the next year would be thrown out of a church and but my dad loved to

preach more than anything.

So our vacations were spent four weeks of revival in Arkansas, Missouri.

You know, it was the old line Pentecostal home where it was no TV no

radio no newspapers no magazines no nothing and for all the entertainment we

had was mama's record collection and she worked in the fields out in the San

of King Valley picking up walnuts, picking cotton, you know it took both of

them working to to keep food on the table. I started seeing them when I was

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