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Summer Update! Episode 50
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Danny is taking a break for the summer! In this episode he gives a quick rundown on why the need for a break and what's been going on in his life recently. Big thanks to everyone who's been supporting so far.
Sermon from the Village Church on Confidence.
YouTube Video Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BHxou5JaqUA&t=4s
Apple Podcast Link: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/confidence/id82014403?i=1000769714048
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Transcript
Celebrating the First Anniversary
00:00:00
Danny Price
Hey, everybody. Welcome to episode 50 of the Table Talk Discussions podcast. This is Danny Price. I'm here by myself. um Wanted to give you guys an update um just on the podcast itself, what's going on, what my vision is for...
00:00:14
Danny Price
The rest of this year, just the future. So first of all, I just wanted to say thanks to
Balancing Work, Family, and Podcasting
00:00:19
Danny Price
everyone for listening. This has been super successful in my eyes. that This ah last, you know, kind of beginning of June marks a year for us doing this podcast, which is I, you know, I was committed to doing consistently. um And my plan was to keep it going um just right along schedule, but...
00:00:36
Danny Price
You know my job with camp, those of you don't know, I work at Big Canyon Ranch, which is Christian camp, and I'm the operations director there. Really, my my job is really ramped up. It ramps up every summer. But this year, especially, there was just a lot of stuff that required my attention in early mornings and erratic schedule.
00:00:53
Danny Price
Um, and we had a baby, um, middle of May. So just that combined, you know, third kid combined with work, picking up like crazy was just a bad combination. So I told Shane, you know we were trying to find times to record. And for me, it'd have to be like 10 PM, um, which
Podcast Break Announcement
00:01:09
Danny Price
doesn't work for him. And, you know, and vice versa, his schedule wasn't working for me. So we just, so i just said you know what, let's just take a break.
00:01:14
Danny Price
Um, so right now the plan right now is to take a break until about the middle end of August, um, And then i I want to jump right back into where we were doing sermon recaps and doing extra you know extra episodes with kind of a special focus. There's a bunch of different things that are kind of tickling my attention where I'm like, that would be really fun to do an episode on. So I got a couple ideas, but...
00:01:36
Danny Price
Wanted to let you guys know, I actually released this exact episode about two or three weeks ago, and then I realized it did not go live. And the reason it didn't go live is because my payment lapsed for this ah software that we use. So I recorded the episode, I thought I posted it, and it did not post. So I was a little frustrated. um I still have all my old episodes. It doesn't get rid of those. Whatever you posted was posted. But if you go to post and you don't actually have a subscription for this, you know it won't let you do it. so That was my bad. But anyways, yeah i just wanted to give you guys a little bit of a heads up of what to expect. So I might jump on here and do a little episode here and there for the for the rest of the year. If there's anything that's special that I kind of want to just highlight.
00:02:17
Danny Price
But for right now, the sermon series recaps are going to be paused. I'm not going to continue those. And I thought maybe I could have Shane do them. You know, honestly, I was like, for my vision of what I want, I'm like, you know what, it might just be easier to take a break through the summer Honestly, for everyone, summer is just a busy time
Exploring the 'Unbiblical' Series
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Danny Price
of year. So I thought, you know what, we'll hit it hard right when school season is kind of kicking back at a swing right right there at the middle of August.
00:02:38
Danny Price
So yeah, so um as far as just a little updates on things, just for the those of you that don't know, we're doing series on Mountain View. That's great. So if you've been listening to sermons, you know I'm really bummed I haven't been able to contribute to that and contribute just my thoughts to some of these recaps we've been doing.
00:02:55
Danny Price
a series on things that are that sound biblical or things that we've thought are biblical and they're not. And like obviously, i should have the name of this, but I totally spaced the name um of the series that we're doing. But basically, it's just ideas where Satan is really just breaking down things that people kind of attribute to faith, attribute to Christianity, and then just are not just are not accurate.
00:03:13
Danny Price
um things that we can that we think we can trust, things that we think that are accurate and correct and that aren't, which has been really cool. And I think it's been a good, we've already talked about some of that stuff in the past, but I think it's been really good for people, especially people who have been maybe a little bit newer to faith, just being able to hear the perspective of where are we actually getting our where we getting our truth from? And so I actually just remembered the series is called Unbiblical.
Personal Sermon Reflections
00:03:39
Danny Price
So just wanted to throw that in there. But anyways, it's been great.
00:03:41
Danny Price
um I've listened, I've been able to make it to church and listen to the sermon. So I'm still participating in, you know, church. I'm just a lot more absent than I usually am with ah with work. So wanted to hop on and let you guys know that. um As far as me, um baby's been great. Everything's been good on kind of the home front and work has been awesome. It's literally been one of the most fulfilling summers I've worked up here in a long time. We have a great staff, great team. And it's not like I have like,
00:04:04
Danny Price
It's like a harder job than usual. It's just my role is growing and expanding, which means just more time required. But it's not like this year is any special challenges that I didn't foresee. I just really didn't anticipate the workload, um which is a good workload, just of early mornings and you know helping out with with kids and everything. So just a lot.
00:04:23
Danny Price
I want to just kind of to throw you guys just at least some stuff that's been stirring in my heart. And hopefully you guys have just a little bit of encouragement from this. So I was able, you know, right right now as a staff, we're going through Philippians and I was able to listen to a sermon from another church that just completely coincided with the study that we're doing in Philippians. It just hit me right in the nose. Like literally um there's, there's, this happens occasionally where I'll hear a sermon and for whatever reason, it just hits me hard. And I'm like, Oh, that's, um,
00:04:52
Danny Price
kind of like It just is what I needed to hear at the moment, kind of the Holy Spirit working there. My mom actually sent it to me. It's from a church, and I've mentioned it before, the Village Church. So
Struggles with Faith and Confidence
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Danny Price
it's Matt Chandler um down in Texas. It's not actually not him that teaches this sermon. It's their youth pastor and like their young adults pastor that teaches this sermon. I'll link it below, but it's on where we draw our confidence from.
00:05:11
Danny Price
So I don't know where you guys are at. If you guys listening to this have no problems with your kind with confidence in your, um not just your salvation and security, but just your walk with God. i don't know where you guys are at with that. But for me personally, a lot of my confidence, a lot of my, um,
00:05:27
Danny Price
my piece is drawn from where i um where I've been performing in the past whatever you know amount of time, the past few weeks or so. So if I've been in my Bible and studying and having you know biblical gospel conversations and really um you know sharing my faith with others, like I feel great. I feel like I'm super secure in my salvation. I feel like God loves me. I feel like I'm secure there. And then when I don't do that, when I have... maybe more lazy mornings and I am not getting up as early as I should, or maybe I'm just neglecting time with God and neglecting to have those conversations and pushing things back because of either laziness or busyness or whatever it is, I feel further from God and I feel less secure in my salvation. And I know, you know, you know, theoretically, if you were to ask me at any given point, I'm never going to say, oh, I'm not saved right now, but I definitely feel my confidence is down. And I feel like, and when i say confidence, I don't mean my, my,
00:06:22
Danny Price
my confidence of my personality or like, who you know, who I am. I'm saying my confidence of my eternity being secure with, with God and confidence in my faith in God and confidence of how much he loves me.
00:06:34
Danny Price
And so I really, you know, just realizing like I base a lot of my confidence on my performance and what I do and how much I know. And obviously like this is something that I've, I've shared it before in the past, you know, stress pride and other things, you know, have kind of plagued me for my whole life. Those are my personal struggles that I'm working through and have been working through.
00:06:53
Danny Price
And by God's grace, we'll continue to work through um as I get older. And I just thought the sermon just really hit the nail on the head of where we have our confidence. Because Paul breaks this down in Philippians 3, just about all the different ways that he could have his confidence and all the things that he has attained to um in terms of worldly or even quote unquote religious accolades. So he's done all these things. He's a Hebrew of Hebrews. He's from the tribe of Benjamin. He lists all these things. And then he says, I count all as loss for the sake
00:07:25
Danny Price
of knowing Christ and
Podcast Success and Future Plans
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Danny Price
gaining Christ. So to me, um, really just hit me on, really hit me square in the face, like just an amazing sermon and just the power of people's stories, um, and what Paul's doing throughout this you know whole letter to the Philippians. So I'll link it below. it's just been really on my mind. I was able to share it with staff. We've all, we all listened to it together I've shared it with a couple other people, but again, just shout out to my mom for showing me that. I don't think she intended for that to be like a sermon for me. You know, she shared it to all of us kids, you know, all my siblings and I, but um For me personally, it just really hit hard. So that's where I've been. So I just wanted to share, you know, a little bit on what's been on my heart so that you guys weren't just hearing me give an update and then kind of just fade off into the distance. Hopefully that gives you guys a little bit of encouragement. I really hope you guys are all doing well. Podcast as far as success wise, it's blown me away. I've had a lot of people ask me about it and I and i've felt a little guilty not being able to do this. So apologies to you that have been listening for a long time right now.
00:08:20
Danny Price
Just based off of what my software is telling me, we have about 50 or so concurrent listeners with with you know some episodes just you know shooting way higher than that. I think our highest episode, let me look it up really quick here.
00:08:33
Danny Price
But I want to say it was in the hundreds, higher hundreds, and it kind of blew me away with how much success we had with that episode. um me find it. Yeah. 250 listens on one of our episodes back in Colossians on the Colossians series. That was the one that we did with, um, kind of like me, Dave and Morgan Hano, um, just for whatever reason, the algorithm love that one. Um, but blew me away. And honestly, like I was hoping for maybe 10 to 15 people listening to this. So to have the kind of listenership and participation that we've had is just amazing. Um, really grateful for mountain view, grateful for Shane, grateful for the guests that we've had on this podcast, just to be able to do what've what we've been doing. Um,
00:09:10
Danny Price
So again, just big thank you to all of you. We're not quitting. This is not the end. This is just a little bit of a pause for me to get my feet underneath myself as we get out of summer.
Future Topics and Encouragement
00:09:20
Danny Price
And if I'm anticipating this being the case next summer, I'll probably plan a little bit more accordingly. I was not planning on taking a break. This was kind of an impromptu so situation. so Anyways, that's the update. If you guys have anything that you are wanting me to address in the future, any topics, any questions, i already have a whole thing on just the Latter-day Saint religion and where where they're drawing their beliefs and the differences between you know Protestant Christianity and Latter-day Saints. That's kind of on the docket right now. That's something that I've been working through on how we're going to present that. There's a lot of
00:09:53
Danny Price
Um, a lot of tenderness. I want to approach that topic with, with still being firm and truthful, but there's a lot of tenderness just because of the culture that we're surrounded by. So that's, that's something that's coming up. That's something that I've been working through, lining up people for interviews, lining up, you know, what, what we're going to talk through. But that's something I feel like this has been a huge need, at least in our area that people have been asking me and it keeps coming up, even up, at even up at camp,
00:10:17
Danny Price
people are asking me these questions. So it's really interesting just to try to formulate that. So that's, that's something that's coming up. I also want to do a series on why we can believe the Bible and some, some things that are a little bit more just in my, um my passion, which is a lot of that is just biblical knowledge and knowing God's word. So I'm excited to do that. Plus, you know, the, obviously the sermon recaps, we're going to get back into that. So hope you are a well, hope God is just moving your lives.
00:10:41
Danny Price
Hope that you guys are um seeking after truth and following after God and that regardless of whatever church you go to, whether it's Mountain View or another church in the area, that you are just able to have a growing community of faith with people around you and that you're not doing this journey alone, that you're as Paul says in Philippians, straining towards eternal life and straining towards the perfection of our faith, which is which is Jesus. So I love you all. I really appreciate your time. Just taking maybe just 10 minutes here just to listen to the updates.
00:11:10
Danny Price
And I hope to be with you guys back regularly in August. I will talk to you guys then. All right, take care. Bye-bye.