In this third episode in our series on Resurrection, pastors Brandon Galford and Grant Dailey emphasize the significance of believing in the concrete reality of resurrection in biblical theology, highlighting God's validation of human experience and the hopefulness of new beginnings. They discuss the connection between resurrection and forgiveness, stressing God's role as the God of new beginnings on personal, communal, and relational levels. The importance of maintaining resurrection faith in challenging circumstances is emphasized, along with the impact of resurrection on relationships, ministry work, and personal growth. Sharing personal testimonies of resurrection and transformation is encouraged, with a call to reflect on areas where resurrection faith may be lacking and to engage in discussions and community to see God's transformative work.
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[00:00:10.03] - Mitchell Buchanan
Hello, hello, hello. Welcome to the Sermon podcast for the church community for God. I'm here today with two awesome people. We're all in. T shirts, guys. T shirts and hats.
[00:00:22.41] - Grant Dailey
T shirts and hats.
[00:00:23.58] - Mitchell Buchanan
On my right, on your left. Grant daily is with us. And then on the other side, Brandon Galford. We're happy to be here. If you couldn't tell, we're pumped on this. So we're going to chat through Brandon's resurrection sermon. If this is your first time listening to us, we take the sermons every Sunday. We make sure we sit down as people who speak to our whole congregation. Hey, what is it that we really wanted to emphasize? What are some real life applications we can pull from it? The last thing we want to do is let the sermon just kind of drift away into our memories. And we don't take time to, like, dig into the word, revisit it, I think, pull out discussion, things that, as a church, we should be talking about. So, Brandon, this was your sermon on resurrection. Yeah, which was excellent, I think. I'd never give reviews for the sermon before I turn it over to you, but I loved it. I relistened to it to prep for this. And I think even your testimony, I think, helped, like, anything that was, like, ethereal, of, like, oh, this is like, something that we're talking about. The word, like, locked into place when you gave, like, your testimony, of, like, hey, this isn't just, I think this can happen. It's like, this is my life.
[00:01:34.54] - Brandon Galford
Right.
[00:01:35.17] - Mitchell Buchanan
Which is so impactful. So, for those out there where Brandon talked about romans four, I think you kind of honed in on 16 through 18, but I'll kind of turn over to you what were some of your main points you really wanted to emphasize and then reflect back, hey, I wish I had done this. I think this worked well. Just give some insight if you want.
[00:01:57.29] - Brandon Galford
Yeah, yeah. I really wanted to emphasize the concrete reality of resurrection, that it is not just some spiritualized. This happened in history. And I went in my apologetic spiel there for a minute that I was half making fun of, because that is part of where I come from as a Baptist. But I also.
[00:02:28.75] - Mitchell Buchanan
The evidence does demand a verbic.
[00:02:31.31] - Brandon Galford
That's right.
[00:02:31.96] - Mitchell Buchanan
Don't shy away from the gold.
[00:02:34.62] - Brandon Galford
But I do think it's important to recognize the concrete reality of it, that God raised Jesus from the dead, physically, bodily, because I think it speaks toward multiple levels. But on one level, God's validation of our experience as human beings, this material world that we live in, that God, in bringing about new creation, he's doing it with us in our very real lives. And the resurrection speaks toward, I think God's. Our hope is not that we're going to be these disembodied spirits one day. Our hope is that God is going to restore this world and that we get to participate in that with him. And I think the reason I shared my personal testimony was to highlight again that resurrection power is manifest in a way that is objectively observable. You see it. You see transformation. And I wanted to. I wanted to highlight that, and I wanted to really, I guess, invite everyone to reflect on their own resurrection stories to realize, you know, God has. God has raised me from the dead on some level, you know, lest we forget that. And I think we're very prone to forget. So, you know, that that was, I think, kind of central to my point was this reality that, you know, the resurrection power of God is. Is in us. It is accessible to us, and it is evident in very real ways in our lives.
[00:04:14.69] - Mitchell Buchanan
Yeah, yeah. No, I think even you say now of how the resurrection is a validation of our human experience where it's like just thinking of the opposite. Not the opposite, but, like, the alternative. Like, all right, I'm going to resurrect from the dead. And it's just this blinding, you know, invisible spirit that we're all filled with. And it's like, oh, this is different. It's like, no, it is a literal bodily resurrection where it's like, hey, this is our lives matter. And I think even it validates, like, the suffering gone through matters. Like, this is something that you don't escape from. You know, that you endure it, you go through it, pass through it, and that on the other side, we actually live out that changed life, like, physically.
[00:05:03.50] - Brandon Galford
Yeah.
[00:05:04.16] - Mitchell Buchanan
Because I think if it were done another way, there would be. It would feel very exceptional where it's like, this is not going to be possible. Or, you know, hey, I've been through so much in my life that it's like, I don't even think that spiritual change is possible for me. It's like, no, we all, I think, have this buy in where it's like. And I think, you know, you went through, like, there's not an element where it's like, hey, we have to prove this. Or it's like, it's not a rational game. We're playing this out where it's like, all right, if I can go through every process of this death and resurrection, I can prove to you that you can have faith. It's like, no, like, the changed lives is what produces that faith.
[00:05:44.87] - Brandon Galford
Yeah, that's it for Thomas.
[00:05:46.91] - Mitchell Buchanan
It was like he was like, went to the nth degree. It's like, no, no, no. Like, I see you. It's like, I need to be. It needs to be as real as possible for me to, like, believe. And I think all of us are at that place or get to that place.
[00:05:58.98] - Brandon Galford
Yeah, for sure. You know, you and I have been a part of this community since 0405, you know, long time.
[00:06:05.86] - Mitchell Buchanan
Yeah.
[00:06:06.08] - Brandon Galford
Like, how many. How many sermons have we heard from Greg that emphasize how resurrection power means that the next moment can be new?
[00:06:17.08] - Mitchell Buchanan
Right?
[00:06:17.77] - Brandon Galford
Like, how many sermons, like, the next moment. And I think that's the thing I really wanted to, I think emphasize is that resurrection power means that even if it's never happened before, it can still happen. I think people can be conditioned and taught by history in such a way that they base what can happen on their collected data regarding what has happened. But resurrection says, no, no, something new can happen right now. And I think the hopefulness of that perspective is something that is just inherent to resurrection theology.
[00:07:01.56] - Mitchell Buchanan
It makes God alive, too. Like, if we're just saying, hey, it's only what history has told us, how that's going to happen. Yeah, it's like saying something new can happen today, tomorrow. Like, God is doing something new in our community. I think it's easy for us as finite people just to default to, like, well, yeah, God can do something new, but I'm sure it'll look just like it has in the past. We're basically not letting God be alive if we're not giving that element of, like, no, literally, we believe there can be something new.
[00:07:33.62] - Brandon Galford
Right. Which is why I love the New Testament connection. And I mentioned this in my sermon, but I didn't really get into it too much. But the New Testament connection, well, New Testament and Old Testament, between resurrection and forgiveness, that link that with resurrection power, it testifies to the fact that I can release that person, that person can release me, and that there can be a new beginning in that relationship. And like you said, it brings God alive in the moment. And I think that connection is just. It's so central and so important, and just the hopefulness of that is something that I wanted to really emphasize. Yeah, sorry, guys. My voice is sinus infection.
[00:08:25.42] - Mitchell Buchanan
I've done struggling, dude. I've come into this podcast after, like, coaching two basketball games, doing practice in games, and it's like, barely even had a voice. It's like. It felt like it. It was horrible. Like this, whatever you're feeling. Like I've been worse.
[00:08:40.86] - Grant Dailey
So what. What was your connection you're trying to make from old to new, like, in the Old Testament, the idea of the God's visitation?
[00:08:46.45] - Brandon Galford
Good question. Yeah. You know, for Israel, you know, the resurrection theology we get in the Old Testament is very much centered on Israel's release from exile and that release from exile. Washington, you know, God's forgiveness. You know, you read, like, two Isaiah, Isaiah 40, where he's like, comfort my people. You know, they have paid double for their sins, their punishments over. And so that, that, you know, that link between God raising his people and giving them a new beginning through forgiveness. And I think that, you know, there's a synthesis in that theology from Old Testament to New. And I think it's. I think it's central to biblical theology that God is the God of new beginnings.
[00:09:32.21] - Mitchell Buchanan
Yeah.
[00:09:32.80] - Brandon Galford
And those new beginnings are very personal. They're very communal, they're very relational and. Yeah, yeah, it's a good question. That's what I. That's what I meant by that.
[00:09:41.77] - Grant Dailey
I appreciated the insistence that resurrection is. Is real. I know you're joking about evidence demands a verdict, but, you know, I would be curious if you were to just, like, pull people from our church off the street and just ask them how they experience resurrection on a daily basis. We might be hesitant to, like, and this is just like supposing, but we might be hesitant to attribute things to the, like, restoring redemptive power of God, because it just feels so impossible and out of joint with reality. You know? Like, especially as we get older, reality feels so much more real. Like the hopeful optimism of being young when it was like anything could happen. And then we've been kicked around a little bit and we're like, oh, this is hard. Life is really hard. Like, I remember when I was. When I was young and, like, trying to get into theology, I remember reading Rudolph Boltmann, the great german intellectual of the 1940s, and his whole thing was that the Bible. The Bible doesn't make sense. It can't make sense to modern man, because we know a human being cannot be raised from the dead. And he was attempting to make the Bible respectable and sensible to people. Yeah. Palatable. So his whole move was to existentialized. Well, of course, Jesus didn't really raise from the dead. He raised in the disciples hearts. And I know we may not be like students of Boltman, but we may do that move where it's like, we may say, yeah, on paper, I believe in the resurrection power of God. But then when you look at your own life, you like, discount it and you're like, well, but it didn't really happen in my life. That wasn't that. That was this, and I feel this way, but that's where I appreciated your testimony, because it is like it's reclaiming what God's done in our lives and doubling down. The fact that he did that, you know, the same work, they're the same. The power that was at work in Jesus raised him from the desert. Working us now, and it really happened is really happening for us.
[00:11:52.05] - Mitchell Buchanan
I think what you're talking about is the tendency to just say that it didn't necessarily happen or wasn't necessarily real. Cause I think even more so now. I think we will consent of, like, yes, we believe in a body of the resurrection, but there's so many more lessons to pull from it. And the text is doing this, and it's like, the layers of text, I think it's easier to attribute, like, value. And like, I think our, our importance on the layers in the text of, like, what else is happening. And like, the meaning from Old Testament, New Testament, and then what this, you know, the message across the whole metanarrative of what is happening in the word of God. But I think it, it. The resurrection isn't like, hey, this is a resurrection of our mindset, or like, this is a resurrection of interpretation. It's like, it is a bodily resurrection where it's like, almost like that concreteness and the reality, I think, forces us to stay grounded in how we live out. I think this word of God. And it's like, yeah, I think the layers are great in how we interpret it. And, like, the meanings we draw from it that are connected to other scriptures are immeasurably beneficial. You know, it's like, so life giving, but at the end of the day, if those, like, I think, pull away from that, like, no, this happened and it's a fact and it's bodily, it's like, I think it removes some of that focus, what you're saying. It kind of like, lets us off the hook where it's like, yeah, let's think about. I think all this stuff in our mind, it's like it has to go to our feet. It has to be lived out and, like, demonstrated.
[00:13:21.79] - Brandon Galford
That's why I love that romans four text for resurrection theology. You know, Paul talks about hoping against hope. He believed. Yeah, Abraham. And he gives this example of the barrenness of Sarah's womb, this, this objective situation that, like, we all know that can't happen.
[00:13:42.19] - Grant Dailey
Yeah.
[00:13:42.79] - Mitchell Buchanan
And yet, no matter how many times they would have sex, they were not going to get a kid.
[00:13:49.02] - Brandon Galford
It wasn't going to happen. Right. And, you know, and he gives two. He gives two elements there, you know, of bringing what didn't exist into existence and then raising what was dead to life. And I think that when we look at our own lives, when we look at our relationships, we look at the people around us, that kind of hopefulness has to characterize who we are. It has to. If we don't have that kind of faith, we have problems. And I think maintaining that kind of faith can be challenging because, as Grant said, life happens. We get beat up. We experience unanswered prayers in our lives. We, you know, life happens and it hurts and it's challenging, but still, to be able to hang on to that belief that, you know, this. This relationship that's broken God, I believe you can resurrect this. You know, that doesn't mean we passively sit back and do nothing.
[00:14:45.26] - Mitchell Buchanan
Right?
[00:14:45.67] - Brandon Galford
You know, like, Abraham and Sarah had to do something. Right? They had to make something happen.
[00:14:49.75] - Mitchell Buchanan
Yeah.
[00:14:49.98] - Brandon Galford
Yeah. They had to do something. So, like, you know, there's. There's action, but that action is done with the belief that, like, God really can do this.
[00:14:59.35] - Mitchell Buchanan
Right.
[00:14:59.97] - Brandon Galford
You know, or those personal struggles we deal with where we feel hopeless. I'll never get past this resurrection. Faith says you have to believe that this is possible.
[00:15:12.54] - Mitchell Buchanan
Yeah.
[00:15:13.64] - Brandon Galford
Without resurrection, we are, of all people, the most pitiable, as Paul says. That was something I really wanted to emphasize people to examine their lives and be like, where is their death? And where am I struggling to believe that God could bring life out of this and then addressing it?
[00:15:36.12] - Mitchell Buchanan
Yeah, I think that was something. Relisting the sermon that you had kind of paused for a second. I'll just kind of read. The question I had is, I know you're really. Do we truly believe that we have the spirit of resurrection with us every day? And then I think you challenge everyone in the congregation. Like, do you think we as a church community, do we live with that confidence? Do we have that spirit in us that it's like, you know, truly a resurrection power that we're living out? And it's like, did you have thoughts on that, even? Obviously, there's a challenge in hearing it. I think all of us probably feel like, oh, I fell short. I think I may be trying to wrap my head around, like, do you think we've kind of, as a church body the last three, four, five years, kind of like, curb that maybe youthful exuberance time has kind of curbed down. It's like, are we not really, like, engaging and living that out, or, like, what do you feel?
[00:16:27.02] - Brandon Galford
That's a great question, I think. I think it's the purpose of the question was to. I think simply by raising it, it forces you to think about your life in a different way. It's the kind of thing where, unless the question is asked, like, how often do we really evaluate? Where am I at with resurrection faith? You know, like, who does that?
[00:16:49.44] - Mitchell Buchanan
Oh, maybe you don't, Brandon. So we need a new speaker on Sundays.
[00:16:54.87] - Brandon Galford
I think simply by raising the question, it was for the purpose of just getting people to evaluate, you know, myself, myself included. You know, it's. The thing about preaching is that we're always preaching to ourselves. We're always. We're always challenging ourselves as well. Like, we obviously, no, we don't have it figured out, obviously. But I think it's a very important question, because if resurrection is so central to who we are as God's people, and if Paul's right when he says that the spirit who raised Jesus from the dead dwells in you, or that resurrection power gives us newness of life, if he's right in that, then what does that mean for me? What does that mean in my community? I just wanted to pose the question to get people thinking about it, evaluating them ourselves.
[00:17:46.30] - Mitchell Buchanan
I think so many caveats are given to Covid. I think that has definitely had a effect of. Everything was very similar for a year. Circumstances weren't changing.
[00:18:00.89] - Brandon Galford
What a miserable time.
[00:18:02.14] - Mitchell Buchanan
People weren't commuting. We were all, like, you know, wearing masks. We weren't doing typical things just because it wasn't possible. And so I think. And then ministerially, I think, you know, we weren't going abroad. We weren't doing things that I think would typically characterize our behavior, and I think even instill that confidence of, like, God's doing a new work. Yeah. It's like we're, you know, have that resurrection power. And I think, you know, on the other side of that, people have testified maybe the last couple weeks, the excitement of, like, trips this summer, the excitement of what God is doing in our community and, dude, you just got back.
[00:18:41.53] - Brandon Galford
Oh, yeah. Great trip, great time. Great time. Yeah.
[00:18:46.40] - Mitchell Buchanan
And I think the kind of the tricky part is our growing and maturing into the people where circumstances aren't dictating what is inside of us, because we believe in, you know, in God, like, because we believe in Jesus. Hey, this happened. We haven't I haven't gone abroad in this long, or it's like, hey, it feels like, you know, there hasn't been a church retreat in this song. It's like, I think circumstances can kind of dictate how we feel. Oh, absolutely. And there's probably just a whole conversation that we could spend 45 minutes on that, but it's like, how do we move past, I think, those circumstances dictating? And it's like, no, no, no. This. Whether you feel this way today or not, it's like, this is the reality. And it's like, you know, maybe this is my intuition, I think feels like circumstances have dictated to us for the last few years more than we would want to admit. You know, where it's like, I think almost every sermon, there's kind of a tip of the Capitol. Like, it's been rough, there's been a hard season, and it's like, there's stuff that we've all gone through, and not that we deny that on any level. It's like, yeah, like, dude, we've, I think, been knocked to the mat and, like, need to respond in faith, but it's like, you know, I think, really hearing the sermon internalizing and then, you know, making the changes in our lives of, like, no, like, we need to reject, I think, the. The lie of just the routinized passivity we can get if we're not attentive and, like, you know, taking God's word as if it is real, you know?
[00:20:25.27] - Brandon Galford
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
[00:20:27.69] - Mitchell Buchanan
I don't know if there's actually a discussable point on that if you don't want to hear anything.
[00:20:31.70] - Brandon Galford
I think, you know, what. What resurrection communicates to us, even as you said earlier, is that God is alive. Jesus is alive now. He is. He is living, he is active, he is present. And when we look at, you know, going back to your example of, like, it's been a rough season, you know, it's. It's, you know, it's been a while since I've been able to connect with people abroad. You know, resurrection power recognizes that this same Jesus who's in the gospels doing new stuff all the time, cool stuff, stuff that leaves his disciples, like, mind blown. Like, if he's with us, I don't care what the last season's been like, this next season could be totally different, and there's, like, an element of adventure in that. And, you know, I think resurrection faith is the source even of our staying power in the kind of ministerial work that we've been called to, you know, like, you hear people talk about burnout, people talk about, you know, like, I've been ministering. It's. It's been hard, you know, like, resurrection power is like, no, no, it can be new.
[00:21:42.40] - Mitchell Buchanan
Yeah. Hope against hope.
[00:21:43.80] - Brandon Galford
Like, hoping against hope.
[00:21:45.04] - Mitchell Buchanan
Yeah. You can't burn out hard enough to not, you know, for God to not do something new the next day.
[00:21:49.99] - Brandon Galford
Exactly. Exactly. There's. Yeah, there is no definitive final burnout. When the God of resurrection is with.
[00:21:56.54] - Mitchell Buchanan
You.
[00:21:58.97] - Brandon Galford
He can raise it up. I experienced some, you know, resurrection in my time in Africa just last week.
[00:22:05.43] - Mitchell Buchanan
Preach.
[00:22:06.15] - Brandon Galford
Yeah. The resurrection of the expansion, even of my vision of our ministry community, what we're doing, the resurrection of these relationships that, you know, you know, have not been nurtured, you know, not just because of, you know, there's the geographic absence, the distance, but, you know, I've not done well in maintaining, connected with my people in East Africa. It was a wonderful time for me to really even just remember, like, what are we doing? Yeah, what are we doing? And we, you know, we talk about global consciousness. We talk about the, you know, these. These regions we work in, and, like, this is God's work that we are doing with our brothers and sisters in these regions. And those relationships that we have with them are so essential for what it is that God's doing. And I think, for me, the resurrection of some of that vision and hope. I know we talked about resurrection being concrete, but there's a concreteness to that. I'm now proactively involved more in working with our brothers and sisters abroad as a result of that. You know, that. Yeah, I think resurrection, it speaks into so many elements of our lives and ministry and calling and. Yeah, I had a fantastic time reconnecting. I really did.
[00:23:39.50] - Mitchell Buchanan
That's great.
[00:23:40.25] - Brandon Galford
Really fantastic.
[00:23:41.75] - Mitchell Buchanan
I think in your, uh. Just to talk about the sermon, specifically in it, you talked about, like, hey, I wasn't sure my kids are here. I didn't know how much of this I wanted to share.
[00:23:52.89] - Brandon Galford
Yeah.
[00:23:53.79] - Mitchell Buchanan
Is. Or just.
[00:23:56.45] - Grant Dailey
Are you asking if his kids listen to this?
[00:23:58.11] - Mitchell Buchanan
No, no, no. Just. Well, just to talk about, I think maybe that dynamic of, like, in our. In our homes, and then you can even just share, I think, your mindset with a sermon. But it's like, I think talking about resurrection, there's obviously maybe doesn't necessitate that, hey, there was death, now there's a resurrection. Right? So it's like, I think having those testimonies, you know, even with our family or people close to us, where it's like, hey, this is, like, shameful to admit. Or it's like, hey, I don't want to testify to this resurrection because I'm having to muck it up with the death I was in. It's like, yeah, I think it's hard even as a dad, of, like, I think just being bold in your faith and like, hey, like, I'm teaching you right now where it's like, hey, like, we're not praying enough, you know, like, taking those spiritual disciplines all the way, you know, into to your household and how you live out. Yeah, you want to share? I think even how testifying to this resurrection, like, the dynamic of, like, are my kids gonna. How's this gonna play out?
[00:24:55.51] - Brandon Galford
I mean, that's great. As parents, we all deal with that question, are they ready for this? Can they handle this? Are they old enough? And we're all, you know, trying to figure that out and use discernment the best we can and pray. And, you know, I felt like in that moment that I didn't know how to communicate the reality of what I had experienced without going maybe even a little bit further than I would have liked with my twelve year old in that regard. But, like, to highlight the depth of what God raised me from. Like, how do I communicate that to my kids without just, I mean, obviously there's details to my teenage years that I will never speak again.
[00:25:40.48] - Mitchell Buchanan
That's another podcast.
[00:25:41.56] - Brandon Galford
They will never come out of my mouth.
[00:25:44.78] - Mitchell Buchanan
Let's do another podcast.
[00:25:46.86] - Brandon Galford
Yeah, but, you know, our kids have got to know. They've got to know our testimonies. They've got to know our stories. You know, that's what incites faith, right? You know, that. That's what. What produces in them this sense of even their faith becoming their own as they see, okay, God did that in my mom's life, my dad's life. I also want to experience God. Not that I want to hit rock bottom and need God to resurrect me, but I also want to experience God raising life in me, whatever that looks like. And I think it's incited conversations, generated conversations with my kids in ways that didn't happen before. And I'm thankful for that.
[00:26:34.26] - Grant Dailey
Well, it's also like, how do you testify to the power of resurrection if you don't acknowledge why resurrection needed to happen in the first place? There has to be, like, for the impossible to happen. There has to be something really tragic on the other side of it. And I think, too, part of what you're saying is that you're not like, the guys that we would see come up through our youth groups that were like 5 seconds or move from whatever mess they were in, they're like, you know, I used to. I used to be a kingmar. I used to be an addict.
[00:27:06.21] - Brandon Galford
Last month.
[00:27:06.91] - Grant Dailey
Yeah, last month. But Jesus saved me. You know, this is like an entire.
[00:27:10.96] - Mitchell Buchanan
Youth leaders live for those.
[00:27:12.35] - Grant Dailey
This is like decades of resurrection power. And, you know, you're not. You're not calling attention to your messed up past.
[00:27:21.25] - Brandon Galford
Yeah.
[00:27:21.70] - Grant Dailey
To make sense of some messed up moment that they have to contend with. Now you're calling attention to it to say, this is what God did. Yeah, and absolutely. I think, you know, even the Abraham story is interesting because he's the father of our faith and he's got some, like, colorful moments in his story. You know, that. It always interests me that, like, that the biblical authors didn't just scrub the Hagar narrative or, like, scrub the whole journey down to Egypt or, like, try to hide over some of the stories. They're there.
[00:27:50.98] - Mitchell Buchanan
Those are top five scrubbings in the old.
[00:27:53.34] - Grant Dailey
No, there's certainly other ones. Right.
[00:27:55.02] - Brandon Galford
Like we said, chiba, for sure. Chronicles.
[00:27:58.06] - Mitchell Buchanan
Did scrubbing come up with the top ten scrubbings?
[00:28:00.02] - Grant Dailey
Like, what could have been, you know, like, how did that make it?
[00:28:04.14] - Brandon Galford
The whole book of judges?
[00:28:05.48] - Grant Dailey
The book of judges.
[00:28:09.16] - Mitchell Buchanan
That list is contentious, dude. People are trying to get on, but.
[00:28:12.58] - Grant Dailey
I mean, you know, like, those stories are present. But then Paul still references Abraham as the father of our faith. He's the father of all of us, and highlights him as the example for what we're now supposed to display, acknowledging the resurrection power of God and Jesus at faith. So it's a special thing. And, you know, like, your kids love and respect you.
[00:28:32.50] - Brandon Galford
Yeah.
[00:28:32.84] - Grant Dailey
And they see that you're, like. You know, that you have, like, there's, like, staying power attached to what God did.
[00:28:39.93] - Brandon Galford
Yeah.
[00:28:40.67] - Grant Dailey
That, like, you're still on the trajectory that resurrection shot you in a different direction. You're still going that way.
[00:28:48.00] - Brandon Galford
God has made us do. Yeah.
[00:28:49.38] - Grant Dailey
Yeah, it's powerful.
[00:28:51.73] - Mitchell Buchanan
Yeah. I think I, in doing prep for these. So listen to a few different sermons, and then. Really? Yours after Greg's Luke seven, you know, the widow inane. It's like, your testimony is. Is that narrative just like modern day where it's like, you know, your. Your dad passed away, so it's just your mom. Yeah, I guess Sean is a character in that, too, but. Yeah, but really, I think you. You, like, wake, you know, you're in the hospital. You're, like, at rock bottom. You, like, are seeing, like, these, you know, your mom, like, you're literally, like, you know, being resurrected.
[00:29:28.24] - Brandon Galford
Yeah.
[00:29:28.69] - Mitchell Buchanan
And then, like, joined, I think, with your mom and with Sean in a totally different light where it's like, you are getting up, you know, from where you were a different person. Like, now you're like, you know, God has brought you, I think, to really resurrect and, like, live out a different narrative. Like, having those back to back was.
[00:29:47.40] - Brandon Galford
Like, that's a good. That's a good point. And even just seeing. Seeing, you know, how my transformation changed my mom.
[00:29:55.47] - Mitchell Buchanan
Right.
[00:29:55.96] - Brandon Galford
You know, I know that she, in doing the best she could to raise us, and she did fantastic. But she also, you know, she had her limitations and that she couldn't control me. And as a parent, you know, there's guilt that comes with that. It's difficult to see your child go through struggles and you just don't know how to fix it. But what God did in me, you know, it.
[00:30:21.18] - Mitchell Buchanan
It transformed her and even her. Her testimony of resurrection, where it's like, hey, hope against hope, you know, Brandon's not gonna change. I'm still praying for Brandon. I'm still hoping, like, you know, testify to that. Like, my mom, like, never gave up. Like, my mom was, like, always praying for me and Shawn. It's like her testimony of resurrection is what we've been talking about this whole time, too, and it's, like, so powerful.
[00:30:45.21] - Brandon Galford
I love that. Yeah, that's good stuff, Brandon.
[00:30:49.20] - Mitchell Buchanan
We're going to end this on. Brandon's mom is awesome. Fantastic. She's great. Did you want to say anything else? I think we've gone to some great.
[00:30:58.25] - Brandon Galford
I think we've hit the points. I just, again, will just raise the challenge that everyone who's watching, you know, take some time to reflect on. On your own life and your relationships. And where am I lacking in resurrection faith? What areas of my life am I doubting that God can really do something new right now? And then let's address that. Let's bring in other people to pray. Let's confess that and talk to friends about it, and let's believe again that God can do something, even if we've never seen it done before, even if I've never been able to get past that, that God really can do something new.
[00:31:43.04] - Mitchell Buchanan
Yeah. No, that's great, man. Well, thanks for listening, watching, hanging out. It's always a great time. If you don't know already. You're all watching this. You're all listening to it, like, subscribe, leave five star review. This is a great time. I hope you all are blessed by it again. Whenever we approach, I think the word of God, whenever we approach, I think these sermons, it's like, find, I think, where we can analyze our own lives, where we can see practically, how do I live this out? And just, like, you know, Brandon ended on, like, let's. Let's really dig in. Let's, like, see how can resurrection life, like, come through us? And I think in whatever discussion groups at work, you know, hanging out with people, like, let's have these conversations, because I think it's gonna do nothing but produce life and let us see how God can be different tomorrow, the next day, the next day to do something great in our community.
[00:32:38.55] - Grant Dailey
Amen.
[00:32:40.41] - Mitchell Buchanan
Yeah. Until the next time we see you guys at church. Thanks for joining us.
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