We're going to begin with Cody King, a church planter and currently serving as assistant pastor at Reliance Church in Temecula, California.

Hey, my name is Cody King, and I've been teaching the Bible and serving in a variety of ministry capacities for about 28 years now.

I'm currently an assistant pastor at Reliance Church in Temecula, California.

Now, I'll be honest, I was a bit of a late adopter when it comes to preaching an Advent series.

Because of my background in theological camp, I tend to have a little bit of an allergic reaction to overly religious language and tradition.

So even the word Advent made me not really like it.

And that mentality kept me from even considering preaching an entire series for this religious thing, Advent.

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I, I, I wanna talk about this for a second, actually.

And I, and Rick Cooley, once again, I'm gonna bring you up, and, uh, I'm, I'm working back in, my way inside.

I gotta find my phone charger, but this is a very good point.

Um, so Rick Cooley calls me earlier this week and says, "Hey, Cody, what's going on?" He didn't call me, he text me.

But he says, "Man, I, I gotta pick your brain a little bit about this puppy." And I said, "Okay," and I forget what he asked me about the puppy, but, uh, but he, uh...

I agree 100%.

must be my fault yeah but he's a lot of fun

to hunt with i mean and and ruben could uh ruben could judge a pack of dogs better than any person that i've ever seen i mean it was unbelievable he he had an ear for it man i mean there could be there i i you know a story that joe bob james is an old hunter from down here and he told me he said man i him and ruben kind of didn't get along too good in their old age and he told me he said i went out hunting with ruben one day and i had some pretty good dogs and he said one of my old dogs started barked a few times he said and ruben turned to me and said joe bob that dog's cold trailing a javelina And he said, as the most preposterous fucking statement you've ever said in your life.

Number one, that dog ain't never trashed in his life.

He said, number two, not only are you going to predict that my dog's running trash, but you're going to tell me what it's running? Of the 27 different species of mammals out here, you're going to tell me what it's running? And bygones be bygones.

Joe Bob said about two weeks later, he was hunting.

And that dog trashed.

He says, I don't know what it trashed on, but I'm telling you that dog trashed hunting by himself.

yeah.

Um, yeah, what's the value of those? Maybe I'll allow Cody and maybe one or two can jump in.

Yeah.

I'll, I'll just say I would, uh, I would probably preach some of the stuff that I did for the Christ-centered module in an actual sermon.

I just, uh, uh, I think the way that you said it at the end was the thing that made it kind of land is that all of it's, like, biblically true.

It's just how are you saying it, and where, what's the, who's the hero? So the way that it was phrased is like Jesus is the sidekick, and what we need to do is instead make him the hero.

And when we do that, then stuff like, you know, I'm, I don't, I don't think anybody...

Like, young guys, seriously, generosity and kindness will win a girl's heart, so try that.

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And so here's Cody King, episode 449.

Amen.

Ruth chapter 2 is the unfolding of an amazing love story.

It gives us critical insights into biblical principles that we can all utilize today.

And today through Ruth chapter 2, I want to give you three of those principles.

Number one, God's heart for the vulnerable.

Number two, God's heart for the worker.

I will grant you

So now I got to now I got to throw five, six grand on other bids to make that.

Yeah.

The very first.

So when I was in college.

There was a roofing company that did some work for my dad and he asked me, he had a job.

He goes, Cody, I'm filing bankruptcy in August, but I have to have a superintendent on this job that I'm finishing.

And can I hire you? Cause you're a dumb college kid and you would be very cheap, but because you've been around construction your whole life, you know, enough to, you know, to make it work.

might be nice to have some sort of registry or i'm

You were showing them your gyrocopter, your little plane thing.

Yeah, so those little gyros that I bought, they're becoming very popular in the United States because 80% of your hours for your helicopter license can be done in hours.

rotocraft in that gyro.

A helicopter costs $600 an hour minimum to operate, and the little gyros like I got cost $50 an hour to operate.

They're starting to get popular because people are starting to use them for an avenue to get their helicopter license.

When he found out I got one, he was pretty interested in it.

He'd been hearing about them, and he was very interested to see how a person who was certified to fly one would do flying an actual helicopter.

do you think your dogs do in that kind of country on those bobcats?

He lost it for $500, and you think, 20 grand, $500, you know?

And by no means am I saying that this is what was going on, because it's not what was going on.

But I was at an auction one time.

and a friend of mine, uh, and one of his registered Simbra cattle brought $50,000.

And the guy that bought it, I kind of knew him a little bit, not very well.

And, uh, He bought that cow.

And then, you know, about eight months later, the guy that owns the $50,000 cow bought a $50,000 cow at the next auction down the road.

uh because i'm not one of those guys and i'm there's no one dying in my family that's gonna leave me nothing that i don't have to pay for

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Yeah.

So Vinnie, Vinnie told Mark and his wife that I really liked Skittles, and so they, just being the nice people that they are, they went to town to go grocery shopping and they bought me some bags of Skittles.

Well, they give them to me as I'm leaving.

I hop in my truck and I get about 10 miles down the road, and I've spent the last 25 years of my life with two opinions about Skittles.

Number one is that wild berry is the, the, the, the best bag of Skittles that you can buy.

That's fact.

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said done dealt with and over with um here in a couple months i can apply for our gambling license and a raffle license so we can start raffling off guns to turn into better prizes for the kids and whatnot too so i'm looking forward to that next step with it also

The first year that Carl did that, I told him to give me the address of the first kid that got a pup.

And I sent them an Alpha Garmin.

And somebody sent me a nice little thank you letter in the mail after that.

I don't remember who it was.

Oh, that's awesome.

I remember that.

I don't have my shots either.

What you all

doodied up for, Cody? I'm not doodied up.

I'm in.

Wisconsin, man, on the Wisconsin River.

I wish we had clouds.

Oh, man, it came a hell of a storm today.

I walked to a restaurant about a mile away, and I got about halfway back to the hotel, and the damn hailstorm hit.

No, it's died

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the, the, one of the, the coolest things that I've ever seen though is, is, I mean, not, is, cool in its own way, is I've seen them sumbitches, I don't care if you paid $100,000 to kill the biggest elephant in the world and he was standing at 40 yards and you needed to get five yards closer and there was a beehive in a tree next to you, them sumbitches are gonna tell everybody to screw off until they have all sat down and ate every bit of honey out of that freaking tree, man.

They, they, there's a, a bu- a bird over there-Called a honey guide, and it's a bird that eats bees.

And you'll be hunting along, zoom, zoom, zoom, zoom, zoom, zoom, zoom, and you'll see one of them honey guides fly by, and one of them natives will jump off the truck and just start following it.

Follow that bird and follow that bird all day long till they fi- find that honey.

It's the most and richest food that that jungle can provide.

It was a mean cat, you know?

When a woman cop tells you-

you-I'm, I'm fixing to confiscate all of your ...

I'm fixing to impound your dogs.

And you look at them and tell them, "Ma'am, you are not going to impound my dogs.

You, you, you may call for some help and then you can say we are gonna impound your dogs, but you are not gonna impoun-" They get pissed off, [laughs] let me tell you.

But I, I, I, I meant every word of it though.

Uh, and but it, it got sorted out.

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I, I am, but I tell you what, look at that.

I'll tell you, I'll tell you s- I'll tell you a little story.

So for those of y'all that know Casey Fare, um, you know, him and his wife are pretty, pretty religious people.

And, uh, you know, they, his wife kinda started a summer camp for kids and all this stuff.

My whole hand was swelled up like a watermelon the whole time I was out there.

And, uh, before we left, they said, "Cody, we wanna pray on your hand and get you well." I said, "Okay," and I stuck my hand out there.

And he's got some people owing him