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00:00 >> Welcome to It Is Written
00:01 Canada. 00:02 Thank you for joining us. 00:03 Some would say that it all 00:04 started in an old country 00:07 schoolhouse in Waldheim, 00:07 schoolhouse in Waldheim, 00:08 Saskatchewan with a little boy 00:10 named Henry Feyerabend, 00:12 whose skinny four-year-old 00:15 legs dangled from the bench 00:17 while his uncle, Diedrich 00:20 Neufeld, affectionately known as 00:22 Uncle D.D., preached an 00:24 evangelistic meeting with the 00:27 old charts covering the 00:28 chalkboard, revealing the 00:30 beast's from the prophetic books 00:32 of Daniel and Revelation. 00:35 >> Little Henry poked his mother 00:38 to get her attention. 00:39 Then he pulled her close to hear 00:41 his announcement. 00:43 "Mama, you know something? 00:47 Mama! Someday I'm going to be 00:50 a preacher and a baptizer, 00:53 just like Uncle D.D." 00:55 >> Instead of pin up pictures of 00:57 hockey heroes and movie stars, 00:59 young Henry Feyerabend papered 01:01 the walls of his bedroom with 01:03 pictures of Pastor HMS Richards, 01:04 pictures of Pastor HMS Richards, 01:06 the famous voice of the Voice of 01:07 Prophecy Radio programs, and 01:09 prints of the King's Heralds 01:12 quartet. 01:14 >> Henry had a persistent fire 01:16 burning in his heart 01:18 to preach, to sing, 01:20 and to share his love 01:22 for his Saviour, 01:23 which took him from selling 01:24 which took him from selling 01:25 Christian books, to teaching, 01:28 to being a dean of boys 01:29 at an academy, to being a 01:32 singing evangelist, 01:34 to spending 11 years as a 01:36 to spending 11 years as a 01:37 missionary in Brazil, where he 01:39 preached and sang to thousands 01:41 of people from the pulpit and 01:44 from the broadcasting studio. 01:46 >> When Pastor Feyerabend 01:48 returned to Canada in 1969, 01:50 his first assignment was to work 01:52 with none other than Pastor 01:54 George Vandeman in an 01:56 evangelistic campaign 01:57 in Toronto. 01:59 At the time, Henry had no idea 02:01 At the time, Henry had no idea 02:02 how the Lord was about to 02:04 amplify his voice 02:06 as a humble servant of God... 02:10 ....leading him to produce a 02:11 series of weekly broadcasts 02:14 from a tiny radio station 02:16 in Toronto, to a series of 02:19 short five-minute telecasts. 02:23 First in Portuguese and later in 02:25 English, to what today 02:27 is a national and international 02:30 media ministry known as It Is 02:33 Written Canada. 02:35 >> In a moment, you will listen 02:37 to the stories of the many 02:39 faithful people who have 02:40 dedicated their lives to serving 02:42 our Saviour sacrificially... 02:45 ...shaping this ministry, 02:48 which took to the air 02:50 some 50 years ago. 02:54 [theme music playing] 02:57 ♪♪ 03:32 [gentle guitar music playing] 03:35 ♪♪ 03:37 [HENRY] If you use the Bible to 03:39 interpret itself, you're on 03:40 safe ground. 03:42 And so I wanted to know what 03:43 happens when Jesus comes 03:44 with clouds... 03:45 [SHAWN] Henry was a legend. 03:46 Henry loved people. 03:48 Henry loved winning people to 03:50 Christ more than anything 03:52 in the world. 03:53 He just absolutely lived for it. 03:54 I mean, he bought a bus at one 03:55 point just so he could tour 03:56 point just so he could tour 03:57 Canada and go from town to town 03:58 and hold public meetings where 04:00 people could investigate the 04:01 scriptures with him and get to 04:02 know Christ. 04:04 know Christ. 04:04 I've never seen that level of 04:06 dedication. 04:07 I mean, he literally died 04:09 on the job eventually, right to 04:12 the end, serving Christ, leading 04:14 people to Christ. 04:15 My first impression was, man, 04:16 I've never met somebody so 04:18 dedicated to anything 04:20 in my life. 04:21 And I found it contagious. 04:22 To hang out with Henry rubs off 04:24 on you, and next thing you know, 04:25 I'm doing it every day probably 04:27 for the rest of my life. 04:29 >> An inquiry was called to 04:30 determine the cause of the 04:31 accident. 04:33 The signalman was called 04:35 to the stand. 04:36 "Did you hear the approaching 04:37 train?" he was asked. 04:39 "What did you do to warn the 04:40 engineer of the danger?" 04:43 "I waved my lantern 04:45 back and forth..." 04:46 [DOUG] I think one thing that 04:47 people really enjoyed about 04:48 Henry's presentations was it was 04:49 full of stories. 04:50 I mean, there was─ 04:51 he would never 04:52 he would never 04:53 cease to amaze me, these stories 04:55 he'd come up with. 04:56 I mean, it seemed like every 04:57 situation in a, you know, 04:59 every sermon he told, 05:01 every broadcast he produced, 05:02 every broadcast he produced, 05:04 it was just full of stories that 05:05 perfectly illustrated, you know, 05:07 the principle that he was trying 05:08 to convey. 05:10 [SHAWN] Jesus was a storyteller. 05:12 If you look at it, most of the 05:12 If you look at it, most of the 05:14 gospels are stories. 05:16 Jesus told, what, 40, 42 05:17 parables, something like that in 05:19 the Gospels, and Henry was 05:21 following in those footsteps. 05:22 And man, could he tell a tale. 05:24 He'd pull you in. 05:25 He'd give you just enough detail 05:27 that you wonder where in the 05:29 world is this going? 05:30 Because it would be just quirky 05:32 enough, just interesting enough. 05:34 Even if you kind of thought you 05:35 were gonna leave the meeting 05:36 early, you won't leave the 05:37 meeting early because Henry's 05:39 telling a story. 05:40 And he'd pull the punch line, 05:42 not that it was a joke, but 05:43 there was always a punchline. 05:44 There was always the delivery of 05:46 either the really important fact 05:48 from Scripture, or there was the 05:50 delivery of a bonding moment 05:52 where you just felt like you'd 05:53 got to know the guy personally. 05:55 got to know the guy personally. 05:56 And the stories he told, I'd be 05:58 in stitches. 05:58 I used to go to his house in 06:00 Waldheim, Saskatchewan, and we 06:02 were supposed to be working on 06:04 TV shows, but he'd end up 06:05 telling stories till like one, 06:06 two in the morning and I'd be 06:07 two in the morning and I'd be 06:08 wiping the tears out of my eyes. 06:10 People don't know that about him 06:11 always from the TV appearances, 06:13 because he was always kind of 06:14 proper, but the stories... 06:17 I learned a lot from the guy. 06:18 To this day, I'm a storyteller 06:20 as well, and I think I picked a 06:22 lot of that up from Henry 06:23 Feyerabend. 06:24 Stories are where people are. 06:25 Stories are where people are. 06:25 Stories is what people can 06:26 relate to, and he instinctively 06:28 knew that. 06:30 >> Who would have thought 06:31 that within less than two years, 06:33 even the Kremlin, his last 06:35 stronghold, Gorbachev's third 06:37 floor... 06:38 [DOUG] I have very fond memories 06:40 of in between takes 06:41 of in between takes 06:42 on location, you know, in Brazil 06:44 somewhere, we're sitting down in 06:45 between takes, working on some 06:46 script, and all of a sudden 06:48 Henry pops up with some story 06:50 that I've never heard before. 06:51 You figure you spend enough 06:52 years with a guy, you're gonna 06:54 hear all the stories, right? 06:57 [SHAWN] He got a boat, and I 06:58 looked at the thing, and the 06:59 looked at the thing, and the 06:59 boat was a piece of junk. 07:00 Oh my goodness, it was awful. 07:02 But it's what he had and he was 07:03 so proud of it. 07:04 Let's go out fishing or 07:06 go out on the lake. 07:07 Let's have fun together. 07:08 So we put it in the lake, we're 07:09 in northern Saskatchewan 07:11 and we're out having a nice day. 07:13 The fishing's horrible, we're 07:14 not catching much. 07:16 And eventually he sees 07:18 whitecaps forming on the far 07:20 end of the lake. 07:21 He said, "Oh, there's a storm 07:22 brewing, Shawn, we gotta get off 07:23 the water." 07:24 I said, "Fair enough. 07:25 Let's get off the water." 07:26 He said, "But not before I show 07:27 you what my boat can do." 07:29 I said, "Really?" 07:30 And I knew it couldn't do much. 07:31 I mean, I could see it. 07:32 It's a piece of junk. 07:33 There's no way it's gonna... 07:34 He says, "No, no, no, buckle up, 07:35 man, this is gonna be amazing. 07:36 Sit down." 07:37 So I sit down and he hits the 07:39 throttle, and this thing, I'll 07:40 give him credit, it takes off 07:42 like a rocket ship. Voop! 07:43 I mean, we practically left the 07:45 water over a wave. 07:47 And I thought, that is 07:48 impressive, Henry. 07:49 And suddenly it came to a dead 07:51 stop, like we'd hit a brick 07:52 wall, which doesn't happen 07:54 on water. 07:55 You don't come to dead stops 07:56 on the water. 07:57 And I'm recovering a little bit, 08:00 and trying to get my balance 08:02 from stopping so suddenly, and 08:03 it suddenly takes off again. 08:04 It lurches at about 20 degrees 08:06 that way, takes off again, and 08:08 then it comes to another dead 08:09 stop, and we're lurching across 08:10 the lake, and I'm─ we're on the 08:12 bottom of the boat and I'm 08:13 saying, "Henry, this is 08:14 quite a boat. 08:15 I mean, really, what a ride." 08:18 And he's like, "I don't 08:19 understand it." 08:20 Well, it turns out we had the 08:21 anchor out the whole time, and 08:23 it was catching every log and 08:25 dead head in that lake as we 08:26 were trying to cruise across 08:28 the lake. 08:28 And so, yeah, lurch, stop. 08:30 It's fortunate we didn't rip the 08:31 back end of that boat off. 08:32 So to the day he died, we were 08:34 laughing about his amazing boat 08:35 that could lurch us across. 08:37 We just about killed us. 08:38 We just about killed us. 08:39 >> On today's program, we talked 08:40 about miniature microphones. 08:42 I'm wearing one behind my tie. 08:46 And here is just what it 08:47 looks like. 08:48 [laughter] 08:51 [SHAWN] There was one event late 08:52 in life, he developed an 08:53 unfortunate hematoma. 08:56 He got a cancer in his knee. 08:58 And I was living in the United 08:59 And I was living in the United 09:00 States by this point and I was 09:01 waiting for green cards to come 09:03 through, so I couldn't come up 09:04 and visit because they put a 09:06 little bit of a stay on your 09:08 travel when you're waiting for 09:10 immigration to deal with your 09:11 paperwork. 09:12 So I knew he was gonna go to the 09:13 hospital, and I knew they were 09:14 gonna take his leg. 09:16 And that's tragic. 09:17 He had the same thing 09:20 that Terry Fox had, and it might 09:21 have even been the same leg. 09:23 And everybody in Canada knows 09:24 Terry Fox, right? 09:26 He had the same thing. 09:27 So they had to take the leg 09:28 eventually, there just was no 09:30 saving it. 09:31 So I remember calling him early 09:32 one morning at the hospital and 09:34 "No, he's not awake yet. 09:35 He's still in recovery, he's 09:36 still in recovery." 09:37 And I'm thinking, 09:38 "This is awful. 09:39 Losing a limb, waking up 09:40 and having to cope with that. 09:42 This is awful and I can't be by 09:43 the bedside of my friend to 09:44 encourage him when he wakes up. 09:46 By phone seems─ 09:47 eh, I don't know..." 09:48 So I called him. 09:49 Eventually I got through when 09:51 he woke up and they punched it 09:53 through to his room, he picked 09:55 up the phone, I said, "Henry, 09:56 it's Shawn. 09:58 How are you doing?" 09:59 He says, "Well, I'm gonna be 10:00 really honest with you, Shawn. 10:01 I'm on my last leg." 10:03 And I started to laugh and I 10:05 felt bad because now I'm 10:06 laughing at his missing leg, 10:07 but that's...that's funny. 10:08 I said, "Really?" and just he's, 10:10 "Yeah, I'm on my last leg. 10:11 They took it away and 10:13 they sent in a counsellor to see 10:14 how I was doing, and I think she 10:16 feels better now after talking 10:17 to me." 10:19 I mean, he rode that through 10:20 with class. 10:21 And later on, he was on my board 10:23 at another institution, because 10:24 you have to have Henry 10:25 Feyerabend on your board. 10:27 And he wheeled in, and I 10:29 remember for the meeting, he 10:30 took his false leg and he turned 10:31 it upside down so his foot is in 10:33 front of his face. 10:34 I'm trying to give a 10:35 presentation, but his foot's 10:36 in front of his face the whole 10:37 time and, yeah. 10:40 He laughed his way through the 10:41 hardest moments of life. 10:42 I have no doubt that he was in 10:45 a lot of pain. 10:46 Nobody─ I remember the fear that 10:48 he felt when it was going down 10:50 and it was going to happen. 10:52 But somehow he managed to do 10:53 that because he felt it was also 10:55 important to pull everyone else 10:56 into the room and make them feel 10:58 better about what was going on. 11:00 Man, he had a gift for that. 11:01 I was─ we were laughing 11:03 all the time. 11:04 >> Today it's my pleasure to 11:05 introduce my associate speaker, 11:07 Shawn Boonstra. 11:09 >> Is alcohol really a mocker? 11:12 Does strong drink really 11:13 make us rage? 11:16 According to the statistics, 11:17 yes. 11:18 [DOUG] One of the things I liked 11:20 best about working with Shawn 11:21 is where Henry would tell 11:24 stories, Shawn would, too, but 11:26 where Henry would tell stories 11:27 to illustrate points, Shawn was 11:28 to illustrate points, Shawn was 11:29 a much more researched writer. 11:32 You would get a lot of 11:33 statistics with him. 11:34 You would get a lot of 11:37 scientific research. 11:38 And as someone who's kind of a 11:41 techno geek, that sort of stuff 11:42 was very interesting. 11:44 >> Whosoever is deceived thereby 11:46 is not wise. 11:48 God knows what He's talking 11:50 about. 11:51 [SHAWN] Henry Feyerabend, I 11:52 think, knew he was gonna be a 11:53 minister from about the 11:55 age of two. 11:55 That was not me. 11:57 I came in really kicking and 11:59 screaming. 11:59 To this day, I describe myself 12:01 as a recovering heathen. 12:03 I really had a life in politics, 12:05 I thought, and I was living in 12:06 British Columbia. 12:07 I would go down to the 12:08 Legislative Assembly in British 12:10 Columbia for question period. 12:11 Oh man, did I love question 12:13 period. 12:13 The way Canadians eviscerate 12:15 each other in politics is so 12:17 polite compared to like where I 12:18 live now in America. 12:19 In America, they just say what 12:21 they're thinking. 12:22 Here, they do it through the 12:23 Speaker of the House. 12:24 And I could not get enough 12:25 of this. 12:26 I cut class so I could listen to 12:27 the, you know, so-and-so from 12:29 the loyal opposition stands up. 12:30 "Mr. Speaker, is it okay if I 12:32 call the, you know, the loyal 12:34 member from such-and-such a 12:36 blankety-blank?" 12:37 "No, you may not do that." 12:38 Well, now it's in the Hansard 12:39 and it's been done. 12:40 So I─ that was too much of a... 12:42 And I thought, "That's the life 12:43 I want. 12:44 I wanna go down there, I wanna 12:45 eviscerate my opponents, 12:46 I want..." 12:47 The problem is I was terrified 12:49 of television and public 12:49 speaking. 12:50 How are you supposed to run for 12:51 office when you're terrified of 12:52 television and public speaking? 12:55 So that's why I spent all my 12:56 time doing that. 12:58 And then I started to sense that 12:59 I wasn't going to spend my life 13:02 in politics. 13:03 And a little voice was saying, 13:05 "You're not gonna do that." 13:06 And I barely recognized 13:07 the voice. 13:08 I came from a Bible-believing 13:09 home, I came from a Christian 13:11 home, but I was living pretty 13:12 wild at this stage. 13:13 And I'm renting a house on 13:14 Vancouver Island, and I remember 13:16 sitting on the back step 13:18 one night... 13:20 ...and I'm smoking a cigarette. 13:21 At that point, I was a pack a 13:22 day by the time I was 19. 13:25 And I'm saying, "All right, God, 13:27 if You're real, here are my 13:28 conditions. 13:30 If─ what do You want me to do?" 13:31 And the little voice is like, 13:32 "Well, you're going into the 13:33 ministry," and I laughed out 13:34 loud at that thought. 13:35 I mean, how─ I can't run for 13:37 office because I can't speak. 13:38 Minister, what, really? 13:39 Stand up front every weekend and 13:41 talk to a roomful of people? 13:43 Minister? 13:44 What are my friends gonna think 13:45 if I end up in the ministry? 13:46 Of all the─ naw," I laughed 13:48 at the idea. 13:49 And I couldn't shake it. 13:50 So I... 13:53 ...I called my girlfriend 13:54 at the time. 13:55 She's now been my wife for 31 13:57 years, but we were dating at the 13:58 time and I called her. 13:59 I say, "Look, I got this idea. 14:01 I'm not gonna run for office 14:02 one day. 14:03 What are you thinking?" 14:05 And I said this, I knew she was 14:06 gonna laugh, "I'm gonna be 14:09 a minister." 14:10 And she said, "I've known that 14:13 since the day I met you." 14:16 And I'm thinking, "How? Because 14:19 it's news to me tonight." 14:21 >> In our last program, we left 14:23 off asking some very important 14:25 questions about Daniel chapter 8 14:28 and verse 19. 14:30 If you missed... 14:31 [CHRIS] My childhood, I did not 14:32 grow up in the church, really. 14:34 I grew up Roman Catholic, and 14:35 I grew up Roman Catholic, and 14:36 we, as, you know, I would not 14:39 call our family like super 14:40 devout, but we were in church 14:42 every single week. 14:44 And when I was about 14 years 14:46 old, my life really changed 14:48 dramatically. 14:49 My parents began the process of 14:51 getting a divorce. 14:52 I was going through a lot of 14:54 issues myself, some real serious 14:56 anger issues. 14:58 I... 15:00 ...injured myself, 15:02 pretty severely in football, 15:03 went through a number of 15:04 surgeries. 15:06 And all during that time, 15:08 I essentially gave up on church. 15:09 I gave up going to church. 15:11 I said to myself, you know, 15:13 "I know that God exists, but I 15:14 don't know where He exists." 15:16 And I don't know that it was a 15:18 super conscientious, 15:20 "I'm gonna go find God," 15:23 but I began this journey where I 15:25 began visiting a variety of 15:27 different churches and 15:28 other faiths. 15:29 And when I turned about 20, 15:32 I was 21 years old, I 15:34 encountered the Three Angels 15:37 Messages, the Seventh-day 15:38 Adventist Church, through a 15:41 net evangelistic campaign. 15:43 It was Net '95 and at that time, 15:46 the big technology was satellite 15:48 technology, and that was 15:50 satellited in to locations 15:53 all around the world. 15:55 And Mark Finley was the preacher 15:57 of that Net '95. 15:58 Very influential in that 16:00 broadcast was the ministry of 16:01 broadcast was the ministry of 16:03 It Is Written. 16:04 And through that encounter... 16:08 ...and through those messages, 16:10 I met Jesus, and in meeting 16:12 Jesus, I began to 16:15 study the Bible, and I began to 16:16 understand prophecy. 16:19 And after that happened, I was 16:21 baptized in 1995. 16:24 And I married my wife, Debbie, 16:27 in 1996. 16:29 And shortly after we were 16:32 married, I began to sense 16:35 the desire to go and 16:38 get a college degree. 16:39 I didn't have a college degree. 16:41 I was working in restaurants, so 16:43 I was─ restaurant management was 16:45 my profession and... 16:48 ...when I began working 16:51 for Andrews University, and one 16:53 of the benefits of my work was 16:55 to take a free class. 16:56 And I began taking a class, 16:59 "God and Human Life," which is a 17:01 general education Bible class. 17:03 And there in that "God and Human 17:05 Life" class, I began to sense 17:07 that maybe God was calling me 17:08 that maybe God was calling me 17:10 into ministry. 17:11 >> Dear friend, please do not 17:13 reject or ignore Him. 17:16 Yield yourself to Him today. 17:18 [CHRIS] It took 21 years for me 17:20 to encounter the 17:22 life-saving message of Jesus and 17:25 the biblical truths that the 17:28 Scripture teaches. 17:30 And I began to feel this heavy 17:32 burden in my heart. 17:34 I didn't want other 21-year-olds 17:36 to have to go through what I 17:37 went through. 17:38 And I went through confusion. 17:40 I tell people my spiritual 17:42 journey was like if you took a 17:43 5000-piece puzzle and a 17:45 10,000-piece puzzle and a 17:46 thousand-piece puzzle, and you 17:48 jumbled it all together and 17:49 said, "Okay, figure it out." 17:50 And so this is why I really am 17:53 very passionate about preaching 17:55 expository sermons, sticking to 17:58 the biblical text, and keeping 18:00 things simple so people can put 18:02 it together and really 18:04 understand. 18:05 There is just a burning in me 18:08 to share the gospel message with 18:10 people that they might see the 18:12 truth of Scripture and have a 18:15 life-transforming experience 18:17 with Jesus Christ. 18:19 >> The Scopes Evolution Trial is 18:21 a leading candidate for having 18:22 received the most media 18:23 attention... 18:24 [SHAWN] My first appearance on 18:25 television was It Is Written 18:26 television was It Is Written 18:27 Canada, first appearance on 18:28 television. 18:29 And I'm the intern, I'm the new 18:31 kid, and Henry Feyerabend is the 18:33 speaker director of the program, 18:35 and he wants to do a bit on 18:36 creation, evolution, human 18:38 origins, and so on. 18:39 He says, "Okay, Shawn, your job 18:41 is to rent me a monkey. 18:42 I want a monkey as I talk about 18:44 the descent of man." 18:45 I said, "My job is to rent 18:46 a monkey? 18:47 That's not what I envisioned 18:48 when I..." 18:49 "Yeah, rent a monkey." 18:50 So I called a few animal 18:51 handlers and so on, and I booked 18:53 a monkey. 18:54 And then the person who owned 18:56 the monkey found out it was a 18:58 Christian program and just hated 18:59 Christians and cancelled the 19:01 monkey at the last minute and 19:03 we're about to go to studio. 19:05 And so there's no monkey. 19:06 And I'm thinking, "Now, what are 19:07 we gonna do?" 19:08 Well, guess what happens. 19:10 The intern gets to 19:12 be the monkey. 19:13 That's me. 19:13 I had to put up my first 19:14 appearance on It Is Written 19:16 Canada is in a gorilla suit, 19:17 and that footage still exists 19:19 somewhere. 19:21 I'm in a gorilla suit. 19:23 And I decide, "Well, if I'm 19:24 gonna be a gorilla for the Lord, 19:26 I'm gonna be the best gorilla 19:28 you can imagine." 19:29 So I put it on. 19:30 I played full monkey. 19:32 Jumped up on the desk, tousled 19:34 Henry's hair while he's trying 19:35 to speak the camera, smashed 19:36 stuff on the desk, and... 19:39 Yeah, but it was a rental suit 19:40 and those come from costume 19:41 companies and sometimes costume 19:43 companies, those suits don't 19:45 smell the best inside. 19:46 They go to Halloween parties, 19:47 people get drunk, they throw up 19:49 in them, they smoke in them. 19:50 And I'm under hot lights wearing 19:52 a rubber monkey suit, smelling 19:54 vomit and cigarettes doing It Is 19:55 Written Canada. 19:56 There is my entrance into 19:58 television ministry in Canada. 20:00 I am the monkey. 20:03 It Is Written Canada 20:06 were some of the best years 20:07 of my career. 20:08 I've been working in Christian 20:10 media now for about, I don't 20:12 know, quarter century, 20:13 a little more. 20:14 I'm getting old. 20:15 You know, the grey in my beard 20:16 tells you I've been at it for a 20:17 while, but some of the brightest 20:19 years were with Canada. 20:21 The Canadian audience is 20:23 phenomenal. 20:24 When I was on a weekly show, 20:26 you'd go into Loblaws or Safeway 20:28 or SuperValu and people would 20:29 know you. 20:30 They're watching the show. 20:32 I'm praying with people in the 20:33 supermarket, I'm giving Bible 20:34 studies in the supermarket, and 20:36 I get to tell unique Canadian 20:38 stories across the country to a 20:40 Canadian audience and put it in 20:41 a biblical context. 20:43 So Canada 20:44 is a really special place, 20:46 always will be. 20:47 And the audience for It Is 20:48 Written Canada, well, it changed 20:49 my life, too. 20:50 As much as I like to think, 20:51 "Oh, our program is really 20:53 helping people," the people 20:54 helped us, too. 20:55 It was just a 20:56 really wonderful experience. 20:59 [CHRIS] I had no idea the impact 21:01 that that weekly broadcast would 21:03 have on people's lives. 21:03 have on people's lives. 21:04 I would be standing in line at 21:06 grocery stores where individuals 21:09 would be uncomfortably staring 21:12 at me, and I would wonder, 21:13 "Why are these individuals 21:14 staring at me?" 21:15 And finally they would say, 21:18 "Hey, are you that guy from the 21:19 television program?" 21:20 Where I would be standing in 21:22 line, I'll never forget, in 21:23 Kelowna, British Columbia, I was 21:24 standing in line there in the 21:26 security line and... 21:30 ...the officer coming up to me 21:32 and just whispering to me, 21:33 "Hey, keep up the good work. 21:35 I really appreciate your 21:36 weekly programs." 21:38 Our partnership meetings were 21:40 always a highlight where we 21:41 could spend time with our 21:44 faithful donors, those who had 21:46 partnered with us, through 21:48 prayer, had partnered with us 21:50 through participating in 21:51 ministry, and had partnered 21:53 with us financially. 21:55 Just so appreciated those 21:57 focused weekends and days where 22:00 we would spend time. 22:02 I appreciated the 22:04 Canadian people and the 22:06 leadership of our church. 22:08 You know, our church in Canada 22:10 is a wonderful place with godly 22:12 leaders who want to win people 22:14 for Christ. 22:15 [uplifting music playing] 22:17 [DOUG] This ministry has a 22:18 tremendous impact on people. 22:19 tremendous impact on people. 22:20 And the reason it's so important 22:22 for us to be on broadcast 22:24 television is because unlike 22:26 social media, which is very 22:27 valuable, we reach people 22:29 by accident. 22:31 They're sitting on their couch, 22:33 they turn on the TV early, 22:35 they're gonna watch the Super 22:36 Bowl, whatever, they're gonna 22:37 watch a soap opera, they're 22:38 gonna watch Seinfeld, 22:39 I don't know. 22:40 And lo and behold, while they're 22:42 waiting for their show to start, 22:44 you get the last ten minutes of 22:45 It Is Written. 22:46 And instead of turning it off 22:49 and moving somewhere else, 22:50 they'll just leave it there 22:51 because they're waiting for 22:52 their show to start. 22:53 But lo and behold you say 22:54 something, Bill said something, 22:55 Shawn said something, Henry said 22:56 something that tweaked their 22:58 interest just a little bit, 23:00 and they actually sat down 23:01 and listened. 23:02 And thought, "Well, this is 23:03 interesting. 23:04 Maybe I'll watch next week." 23:06 And they do. 23:08 It's non-threatening. 23:10 We get the opportunity to maybe 23:12 through the Holy Spirit's 23:14 intervention get them a little 23:16 bit interested in what's going 23:17 on, and they stick around 23:18 and listen for even like 23:19 two minutes. 23:20 And this is the miracle of 23:21 It Is Written and this is why 23:22 It Is Written is so important 23:24 as a broadcast ministry 23:25 going forward. 23:26 >> When you come up against... 23:27 [SHAWN] I am an off-the-charts 23:29 introvert. 23:30 introvert. 23:31 When I was a kid, 23:33 at Christmas dinners, 23:34 as soon as I could get away with 23:36 it, I would excuse myself from 23:37 the table and go sit in the 23:38 stairwell and read a book. 23:40 That's what I would rather do. 23:41 If I could go away into an ivory 23:43 tower and collect fellowships 23:46 and PhDs, awesome. 23:48 You know, never have to deal 23:49 with the public again. 23:51 And yet...and yet I know 23:54 that the public is going through 23:56 what I went through. 23:57 The Bible talks about there is 23:59 no temptation such as is common 24:00 to all. 24:01 We all struggle at points with 24:03 the meaning of our existence. 24:04 And if you haven't yet, just let 24:06 yourself get a little older. 24:07 You will struggle with the 24:08 meaning of your existence. 24:09 You will struggle with the 24:10 meaning of your existence, not 24:12 just how do they end up in this 24:13 universe, but what's my role in 24:15 this world? 24:16 Am I here for a reason? 24:17 And the thought of somebody 24:19 not finding the hope I found 24:22 is the reason I get out of bed 24:24 and go down into that auditorium 24:27 and stand up there, and I make a 24:29 deal with God every time, 24:31 "I'll go out there and talk, 24:33 but You have to go with me 24:34 this time." 24:35 And I wait and I pray until I'm 24:38 confident I'm not alone 24:40 out there. 24:41 There's only one reason I do 24:42 what I do. 24:44 It's because so many people are 24:46 living an existence with 24:47 zero hope. 24:48 Nothing. 24:49 I will not let people go to the 24:51 grave without hope if I can 24:53 help it. 24:54 So I will go on 24:56 gritting my teeth 24:58 and praying desperate prayers 24:59 backstage and doing this. 25:02 Because how do you not? 25:04 How do you not? 25:08 Some of you watching today have 25:10 wrestled with some of the things 25:11 that I've wrestled with in life. 25:12 Is God real? 25:13 Is there a meaning to my life? 25:15 Why do I exist? 25:16 Is there a way to have a happy, 25:17 content, joyful life 25:19 with hope in my heart? 25:21 I'm gonna pray for you 25:22 right now. 25:23 I don't think it's a coincidence 25:25 that you've turned this on 25:26 today. 25:27 So I'm gonna bound my head and 25:28 speak to God in your behalf. 25:30 Father in heaven, right now, 25:32 somebody's watching who I think 25:34 is looking for You. 25:35 They might not know You by name, 25:37 they might be a little worried 25:38 about what that means, but 25:40 they've been sensing that You're 25:41 speaking to them somehow, trying 25:42 to get their attention. 25:44 Draw really close to that person 25:46 right now, let them know how 25:47 much You love them, that You're 25:48 close, and that You have a plan 25:50 for them, and that You long to 25:53 be in fellowship with them and 25:54 put that smile in their heart. 25:56 And I'm praying for that person 25:57 right now. 25:58 In Jesus딳me, amen. 26:04 >> Friends, as Pastor Henry 26:05 Feyerabend knew, there is an 26:07 evidence about God's 26:09 faithfulness that is open 26:11 to all. 26:13 It is to the most highly 26:15 educated and the most 26:16 illiterate, and it is the 26:18 evidence of experience. 26:21 God invites you to prove for 26:23 yourself the reality of His 26:24 Word, the Bible, the truth of 26:27 His promises found in His Word. 26:29 He invites you to taste and to 26:32 see that the Lord is good. 26:36 Instead of depending upon the 26:38 word of someone else, you can 26:40 taste for yourself. 26:42 Jesus declares, 26:43 "Ask and you will receive." 26:46 So our free offer for you today 26:49 is our Bible study guides. 26:53 They will help you understand 26:54 the Bible better and become 26:57 wiser in your walk 26:59 with Jesus. 27:00 >> Our free Bible study guides 27:02 will help you to experience 27:04 for yourself the reality of 27:06 God's Holy Word, the truth of 27:09 His promises, how the Bible 27:11 has verifiable answers to life's 27:13 existential questions, including 27:16 God's will for your life. 27:19 >> Practical answers that make 27:20 sense and will give you 27:22 assurance for the present 27:24 and for the future. 27:26 >> Before you go, we would also 27:29 like to thank all of you 27:31 who have supported the ministry 27:33 of It Is Written Canada with 27:34 your prayers and financial 27:35 contributions. 27:36 Without your support, this 27:38 television ministry could not 27:40 have reached so many people 27:42 for so many decades. 27:44 >> Yes, thank you. 27:46 And we would also like to invite 27:48 you to follow us on Instagram 27:50 and Facebook and subscribe to 27:52 our YouTube channel, and also 27:55 listen to our podcasts. 27:57 And if you go to our website, 27:58 And if you go to our website, 27:59 you can see our latest programs. 28:05 >> Once again, our time has run 28:06 out and it's time to say goodbye 28:09 for another week. 28:11 Join us next week 28:12 at the same time, 28:13 and until then, remember 28:16 "It is written, 'Man shall not 28:19 live by bread alone, but by 28:21 every word that proceedeth 28:24 out of the mouth of God.'" 28:25 [uplifting orchestral music] 28:28 ♪♪ |
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