12 Days of Christmas Charity! - Jared Sparks (Shepherd's Crook) - 5/5

All right. Well, welcome to another week. We are wrapping up the year. Everything is happening. It's all coming at us so fast. Hope you had a good weekend. I hope you had a good Lord's Day. I hope you had a good everything.

12 Days of Christmas Charity and Jared Sparks

Let's get back to Christmas charity. Now if you remember from the last episode that I did Last last year or the year before that I started the 12 days of Christmas charity really to talk about. People that you know, I didn't really agree with on things and that even think they liked me very much.

But I like them and I wanted to kind of you know signal boost them kind of thing just in a spirit of charity. Well this year I'm not doing it quite the same way. Everyone that I I highlight here some of them I might like some of them I might not like, you know.

Some of them might like me whatever some of them I agree with, you know, it's just there's really no rhyme or reason to it. This is just people that I think you should follow and I get a lot of value out of following.

And today I'm gonna talk about Jared Sparks pastor Jared Sparks this he's a great guy. I love his content. He's been on my channel before or I've been on his channel before and You know, you could follow him on gab.

He's got a podcast. Here's how he describes himself. He says he's a Christian. He's a husband. He's a father. He's a pastor. He's a hunter. He's an angler. He's a runner. He is a pastor of Christ Church Carbondale, Illinois.

He does the Shepherds Crook podcast, which is a pastor courage ministry. I just this is this guy's this guy's great, you know go sign up on gab. Honestly, it would be worth it to sign up on gab just to get this guy's content regularly.

This is just you know, he posts like little, you know, pithy comments. He's you know with wisdom and stuff like that just things like that to encourage you. This is what his gab Gab TV aesthetic looks like this is an episode.

He posted a day ago on nationalism and evangelism. Honestly, just just a real solid guy. I highly recommend him his stuff is always helpful. His stuff is definitely directed at normal people. You know, I was I was talking to my brother just it was Friday and I was talking about the weekend ahead.

We're like, what are we gonna do this weekend? And and on Saturday I had my my wife's family they have a yearly Christmas party and Me and my brother always kind of joke how like when we have social events, you know.

We always kind of dread them going up to them like we don't want to go we want to cancel things like that. But then we always have a good time when we're there like it's it's like it's never a bad when we're there.

We always have fun, but then the lead-up to an a social event. We kind of always dread it. That's just part of our personality probably how we were raised. I don't know I don't know, but it's just something we always kind of make fun of ourselves about and My brother I told my brother that we I had this Christmas party and he's like, oh man.

You're probably dreading it and I was like, well, no, this one is different and that they're just regular people, you know. There's no pretense there. There's no there's no reason. There's nothing that you have to prepare to like impress anybody and so there's just the expectations on like, you know.

There's no performance that you have to do it's just you go there and you have a good time and it's always fun and. And it's just like regular people and that's that's what I liked about it anyway. Jared's content is so clearly for regular people.

He's obviously well-read he's obviously very smart, you know, he's obviously got an academic side to him. There's no question and I don't mean just because he's got books back here. Although he does have books I've commented about books in the background before but hey, that's that's just an aesthetic.

It's just an it's my opinion. We all know how I feel about that. But the point is that you can tell he's very smart but his content aims to be Accessible to regular people, you know, he's doing ministry for regular people.

He's not doing ministry to be impressed to be impressive to everybody else to get kudos and accolades from everybody else. In fact the very fact that he primarily exists online on gab. Shows you that because if you want a black mark on your record then be active on gab because gab is the worst thing ever.

There's anti-semites there and it's just so funny. I was thinking about that, too. I remember Big Eva people ripping gab because there's anti-semites there and stuff and yet they're posting on Twitter and it's like yeah.

But there's child porn on Twitter. Like if you're gonna use the same standard, like doesn't that mean you're pro child porn you idiot? That's kind of mean what I just said, but in any case. So it's just there's no pretense with Jared.

Like I feel like I've never met Jared besides online, of course. But I feel like if I if I went to his house, you know for dinner or something like that. It would be the same as like my wife's family's Christmas party where I wouldn't have to there would be no performance necessary.

We could just have a good time. We could just enjoy a nice meal and have fun and talk and there's no there's no need to try to impress people. It's just that's. I don't. I mean, I don't know that Jared's like that, but that's that's how he presents online.

I highly recommend you follow this stuff. If you're on gab definitely give Jared Sparks a follow if you're not on gab. Get on gab and give Jared Sparks a follow but even if you're not willing to do that.

Here's his websites the shepherds crook co check it out. He's got a podcast the shepherds crook and all of that stuff I'll put I'll try to remember to put these links in the in the comment section or the the about section here.

I'm not sure if I'll remember because I never do. But it's just so encouraging. You know, his his feed is there's no doom and gloom. There's no black pilling. It's just a man who's like he's got his he's got his his nose his head down.

He's working and he's just got you know, he's grinding away at that grindstone and and it's just it's just very encouraging. I love this content. I get so much value out of it. It gets my highest recommendation.

The only thing I will hedge Jared is that you post Baptist propaganda? Sometimes and I don't like it. But I do like I do like Baptist. I'm just joking in any case Jared Sparks highly recommend very. It's just a solid guy.

He easily could have been you know, climbing the ranks in Big Eva. He could have easily climbed the Big Eva corporate ladder. He's the right kind of guy for it. He's got the right Attitude, you know things like that, but he just decided not to do that.

He just decided that that wasn't for him and he's gonna do you know. What what he feels the Lord is calling him to doing. I mean he posts about hunting. He posts about fishing. He posts about normal stuff life.

He posts about theology. It's just awesome. I'm just I Know I might run the risk here of Sounding like a fanboy, but it just is what it is. So there you go I like Jared Sparks go ahead and give him a follow all that kind of thing now I do want to talk about something else and this is just kind of a side topic.

I Was talking to my wife who my wife is still on Facebook and she still kind of participates in some of the the online Reformed drama and I was talking to her I was like, yeah, it's so interesting because people will often ask me about the latest drama and I'm just really not involved in it.

I'm kind of glad I'm not involved in it, but they'll say hey, did you see what was going on? The fight left beast Network and Facebook page and it's like no I didn't I'm just not involved in that stuff, you know.

And we were just talking about and we were talking about kinism which is like all the rage right now and you know. It's that that whole issue. It's just It's it's it's too like it's too hot to talk about.

It's just too it's too emotionally charged. Like no, we can't have rational discussions about it because the thing is it's like kinism these these days.