In the Studio: Justin Flores of Word and Worship: Then & Now

SPEAKER 05 : 0:04

Hi everyone, I’m Theresa and we are so glad you joined us here in the studio. Today is extra special because I’m sitting down with Justin Flores. You can catch him right here on Sundays hosting Word and Worship Then and Now. Please welcome Pastor Justin Flores.

SPEAKER 01 : 0:21

Thanks. Hello, Teresa.

SPEAKER 05 : 0:24

Oh man, I’m so excited for today. I’m going to give out some information to our listeners since they don’t know you yet. Justin is the heart behind Calvary Chapel Alabaster out in Alabama, a church born from a year and a half of prayer and a deep hunger for solid Bible teaching. But Justin’s path to the pulpit wasn’t a straight line. He actually grew up in the Jehovah’s Witness faith before a life-changing encounter with with the gospel in the mid-90s, when he isn’t behind the pulpit or setting the word. He’s a fellow radio man over at WDJC. He’s a firm believer that we have to use the airwaves skillfully to reach out that one person listening on the other side of the speakers. Justin, it is such a joy to have you with us today.

SPEAKER 01 : 1:11

Well, I’m telling you what, I feel the joy, too. Thank you. I’m so excited. I cannot believe and I grew up in Southern California and I cannot believe that I’m currently on the airwaves in my home state, in my home area. It’s a dream come true. Literally dream come true.

SPEAKER 05 : 1:26

Yeah. And you have so many fun little stories like the Santa Barbara story. I had no idea. You want to share that with our listeners?

SPEAKER 01 : 1:34

Yeah, I was born in Bellflower, but my mom’s from Santa Barbara. All the family there, they’re part of the Kumash tribe, the Santa Barbara mission. My fifth great grandfather is the founder of Santa Barbara. He’s also one of the 10 founding families of Los Angeles. So the roots run deep. You know, in the SoCal range for me, but raised up in that world with my mom’s side of the family. My dad’s side of the family are from Downey, but they’re all from Mexico originally. And then we together as a little family, you know, lived in Garden Grove during my years of growing up. junior high and high school garden grove santa ana area but yeah santa barbara i i lived in montecito for a while went to school in that area went to school with uh i went to a school it was really strange there was like eight of us in the entire school and i think i was the only second grader and just montecito is kind of a mountainous area just beautiful i i’ve just had i have lived a life that is uh should not have i should either be dead or in jail by now but i’m not god got a hold of me i’m I’m so very thankful for that. But yeah, I just one of those wild things. You know, I wanted to be an actor at one point. I wanted to work at Disneyland. I applied multiple times. Yeah, can you?

SPEAKER 05 : 2:43

Yes, I could totally see you working at Disneyland for sure. Oh, my goodness.

SPEAKER 01 : 2:47

I told him I would scrape the gum and be a cleaner. And I just wanted to work there. I wanted to be at the place where I knew how I felt when I when people showed up. I also wanted to be the ticket stub taker at a movie theater. Oh, my gosh. I can see that, too. You know, looking at the little kids faces when they’re coming, you’re going to see a movie. This is so cool because that’s my life growing up. But Disneyland denied me five times. Never understood why. I know now, though, because had they had they accepted me, I’m not sure the Lord would have got a hold of me there. That was like a God to me. Right. But I mean, I get to be a tour guide of the word of God, taking people to the Holy Land.

SPEAKER 05 : 3:22

Yes.

SPEAKER 01 : 3:22

And that is much better than any other land that this world has to offer. Amen. I’m all good now. It’s like almost like God says, well, that’s OK if you want to do that. But how about you just, you know, talk about my land.

SPEAKER 05 : 3:34

His ways are so much better.

SPEAKER 01 : 3:37

Amen.

SPEAKER 05 : 3:38

Will you lead us in prayer before we actually get started?

SPEAKER 01 : 3:41

You bet. Our most gracious, loving father. You are just so absolutely good. And I know that I have tasted and seen how good you are. And it’s my prayer that even right now, someone on the other side of that speaker is hearing of your goodness and has at one point wondered. And you are reaching right now into their very heart, grabbing a hold of them. And so I pray that this conversation is not anything but about you. Keeping the main thing, the main thing. May you get your glory, Jesus, in this conversation. Because it is you that we are about. We are here to just simply reveal your glory. through the story that you have given us through life. And so bless it now for us and bless the ministry that Teresa has and all that she does every day. And even Joel on the back end there and anybody else at Kay Bright. I know they love you. We love you, whether we’re in Alabama or in California. Oh, Lord, get your glory now in Jesus name.

SPEAKER 05 : 4:44

Amen. Amen. All right, Justin, you often say we should use our lives to make Jesus famous. What has that looked like for you personally this past week?

SPEAKER 01 : 4:55

I’m kind of a touchy-feely kind of guy, very sentimental. You know what I mean? My sensitivities are always up. I think it’s because of growing up in the Native American culture. I saw a lot. I’ve seen a lot of the spirit world that I don’t want to be a part of. And every conversation I have, any person that I come across, if I see somebody and we lock eyes, even if I’m on the freeway and I see somebody, that is a God-ordained moment. Whether I get to speak with him or just look at him, want to throw him a smile, maybe even flash the one way, you know, Jesus is the way in some way. And there is just something that my life has been so transformed and changed. My heart has been so I used to love sports and football, boxing, and I have absolutely no desire to watch men clash into one another or to compete and say, look what I have done. bragging rights it’s just what’s what the lord has done for me and all i want to do is let people know that god is the victor he is the great overseer and he wants nothing but a big family and wants them and it’s that there’s anything that i can do in that moment i’ll ask god show me or at least in how he’s what he’s done for me in the heart that he’s given me And so it’s just one of those just one of those things. I just want people to know it’s him. This is really his story. Everything is about him. We are wonderfully created people, spirits who have been given a human experience. And it was intended to be walking with him in the garden. He’s a great gardener. Right. Look what he did with the earth. You know, he created human beings. Right. So I just I don’t know where it comes from. And digging into his word, it’s like I’m seeing life coming from the very word of God that we have. He’s allowed it to be printed through other people’s lives throughout the years. So there’s just something internally that is just about me when I see somebody. I want anybody in my presence, if you will, to know that they are the most loved.

SPEAKER 05 : 7:03

I would say Holy Spirit.

SPEAKER 01 : 7:05

Holy Spirit.

SPEAKER 05 : 7:06

Yeah. I feel like Holy Spirit leads you a lot.

SPEAKER 01 : 7:09

Oh, absolutely. For sure. Yeah. He’s always leading. Absolutely. Because the Holy Spirit is one that does all the changing. Right. He’s done all this work internally and changing. But I want people to know that they are the most loved if they’re in the presence. Yeah, you’re right, though. It’s not about like I’m making the most love, but I do have this desire. I want them to know that they are the most loved. And if I don’t quite think about it and I get out of the way, I think that’s when God does his his greatest work when I’m not quite aware of it.

SPEAKER 05 : 7:35

And also like it is you, too, because you have to say yes to the assignment. Right. So it’s a team effort, if you will.

SPEAKER 01 : 7:42

Yeah. Well, yeah, because I think Paul says that, like his spirit working with the Holy Spirit, you know, in tandem. So absolutely. But that’s just something that I’ve just I don’t know. It’s it’s just something that I believe should be done. And when it comes to radio, you know, radio, we host this word in worship then and now. Right. And I listen to these old broadcasts from the 30s and the 40s. And what they did on the radio, they sang to Jesus. They gave the message. It sounded fun, but it was also wholesome.

SPEAKER 05 : 8:11

It was, and we’ve been listening here, and I’ve got to say, your song selection is very cool. I’ve been enjoying it. How do you come up with the songs, actually?

SPEAKER 01 : 8:23

I was raised with music. I was raised with so many genres of music. I’ve had brushes with people in the music world, coming from Southern California, right? Everybody wants to be an actor or be a musician. We’ve all been there. We’ve had run-ins, but I was raised up in a family that had rhythm. Matter of fact… Six years ago, a DNA test revealed that another man was my father. Nobody knew growing up. That’s a whole other side story. That’s one of the most craziest things. It put me in the worst depression of my life. God used it to reveal to me that I was really looking to man and not quite him 100% faithfully because it wrecked my whole world. And it created such a rift. But when I finally met my bio dad, he was a man who once had a record deal, but through Hashimoto’s gave him stage fright. And he never did, but he plays multiple instruments. It’s in his blood. And I was raised with music and have rhythm in music. If I hear a song and it grabs me and moves me, I don’t forget it. So when you say, how do I pick it? I’m always listening. I’m always looking. I’ll go to concerts. If I find somebody, Mr. Crawford of Crawford Media Group has given me And just said, as the spirit leads, worship God and find those pastors that just simply speak truth. And I’m so thankful that I could do that.

SPEAKER 05 : 9:37

You grew up in a Jehovah’s Witness household. What was that experience like?

SPEAKER 01 : 9:43

All I remember was I was the cool kid who can get gifts at any time because we don’t celebrate birthdays or Christmas. That was the prideful thing I could tell people during those holidays who felt bad for me because I was and I’m like, man, I can get a gift anytime. I was the kid that stood up but never saluted the flag. You know, we didn’t pledge allegiance to the flag. Yeah. My my my on my mom’s side, my grandmother, her mom, her dad. So that would be my great grandfather. His name is Johnny Barbosa. And he was one of the great big overseers of the entire organization in Southern California. Yeah. And so raised up in that, the thing problem was, is my parents and my grandmother, they all loved drugs more than anything else. And it got us kicked out. And the one thing I knew growing up was that my great grandfather had said there was something special about me and had made a prophecy over me. And that’s very unique in the Jehovah’s Witness world. I found out that he actually told the congregation that I was filled with the Holy Spirit. And what’s interesting about that organization, I don’t know if they believe this anymore, but at the time there was only six people allowed to be filled with the Holy Spirit at any given time. And apparently I was this golden child because of it. Again, I’m making these statements based on what I remember in the late seventies. Okay. So I have never done any more research. I, you know, I don’t want to ruffle too many feathers, but I do say that they are desperately deceived and need to come to the real living, saving grace of God through Jesus. And he did. God, by the way, he’s not Michael and he’s not an angel. He is God. But I was raised up that way. And the thing is, is I feel like he was Caiaphas, the high priest who said is expedient for one man to die for the nation. Well, he knew, you know, he didn’t realize what he was saying. Yes, it’s true. But Caiaphas, poor Caiaphas spoke on behalf of the Lord and didn’t even realize it. You know, when he was proclaiming Jesus, the one that would die, not just for the nation, but the whole world. In a way, I wish he was still around so I could say you were right. I am filled with the Holy Spirit, but so can you be. So can anybody else be. Absolutely. So that was my little bit of background.

SPEAKER 05 : 11:42

What point did you realize the Jesus you were being taught wasn’t the Jesus of the Bible?

SPEAKER 01 : 11:49

Yeah, 13 years old. I knew you were going to ask me this question. There was a man who my mom had come to the house because some friends of mine invited me to youth group. And she said, over my dead body, will you go into a church? If you’re going to go anywhere, you’re going to go to a kingdom hall. And she had a guy show up. I don’t remember his name. I don’t remember what he told me, but he handed me a Bible and another little book. It was their translation of the scriptures and another kind of little bubble. It must have been a Bible study guide or something. I don’t recall. All I remember was he said that if I prayed to God, he would reveal the truth to me. He did tell me that. So when he left, he said he would be back in a week. And I put that Bible and that book in the closet. I remember I could specifically say I put it in the top shelf. And my prayer at that time was a very simple one. If this is where you are and this is where I’ll learn about you, then you will bring that man back. The problem was that man never came back.

SPEAKER 05 : 12:46

Oh, no.

SPEAKER 01 : 12:47

Now, the man got extremely sick. And I’m about to say something to you, and I just want to say that I love my mom. My mom, even though we’re estranged, I pray for all the time. Things are not the best. That just happens in life. And it has to do with because of Jesus in my heart. But he never came back. He got extremely sick and could not make it. And my mom, for some reason, had taken such… hold of this fact that i was going to be filled with the holy spirit thing that i was some glory child in the organization said what did you do what did you do because the man’s super sick he’s got cancer now he’s never coming back and i said all i asked god was that this is where he is then he’ll bring that man back Anyway, about a week later, coming out of the hospital after taking the biggest beating of my life, I had nothing from that point for about six years until I met a young woman who eventually became my wife, who was also raised up in a small church through difficult circumstances from some neighbors. Her mom had passed away. Her sister had passed away. Very difficult upbringing in Southern California. And I said, I’ve never been to church. And she says, I miss it. Let’s go. And we had been together and we’re about to get married. And I’ve never walked out since because that day I walked in, there was something that was said. I can’t even tell you what the message was. There was something about the fact that I walked in and people didn’t care who they are or who was watching them or how, whether they can sing or not. They were singing to a person. And it floored me. You’re singing to a person who was not raised in worship. There’s no worship in the kingdom hall ever. Hardly ever. There’s a piano, but I never remember singing. And little by little bit because it was a Calvary Chapel and I knew that name Calvary Chapel because I grew up around the street from Calvary Chapel, Costa Mesa.

SPEAKER 03 : 14:27

Yeah.

SPEAKER 01 : 14:29

The Lord put me in a church of sinners saved by the grace of God who would either grab me by the hand and take me to him or point me to him in his word. And they were so faithful in doing that for so long. That now I get to do the same for others. But that was the day I was 13. I can picture it. The very day that I said, if this is where you are, you’ll bring him back. Because the guy told me.

SPEAKER 05 : 14:52

Yeah.

SPEAKER 01 : 14:53

He said I could pray for the truth of God. I believe that. What year was that? That would have been 1985. It would have been probably close to the end of the school year. Because I remember I had to finish the school year.

SPEAKER 05 : 15:05

Take us back to 1995 at Calvary Chapel, Sonora. What was that specific moment or message that finally broke through and brought you to the Lord?

SPEAKER 01 : 15:13

Do you remember? Well, yeah, because I was saved there with my wife, you know, and we walked into a church. It was Calvary Chapel. And then he was teaching Romans. And they had a fellow show up and I can’t remember his name, but he was a potter and he would do things with clay with his hands and build a beautiful clay pot. And his wife would sing worship. And while pastor was teaching through Romans, they had this couple show up and he gave the illustration. Of this thing. And he built this thing. And right when he was done with this massive pottery, piece of pottery, he just crushed it with his hands and tore it all into pieces. Like, we watched this guy build this beautiful thing. And he was like, what? It’s mine. I built it. I can do what I want.

SPEAKER 05 : 15:55

Wow. That’s good.

SPEAKER 01 : 15:57

And then pastor got up and finished the Bible study in that chapter of Romans. And then he went back to Romans chapter two, four, that said it is the goodness of God that brings a man to repentance. And I want you to know how good God’s been to you. And it was true because I had the best wife. There were things happening in life that I just knew he had put me in a position, in a job, in the middle of the mountains near Yosemite, gotten me away from everything that had caused a lot of distraction. And then he explained what repentance really meant. Because to me, it was like, I’m sorry for everything I did. I’m just going to walk around and feel sorry for myself the whole time. And he totally spoke on true repentance. And it was this explanation of the U-turn and the turn. And just the way he brought about it with that illustration of this fellow with his wife singing just absolutely broke me. And that was, gosh, it was early 90s at that moment. Because from 1985 until I met my bride, I didn’t have anything in our life, but I just walked through life thinking that, well, first of all, I just know he’s not there, but I could never go to a church until I moved out of the house. And when I met my wife and we were together, this was before Jesus. And, you know, and she made this statement and it was weird because right immediately we walked into church. We were married within a month because I realized, oh, we got to get married. We got to make this right. But that was that moment in time. And I don’t remember the date then. I just know it was 1994. And it was early on. It was something that was just it was just during a time of my life that was just things were happening. I just remember because we were in Romans for quite a while. And so I would show up every Wednesday for the teaching of Romans.

SPEAKER 05 : 17:38

I see. You spent 18 months praying before launching the church in Alabaster. How did God confirm to you that it was time to step out? And how did your love for radio play into that ministry calling?

SPEAKER 01 : 17:52

Well, you know, I wanted to be in radio growing up in Southern California, listen to a lot of radio. And I just thought it was always cool. The theater of the mind, the things that they did on the radio. And when I finally got a chance to be in radio, my wife wrote a dream job letter that got me an interview for my birthday. And that did the rest of the story. It was in 1997. And they hired me on the spot as a part time. And I just thought it was cool. If I hit the button and a commercial fired, I would like call my wife. Did you hear that? Did you hear the commercial? And I just, just the whole thing that people were listening and what they were listening to. And then in time, when I got to be on the radio, I did mid days on an FM, you know, pop station. I did mornings on a news talk station. And through that and being in the church, the Lord was slowly changing my heart that I wanted to just not talk about anything except for, except him. Cause I was tired of talking about Hollywood and doing all that. And when the internet got hot, you can start searching about what everybody was up to and everybody couldn’t wait to speak about On who, you know, who, you know, who did somebody dirty here? Who did this there? And it was just always the, you know, the inquiring minds thing. And I got tired of that. And I said, you know, I’m tired of talking about that. I’m just going to talk about Jesus. And so I asked my pastor to help me learn. how to study the Bible so that I can know him better. And he just thought that was the bee’s knees. He was like, yeah, I’ll show you. He showed me how to inductively study the Bible. Well, because he did that and he spent four hours every Monday for two whole years teaching me how to rightly divide the word of God through the inductive Bible study. He gave me a chance to get up and share one Sunday.

SPEAKER 02 : 19:20

That’s so cool.

SPEAKER 01 : 19:21

And the elders recognized an anointing. And in time, I left and went to full-time ministry. But over time, what happened was I never left my radio kind of, you know, what I wanted to do on here. I was always doing something, sports broadcasting or something like that. And so we left our home church in January of 2020. And by March, things had taken a turn. And so our little church plant in Escalon, California, was not quite sticking. Pastor called me back and said, you want to just come back, come back here? And I was like, you know, I’m already left. I’m already gone. And Escalon means stepping stone, Escalon. And I thought, I don’t know what the Lord has, but it was tough. And at that time, I was also depressed, the DNA tests and a lot of other little things. I was going through some hurtful things. And I just wasn’t sure if I was cut out for ministry because I knew I was worshiping man more than anything, including my pastor. I had to… be put in a place where I was like, okay, so are you trusting me or are you going to trust all those guys? And it took some time for him to break through that. So what ended up happening was after I kind of came out of that, I was looking for some work and my son works for Crawford Media. And so I thought, oh, Levi, yeah, that’s my young boy. Yeah, you know, he’s our youngest. And I was like, man, you got a cool gig there. So I applied and they were like, hey, we got something for you. We’ve been looking for a pastor with radio experience to move to Alabama, Birmingham. I was like, man, I’m not moving to Alabama.

SPEAKER 03 : 20:42

What are you talking about?

SPEAKER 01 : 20:44

What is that all about? That took a year for them because I’m kind of a slow guy. Like God literally has to do one of those things. I need God to literally open the door, crack the sky, give me a wink, do something so out of ordinary. And I don’t tell people what I’m looking for. And I wait for that to happen. And so in time, in what happened at this time was that is my wife on board with this. And out of nowhere, she said, you know, all our roots are dried up here. Maybe this is time that God is calling us out because he’s got something greater for us than just you going back into radio. And I was like, get down, girl. Where are you coming from? I can’t believe that you’re on board this. I was like, well, I’m ready for an adventure. We’ve traveled all over the world. I’ve led trips to Jordan, Turkey, Israel, all over. As a youth pastor in the church, we went to Japan, Peru. We took the kids everywhere. So we kind of left this thing of traveling. And she was like, we’ve never traveled the States. Let’s go. Let’s go see what the Lord has in store. So we got out here and found out there’s hardly any Calvary chapels here. That’s just my style. That’s my background. And we’ve tried to find churches around our immediate area. They don’t quite teach the Bible. You know, a lot of a lot of good churches, pastors, they love the Lord. I’m not saying they don’t. It’s just different styles. You know, and there was just the nearest Calvary Chapel was over an hour away. And so we started going there. And they knew me immediately because our friends in Biloxi, Mississippi, who were a part of my Israel trip just before we moved here, made sure the few Calvary chapels in the south, the deep south, that they knew that I was moving in this area. So when we landed. I was like, oh man, I’m just trying to be quiet over here. I’m just trying to just do my thing in radio. I’ll come clean your toilets. I’ll just serve here. They’re like, no, you need to think about this because we’ve been praying for these cities, man. You’re in Alabaster. You got to go start a church there. I’m like, I don’t got to do anything. I don’t got to do anything unless God tells me. Don’t you tell me what I got to do.

SPEAKER 05 : 22:28

Oh, we even have the same temperament. Right.

SPEAKER 01 : 22:31

But I was like, you know what? But alabaster does have a ring to it now. It does.

SPEAKER 05 : 22:35

I love it. I love it. Calvary Chapel alabaster.

SPEAKER 01 : 22:39

I love that. Yeah. So we moved out here. It was like that. We broke that jar and just sat at the feet of the Lord. The first year we’re here, my wife and I cried every night. We left our youngest, right? We became empty nesters because he decided to stay in California. That broke my wife’s heart. That’s her baby.

SPEAKER 02 : 22:55

Yeah.

SPEAKER 01 : 22:56

Our others, they have grandchildren. They decided to move in the area. That was a blessing. But for that first year, it wasn’t. We were out here by ourselves. We didn’t know anybody. And I just put my hand to the plow here at the radio station. I love the radio station. They love Jesus. We glorify the Lord, right? We evangelize. We do all that on the air. And it was wonderful. But those guys kept saying, let’s pray about alabaster. And I’m like, listen, if God’s going to do that, it’s going to be something where he’s going to show me or people are going to come into my life that say we’re ready for that. Now, the one thing that WDJC did when I first got here is they asked me to teach the Bible on Sunday. So I had a 30 minute block that I taught the Bible and that just opened up doors. People wanted to know more about me. Who is this guy? What’s he doing? And so that opened up these opportunities. However, in one chance meeting. We met a woman who had been praying not far from our house for the last eight years for a Calvary Chapel. She is from Denver and had been sat here since her husband had died. And she had a small group of people who had been praying for somebody. All of a sudden, that church in Trustville, Alabama, told us, go meet with Judy and this family. And those guys have just been on fire for the Lord. They’re hungry for the word. They met my wife and me and the rest was history. They’re like, we want a Calvary Chapel. And I looked at him and I went… Well, that’s God pretty much cracking the sky open because that’s what I’ve been praying for. A group that is already ready for one. And I said, here’s what I’ll do, guys. I’ll help us get it going. I’ll serve in it. Will I be the pastor? I don’t know. Maybe somebody else is going to come in. I’ll teach the Bible until the pastor comes.

SPEAKER 05 : 24:28

That’s always how it starts. You know what I mean?

SPEAKER 01 : 24:31

And that’s really my heart. I’m not trying to be a false man. I was like, listen, I’ll do this until something really pops up. And now they call me pastor. It’s been almost a year now. We’re actually in a little barber shop. We got a little building, a little restroom. I think it’s time. We got about 40 people who faithfully come. And so we’ve been doing, we’ve been at it since June 1st of 2025, just teaching the word faithfully. And my wife reminded me not too long ago of a prayer I had in 2020. 2020, of course, right? It was perfect vision. I’m like a wordsmith guy. I’m like, look at that, 2020, we got perfect vision. We had no vision actually, if I think about it, because nobody saw COVID coming. Recently, she said, didn’t you pray that you would land into a city where there was no Calvary Chapel, where people would be hungry for the word and they would simply just come and you would be able to expound the scriptures and you would just simply hold a Bible study and worship of God. And that just melted me because I’m like. What I prayed for is exactly what’s happening here right now. And the South, the Bible Belt, there’s a famine in the land for the word of God. And we’re meeting people and they’re coming and they’re saying, we’ve never heard this kind of thing before. And it’s literally everything that I heard growing up of all the Calvary Chapel pastors that would always say, and it’s happening right now in the deep South from Trustville to Biloxi, Alabaster to Dothan to Huntsville. All these little baby cities in Alabama are starting to just… People are they’re hungry for the word and it’s being taught. So that’s how I knew. But it took, you know, a year plus for me to finally move because I was waiting for certain things to happen. Just waiting in my wings, just doing my own little thing, waiting for the Lord to move. And I’ve just always I’m just kind of timid that way when it comes to anything. that I’m asked to do. Sure. I understand.

SPEAKER 05 : 26:12

But it sounds like you said yes to the calling. You’re there, you’re committed and you’ve been there over a year. So anytime we say yes to God, it’s so fruitful and he multiplies that and constantly provides and he’s so faithful and loving. Can you explain what then and now means to you in the title of your program?

SPEAKER 01 : 26:31

The same God yesterday, today, and forever, right? That’s scripture.

SPEAKER 05 : 26:36

Love that.

SPEAKER 01 : 26:37

That same God yesterday was being worshiped by people who had a heart for him, who had been touched by him. And those same voices that were recorded maybe from the mid to early 30s until now, I want to find them. I want to play them because I want to show that it’s the same God and the same word yesterday, today, and tomorrow. That’s then.

SPEAKER 05 : 26:58

Amen. I love that, Justin. I want to thank you so much for sharing your heart and your journey with us today. It’s a privilege to have your voice as part of the Crawford Media Group family. And I know our listeners are going to be so blessed by your teaching. Friends, if you want to dive deeper into the word and experience that bridge between timeless truth and today’s walk with the Lord, make sure to tune in on Sundays. You can catch Justin hosting Word and Worship then and now. Justin, thanks again for being in the studio. We look forward to many more conversations.

SPEAKER 01 : 27:29

Teresa, stay the course, my friend. God bless you.

SPEAKER 04 : 27:31

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