Your past can be messy and your calling can still be real. We’re joined by nationally known etiquette, soft skills, and customer service expert Joy Weaver, and her story starts far from TV studios and corporate boardrooms. Joy shares how losing her mother at birth, growing up in rural West Texas, and navigating a divided spiritual life set the stage for a moment of surrender that changed everything. What follows is not a perfect highlight reel, but a clear picture of how God redirects a life through repentance, the Holy Spirit, and everyday obedience.

From there, we connect faith to practical excellence. Joy explains why first impressions, professional etiquette, and relationship-building are not shallow topics when you’re a Christian. How you speak, dress, listen, and handle a table can either build trust or distract from your witness. She tells the unbelievable chain of events that led her to the Protocol School of Washington, D.C., how she ended up teaching etiquette to a major construction firm, and why soft skills training matters just as much as technical skill in business and leadership.

We also talk about media moments like Good Morning Texas and a behind-the-scenes experience on The View, plus what it meant to have Zig Ziglar encourage her to write a book and then choose to highly endorse it. Joy closes by sharing what she’s building now, including one-on-one coaching that helps people sharpen communication, dining etiquette, and “dress for success” with confidence and clarity. If you want Christian encouragement with real-world tools you can use this week, press play, then subscribe, share with a friend, and leave a review so more people can find the show. Visit her website at www.justaskjoy.com .

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Bro, Ernie continues taking us deeper into The Book of ACTS in Chapter 11. Grab your notebooks, your pen and your Word...let's go!

Peter gets called on the carpet for one simple thing: he ate with Gentiles. That sounds small until you realize it threatened an entire worldview built on separation, tradition, and who gets counted as “clean.” We sit down in Acts 11:1–17 and track how the early church handles its first major backlash after the gospel crosses a cultural line, and why Peter’s only real defense is the one that still matters today: God did it.

We walk carefully through Peter’s retelling of the sheet vision, the voice from heaven, and the Spirit’s clear instruction to go “nothing doubting.” Then we connect the dots to Cornelius, the angelic message, and the moment the Holy Ghost falls on Gentiles “as on us at the beginning.” Along the way, we talk honestly about what the baptism of the Holy Ghost is for, why spiritual power is meant to fuel witness, and why no one can manufacture the real thing by coaching someone to repeat sounds.

To ground it, we pull in John 3:16, Joel’s promise that God pours out His Spirit on all flesh, and even Genesis 12 to show this was always God’s plan for the whole world. We also end with a needed warning from Colossians 2 about getting trapped by tradition and empty philosophy instead of staying anchored to Christ.

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We continue this deep dive into the Book of ACTS with Bro. John "Ernie" Perez. Grab your notebooks, your pen and your Word...Let's go!

“Receiving Jesus” can sound like a single moment, but Scripture paints something sturdier: repentance that turns your life around, faith that endures, and a covenant that reshapes how you live. We open John 1:12-14 and ask the hard question many churches avoid, what does it really mean to receive Christ if nothing changes afterward? From Jesus’ first message in Matthew 4:17 to the call of obedience in John 14:15, we talk plainly about surrender, conviction, and the daily direction of a repentant life.

We also dig into why the name of Jesus is central, not as a religious slogan but as authority tied to belief, baptism, and a transformed heart. Walking through Mark 16, Acts 2:38, Acts 3, and Acts 4, we connect the early church’s boldness and miracles to faith “in his name,” and we clarify why spiritual power cannot be separated from repentance and covenant. If you’ve ever wondered why some people can say “Jesus” all day and still feel stuck, this study offers a Bible-based framework that brings clarity without hype.

Then we zoom out to the breathtaking claim of the Gospel: the Word became flesh and “tabernacled” among us. Using Colossians 1 and 2, we explore the fullness of God dwelling in Christ bodily, and we land on a truth that changes how you see the cross: God was in Christ reconciling the world to himself. We close with a simple challenge to slow down, make room for God to speak through Scripture and godly teaching, and live in a way that proves you’ve truly received him. Subscribe, share this with a friend, and leave a review with your biggest takeaway.

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