He takes it, pulls out a giant hammer and wham.  I said, “what are you doing?  You’re going to ruin it.”  He beats on the thing for fifteen minutes.  “Pastor, would you hold part of this while I beat on it?”  I was watching my hand, “bip, bip.”  We put it back on, i should say, not we, Owen put it back on the backboard and the thing worked, like that.  And it did work well – it was bent!

And I thought about desert university because if we enroll in desert university, we say, “god, I am a tool and I want to be an instrument to be used by you in a wonderful way to become a difference maker, and if i want to become a difference maker, I’ve got to submit to you and you’ve got to take a hammer and hammer on me year after year, day after day, month after month if I’m going to do it.

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