Life is in the In-Between Moments – Tony Evans Films’ Legacy Moments ft. Brian Daniels

Life is in the In-Between Moments is a short, inspirational message from Brian Daniels about the intentionality of living life the way God has purposed.

Dr. Tony Evans is the founder and senior pastor of Oak Cliff Bible Fellowship in Dallas, founder and president of The Urban Alternative and author of over 100 books, booklets and Bible studies. The first African American to earn a doctorate of theology from Dallas Theological Seminary, he has been named one of the 12 Most Effective Preachers in the English-Speaking World by Baylor University. Dr. Evans holds the honor of writing and publishing the first full-Bible commentary and study Bible by an African American. His radio broadcast, The Alternative with Dr. Tony Evans, can be heard on over 1,400 radio outlets daily and in more than 130 countries. Dr. Evans’ sermons are also streamed and downloaded over 20,000,000 times annually. #TonyEvans #inspiration #hope

promise keepers in 1997

they was in knoxville tennessee

get in a van go with a bunch of guys

every time there was an intermission or

a break they would talk about dr tony

evans

the emcee would say he’s going to bring

the steam thank you i had

no idea what i was getting into

some of you men right now

don’t see any hope

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this world is waiting

it is waiting for a generation of godly

men this city is waiting

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looking back on it you know how memories

are

but i just remember really loving being

around my mother and father

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so my father

he was he was just a lot of fun to be

around

i just remember getting in the car and

probably being told something like you

know we’re gonna go

and we’re gonna be gone for a while

and from the time i was four to the time

i was graduated from college i probably

saw him five times

so in terms of memories there’s just

there’s just not any

growing up without without a father

in your life

um

is uh is really hard

things like

how to fix a car

like

paying bills

like how you interact with a wife

i don’t have a frame of reference for

this

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we dated in college

and then you make that transition into

marriage it felt like we were just going

through the motions i was just playing

the role of father and not really

knowing what the substance of this was

so we get there

friday night

the whole time they would talk about dr

tony evans there was this anticipation

thank you

but i just remember him talking about

what it means to be a man of god

you take your personal commitment first

you deliver it to your family you take

your family and deliver them to the

church

and then the church is delivered to the

community to make a difference

i think that was the mark that from this

point forward this is going to be

different

this is who i’m going to be and this is

how we’re going to

do this marriage and how we’re going to

do this life

you know

what being a husband is

you know what being a father is

you let your heart be god’s heart

and then start taking those steps

forward

that’s what i love

about what dr evans

prays

the first decision man is a personal

decision

because it boils down to this

if you’re going to be a man that changes

the world then you’ve got to be a man of

your local church

it was in that moment

is in that rawness

i felt called to full-time ministry what

does it look like for you to show up to

your life every day

the transformation is in the journey

it’s in the thousands of in between

moments where we’re actually doing life

and being shaped

you just want to be sure

you just want to be really sure that in

any interaction that you’re leaving

something of meaning and you’re leaving

with something of significance as well

we all know what the milestones are

those are the pictures in the photo

album

the things that don’t make the photo

album

sometimes are the most

profound

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