Unashamed with the Robertson Family
Ep 1081 | Jase Barrels Into Highly Awkward Restaurant Blunder & Godwin Finally Baptizes His Son-in-Law
25 Apr 2025
Jase suffers a communication breakdown that spiraled into a full-on meltdown at a steakhouse — or so he thought — and he had to swallow his pride and make it right. The guys celebrate a major answered prayer in Godwin’s family as his son-in-law was baptized recently, and they reflect on what it means to witness God’s movement in the lives of those you love. They also dig into the deeper meaning of “hardening of the heart,” why one Bible verse is the most cross-referenced of all time, and how God’s design throughout Scripture points to a single, unifying presence. — Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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I am unashamed. What about you? Welcome back to the Unashamed podcast. Jason, the last podcast you were talking about celebrating Resurrection Sunday, is what I like to call it, in Nashville, where Reed was leading worship. I was in Gulf Shores down here at the Southern Lair.
And so for the first time in as far back as I can remember, I'm guessing it's got to be over 20 years, I was not preaching at on Easter Sunday. And typically, Mike and I usually preach together at WFR. It's kind of been a tradition since he came back 20 plus years, 25 years ago. And so it was very strange not being there. We had family down here. Old Stone came down.
We caught some crabs out in the lagoon and had a big crab and shrimp bowl. And it was a lot of fun. Had a great weekend together. And so that day we tuned in. And one of the things is I loved it all. Of course, it's just such a great day because for preachers, it's like Super Bowl Sunday. As you know, there's always a lot of people there. And I wish they were there all the time.
But, you know, it's just kind of the way it works. But at the end of it, something amazing happened. Our old friend, John Godwin, who's on our sister podcast in the Duck Call Room from time to time, he baptized his son-in-law. At the end of the service, you know, Sunday. And it really touched me because, you know, obviously I've been there the whole time with him and Johanna, their daughter.
I married them. And I remember seeing this young man for the first time. And, you know, he came into one of our house churches because they started dating. And he was, I don't know exactly sure where he was on the scale of belief. I mean, he was somewhere in between atheist and agnostic and for sure a skeptic. And he was, you know, he was pretty bold about it.
Like, you don't see that much because you're coming into like a Christian environment, especially in a house church. But he was, I mean, fact checking everything we were talking about, you know, on his phone the whole time we were having this. And I was thinking to myself, Quite honestly, I was thinking, man, Johanna needs to move on. This kid is not going to make it.
He's not going to be worth the effort. Well, they wound up falling in love, get married. And this journey that now brought him to Sunday has been remarkable to watch. And one of the things that I think was so beautiful about it, and I sent a text to Godwin. just congratulating him and getting to be in that moment with his son-in-law was really cool.
And I said, your example, yours and Paula, of grace and just really patience in working with your daughter and your son-in-law and ultimately leading him to Christ was such an inspiration to me. And so John sent me this text back and I wanted to share it on the podcast. He said, he said, thanks, you know, and he had gone to, Celio had gone to a men's retreat, which made a huge impact on his life.
And he said, here's what his son-in-law said. He said, Jesus was baptized when he was 30 by a man named John. And now I'm 30 and I'm baptized by a man named John. And, and so I thought that was pretty cool. And Godwin said, and you got to hear it in Godwin's voice, I guess. I don't know what that means, but I'm in great company.
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