Ep 1343 | Zach Botches His One Job at His Son’s Wedding & Chaos Ensues
5/28/20261 hr
Al, Zach, Lisa, and Jill reflect on family, testimony, and the long road from hidden pain to generational blessing. Zach looks back on raising strong-willed sons in a culture that often treats boldness and conviction like liabilities, and he reflects on seeing those same traits shaped by faith, counsel, and maturity. Al and Lisa discuss watching their story come to life, including the physical weight of reliving betrayal, trauma, forgiveness, and redemption on-screen. Full circle family moments come together to show that shame loses its grip when families tell the truth, let God heal what was broken, and refuse to pass old pain to the next generation. In this episode: Revelation 12; Genesis 1; Genesis 2; Genesis 3; Luke 7, verse 47 “Unashamed” Episode 1343 is sponsored by: Get firearm security redesigned and save 10% off @StopBoxUSA with code UNASHAMED at https://www.stopboxusa.com/unashamed #stopboxpod https://fastgrowingtrees.com — Get 20% your first purchase when using the code UNASHAMED at checkout. https://ruffgreens.com — Get a FREE Jumpstart Trial Bag for your dog today when you use promo code Unashamed! http://unashamedforhillsdale.com/ — Sign up now for free, and join the Unashamed hosts every Friday for Unashamed Academy Powered by Hillsdale College Listen to Not Yet Now with Zach Dasher on Apple, Spotify, iHeart, or anywhere you get podcasts. Check out At Home with Phil Robertson, nearly 800 episodes of Phil's unfiltered wisdom, humor, and biblical truth, available for free for the first time! Get it on Apple, Spotify, Amazon, and anywhere you listen to podcasts! https://open.spotify.com/show/3LY8eJ4ZBZHmsImGoDNK2l Chapters 00:00 Lisa’s North Carolina Geography Mishap 04:02 Zach’s Son Max Gets Married 09:12 Zach & Jill’s Wedding Disaster 19:40 Raising Strong-Willed Sons in a Hostile Culture 26:27 The Purity of Young Love 32:58 It’s Important to Say the Hard Things 39:41 Those Who Forgiven Much, Love Much 46:44 The Importance of Telling Your Story 52:28 Annabelle Wears Jill’s Wedding Dress — Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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First 90 secondsAl Robertson· Host0:00
[upbeat country music] I am unashamed. What about you? So welcome back to Unashamed. So we're Black Mountain style- That's right ... today. [laughs] And for those of you that have been telling me, and there's a few of you, that, that Jace talks too much, you're gonna be in for a real treat.
Lisa Robertson· Guest0:19
[laughs] Yep.
Al Robertson· Host0:20
[laughs] 'Cause the next two podcasts, we're sans Jace. He's, uh- Yeah ... on a, on a undisclosed beach location somewhere.
Lisa Robertson· Guest0:27
Mm-hmm.
Zach Dasher· Host0:28
And I wanna say something about that. We need to make sure, if you're listening, that these, uh, episodes need to perform better.
Lisa Robertson· Guest0:35
[laughs] Yeah.
Zach Dasher· Host0:35
So share with your friends- Tell your friends ... tell your friends about it.
Lisa Robertson· Guest0:38
That's right.
Al Robertson· Host0:38
'Cause otherwise Jace is gonna think- No, I know, yeah ... "Oh, yeah, Zach and Al couldn't handle it."
Zach Dasher· Host0:41
Now, what we wanna be able to say, "Man, that thing blew up." [laughs] These, these- Yeah. Of course, y'all will get credit for the first one, but we have, well, the second one, uh, we, we, these next two.
Al Robertson· Host0:50
Well, the number one comment I hear on the road, Zach, is we love it when the w- when the wives are on.
Lisa Robertson· Guest0:56
Okay.
Al Robertson· Host0:56
So Lisa and Jill are both on.
Lisa Robertson· Guest0:57
So that's good. Yeah.
Al Robertson· Host0:58
Yeah. Both on today. So we're here for a myriad of reasons. Lisa had some, um, speaking engagements on the way here. She found out, y'all will appreciate this, that there's a big difference in Henderson- [laughs] ... North Carolina- [laughs] Yeah ... and Hendersonville, North Carolina.
Lisa Robertson· Guest1:15
Yeah.
Zach Dasher· Host1:15
Probably about a what, four-hour difference?
Lisa Robertson· Guest1:17
Yeah.
Al Robertson· Host1:17
There's a four-hour difference.
Zach Dasher· Host1:18
Yeah. There's, there's a difference.
Al Robertson· Host1:18
So Hendersonville is, like, 30 minutes from here- Mm-hmm ... and it's right on the other side of the airport. So, so some, some fine folks in Henderson asked Lisa to come speak.
Lisa Robertson· Guest1:28
Yeah.
Al Robertson· Host1:28
And it was, uh, it's