Megachurch Pastor Reacts to Billie Eilish & Jelly Roll's Grammy Speeches | Live Free with Josh Howerton
2/5/202640 min
Does the Bible shape how you feel about culture, or how you see culture?
In this LIVE FREE special reaction episode, Pastor Josh reacts to the GRAMMYs, Billie Eilish’s “No one is illegal on stolen land” moment and Jelly Roll’s bold, Jesus-centered acceptance speech, and uses Scripture to show the difference between using the Bible as a mirror and as a lens (James 1) for evaluating what’s happening in the world. You’ll also hear a clear contrast between performative courage that wins applause and real courage that risks something, plus why Romans 1 explains a cu...
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First 90 secondsJosh Howerton· Host0:00
If you wanna live an alternative lifestyle in 2026, here's what you gotta do: read your Bible, go to church, love one woman your whole life if you're a man, and one man your whole life if you're a woman, have kids and enjoy them, or do crazy rebellious things like stand on a stage at the Grammys and yell, "I love you, Lord." Why? Because in our culture, obedience is the only rebellion left. Okay, welcome to the most interesting, uh, React episode that we've tried so far. Uh, real quick, we're gonna be reacting to... This is what they did not train me for in seminary. We're gonna be reacting to Billie Eilish [laughs] and Jelly Roll's, uh, Grammy Awards acceptance speeches. Now, really quick, um, for our l- for Live Free Nation, these, um, React episodes, uh, these are l- my little bonus spare time hobby, and so this is a bit of a test drive. If these are helpful to you, um, if you could head over to YouTube and give it a, give it a comment or whatever, like or whatever you wanna do, that helps me know that these are worth [chuckles] uh, the time, and it, uh, helps me know that it is helpful to you. So, um, we'll keep test driving these as long as it seems like it's working. Let me know what you think. Uh, now, that said, [chuckles] let's react to Billie Eilish and Jelly Roll at the Grammys. Now, uh, really quick, let me set this up. Here's why, um, I'm doing this. Um, because if you're a Christian, you need to learn how to use the Bible in a couple different ways, and most people are, are only good at one of them. Uh, first of all, the Book of James says