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From Sex, Drugs, and Rock & Roll to Jesus: A Hippie's Journey to Faith, with Chuck Girard— The Alisa Childers Podcast #104

5/2/2021

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The Alisa Childers Podcast · #104 From Sex, Drugs, and Rock & Roll to Jesus: A Hippie's Journey, with (my dad!) Chuck Girard

My dad has had truly one of the most interesting lives. As a successful studio singer in Los Angeles as a young adult, rubbing elbows with The Beach Boys, to becoming a hippie living in Hawaii, he encountered the gospel of Jesus Christ at a little country church after searching for God through Eastern Mysticism, LSD, and popular philosophies of the '60s.

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Darnel link

5/18/2021 07:05:49 am

I really enjoyed and am blessed to hear this testimony from your dad! God bless you!!!

Robert Byker

5/26/2021 07:20:25 pm

Thank you for this interview with your Dad. This was such a treat to hear Chuck share his story. Alisa, I love your work on the excesses and dangers of progressive Christianity but I also love your roots in the Jesus People movement. You are also an excellent interviewer.

Christian Michael

12/3/2021 04:03:11 pm

Your Dad is a great interview. What a life! I share some things with him. I've used psychedelic drugs in my past searching for meaning and purpose. LSD and magic mushrooms a few times each, DMT(once) and Marijuana was the limit of my drug use. Marijuana was something I used periodically at times in my past. Pretty much every concert I ever went to I experienced under the influence of marijuana. I stopped drinking alcohol a few months after I was saved. The Lord put it on my heart to quit even though I never had a problem with drinking, but I know God no longer wanted me to and I knew it was a potential stumbling block. "No drugs or alcohol so I can get the signal clear" like Andre 3000 said on the final verse of ATLiens. I use to think those were just cool lyrics when that album came out. Now I can relate to them.

I heard him say he was a Pink Floyd fan. Before I was saved I was a huge Pink Floyd fan and progressive rock fan in general (like Yes, Moody Blues, Rush, Dream Theatre and Genesis). Pink Floyd was my favorite group. Tool was a close second and they're progressive as well but more metal. Progressive music is the only progressive I like. I'm not a political progressive or religious progressive. I never evolved politically. I've been a political conservative long before I was saved.

It was a fun interview between you both. You can tell there's a great deal of love between you both. It was a great interview.

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From Sex, Drugs, and Rock & Roll to Jesus: A Hippie's Journey to Faith, with Chuck Girard— The Alisa Childers Podcast #104

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