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Welcome to you, and we mean this, welcome. If you're somebody who's listening to the station

you're like yeah well you i probably don't belong here because of this or that no no no you do

yeah if you're somebody's like i'm not even a christian i don't know what i think about all this

stuff or i you're still welcome love to have you here democrat republican left right up down all of it we are going to talk about

jesus and how good he is we're going to talk about his kingdom we're going to remind you of his

faithfulness and his his offer of spending life with us partnering with us and how wonderful that is

it's all about that hopefully it's deeply encouraging to you and we know that all of us including partnering with us, and how wonderful that is. It's all about that. Hopefully, it's deeply encouraging to you. And we know that all of us, including you and us, we need more

of him. It's so sad that we do this, but we do this a lot of times. Humans try to avoid God.

It's sad. I mean, we do it for a lot of reasons. A lot of it's shame, I think.

But one way we can avoid God is by being super busy with religious stuff.

Convinced of it.

You can do Christian-related activities all day, every day if you wanted and not actually engage with God. He's actually looking for a

relationship with us. He wants to walk with us through life. He wants us to talk with him, to seek

him. And I just, one way to avoid that is honestly, it's the Christian themed activities, TM.

That'll do it. Something pretty bad happened when I was in church when I was little.

It was in a Sunday school class.

Okay.

And I came up with the explainer of how life worked.

I said, so it's kind of like, I said to my teacher,

it's kind of like everything we do good.

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