Hey everybody and welcome back to I just want to talk about the Bible.

If this is your first time with us, then welcome.

I am glad that you are here.

My name is Christian Keeter and I live in the southeast of the United States of America

with my amazing, beautiful, godly wife Lacey and our wonderful

daughters, Felicity and Serenity.

Today we are going to challenge ourselves, and we are going to do this by asking ourselves

a potentially humbling question and then looking in the mirror and asking the Lord to give us insight and

wisdom and asking for his help in this matter. And as we ask ourselves this question, it may prove

to be a vulnerable, difficult, and even exposing sort of process, but I truly believe that it will

pay spiritual dividends, that it will impact our walks with the Lord

in a great way, and also lead to just greater freedom and joy and even peace with other people.

And so we're going to have the courage to look in the mirror and ask this question like I said

it's going to you know be a bit of a challenge this this episode is going to I'm where we're

challenging ourselves and indeed I hope in every episode you walk away feeling both challenged and

encouraged spurred on and loved but this is what this is what I know about you guys

I know that you take your walk with the Lord seriously and I know that you want to know Jesus better I know that you want to grow

closer to him that you care deeply about what the word of God says that you love the Lord

you want to please him and you want to know him better.

And that's, and I've, I've interacted with and corresponded with, um, a number of you and that reality is reflected in the things that you've said in emails.

For example, the, the contents of the emails reflect individuals who are thinking deeply about the word of God and about

the Lord and who are seeking to know him and to live in a way that pleases him. And so I know I'm speaking

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