Welcome to the Jeff Kaven Show, where we talk about the Bible, discipleship, and evangelization,

putting it all together in living as activated disciples.

This is show 413, encouragement for L.A. Friends.

Welcome to the show this week.

Thank you for joining me.

I really appreciate it.

I've been looking forward to talking to you all week,

especially after last week's show,

Show 412 thoughts about the L.A. Fires.

And I mentioned in that show last week that I wanted to

put something together, some encouragement for those who have been so devastated by the fires in

L.A. And there might be a couple of shows, you know, with this. And I got to thinking about it and

prayed about it. And I just want to offer this up in light of what happened in L.A. with the fires.

And maybe you aren't in L.A.

Maybe you are in another country, but things have happened in your life where you feel devastated.

The carpet's been pulled out from underneath you.

The landmarks that you have been so

used to in your life are gone. And you're not sure quite what to do. And so I thought I would offer

a little bit of encouragement here, particularly from an era of the Bible, since I'm a Bible teacher

with the Great Adventure Bible and the Great Adventure Studies.

And there's one episode in the Bible that really, really gives some sound direction for how to rebuild when, you know, you've been devastated.

And so the story takes place in the book of Ezra.

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