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Hey, guys. Welcome back to the Handelbar podcast.

We are super excited because one of our favorite guests to have on Haley Braun is with us.

That's a true statement.

Yeah.

One, vibes.

Two, so much wisdom.

The way you open the word and the way that you just come at it from a different perspective,

your voice feels so fresh and clear but full of the presence of God.

Thank you.

And the South African accent just has this like, seeing on your words. It's crazy. I went to go preach in South Africa just a few weeks ago, and I got up in front of them. I said, usually if my message is bad, at least my accent is interesting, but here I don't have that. So the message has got to be good because I got nothing to save me. The spirit's got to fall in these words. Well, we're in the middle of doing this series, which has been awesome on the sermon on the Mount, the Beatitudes. We're right in the middle. It was originally going to be the full sermon on the Mount. and then we realized how much... In one episode, remember?

And then we got stuck on poor and spirit and looked up, and it had been 45 minutes.

It's true, and so now here we are in... It's been so good, like, taking our time on this.

It's just such a rich sermon where Jesus is like, you know, we've just found that Jesus is setting the

stage for like the cost of following him and just this different way that he's inviting us all to

live. And how he's flipping, this is like the introduction to the upside down kingdom. Yes. The

introduction to, hey, I'm going to give you a new way.

I'm going to talk about some values that are important to my kingdom that maybe aren't as valuable to you in the natural.

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