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Thanks for listening and thanks for contributing to issues,eter 618 to 2238382. The whole goal of that NPR tote bag and that NPR coffee mug was to be able to show that even though I go to a Southern Baptist

university I'm an NPR kind of person and you're not.

There's just nothing in the pages of scripture, Old Testament or New Testament that says that the

weak should sacrifice for the strong.

But that's what surrogacy is.

It's always children sacrificing on behalf of adults. It's always children doing hard things. So adults can have what they want.

Remember your baptism. That's our essential identity. Don't wake up in the morning and say, I'm a Democrat, I'm a Republican,

I'm a black Christian. You're a Christian who happens to be black. And this is what's going to endure forever and

ever. Yes, death will devour you, but no, it will not be the end of you because I've made a path

through death for you.

Jesus as sheep is devoured. Jesus as shepherd, it conquers death and leads

his flock out of death into eternal life.

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