Before we get started with today's Bible story,

we want to give a big shout out to Asia Manier.

She is our newest patron on patreon.com slash Bible stories.

Thank you so much, Asia, for making this episode possible.

Hello and welcome to Bible Stories, I am your host Matt.

Todd is out today.

He and his wife and two children are anticipating a third child.

So they're moving into a home to accommodate them.

And we're all excited for Todd and praying for him during this move.

He's going to be back at the end of this week because we're catching up.

We're going to produce another episode toward the end of the week.

This has been a unique week for Korean and I.

We live out in the Dallas, Texas area and we had just a tremendous winter storm come through.

Something that caused a lot of damage for a lot of folks.

Millions of Texans were out of power.

Some of them were experiencing whirling blackouts.

Some of them, the length of that blackout was over 24 hours.

Some of them even longer than that.

During those blackouts, the temperature outside ranged from zero degrees to 17 degrees.

It was just really cold without any heat in the house.

Many folks lost their water and for those who had it restored,

some of those folks are under boiled warnings to where their water is not potable right now

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