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Okay, so question what is the biggest mistake that you can possibly make in life?

I think this, if this isn't it, it's up there. Okay. It's something we talk about a lot on the show. It's walking away from God and shame.

That will cost you everything and why do it. You don't have to he's willing to cover your shame he's willing to still

Okay, you're a sinner got it and sin is destructive got it but he'd rather have you messy than not have you at all

I have learned that to continue to go back to him instead of going oh I'm not even going to

listen to Christian music I'm not gonna pray I going to, because I'm ashamed of what I'm caught up in or doing

or habits of mind or whatever. Like, no, no, no, no. It's like the prodigal son not going back to his dad and his dad not given the chance to run toward him and say it's okay

I want you I will cover you I will put clothes on you to cover you and I still want you.

Don't know if you're a football fan or not, but what's interesting if you follow NFL

Unfortunately, it's gotten so predictable. How so? Like I can predict the, like since you're a Steelers fan. Yes. I can predict the final score. You knew what the score was going to be on Sunday? I can predict the score before it even starts let me put it that way how so it's gonna be zero zero

Okay, so that's a dad joke.

All right, so and I messed it up,

so I can predict the final score.

Right, yeah.

And then I tried to make the joke work.

Yeah, and it didn't.

It didn't, to be fair.

Yeah, it didn't at all. It really lands. But the joke is, to be fair. Yeah, it didn't really land.

But the joke is supposed to be,

you're like, I can predict the score before it even starts.

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