Our effort and thoughts are almost completely dominated by issues of time.

We're mad at the news, we're mad at the latest conspiracy theory, we're mad at the boss, we're mad at somebody.

Our dreams, our aspirations, our ambitions, our ambitions, are rooted in this present world order.

Very little of our imagination, very little of our ambition is directed beyond time.

The Bible invites us to something else.

It says that's a childish immature perspective to be

almost totally focused in time.

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Now it's on to Pastor Allen. Be blessed.

I'd like to pray for our nation tonight.

And before I do that, I want to just make a comment or two.

People have forwarded me a couple of articles lately and I've heard some other things in different places,

but there were commentaries or comments around this idea of Christian nationalism and it has

created some confusion as so much of our language does these days.

You know we can't, we're reluctant at some of the most educated

influential people in our nation have difficulty defining a woman, but we can definitely know that this isn't a recession.

The program is not a recession. And pronouns are altered and I mean we're living in a time where language is very much in play

it's a fluid thing and the definitions that words held in the very near past just months ago even are not applied today.

So when you hear terms you have to be a more astute listener you have to be a bit more of an

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