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Hello friend

This is Max Locato

Thanks for tuning in

It's an honor to be with you

As we study God's word together

May our time uplift

And encourage you

If you could use some hope I pray you find it here today.

Happy New Year. Welcome back to the Encouraging Word podcast. It's resolution season all over the world.

People are resolving to exercise more, spin less, try a new hobby. A common resolution for people of faith is to read the Bible more. And if that resonates, today's

episode is for you. The Bible is the most important book for the Christian. It answers the two most

fundamental questions of the human heart. How did I get here? And how do I get where I'm supposed to be? If you or someone

else you know is asking these questions, I can think of no better habit than to build this year

as a year in which you study the Bible.

For the word of God is alive and active,

sharper than any double-edged sword.

It penetrates even to the dividing of the soul and spirit,

the joints and morrow.

It judges the thoughts and the attitudes of the heart.

In other words, the words of the Bible go where you and I cannot. It goes to the meeting place of the soul and the spirit. Can you take me to the

meeting place of your soul and your spirit? How many of you have ever touched that place where the

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