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This is Show 339, Five Obstacles to Grace.

Welcome back to the show, my friend. Good to have you this week. We're going to

talk today about Five Obstacles to Grace, and this show actually came about as a result

of a conversation with someone this last week who was talking to me about the frustration

that they were going through because they didn't feel that they were really growing

in their faith. And so we got to talking about some of the obstacles that get in the

way from growing in our faith and specifically growing in grace or receiving the grace of

God. And so I thought, well, you know, I'm going to share that with you this week because

it kind of spoke to me too. You know, it doesn't matter how long you've been teaching the

Bible or as a matter of how long you've been in some kind of responsible position, you

still can allow obstacles to get in the way, you know, of your growth in the way of grace.

And we'll look at grace here in just a moment. And I've got five different obstacles that

do get in the way. And who knows, maybe it's just a good time for you to check those in

your walk with the Lord. And hopefully it'll help you grow a little bit. Say, if you do

want the show notes, and I've got five obstacles to grace with scriptures today, you can

simply text my name, Jeff Kaven's one word, and you can text it to the number 33777.

That's 33777. Okay. So you are experiencing some obstacles, some things to get in the way of

growing. Well, let's take a look, first of all, what grace is in your life and what what

grace means. I think that, you know, when you don't understand what grace really is, it kind

of resorts back to it's kind of just a nebulous substance that's similar to good luck. And

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