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Welcome to Sizzy Larson Live. Always so honored to get to spend this time with you.

I look forward to bringing you conversations every single day that hopefully inspire you in your faith walk, that deepen your understanding of God's word,

and that heightens your awareness of his very real presence in your life. Well, if you listen often

enough, you know, every month we have our good friend, Than Bennett, on the show for what we've

called in the past, a faith perspective from the Hill. And as I've been saying for the last several

months, Than stepped away from his role on the hill, but now serves the

kingdom in a completely different way. But going forward, you know, he still keeps his finger on

the pulse of what's going on in politics. And we are going to talk about the times, the news,

the headlines, as much as we can to see them through a redemptive lens. We want to pray the

news. So our point in bringing some of these

headlines up is not to create divisive conversations or to stir people up in fear or angst.

Actually, we want to do the opposite. You can tune on into any station pretty much and get yourself

all riled up, get mad. In fact, I've been amazed at the number of Christians I've

heard who've said that a root of bitterness, when they are honest, how a root of bitterness has

kind of sprung up in their lives because of their overconsumption of the news. Years ago,

I used to be a news junkie because I just wanted to know what was going on in the world. And then I started, same thing, started to pay attention to the fruit of that.

So, you know, at first, because I just, this is a deeper life show.

We're all about deeper life and health and the healing process, inner wholeness,

being mobilized in your kingdom purposes.

Those are the things that make our hearts beat.

That's what this show is for. But when we start to think about,

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