Hi, I'm Erwin McManus, I want to welcome you to the Mosaic Podcast. I want to also bring

into some exciting things that are happening here. If you go to the Mosaic app, you will

learn about our conference coming up this year, about MSC's new album and their tour across the

country and you can learn how to connect and being more involved in mosaic in so

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What a good day it is to be alive? Life is everyday a promise of new opportunities and new possibilities.

Have you ever stepped into a moment in your life so full of enthusiasm and excitement

and knowing that something good is coming? And then God interrupts your life with an

unexpected, unforeseen circumstance.

Well, sometimes when I read the scriptures, I'm almost set back by the way God interacted with the people of Israel.

And I understand it was a different time and a different context.

There are so many different things going on that we could not fully understand and

absorb, but so many of things God does in relationship to Israel

Give insight to the way God works in my life and in our lives today

But there's this one particular place in the book of judges and I'm sure you were just reflecting on the book of judges yesterday.

But there's one particular place in the book of judges that that really caught me off guard

it's one of those statements where you get an unexpected insight into how God works in the

world because I'm convinced that that if we could just pull back the curtain and see what

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