Today is the 25th day of August.

Welcome to the Daily Audio Bible.

Welcome to a brand new shiny sparkly week.

Here we go, work her way through this week. Here we go, work her way through this week. We'll end this week as we end this month together.

And then we'll step forward again.

Today, it's a brand new shiny sparkly week,

and we have this opportunity to choose

how this month is going to end, because it's going to end this week.

So we can look back over the last weeks, all the loose ends, all the drama, all the chaos, all the victory, all the drama all the chaos all the victory all the joy and keep stepping forward

taking the next right step together and one of the right steps yeah yeah, is being around the global campfire together and taking

the next step forward and just letting the scriptures speak, speak for themselves, speak into

our lives, and there's just a transformative effect that happens

cumulatively day after day after day.

As we look at all these examples, as we look at the commands, as we look at

the instructions, as we look at the people, as we get to know the people because the Bible

Yeah, the Bible doesn't work at all if people aren't in it

It's not just a story of God

It's not just a story of God. It's the story of us. God with us. And so, let's go forward We're in the book of Job right now. And so we've kind of turned

conflections in the Old Testament into some territory we haven't really been in and that is

wrestling with suffering and that's hard nobody I mean wrestling with suffering

we're like a avoidance kind of people. I have learned in my life. Some of you probably

already know this are not way more wise than me but yeah you can only run so long from some of those things before you have

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