Today is January 1st. Welcome to the Daily Audio Bible. Welcome to a brand new year happy

new year. And welcome back or welcome aboard. We are about to set sail on the journey of

a lifetime. A journey that will take us a year to accomplish. A year of our lives. A year of

our lives shared together in community. A year of our lives gathering each day around the global

campfire and taking the next step forward together. And what an adventure it is to share our stories

with each other as we immerse ourselves in the story that God has revealed to us through the scriptures.

And in those scriptures we will meet a lot of people and we will see a lot of things happen

but we will slowly realize that we're not just reading the Bible. It's reading us and we find ourselves

and our hearts and our motivations in those stories. One of the things that we will clearly see over

and over and over again is that God will not give up. He will not surrender. He will not surrender us

because He loves us. So no matter what last year looked like, it was actually last year.

It's now a part of our history. It's now in the past. Maybe there were some pretty hard knocks

last year, some pretty big losses and we're coming into this new year crawling. Or maybe the

week between Christmas and New Year's is a blur because we've just been so disoriented and

partied so hard last night. We just come here going, I got to make some changes in my life.

Fantastic. Welcome aboard. We'll find that no matter how hard we try to change ourselves,

there is transformation that can only happen in relationship with God. A God who will not give up.

So you are in the right place whether you have jumped on the ship and are ready to sail another year

and maybe this is your 10th or 15th voyage through the Bible. We are beginning today our 18th year of

the daily audio Bible. So the daily audio Bible has grown from infancy all the way into adulthood.

This is day one of year 18 and we have been at this seven days a week without fail for all of these

years and this is going to be a special adventure through the Bible together this year.

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