Today is the first day of January. Welcome to the Daily Audio Bible.

I am Brian. It is awesome to be here with you today as we gather around a place that we will gather for the next

365 days around the global campfire where we gather in a nice peaceful oasis each day to allow the scriptures to kind of

wash into our lives, orient us to God and give us the direction and clarity that we need.

Sometimes that is the rescue that we need.

Sometimes it is the word that we need. Sometimes it is the word that we need.

Sometimes it is the correction that we need,

but it will always be what we need.

So it is great to be here with you today

as we embark on our 19th voyage around the sun,

our 19th voyage through the Bible together. This begins year 19 of the daily audio Bible.

And so that is exciting. It is exciting to be here with you, those of you who have been here all these years, those of you have been here

for maybe half of these years, those of you who have been here for a year, and those of you who are

brand new today, welcome to the family.

Over the next couple of months

as we can have settled into the rhythm here.

We will become that, a community, a family family showing up for each other every day

loving one another praying for one another and involving ourselves in each other's

stories as we find our story in the Bible.

So how this works, if this is brand new for you, is that we'll read a little bit of the Old

Testament, a little bit of the Old Testament, a little bit of the New

Testament. We'll read from the Psalms and we'll read from the proverbs each day

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