Today is the sixth day of July.

Welcome to the Daily Audio Bible.

I'm Brian. It is fantastic to be here with you today.

As we greet a brand new shiny, sparkly week here in the summertime.

For me in the Rolling Hills of Tennessee, I know it's like wintertime for those of you in the southern hemisphere.

Brand new shiny sparkly week either way.

It's great to be here as we look out over it and kind of do the little

rhythm that we do every week look out. Imagine this week. Imagine the different things that we

have to face and deal with that we know about.

Imagine the unforeseen things that may come our way because this is the unpredictable nature

of life.

Imagine how our posture of heart is going to remain in all of it as we write the story of this week

with our thoughts and our words and our choices and our actions.

And we choose in advance to seek wisdom and to follow the spirit of truth and not react and not be swept away

because emotions can sweep us away into all kinds of places that can spiral,

which is not to say that we don't feel at all,

it's that we approach it all with openness

and with the comfort of the Holy Spirit.

So, grateful to be here with you today, as I am every day, as we continue to navigate the 20th year,

together going through the Bible.

We have just got ourselves kind of moving into the book of First Chronicles.

And we are in the portion of the Bible where there, you know, it's the heavy genealogies.

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