I'm Alan Arnold and today we're wrapping up a four-part series that we call Deeper.

If you have not had a chance to listen to the first three sessions, we invite you now

to go ahead and do that.

Each one builds on the last and so you'll want to have the full experience.

At this week in the series' conclusion, John offers insights and even answers some

questions from the attendees about the hour that we find ourselves in.

Now before we go into that, we're going to pause and just release everything to God.

Father, we love you, we worship you, and we give ourselves fully to you.

Right now, with all of the distractions and the craziness and the chaos of the world,

we turn from that and we turn our gaze to you.

God, every one and everything we release to you right now, every person, every event,

every deadline, every demand and distraction God, we open our hands and we release them

to you.

God allows us to focus fully on what you have for us.

Right now, God speak to us, let the words that come from this podcast be words of life

that draw people to you, God, that draw us to you, to your river of life.

We love you, we love you, Father, and we pray all of this in Jesus' name.

Amen.

So here we go in the final session with John Eldridge.

So in terms of just some more spiritual fathering and mothering, lessons that we're learning,

things that are proving helpful, this is going to surprise you, but I need to warn you

about the danger of sincerity, the danger of sincerity, because you are all such sincere

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