Hey, everybody, welcome to the You Are Born for this podcast with Father John Ricardo.

I'm your host, Father John. I'm the executive director of Acts 29, where we talk about anything and everything that has to do with transforming the church.

And as always, I'm here with my good friends, co-host, Nick Mary,

happy Thanksgiving week to you both.

Happy Thanksgiving, Father, we're not always on. We had a couple of lapses with

Mary and I's presence, but those are great conversations. You are in the room, but not on.

So shout out to Commander Haney. It was great to have you with us, brother, last time. And what's our topic tonight? Yeah. So today or whatever time this is. Today, whatever. Today's topic, this week's topic is it's Thanksgiving week. And we're calling this one in everything. Give thanks. And I've been dying to do that thanks brother that's just a

killing yourself right and that's a wrap so have a great Thanksgiving gobble gobble gobble

oh man such a loser okay yeah so Thanksgiving we were talking about giving thanks and Father John

to talk about this I think a lot of us are going to need

to pray. So let's do that right now. Yeah, let's do that. In the name of the Father, the Son,

and the Holy Spirit. Amen. Good and gracious Father, we come before you right now as your sons and

daughters, men and women of all ages whom you consider so important that you sent your son on mission

so as to rescue us from the powers of sin and death. In this week of all weeks, we ask that you

would help us by the power of your spirit to know you as our father, to know

Jesus as our Lord and our brother, and to experience the transformation that only the Holy

Spirit can bring in our hearts and our minds. Lord, we are desperately in need of your help.

For we have a mission in our own lives to play in this world that you've chosen us to be

alive in. So heal our own hearts and our minds. Help us to take every thought captive to Christ and to be a sign of unity and a means

of reconciliation in the world that we live in. We ask all this through Christ, our Lord. Amen. Amen.

The name of the Father's Son, Holy Spirit. So, tee this up for us, Father.

Mary's actually got a scripture passage, I think, that she had in her mind that she wanted to share, didn't you?

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