Hey, everybody. Welcome to the You were born for this podcast with Father John Ricardo. That's me. I'm Father John. I'm the executive director at Acts 29, where we talk about anything and everything having to do with transforming the church. I'm here with Nick, Mary. New Year continues, guys. How are you?

Pretty good. Doing great.

How those resolutions going? We haven't blown it yet. It's only been like, what, 10, 11 days?

Hey, that's right. It's kind of early on, huh? So far, so good. Good. What's our topic today?

Today's topic is, do we really believe God speaks?

I think so. It seems like a really simple topic,? I think so.

Seems like a really simple topic, but I think we're going to try to unpack that as simple

as this sounds, this is the heart of transformation.

So eager to get into it with everybody.

Absolutely.

Shall we pray first?

In the name of the Father of the Son, the Holy Spirit.

Father, we just entrust our lives, our families, our parishes, our dioceses, this country,

the world into your hands.

Confident that you are a good father who has not only created everything out of nothing,

but out of your great love has sent your only begotten son so as to rescue us from the powers of

sin and death and to begin the work of recreation, which will happen one day when he

gloriously returns, but even now, today, he wants to continue through us broken vessels as we are.

And so, Lord, we ask your anointing upon our conversation, upon the ears of all our brothers and

sisters who are with us, fill us with courage and hope in these days that we find ourselves

living in. We ask it all in Jesus' name. Amen.

Amen.

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