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forward slash podcasts. Thanks for listening. The Dip swimmer by Sean McAvoy.

James 4 through 6.

You adulterous people. Don't you know that friendship with the world is hatred toward God?

Anyone who chooses to be a friend of the world becomes an enemy of God.

Or do you think scripture says without reason that the spirit he caused to live in us envies intensely?

But he gives us more grace. That is why

scripture says God opposes the proud but gives grace to the humble.

August is often monsoon time in Tucson, Arizona.

The rains can come quickly bringing flooding to dry ground not primed to soak them up. He always looked forward to that time of the year, to the brief

respites from the scorching Zephyrs, but not this year. This year was his nowhere

year.

The one between high school and college,

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