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Won't he do it? Yes, he will. He'll take a stone.

Make it still.

Yes, he will.

Welcome to Susie Larson Live.

Always so honored to get to spend this time with you.

In fact, I look forward to bringing you conversations every single day that hopefully inspire you in your faith walk, that deepen your

understanding of God's word, and that heightens your awareness of his very real presence in your life.

Well, God has called us to thrive in intimate, safe, caring community. In fact, I would submit to you,

and I've said it on the show before, we cannot become all God intended apart from a loving, loving, safe community. Yet experts say that as connected as the world is through digital

platforms, people are lonelier than ever. My guest today says this, God made you to enjoy a vibrant

relationship with him, resting and rejoicing and his never-ending love, but loneliness robs you of this joy

and keeps you isolated from others. So today, we're going to talk about loneliness and the answer.

We're going to talk about how to find joy in God's daily presence, how to build bridges in your

family, how to fight for face-to-face friendships, and how to share the love that you actually

want to receive. Talking today to one of

our program partners, Pastor Mike Novotany, his show Time of Grace airs at 2 o'clock Central Standard

Time during the weekdays, and he released a book Lonely Less, Six Steps to a Less Lonely Life.

We'll get him on in just a moment, but I got a quick announcement. You know, as Christians

were also called to a global perspective, to look up from our comforts, to enter into a suffering

that's not our own. And it couldn't be clear in Scripture that we are to remember the orphans,

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