Hey guys, welcome to Before the Noise, the place where we slow down before the chaos kicks in every weekday. Join us for more at BeforeThe Noise.com. Let's go. Hey, guys, good morning. It is Friday. It is December 19th. Good morning, good morning. Let me see this dance and bananas in the chat. If you're there in the live chat of Rumble, welcome. We're glad you're here. Watch those numbers climb. I love to see it. You guys are here. I hope you have your Bible. As we continue working through the Book of Acts here on Before the Noise. Welcome. My name is Chad Prather. If you're new here, make sure you hit subscribe there on my Rumble channel or if you're over there under the Google Overlords on YouTube just because it's easier and it's what you know. Well, welcome.

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I'll tell you next week's schedule in just a minute when we get more people on here because a lot of

people have asked me what we're going to do through the Christmas week. I hope you guys are looking forward to a good Christmas. And so far this season is being good to you. A lot of people deal with a lot of depression and anxiety right now. And I'm going to pray for you in just a minute. And I want you to be able to celebrate and to be able to rejoice and have some fun.

You know, just have a little bit of fun.

Let your life experience a little bit of grace.

I'm glad you guys are here this morning.

I'm so thankful for all of you.

And as I said, we've been working our way through the book of Acts.

We're in Acts chapter 13 now.

And we're going to keep on cruising through. and then I guess we'll start looking at where

we need to go after the book of Acts.

There's a lot of places we can go.

If I told you what I'm thinking off the top of my head and what I've been kind of sensing,

some of you will laugh at me if I'm telling

you where I think we should go. I'll just tell you. I don't mind telling you. There's a part of me,

as I've prayed, I think we should deal in the Song of Solomon. We'll make some of you blush

over in the Song of Solomon. But I really, as I've prayed about this, I think almost going back to the

Old Testament, some of the poetry books, the Song of Solomon, learn what it's like to love Jesus and

be loved back, that beautiful picture of the bridegroom and the bride. Anyway, we'll think about that.

And I did a teaching on Song of Solomon a long, long time ago. I don't blush.

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