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Your eyes on the times, you walk ready to speak up, but with so many problems, you're

exhausted trying to keep up.

This is the church politics podcast where you can get political commentary from a biblical worldview.

We're not trying to be conservative or progressive.

We're trying to be Christian in the public square.

And I'm black as heaven.

I'm made in God's image.

Nobody can change my sentence.

Amen, cut off my knees and put it into my search.

It's easy to sell your soul and you don't know what it's worth.

Greetings, everybody, and welcome to another episode of the church politics podcast. I am Chris Butler,

and I am here without my play cousin. the founder here at the Anne campaign attorney Justin

Gibney is AWOL this morning, but we are not going to let that throw us into crisis. We are going to

try to hold it together and see if we can still move this forward. And hopefully, Justin will be back

in the chair next week. I'll pray for him. But still,

you can grab your Bible, get your mind right, and prepare to think, not like a Democrat,

not like a Republican, but like a Christian. As usual, I want to start us with some scripture.

In Matthew chapter 25 verses 34 through 40, these are the words of Jesus.

The king will say to those at his right, come, you who are blessed of my father inherit the kingdom

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