Hey friends and welcome to the happy hour with Jamie Ivy Podcast.

I'm your host Jamie and I'm so glad you're here.

Each week on this show, I invite a friend to join me and we chat about

the big things in life, the little things in life, and everything in between.

Hey friends and welcome to another episode of The Happy Hour with Jamie Ivy Podcast.

I'm your host Jamie and we have a great show in store for you today.

I sit down with Ben Stewart and Ben Stewart's the pastor of Passion City Church in DC.

He's also written a book called Single Dating and Gage Married and then a new book that

just released a few weeks ago called Rest and War, Rhythms of a Well-Fought Life.

Some of you may recognize Ben because he served for 11 years as the executive director of

Breakaway Ministries down in college stashy with all my Aggie friends.

Aaron and I have known Ben Adana for a long time and I've always been impressed by Ben's

leadership and his desire to point us to the truths and the gospel and he's doing that again

today on this conversation. We talk a lot about how we have a battle to fight. We have a war

that someone is against us and that is Satan and some of us might feel defeated by our temptations

or by our tendencies to run back to the same things that cause destruction in our life.

And if that's you or if you know someone like that, if you've ever been there or you might be

there someday, this conversation is going to bring a lot of hope into your life and so I'm really

excited about you listening to that today. Ben says in here, he says, you have not been set free

from the fight but we've been set free for the fight. And I just want to encourage you. I know

that we might not actually know each other in real life but I hope that you listen to this show

often and I just want to encourage you to say that if you were a follower of Jesus, you have

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