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What do all these people need? Young people, middle-aged people, older people.

They all need a word of encouragement. They need to know that their lives matter.

People tend to listen to matters we talk about when what we talk about matters to them.

Today, Pastor Greg Laurie says encouragement is always welcome.

There's nothing as refreshing as an encouraging word or deed.

It's like a fresh drink of water on a hot summer day.

This is the day when the lost are found.

This is the day for a moment again.

Always in grace, have we come strong? Again you can't hold me at your place.

This is the day the day when life begins.

The gospel can be an uncomfortable message.

It's a message of sin and its consequences, but of course the remedy found in the Lord sacrifice.

But that discussion can be so effective in an atmosphere of encouragement.

It's what their heart needs, wrapped in what their heart wants.

And today on a new beginning, Pastor Greg Laurie points out how to be an

encourager in the tradition of Barnabas.

As we study the book of Acts today, we'll see how we can follow in his reassuring footsteps.

So I heard about a group of frogs that were walking through the forest.

Well, you're laughing already and I think it's told the story.

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