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Welcome to the Gospel Coalition Podcast, equipping the next generation of believers, pastors,

and church leaders to shape life and ministry around the gospel.

Today, you'll hear a message from Jen Wilkin, originally delivered at TGC's 2021 National

Conference.

I cannot believe that you wanted to come to this session.

I saw the other things that people are talking about, and I think by now the cats probably

out of the bag that I have titled the session and my book in a way that is supposed to sneak

attacking you by calling it the ten words that maybe you wouldn't know until it was too late

that we were actually talking about. The ten commandments, yes, I'm so sorry, except I'm not

sorry at all. You know, there was this whole trend a few years back where, and I think it still

is going on, where you were supposed to choose your word for the year.

Has anybody done this? Where you choose your word, and it's always things like rest or

or a flight or aptitude, or, and one of my friends came up with hesitate for her word, and I'm like,

all right, I was like, I was tempted to mock this whole thing, but that is a genius.

Like, hesitate for your word for the year would be fantastic.

And so I'm wondering, like, if you had a word for the year we just went through,

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