You're listening to Baud My name is Kirby Minick,

also known as Kirby is a boss on YouTube,

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and welcome to this week's episode of the Bot and Beloved Podcast. I firstly just want to take a minute to say a big thank you to everyone who left a positive rating and review for the podcast. I actually was reading through reviews the other day and I saw that we hit over 900 reviews and I was just I was so shocked my goal is to hit a thousand reviews by the end of the year not simply just to say that we hit that milestone, but because I know with every review and rating,

another person comes closer to Christ. They read those reviews, they look at those ratings, they see if this is worth their time in my heart.

With everything I do, whether it's podcasting or social media or preaching on a stage, is to equip,

empower, and engage each and every single individual who listens to this good news.

So if you want to contribute to that, hop on down below on Apple Podcasts and leave that rating and review and subscribe while you're at it

We have new episodes every single Wednesday and you don't want to miss the next upcoming episodes that we have going on here. But with that being said, those of

you who have been subscribed for a while know that I have a public email. It's

bought and beloved at gmail.com and that's just a place where you all can send in your podcast topics you know if there's a theme

if there's a scripture you want me to go over or maybe you're just going through a certain season of life and

need some gospel truth in there.

That's what that resource is for,

bought and beloved at gmail.com.

And I went through, I was looking through my emails

the other day, and I got a message a little while back from a young lady named Anne who's in

Texas and this is what she emailed me. She said Kirby I'm in a leadership

position at school and I find it hard to be loving to people who don't respect me.

I know they're the same age as me and maybe that's why it's hard, but sometimes it makes me frustrated.

How do I love the people that gossip about me and don't respect me as a leader. I know Jesus

calls us to love people but it's hard to be in charge of them sometimes. I

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