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For those of you who are communicators, whether it's in business or wherever you communicate,

here's a little communication tip. If you speak from your weakness, you will never run out of material.

So, in this series that we're beginning today, and that's normally the case when I speak,

it's one of the crazy things about being a pastor or preacher is you're obviously accountable for

your words and I have Sandra tells me all the time. You have a lot of words. I'm like, yeah,

I have a lot of accountability. But this series in particular is so challenging to me. I even

tell Sandra a couple months ago when I started working on it. I said, you know what, this is something

that I wrestle with. I feel like every day, I'm not even sure I should even talk about it.

She's like, yeah, you should talk about it because that's kind of the point of all this. This,

sometimes it's just not easy because some of the things that are associated with Christianity are

just so non-intuitive. So anyway, here's what we're going to talk about for the next few weeks.

We're going to talk about a temptation that is only appropriate or only experienced by Christians.

So if you're not a Christian or you're not a Jesus follower or you're maybe not religious at all,

after today, you may be gladder than ever that you're not. This might be like an anti-avangelism

message like, whoa, if that's what it's like, leave me out. But while this temptation is really,

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