Hi, this is Joel and Victoria.

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We appreciate your support and we have a brand new resource we'd like to send you this month.

It's called Praying with Confidence.

I'll tell you more about it at the end of the podcast.

We love you and we sure hope you enjoy the message.

It's good to have you in the House of the Lord today.

I want to encourage us all this morning to keep our heart free from offense.

Offense is everywhere.

Jesus said, as long as you're here, offense will come.

As long as we live in this world, someone's going to say something that we don't understand,

something that hurts our feelings, maybe your husband doesn't listen to your opinion.

There's always going to be reasons to take up an offense, an opportunity to take it in.

You know, it's interesting because, you know, the people that you're around are one thing.

But how about the people that you've never even met?

And you know what I mean by that?

Everybody's opinion can go public these days on social media.

You begin to read somebody's opinion. You hear what they're railing

against. It kind of flusters you. You think I don't agree with that. Why would they say that?

Then you begin getting all upset. You call your brother, you call your sister, you call your neighbor.

Can you believe that they think that? Isn't that crazy? You see, you begin

to get frustrated and upset and spend energy on that offense, on those things that don't

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