Hi, this is Joel and Victoria.

So great to have you listening to the podcast.

We have a new resource we'd love to send you.

It's the 2024 devotional calendar.

It's full of inspiration, encouragement.

It'll help you to start the day all right.

Hope you'll request your copy, but enjoy the podcast today.

Well, God bless you.

It's a joy to come into your homes.

And if you're ever in our area, please stop by, be a part of one of our services.

I'll promise you.

We'll make you feel right at home.

I like to start with something funny.

And I heard about this man.

He was the only Protestant in a large Catholic neighborhood.

Every Friday during Lent, while his neighbors were eating cold fish, he was in his backyard

grilling a steak.

And they couldn't stand the temptation and decided to try to convert him to Catholicism.

He finally agreed.

A priest came over, sprinkled water on his head,

said, you were born a Baptist, you were raised a Baptist, but now you're a Catholic. The next year,

on the first Friday of Lent, they smelled the same smell. They rushed to his house. He was in his

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