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Now, let's join Kurt for today's episode. Hey friends, welcome back. I've got my, not done this often recently, but I've got my coffee mug here today. It says,

oh, happy day. And it is always a happy day when you're sipping coffee. I've, I've been drinking coffee a little bit

differently in recent days. I've kind of slid over to, and don't judge me for this, but I'm kind of

slid over to Starbucks. And I order the Americano and I get a little extra steamed heavy cream.

I'm telling you, that is the ticket. And then at home in the morning, I make it on my brevel

and get the, it's a fancy coffee maker, but I just put a double shot in making an

Americano and I do the steamed heavy cream. I'm telling you, it is the way to go. So this is actually

curing coffee. So it's, it's not the greatest, but hey,

a bad cup of coffee is better than no cup of coffee. That's a philosophy to live by.

And speaking of philosophies to live by, we are in Matthew chapter number eight, and I think

we're going to finish the chapter today and talk about

one of my favorite stories in the Bible. It's interesting when you study the Bible, especially

the Gospels, when you look at the four Gospels, Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John, John is,

it's different in many ways from the other three because John was written with a very

specific purpose. And that was an apologetic purpose that people would know that Jesus is the

Christ, the son of God, and then an evangelistic purpose that people would believe on him.

That was John's stated purpose for writing the gospel the way he did.

So the stories that are included, the miracles that are included, the conversations that are

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