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that hopefully inspire you in your faith walk,

that deepen your understanding of God's word,

and that heightens your awareness of his very real presence in your life.

Well, I think you'd have to maybe live some remote place with no access to any media

to not know that we are living in uncertain times. We are living in a time of shaking.

Lots of things are shaking. Every sphere of influence is shaking. What's not shaking? Well,

his God's promises, his promise of presence,

his invitation for us to trust him. How do we navigate these trying times with joyful expectancy,

with really a sober-minded wisdom and insight? I can't think of anybody better to talk to about this

is Alan Jackson. He's got a brand new book out.

I love this book.

It's titled Big Trouble A Head, a Real Plan for Flourishing in a Time of Fear and Deception.

And if this isn't a time of fear and deception, I don't know what is.

But I love whenever I get to talk to Alan, it's just it's an invitation to prophetic expectancy. We're discerning the times with clarity, but always looking up then saying this might be true about what's happening in our culture.

But truer still is that God is on his throne and he has positioned us to live and breathe on the earth for such a time as this.

You know, we'll talk a little bit about what's going on in our nation.

But what's going on in our nation is in some ways happening all over the earth. And I say that to say, we've got listeners from

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