Encouragement is more than just a feel-good word to put our hope in.

It's a calling to something.

Today we are looking at four encouragements Paul gave the Ephesian elders and how to spot a wolf that wants to destroy the flock.

Welcome to the Sheeprews Faithful Podcast, episode number 75, truth and encouragement to live gospel-centered lives every day. I'm your host, Lauren Lushak.

Welcome, everyone. I am so happy you are here joining me for this episode of the Sheproos Faithful podcast.

If you're new, my name is Lauren and my goal is to read the Word of God with you ladies

and to glean practical truths to help us live out these gospel-centered lives where Jesus Christ

is the center.

They're why behind all we do.

And there's truth and encouragement, And as we'll learn today,

encouragement just isn't about this like feel good statement, but it's something we're called

to do. So I have a little story before I intro this really cool film that we're going to go

see next week. Basically, my daughter dressed in all black today because we saw this little video on

Big Cat Rescue YouTube channel of this Black Panther. He was turning 22. So cute and adorable,

River's like, I will be a Black Panther. So we're at the checkout line at the grocery store.

And real quick, River likes to be the director. You know, she likes to

assign roles, likes to let you know who you could be, and what kind of the inspiration your character

should take on. And for Asa, he couldn't be an animal. You know, there's like, what, five million

animals, insects, creatures you could be. And he had to be the animal. You know, there's like, what, five million animals, insects, creatures

you could be, and he had to be the ice cream boy. I don't know where that came from, but that was his

assigned lot for today. And she was so good at constantly feeding him his identity throughout the

store that when we got to the end, she walks up to the cashier

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