What are the means of grace? Why are they important and how might we be neglecting them?

Today we are giving thanks for the gifts God gives us to fortify our faith and keep us firm until the end.

Welcome to the Sheproos' fateful podcast, episode number 167, truth and encouragement to live gospel-centered lives every day.

I'm your host, Lauren Lushak.

Hey, everyone, thank you so much for tuning in to today's episode of the Sheproose Faithful podcast.

I am so thankful you're here.

I'm excited to talk about means of grace and about pumpkins. That's just in a minute. But first, thank you to all my

patron supporters who give generously each month to help make this podcast possible. Thank you so much.

Thanksgiving is right around the corner. It's actually next week. And if you're listening to

this and it's not Thanksgiving, Thanksgiving has already passed. It's actually next week. And if you're listening to this and it's

not Thanksgiving, Thanksgiving has already passed, this is evergreen content. This is going to be

useful no matter what. But I do have to throw in a little Thanksgiving life hack that actually

will bless you at your dinner this holiday and also let you know that I'm currently trying to bake through all my

pumpkin decor literally bake them in the oven and harvest the squash meat right now and I don't know

what happened this year I love growing pumpkins this is part of it I love growing pumpkins. This is part of it. I love growing

pumpkins. I think they are the most rewarding thing to grow because they're so pretty. They're bright

orange. And I just grow small like sugar pumpkins. So my biggest one was maybe six inches tall.

I mean, and that was a pretty big one. So they're relatively small,

but they're so pretty and they last a long time. You can use them as decoration. And then when

decoration time is over, when you are ready to make room for Christmas, you cut them in half,

you gut them and you can cook them in the oven in the other day. I have so many. That's what I want to say. I have so many pumpkins right now.

I don't know how I ended up with some. I grew some, but we went to a farm and somehow acquired more

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