Did you know hospitality is not a spiritual gift? Did you know it includes welcoming strangers?

And did you know that it creates a stronger church? Today, I'm sharing four hospitality lessons

and their practical applications to help us practice hospitality faithfully.

Welcome to the Sheproos Faithful podcast, episode number 179, truth and encouragement to live gospel-centered lives every day. I'm your host, Lauren Lushak.

Hi, everyone, welcome to the podcast. I am Lauren. I'm the host of Sheeprews Faithful, and I'm really grateful that you chose to listen to this episode today. I'm really excited to talk about

hospitality and some things that I've been learning and hopefully spur us all on to bless

others and to love others as Christ has loved us. First of all, I want to thank everyone who is

generously and graciously

given to sheep who's faithful. I'm so grateful for your support. It makes the podcast possible.

So thank you very much. I'm very grateful for you. Second of all, I want to share a little life hack

before we jump into today's episode. The life hack is about traveling.

Now, some of you might have been taking spring break trips or you have trips coming this

summer or you might be going to the Fight, laugh, Feast rally in South Dakota and meeting me

and hanging out and having such a great time and being spurred on to understand how we live

as Christians in this current age. I'm very

excited. But maybe you will be in a hotel. You will find yourself in a hotel at some point with

children. This is the life hack. I saw this online and I thought, this could work. Have you ever been

in a hotel where you have kids and there's not really a place to eat except maybe on the floor and then

there's snacks everywhere where you just you just want to have a sandwich with a table but your hotel

room doesn't have it well this live pack is to take the ironing board line it with some towels

and set it at the foot of the bed to make this little table. So kids can sit at the end of the bed

or the edge of the bed, dangle their feet over and have a table surface to eat their snack,

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