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Hello.

And my name's Todd. We're two ministers slash buds who love the stories of the Bible.

And hey, we want to share them with you.

And today, Matt, well, Turkey Day is coming up.

And so we want to chat just a little bit about thankfulness.

Yeah.

Today's story isn't a story at all.

How about them apples?

Thanksgiving apples.

Uh-huh.

Today we're going to take a little break from our normal format to talk about Thanksgiving

and a particular passage that I like to read during the

Thanksgiving week that comes out of Philippians chapter 4. And this is written by the Apostle Paul,

and it talks a lot about our Christian perspective on how we're to give thanks, sometimes even in

challenging circumstances. And I would say that Paul's a guy who certainly knew about challenging circumstances.

Team money, when you think about Paul and some of the adversity he had to face, what comes to your mind?

Yeah, well, he wasn't this like neat little Christian guy that was just always, you know, just jolly and happy and everything was easy in his life, right?

You just described Santa Claus, by the way. Do what? You just described Santa Claus.

I did. I did. You're right. This guy jolly and happy one day out of the year, he visits every home.

Well, say any calls. No, he wasn't. You know, I mean, the reality is this guy, like you said, he faced adversity.

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