Hi, I'm Susie Larson. Thanks for listening to this podcast from Susie Larson Live.

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forward to bringing you conversations every single day that hopefully inspire you in your faith walk

the deep in your understanding of god's word that heightens your awareness of his very real presence in

your life.

Well, political conversations in many cases, would you say this is true, have upstage spiritual conversations among Christians? You know, there's a place for politics in life, in the life of

the believer, but how do we know if we're putting too much weight on the political conversation?

Here's another thing we're going to ponder today, where once the great divide amongst Christians was mostly on a denominational level, now we're seeing deep divides between, quote, unquote, liberal Christians and, quote, unquote, conservative Christians. How are we to address our differences in a way that honors God? You know, scripture calls us to be of one mind, one purpose, and one heart for the kingdom. Do you think that's even possible in our day? Well, these are some of the themes we'll explore on today's show. My friend Thann Bennett, he's a director of government affairs for the ACLJ. He's written an amazing book on making God's name famous throughout the earth. You'll hear quotes today from Than's book. He joins us every month. He's become a regular faith radio contributor.

He lives and serves in the center of the political storm, and he'll be joining us, as I said,

every month to bring kind of a faith perspective from the Hill. We'll address just current events from a biblical faith perspective. He just is a favorite of mine. Quick announcement before

you hear from Than. The Writers Conference, hello, starts

one week from today. It's Friday and Saturday of next week in July 24, 25th. If you've had any

dream of at all of getting published, I'm telling you, if you look around, one of the major

writers' conferences on the West Coast was just canceled for good, so they say, at least for now,

they say. But to build a, go online,

$150 and have accessed, I think, 19 breakouts, two keynote sessions, one-on-one appointments with

editors, agents, experts, pro-advice room. It's a live Zoom room where I'll be there, too,

as a faculty member where you can get your questions answered,

pitch your ideas. I mean, to tell you, we've dropped the price $100 to $150 for so much access

to so much good content and some face-to-face, some live opportunities as well. If you want more

information, I pray you'll join us. You can go to the website, northwestern Christianwritersconference.com.

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