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🗓️ 2 January 2025
⏱️ 112 minutes
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0:00.0 | Hi, and thanks for joining me. |
0:07.0 | Hi, and thanks for joining me on Hank Unplugged. |
0:27.5 | This year was a startling reminder of the ethereal reality of our earthly experience. |
0:35.6 | Just last Christmas, I sent many of you a Christmas card, a card that featured a joyful |
0:43.3 | photo from a trip I took to India with my dear friend K.P. Yohanan. During the trip we witnessed |
0:53.1 | firsthand our ongoing global efforts in the 1040 window from West Africa to East Asia, |
1:03.8 | and we excitedly discussed our plans to continue carrying out the great commission as commanded by our Lord and |
1:15.9 | safer Jesus Christ. Well, this Christmas season, K.P. is now absent from the body, |
1:26.4 | and he's present with the Lord. |
1:30.3 | But you, you and I are still here. |
1:35.3 | We're here as yet to make a difference for time and for eternity. |
1:42.3 | Moreover, this year is a reminder of the reality that we only have one life, |
1:50.2 | that life soon will be passed, and that only what's done for Christ will ultimately last. |
1:58.5 | As I now approach three quarters of a century in age, I am acutely aware of the reality |
2:07.2 | that I am in the fourth quarter of my life, a life that is motivated by an admonition given by St. Paul, an admonition that we are to run with |
2:24.3 | perseverance, the race marked out for us, that we are to fix our eyes on Jesus who is the author and the perfector of our faith. |
2:37.9 | A Christ who for the joy set before him endured the cross, scorned its shame, and sat down |
2:47.8 | at the right hand of the throne of God. |
2:52.6 | And as we ponder those words, |
2:57.2 | on behalf of the entire team at the Christian Research Institute, |
3:01.2 | I would like to thank you. |
3:04.6 | Thank you from the bottom of my heart for being a co-labor in Christ |
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