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Breakaway is a Bible study recorded on the campus of Texas A&M University.

Today's message is from Breakway's executive director, Timothy Ateak.

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Thank you. We hope you enjoy the message. Well, good evening. Well, good evening. Welcome back to Breakway. I'm so glad to be here with you tonight. I want to start just by sharing with you. When I was growing up, I didn't have the luxury of on-demand TV. So if I was going to figure out what I wanted to watch, I had to do that by channel surfing. So it was not uncommon for me to sit down at a TV and just start

rolling through the channels with a remote. And I distinctly remember moments during my

childhood where I would land on a channel and I would get so stuck on a certain station because of what is called an infomercial. I don't know

if you know what an infomercial is, but it's basically an extended commercial. It can be five

minutes, ten minutes, twenty minutes, thirty minutes of a company premiering one of their products.

And so there would be times where I would be sitting on the

couch and I'd be five to ten minutes into an infomercial and then I would finally realize

I have been watching a commercial about a miracle mop now for about 10 minutes. And even preparing

for this, I was thinking about some of the best infomercials I've

seen. So the George Forman Grill, I don't know if any of you have those. Michael Scott had one.

He actually burned his foot on one because he enjoyed sizzling hot bacon in the morning.

But there's the George Foreman Grill. I rocked one of those when I was in college.

There was the Shamwow towel. I don't know if you know what this towel is, but it is basically

the towel that replaces all paper towels. And so if you have this towel, it can actually hold,

don't miss this, 10 times its weight in liquid. And so they would show this towel absorbing

liquid. And then they would ring it out. And it was fascinating. It blow my mind. And then there was

the snuggy. Do you know what a snuggy is? A snuggy is a blanket with sleeves. And so you'd watch these commercials of these

people struggling to stay warm while changing the remote. Introduce the snuggy. Because you stay

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