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Today's talk comes from Pastor Louis Giglio.

We've been talking for a few months now about how we're not just turning the page into a new year,

but we're turning the page into a new decade.

And we've been talking leading up to Passion 2020 about how that decade is the 20s again,

and how the roaring 20s are back.

Most of us remember being in American history class and talking about this amazing time in American history 100 years ago in the 20s.

And I know we've touched down on it many, many times here in the last few weeks,

but just to recap, it was the time of euphoria in the nation in the 1920s.

And when you dig down underneath it, you can quickly see why World War I had ended.

World War I lasted from 1914 to 1918, and listen to this,

in World War I, 22 million people died.

In addition to the 22 million people that died, 22 million people were injured in the war.

44 million lives affected by this conflict.

And so when the war ended, of course, euphoria began.

Some describe the time like this that it was an era in the 1920s of outrageousness.

America threw a party that lasted for an entire decade.

And everything was changing.

For the first time in the history of America, more people lived in urban areas than in rural areas.

The economy doubled in America.

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