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When the word, not the world, becomes the majority of your week, your life will start to change.

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Hey, what's up, everybody? Hope you're having a great day. Thanks for joining us on the Daily Drive.

My name is Mike Bro, and together we spend a few minutes every day just trying to draw close

to the one who created us to do life with him.

And we've been hanging in a little section of the Bible that's commonly called the Beatitudes.

It is the introductory part of Jesus' famous Sermon on the Mount.

If you've never read it, I would encourage you to do so.

Greatest sermon ever

given, so countercultural, so radically freeing, just mapping out the pathway to true inside-out

happiness. And you can find all that in Matthew chapter 5 through 7 in the New Testament section

of the Bible. And I've said it plenty of times on this podcast, but looking at the life of Jesus was what changed my total perspective on God.

Eventually changed my life.

I mean, if you're looking for like an influencer to follow, if you need a role model for how to do life, look no further than Jesus.

I mean, the way he moved through his days with humility, compassion, kindness, courage just blew

me away.

The peace and calm he exhibited in the face of pressure.

His inclusive love for people that nobody else included.

The way he fought for the underdog, the outcast, the forgotten, all the miracles that proved

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