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Here's your host, Joe Simons, like diamonds.

Thank you. host, Joe Simons, like diamonds.

Killer dogs on the loose.

Hey everybody, Joe Simons, like diamonds. Back again, Salt Strong and Church, the first episode here of 2025.

Wow.

I took last week off, is some of you know, really just to kind of get away since the time of the family.

I've done an episode now, I guess, three years every single Sunday.

And this was kind of a weird one in terms of when Christmas and New Year's landed,

like right in the middle of the week.

And as we took some time off, my wife took a week off, which is rare for her, was good.

Went up at the farmhouse, spent some time with her family,

and spent some time with my family here in Winter Haven on Christmas Day.

And really just had a

great time, which brings me to the story today. And a really big lesson here for not just 2025,

but for any time and anything we're trying to pursue and really just as we look for truth

in the way and in our lives through God and through

Jesus. So we're at the farmhouse and this is my wife's family's farm. They've had it since

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