So the clock is ticking. There's only a few days left in this year and I'm telling you you've heard us talk about becoming a financial partner with us to literally change families and impact the world for the kingdom of God. Now's your time. There's just a few hours left. Jump in now and join us.

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And I'm just going to say we need you.

We need you to impact families with us.

You can make a difference. There's no way in the Acts 2 Church when they shared everything and they broke red together

that there wasn't laughter and that the Holy Spirit didn't use the overheard laughter.

Like, man, my neighbors, I don't know what's going on over there,

but they're having a rock as good time.

They are living life, and I want to help you pursue the relationships that matter most.

I'm Shelby Abbott and your hosts are

Dave and Ann Wilson. You can find us at family life today.com. This is family life

today. I think we are going to laugh today. I think we are. I think we're going to laugh today. But we're also going to go deep today. I tell you what, growing up in the church and I hated it. My mom dragged me there and one of the things I hated about church as a kid, even a teenager, there wasn't, you weren't allowed to laugh.

There was no laughter.

It's so funny you say that because I only went to church a couple times probably growing up, but the thing that I loved about it is my whole

family, there were four kids, my parents, we'd go into this pew and sometime in that

one hour one of my brothers would do something so funny and we

would start laughing you know that laughter that you are shaking and that you're

trying to hold it in but you you're just like oh you're trying to hold it in but you're just like oh you're trying to hold it in that

would happen I don't even remember what happened at the church or what the pastor said but

that was my favorite part of my brothers trying to make me laugh.

Well, the truth is God's a God of joy.

Absolutely.

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