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Welcome Welcome just won't do dance. You don't have to know how to ever since and a sense

me got you live. Welcome to Sizzy Larson Live. Always so honored to get to spend this time with you.

In fact, I look forward to bringing you conversations every single day that hopefully inspire you in your faith walk,

that deepen your understanding of God's word and that heightens your

awareness of his very real presence in your life. Well, if you listen often enough, you know every month

we have our good friend, Than Bennett, on the show for what we've called a faith perspective from

the hill. Well, Than doesn't work on the hill anymore, but he keeps his finger on the pulse what's

going in the top news headlines, and he's moved into full-time ministry. We've talked about that plenty over the last several months. And he also now has a show on the Faith Radio lineup, and you can find it in our programming, but he airs on Saturday, called The Equipped, which matches the name of his newsletter. If you want to submit or you want to subscribe, you can do that, and we'll put that link in the show notes as well. And my producer, Angela, just informed me. We've got giveaways today. Than's written a couple of really great books. One, I endorsed. The other one I received, it's how I met then, as I interviewed him on, the first one, in search of the king, turning your desire for meaning into the discovery of God.

Mark Batterson wrote the forward for that book. Mark is his pastor. Then the one I endorse,

and I love so much, I love them both, but it was so fun to get an early copy of My Fame, His

Fame, Aiming Your Life and Influence Towards the Glory of God. And Mark Batterson also wrote

the forward for that one.

So this is what I wrote about Thans book. This book made me want to stand up and shout, bow and pray, and believe that God will make himself known in our day. You can text the word book if you want in

on the drawing. 877-933-2484. He's so informed, so humble, has such a passion for Jesus. So you truly will be blessed if you want to enter to win. Text the word book, 877-933-2484. So some of the things we'll be touching on today are just some news headlines. And I'm going to ask your opinion. opinion again we always want this to be civil dialogue

but I really just want your opinions as we talk about like for instance in Colorado Supreme

Court removed former President Trump from the ballot love to know your thoughts on that and I'll

ask them about that as well we are going to spend a little bit of time praying today about

the news headlines and if you've got a prayer request go on and send it in and I'll do my best to weave it in. But we read every text. And just want this to be a time of not only discerning the times and knowing what to do, but really praying, praying the news, you know, praying your stories. And you can turn on any dial and get angry news

any time of the day 24-7. And that kind of input, I'll just tell you, it's not good for your soul.

If you start to notice your inputs on news perspectives that are making you angry, suspicious,

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