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La, la, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, friends, let's start out this new year today.

This is the first broadcast of our new year 2025.

And so glad you're joining me today. Greg Kokel here for stand of reason, and I actually have some really good news for you.

When we finished up last year, and we have a kind of end-of-year focus.

A lot of times what I've done is try to approach a theme like,

here are the challenges we're facing in our culture and stand a reason is well-positioned

to meet these challenges and to help you to meet these challenges.

And that's true.

And so there have been various themes that we've had as we've ended the year, and that it's been roughly along that line.

But this last year, I thought I changed the focus a little bit and not focus on the challenges

and the darkness that we are going to bring the light into,

but the light that God is already shedding in so many areas.

And if you are part of our end of year giving plan through Stand a Reason,

when you received our missive or listened to the shows and sent a gift,

we are sending you a copy of

Justin Breyerle's new book, The Unbelievable, I think is the way he starts at rebirth in belief

of God. Like, this is an amazing thing. There are some incredible things that are happening

on the horizon as we see God's spirit moving

in all kinds of ways, even though in other areas we see darkness, there is the light that's

penetrating. So that was the theme for the end of the year, and there's more things that are

happening like that. We had our staff meeting today, and generally at our staff meeting,

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