Here's a question. When did God start loving you?

You think about that and let me welcome you to another look into the life and message of Elizabeth

Alliant. She called us to live to a higher standard each day. They don't be satisfied

with a shallow substitute for what God wants you to have.

As our series continues in the coming weeks, we'll hear from family, friends, and others who were

influenced by Elizabeth's life and message.

We're starting a new series today, Strength out of Weakness.

Sounds like something Paul wrote in 2 Corinthians 12, doesn't it?

I take pleasure in infirmities, in reproaches, and necessities, and persecutions,

in distresses for Christ's sake.

For when I am weak, then am I strong. It's a short series,

just four parts. Today it's why the sovereignty of God makes a difference in my life. And when did

God start loving me? The question I brought up earlier. Coming up, veteran radio host Bob Lapine has

some thoughts on the first time that he met Elizabeth. And Wanamichael's author, speaker,

and friend of Elizabeth, talks about things she learned from her friend. But let's get to the first

of our two Gateway to Joy programs today. As you think

about the sovereignty of God, does it really make a day-to-day type of difference? We'll think

about compassion and how that can lead to feeling troubled, about the advantages of being in a big

family, unless maybe it's your daughter

who's having her fourth or fifth child. Stay with us, Strength out of Weakness, Part 1,

why the sovereignty of God makes a difference in my life. Maybe to some of you, the idea of the sovereignty of God

may seem a very vague and esoteric doctrine,

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