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When You Forget What Having Fun Looks Like: Annie F. Downs

FamilyLife Today®

FamilyLife Network

Society & Culture, Religion & Spirituality, Personal Journals, Kids & Family, Christianity

4.81.7K Ratings

🗓️ 1 May 2023

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Summary

Have you given up on having fun? Did you know Jesus modeled fun as a bridge to God? Annie F. Downs, bestselling author of Chase the Fun: 100 Days to Discover Fun Right Where You Are, has big ideas on why and how to have fun again.
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All right, now on to today's show.

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Fun between believers and non-believers is very natural.

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It should be, I mean, my gracious.

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Please have fun with everyone you know, but also, it's a real deposit into a bank account

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