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Hey, what's up y'all? So good to hang with you for a few minutes each day. Thanks for joining us together

as we walk a new direction this year.

Hey, we're just trying to keep a steady pace,

trying to act justly, love mercy, and walk homely with God.

And to do so, we're just hanging in some verses in the book of the Bible called the Book of Romans.

It's a letter just challenging us all to live a countercultural kind of life,

the kind of life that makes people notice and make them say,

man, whatever they got, I want that. They're just, I don't know, there's built different.

And chapter 12 of Rome begins with that challenge that not just conform to what everybody else around you is doing, but to be different. And then Paul, the author, gets pretty

descriptive of what different actually looks like. And then Paul, the author, gets pretty descriptive of what different actually

looks like. He writes, starting in verse 9, love must be sincere. Hate what is evil, cling to what is good.

We unpack that the last couple of days. And then he says this, we're down to verse 10 now. He says,

be devoted to one another in love. Now, the word used there for love is that brotherly affection

kind of love. You know, I've got to be honest, I've never been a great hugger. Anybody else?

I mean, I used to turn into a sheet of plywood when I saw a hugger

coming toward me. But as I've gotten older, especially coming out of the pandemic, I find

myself wanting to hug everybody. And what this verse is saying is that we should be devoted to

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