Here's Kristi Erwin.

There are kids who are relying on us today that need a family,

that are waiting on you and me,

and those of us who are in the listening audience to say yes today.

This is the Reviver Hearts Podcast with Nancy Damas Walgamuth,

author of Lies Women to Leave and the Truth that

sets them free. For Friday, April 12, 2024, I'm Dana Gresch. What comes to your mind when you think of the word hospitality? Do you break out in a cold sweat?

Do you envision a Pinterest perfect house? Nancy's helping us get

back to the basics on what the Bible teaches about true hospitality. Let's listen. As I've been studying the whole matter of Christian hospitality, one of the things in the

scripture that has been most challenging to my own

heart is to learn that God is a hospitable God, that he has a heart for hospitality.

We see in the scripture that God is a refuge.

He is the perfect host for those who seek refuge in his dwelling place.

Psalm 90 tells us, Lord, you have been our dwelling place in all generations.

He is our heart's truest home.

He's a hospitable God. I discovered this past week a verse, I'm sure I'd read it many times before,

but I'd never thought about it the way that it hit me this week. In Deuteronomy chapter 10,

the scripture says,

God loves the stranger, giving him food and clothing.

Now if that doesn't describe hospitality,

I don't know what does.

God loves the stranger, giving him food and clothing. And what's the implication?

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