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Looking at our world from a theological
perspective. This is the Theology Central podcast

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making Theology Central. Do you remember
December twenty twenty three? Do you remember

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December twenty twenty three? In some
ways it seems like it was just yesterday,

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and other ways it feels like it
was like ten years ago. But

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remember, in December twenty twenty three, I turned on this very microphone and

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I gave everyone a challenge. I
told everyone to participate. I told everyone

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to buy a notebook to keep track
of their progress. How have you been

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doing with that challenge? Well,
we are fast approach. I mean before

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we know it, we're going to
be saying goodbye to twenty twenty four.

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But this year is going away quickly. So well, we're going to talk

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about that challenge that I gave you
in December of twenty twenty three, and

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I'm going to tell you what you
need to do with that challenge over the

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next two weeks. But before I
do that, good afternoon everyone. It

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is Sunday, June the thirtieth,
That is Crazy twenty twenty four. It

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is currently three twenty pm Central Time, and I am coming to you live

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from the Theology Central studio located right
here in Abilene, Texas. So it

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was in this studio December twenty twenty
three. I turned on this very microphone

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and I told everyone to go to
the Apple App Store or the Google Play

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Store and download the Sermons two point
oh app. Download the Sermons two point

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oh app. Then I told you
to buy a notebook. I always tell

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you to get a pencil. I
mean, that's just you know, I

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was going to tell you to buy
a pencil. So you needed the sermons

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two point oh app. You needed
a notebook, and you needed a pencil.

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And then all you were supposed to
do is each day, grab the

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Sermon's two point oh app and choose
a random sermon. You're not looking for

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a specific speaker, a specific denomination, a specific kind of church. You're

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just choosing randomly. You would listen
to the sermon on the Sermon's two point

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oh app. You would write down
the name of the sermon the church,

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and then write a one sentence summary
of the sermon that you listen to.

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And then you could also take notes
and then write down the page number for

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your notes so that people that later
on you could, you know, reference

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those notes looking at the list of
all the sermons, then you could see

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the page number then go to that
page number for your notes. I give

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you all kinds of ideas, all
kinds of things to do, but it

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was a very simple challenge. Sermon's
two point oh app provides you so much

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spiritual food. Let's not waste it. So download the app and then each

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day choose and listen to a random
sermon. Right, and then all you

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had to do was listen and write
it down. So let's be honest.

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It's the end of June, so
let's be honest. What does your notebook

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look like? Come on, how
many sermons are in your notebook? Did

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you write them down? Did you
write down that one sentence summary? Do

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you have a sermon for each day
of twenty twenty four? Are you three

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four months behind? Well, wherever
you are, that's okay, just start

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today and move forward and let's get
the most out of the app. Now.

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One of the things I decided to
do during this year for the challenge

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for the Sermons two point zero app
Sermon Challenge as we called it, was

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at times that would give you specific
themes or topics or passages of scripture to

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look up sermons about, right,
randomly, like you're looking up the passage,

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you're looking up the topic, but
you're just choosing the sermons the sermons

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randomly, as far as you're not
looking for a specific church or a specific

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denomination or anything along those lines.
So I've you know, we've been working

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on Joshua one to eight. We
looked at some eighty three, all the

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different things that we have done,
and I think that that's added hopefully made

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it a little you know, added
variety, made it interesting, made it

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more fun, and hopefully it's all
been beneficial. I hope that it has.

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I hope it really has. But
here's what I want you to do

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starting today, starting today, June
the thirtieth, twenty twenty four, all

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right, June the thirtieth, twenty
twenty four, for the next two weeks

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for the Sermons two point oh app
Sermon Challenge, you will be looking to

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the live webcast section of the Sermons
two point oh app. You are to

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listen to whatever is live. Now. If you're listening to something live and

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you know you're not gonna be able
to finish it, or you started listening

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to it but you missed the beginning, just click follow to that broadcaster.

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When it shows up in your feed
later, then you can go back and

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finish it. But the goal is
is trying to watch and listen. If

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you can't watch, you can just
hit the audio, you know, or

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you can watch the video if you
want to watch the video, but it's

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random sermons in the webcast section of
the sermons two point oh app. That's

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what we're going to do for the
next two weeks. Now. I did

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not think about this until I just
went live, and then I'm like,

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wait a minute, Oh, it's
we're fast approaching kind of a holiday week

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slash holiday weekend. It's gonna be
July the fourth. Okay. On one

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hand, that means a lot of
people are gonna be busy, so I

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don't know how much they're gonna participate. But maybe if you're traveling, you

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can just have someone you know take
their phone and go Okay, the only

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thing we can listen to on this
trip is live webcast from the sermon's two

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point oh app. I know in
the car people are going to be like

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boo boom down with whoever came up
with this decision. They're trash. Okay,

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I understand, I understand, but
that's that's all you can do.

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It's okay, all right, maybe
just at least one for you know,

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all you gotta do is one per
day, okay. So hopefully maybe maybe

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the time off will give people a
greater chance to participate. I don't know.

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Typically it doesn't work that way.
I'm also very concerned that I'm you

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know, I'm setting myself up because
we're fast approaching fourth of July. If

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you ever want to see how much
patriotism and politics has infiltrated the American church,

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just focus on what churches are doing
for fourth and July. Oh my

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goodness, it's going to be a
very long week. I'm in fact,

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as soon as I'm done here,
I'm just gonna hop in the car,

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drive to the liquor store, and
I'm just going to I'm just gonna I'm

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gonna fill my trunk with alcohol because
I'm gonna Okay, I'm joking, ladies

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in gentlemen, but it is going
to be difficult, especially considering my perspective

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is so anti patriotism and politics.
Entering the church. I'm gonna be turning

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on webcast and if I look at
the video, I'm gonna probably see American

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flags and listening Lee Greenwood, horrible
Songs and all the other other stuff that

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will probably happen. Okay, so, but so it's gonna be a long

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week. But that's why we're doing
it for two weeks because hopefully by the

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second week we've moved past the patriotism
and the politics and we'll get back to

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church. But I'm hoping it'll be
interesting to see. So that's for the

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next two weeks. Sermons two point
oh app. In fact, I'm gonna

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open the Sermon's two point oh app
right now. I'm gonna open it up,

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Sermon's two point oh app. Oh, I just opened it, and

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I'm gonna go right here, right
now to live webcasts. There are thirty

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four live webcast right now. Thirty
four Now if you look at Beta dot

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sermon audio dot com, which I
mean you can use that as well.

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I don't think on the app when
they look at the app, I don't

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think the app does this. No, the app doesn't tell you how long

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they've been broadcasting. I don't like
that. You see, if you go

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to filter, no, that filters
it. But by denomination, you don't

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want that. If you soar name
distance, yeah, that doesn't help you.

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So that doesn't really help you.
But if you look at beta dot

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sermon audio dot com, it will
tell you how long the webcast has been

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going on. That's very helpful for
this because you don't I mean, if

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one's been going on for forty five
minutes, you probably don't want to tune

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into that one. You can tune
into the newest one. But however,

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you listen, whether a beta dot
sermonadio dot com or the sermon's two point

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oh app for the next two weeks. The challenge is very simple. Your

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job is to listen to live webcast
right, just one per day, because

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that's the goal. You know,
you can go above and beyond that,

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but one per day. Again in
your notebook, write down the name of

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them. Well, again, many
of the broadcasters still don't use metadata.

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I don't know why. If they
use metadata, you would have the name

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of the sermon right there. But
all right, write down the name of

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the sermon if you can, h
just the broadcaster, and then a one

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sentence summary. You know, maybe
if you need an extra sentence, that's

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okay. Just write out a summary
of what the message was about. What

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was this primary thesis? What was
it about? And and of course if

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you can take notes, great,
We're going to be doing this for two

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weeks now. Typically I do sermon
reviews for whatever our focus is. For

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the Sermon's two point oh app challenge
this one, I don't know if I

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will. I may. What I
may do is watch some take notes and

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then maybe just do a broadcast about
what I heard, not necessarily do a

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review, as far as you know, playing the audio some of them,

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maybe I just wait until they're available, then download it. We will see

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and it'll just be interesting to see
what your take is from all the webcasts.

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Do you discover new favorite broadcasters?
Did you hear something interesting? Did

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you notice how churches do things?
What did you think how they are utilizing

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the technology? Do you prefer the
video or the audio? You know,

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it'll just be, it'll be you
know, who knows what you're going to

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determine from all of it. It
doesn't bother you that they don't that the

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metadata doesn't show up on the Sermon's
two point oh app. Does it bother

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you that many of the broadcasters for
the beta dot Sermonadia dot com don't Does

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they do not use the metadata?
I mean, you're gonna have lots of

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thoughts and opinions. Hopefully you'll share
them with me. News if at Yahoo

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dot com, that's newsif at yahoo
dot com. So just so that you

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know, for anyone tuning in late, well, first of all, you're

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tuning in waylate because this all started
in December of twenty twenty three. But

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the goal this year has been download
the sermon's two point oh app and every

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single day choose a random sermon other
than on those weeks where I'm giving you

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specific you know, topics or versus
to look up sermons on, but even

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then you're choosing them to be random. You're not looking for a specific church

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or speaker. You listen to the
sermon one a day, you write it

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down in the notebook, and you
write down a summary. Right. This

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gives you the opportunity to hear many
different broadcasters, many different theological perspectives,

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many different hermeneutical approaches. Hopefully that's
been beneficial and what the goal was at

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the end of the year, your
notebook would be filled with one sermon per

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day for all of twenty twenty four. If you're behind, that's okay,

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start today. Just get a notebook, download the Sermon's two point oh app

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for the next two weeks. What
you're supposed to do is open up the

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Sermon's two point oh app or go
to the beta dot sermonaudio dot com website,

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go to the web webcast section and
choose a random webcast that's currently broadcasting.

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All right now, you obviously,
maybe you'll get the ones right at

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the beginning. Maybe you will not. I don't know. Just just start

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doing it. You can let me
know how the logistics are playing out,

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how it's working for you. Is
it a good thing, negative thing?

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Is it difficult? And well,
let's make the let's make use of it.

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I've talked about a long time doing
this again. I don't know why

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I picked fourth of July week.
I don't know. Oh, the broadcast

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are going to be interesting, okay, but let's make let's make the most

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out of it. All right,
let's make the most of it. I

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think it will be beneficial. Like
I said, currently, if you look

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at the app, there are well
thirty they are a thirty broadcast right now,

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thirty broadcast and the first one is
from Independence Independence Baptist Church and Write

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City, Missouri. The second one
is Well Theology Central from Abilene, Texas,

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Dallas Presbyterian Church from Fairview, Texas. And that funny, it's the

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Dallas Presbyterian Church, but it's listed
as Fairview, Texas. Why wouldn't it

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be listed as Dallas, Texas.
And if the Dallas Presbyterian Church is not

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actually found in Dallas proper, then
why wouldn't you call it Fairview Presbyterian Church.

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Ooh, the questions, I can
ask, Okay, Free Reformed Church

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of Saint Thomas, that's in Ontario, Canada. Then Grace Baptist Church from

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Liberty, South Carolina, Grace Covenant
Church from South Carolina, Grace Family Church,

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Peerland, Texas, Grace Free Reform
Church in Ontario, Heritage OPC,

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North Carolina, Heritage Reform Congregation of
Jordan, Canada, Hope Protestant Reformed Church,

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Grand Rapids, Michigan, man a
lot of Canada today, Hope Reformed

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Church, Canada, Hope Well Associate
Reformed Presbyterian in Tennessee, Houston Lake Presbyterian

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Church in Georgia. Well, if
it's called Houston, they're only Houston,

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euro If you're going to use the
word Houston, you can only refer to

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Houston, Texas. I'm sorry you
can't have a Houston Lake in Georgia.

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Some Texas is going to sue you
for copyright. Okay. Emmanuel United Reformed

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Church, Ontario, Living Water Reform
Church, Ontario, Well, that's interesting.

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A lot of Canada going on,
so Ontario. I'm looking just going

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down the list of Missouri, Tennessee, Canada, Canada, so and again.

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I think when we're we're gonna notice
little things, which times of the

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day are there more broadcasters, which
time of the day, like, it'll

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be interesting to see. But that's
your challenge, very simple, very straightforward.

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Wanted to get this out of the
way now so that later when it's

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time to broadcast about whatever I need
to broadcast about, we can just I

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didn't want to take fifteen minutes at
the beginning of a broadcast to put forth

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this challenge. I will be repeating
it in multiple broadcasts, but I wanted

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just to place this out there with
the title. Everyone will see it.

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So for the sermons two point oh
app sermon Challenge, which we're doing all

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of twenty twenty four for the next
two weeks. Your job, if you

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if you want to participate, your
mission, if you choose to accept it,

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is to take the sermons two point
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live webcast, listen to it,
write down the title, the name,

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a summary about what it was about. And then when you can do more,

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and especially if you're behind this year, you don't have a sermon for

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every day of the week yet for
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some few extra webcasts. By all
means, tell me what you're listening to,

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tell me what you know, just
anything you want to share with I

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like knowing people are participating, and
you can email me at Newsiyahoo dot com,

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newsiit Yahoo dot We'll see what happens. You almost know what's going to

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happen. I'm gonna probably listen to
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you know, I'm going to be
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one little what fifteen minute message on
PSALM eighty three, and we're what twelve

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thirteen fourteen hours of talking about PSAWM
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you never know what's going to happen. But when I started listening to something,

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it can lead us in whatever direction. But we'll allow this to play

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out and hopefully it will be interesting
variety, maybe you'll find your next favorite

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broadcaster. Maybe you'll hear some sermons
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listen to some things that will provide
great spiritual food. And also it may

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give us insight into how much politics
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It may give us great insight into
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a standing ovation and seeming. You
know, I'm proud to be an American.

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Okay, you may love it.
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patriotism or politics in the American Church. I loathe it, loathe it,

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loathe it, loathe it, loath
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even allow an American flag in our
sanctuary, you know, way, no,

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not even on our property. We're
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any country where a church Christianity transcends
country. Our our citizenship is in Heaven,

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right, that's no. We don't
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kingdom, the Kingdom of God.
Right. Okay. I could get in

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all kinds of philological reasons for that, but all right, enough of that.

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You've got the challenge. Hopefully you
enjoy all right, You got plenty

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of webcasts going on right now,
go find one, listen to it,

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let me know how it's going.
And again, if you're behind, don't

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worry about how many days you've missed. In the sermon's two point oh,

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I'm challenge just start today and let's
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some kind of clothes that we're all
better off spiritually. Don't know if I'm

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going to be better off spiritually,
but I know that we've all listened to

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a lot of preaching in twenty twenty
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or benefit, but at least we
can say that. All right, thanks

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for listening. Everyone, have a
great day. I'm missing the Indiana Fever

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basketball game, and so as bad
as Indiana Fever has been playing, I

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don't know if I want to go
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I'm gonna go back downstairs and look
at the score. And if you hear

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screaming, it's probably coming from Texas
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play. All right, not that
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transparent. You know that's what I'm
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not going to go downstairs right now
listen to a webcast. That's what I'm

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literally going to go do, so
all right, but I'll be back up

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here after and we'll do a webcast
about something today. All right, news

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May God bless you as you listen
to these live webcasts and you hear the

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preaching and teaching of God's word