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What Are You Thankful For? · Bible Tract Echoes Podcast

• 0:05
  [SPEAKER_00]: Hey friend, welcome back to Bible Tract Echoes.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: I'm Mike McCurray, your host.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Thank you so very much for joining me once again today.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Now we're approaching the end of a week of thankfulness.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: It's an opportunity for us to pause to think about what God has done for us.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: I hope right now that you are thinking about all the goodness that God has blessed you with.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: So often we start our prayer times with.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Lord, please do this.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Lord, please bless me.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Please help me.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Instead of starting with, thank you.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: So today we're going to talk about, thank you.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: And we're going to hear from people just like you.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: If you'd like to participate and share what you are thankful for for me to share on the radio, you can text me.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Text, I'm thankful for and then fill on the blank.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: You can text me at three, zero, nine, three, one, six, seven, two, four, zero.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: We're gonna try our best to speed through a bunch of these because we have a lot of people that have texted in this week.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: I'm gonna do my absolute best to get through as many of them as humanly possible.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: I don't know how many I'll be able to do, but I'm going to do my best.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Alright, we are going to start with Miss Loretta.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Let's see.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Oh, yeah, Miss Loretta in Maryland.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Let's see here.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Let's see what she has to say.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: There we go.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Get a pulled up here.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: She says the first thing I can truly say is I'm thankful for Jesus dying on the cross that day.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Making it possible.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: for me to do when I get to do.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: I'm thankful for three beautiful children, and she goes on to share some different things.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: She is thankful for, and I want to tell you how much of a blessing, Miss Laura, even reading this, and just hearing how God has blessed you, is such a blessing to me.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: And thank you for tuning in from Maryland.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: We're going to go to this, let's see,
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  [SPEAKER_00]: here.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: No, I'm going to come back down here in just a moment here.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Breck, this is a gentleman from Ripon, Wisconsin, if I'm saying that right, says, I'm thankful that as a believer of age seventy three.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: I'm playing tennis in the national senior games.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: And I, this week, that is impressive.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: I am fairly certain.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: You would destroy me at tennis.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: I am not good at tennis, but even if I was, if you're playing in the national senior games, I think though I am less than half of your age, I think you would tear me up, I think.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Here's a friend of mine, young man named Caleb.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: He's from Pennsylvania, that kind of Western Central Pennsylvania area.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Good young man, good family, good grandfather, a pastor, a grandfather, and just good folks there.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Kills is this.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: I'm thankful for the goodly heritage I have for the testimonies of my grandparents on both sides to each of my parents.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: They have walked the old baths faithfully and I am blessed to be surrounded by that.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Kills, thank you so much for tuning in and for sharing that.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Bill from Athens, West Virginia says this.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Let's see here, most of all.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: I'm thankful for a salvation for Christ's sacrifice on across his burial and resurrection.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Thank you for my family and my church and I'm thankful for America as imperfect as she may be.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Christian from Lilting Colorado says this.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: This is our second one from Colorado.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: She says, I'm thankful that I know that when this life is over, I'll be with Jesus.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Let's say Laura from Texas, Miss Laura.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Good to hear from you.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Good to hear folks down there in Santa Texas.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: She says this.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: I'm thankful for godly people who have invested in my life in my husband's life and in the lives of our children.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Many times, this investment goes unnoticed.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Amen, Miss Laura.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Let's see, I think you pronounce it Alexander.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: It's I'm guessing you have either maybe, let's see, you cranium background, if I'm mistaken, from Toronto, Ontario, says this.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: I'm thankful for my parents who are able to visit me in Canada for a few weeks and to rest from era sirens and Russian bombardments in Ukraine.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: There we go.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Yes, and we are praying for the people in Ukraine, but we are also doing our best to get the gospel into Ukraine.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: We've shipped tens of thousands of tracks there, and we are so appreciative for the work that believers are doing in that country.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: And we'll be praying for you and your dear family, Alexander.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Thankful for my salvation.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: This is Joe Grimmalli.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Friend of mine.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: This is the son.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: One of the sons of the pastor I worked for in Akron, Ohio.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: He pastors in John's town Pennsylvania.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: He said this.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: I'm thankful for my salvation, for my life, for the opportunity to serve.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Thank you for ministry.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: and for friends.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Appreciate you, buddy, we're moldy.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Let's see here.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: We're going to move on to a bit of a boom, so many, so many to choose.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: So I'm trying to get through as many as I can.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Add from Greenwood with Conson says, I'm thankful for the precious gift of children.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: We have been blessed with five children.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Amen.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Amen.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Let's see, moving on here.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Here is so many good ones to get through.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Here we go, here we go, here we go, here we go.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: There we go.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Friend of mine, this is Travis from Kansas.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: He actually attends my dad's church.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: In my dad took his first pastor, cumily this.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Chris McCurray took his first pastor at its sixty years old.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: But my dad is one of those youthful six year old.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: You think he's going to pass over like thirty five more years.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: But anyway, he says this.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: I'm thankful for who's whoever God that doesn't discriminate against anyone.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: I'm thankful that he sent Jesus Christ to die and be in a raise again for the payment of sin for all.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: I'm thankful for a plethora of people before me.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: That hurt the gospel and share it with others and eventually for me.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: I'm also thankful for BTI in which I now get the opportunity to share the gospel with many more people.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Brother Travis, thank you so much for that.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Here we go, Karen, from Piori, Illinois says, I'm thankful for Jesus, dying on a cross for my sins.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Praise his name above all, amen, Miss Karen.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: We're going to do our best to get to a bunch of these days.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: I have so many more for tomorrow as well.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Let's see.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Miss Charlene from New Mexico says every day I keep a grateful journal something to keep things that she's thankful for in This morning I wrote my gratitude is for the light that shine in my darkened heart fifty years ago
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  [SPEAKER_00]: We're sure that you get saved fifty years ago, a lot of blessing to hear from you, and then she shares Sanking Corinthians.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: I want to pull that up real quick here.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Sanking Corinthians, and that's chapter four.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Let's see here.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: For God, this is appropriate verse for God, who commanded the light to shine out of darkness, have shine in our hearts to give the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: In the verse seven, I love this verse, but we have this treasure in earth and vessels that the excellency of the power may be of God
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  [SPEAKER_00]: and not of us, and then it just keeps getting better.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: We are troubled, troubled on every side, yet not distressed.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: We are perplexed, but not in despair, persecuted, but not forsaken, cast down, but not destroyed.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: always bearing about in the body the dying of the Lord Jesus, that the life also of Jesus might be made manifest in our body.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Amen.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: And verse sixteen, skipping down here for which cause we faint not, but though our outward man perished yet the inward man is renewed day by day for our light of reflection.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: which is but for a moment, worketh for us of far more exceeding an eternal way to glory, while we look at the things which we're seen, but while we look not at the things which we're seen, but at the things which are not seen, for the things which are seen are temporal, but the things which are not seen are eternal.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: And that's what this week of thankfulness is all about, Michelin, thank you for sharing that with us.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Bart from Bedford, Texas, says this.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: I'm thankful for the godly men who shared it to me and walked with me as I learned the emotional spiritual principle.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: This is good here.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: He says that is
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  [SPEAKER_00]: I can only be as spiritually mature as I am emotionally mature.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Those two are not possible in isolation from one another.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Jesus said as much in his summation of law in two commands.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: You know, that's a great thought.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: I'm going to have to give that a little bit of study.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Bart, I like that.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Andrea from Pennsylvania says this.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: I'm thankful for the Lord.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: I thank the Lord for my godly and faithful pastor.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Amen.
• 10:07
  [SPEAKER_00]: Thank you so much.
• 10:09
  [SPEAKER_00]: Let's see here.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Here's Ms.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Nancy.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: She says this.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: I'm thankful that our country still allows us to share the gospel without fear.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: I'm also thankful for the opportunity I had to work at BTI.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: It was such a blessing to hear from people all over the world who had a desire to share the gospel and those who received Christ.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Miss Nancy, thank you so very much and let me say this, I would love to see you and our open house on October
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  [SPEAKER_00]: There's some folks there from the ancient past, you know, all of five, six years ago, Brother Mark Smith.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: And of course, you were such a help.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: And you did such a wonderful job training this, the staff that we have now.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: If you wouldn't mind, I'd love to see you there.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Ms.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Nancy, thank you so very much for your long time investment in BTI.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: And that's a great segue from me to talk about.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: And the open house.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: October fourth, coming up very soon.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: I'd love to see each and every one of you.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: If you're listening right now, I want to see you at our open house.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Pastor Brother Mark Smith, the former director of BTI.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: He was the director from, let's see, about two thousand five to two thousand nineteen about fifteen years.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: And he did a marvelous job.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: And so many deer people, his wife Nancy, not Nancy Howard, but his wife Nancy Smith.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: And Miss Nancy Howard, Miss Nancy Howard and Miss Nancy Smith.
• 11:31
  [SPEAKER_00]: They really were the brains of the operation.
• 11:33
  [SPEAKER_00]: They were the ones that really actually kept things rolling.
• 11:35
  [SPEAKER_00]: I think Mark Smith probably took all the credit.
• 11:37
  [SPEAKER_00]: You can tell them I said that.
• 11:39
  [SPEAKER_00]: Now I'm just joking.
• 11:40
  [SPEAKER_00]: I appreciate the team that God had here that allowed the current staff that's here, myself and the four or five other folks that do such a wonderful job.
• 11:51
  [SPEAKER_00]: It's truly, I'm not the brains beyond the operation.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: I'm not the guy that keeps the wheels moving.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: It's these other folks that do such a wonderful job often in the background.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: I want you to come meet them.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Meet their families, meet their children.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: You will have a wonderful time.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: October fourth here in Odell, Illinois.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: If you'd like more information, go to bibletranksink.org.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Now, before we sign off, let me remind you, we've got one more day of thankfulness and I want to hear from you.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: I'm looking through, I've got so many more to get through.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: We may just have a blitz.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Just trying to get through as many as humanly possible in a short period of time.
• 12:32
  [SPEAKER_00]: For all of you listening right now, if you want to text in, share what you're thankful for, text me at three, zero nine, three, one six, seven, two, four, zero.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: That's three, zero nine, three, one six, seven, two, four, zero.
• 12:49
  [SPEAKER_00]: Greatly appreciate you tuning in.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Have a great day for his glory.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: We will plan on talking to you soon.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: God bless.