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Speaker 1: everything the world teaches you about success and joy and

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Speaker 1: to Say the Bible. My name is Nicole Yunis, and

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Speaker 1: I am a first and foremost, I am a wife.

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Speaker 1: I've been married twenty eight years. I'm a mom of

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Speaker 1: and that really was a spark that ignited into an opportunity.

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Speaker 1: A few years later, after I left college, I started

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Speaker 1: Evangelical Presbyterian Church, and now after serving in local church

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Speaker 1: ministry for most of my career, now I teach this podcast.

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Speaker 1: I preach around the country and have opportunities to help

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Speaker 1: saying together, like, let's walk through a passage and see

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Speaker 1: to be in John chapter thirteen. And really I've titled

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Speaker 1: So let's get into it together. If you want to

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Speaker 1: being with us. All right, here we go, John chapter thirteen.

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Speaker 1: It was just before the Passover festival. Jesus knew that

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Speaker 1: Now that I, your lord and teacher, have washed your feet,

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Speaker 1: you also should wash one another's feet. I have set

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Speaker 1: Imagine the act of hospitality. You come in to someone's home,

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Speaker 1: All Right, my friends, I loved being with you this week.

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