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Speaker 2: Anything that's in front of you. You are Grace to Go.

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Speaker 1: Well, God bless you. It's a joy to come into

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Speaker 1: I like to start with something funny, and I heard

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Speaker 2: He'd been out bear.

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Speaker 1: I want to talk to you today about designed to withstand.

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Speaker 1: Paul was saying, God will not let you face more

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Speaker 2: When we acquired this building.

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Speaker 1: We told the architects, one day, we're going to want

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