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My elder said to me, “Tell the congregation you found the beer cans on the stoop, and that you were the one who picked them up and put them in the trash.” He was sure this would put everyone’s mind at rest.

“No,” I answered him. “I’m not going to begin my first worship service by assuring the congregation that I wasn’t drinking beer on the back stoop of the church

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Intro and outro music is Rise Up, O Lord, a recording of Psalm 10 by My Soul Among Lions. The rest of MSAL's recorded Psalms can be listened to, here.

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