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    <title>GRINDIT podcast - Episodes Tagged with “Shepherds”</title>
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    <description>Let's face it...life sometimes is hard and can just suck. When we are faced with life's challenges we can be discouraged, get tired, and become weary. What we need is motivation, encouragement, and a helping hand that keeps us going. That's the idea of GRINDIT! We find our strength to endure when we focus on Jesus. God's own Son wasn't exempt from life's challenges and He didn't do anything to deserve what he went through! And yet He did...willingly, therefore we find our hope in Him. 
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    <itunes:subtitle>We at GRINDIT want to encourage people to keep going, to keep grinding, when life gets hard. Quitting is not an option!</itunes:subtitle>
    <itunes:author>Randall Tucker</itunes:author>
    <itunes:summary>Let's face it...life sometimes is hard and can just suck. When we are faced with life's challenges we can be discouraged, get tired, and become weary. What we need is motivation, encouragement, and a helping hand that keeps us going. That's the idea of GRINDIT! We find our strength to endure when we focus on Jesus. God's own Son wasn't exempt from life's challenges and He didn't do anything to deserve what he went through! And yet He did...willingly, therefore we find our hope in Him. 
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  <title>Episode 217: Matthew 8 Part 4 Go on Back to Where You Belong!</title>
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  <itunes:subtitle>Jesus casts out demons out of two men and the nearby villages says, "Go on back to where you came from dude!"</itunes:subtitle>
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  <description>Jesus and his disciples get in a boat and head to Gadarene where they are confronted by two demon possessed men as they get to the shore. There are shepherds who have a herd of pigs nearby who are watching the show; they are waiting to see these strangers get run out of town like everyone who has come near this graveyard but that’s not what they see. Instead, they see the two men bowing before one of the strangers as they scream at the top of their voice calling him the Son of God. Something the disciples haven’t heard up until this point. Jesus casts he demons into the herd of pigs, the shepherds run to the nearby village and tell the people what they saw. The entire village came to meet Jesus but when they do, they tell him to go back where he came from. 
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  <title>Episode 100: Luke 2 Part 1 The Impact of Jesus: Shepherds to Doctors</title>
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  <itunes:subtitle>You can't argue facts and Luke gives plenty in this chapter and Jesus impacts lives of everyone, from shepherds to doctors!</itunes:subtitle>
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  <description>Luke 2 starts with more details from Luke as he gives us more names of Roman leaders which gives us a time frame for the birth of Jesus. He talks about a census that had taken place which many people use to discredit Luke and his gospel. There are several arguments that support Luke including an autobiography by Augustus himself called the Res Gestae and in it he mentions having a census done several times. I have provided a couple of links that are interesting reads that support Luke and his gospel in the description on YouTube. We get into the birth of Jesus as well and one thing to point out is how Jesus touched people that are on opposite ends of the spectrum: Luke, a doctor who is writing this gospel, yet never met Jesus face to face, and the shepherds, who saw the baby Jesus and it changed their lives forever! How has Jesus impacted your life? Or has he? 
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