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Feb 2023
27m 30s

When God Doesn’t Meet Your Expectations

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About this episode
When we do the “right” things, it can be easy to expect our lives to go our way. But that rarely happens. We talked to Zoe to learn how we can find God in the middle of our unmet expectations. Listen in, and then talk with your friends and LifeGroup. 
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