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Podcast: Seeking the Gospel Truth
Episode: 8.30: Hope and Joy after Persecution and Bad-Mouthing
Description: Have you ever been bad-mouthed? That’s when  someone talks bad about you without them even really knowing you. How  about persecuted? We Christians here in America don’t suffer the  persecution that Christians in other countries suffer. Here it’s a little bit different. We could call what’s going on in California persecution. There churches are being fined and worse because all they want to do is gather in person against the governor’s COVID-19 mandate.
In the 2nd chapter of 1 Thessalonians, Paul writes to the church that  was dealing with persecution as well as people bad-mou...