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Dear friends,

On holidays recently I watched a harrowing but uplifting film called The Sound of Freedom.

It’s about child sex trafficking in Latin America, and the extraordinary efforts of one particular American agent to free some of these children. At one point in the movie, there are some scenes of rescued children starting to behave like kids again—talking, singing, laughing, playing games. One of the characters says, ‘You hear that? That’s the sound of freedom.’

It was the sound of kids doing what kids are meant to do.

And I thought of that film again as we prepared to talk about our passage today, on Romans 6. It’s also about being set free from slavery and what our new freedom is really like. Strangely, it’s the glorious freedom to be slaves to a new master.

I hope you find it … liberating!

Your brother

Tony