Welcome to 2018.

It's time for the Line of Fire with your host, activist, author, international speaker and theologian, Dr. Michael Brown, your voice of moral, cultural, and spiritual revolution.

Michael Brown is the director of the Coalition of Conscience and President of Fire School of Ministry.

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Here again is Dr. Michael Brown.

Well, what a joy to start the new year together here on the line of fire.

Michael Brown, so glad to be with you.

And yes, we have our brand new clock. So we start three minutes later in the hour, those who listen

live on radio and then have longer segments, less breaks, means more radio time for you. So welcome,

everyone listening live, everyone listening on podcast, everyone watching on

YouTube. Welcome, welcome. We cannot do a video feed today. So on YouTube, on Facebook, all you're

getting is the audio, God willing tomorrow, second of the year. We'll be back to our video and

audio feed at the same time but i just want to

welcome you all i want to make this a special broadcast as we start the year together and many

of us really start the new year with great aspirations we start the new year thinking this year is

going to be different and i'm you know i'm mr optimist tomorrow is going to be different. And I'm, you know, I'm Mr. Optimist.

Tomorrow's going to be better than today.

Next year is going to be better than this year.

And it's easy to fool ourselves, you know, it's easy to deceive ourselves.

It's easy to think that something is happening just because the time is going, but the only thing that

changes with time is we get older. That's all. Time in itself doesn't change anything. And there's

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