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You start a week off with a show like today and it's all downhill after this. I don't know what you're doing Darren. You got to work up to a show like this. You can start like this.

Second Hour Father Tad Beholchick will be here and we'll do bioethics open for me. We want to talk about bioethics with one of the greatest bioethicists in the world.

Second Hour is for you. First Hour. Steve Ray is here with us. Druselum Jones. The two things I always know about Steve Ray. He's coming from somewhere and he's going somewhere.

He's going somewhere. I don't know where but he's coming from somewhere and he's going somewhere. He could horse leads, pilgrimages, books, movies.

I'll tell you what. Steve does anything that it takes to share the good news of Jesus Christ. A convert to the Catholic faith. Steve Ray, welcome.

Thank you. Yes, you're right. I just got back from the Holy Land. We took two back-to-back groups. In fact, we had two of your employees on our last trip.

Julia here. Three speaking engagements and then we're flying back next week to Israel again with this sold out group. All our trips this year are sold out already.

Oh, good for you. Congratulations. People ready to go again, huh?

Oh, yeah. We got five trips to Israel and a trip to Poland and all of them are sold out already.

So this is not an oberama gal year? No, no. That's only last year we did two of those. Very disappointing, by the way. Oberama gal was.

Was it really? Oh, yeah. Is this they they have secularized it and Protestantized it to the point where you don't almost recognize Jesus. So anyway, that was very just right.

I put up a blog about it a while back after we went and saw it. But but no, this is these are all to the Holy Land and all the buses are selling out and we have one going to Poland and that bus is already sold out.

Wonderful. And now they're already signing up for next year. And my book on Genesis is coming out with Ignatius.

Commentary on the book of Genesis. Yep, called Genesis, a Bible study guide in commentary. It's kind of a compliment to my commentary and John.

And I think it's really fun. My wife said it reads like a novel. Oh, that's what you want. How wonderful. Who's publishing it? Ignatius press.

And it comes out when it's coming. They're printing it in May and it's coming out as a fall release. So it's going to be out in the fall.

And then they asked me to start writing another one on Acts of the Apostles.

So life doesn't slow down. Life does you don't. So the number is 888318784. If you want to talk to Steve Ray, this hour, Steve proposed topics to us.

And I gravitated to this one immediately. Jesus and John the Baptist because John the Baptist, Jesus himself, praises him with about the highest praise one could imagine.

And it seems like so many of us Christians know so little about him and can't quite figure out how he fits into the Christian story.

So let's start with this Steve. Who is John the Baptist and where has he come from?

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