The following is a pre-recorded program.

It is New Year's Eve, and today you are going to get some special inspiration for the new year.

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.

Get into the line of fire now by calling 86634 Truth.

That's 86634 Truth.

Here again is Dr. Michael Brown.

Hey, friends, this is Michael Brown. Delighted to be with you. I have specially put today's

broadcast together to make the maximum impact in this time that we have to stir your heart.

I'm going to be playing some clips from the past, some from me, some from others, one musical

clip. I believe each of these will stir you, we'll call you deeper, will beckon you to go after

God afresh, will bring great sobriety, and will bless you as we end 2021 and enter 2022.

The first is a poem that I wrote called The Rhyme of the Modern Peritioner

following the meter of this old classic poem of Samuel Taylor-Culler.

It's the rhyme of the ancient mariner.

This is the rhyme of the modern parishioner.

Let's listen together.

Music parishioner. Let's listen together. It happened in the vestibule at 10 one Sunday morning.

A haggard-looking churchgoer sat plaintive and forlorn.

Then suddenly he rose and found a hungry- looking Christian. He took his hand, took him

aside, and asked him a straight question. You've read the word, you know the book, the promises are

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