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If you are a Democrat,

welcome to the show.

If you're a Republican,

welcome to the show.

If you're an independent person.

Welcome.

If you are an atheist, we welcome you an agnostic, a Protestant, a Catholic, you don't know,

a young person old person you're hip not hip

Married single divorced pro-choice pro- black, Hispanic, Pacific Islander,

artist, jocks, loners, depressed people, Joel Ostein fans,

John Piper fans, tall, short, thick, thin, whatever.

We want you to know you're welcome here and we really mean that because what

we're trying to do here isn't about politics per se. It's not about any of that other

stuff trying to be cool at all. If we're ever cool it's a joke. We're literally

making a joke out of it. If you hear it's trying to be cool it's literally a

multi-layered joke. This is about who Jesus is in his kingdom and how good that news is and I know we don't hear many other places

So we're really glad to be able to talk about it. This is a place for you

It's true if you look in the news, it's almost impossible for me anyway.

I always see something that's criticizing Christians, some article about something from some

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