Hi friends. I'm excited to introduce to you Storm in the Desert, this new podcast series that

Nine Marks is doing, led by, hosted by Alex Duke, which tells the story of God's amazing, remarkable

work in the United Arab Emirates, starting with an evangelist named Max Stiles, and then moving

to a pastor named John Fulmer and another pastor named Dave

Furman, another one named Josh Manley, and then more and more, and you're going to hear about

people getting converted, churches getting planted, God's work of redemption being done right there

in the heart of the Middle East. February 2025, I think you'll be encouraged.

And we've seen over and over again that the word of life and the word of salvation

is found in the prophets.

And here you have a dead man and he touches the body of a prophet and what happens, he

springs to life.

Now, I think this is signifying to Israel, not just

that life is found in the prophets, specifically the word of the prophets, not some sort of

mystical thing with their bones. But this is a sign of how Talk, a podcast brought you by Nine Marks.

Nine Marks exists to help pastors build healthy churches for more.

You can visit nine marks.org.

My name is Alex Duke, and with me are my two friends, Sam Amati.

Jim Hamilton.

If you'd like to support more of this work,

you can visit us at 9marks.org slash talk. And I can say, finally, with total confidence,

that this will be the last audio-only episode. I know we've been teasing that for a bit,

and, you know, we make our plans, but the Lord establishes our steps. And so we, we have just received word. In fact, we just

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