Imagine you're in a room that's pitch black, you can't see, and someone opens the door and there's a light.

There's a way out of that darkness, there's a way out of that place, and that's the difference between being in that place a date and having nowhere to go, and people it kept stepping in.

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The Ask NTRI Anything podcast.

Hello and welcome along to today's show. I'm Justin Briley, premier's theology and apologetics editor.

And as always, the show brought to you by premier, SBCK, and NTRIGHT online.

Bringing you the thought and theology of New Testament scholar, former Bishop of Durham, Tom Wright.

Just want to say a huge thank you to everyone who has responded so far to our compassion sponsorship appeal.

You may remember that several episodes ago, Tom was in conversation with Richmond Wanderer, a pastor in Uganda.

Talking about Christianity in Africa, some of the challenges and opportunities that are represented there, and about Richmond's own story as a compassion child who was brought out of poverty because of a compassion sponsor.

And the amazing effect that's had on his life in his ability to do the work of the kingdom.

And while we asked you to get behind this sponsorship campaign, we wanted to see 100 children sponsored through the podcast, through the Ask NTRI Anything podcast.

And we've seen over 70 children sponsored so far, which is amazing. Thank you so much to all those who have responded on the back of that show that Tom did with Richmond.

Still opportunity to do that if you'd like to make a difference and sponsor a child through the show with this partnership with compassion, you can do that by visiting compassion.com forward slash Justin.

And anybody who does that from the US specifically also gets a free copy of my book, unbelievable why after 10 years of talking with atheists, I'm still a Christian.

Again, that's compassion.com forward slash Justin, and we're hoping to get 100 children sponsored.

Wouldn't that be brilliant to see 100 children sponsored.

Well, today and next week here on the podcast, we're bringing you something different.

NTRIGHT's opening address and Q&A from unbelievable, the conference that took place in May this year.

And Tom was speaking on the subject how to retell the Jesus story to a world that's forgotten it.

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