A Talk with Preston Perry: How To Tell the Truth - S6, E1

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Jada Edwards

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🗓️ 26 August 2024

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Your favorite podcast is back with a special guest to kick off the new season! Tune in for a discussion on apologetics and evangelism, but stay for marriage advice. In this episode, Jada talks with Preston Perry, a poet, performance artist, teacher, and apologist from Chicago. Preston shares insights from his new book, 'How to Tell the Truth: The Story of How God Saved Me to Win Hearts--Not Just Arguments.' This conversation explores the need for emotional intelligence, humility, and obedience to win hearts, not arguments. You will leave this conversation understanding that apologetics is not synonymous with strangers and the call of every believer.

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0:00.0	Today on the Jada Edwards podcast, y'all, I have only the second man to ever be on the podcast.
0:05.0	It is the awesome Preston Peir, and he's going to talk to us a little bit about his new book on apologetics.
0:10.5	Stay tuned.
0:34.0	Yeah. So glad to have you on the podcast.
0:36.3	You are like a whole author.
0:37.3	How is that? I'm a whole author. Now I have
0:39.3	longer. No, it's one. I feel the pressure being the verse like second only man. That's
0:45.3	a lot of pressure. Now I was just playing. It's been good. It's been a good ride. You know,
0:51.7	I'm so grateful to the Lord, but choose to, you know, to save a little black boy from the south side of Chicago and make him an author. I mean, I couldn't imagine this for myself. You know, I told me this 10, 15 years ago, I wouldn't, I would be like, I would laugh at you. But God has a funny way of, you know, taking the foolish things of the world and,
1:12.9	you know, shaming a while. It's all grateful.
1:15.4	Absolutely. I am a witness. I have been and am the foolish that he, that he uses sometimes.
1:21.2	So I understand that. Well, congratulations because authorship at any level is no small feat.
1:29.7	I struggle every single time.
1:32.0	And sometimes I'm like, Lord, are you sure?
1:33.8	It's what you're open.
1:35.6	It is a labor of love.
1:37.9	It gets personal.
1:39.7	But it's a real freeing thing to see that message get released into the world. So
1:45.5	congratulations on that. Thank you. I appreciate it. Yes, sir. I'm excited for you. And just to see
1:51.7	this African-American man on the back of this book cover gave me all the feels. I felt like I was
1:57.3	looking at my nephew. I was like, oh, yes, lower do it. Well, I have a nephew. We all related. We all related.
2:03.6	Right. And you know what? Not because it's a, not because it's a race thing, but, you know, as African Americans, especially in this country, man, we have a lot of voices of black men that are everything but this.
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