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Today I have a special guest Ken Harrison. He is the CEO of Promise Keepers and we're going to talk about his new book a daring faith and a cowardly world and Ken Harrison had an incident happened to him, I think when he was 30 years old, but we'll get into it in a minute, but that completely radically changed the way he understood Christianity and the Christian life,

and that's why he wrote this book. He also, Ken Harrison was an LAPD police officer in South Central LA when it used to be called South

Central LA. Now it's just called South LA. But he was a police officer and we'll

talk a little bit about that too because it was pretty wild.

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Welcome, Ken Harrison.

You know, I'm really glad to be on this show with you because as I have said to you off

camera many times you are one of the heroes of the faith you are the example of what a

godly man is you give it up everything for that precious

pearl in the field man back and so did well I'm just like but I'm still in shock that God plucked me out of darkness and pulled me into his marvelous light.

I mean that's the real motivation for it because I'm just, mean still every day I wake up and I'm like

I'm in the kingdom of God I know God I have a relationship with the king of the universe this is Like I was so lost. I mean everyone obviously is so lost before they come to Christ, but I was really lost. And so I want to get into your story and I want to start with first of all we're going to talk about your book a daring faith in a cowardly world which is very

A A Propos for what you just mentioned to me before we started. Talk about, so you're the

CEO and chairman of promise keepers. Some people might not remember what that is or know what that is. I kind of vaguely remember what it is because I think when I was a kid my dad attended a promise keepers event in Dallas Texas at like probably like Cowboy Stadium or something huge.

So what is promise keepers and and then let's talk about what's going on with it right now.

Do you remember the first time we ever talked you were like, dude, the head of

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