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Welcome to Sizzy Larson Live.

Always so honored to get to spend this time with you.

In fact, I look forward to bringing you conversations every single day that hopefully inspire you in your faith walk, that deep in your understanding of God's Word and that heightens your awareness of his very real presence in your faith walk, that deepen your understanding of God's word and that

heightens your awareness of his very real presence in your life.

Well, here we are in Holy Week, a most sacred and important week for us as believers.

But just maybe, as you journey toward the cross with Jesus, you find yourself wondering,

why was Jesus' blood the only way to settle our debt? What exactly was exchanged

at the cross? Why did God choose this horrific method for addressing mankind's problem of sin?

And how does Jesus' resurrection change us today? Well, I am so looking forward to today's show

because we are going to explore these questions

and more with our thoughtful friend, bestselling author Charles Martin. He returns to the program

to talk about his stellar new book. It is finished. A 40-day pilgrimage back to the cross.

And even if you get this after Easter, I want you to get it now, but even if you got to it, you've got to take the 40-day journey because the cross never goes out of style. It's not a holiday. It's a reality. And we need to just ponder, really, and stay in perpetual awe of what Jesus has done for us, what he has won for us. We'll get Charles on in just a moment. Just a quick announcement. If you're traveling this season, we'd love for you to take us with you. We've got an app. It's free. You can download it, and that way live stream our shows from anywhere. Catch the podcast after the fact. Go to the app store. Just search Faith Radio Network, and you'll find it there. Now let me tell you about my guests. We'll get him on the show. Charles Martin is in New York Times and a USA Today best-selling author of over 14 books. He and his wife, Christy, live in Jacksonville, Florida. I think he's actually written more than 20. Isn't the updated number 20? I might be wrong. It depends on how you count, but it's somewhere between 25 and 28. Okay, so I was way off. All right. Thank you, sir. Welcome back to the show. Sorry about that. No problem. Thank you so much for having me. I love being with you on your show, so thank you. It's always a rich conversation, Charles, and I just can't wait to dig in, but this is not even an add-on part of the show. this is a really important part of this show. I ask the same question every day, and I just can't wait to dig in, but this is not even an add-on part of the show.

This is a really important part of the show.

I ask the same question every day, and it says, what has the Lord been talking about these days?

Well, somebody asked me the other day, if I could only keep one book from the Bible, what would

I keep?

I can't answer the question because it's a, I mean,

you know, holy smokes, how would you pick? But Hebrews is one of my favorite. And I don't know,

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