Ladies and gentlemen, are you ready to listen to a man of grace, sophistication, integrity, and whimsy.

Well, so are we. But until such a man shows up, please welcome Eric Matt, Texas.

Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to the program. As you know, I am a self-described Jesus freak. I believe all that crazy stuff.

I believe the Bible is the word of God. I believe God is real. He's alive. He speaks to us. He wants to speak to us. He wants us to have a relationship with him. All that crazy stuff. I firmly believe it. And every now and again, I'll have somebody else on the program who also is crazy enough firmly to believe these crazy but true things. Today, I'm thrilled

to have as my guest, Beatty Carmichael, he's the author of a book called The Prayer of Freedom.

Beatty, welcome. Well, thank you, Eric. I'm excited about being here. Well, there's a lot to talk about.

And I think that sometimes I feel like there are many people who they think of themselves as people of faith, Christians, but they've never touched the deeper stuff.

They kind of think, oh, that's extra credit or that's for people who really are into that stuff.

It's like, no, ladies and gentlemen, this is called reality.

This is like saying, I'm not interested in math because I don't need it.

Well, you need arithmetic and multiplication to survive.

This is just basic reality stuff.

And God wants us to know him and to know what it means to walk with him.

And it's for everybody.

And so that's one of the reasons, Beatty, that I wanted you on.

You've written a book called The Prayer of Freedom.

But tell us about yourself and your story.

What is your story?

Where did you grow up and how did you come to be doing what you're doing

right now? Yeah. So it's actually a pretty interesting story, at least from my perspective.

I grew up in Birmingham, Alabama. In fact, one of my great-great-uncles was part of the real

estate company that laid out the grid of Birmingham. So we have real deep roots here.

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