Hi, I'm Susie Larson.

Here's the podcast from Middays with Susie Larson.

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welcome welcome to mid days i'm cissy larsen so honored have you listening today i look forward to

connecting with you every single day to bring you conversations that inspire you in your faith walk

that deepen your understanding of god's word and that heighten your awareness of his very real

presence in your life well today is your day it is bible answer day we've got a professor

bethel university professor in studio to answer your questions we'll take them phone lines are

open in fact we're going to give books off of our faith radio shelf to the first few of you

to call just to get the ball rolling okay phone? Phone lines are open. 877-933-2484. You can call or text your question, or you can email middays at myfaithradio.com. That's middays at my faith radio.com. I'll introduce my guest in just a moment, a quick announcement first. You've been hearing about it, but you're going to hear about it for a little bit more because we want so much for you to join us. If you've got a dream and a desire to be published, you've got to come to our Northwestern Christian Writers Conference. It is an A-list A-level conference. I've been around the block a little bit here in the publishing world. been at conferences served as faculty on conferences, and this is a top-notch one.

And I'm telling you, around the block a little bit here within the publishing world. Bennett conferences served as faculty on conferences, and this is a top-notch one.

And I'm telling you, when you go to one with the kind of agents, editors and experts we're bringing in,

it's usually about $1,200 to attend.

This one is $250.

And then there's also a scholarship option you can find on the website. All that information is on our website at myfaithradio.com. It's coming up July 12th and 13th. Talking about it now, though, because not everybody who signs up will get a one-on-one with a faculty member, and that's the peer goal. That's the time where you get a face-to-face with an editor or an agent of your choice. So, would you sign up? Find it at their website at my faith radio.com. All right, let me tell you about my guest. We'll get him on the show. Jim Bilby, he's a professor at Bethel University of Systematic and Philosophical Studies. That's a mouthful. He also emphasizes apologetics. He talks a lot about defending the faith. We welcome your questions. He's a husband. He's a father of four. He lives here in the Twin Cities area. And he's actually under the weather, and yet he kept the appointment. I mean, he totally could have said, hey, I'm sick today. But he didn't do that. He's here to answer your questions. 877-933-2484. So, Jim, welcome to the show. Very happy to be here, Susie. So I don't know what your voice normally sounds like, but it sounds really good for radio when you're sick. Well, it's a little deeper, right? I got that bass going. Yeah, yeah. It wasn't part of the plan, but we'll roll with it. I like it a lot. All right. Well, we love to start by talking scripture.

I wonder if you have a verse you've been thinking about these days.

Yeah, I think kind of a life verse that I just keep returning to throughout the day as, you know,

I struggle with decisions or just how to live life.

Flipins to the passage, you know, 8, 9 you know 8 9 10 11 12 there's a passage talking

about jesus and it goes roughly like jesus not thinking that equality with god was something to

be grasped uh hoarded you know it was it was rightfully his but he says he gave it up he

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