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Hey friends, great coquel here and welcoming you to the show.

And I am still in order to Wisconsin pounding away at my manuscript.

And I have never put in so much time. It feels like writing.

Usually when I'm up here, I put in three or four hours of writing and then I go

play for a while. I fix some things at the cap and I get a wet

line, get my boat out and catch a fish or two, not this time around.

I'm just hammering away. And slowly but surely finishing the manuscript,

the book is called Street Smarts. And the subtitle, well that's the working

title and I hope they accepted it. It's under it because that concept of

Street Smarts is all built into the text. So it's going to be hard to change

all that. Subtitle is using questions to answer

Christianity's toughest challenges. And that may sound familiar to you,

some of you, many of you, the questions part. Yes, this is an extension

of the, we'll call it the tactics franchise. I don't know, two books on

tactics. It's not exactly a franchise but it sounds

kind of cool. So this is an extension of the third use of

Colombo and that is using questions to make a point.

And in this particular case, the point is to expose a weakness or a

flaw. So I'm working through a number of topics

and the kinds of things that Christians are challenged on like

the Bible or the gospel Jesus or the person of Jesus or the existence of Jesus

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