You're listening to the Allender Center podcast with Dr. Dan Allender.

Last week marked our 100th episode, so this week we're taking a moment to look back,

reflect, and celebrate. Dan talks about how this podcast has evolved, some of his favorite parts of working on it,

and where he hopes to go in the next 100 episodes. From all of us at the Allender Center,

thank you for listening and for joining us on this journey. Our team that is involved in the

podcast, Bo, Nicole, Rachel, told me recently that we are nearing, in fact, nearing to a point of being exactly our 100th podcast.

And it was really a sweet moment of recognition that we have done an amazing thing

for almost two years, offering weekly 20-minute engagements with some of the issues that

we think to be very important with regard to trauma abuse in life, life itself.

And so they asked if I would spend this time reflecting on what the last several years of

working on the podcast have meant for me and what my experience has been as I've been in

conversation with at least a few of you with regard to what we

have seemed to have accomplished. So let me do that. And that is to remember. And remembrance is

the central command made more often in the Bible than any other.

And I, if there's a passage that I have pondered both with,

oh, just frustration and sometimes delight,

it's a passage out of Deuteronomy, Chapter 8.

And I'll read a number of verses. It says, be careful to follow every command I'm giving you today so that you may live and increase

and may enter and possess the land the Lord promised an oath to your forefathers.

Remember how the Lord your God led you all the way in the desert these 40 years to humble you and to test you in order to know what was in your heart, whether or not you would keep his commandments. He humbled you, causing you to hunger, and then feeding you with manna, which neither you nor your father had known, to teach you that man does not live

on bread alone, but on every word that comes from the mouth of the Lord. Your clothes did not wear out,

your feet did not swell during these 40 years. Know then in your heart that as a man disciplines

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