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Radio. Build the church, bless the nations. Knowing Jesus is the best gift that any person can receive, that we've encountered him as the

best thing that's happened in our lives, and making him known by our word and deeds is our greatest

joy.

Ave Maria Radio presents Christ is the Answer with Father John Ricardo.

He's a priest of the Archdiocese of Detroit and is currently the executive

director of a non-profit organization called Acts 29, which exists to work with pastors

and their teams to transform their parish culture and reclaim the church's missionary identity.

He was ordained in 1996. On this Christ is the answer program, Father John Ricardo provides us with a broad overview of scripture.

As Christians, we need not just read the Bible, but to study it, ruminate on it, and be fed by it.

He wants us to learn and to love and to love God's word in Holy Scriptures.

Father Ricardo's title on this program is How to Read the Bible.

Why this series?

I got three goals, actually.

The main goal is really just to get people to read the Bible.

I know a generation of folks in particular are kind of quick to say that they were told

never to read the Bible.

Oftentimes that's my father's generation, my dad's 83, Except my dad's the antithesis of that. My dad was someone that I saw every day when I was a child growing up. I'm 42, so he was 41 at the time when I was born. Every day he was reading the Bible. Somebody told him the reading the scriptures was essential. And as a young boy, I can't tell you the impression that that left on me not only the importance of reading scripture but also the importance of a man

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