Fellow patrons, fellow countrymen, and everyone who listens to the conversations, that

matter, podcast.

Good afternoon.

I hope you're having a wonderful afternoon wherever you are. This is an unannounced

podcast. I announced it about half an hour ago and I'm starting it a few minutes early, which maybe is different for me.

Some of you are used to me starting

fashionably three to five minutes,

maybe sometimes 10 minutes depending

after the announcement date to make sure everyone is here but I'm on a little bit of a time crunch so I'm starting now and we have lots to talk about we're going to have fun today on the podcast, I hope, I think. For those who are going to see me in New Mexico this weekend, I am very much looking forward to it and I need to let you know about that before I say anything

else because I'm the worst at telling people about where I'm going to be.

But I am going to be in Albuquerque, New Mexico for the Reclaim Conference and that's March 2nd to third you can go to

John Harris podcast.com if you click the link it's working now reclaim conference

at redemption hill church and there's more info there. I'm going to be talking

about biblical definitions, really just how the social justice movement has

corrupted definitions of certain words and how we should go about navigating that.

So that's going to be on Saturday and then Sunday morning I'm going to be talking a bit about I think Gideon. I've been

looking into that and I love Gideon he's one of my favorite Bible characters I have a number it's hard to pick but he is one of my favorites and

anyway so we may talk about that and the reason really just briefly for everyone the

reason I'm thinking about that is, you know, I've

spoken on Gideon at least once before because I know of no other

encouraged better encouraging story to help people gain courage.

There's many in scripture, but for some reason Gideon to me,

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