Hello, hello, hello ladies and gents. It's your girl Kirby Kelly back at it again with another episode of the bot and beloved podcast. I'm so

glad you're tuning in whether it's your first time or whether you're a loyal listener who subscribed and tuning in every Wednesday. Welcome. I'm so glad you're here and I am really excited for the conversation that we're going to be having today. So as many of you guys know, typically on my podcast,

a majority of my podcast will be extra cheating scripture. We're talking about theology. We're going through verses and things that you're going through. But today I have an amazing guest on my podcast. Pretty cool how we actually have so many crossovers in our lives and we're here and meeting and talking for the first time here on my podcast. And I'm just so pumped for y'all to meet him and hear from him and just the wisdom that he has and that look he has on our culture today.

And with the biblical world view. So without further ado, Jim Denison, welcome to the podcast. How about you tell everybody who you are, what you do, what you're passionate about, all that good stuff Kirby. Thank you so much for the privilege of doing this with you being in this conversation with you today.

I'm delighted to do this. Great for you. Great for your ministry and for all the ways God's using you in these days. So by virtue of my story, I suppose we could start there very briefly. I'm a cultural apologist. My calling is to speak biblical truth to cultural issues.

Helping to equip Christians to use their influence to impact the culture for Christ. And how I got there is kind of a, I guess kind of a strange story of sorts. I grew up in Houston, Texas. My father had been a very active church member. He fought in the second world war and never went to church again.

So I grew up in a loving home but no spiritual life. All my dad's questions was invited to church at the age of 15 eventually came to faith in Christ. Still had all my dad's questions intellectual issues.

See us Lewis's mere Christianity given to me in high school really was transforming for me. First time I'd seen anyone deal with faith intellectually.

So why not getting a PhD in philosophy of religion teaching at four seminaries teaching at DB you in the doctoral program among other places. I've passed it for churches along the way in Midland and Atlanta and Dallas about 20,000 members total.

And then 12 years ago we started a full-time ministry, Dennis and forum whereby I can spend my time speaking to the issues of the day through a biblical lens.

So I write an article every day based on that day's news that goes out to about 400,000 subscribers, about 2.9 million in total social with that with the video we do, the podcast, the speaking, the white papers, everything on the website.

All that's at denisonforum.org and have just written a new book coming out that I know we'll talk about today that speaks into this space as well. So at the end of the day my call is to help people think biblically about cultural issues so they can then respond redemptively.

And that's a passion for me and I'm delighted to share it with you today.

That's so good. I'm so glad that you're here and and Jim and I were just talking right before we got on the podcast about how.

Like he said, D.B.U. we share that in common and I know that I've heard so much about the denisonforum when I was going there and have.

I believe I was subscribed to it and I'll get those emails every now and again where it has the different like you said the outlooks on what's going on in the culture and and really looking at it from a biblical world view through the lens of scripture through the lens of Christ and reeling it back to that.

And I think that's so vital that that we need that today where there are agendas being pushed or ideologies being pushed and it's like we as Christians need to know how to be rooted in biblical truth into to filter things through that lens.

And I love that you're your book, which we're going to talk about today and the Cummingsu Nami talks a bit about that is really centered on that.

So can you give us like a description about what the Cummingsu Nami is about and what inspired you to write that.

Yeah, absolutely. I have come to the conviction in recent months the Christians are facing a rising tide of cultural opposition that's unprecedented in American history.

Kirby, I hope that doesn't sound like hyperbole to sell books because it's really not I wouldn't have said that six months ago, but in the research I did for this book that just became absolutely clear to me so we use tsunami as a model because the tsunami you see is typically caused by forces you don't see.

And if you can get to those forces in time you can reverse the tsunami not physically but culturally and spiritually I believe an example of that would be March 11 2001 there was an underwater earthquake 45 miles off the coast of Japan.

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