Friends, welcome back to the Ransom Park podcast, John Eldridge here with Alan Arnold today in the studio.

Some of you know Alan, he's been on the podcast a number of times.

He's our director of content and resources,

and handles a number of things for us,

and including the podcast,

and is also really essential in getting the material that we have out all across the world.

And today is the third and final installment in a three-part series we did talking about some books of minds,

some classics that we have re-released in partnership with my publisher.

And if you were listening a couple episodes ago, you heard Stacey and I talk about Journey

of Desire, and then Morgan and I talking about Waking the Dead, and then today, Alan and I talking about a book called Walking with God.

And I want to ask you a question, Alan, but let me read a couple of paragraphs from the

introduction to get us going because I think it sets up so well what the conversation is about.

This is a series of stories of what it looks like to walk with God over the course of about a year.

It's our deepest need as human beings to learn to live intimately with God.

It's what we were made for.

Back in the beginning of our story,

before the fall of man,

before we sent the world spinning off its axis,

there was a paradise called Eden.

In that garden of life, There was a paradise called Eden.

In that garden of life as it was meant to be,

there lived the first man and woman.

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