And now Kirby Anderson, thank you for joining me, it is the Monday edition of Point of

You and yes I'm back in the studio, of course I certainly appreciate those that have been

able to sit in for me and that would be Merrill and Penna and Chelsea and they've done a

very good job. We played a couple of repeats but I was up in Vermont for a few days and then

actually teaching in upstate New York but back once again and it was fun to be up there

although they have a lot of rain and that was maybe not as fun in terms of enjoying the

weather and being able to take some of the pictures I like to take but nevertheless back

in the studio here and we've got of course an incredible week that is going to unfold. Even

today I'm really excited about the fact that in about half an hour we're going to be talking

with Michael Menophe and he is with the Museum of the Bible but has put together something

called Inspire. We'll talk more about that in just a minute and I have always appreciated

the good work of the Museum of the Bible because for those of you that don't have a chance

to other museums around the world and have a chance to see some of the artifacts they have

so many there right there in Washington D.C. So even yesterday as I was asked to teach on

archaeology again which is a topic I've done before and add some new material. I at one point

showed a slide of the Isaiah scroll and said now if you ever go to Israel they have it all

unfurled and it's just incredible to see all of that which comes from the Dead Sea Scrolls

but I said if you can't make it to Israel well you can hopefully make it to Washington D.C. and

they have a actually completely accurate facsimile of that in the Museum of the Bible. So anyone

will spend some time talking with him later this hour next hour very excited about this new book

by J. Warner Wallace. Of course I always enjoy him anyway but this new book person of interest why

Jesus still matters in a world that rejects the Bible might be kind of his magnum opus because

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