Friends, welcome back to the Ransom TARP podcast, John Eldridge here, with a very, very special treat. We have something that we do monthly here at Ransomed Hart.

We do a monthly men's broadcast, a live stream over the

internet that I host a group of men and Stacy also does one for women once a month.

We have a time of teaching and worship,

and then we make that available both live.

And you can also go back and find the archive episodes

at Ransom Tart TV. There's like a whole treasure trove of them now.

And we had a special men at the outpost.

Craig McConnell was back from cancer treatment, back in many ways,

back physically, emotionally, spiritually.

And it was such a powerful conversation.

It's just a conversation between me and Craig

about what he's learned through suffering, what I've learned through

suffering and finding God and man what Craig had to say in particular is so powerful and

beautiful and hopeful we We just wanted to

air it here as well as a podcast. So welcome you're about to hear a conversation

from men at the outpost between Craig McConnell and John Eldridge.

So we got a treat this evening.

We're going to welcome back our buddy Craig McConnell, who has been away for a while.

Many of you have been tracking with our story and you know that Craig's been with us

for a long time here at Ransom Hart and actually our story goes back. I was doing the math on the way over here 36 years

1979 and we were both working at a church in Southern California together. I mean literally in another life age of the earth.

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