Hello and welcome to strange encounters, the podcast.

I'm your host, Rick Burgess, host of the Rick Burgess Show.

You can hear our show or watch our show Monday through Friday.

All those details are at Rick Burgess Show.com. I'm also director of

the manchurch.com. This is a men's discipleship strategy that is being used by thousands of churches

all over our country and even around the world. If we can be of any assistance to help you

have a men's ministry and a discipleship strategy that is sustainable,

challenging men, but at the same time equipping them, just go to the manchurch.com.

My wife, Sherry, and I also do marriage ministry, and my wife does women's ministry.

And if you'd like to find out more about those things, go to burgess ministries.com.

But today, we are focused on strange encounters.

This is a podcast focused completely on spiritual warfare.

Yes, yes, the supernatural.

But we're talking about the supernatural through the lens of

a biblical worldview. And there's plenty in a biblical worldview involving the supernatural.

And our goal, and we are seeing fruit that we are being used by God to achieve this, our goal is to

educate, because so many times even inside the church, spiritual warfare is something that's

rarely ever talked about. And the problem with that is, just because we don't talk about it,

doesn't mean it doesn't exist. And one

of the concerns that we had, and I've had many times, is that the Western Church is full of

congregations that head out into a spiritual battle unprepared to fight it, to recognize it,

to discern it.

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