Hello and welcome to Strange Encounters the podcast.

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

That's my day job.

I do that Monday through Friday with the team of Speedy, Greg, and Adler.

If you've never discovered our know, discovered our show,

go to Rick Burgess Show.com. All the details are there. Also, I am the director of the manchurch.com.

You can go there too. This is a men's discipleship strategy that is being implemented in over 2,000 churches all over the country

and even around the world. If you are interested in a sustainable strategy for men's ministry

in your local church or community, contact us. And then also my wife and I have Burgess Ministries.

We do marriage conferences. She also does women's

conferences and women's events, and you can find those details at burgessministries.com.

So let's get started with the podcast. If you're new, we're a podcast that talks about

spiritual warfare, the supernatural, yes, but from a biblical worldview and trust us,

the biblical worldview has all the supernatural you can take. And we're going to talk about things

that we need to maybe discern whether we should be associated with or not. We've done a lot of

those things about

spiritual house cleaning, individual house cleaning to make sure we're not exposing ourselves

unnecessarily to wicked and evil things and educating ourselves on those things. Because there is

a spiritual war that is going on all around us. That's not a maybe.

It's a fact. But the question that we do have a choice in is the question of whether we're

prepared for it or not. Do I understand it? Do I know about it? And that's our intention here, is to educate

as much as we possibly can so that when you go out into that spiritual battle, at least you're

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