Hey and welcome to another strange encounters.

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

You can catch that Monday through Friday by going to Rick Burgess Show.com, also director

of the manchurch.com.

We are our men's discipleship strategy. If you need help

implementing a men's ministry strategy that is sustainable consisting of two key elements,

high challenge, that's been around for a while, but followed with high equipping in the form of 40-week

curricula.

We have multiple 40-week curricula.

We have 31-and-40-day devotionals designed for men, full-length books.

So if you're an individual man and you need some help, sure, resources are there.

But we're really designed to come alongside the local church

and to help reach and disciple the men of the community.

So that's at the manchurch.com.

This episode of Strange Encounters will do letters from you, the audience, a rough question

about suicide.

We will answer that question today. And also some discussion and a question about graven images. What are some things that we should stay away

from in the spiritual realm that the Bible warns about? So we'll get to that. And then, of course, a captivating story about a pastor that truly believes that his life was spared by an angel of God.

So our first installment will be with Dr. Stephen L. Cowell. He's the senior pastor of Highland Park Baptist Church, Panama City, Florida. I have the honor of knowing Steve and even had the opportunity to come and speak to his congregation more than once.

But I'm going to tell you something, Steve, first of all,

welcome to Strange Encounters. Thank you for taking time to be with us. Hey, thank you for the

opportunity, Rick. It's always good to talk to you. It is. And I guess if we discuss this,

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