Hey, welcome to the Happy Rand podcast. I am Ted Cluck joined as always in

studio by Barnabas Piper and Ronald J Martin and boys we have a couple of interesting developments here on the program this

week one is that Big R retreat man is actually back in Ashland so Ron, Ron, I want you to talk us through

what it was like coming back home, quote unquote.

After all those weeks on the road, baby,

are you getting to know your town again do you

need people to draw your maps of like how to get you know from the the hipster

coffee shop to the to the donut place to your office what is how is that feeling

absolutely I mean we came in and thankfully we have such a great church family.

They just, they, they had just developed this map of the town, laid it on our kitchen table, and just said start here. And so I've here and so I've just been I've just

been trying to reorient myself. Did they laser etch it in your your live

edge oak table like I feel like that's the way this should of course they did of course

they did because they knew I would be leaving again soon and they didn't want to have to

keep doing this so that when I returned I could always find out where I was going

yeah Piper they did that because that's the body of Christ that's what that's what we do could always find out where I was going. Yeah.

They did that because that's the body of Christ.

That's what we do for one another.

Right.

We do woodworking in metallurgy.

That's it.

I mean, that's really what the whole New testament was was kind of pointing toward that

and the gospel and and Piper we discovered that you are going to be leaving for a

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