Life Audio Hey, welcome to the happy ramp podcast. I am Ted Clark.

joined as always in studio by my good friends, my partners radio Barnabas Piper and Ronald J

Martin boys we're going to talk some Timmy K today we have not done that on

this program since Tim Keller passed a few weeks ago

There was a flurry of activity and the making about me Olympics happened and we didn't participate in any of that, but we've all enjoyed his work, loved his work over the years, and we're going to talk about that a little bit today.

Boys, I'm doing this under We're going to talk about that a little bit today.

Boys, I'm doing this under a little bit of adversity.

I've got an AC unit out in the house.

The temperature outside is roughly like pit of hell level so if I get any kind of call text email from a

contractor I'm gonna do it so if I disappear mid-show you guys are gonna have to just

carry it for me and I know you're capable I know you're up to the task

So just a little little FYI on that

Boys, let's take a break. Let's pay some bills. Not many. We're not paying a lot of bills, to be clear. But we'll take a little

break on the other side of it. We'll talk with some Timmy Kay.

All right, boys, we're back.

I want to start with a just kind of baseline question.

When did you become aware of Tim Kelle? just kind of baseline question,

when did you become aware of Tim Keller

and how did he drift through your transom?

Like when was it, what was the book or the sermon or the way of becoming acquainted with the work of Tim Keller?

Pipe, we'll start with you.

Yeah, I'm trying to remember the year. I'm actually looking it up right now, trying to figure out when the reason for God came out, you know, his first, because that was, it wasn't his first book, but it was his, it was the one that kind of blew up, put him on the map in terms of sort of

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