Hey, welcome to the Happy RAMP podcast.

I am Ted Cluck joined as always by my good friends in radio, Barnabas Piper, and

Ronnie J Martin, boys, we've got a full slate of things to talk about and a

full slate of sponsors today man our cup runneth over here at Happy Grant Studios.

So Barnabas, without further ado, man,

you are the Michael Jordan of the book promo.

You're the Picasso of the promo for art lovers out there. Why don't you hit us with a little promo and then we'll get any of these topics, baby.

I would prefer to think of myself as the Andy Warhol of book promos for artists, but to each is. I see own. I see where you're going with that. I like it.

Wow. You try to throw a guy compliment.

Sasta totally. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Even a compliment gets edited, you know.

The art community is nothing, if not a bit snobbish,

about their preferences, so I have to speak into that.

No, our first sponsor is Nav Press,

and specifically the book, Bound to Be Free.

The subtitle is Escaping Performance to be Captured by Grace and it's by DA Horton.

DA is actually a friend of mine. I've known him for a few years and we got to

know each other through some conferences in Chicago and the like, but really good

teacher, good author, good writer, one of the best that I've met at taking current culture and sort of

drawing out biblical and theological and life themes. And the whole idea of this book

is broken into two halves. The first half talks about what he calls the performance trap.

So the idea of feeling trapped to perform in relationships, needing affirmation from other people, living up to peers expectations,

just trying to find happiness and performance.

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