I'm so glad to be here with you today. Gosh you guys it has been so fun hearing your response to the episode last week with Samantha Ponder. I loved it too. So did Sam. Such a great show. So thank you guys for sharing about it and talking about it and.

Thanks to Sam for being on the show. We have just had the best guests on the show. I just love it and we have got a super fun fall ahead for you as well. Hey speak into this fall my new book Remember God releases October 2nd and the pre order thing is if you pre order the book and then go to my website any fdowns.com and go down to where it says redeem your pre order and you put in your order number your name your address all that jazz. We will give you the audiobook of Remember God for free and.

So you don't have to wait to October 2nd you can go ahead and listen to the book a bunch of y'all done that and got the listen to the book and I'm loving hearing from you about it. So thank you for that and we've got less than a thousand codes left to give to people who pre order the book. So if you want to do that we're asking Christian audio for more because they've been like an amazing partner for me and my publisher B&H but we also recognize that they've been incredibly generous already. So I'm just saying to you if you want to guarantee that you

get the free audiobook go ahead and pre order the book today fill out the form on my website and we would love to send you the audiobook of Remember God.

Today on the show is one of my very best friends wanted just a brother to me Jonathan Merritt he's an acclaimed writer a nationally known religion writer and he has some incredible books his new book learning to speak God from scratch has become an instant favorite for me it's all about rescuing these words in our faith that are disappearing and we're going to be able to do it.

So if you would like to go listen that go look for seekers and speakers podcast by Jonathan Merritt and Beth Moore's episodes incredible all of them aren't there just amazing so and then there's different Annie so you can go listen to me talk about that word courage and it's such an honor today to have a good time and I'm going to talk about that word and I'm going to go look for you.

I think I know and I think first of all, I want just happen early in theague Dan maybe me let's do it now because there's a lot of things that I've learned here about something and I want to talk about the books that got so far about you with

all these fun stories, you know, on your own and I'm going to talk about if I can make a good video and

want to talk aboutén right now came in for more requested happenbox marия

roasted cherry tomatoes right now do you even know it do you know that life never have I ever do you like cherry tomatoes do you eat tomatoes

yeah I love cherry tomatoes so if you just cut them in half and put all of all salt and pepper and just roast them for like an hour

they're unbelievable they totally change taste they get crispy they're awesome so that was my snack today pal I need to do that that's a great snack

yeah because it's tomatoes right but they're awesome because they're roasted they're better I don't like I can't like just eat raw cherry tomatoes so

say I can do the raw ones as well really okay listen let's back up that's that's a riveting start to our podcast for everyone

everybody it's so funny because I'm like I was about to say so wait didn't you when are you going to hit record

no that wasn't yeah this is what the people come here for what snack should I have today I should probably listen to that sounds fun

because Annie will tell me another recipe no that's the first that's the that sounds tasty right spin off

right do you know when I used to be one of my friends used to come up with other last names for me and he was like you could be Annie

frowns and tell all the things that are going wrong in the world like it's just like a Debbie downer news and it's Annie frowns I just

kind of reserve that as a parody account on Twitter yeah there you go that's right go ahead and nap that

do you remember the olden days right when Twitter started people used to always tell you get your name and then get

any f down sucks or any of downs the worst do you remember all that you know what at that when when Twitter started I was a nobody so

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