The following program is pre-recorded.

Welcome to the Eric Mettaxas show with your host, Eric Metaxus.

Hey there, folks. Welcome to the Eric Metaxe show show. I'll be playing the role of Eric Mataxis,

if you don't mind. If you do mind, unfortunately, I'll still be playing the role of Eric Mataxis.

And there's nothing that you can do. Nothing. Do you understand nothing? I want to remind you,

the world is going insane. Wherever you look, you can see it. Bonhoeffer talked about this in the middle of World War II. Things seemed to be going insane. Evil seemed to be winning. And what he said was it's a good thing. It's a clarifying moment because this is the way things always are. It's just that certain times we get clarification that apart from God, we're in big

trouble. Things aren't wonderful in this veil of tears. We need to focus on what is true in the

midst of the madness. And we need to focus on what can I do today. And I thought, as you know this

month, we're doing a fundraiser with Food for the

Poor, one of those great organizations that we partner with because we have vetted them.

They do amazing work. They stretch American dollars so far that it's astonishing.

And right now we are going to have on, actually, Paul Jacobs is on

right now. He's with media relations with Food for the Poor. Paul, welcome. Great to be here with

the Eric. Thank you. We are, I mean, I don't know if you know this or not, Paul, but we are way behind

comparatively speaking with, with our fundraisers. So I thought, I don't know if you know this or not, Paul, but we are way behind, comparatively

speaking with our fundraisers.

So I thought we want to get you on to help encourage people.

I know that there's some big givers out there who normally give.

Maybe they didn't give this time.

I want to encourage people.

There are a number of ways we're going to thank them, not to get you to give,

but just because we want to thank you folks for partnering with us in doing good things. But Paul,

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