Hey everybody. Welcome to the Pastor Mike Drop podcast. I'm your host, Mike Householder, and I'm joined as always by my co-host, Emily Lang Paul. Hello, Emily.

Hello. How are you? I'm great. How are you? I'm excited for

this episode. We're going to get into some really good stuff. And I'm excited for our guest.

Yes, we have with us Reverend Dr. Richard Webb. Hi, Richard. Hey there. How's it going?

Hello. Hello, Reverend Doctor. Yes, it is the right Reverend Doctor. Now tell us us, your doctorate specifically, I know it's a doctor of ministry, your

doctorate is in specifically what?

I did research on discipleship, biblical discipleship.

I looked at the developmental aspects of it, or maybe a better word would be the

lifelong journey,

then how we relate to each other and how that helps us be like Jesus, and then how we serve each other. So the fancy academic words are developmental, relational, and

missional aspects of discipleship.

Developmental, relational, missional aspects of discipleship, which is why, exactly why, in fact,

you are our guest on this episode, because today we're talking about filling up your spiritual tank. And the cool thing about

Dr. Richard is as deep as you are. And there's no one deeper. Truly, you're able to bring

the hay down where the rest of a sheep can eat it. And I'm looking forward to that.

But I'm excited, too, for this. Before we get any further, we have a sponsor. We do.

We've never had a sponsor before. Hey. Hey. There is. Hey, Mike. How you doing? It's Mission's Mike

Horstman. And he brought our sponsor card today.

It's the Faster Mike Trump podcast is sponsored by the Super Bowl Food Drive coming this weekend to a

home location near you.

Our goal is to fill up all the food pantries in central Iowa, and we're so excited to be doing

this again.

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