Hey everyone welcome to the Conversations that Matter podcast my name is

John Harris I finally have my office somewhat set up so I know some of you

you've been praying for me because I have so much going on. I don't talk about all of it, but one of them is I've been trying to do some repairs on my house and get moved in and I haven't had an office for like now three months almost at least two

So I haven't had like a central place to do podcasts and now I finally do so this is this is run. This is, hey, is this going to work?

And so let me know what you think. I might change some things in the background, but this is kind of the background you're going to be, you can expect moving forward in the foreseeable future as I do

podcasts at least and looking forward to to having a place that I can just

click a button and start recording.

It's been a challenge trying to do research, put PowerPoints together, and then do recording.

So I've been doing podcasts on my phone.

And anyway, this is much easier if I just have my setup I want to talk

about something pretty short today and that is a book called Gentle and

Lowly by Dane Ortland this is a book called Gentle and Loey by Dane Ortland. This is a listener generated

episode. Many of you reached out to me and said, John, can you talk about

this? And I think the reason is because people like Russell Moore endorsed it so there was this

thought that maybe it has a social justice leaning in it or maybe there's

something I just can't see but it's, but it's got some kind of a theme that's

influencing me in some way towards that end.

And I'd say for those who ask this question, the way very you know good job being

discerning and trying to just be on your guard because we do need to be on our

guard I will say this they just because Russell Moore endorsed something

doesn't mean it's

necessarily bad or you have to throw it out or you shouldn't participate I'll give you an

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