It's the week of January 6, 2020. This is the Ransomed Heart podcast and I'm Alan Arnold.

I want to begin by wishing everyone a happy new year. It's wild that we're already in 2020, but we at Ransomed Harder so excited for everything the New Year holds,

including John's new book which comes out in February, it's called Get Your Life Back,

everyday practices for a world gone mad.

You'll hear more about that in the weeks to come,

but if you want to pre-order it

and get some free content, some free gifts that you'll really enjoy and can immediately listen to or watch,

you can find out more about that by going to John Eldridge.com. That website will tell you about his new book and how to

pre-order it now. The next two weeks we are going to be talking to you about an

intriguing topic called God, Movies, and your story.

We originally recorded this conversation in 2018, and in this two-part conversation, John

and I discuss how films and novels that we love actually

reveal central aspects about our hearts, our dreams, and our story with God.

So here today is part one of God movies and your story.

So I recently got an email from somebody who listens to our podcast. His name's Miguel, and John here's what he said.

If I could suggest a theme for a future podcast from the two of you, it would be one to help me

get more from the movies and stories that I watch. He talks about how the

observations we make oftentimes about shows or movies are really interesting, but if most people are like Kim, he says, I'm not sure we always have eyes and ears

to see and hear what's going on on a deeper level in the movies.

And so he wants to know if there's ways that we approach story that might be helpful to him in his walk with God and as he pursues entertainment, how to navigate that in a way that's of the heart. So that's

what we're going to talk about in these podcasts.

Thank you, Miguel. Welcome to the Ransom TARP podcast.

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