Welcome to the Conversations of That Matter Podcast. My name is John Harris. We have a few things, more than a few to get to today.

People have asked me to comment on a number of news stories so I'm going to be

talking fast it is a lightning round evangelical news roundup it's it's also

going to be fast because I only had to do this probably could count them on one hand, maybe even just two or three

fingers, where I've had to re-record a podcast because something went wrong.

Well, this is one of those times, so all the information is right here, but some things I wanted to let you know about before we get into all that.

Some people have asked me about this mug in particular, because it's my favorite mug, and it's custom made with the conversations

that matter logo by Susan Payne. She's a support of the podcast. If you want to

support a good business that believes what you do on many things then you can go to the link in the info section and people were

wondering when I showed this last time where can I get one and I didn't have the

link and I'm going to put it in the info section for you so the other thing I

wanted to mention is very generous family in

Virginia. They say they're Virginia's only organic maple syrup or they make

Virginia's only organic maple syrup.

Nul Gap Farms sent me some bottles of their maple syrup.

And it has Colossians 323 on the back, Christian Company,

and I just appreciate so much them sending this to me so I want

you to know there's some good maple syrup out there that believes people that market

it and make it believe what you believe and it's not Crer barrel syrup I mean this it's good stuff and it'll go on your blueberry

pancakes your waffles your French toast I mean you look if you live up north especially

in fact this week you don't have to even

live up north you can live anywhere in the country and you're wanting some some good

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