Hey, welcome to the Happy Grant podcast. I am Ted Cluck joined as always by Ronald

J Martin and Barnabas Piper and boys this is a this is a special day in that it's our

hundredth episode. Pipe did you ever dream at the beginning of this thing that

that we would have we would be a hundred

episodes in I mean just the I had the height I had zero dreams about the

heights that we've ascended to and that's very grounded of you very very grounded

now we are we are radio superstars we have a one stop world tour planned for

later in later in the season here live in Louisville

October 23rd market calendars it's sort of a pilgrimage as opposed to like a

world tour it's like you you come to us yeah it is it's a pilgrimage of sorts and and I like that

language so pipe we've got we got a lot to get into today man so why don't you take care of our business why don't you give

give some love to our many sponsors and then we'll get into this thing that's right we got

it yes offer proper love to those who pay us the big bucks. So Nav Press and Tindale publishers, again sponsoring the podcast, highlighting the book

next door as it is in heaven.

If you've listened to the last couple of episodes, you've heard us mention this one. authored by Lance Ford and Brad Briscoe both of them are

church planters and trained church planters and especially sort of in the in the

missional community sphere of things.

And even though it says missional, both of them are not hipsters.

Right. They've verified. They both appear to be very normal, grounded

and upstanding people.

Are they really mission?

I mean can we actually make that assumption that they're actually mission without being

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