Hey, it's time for your favorite part of the podcast.

The disclaimer.

The views expressed in this show are blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.

Anyways, what we really wanted to say was,

if you really like the music in this episode,

stick around until the very end,

and we'll tell you just how to get it.

Now, here's the show. I had asked the Lord

about the gift of music. I said, Lord, you have given me this gift, but I want you to use it the

way that you want to. If this means that the gift of music will cause me to rebel, I want you to take it away from me.

And so I prayed that.

The next morning, I wake up. I can't move my right arm. I'm Dean Cullinate, and you're listening to Why They Did That,

a show that explores the motivations of biblical characters and how their choices can guide yours.

Thank you. biblical characters and how their choices can guide yours. Sounds pretty good, huh?

That's because it's a piece played by today's guest, Owen Nanasi.

Having received his bachelor's degree in religious studies, Owen went on to recently get a master's in leadership, but everyone that knows Erwin knows

him as a musician, and a pretty good one at that.

At the age of 16, he dropped out of high school in order to focus on being a concert pianist.

He then went on to study piano performance at the State University of Music and Performing Arts

in his hometown of Stuttgart, Germany, as well as arranging and composing through Berkeley College

of Music and has subsequently performed all over the world. In other words, he knows his stuff.

And so in this episode, we head into the story of David, still a young man and

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