Hi friend, thank you so much for downloading this podcast. It is my sincere hope that you'll hear something that will encourage and edify you and then will gently, but consistently, push you out there into the marketplace of ideas so you can let your light so shine for him, so that you can seek the welfare of the city and you can share the good news of the gospel because we

both know the gospel changes everything but before you start to listen I want to

tell you about this month's truth tool. Lee Strobel is a

wonderful wonderful journalist a man who started out as an atheist and an agnostic

and now is very much of a believing Christian but he still uses all of those

great investigative tools as a reporter to investigate the truth of the scriptures.

And so one of the books that he's written, and it's my truth tool for the month of October, is,

Is God Real?

Exploring the ultimate question of life.

And he's right, it really is the ultimate question.

Is God real?

How can I know him personally?

Why am I here?

What happens when I die?

And so what he does is he taps into people

who answer questions like, if God is real why is they're suffering if God is real why is he so hidden the

Cosmos requires a Creator that's a great interview he did with Dr William Lane Craig or the universe reflects a fine tuner or

Easter shows Jesus is God. The list goes on and on and on. It's absolutely a

fabulous book for you to be reminded that God is real and you can know him personally but it's also a

wonderful book for you to read and then give to somebody else who's seeking who doesn't

yet know who might be as we talked about in one of our recent programs that

spiritually curious person who has that God-shaped void but just doesn't know how or

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