Hello, everyone, welcome to the Esau-Makali podcast. I'm your host, Issa Macaulay. We're joined today by

producer Mike. Hey, Isan. And we're also joined by, again, for the second time, Sharon Hottie Miller,

co-pastor of Bright City Church with her husband, Ike. I was going to call him less hottie, but he's kind of a hottie. Ike, Hottie Miller. How long did you join in existence? Almost seven years. Seven years. So you're like kind of midlife, early midlife church plant. So you're going to maybe give me some advice later on.

Welcome to the podcast.

Thank you for coming back.

I'm so glad to be back with you guys. I had so much fun last time. Oh, thank you. Sharon actually asked us, like, what did we do on this podcast? She's like, what's the point of all this? I said, you know, we need a tagline. Like, you know, what we try to do on the East Summer Colley podcast, we try to take culture seriously as a way of revealing what God is up to in the world. We think the brokenness of culture or even the glory of culture is revealing something about human longing. We think about exploring culture, we find that way to God. That's our new tagline. Exploring culture to find that way to God. Should I workshop this now? We should I plan that before we start the podcast? Let's say people in the comments, put your own tagline for the podcast in the comments. And let's see if someone, that's pretty good. Let's see if someone can come up with something better. I just want people to know that the name Mike can't be in the tag. It needs to be like, you know. But maybe. Maybe it's what the people want You saw? Yeah, I want it to also, because people sometimes do think that they say that I'm treating you poorly, but I want to give you a gift. For those of you who can't, who aren't listening, who aren't watching on YouTube, I wrote a book called God's Colorful Kingdom, a storybook Bible. And I was signing copies of this today to,

you know, give away to the people. And I said to the people at Tyndale, I need another copy

for my friend, Mike, and his children. You said that? Yeah, I didn't say it. I didn't say it can have

another copy. But here's me giving it to you thank you so much

yeah I'm in touch yeah I'm just curious about how much do you sign books by you go for on eBay

just if someone wanted to know I you know what sell it my kids my kids say the exact same thing

that's why I address it to them personally yeah but. But hope. No, seriously, this is great.

I was telling you, I'm actually teaching vacation Bible school at my church this week. Tonight is all about the death and resurrection of Jesus. I'm going to crack this open. And we'll do a case study of it. You can be pastor, Mike, or producer Mike. You can go in both worlds. Thank you. So I really do appreciate this.

The kids are going to love it.

Okay, thank you.

So for our first topic today So I really do appreciate this. The kids are going to love it.

Okay, thank you.

So for our first topic today, I don't know, this, maybe we'll call this segment the sign of the apocalypse, so maybe we should enjoy ourselves a little bit more, and I take things too seriously. There is a city or a town, I guess, in Massachusetts that was one of the few towns in Massachusetts

that didn't have a Dunkin' Donuts.

And they were so excited. Have you never been in New England? To be a city in New England without a Dunkin' Donuts, it's just like, it's like a tragedy. So they finally got a Dunkin' Donuts. And to celebrate, they changed their name to Duncan for the day.

Yeah, that makes sense.

So for one day, they were Dunkin, Massachusetts.

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