Thank you all for coming. I'd like to pray and ask God's help before I talk about these important things.

So Father, I need your help now because we're talking about you and what people think about you and what we think

about you and feel about you which is the most important thing in our lives.

And so these are really high stakes.

And so I want to be faithful to your word

and I don't want to get anything wrong.

And I don't want to insert myself inappropriately.

So remove every possibility I pray guard me from error and from pride and from fear.

And grant that everyone here would be discerning concerning what I say as to its truth.

I ask this in Jesus name, amen.

So my title that I asked to speak on is, is Jesus an egot maniac?

And it's not a catchy title designed to get you here to hear something else.

It's born out of encountering that objection over and over again. I'm going to give you maybe five illustrations

of real life people, two of which you'll know about, three probably, who have stumbled over the apparent egotania

in the words of Jesus.

And in the word of God God if you believe he inspired the Psalms say.

For example, Eric Reese, writer inidence at the University of Kentucky in Lexington, teaches environmental

journalism and writing and literature, published a book in 2009 called An American Gospel on Family History and the Kingdom of God.

The only reason I know about this is because he did an interview on NPR, and that's kind of my default station in Minneapolis, and Terry Gross, you may remember the name, has a program on that station called, what's it called?

Fresh Air, thank you.

My wife listened to it also.

And he did an interview there about the book.

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