Hi, and welcome to Jesus Over Everything, a five-day-a-week variety show that mixes encouragement,

the Bible, practical how-toes, and fantastic guests for the listener on the go.

I'm Lisa Whittle, and I welcome you to just five minutes with me, which I trust and pray

will be five minutes well spent.

So here's the first thing I want you to know about our guest host today, Drew Dyke.

He's funny, and I enjoy funny

people. In fact, he's so funny on Twitter. He's one of the only dudes I constantly retweet for his

humor alone. He's also one of the only guys who has thus far been on the show. I'd love to change

that, actually, so let me know if you have a great guy I should have on. But when I saw his new book,

your future self will thank you, secrets future self-will-thank-you,

secrets to self-control from the Bible and brain science. I knew I had to have him on here.

When you have sections called cigarettes and veggies and controlling your inner Homer Simpson,

you sell me, okay? Drew is an editor at Moody Publishers, has tons of very astute writing cred like USA Today in

The Huffington Post.

He's an author of other books and a husband and a daddy and a guy I just generally like.

So welcome Drew to the show today.

Do you have a favorite character in the Bible?

I do.

It's Peter.

And honestly, one of the reasons why I'm drawn to him was just because of how imperfect he was.

It made him very relatable, at least to me.

What I love about Peter is that he has these high aspirations, but he can't seem to follow through on them. In other words, I think he had a classic case of

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