Hello and welcome back to the Scriptures are real, this podcast where we try to connect

ourselves with the scriptures and make them more real to us and draw more power out of

the scriptures, as Carrie would like to say. I'm Lamar and this is Carrie here.

Hi. Hey, how are you doing? Hey, I saw the numbers in the podcast. We're starting to grow. We're

getting out to some people. I hope they're enjoying what we're doing. And if you can share this,

I hope we have a message in general that resonates with people and helps you to connect with the

scripture better so that you can feel more of a part of those scriptures and have them work in your life.

So that's what this is about, right?

Yep, that's exactly what we want.

You're not in your normal surroundings.

You are out of town today.

Yeah, I'm in a hotel room in Toronto.

Most years I go to a conference in Egyptology

conference here at the University of Toronto. It's called the Society for the Study of Egyptian

Antiquities. I'm the senior vice president of that organization. I was president for a little

while when the president had to resign. And I was president until we could get a new president.

But anyway, most of the time I'm going to last president.

Oh, no.

Yeah, yeah.

And so anyway, we, I haven't been up here for several years because of COVID.

So this is my first time back since 2019.

So it's kind of nice to be

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