Hey, Matt's daughter here. I just wanted to jump in really quick and say thank you to everyone

who supports the program. It means a lot. Hey, my friends, it's Matt. This is the 10-minute Bible Hour

podcast, and we are on a journey this week. We didn't make the route. Rather, some ancient

pilgrims from Bordeaux in Aquitaine and France at the far northwestern edge of the Roman Empire, they decided that they wanted to go

see where all the stuff happened with Jesus and the Holy Spirit and the founding of the church.

And so they set out to walk slash ride all the way to the Holy Land, all the way across Europe,

and they were kind enough to document the whole thing, every

changeover, every roadmark, every town for future travelers like you and me. So yesterday,

we started our pilgrimage from Bordeaux, France, all the way to the Holy Land, and yesterday,

we ended looking into the distance, peering into the land where all of this stuff

unfolded. We made camp overnight, and now today, finally, we arrive in the heart of the place

where the Bible happened, and let's join the Bordeaux Pilgrims and see what we can find. That got a little

dramatic. Oh, well, whatever.

It's how I feel. It was worth it. I'm going to have Jeff play some music, and then we're going to

the Holy Land. Here we go.

Let's just step back for a minute.

For the sake of the podcast, why are we here?

Why are we doing this?

Well, one reason is because it's interesting,

and I try to talk with you about things that are interesting, that are inspired by what I'm

encountering in the text. One of the beauties of this format is we really can chase down anything

at all, all the stuff that if you go to church, that you hear the pastor say, oh, man, there's

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