Hi, this is John. And today's podcast is a little bit different. It's a special podcast, one we've

never done before. We did our first ever live event a few weeks ago in San Diego when we were

visiting the Here We Still Stand conference through 1517. This is the first time we've ever done a live

event, and it's also the first time we've ever taken live questions from the audience.

And we answered those questions.

So these are great questions received. How do we know the Holy Spirit dwells within us?

How do you show the gospel in a pietistic context? How do you read the Bible from a reformed

perspective is just some of the few questions that we had received? It's the first 45 minutes of the podcast is available free here.

And if you want to hear the entire podcast, you can join our Total Access Network.

The rest of it will be on our membership's podcast.

We hope you enjoy the podcast and we'll see you next week.

This is the first time we've ever done anything like this.

I cannot promise how it's going to go.

So I think it'll be great. But what we're going to do is going to open a word of prayer,

just ask the Lord to encourage us, bless our time, and then we'll tell you a little bit about the

night, and then we'll get started. So, all right, let's pray. Our Father, we are humbled by the fact that you unconditionally care for us.

You've unconditionally saved us and love us.

And Lord, tonight, that is what this is about,

where we get the opportunity to discuss the greater realities of resting in the finished

work of Jesus Christ, the struggles that are there,

the complications that are there, Lord, I just pray that as the questions come in and as we three

sinners who are in desperate need of grace, try and work through these questions so that

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