Hey, it's me Matt Whitman from the future again. I figure if you're here on

episode two of the podcast it means that you've gone all the way back to the

beginning, you listen to the first one, you're thinking like, ah, maybe this will

become a part of the thing that I do.

Maybe I'll build this into my commute,

make it a part of my workout time,

or store it up for the weekend when I'm mowing the lawn,

or whatever it is you might do.

Look, that is awesome of you to even consider it, and I'm super grateful, and that's why I wanted to jump back in here and say,

thanks for trying out a second episode. I really appreciate it.

Also, I wanted to encourage you again.

Think about the story that you know the very very best of all of the

stories ever. It's a movie or a book. When I was a kid I memorized the entire

princess bride because it was a sad sad little boy and also because it's a really good movie and I got that

story in my hip pocket. I know it frontwards and backwards. Well the Bible is one of those things

and a lot of times we imagine you know you just get the highlights the little

bits about making sure you don't do

naughty things.

Or the very best quips from Jesus are the most interesting miraculous claims or bold bloody

stories and things like that.

But again, my friend, the invitation here is to something much more than that.

I want you and I to understand one book of the Bible, for now, Matthew,

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