I don't know what the best way is to just take a soaking wet blanket and throw it all over

the enthusiasm of the beginning of a podcast episode is?

You want to know what it is?

It's with a content warning.

Here's the thing, I'm not going to do horribly offensive things on this podcast ever.

This is generally going to be very safe fodder for the entire family to talk about theology

and Bible and stuff like that, but I also know that some of you

listen with kids and I'm going to be talking about the Virgin Birth, which I don't think

is scandalous or bad, but I have some very practical questions about what went on

there and I'm guessing that many of you do as well and I'd like to talk about those things.

So as we get into it, I just want to give you the heads up that over the next handful of episodes,

you might just want to give it a listen first before you invite the kids.

Okay, you have been advised, let's to the 10 minute Bible hour podcast where we take a few minutes

every weekday to process through a book of the Bible.

Right now we're working on Matthew.

And I really want this podcast to be hyper-shareable.

And a lot of times when you're working through a big chunk of something like this,

it can be hard to share it because you're like,

oh, well, you know, I don't want somebody that I invite to this thing to feel left behind and terrible.

What I want to do is offer all kinds of on ramps here by resetting the context,

so it's easy for other people to jump in, and it's easy for you to remember where we were because I know you have busy lives and a ton going on.

And we're definitely trying to treat the book of Matthew as one big important cohesive document that is a part of a much larger

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