Hey everybody I'm Matt. This is the 10 minute Bible hour podcast and if you've been hanging out with me for this whole thing

Working our way through the book of Matthew one little chunk at a time every weekday

Welcome back. Thanks for doing this. It's a big project and I feel like we're making headway and it's been really fun.

If this is your first time here though, hey welcome. Thank you for jumping in. I like

podcasts and every now and then I find myself just jumping in the middle of one and there's this whole culture and all of this stuff and it can feel kind of overwhelming on the front end.

You do not need to feel like that. We don't have a bunch of inside jokes. We do have maybe some

language that we're gradually accumulating that we use and shorthand to keep track of what's going on

in the text, but none of that is incredibly high-brow or clever.

You'll track with everything that's going on here.

And if you find that you enjoy this

and you want to dig deeper into it,

you can just go back to the beginning

whenever you want, and chip away at it and

catch up or not it's the internet you can do it however you would like either way

I'm just glad you're all here hanging out with me

thanks for being up for processing a book that has reshaped history and cast an incredibly long

shadow I think in a really good way and well it's also a book that sometimes gets

picked apart in strange ways and if you look at it in tiny little

chunks you can come to some bizarre conclusions so what we're trying to do is just take it real slow and divorce ourselves

from a lot of the presuppositions and just come at it from a generically healthy,

skeptical, but also belief perspective.

Or at least that's how I'm coming at it is somebody who would say,

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