Hey my friends I'm Matt this is the 10 minute Bible hour podcast if you've been hanging

out with me for a while you know that every weekday

morning we are chipping away working our way directly through the book of Matthew trying to do that

from a relatively neutral read but come on I have biases I think things so I'm trying to

disclose that stuff so that we can do our best to let the text speak for itself

try to understand how this would have been received by the original audience

instead of trying to take a bunch of time for you to understand how I think about all the things.

If this is your first time here, well I guess I just told you how all the things are and what we're working on.

Hey, welcome to that.

I hope you like it.

I hope it's fun.

I hope you make this a part of your normal routine and hang out with us all the time.

You don't have to go all the way back to the beginning right now. You'll catch on to what we're doing pretty quickly, but if you want to go back to the beginning and power through it and binge the whole thing at some point, you would be absolutely welcome to do that too. One way or another, I'm just glad you're all here.

And today, I would like to start with a complaint.

I don't like the saying, there's more than one way to skin a cat,

because I like cats.

And they're fuzzy and adorable, and I have two of them.

And I particularly love one of those two cats and his name is tormond

And he rubs his face against my face all the time and we cuddle and when I'm not there and then I get back after a while he misses me

I don't want that animal to get skinned But I'll tell you what I do want to do is fish. So you

could just as easily make that saying into there's more than one way to catch a fish

because that's true and nobody has to die in that scenario. can just put the fish back but I'm like

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