Hey everybody, it's Matt, this is the 10 Minute Bible Hour podcast, thank you for hanging

out with me as always.

I know you have bajillion things going on and lots of stuff that you can do with your

time and yet you make time to do this.

So thank you, that means a tremendous amount to me.

That said, I'm about to use an example that some of you are going to resonate with and

others of you are going to be like, why do you do that?

Why do you open with examples from pop culture stuff that we don't know because it's not

as much fun.

And to that, I would say, I'm super sorry, but I'll get past it quickly and I think it

will all pay off in the end.

The Lord of the Rings, most of you have probably at least seen a movie or some clips from that

cinematic universe that cinematic universe is drawn from one of the great fiction authors

of the 20th century J.R.R. token.

And in this universe, maybe the most visible, recognizable iconic character is a wizard

named Gandalf.

Now Gandalf looks like he's a dude in his 70s, but the reality is Gandalf in these stories

is very, very, very old and he's from very far away and he's wizard characters are almost

like angels in a sense.

I don't know what else to quite liken them to, but what comes out from time to time as the

story unfolds is that this Gandalf character has other names and the most prominent of these

other names is Mithrandeer.

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