What's up, my friends? It's Matt. This is the Tim and a Bible Hour podcast. Thank you

for hanging out with me. I know you have millions of things to do with your time. Then I

know these are just insane times in general. I mean, we live in this weird technological

moment where we don't quite know which way we're going or what we're doing. And yeah,

here we are hanging out looking at this ancient document together that holds itself out

as being from not just an ancient deity, but it holds itself out as being from the God,

the first cause, the philosophical, physical beginning of all things. And I know that a ton of

you here are not down with that. You're in a place where you're pretty skeptical of that claim.

And yet you understand the importance of the book. You understand the value of the people in your

life who hold it dear and who build their life around these ideas, this document that God

behind it. And here you are making the effort. That is awesome. I know that others of you

here and you've been in from the beginning and you've never looked back. And this is a fun

opportunity for you to explore a text that is precious to you. And here you are. Thank you very

much for being here. I know others of you are here because this made sense at some point.

There it's always kind of made sense. But also there's just something about the conversation.

The bags a little different angle or a little different dive into it. And maybe there's just

something about you and me being on the same wavelength in terms of the ways that we're weird and

broken and screwed up that maybe makes this time well spent as you try to untangle the Christmas

tree lights of a lifelong faith and the questions that go along with that. Look, I just think it's

cool that we're all hanging out because that doesn't happen anywhere on the internet. That's a very

unusual thing. And it speaks volumes to your character. Second, I think it's cool that we're hanging

out with something that predates pretty much everything else that defines our life that we're

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