And the Hi, my name is A MacManus, and you were listening to the Battle Ready

podcast. Merry Christmas. If you were watching this right now, I am sitting in

front of my parents Christmas tree at my

parents house and I'm sitting on the floor right next to a fire. My dad's watching

football in the background and I am eating their food. But in lieu of the Christmas season,

we wanted to dig into the archives

and play a few episodes that are really special to us.

This episode is one of our most watched and most liked.

It's important and it's on mental health. When we started this

podcast a few years ago I didn't really feel comfortable speaking in front of

people so I asked my dad could I interview you on stage at Mosaic Venice when we were first

starting he said yes and we began this podcast two years later I did not expect that

it would turn into something so so special but I'm really excited and I really love this episode so if you never listen to it

We wanted to introduce a lot of the new listeners to some of the old stuff. We're playing the hits

So Merry Christmas enjoy this episode and I hope you enjoy it.

One of the subjects that both of us felt was really important right now,

there's just, it's been a really hard week and it's been an

interesting kind of juxtaposition a contrast because eight the last eight

days from Sunday to Sunday were pretty extraordinary days. We saw in that week

148 people step into a relationship with Jesus and follow him in baptism and then

this past Sunday we saw another 117 people respond to Jesus and that's like

265 people in eight days.

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