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Hello, everyone.

Welcome back to the OnScript podcast.

This is Matt Lynch.

I'm coming to you from Cheltenham in the UK.

Cheltenham is home of the Gold Cup and horse racing and the government communications headquarters.

And more importantly, Westminster Theological Center,

at least our head offices, which is where I work and I lecture in Old Testament.

I'm co-host of the podcast with Matt Bates, who lectures a New Testament at Quincy University

in Illinois, Andrew Johnson, who teaches biblical and theological studies at the King's College in New York City,

but he's currently at the Lagos Institute in St. Andrews, Scotland, where they are busy

pondering some of the deepest and most profound questions to ever face humanity.

And why are they pondering those questions you ask?

Well, it's because it's too dark, cold, and rainy to do anything else.

Before we begin today, I want to offer a special word of thanks to Ed Hackkey, who produces

the show.

He's done a superb job, and let's face it, we don't always give him

the best audio, but he makes delicious lemonade out of what are often, um, are audio lemons that

we send to him. So thank you so much, Ed, for all that you do for this podcast.

It's much better because of you.

Okay, Matt Bates is helming this episode, and he's on with Mike Bird, so I hope you enjoy it.

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