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bringing you conversations every single day that hopefully inspire you in your faith walk that deepen

your understanding of god's word and that heightens your awareness of his very real presence in your life. Well, I hope you had a beautiful, wonderful, Merry Christmas and Happy New Year. Now we are off to the races. Pray that you're looking expectantly to the Lord to show up, to walk intimately with you, because he is at your right hand. You will not be shaken. So even though the world around you at times

seems like it's shaken, God is an ever-present help in times of trouble. We can trust him.

My guest today writes this. Jesus' life is a song that still resonates down through the ages.

His deeds and words speak with beauty and mystery, both comforting and confounding us. Who is this man? Well, guess who joins me today? None other than Michael Carr, to talk about his thought-provoking book, The Nazarene, 40 devotions on the Lyrical Life of Jesus. It's deep and it's rich. I love books like that. It's got four copies to give away today. The Nazarene, 40 devotions on the lyrical life of Jesus. If you want to in on the drawing, if you're new to the Faith Radio audience, all you do is text the word book to 877-933-2484. It'll kick back a link and then you enter the drawing that way. Wish we could make it easier, but it's a one-step process because we give away resources every single day. We've got a lot of listeners and that's a way to make it doable. Quick announcement

before we hear from Michael, this month, Faith Radio's promotion is none other than my book

prevailed. It's a 365-day devotional of enduring strength from God's Word. Well, you won't

believe it, but when it first came out

September 1st, it sold out the day it released. It took months to get another shipment. And there was a,

you can't even believe it, but a ship was coming across the sea, took on the storm, dumped 100

crates of cargo, and delayed it by another, I don't know, a month and a half. So we just got her

second shipment in and it sold out within a couple days again. But I'm super glad to tell you that Faith Radio has 16 copies to give away this month. So each week we're giving away four copies of this hardcover, a 365-day devotional. How you sign up for that is you hop on our website at myfaithradio.com. You can sign up as many times as you want, and I hope you win. All right, let me tell you about my guest. We'll get him on the show. Michael Card is an award-winning musician and performing artist. He's earned a master's degree in biblical studies from Western Kentucky University, where he studied under Dr. William Lane. He's written a number of thought-provoking books to date, and the one we're talking about today is titled The Nazarene, 40 Devotionals on the Lyrical Life of Jesus. Michael, welcome back to the show. Thanks. Nice to be back. It's been too long. I know it has been. I'm telling you, I'm not going to let as much time pass next time. So I promise you that. So we love to start everyday talking scripture, and I know that you just

love God's words. So tell me, what have you been pondering these days in your time with God?

Well, it's interesting to me how you can spend as much time, especially as I spend in the Gospels.

I don't, not so much in call, but so much time in the Gospels, and yet still come upon

things that Jesus said or did, and it's like, wait a minute, he said that.

And one of the things, and I'm, it's kind of a new idea for me.

I think it's the most upsetting thing of all the upsetting things he said.

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