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Welcome back OnScript listeners. This is Matt Lynch at Regent College in Vancouver, where it is now sunny and warm. That brings me to the next thing I wanted to encourage all of you with. A springtime is a time of sharing. As the old saying goes, share your favorite podcast in spring, add 10 years to your life.

Would you consider sharing the word about OnScript with those you care about?

And even maybe some others as well. Spring is also a time of romance. Perhaps you have that

significant other who needs a bit of biblical and theological brushing up,

why don't you consider giving On Script a rating on Apple Podcasts and then sending that special

someone to link.

They'll appreciate it.

Thanks so much for listening.

Enjoy the episode.

Welcome back to OnScript.

Today we'll be discussing Nijey Gupta's book, The Affections of Christ Jesus,

Love at the Heart of Paul's Theology.

This is Matthew Bates, Northern Seminary,

coming to you with an episode on love,

which is appropriate, at least at our time of recording, we are on the

cusp of Valentine's Day. By the time this releases, it'll be in the rearview mirror.

But to all you lovers out there, here's an episode for you, the affections of Christ Jesus.

Let me start with a quote from St. Augustine's Confessions.

You called, shouted, broke through my deafness. You flared, blazed, banished my blindness.

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