Hey, this is Trey. Thank you for joining us for a Tuesday edition of our podcast. We are joined today by a man literally in the middle of the storm. He's in the U.S. Senate. He ran for president. He's running the committee to ensure Republicans actually keep the Senate, which, by the way, is a thankless job with long hours and lots of travel.

He's also, by the way, chairing one of the most significant committees in all of Congress,

and yet he took the time, as he so often does, to offer a word of hope.

He could have written literally about anything in the world, fear, anger, division,

all the things that people try to monetize, but that's not who he is. So he wrote a book on

inspiration and hope and faith and about America, One Nation Always Under God, profiles in Christian courage.

By my friend, the man that will preach my funeral, Senator Tim Scott.

It comes out actually on my anniversary, August the 5th, assuming my wife hangs in there with me until then.

I think she has.

It's been 30-something years.

I haven't seen any signs of her letting

up. But who knows. Welcome, Mr. Chairman. How are you? Well, thank you, brother. I tell you what

I love you a lot, Trey. Your wife loves you in a different way, of course. But I will say that she'll

be there for the rest of your life. And chances of me preaching your funeral would require me

to live longer. And based on your diet and your fitness routine, the chances are low.

But if I am there when you go, I will preach your funeral because if you are there when I go,

I hope that you lie at my funeral.

So that is far as...

I will have to lie, but if you're running the Senate

reelect, you're right. That's going to take years off your life. The only hope I have is that

you keep running the Senate reelect committee. But I don't want to talk about politics. I want

to ask you, why this book and why now? For me, Trey, my life has been powerfully impacted by a risen Savior named Jesus, the

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