Matt's mom here. We are here for Thanksgiving, and I want to take just a minute to thank you so much for supporting Matt and his family. We appreciate what he does, and I know you do too. And thanks. Philemen, yeah, philemen, yeah.

Hey, everybody, it's Matt.

This is the 10-minute Bible Hour podcast, and I tell you what, I have been enjoying sporting documentaries lately.

And, you know, obviously the big appeal of sports is that two teams

meet on the field of metaphorical battle at a scheduled time, and there will be a result,

and history will be made, and nobody knows what's going to happen. It's drama in real time.

I'm a sucker for that. It kind of tickles the same part of my brain as history stuff does.

But it all looks so simple

when you watch those games. They played. There was a score. Somebody won. Somebody lost. Somebody got

hurt. Oh, no. And then it's over and you move on. But what I like about these documentaries,

like The Last Dance, that told the story of the Chicago Bulls run of dominance in the

1990s, or this new one that just came out with my childhood football hero John Elway, or one I watched

about the rivalry between the Colorado Avalanche and the Detroit Red Wings. What I like about these

is they show you the massive complexity of what

is going on behind the scenes. And when you just look in a box score, when you look on the

internet, you're like, who won that game that day? It is all so simple. This is how much points

everybody scored from quarter to quarter. This was the final score. These were the

records at the end. But of course, so much more is going on. And these documentaries capture that.

Likewise, I feel like the last couple of weeks of working our way up to the time of the

letter of Philemon in the New Testament has been another one of those lessons in reality of just how

complicated stuff is. If you were one of the ones who were lucky enough to have a world sieve or

a Western sieve class in high school or college, and you think back to the part about

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