Greetings and salutations.

Welcome back to life and books and everything.

Hope you had a great summer as we get things started with a new fall season.

I'm Kevin DeYoung, senior pastor at Christ's Covenant Church in Matthews, North Carolina.

Good to have you listening or watching, wherever you may be.

Joined here with moderately special guests, Justin Taylor and Colin Hansen,

to kick off the new season, get caught up on our summers and

reading and talk about various other insundry matters. I do want to thank a couple of our sponsors

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Colin, Justin. Let's just start because as we're recording

this is the day after the Olympics and at least in our house, we watched a lot of Olympics.

If it was good, we'd watch it again in prime time. Good, meaning the Americans won medals.

I know we have an international audience, a huge international audience.

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