Welcome to the Eric Mataxas show with your host Eric Mataxas.

Hey there folks, welcome today I believe is Friday. If today's Friday that means tomorrow's Saturday

which also means that tomorrow is the 20th anniversary of 9-11. Can it really be 20 years?

20 years isn't what it used to be. Time moves faster evidently than it used to. But if you have to talk about something depressing and dark like what happened 20 years ago,

it's good to talk to friends that you love and I just happen to have pulled two of them off the street. They are my friends pastor Ron Lewis and his wife Lynette Lewis.

I love having you both here. Thanks for coming in.

I'd love to be in here with you friends.

We've been friends for Lynette. We've been friends for a long time and then you married this guy and now even we've been friends for a long time.

When 9-11 happened, you and Suzanne and I and our friends had just spent a lot of the summer together. It's amazing. It's 20 years ago.

I want to talk about your lives. I want to talk about 9-11 but I guess I want to start. You have a book out now. It is called Miracles of Manhattan.

Miracles in Manhattan. Can you tell my audience how to get this lovely product?

Sure. Well the website is Miracles of Manhattan.NYC.

Because if you go to the wrong Miracles of Manhattan, it's like a new age event. Have you seen that?

I have. Yeah it's like a new age. New age equals demonic. Not that there's anything wrong with that. We're not judging.

Hey, whatever. But so if they want to find like God's Miracles, it's Miracles in Manhattan.NYC.

Right. Okay. So what is it?

Yeah. So we've compiled 50 incredible stories that of people that we know who claim that they have experienced a miracle.

And we know them well enough to know that they have their credible. These are CEOs and and sports heroes and and great people working in public spaces and the United Nations.

People in Manhattan who all claim that they were destitute. They were broke. They were broken. And then God came through broke through in their lives and did an absolute transformational miracle in their lives. Okay. Now why is it miracles in Manhattan?

Because that's where we started. We started. I was unlike you guys. I wasn't here on 9 11 on 9 13 though. I drove into the city with some other pastor friends. And when we were in the city.

God put in our hearts that he wanted us to do more than pass out water and pray for the city. He actually wanted us to launch a church and a theater opened up an off Broadway theater in Manhattan in Times Square. And we launched there a month and a half after 9 11.

We launched an Eric. We had it to our great surprise. We had an influx of people from every walk of life began to come to us. And we began to witness over this last 20 years life after life being transformed by Jesus Christ.

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