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Well, I do love books. I love them. I love reading them. I love writing them. I

mean, I just think books are so important. Americans are reading less every

year, they say, but readers are leaders and leaders are readers, and there is

such a power in reading. And so I would just encourage you in that. And that's

for me why it is so important to continue to write. And we did, as your pastor

said, release this new book, The Last Supper on the Moon. We brought some.

They're with us. This came out in January. It was the culmination of several

years of my life. And honestly, one of the most rewarding and difficult projects

have ever undertaken. A lot of people don't know that the first thing ever eaten

on the moon was The Last Supper. That when Buzz and Neil back in 1969 landed on

the lunar surface, that one small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind was

preceded by Buzz Aldrin opening a pouch and taking out wine and taking out bread

and eating and drinking after reading from John's Gospel. And the beginning of

life on this new planet began with acknowledging the one who shed his blood and

his body was broken for us. That's pretty powerful. The Last Supper on the Moon.

That's where the title comes from. But the book is not about the moon. The book is

not about NASA or about space, though it uses that as an analogy all throughout. The book

is my love letter to the cross and my thanking God for what he has done in giving us his

son Jesus Christ. And I began writing the book after a year of putting it off because

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