Welcome to the conversations that matter podcast. I'm your host John Harris. It is July 3rd

2024. Tomorrow is of course the 4th of July and I'm getting ready. I got my meat all seasoned up at least I'm in the

process of that. Got some good rubs I got this weird rub that's Cherry Coke

for pulled pork. It'll be Cherry Coke flavored pulled pork. That'll be interesting.

Got some ribs, got some brisket. My wife, of course this is the first 4th of July with my

daughter and my wife got someone sent her this American flag dress and so I was a boy scout I know

flag etiquette not supposed to be wearing the flag but I found a work around here I'm just

going to have to salute my daughter every time I walk in the room and see her in that cute dress that she's going to be wearing. That's the only thing I can think of. So, anyway, I'm having a good time. It's a great weather. I hope you are and hope you get to see some fireworks

and maybe even read the Declaration of Independence.

That's a great tradition if you have kids old enough

to understand it, especially.

I want to talk today though about something completely different

well maybe not completely but it's very different and that is women and

leadership women in leadership and this has come up quite a bit lately and so I just

want to share my thoughts on it there's quite a bit of things to think

through quite a bit of situations that people have asked me about and I have

some thoughts on it so that's really the long and short of it so before we get

there I just want to share a little bit with you about equipping the persecuted. If you care about

our Nigerian brothers and sisters in Christ who are under attack for their faith from

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Did you know that more Christians are persecuted for their faith in Nigeria than in every other country of the world

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