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Oh, my goodness.

Welcome to the show, friends.

Greg Kokel here, and the show is called Stand 2 Reason.

I have not been in the saddle here for a few weeks.

I've been in Wisconsin.

Of course, we arrange for you to get shows on a regular basis.

I put a lot of shows in the can before I take off, and so you are not left as orphans,

but that means you haven't been able to talk with me directly

for a while, because I haven't been sitting here to receive your calls.

If you are listening through live streaming, now's the time.

855-243-9-975 is the number.

I am here alive and well, and glad to be so.

So give us a call on that number, and the rest of you know that if you want to call in during our regular show time, which is 4 to 6 on, what's today, Tuesday afternoons, early evening, Los Angeles time. You can dial up that number. 855.

243-975. Normally I would give you a little rundown on some of the crazy things that happened while I was spending time at our cabin of sorts on the lake in northern Wisconsin.

Something else, a little event, has eclipsed that, and that is that we lost a soldier

yesterday, more than a soldier, but a general of sorts in the faith.

John MacArthur, at 86 years old, went to be with the Lord

yesterday. And I often think when someone like him passes away and doesn't just pass away, they go home to be with Jesus, whom

they've served. In John MacArthur's case, for many, many years, he died at 86. And I don't know how soon he started

pastoring Grace Community Church, but I went to that church. I didn't attend as a regular

member, but I would go there. I lived in the Westwood area, and he's in the valley,

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