Greetings and salutations.

Welcome to Life and Books and Everything.

I'm Kevin DeYoung, Senior Pastor at Christ Given to Church in Matthews, North Carolina.

I am joined by my moderately special guests.

They are very special, but they just,

they've been here many times,

so the specialness is worn off somewhat,

but they're all equally special in our hearts.

Justin Taylor and Colin Hansen,

welcome back to my friends.

And if anyone has the pleasure of watching this online,

you can see some glistening sunburns off of my fair,

fair-skinned friends. So what did you say, Colin? You were meant for northern Scandinavia.

Well, yeah, not just Scandinavia. You've got to go to the northern parts of Scandinavia. The parts

where they just never get, you know, they're just dark all the time. Yeah, that's pretty much what works for me and my family. And what's your excuse, Justin? I'm just glistening red and brown out in the Iowa Sun watching softball. I said this to somebody yesterday.

Now, I have great memories of my two years in Iowa, so any Orange City people listening,

we had a happy time there.

But of all the places I've lived, I think that was the worst weather.

It's, you don't really get a reprieve in the summer. It's humid. It's still beastly hot. It's you don't really get a reprieve in the summer.

It's humid.

It's still beastly hot.

It's windy all the time.

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