Desiring God's messages podcast, listeners, hello to you.

This is Tony Ranky host of Ask Pastor John, a podcast I've been honored to host and produce now for over a decade.

And in that first decade, we produced about 2,000 episodes

over 220 hours worth of content. It's a huge archive and it's so huge that I now feel the weight of trying to figure out how do I steward all of that content

so that it remains useful to you in the future when you need it.

Over the years friends have emailed me to help navigate the archive and to find the right

APJ episode to answer some pressing dilemma in their life or in their church.

And I would take their question, go hunting in the archive and inevitably I would come

away with two or three or four episodes sometimes ten or more episodes even little parts of

episodes that seemed relevant to help answer their question.

And so I had to figure out how to communicate all of that in one email back and

not overwhelm them with a bunch of content and a bunch of episodes to listen to.

So to do what I did is I put on my journalist's hat and I responded with a written out

digest of all the relevant episodes and what they say.

Over time people said that these digests were really helpful for benefiting from the full archive,

not just from one episode.

So a couple years back, I wondered, what if I took our 750 most popular episodes,

the most broadly applicable ones, and made one huge digest to cover all those essential episodes.

At first this idea was completely overwhelming to me, but I chipped away at it, and after two years, I had completed a 550-page digest of all those

essential episodes, all organized under 28 categories. That book is now done. A big red hardcover book

and encyclopedia that just launched under the title Ask Pastor John 750 Bible Answers to life's most important

questions. Now available online and discounted right now through a Christian

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