In January of 2013 we launched a little podcast into the world we called it Ask

Pastor John. We slapped a little jingle on the front end hit publish on a

temporary podcast meant to

last us 15 months or so just to fill up a short little need we had here at

desiring God and Pastor John. Here we are at 2,000 episodes later.

Can't even remember those days.

I know, it seems like a distant memory.

And I think I used to call you up on your phone.

You used your landline phone for those early years. Remember that?

Down in Tennessee.

Yep.

2,000 episodes later, we're now into our 12th year and today we look back, we look back

at what God has done in the past years of ApoJ and we look forward with prayers for the future

and prayers for what God might do in a new Apj book.

That's the book that releases today.

More on that in a moment.

As we start off, Pastor John, just tell us how this podcast fits

within your ministry legacy. How do you think of it now 12 years in? My parents

built into me from the time I could read, that's about six years old when we moved into the house I'm thinking about, a passion for legacy.

And I didn't know that at the time.

I didn't know what legacy was, but that's what it was, because hanging on the wall in our kitchen,

and it hangs behind me right now where I'm standing in my study,

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