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Noisemaker is the ally friend, author, John Eldridge.

Knucklehead.

Yeah, let's stop it, knucklehead.

It's good to be with you.

We're just continuing the conversation.

We've been enjoying these last couple of weeks.

Summer is winding down and John, you've written a new book beautiful outlaw and it's about

Jesus the life of Jesus and experiencing his life it's's coming out this October and you've got to give us a little

bit of the backstory. Where did this book come from? How did you stumble upon this?

What made you want to write about Christ?

Yeah. That is such a hard question to answer and because I've been asked it several times

recently as we're getting ready to announce and make folks aware that the beautiful outlaws coming.

And so Stacy answered it for me the other night when I was kind of speechless when somebody said,

so hey, you know, tell us about the backstory on this.

You know, why did you choose to write this?

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