You are listening to the Passion City Church podcast to learn more about

Passion City Church, including our gathering times in Atlanta and Washington, D.C.

visit us online at PassionCityChurch.com. Today's talk comes from author and

speaker Lee Strobel.

Thanks so much. Thank you so much. It is truly an honor and a privilege to be here.

I think of Passion City, I think of that passage where Jesus is delivering the

sermon on the Mount and he talks about a city on a hill. And that's how I

picture Passion City, a city on a hill that shines this message of God's

grace and hope all over the planet. And so I come here with awe and wonder at

what God is doing through this great church. So thank you for being here. I'm

privileged to be here. My wife Leslie is with me as well. And I don't like

got to be honest and say after what happened to me in Little Rock, Arkansas, I'm

glad to be anywhere. Because I was in Little Rock to speak at a charity event.

And this pastor picks me up from the airport and we're driving to the event.

And we're chatting along the way and he says, yeah, he says, I told the young

woman in our church. I said, Lee Strobel's going to speak tonight. She said, oh,

I think I wrote the case for Christ. Is he still living? I'm glad to be

anywhere after that. I'm glad to be breathing after that. But Leslie and I

recently moved to Houston, Texas. Any former Texans here? Yeah, few. Yeah.

These smart ones came this way. But we got our phone number assigned to us by

the telephone company when we moved into our house. And you may think, yeah, big

deal. It was a big deal to us. Because no kidding. When we lived in Chicago, the

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