Leave us a five-star review on your favorite podcast platform. I get it. It's annoying. Everybody

asks, but I'm going to tell you why. When you give us a positive review, what that does is it

triggers the algorithm so that our podcast shows up on more people's news feeds. You and I both know

that this ministry is willing to talk about things that most ministries aren't. We need

this content for the glory of God to reach more people's ears. Another hero has fallen.

Voddy Bakum has just passed away yesterday due largely to heart troubles.

That's part of why he returned with his wife and children from Zambia to the states where he was

born and raised to finish out his life here. Many had hoped that that life would have been

longer. I know that founders' ministries,

especially as mourning his loss, they had plans and vision. With Tom Askell to do things in the future,

Vodibakum was a reformed Baptist pastor. He was a husband and a father, and most importantly,

he was a follower of Jesus Christ. He was faithful,

he was courageous, he was early when it came to pushing back against

whokeness in DEI as early as 2012, one of the first guys to speak against these kinds of things,

and he will be missed dearly.

In this last couple of years, we have had many heroes fall suddenly, suddenly.

Not just, you know, people always die.

But we've had many heroes in the faith dying all around the near time in very recent days, weeks, months,

and just a few short years. We've seen MacArthur, John MacArthur pass away. We saw Charlie

Kirk just a couple weeks ago assassinated. Now Voddy Bakum has passed away. We've seen other

ministers disqualify themselves,

such as Steve Lawson, and it seems as though God is doing something. So in this episode,

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