Welcome back to a new week on the Ask Pastor John podcast and last week Pastor John you

shared with us 15 lessons on writing from your recent six week writing leave and now

it's finally time to talk about what you wrote.

So give us a little preview of your new book.

So I started the six week writing leave with the expectation that I would write a book

on how to use the Bible to the greatest to get the greatest treasures out of it.

How do you look at the book and benefit from the book?

I was a good five weeks into this project before I gave that up.

I thought that's where I was going and 90,000 words later that's not where I went.

Here's how it happened.

I was writing and I thought well I've got to at least say something at the beginning of the book

on how we know the Bible is true, how we know it's the word of God, how we can put any confidence

in it so that we're warranted in spending so much time trying to look at the book.

Well that initial question took over, it just took over and that's what the book is about.

If I were to title the book now, it would be a peculiar glory,

colon, subtitle, how the Christian scriptures reveal that they are true or something like that.

So and this idea of a peculiar glory is the new and fresh thing.

So I tell my story in the in the book, my story with the Bible, my whole life from six

years old until today on my life with the Bible. That's a chapter in the book and the fresh

thing about that chapter is I don't talk about how did I manage to hold on to a view to the Bible

through college and seminary and German liberal graduate school and my answer is I didn't hold

on to a view of the Bible. A view through the Bible held on to me. Oh that's good.

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