Hey guys, I want to walk you me to the Mosaic podcast. I'm Pastor Erwin and I fell

on McManus and just wanted to thank you for listening. In case you didn't know, I just

released a new book, it's called The Genius of Jesus, The Man Who Changed Everything.

And you can order it today at TheGeniusOfJesus.com.

You would think the theme the new would not be very new. But one of the great challenges

in this space of faith is that so oftentimes we're much more captivated by the old than

we are by the new. In fact, there's something about not just Christianity but religions as

a whole that it seemed to be better at holding on to the past than taking hold of the future.

And so there's attention sometimes because when we talk about the new, it seems so much

of the conversations around faith are really about fear of the new and a romantic relationship

to the old. I started doing some research just to remind myself what the struggle is

because one of the interesting things about something that's new is that once it's

embraced, it becomes the old. And so something doesn't really stay new forever. And there

are always different things I hear about realities that I have to go back and ask about. Is

that really real? I think we've probably all heard that every cell in our body regenerates

every seven years and that's almost true. There are some cells in our body that regenerate

every four or five days because they're connected to our stomach and our stomachs demand

the new. And there are some of our cells that take up to ten years to renew and then

it seems that our brain cells do not actually renew which is really disturbing. The only

part of us that actually gets older and older and older is our brain. But then there's

some new research in neurogenesis that says, maybe parts of the brain are new too and

I start thinking how strange it is that we are physiologically, biologically being made

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