Hello and welcome to Pastor Mike Drop Live in this year where together we are reading the whole holy Bible and I am so so excited.

I'm joined as always by my co-host Emily.

Hello.

How are you, Emily?

I'm great.

How are you?

Good.

Welcome back.

And we have two other guests.

Would you like to introduce them? Yes. Pastors, Amanda

Neppel and Jeremy Johnson. Welcome. Thank you. Thanks for having us. It's going to be fun.

Glad you're here. You know, this is the first time we've ever done this podcast live.

It might be the last time. I was going to say, I'll do this last.

It's going to be great. Well, our last appearance, I think we should confess right up front.

To say that we typically do this in one take would be dishonest.

It would not be true in the history of this.

But I love the aspect of us doing this life.

And because we're reading through the Bible life, We're living our lives with mistakes and all and

errors along the way. So we'll do our best. And we also embrace fully this responsibility

we really have as a church to do everything we can, not just to tell you to read the Bible,

not just to encourage you. You know, our theme this year is read it, learn it, and live it.

We want people to read it for sure, but we also want them to learn,

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