It's 12 noon on Wednesday, and we are live here at our makeshift little humble basement studio for another episode of the Pastor Mike drop podcast, and it's live.

Did I mention that?

It's live.

Thank you for tuning in.

Grab your Bibles.

We are going to start with a major prophet in the Old Testament, Isaiah.

Then we're going to go to minor or lesser epistles. You'll find out there's

nothing lesser about the lesser epistles. They pack a punch. So grab that Bible, pull up a chair,

and let's go.

Yeah. Welcome, everybody to the Pastor Mike Drap podcast. Welcome, co-host Emily.

Hello.

How are you today?

I'm great. How are you? You know, I'm excited. Yeah, I say this every week because it's God's word,

but I really am super excited. Isaiah is a major prophet. And it's always fun to talk about that. That text is

heavy and deep and hopeful and all those things. But Titus and Philemon, which are not exactly New Testament books

that we think about a lot or talk about a lot, but maybe that's not quite right, because as I said,

in the opener, they're short. They're relatively short letters from Paul. They're very short,

which makes our Bible reading easier this week, right? Everybody, you're welcome. You know, have a little quick read. But boy, do they pack a punch. And maybe you caught that as you're reading. Maybe you're like, really, do they? Because it sounds like same old, same old. Yeah, there's some repeated themes, but there's so much more to it. So, yeah, we're going to have a lot of fun. And we, I'm also excited about our panel of pastors, Emily.

Yes, we have Pastor Scott Raines lead campus pastor at Hope Ames.

No, Ankeny.

I used to say Ames when I first started.

Isn't that interesting?

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