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bringing you conversations every single day that hopefully inspire you in your faith walk

that deepen your understanding of god's word and that heightens your awareness of his very real

presence in your life.

Well, my friend Tom Doyle was supposed to join me today to talk about a faith update from the Middle

East and we haven't been able to get a hold of him. He and I were just texting literally an hour ago

and so he knows he's on and maybe, okay, we got him, we got him. Yay. You know what? To work on live radio, can I just tell you,

you need nerves of steel? And I didn't start out with nerves of steel, and I would just tell

you I still don't have nerves of steel. I get that little nausea thing going on, but hey, we're good.

So I want to just tell you about Tom. We are going to be drawing from his book, standing in the fire. In fact, we've got four copies to give away today.

The subtitle is Courageous Christians Living in Frightening Times.

And this book, I've said this before about Tom Doyle's books.

You literally have to remind yourself to breathe because they read like novels.

There's just one heroic story after another of Muslims coming to faith and then their life suddenly being in danger and the persecution in the Middle East.

These stories like live and breathe so you don't want to read them at night before bed because you won't sleep.

But we've got four copies to give away today.

You can text the word book to get in on the drawing.

That number is 877-933-24-844.

877-933-24-84. Hey, say a little prayer for me because I need to bring my heart right down now just a little bit.

A few of the things we'll talk about today are orphans and the secret police in Syria, the Gaza Strip Underground Church, Christians in Pakistan, that they're set

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