Thank you. Welcome to a 30th anniversary conversation with Alastor Begg.

I'm Bob Lapine.

This is a special bonus edition of Truth for Life.

And today we're going to take some time to reflect on the 30 years that Truth for Life has

been on the radio.

And Alistair, I was thinking, as we came in here today, I was thinking about the biblical

warrant for what we're doing.

I was thinking about the scene in Joshua where God

instructs the children of Israel to gather stones from the riverbed and to create a memorial of

stones of remembrance so that the children don't forget the good things of God. And then I thought

of Psalm 78, where we see that pattern happening where the psalmist says,

we're going to pass this on to our children's children,

so nobody forgets the goodness of God.

And that's what we want to do in this conversation.

Look back and look at all that God has done,

and it's right and appropriate for us to do this biblically, right?

Yeah, I think so.

The tension in it,

of course, is, if there is a tension, is that sometimes looking back becomes a sort of forlorn

gaze at what was, and it prevents us realistically from looking around and looking forward. I know that's not what we're

trying to think about just now. But, you know, you'd put the scripture with scripture, you realize

that many times that God tells us not to forget things. And then you have the Apostle Paul who's grounded

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