Welcome to the Sword and Trial podcast.

The Sword and Trial is a ministry of Founders Ministries and Founders

Exists for the Recovery of the Gospel and the Reformation of local churches.

I'm Tom Askell.

And I'm Graham Gundin. We're delighted to have you join us for this special edition of the

Sword and Trial as we get to visit with our friends from Idaho, and we'll introduce them to those

of you that may not know them. I doubt we have anybody who doesn't really know them. And then

we're going to have what we hope will be a very fruitful conversation.

But before that, let me mention to you some exciting things going on with the Institute of

Public Theology. There are some developments that have happened over the last couple of months

that I think are just full of tremendous potential. We hope to make some formal announcements

here in January about what the Lord has been doing with that new institute and the opportunities that we're going to have going forward for students.

Let me mention one other specific thing is that right now we do have, through the kindness of some donors, an opportunity to match any gift, any tax-deductible gift you give to the Institute

of Public Theology will be doubled. And so if the Lord has enabled you to invest in sending

missionaries to the future, pastors to churches and generations to come that will be well-trained

and be challenged to think theologically, rigorously so about the day in which we live,

we would encourage you to consider investing in the Institute of Public Theology. If I can help you

with more information about that, don't hesitate to contact me. We also have the Founders Conference

coming up in January. Where else would you rather be in January than Southwest Florida? And we

anticipate that selling out the way the tickets are going right now.

Registrations have been great.

So if you're interested in coming, you need to register soon.

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