Welcome to Strange Encounters.

I'm Rick Burgess, your host.

Also, I host Monday through Friday, the Rick Burgess Show.

And if you would like to find out more information about that, go to Rick Burgess Show.com.

Strange Encounters, it is about spiritual warfare. I know it's very

trendy and popular for people to, you know, go out and explore the supernatural. And there's a lot

of, you know, podcasts out there and they get a lot of views and a lot of downloads because they're

talking about ghosts and aliens and monsters and all these things. But we wanted to take,

and I think Blaze Media for allowing it, to take a podcast and devote it to the supernatural, yes,

but from a biblical worldview because this is extremely

serious it is extremely important and you can have an unhealthy obsession with it but you also

can have an unhealthy ignorance about the supernatural so when i started thinking about this podcast and we're now in

episode seven, this book was delivered to me as soon as we start talking about the idea.

And the book is called what every Christian needs to know about spiritual warfare by Dana

Free. Her husband got this book to me. The research is

extensive. It is a powerful book. It is full of scripture, which drew me to it as a resource.

So I've been trying to look through it, to vet it out, to bring it to all of you out there.

And I just sense that this was the time to do it at this point in our journey with this podcast, Strange Encounters.

So without any more delay, we welcome the author, Dana Free, to Strange Encounters. Dana, how are you

today? I am blessed, so thankful to be here. Thank you for having me. So let's do this first.

What happened? How did you end up spending all this time on this very, very important, but at times

difficult topic of spiritual

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