Well, welcome to culture and Christianity. It's a big day for us. This is our 100th episode. It's our first episode of 2026, but it just happens to be our 100th episode. So I hope you're a frequent flyer. We had the team. We were just talking about the journey a little bit and what we

learned. This really got initiated by the folks I work with. We were talking about the ministry

and the various aspects of the ministry and the different ways we communicate. And it's a pretty

diverse list of things that we do beyond just sermons and church. And there was a group of people

that were pretty insistent that a podcast was an important

component of the ministry.

And I was probably a little bit skeptical.

And so 100 episodes in, I confess, they were right.

I like the format.

I like the opportunity to be able to talk about things a little more casually without

all the same kind of

focused preparation that sometimes goes into the other things that I am asked to do. And I feel like

I've made a whole new set of friends. I've enjoyed the interviews, the people we've gotten to talk to,

the diversity of that. You know, not everybody that you'd want to bring into the middle of a

worship service for a sit-down conversation. But this podcast has helped us do that. So I hope it's been a benefit to you.

I hope it has strengthened your faith. I hope it's opened your heart to the Lord a new way.

I hope it's brought some clarity in the midst of a candidly, often very confusing world.

And I hope sometimes it's made you laugh because I'm a smart aleck,

and that's not a bad thing if we laugh a little bit once in a while.

I've enjoyed all the guests.

I mean, it's too long a list to start through, or I'll leave somebody out and I'll get in trouble.

But it's been a great run.

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