Greetings and salutations. Welcome back to life and books and everything. I hope you had a great summer. I'm joined, as always, with Colin Hansen and our patient resonator, as his name says on my screen.

Justin Taylor, we have some fun things in store for you with this season two, as we're calling

it.

We have several interviews lined up over the next few months.

And we're taking things up a notch.

We have a producer.

So he is going to produce things and help us.

Hi, Caleb.

Hey, Caleb.

We are going to look good, as we've said before.

We got three faces for podcast radio right here,

but he's going to at least make us sound good. And making this all possible, we have a sponsor

for today's program, which we are very grateful for. None other than Crossway. All of us have

worked with Crossway. Some of us work for Crossway. We are very

grateful to have their support. We love their books. We love working with them and we love benefiting

from the resources that they put out. There are lots of Christian publishers. But with Crossway,

you know that you have men and women

working there who care very much about the content, about the truth of God's Word, about not

just selling books. Every book publisher has to sell some books, but more importantly,

they want to edify and build up the church. And so I love Crossway, and I'm glad to have them for our sponsor of today's program.

In particular, we want to highlight the book by Dane Ortland, Gentle and Lowly.

And when I look at a new book, I do look at the blurbs, not so much to see who blurbed it, though that can matter,

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