Friends, welcome to the Ransom Harr podcast here in October. Happy autumn to you all.

John Eldridge here in the studio with some of my friends. Blaine Alex, Sam here to share some

stories with you but before we get there and before you hear why I invited these guys in,

been starting the podcast with a statement of faith almost, a creedle proposition, and it goes like this that this is a very brutal time to be

human. This is a ruthless time on our humanity. And God cares very much about your humanity.

That wholeheartedness and maturity are not an option and we just don't want to

tiptoe around those issues we don't want to pretend like you can skate.

You can't skate.

And so we're trying to shoot straight

in the things that we do and we do want to talk about mature living.

And so there it is. It's a brutal time to be a human being. God cares very much about your

humanity, but wholeheartedness and maturity are actually not been in the

been in the studio than just survive and the three of you have actually not been in the studio

when I have started a podcast with that

because I only began it about a month ago.

React to it. Like what...

Dang it.

Really? Really?

Really?

I can't skate by? Come on. Yeah, initial reaction. Somewhat that. But, but no, you're right. You're right, like it is. It causes me to take a little bit of inventory of where I'm at and am I paying attention to my soul and am I paying attention to my wholeheartedness.

Yeah. In some ways I am and in some ways I'm you know there is a bit of yeah I'm hoping to escape by in some

respects if I'm being truthful and honest. We want you to be? Yeah. Yeah, I think for me, I'm aware that it's hard to

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