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that'd be awesome. Eric, we're starting a new book today. We're down to two books left in the New Testament.

We've got this book. It seems like we've been saying that quite a bit lately.

Well, we're starting a new book today.

We're starting a new book today.

Yeah, this one will be in for a little bit longer than we've been in the last few.

That's for sure.

But, you know, there's two books left. we've got the book that we are going to start today and then we've got the book of revelation

of course now i just let you know what we were doing if you've been you know checking books off

we are going to be taking a look at james today and uh there's quite a bit that we kind of have to set up for James.

And there's a little preamble to this, to this episode.

There is because James, of course, has been a very controversial book.

I mean, just throughout really the entirety of the church's history, ever since it was included

in the canon. It is one of those disputed books that we've talked about when we went over second and

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