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Hey, it's really great to have you here today as we finish a list that we started last week. And I do want to jump right in on this.

It took like half of last week's episode just to set

everything up. And then we looked at the first four pieces of these eight essentials to

strengthen your faith. Today, I want to pretty quickly get you back up to speed and remind you

what we're doing and then get into that numbers five through eight on the front end of the

episode. And it'll open up some opportunities to talk about a few other things at the end. So and then get into that numbers 5 through 8 on the front end of the episode,

and it'll open up some opportunities to talk about a few other things at the end.

So here's the short story. I'm holding a little booklet in my hand called The Core,

as I said, eight essentials to strengthening your faith.

This material is associated with the fellowship of Christian athletes,

which I learned this week is not just for college. They help high

schools and junior high and even youth levels. My son Luke has been loosely associated with them

throughout his college career, but more recently as a part of a special program at school

has been asked to do some prayer and teaching work on campus. And while he's not required to teach the content of this

book, they wanted him to know the basics of how they're approaching this program. They gave him two

copies, and so he let me have one, and I'm really glad that he did. We've started looking at this simple

process that if it had no association with any program, would be great for anyone anywhere, but we are applying it specifically to younger people,

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