Hey, friends, welcome back to another episode of Theology in the raw. My guest today is my new friend, Dave Bricky, who I got to know over this last year or so.

Dave has served in the local church in various pastoral roles for 23 years. He's currently lead pastor of Church of the Open Door in Maple Grove, Minnesota, just outside Minneapolis.

You might be familiar with the church

because they are hosting this year's Exiles in Babylon Conference. That's how Dave and I got to know

each other. We get requests from churches around the country to host the Exiles Conference. And,

you know, we have to kind of weigh, you know, what, you know, looks like a good fit, what fits in

with our schedule and everything. And man, I just, we immediately resonated so much with the heart of Dave and

his team. They were so eager to host this conference. And you'll see why, as you get to know,

Dave, in this conversation. While I'm on the theme of exiles, if you want to register for

conference, theology intherrod.com,

space is filling up. I think it's less than a month away. So if you do plan on attending live,

you're going to want to register ASAP. There's also the live stream option that you can do as well.

If you can't make it out to Minneapolis, I would highly encourage you. If it all possible for you to get out and make it out in person. There's just something about that in-person

experience. It's just really special. We've got lots of breakouts. We've got a pre-conference with

the Holy Post is going to be there. Lots of after parties and so many cool things happening along

with just all the stuff we're going to talk about at the conference.

So the Algera.com and, yeah, April 3rd to 5th in Minneapolis.

All right.

Please welcome to the show for the first time.

The one and only pastor, Dave Bricky. All right, Dave Bricky, man, I am looking for this conversation.

I'm going to assume most of my audience probably doesn't know who you are.

So why don't you give us a little bit of background?

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