Hey, hey, back porches. I am tickled to tell you about a brand new book by my friend Mary Wiley

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Today's conversation on Back Porch Theology was actually recorded in Montana with my dear, dear friends who are actually more like siblings now, Pastor Levi and Jenny Lusco.

We've been friends for a pretty long time, but after doing a Christmas tour on a bus last year with our kiddos, we morphed into kind of a blended family and begin calling ourselves the Huskos.

When you spend weeks together in the equivalent of an extended RV and you have to make

restroom stops at rural gas stations in the middle of the night, in the middle of nowhere,

you bond for life, baby.

I laughed so hard while we were on the road together.

I kept getting stomach cramps, which, of course, I hoped would give me a six-pack, alas, all of our late-night snacks at Buckees had a much greater effect on my

abdomen. Of course, interwoven with all of our fun and all of our laughter, Jenny and Levi and I

also shared some tears because we've all suffered some devastating losses.

Real life and real relationships include joy and pain, heartwarming moments and heartbreaking

seasons.

I know authenticity and Christianity aren't always synergistic in modern culture, but they

sure should be.

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