Speaker 1: What is up everyone?
Speaker 1: My name is Ryan Braley and I am the pastor of Central, a church and a people that I love in the greatest city of Minnesota.
Speaker 1: Of course I'm talking about Elk River, minnesota, and here's what we're up to.
Speaker 1: I want to experiment a bit with our new podcast format and once a week release a short five minute episode that, basically, is a reflection on something that I've been thinking about or reading about or that's just got me excited lately, or maybe even some tangents from some sermons that I couldn't quite dive into on that Sunday morning, or just anything I want to kind of riff on each week midweek.
Speaker 1: That will hopefully be an encouragement for you.
Speaker 1: They'll be short, I promise they'll be digestible five minutes or less and hopefully the juices going for you, enough to kind of kickstart you and your friends to do some digging and reflecting on your reflecting on your own, with your friends or family or neighbors, or even just by yourself.
Speaker 1: And if there are things I think that are interesting to me or that I find compelling, then hopefully you'll find them interesting and compelling as well.
Speaker 1: So each week we'll put one up on our podcast page.
Speaker 1: Be sure to tune in and even subscribe there and you'll get a new reflection of five minute one every week on Wednesdays.
Speaker 1: Give them a listen, let me know you think.
Speaker 1: And here's a snippet from our very first episode that comes out next week.
Speaker 1: Check it out, hello everybody.
Speaker 1: Shalom, mike Shalom, what's up everyone?
Speaker 1: My name is Ryan Braily.
Speaker 1: I'm the pastor of Central.
Speaker 1: I'm here in the studio with Mike Lauer, our director of music.
Speaker 1: How you doing, mike?
Speaker 1: I'm living the dream.
Speaker 1: Shalom, my brother, shalom, hey.
Speaker 1: Shalom, if you haven't heard already, is one of my favorite words in the Hebrew language.
Speaker 1: I love it.
Speaker 1: It's this ancient Hebrew word.
Speaker 1: I talk about it all the time, in fact, in every wedding ceremony that I do, I always include this idea of Shalom when talking about the rings.
Speaker 1: Now, shalom is this ancient Hebrew word often used as a greeting, meaning goodbye or hello.
Speaker 1: Even that simply means peace.
Speaker 1: It's, or is, translated as peace in the English, and so when Jews or other people use it as a greeting, it's something like saying hey, peace to you, or peace be upon you as we part ways.
Speaker 1: And it's beautiful, actually, the book of Leviticus.
Speaker 1: I mean.
Speaker 1: Look, every good podcaster knows that one way to gain an audience is to quote from the wonderful and thoroughly timeless book of Leviticus.
Speaker 1: Amen, mike, amen.
Speaker 1: The book of Leviticus says this.
Speaker 1: I will grant that my friends is what they call in the business ATs.
Speaker 1: So tune in next Wednesday for the full episode and let me know.
Speaker 1: You think we'll talk to you soon.