Dear Fellow Believers,

Okay, here we go back to the ZenderTalks of 2001. Thank you for your valuable input concerning the AI Podcast presentation of last week. I think I will publish the one other podcast Rodney put together, and then I think I'll put that idea to bed. A saint said to me, "If someone newly interested in the truth listens to a podcast they really like but then discovers it's AI, it might really turn them off." Boy, that hit me hard. I think it's true. So next Sunday will be the last Artificial Intelligence production we'll do. From now on: Actual Intelligence.

These ZenderTalk shows today are entertaining and educational, as you've come to expect. I talk about the goofy Christian song, "I walk with Him and I talk with Him"; I suppose it's a sweet sentiment, but what will we say when we actually walk and talk with Jesus?

It may be the third show when, lo and behold, I talk about Roger—they guy who tried to raise the dead. If I had known that this story was coming up in ZenderTalk, I never would have done an MZTV about it last week. I'm just about Rogered-out! What's funny is that my story hasn't changed much even though there have been 24 ensuing years since the first telling. Somebody please remind me not to talk about Roger again, at least for another 24 years.

Show #29 is a dandy. I remember the day I was walking the 2 miles to work at 5:30 in the morning from my house out in the farmy suburbs of Greenwich, OH, to my office "downtown," and it hit me why there was only one God. I won't give up the secret and the surprise here, but this is a rather honest confession. For those who think that believing God creates evil for His purposes is the same as loving the evil God creates—this is the show for you.

This handful of shows ends with a discussion of Nebuchadnezzar's dream and why the coming Millennial kingdom will be an actual political kingdom.

I am so thankful for all of you who have contributed to this work. God puts it on your heart. I have counted on God for 31 years to keep this work alive as long as He wants to keep it alive. He does that by putting it on the hearts of the saints to support the work. To me, this is God telling me He wants it to keep going. And so I'm not going to rest. I'm not going to take a day off. As long as you have put a portion of your hard-earned money toward the furtherance of this work, I will keep grinding away. You're betting on the right horse, and I will not let you down, or our Lord.

This is how I feel. People have told me, "Cut yourself some slack," and "You've got to learn to relax." But no. I don't want to do either thing. I am running the last leg of the most important and glorious relay race there has ever been. Who the heck slows down during the last lap? Not me.

Anyone who wants to contribute to this work may do so at the following link. There is no obligation to do so. Never has been, never will be. Nope, not even the subtlest of pressure. For all who contribute, it's a glad thing of the heart. The only thing I ever say is that this is a grass-roots operation and that it's you–literally YOU—who keep me going. Oh yes, and I do say, "I have never required a contribution toward the work, but I've never turned one down either."

Here is the link. There are different ways to help:
https://martinzender.com/donation_mz.htm

To those who want to help or who have helped, THANK YOU from the bottom of my Zender heart. I'm not about to stop now.

Grace, peace, and love to all of you,

—Martin