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Beyond Today Production Update

The BT boys are in the studio this week taping new programs.

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[Gary Petty] Well, we're back this week in the Beyond Today studios where we're producing three new programs. And one of the programs we're going to be working on is about marriage. We hope it's actually going to be a series on why God created marriage and why Christians should work on and produce happy marriages the way God wants it. And, Steve, you're working on one on clean and unclean meats.

[Steve Myers] Yeah, clean and unclean meats is the topic of my program, but it takes a while to get to it because the whole issue of food, God wraps it around the idea of holiness and it separates us in what we think, what we eat, what we do—and it all comes together under the guise of, what is good behavior? What is wrong behavior? What is righteous and what is holy? And so we're hoping to put it together in an interesting way that will hold peoples' attention and really get them to check into their Bibles and what it really says about it.

[Darris McNeely] I've started a series, too, with my program this week called "Living in Modern Babylon." In Revelation 18, God says to His people about Babylon, "Come out of her My people. Do not be partakers of her sins" (Revelation 18:4). We've gone back to the book of Daniel and started with chapter 1 to show just exactly what that means through the life of Daniel and looking at prophecy a little bit differently in the book of Daniel. We're going to do a series. We started with chapter 1 where Daniel and his friends refuse to eat from the meat of the king's table. We'll move into chapter 2 and chapter 5—take certain stories out of the book of Daniel and show exactly how Daniel lived in Babylon of his day to draw lessons as to how you and I can live godly in modern Babylon today and in a sense, come out of her.

[Steve Myers] I think one of the interesting things about all three of our programs is they get down to a personal level so that here Daniel, a real person that relates to us—we can relate to Daniel. With my program the same way, that even what we eat and what we do relates to our personal life. Gary's, I think the interviews that he has on his program with married couples will really grab peoples' attention and see how those issues really tie into our own personal lives.

[Gary Petty] So we really encourage you to watch the programs right here online. That's today's BT Daily.

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Darris McNeely

Darris McNeely works at the United Church of God home office in Cincinnati, Ohio. He and his wife, Debbie, have served in the ministry for more than 43 years. They have two sons, who are both married, and four grandchildren. Darris is the Associate Media Producer for the Church. He also is a resident faculty member at the Ambassador Bible Center teaching Acts, Fundamentals of Belief and World News and Prophecy. He enjoys hunting, travel and reading and spending time with his grandchildren.

Gary Petty

Gary Petty is a 1978 graduate of Ambassador College with a BS in mass communications. He worked for six years in radio in Pennsylvania and Texas. He was ordained a minister in 1984 and has served congregations in Longview and Houston Texas; Rockford, Illinois; Janesville and Beloit, Wisconsin; and San Antonio, Austin and Waco, Texas. He presently pastors United Church of God congregations in Nashville, Murfreesboro and Jackson, Tennessee.

Gary says he's "excited to be a part of preaching the good news of God's Kingdom over the airwaves," and "trusts the material presented will make a helpful difference in people's lives, bringing them closer to a relationship with their heavenly Father."

Steve Myers

Steve is the Operation Manager for Ministerial and Member Services of the United Church of God. He is also an instructor at Ambassador Bible College and served as a host on the Beyond Today television program.  Together, he and his wife, Kathe, have served God and His people for over 30 years.