Amen.

Amen.

While you're standing, let's just pray together.

How about that?

Father, we're so thankful for the journey.

So thankful that we can look back over our lives and say without question,

you have been found faithful.

You've proven time and time again that you are the friend that sticks closer than a brother.

That you are the one that never leaves us and never forsakes us.

And we stand tonight on your promise that again we'll see that all things work together for the good of them that love you and are the called according to your purpose.

In Jesus' name, everybody say yes.

Amen.

You may be seated.

I'm going to switch some things up a little bit tonight that I had prepared, as oftentimes

happens when I get around what we call the movement, things start moving.

I'm honored to be here, Pastor Terry and Karen, Jason, Liz. Tony's now in the family. We'll be

interceding for him and praying for him. But we're thankful to be here, obviously, on behalf of

Tammy and my little guys, Elijah and Judah, who are getting to the age where they don't like for me

to leave home. So it makes it a little bit more difficult to leave.

But I believe over the summer I'm going to try to bring them out with me and we'll just enjoy some time out here together.

My wife has given me strict instructions that I'm not to go to Carmel while she's not here.

So I'll stay in Salina.

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