Once upon a time there were whole professional classes of people who understood that to participate in them was a yielding of service to your life, meaning you would forfeit some things.

Ministry was certainly one of those helping professions.

So was health care.

Long before we had big pharma, teachers are a helping profession.

Our first responders are helping professions.

If you take that list, they have been systematically deconstructed,

questioned in the public arena, told they're unimportant.

We need them.

We need our children to understand how valuable you.

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Now it's on to Pastor Allen. Be blessed.

You've been doing a little study on the theme of God is moving and I believe that. I believe the the activity of God is more

evident in recent months and years than at any time in my lifetime.

Now for fairness I also have to say the expressions of evil seem to be more blatant and brazen than ever.

I believe that fits a biblical pattern that we've talked

about in other settings. I won't revisit that so that it requires of us a

purposeful intentional focus on what God is doing. And you won't primarily get that from the typical news sources.

Bad news tends to gather more attention, attract more clicks.

And so most sources lead with news

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