Let the peace of Christ ruin your hearts, since as members of one body, you are called to peace and be thankful.

This is the word of the Lord.

Good morning, everybody.

Peace be with you in the language of Jesus. It is so good to see you. Goodness, my heart is just full of joy.

Our family's doing well, but we miss you terribly.

And think of you way more than is healthy, I'm sure.

But we love you so much.

I feel like this is a terrible analogy, because I'm not your parent in any way.

But our eldest is gone.

He's left home, hopefully, forever,

on a gap year, and I have to discipline myself to not, like, call and text him every single day,

half out of fear, in his case, not with you, and half out of love, but I just have to,

you just have to let him go and hope they come back,

but not come back, come back.

Some of you are not at that stage yet, it will make sense someday.

Anyway, that's how I feel with you.

I just think of you way more than you know with so much love and affection in my heart

for you and for Tyler and the incredible team here.

It's just such an honor to come back and see you all thriving

in fidelity to Jesus in a city that is certainly not faithful to Jesus.

We're really happy to be with you.

Please turn in your Bibles to Colossians chapter 3 if you're not already there.

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