Father, we are grateful that you are a personal God.

And Father, as we talk this week and we hear from people who you have found,

who Father, you have brought to new life in Christ,

the Father, we would be not only convinced of your love

for the whole world but that Father you'd be convinced of your love for us but

Father you are pursuing each one of us, you're patient with us.

Even times we neglect you and walk away from you,

even times maybe we even deny you.

The Father, you are a loving Father, and you desire a friendship as you call it with us.

I pray you'd speak through our speakers all this week but I pray especially you'd

speak through Jim as he speaks to us today and that Father his

story would encourage us not only to keep your love and salvation to ourselves but

to give it away to the people that we meet as well.

Pray you be with us in this short time together today.

It's in your son's name.

We pray, amen.

Well, last week in chapel, I introduced kind of the theme

and where we were going this week and Luke chapter 15

Jesus gives three stories and he talks about a lost coin a lost sheep and a lost son

Right in the middle of that chapter Luke Luke 1510, he stops and he says, listen, in the same way

when you find something valuable, maybe you've lost your phone, maybe you've lost something,

right? The rejoicing that goes on he says the same way there's

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