Amen. And amen. Good morning and welcome. So glad you're here. You can be seated.

I want to welcome those of you that are joining us online as well. We're so glad that you are.

Before we get started, I need to mention two things that I already announced Tuesday at our prayer meeting and then again on Thursday at our Bible study.

First, we would covet your prayers for my wife Kelly, who has been battling breast cancer.

I hope you know this about us.

We are not seeking pity, only prayer. Please pray.

We've known about it for several months, but now it seems to already be spreading into the lymph nodes.

We didn't go public with this back in the summer because we didn't want any unnecessary attention on us.

My amazing wife, for those of you who know my wife, she's amazing.

For those of you who don't know my wife, she's amazing.

But she's also very private, as you know, and she has faithfully and continually reminded me that I'm to keep my hands to the plow and preach the word as I'm so privileged to in this his church.

So I've sought to do that over the last several months.

But be that as it may, secondly, I am going to take some time off starting tomorrow and returning, Lord willing, and if we're still here,

Tuesday, January 9th for our next prayer meeting, not January 2nd.

We're not going to do it the day after New Year's.

So we're going to have our prayer meeting on Tuesday, January night.

That's the second Tuesday of January.

And I will return Lord willing for that prayer meeting and be back in the pulpit.

One last thing.

The Lord knows my heart.

I mean this with all of my heart. I have an amazing

wife, but I also am privileged to have an amazing church. And I just want to say thank you to all of

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