James, a chapter 1, verse 1, it reads James, a servant of God and of the Lord Jesus Christ

to the 12 tribes in the

greetings greetings. Greetings. Greetings.

We're gonna stop right there and this is an introduction to the book of James.

Again, this is week one.

The title of my sermon is week one. The title of my sermon is week one of the six-week journey.

Just kidding. You call it Big Brother too if you want like a really cool title, big brother, will you pray with me?

Jesus, thank you so much for your grace and your love for us.

Lord, I pray for every single person under the sound of my voice, those watching online or those here in this

room and space that you would meet us in a very real way.

God your love is extravagant.

Wherever we find ourselves in our spiritual journey,

I thank you, you will meet us there.

Help us to see how real and big and magnificent and glorious

you are, and thank you today, the Cougars are going to beat the Huskies. In

Jesus name, amen. I as you know my dad started this church. I am officially a preacher's kid and if you don't know, I've said this multiple times,

my dad's dad was a preacher. My dad's dad was a preacher. I don't know if I could do it again. My dad's

dad's dad's dad was a preacher. You think I could do it again? And my dad's dad's

dad's dad's, dads, dads, dad,

what, I don't know if I did it.

But point is seven generations of preachers, right?

Which means my family probably has more dysfunction than yours but a lot of generation of

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