Welcome to Gateway Church's podcast.

Wherever you're tuning in from, we hope you're encouraged by today's message.

Come on, let's put our hands together for Jesus one more time.

So glad that you are in church this weekend. I want to say hello to everybody at all of our locations.

And, of course, at our prison campuses, our gateway gatherings online are on demand later in the week.

And if you're here for

the very first time, you're an honored guest. We want to say welcome home. Come on church family across

all the campuses. Let's put our hands together for anybody with us for the very first time.

And as you just saw in the announcement, men's night is coming up this Friday night. And so if you've procrastinated,

it's time to step up. And go ahead and get registered. You're going to want to be a part of it.

Bring somebody with you. It's going to be a powerful night together. I'm really,

really looking forward to this night. Community, some fun. We'll laugh. We'll worship together,

getting God's word. It's going to be a great time together. So

get registered. And if you're a wife or a significant other, our family member, our mom,

just be like, hey, I got it covered. You go. We're good. And make sure they can be there.

And we're in a series we kicked off last weekend. My pastor, Pastor Chris Hodges,

was with us last weekend. Brought a great word to kick the series we kicked off last weekend. My pastor, Pastor Chris Hodges was with us last

weekend. Brought a great word to kick the series off. Yeah. And we're calling between Sundays

and the idea is this, how do we have a faith that doesn't fade? And so how do we not just get

inspired on Sunday, but how do we live that out Monday through Saturday? And we're going to continue

in that today. And if you're new to church, wondering what is a series? It's simply a collection of

messages around one common theme. And that's our theme. And we have a theme verse. We have a verse

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