Well, we sincerely mean it when we say, happy Mother's Day. And if there is one group in our church that I continually feel overloaded with gratitude toward, it is the Moms of Auburn Community Church.

This faith family was built by the prayers of mothers who have seen over time how calling

out to God can change everything in a family and everything in a marriage. And so to the mothers

of our church, I genuinely and sincerely want to repeat over and over again. I hope you have the

best mother's day. I wish you were

walking through the doors of our building so that we could load you up with flowers and notes

and everything that you deserve today. This is a special day and I also want to say a happy Mother's Day

to my wife seated next to me welcoming Courtney Fidel to the online gathering stage and I just

want to start off by saying happy Mother's Day and also have you tell everyone what was the one

thing that you asked me to do for Mother's Day this year one thing I wanted to stay in my room

and the kids not know I was there

all day long. And she ended up on a stage with a microphone talking to thousands of people.

My favorite place to me. Which is perfectly in line with what you asked for. So Mother's Day is off to a

great start in our home. I'm going to tell you in a couple of minutes why Courtney and our

worship pastor Matt Cole are on stage. We're going to try to do something a little bit different

in these moments, but it's still fitting right into our series in Colossians that we are

slowly but surely coming to the end of next Sunday going to be the final installment in Colossians.

But as always, and I'm going to ask the people on stage to join me in this, if you have your

Bible, hold it up, church, hold it up. You've actually been able to do that the last couple of weeks

when we've done church together. Because you don't have to carry toddlers

into a crowded building. Turn with me to Colossians chapter 3, verse 18. I want to read a couple of

verses over our faith family this morning. And I believe God's going to speak to us in a really

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