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Good morning, Church family.

My name is Craig Holloman.

I'm a member of the security team.

For 39 years of my life, I was very judgmental.

Scriptures would say that it was me looking and finding the splinter in my brother's eye

and not noticing the log in my own.

It was very destructive.

But because of Jesus and my understanding of the love and the grace and the mercy and the

compassion that he showed me, I'm now able to extend that to others

instead of judgment.

Our passage today is Colossians 312.

Therefore, as God's chosen ones, holy and dearly loved, put on compassion, kindness, humility,

gentleness, and patience.

This is the word of the Lord.

Thank you to God.

Well, good morning.

It's good to see you. If you have your Bibles, that will be our passage.

I'm really going to just kind of focus on that first attribute that the scriptures are telling us to put on, namely compassion.

I don't know, well, maybe I understand. I was bent a kind of way growing up and that put me,

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