The following resource is from desiring God.org.

Father be our teacher now by the Holy Spirit that you've sent into the world to guide us into truth. So we renounce reliance upon ourselves and we trust in

the Lord with all our hearts that he will make our past straight.

And we will know the truth and the truth will set us free.

So come, open our minds to what's here and make it plain.

I ask in Jesus' name, amen.

These few words of Jesus perplexing as they are,

are rich with powerful inspiration and encouragement if you ponder them in their context.

Yes they are.

And I mean powerful for your life, individually and powerful for this church now and in the future.

What a surge of excitement went through me

when David Livingston on Friday

texted me that we had purchased the land on I-35W and in Lakeville.

And then when he called, or I called him, a few minutes later,

my heart leaped with gratitude

when he told me the price for which we got that land.

And then the first thought after that was Jason Meyer,

who will preach now for the next three weekends toward a May 20th vote for him to move

toward being my successor in this pulpit and as the pastor for preaching and vision.

And what surged up inside of me was this double excitement that God is amazingly

orchestrating that we would be in this moment of transition putting in place a third anchor campus like this one and the one up north and that we would be putting in place somebody to lead that,

Lord willing for the next 30 years, is amazing to me. And I am so thankful at this process and this person.

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