Are you guys ready to start a new book?

Boy, this is that section of the Bible where we really, every few weeks, we get to start a new book.

So pretty exciting.

Let's dive into the book of Ephesians.

Ephesians Chapter 1.

Let's get to it.

Interesting to watch the news.

Does it stress you out the news?

Headlines, you know, be honest.

When you wake up and grab your phone and you kind of start seeing what's going on in the world,

notifications, breaking news, the economy.

As you drive by gas stations, does it make your pulse go up or down?

You know, the wars, rumors of wars, uncertainty.

People get stressed out by what's going on, and the world is kind of in turmoil.

We did our profits update the night before last, and we called it the world in Jeopardy. We kind of did a play on the Jeopardy game show. It's kind of fun. If you missed our Prophecy Update, you might want to check that out. It was a lot going on in the world and a lot of uncertainty right now. But when you look around, you basically think, man, there's not a lot of good news going on

out there. And you can find yourself stressed or full of anxiety. Sometimes Christians seem to me

to be just as stressed as the world and maybe in some cases worse. But let me ask you,

shouldn't we as Christians not be like the world in that?

Like if we really think about it and do the math, shouldn't we Christians be deliriously joyful,

knowing that heaven's coming, that God's in control, we just sang a song. He will never fail.

You know, like these are things that you and i believe but

i think sometimes we forget how how the thing's going to turn out and we forget that god is in

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