Amen. Thank you worship team. And thank you to so many of you who give sacrificially to make this space a reality.

It's humbling to stand in these moments. Five years in as a church every Sunday, I feel like it's a new experience of the presence of God.

It's a new opportunity to step into all God has for us.

And I'm especially excited about this gathering.

Sometimes it's unfortunate for the earlier gatherings because I kind of start to figure out what God wants to say around this one.

And then I'm like, yes.

So tell them to come back if you know

them. And maybe they'll come back tonight and hear this. But I feel like God has just in these

moments as we're singing going, this is what I've been trying to get through to you. And so I hope

this encourages you. I hope it meets you right where you are. We've been in a series called

Dreamer where we're talking about the connection

between God-sized dreams and daily frustrating struggles. We want to live lives that demand

that God come through for them to be possible. We don't want to live lives that are small enough

for us to manage in our own self-sufficiency.

We want to dream big dreams.

Some of us, especially those of us who are older in the room, we want to dream again.

We want dreaming to continually be a part of our experience in our relationship with God, because

God is the ultimate dreamer.

God is the giver of dreams.

God is the one who makes dreams come true.

God is the one who has a thought, speaks a word, and it happens. He reveals to a boy

named Joseph this huge dream for his life. And what we're doing is we're watching Joseph's journey

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