Everybody, what is going on? You know what time it is. You're listening to join the Journey podcast with your host, Emma, daughter.

Thanks for joining. Today, we are in Colossians 1, and I am joined in the studio by Mr. Noah Brown.

Hi, guys. Noah, I'm so glad you're here. This is a treat. Me too. I'm so glad. Hey, I read the journey this morning.

It was awesome. Do you know the girl that wrote the divo? Oh my gosh. Yeah, it was me.

Why am I not interviewing you then? You know, they, the people, the listeners, they hear from me a lot.

They can read my thoughts. But I thought today they should hear from you. They can read your thoughts. It's amazing. Well, they can read what I, you know, what I wrote.

But Noah, we know each other because we sort of used to be on the same team here instead.

Totally.

But you've been at Watermark for how long and tell everybody what you do know.

Yeah.

So I've been at Watermark for, gosh, 17 years-ish, maybe, I forget, as a member, sort of came here, angry with God,

frustrated with things that were going on in my life.

A fool's own folly ruins his life, and yet his heart rages against the Lord.

That was me, circa 2006, 2007, came here and heard a message I'd never heard before,

that God's not mad at you,

that he loves you, that his commands are not burdensome, that he's not trying to rip you off,

but he wants to set you free. And so I just, I was hooked. I kept coming and went through Regen.

We got into a community group, met my wife.

And you all have been married. So we've been married 12 years now.

Our anniversary is at the end of this month coming up on 12 years.

Nice.

Pretty awesome.

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