Good morning and welcome. God bless you. You can be seated. I want to welcome you here

this morning, those of you watching online as well, to this our first service, which is the weekly

Bible prophecy update that we do. We have two services on Sunday morning. The second service is

actually the sermon. It's a verse by verse study through

the Word of God. We're currently in the book of James. We're Lord willing today going to finish

chapter one. And in so doing, we're going to answer this often asked question of, do I consider

myself religious? And we're going to do that by explaining from the text

what true religion actually means. Also, for those of you online watching by way of YouTube

or Facebook, we would encourage you to go directly to the website.

There you will find the uninterrupted and uncensored entirety of today's update.

Before we jump in, I want to take this opportunity to thank all of you for your patience with us. We are doing our best

with the increased attendance. We would certainly covet your prayers for the leadership,

the staff, and these servants who faithfully and tirelessly served behind the scenes, please know

that the changes we've made up to this point of which there have been several and the ones

we're still making are bathed in much prayer and even fasting.

One more thing. Next week, of course, can't believe it already, here is Resurrection Sunday.

And while our service times will be at the same time, we're just really going to need

your patience with us next week. First service

will still be the prophecy update, but second service will be a Resurrection Sunday celebration

and sermon. So hoping you're able to join with us. And again, thank you for your patience

with us as well. Well, for today's update, I want to talk with you about what seems to be

the proverbial calm before the storm, as is referred to. By that I mean there's this almost

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