Would you bow your heads and join me in a word of prayer. Lord, thank you so much, Lord.

Just looking forward this whole week, Lord, to tonight's teaching.

Tackling this topic of pride, Lord.

So we need you.

We need you.

We need you. We need you, Lord. Would you be here this evening Lord so that you could translate what it is that we may individually need, Lord, for you to translate for us that we might understand? Would you speak to us, Lord? Thank you for this time.

Thank you for the teaching, Lord. Thank you for our pastor. In Jesus' name we pray. Amen. Amen. Good

evening. Welcome. You can be seated. I want to welcome those of you online that are joining us as well. We're so glad that you are.

Real quick before we get started regarding our ongoing Maui mission support. I am planning Lord willing and if we're still here.

Wow. I'm not feeling the love on that one on Sunday I'm

Lord willing planning to provide an update however for tonight I simply want to say

please continue to pray and and here's why.

You probably noticed that Maui is quickly fading into the backdrop of obscurity.

I heard a statistic.

It makes sense that the news cycle, as they call it, the lifespan of a, you know,

major event before they go on to the next one is like eight days. Eight days. That's how fast things are moving. And so, and I'm not just talking about Israel,

which I will talk about in just a moment. Not going to talk about it tonight, but I will talk about it on Sunday,

which I'll talk about in just a moment. We're out to a great start, right? But it's like

for the people in Lahaina, they're still living in it. So Pastor Steve and I, of course,

as you know, stay in contact on a pretty irregular

basis, sometimes a daily basis. And man, he just sent me a text a couple days ago. It was

just heartbreaking, heart wrenching really. He said, you know, it's been two months, right? Sunday was like

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