Would you join me as we pray? Lord, we come before you. Thank you, Lord. Thank you, Lord. Thank you, Lord.

Thank you, Lord. All that you've done for us, Lord. Help us never to take for granted, Lord.

For those of us who are here in person, we're either visiting it, especially for those of us who are here in person or either visiting it especially for those of us who live

here that gets we get to call this place our home church Lord you have greatly blessed us

Lord so we pray to your name this point we thank you for our pastors and our leaders here at this

church Lord would you please lord

sit your holy spirit to keep them under your protection of your mighty hand as they preach your

word and proclaim your name to serve out your will on their life Lord we praise you we thank you so much

Lord we love you love would you bless this time together in Jesus name amen amen and amen

and good morning and welcome uh you can be seated so glad you're here today and those of you online.

So glad that you're joining with us today. Before we get started, I wanted to mention a couple of things,

the first of which of course is it's Father's Day. So, yeah.

We didn't, wait.

How about let's do this.

A shout out to all the fathers.

Of which I am one, by the way, just so you remember.

Thank you so much.

You know, being a father, I've said, shared this before,

but I'll share it again.

Being a father is more of an honor than being a pastor but so too is being a father infinitely harder than being a pastor. Did that mess you up that I should not have

started that way? But the role of the father in the family, which is a microcosm of the family of God, can never be underestimated

and it's important.

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