Well, good evening and welcome to our midweek Bible study on Thursday nights. We're going through the Bible, book by book, chapter by chapter, verse by verse.

And tonight we are currently in the book of Isaiah. And Lord willing, we're going to complete chapters 38 and 39.

We'll encourage you and invite you at this time to turn there if you're not there already.

And before we get started, I just wanted to mention real quick that our amazing staff,

and they are amazing, are working tirelessly to keep up with the requests for a religious

exemption letter. I do need to apologize

because I did not realize that we would receive the number of requests that we were on the

receiving end of this last week. So they're doing everything they can to keep up

with it. We very much appreciate your patience. But here's the thing. On Sunday, Lord willing,

I'm hoping to make an important announcement about how we're going to be able to expedite this process online.

So we're working on that. We would really encourage you to pray for us and pray for our staff,

particularly Lane and Grace High Night and of course Gail as well. They have sent out literally hundreds of

these but the problem is we've received not hundreds but thousands and so I had to ask them to

forgive me on Monday and then again on Tuesday and then yesterday on Wednesday and

then again today and so anyway we're working on it we do have a solution for it and so

for those of you online that have not yet received even a response let alone the

letter please, please,

please be patient with us. And Lord willing, on Sunday, we'll have a path forward. And by

sometime next week we'll have something in place where it will just streamline everything

online. So with that, why don't we pray and we'll ask God's

blessing on our time together in his word tonight. Father Nevin, thank you so much. Lord,

this is for us a time that represents a respite of sorts from the busyness of our lives

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