Following message was given at Grace Community Church in Menden, Nevada.

So thank you for being here, and we are here not only to celebrate God's faithfulness to our church body for all these years,

but we are here to hear the Word of God.

And it is a privilege to actually hear the Word of God preached.

And we take it for granted.

And so many people around the world don't have nearly what we have and we should never take it for granted.

And I am very, very pleased to introduce our speaker for this afternoon, Paul Washer.

Paul Washer is probably not a stranger to many of you. In fact, he's served as a missionary. He is with a heart cry missionary society, and we very happily support a handful of heart cry missionaries

because we know that they are all about the gospel.

And that's what Paul is all about.

He's all about the gospel.

He's all about preaching Christ. And so he would probably chastise me if I said too many kind words because he is truly a,

just a humble servant of the Lord.

And so, brother, would you please come on up?

First of all, it's a great privilege for me to be here with you.

And I think we've got some noise.

Hello?

Is that okay?

I think we're okay now.

Well, it's a great privilege for me to be here with you and it's a tinge of sadness in my heart when I, the place we're staying down the road is actually

a horse ranch and I was raised on a horse ranch, cattle ranch.

And I look around here and I think how many years ago I had to leave what I loved.

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