Hey, life church, welcome to day two. All of our different campuses. I want to remind you two weeks from now is Easter weekend. And if you can hit

that one of the non Sunday morning services to make room for all of our new gifts. That would be amazing to me. If you can't tell, I'm incredibly excited about starting a new message. It's called how sweet the sound. We look at classic hymns and we're going to preach on messages from those hymns and we're going to have a chance to worship at the end of our message. I cannot wait for Easter weekend. It's going to be powerful today. We're in week number two of the message series called exponential.

And I am very excited to introduce someone today that is going to bless you in a big way. He is one of our staff members. I want to tell you about Pastor Bobby Grunwald before you honor him. Pastor Bobby Grunwald is an innovative technology genius. Literally before he graduated from college, no lie. He built in sold to technology companies. He's been on our staff now for almost 20 years. He is revered and feared all over the world in the technology industry.

Not only has he been featured in the New York Times, CNN, TechCrunch, and the list goes on and on, but he was named literally in the top 100 innovative leaders in America by Fast Company magazine. He's a creator of the U-Version Bible app. It was his idea to give away free resources. U-Version, that's another one of his ideas and we could just get going. Not only is he one of my closest friends in the world, but he can also bench press a lot of weight. Would you please help me welcome Pastor Bobby Grunwald.

Thank you.

I want to start first, Craig, by thanking you for the opportunity. This is a huge opportunity to be able to share today.

You and Amy have had a huge impact in my life and in our marriage, our family, we're super grateful. You're not just my pastor. You're also one of my best friends.

It's been a privilege to do life with you and to see the high moments and some of the low moments as well. But to watch how you've honored God in each of those moments is inspiring to me.

We're very grateful for you. We're very grateful for you, Amy, as well. Thank you so much for the contribution you make to our church.

And for all the rest of you, if you've had the privilege of experiencing Craig's teaching each and every week for years, it might be easy for you to actually think that it's normal, but it's not normal.

You know, what we get to experience is actually very, very special and I don't ever want you to take it for granted. Now they say that sometimes you need to have some potatoes so that you can appreciate the steak.

So this week, I'm here to help you appreciate Pastor Craig.

So if you're posting on social media, you can just tag me at a Matt Bobby G. Walt, but you can also use hashtag Mr. Potato Head.

But seriously, it's actually a huge honor to be here. I never expected to be in this place here at this time.

I don't know if you've ever been in one of those places where you just found yourself in a place that you never expected to be.

I have that happen to me several different times of my life. And there's a time that I remember several years ago, it was actually when the Texas Rangers were one game away from going to the World Series.

Now, if you're, if you're not a baseball fan, the Texas Rangers at that point had never made it to the World Series before.

So this was a pretty significant game. And the day before the game, I was actually in South Africa and I was getting ready to get on a plane to come back home.

And right before I got on the plane, I got a, I got a text message from one of the owners of the Texas Rangers who I happen to know.

And he offered me two tickets to the game. I looked at my flight schedule and realized that I was actually getting at home in time.

And so I thought, I'll just invite the biggest baseball fan I know to go with me, my dad.

And so I flew back, picked up my dad, drove to Texas, met with the owner to get the tickets. And he said, hey, why don't you follow me over to the ballpark and you can actually park underneath the stadium so you won't have to walk.

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