But we're going to go ahead and open with prayer and get started. Lord, thank you for today.

Thank you for the message that you have prepared for us, Lord. I pray that you'll continue to

refine us and to grow us and to convict us and to the men that only you can make us. And the name of

Jesus we pray, amen. Now for those of you, raise your hand if you were not here last week and you're

new to the Bible study. Okay, so not many. That's good. Well, so you're not new. But anyway, so we're

actually in, you know, usually in this Bible study, most of you who have been to it some of some

of them may be the first time. We go through everything. We go through books. We go through books

of the Bible. Matter of fact, we just finished going through Acts and going through Romans and going

through James. And now we're kind of jumping over and now doing a book with a little more life

application. And we'd love for you to stay with us. We do this year round here at noon. And if you

missed last week, the first chapter of finishing strong by Steve for our, I would encourage you. I

know I said before and I kind of got and my accountability group. I kind of got held accountable that

they disagreed with me. And they said, I think you're wrong telling people not to worry about getting

the book because the book is so beneficial. And I'm not going to cover every aspect of the book.

And there's going to be a few tidbits that may be helpful to you that I may not cover that you're

going to miss if you don't have the book. And if you can't find hard copies of finishing strong by

Steve for our, you can get it on the e-books. I know I think it's like $13. You can get it right

to your phone or your tablet relatively easy. So I would encourage you to get the book as I stand

corrected for being a little more flippant about that. And I should have been. But get that. So if

you missed chapter one, it really, I can set it up and not a not a big deal. You can go back and

listen to it anytime you miss a Bible study. You can get it on the Rick and Bubba podcast channel.

And that's free. You can get it on our YouTube channel. That's free. And you can go back and

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