All right guys welcome and let's go and get started. Thank you all for being here. Thank you all for

listening. Wherever you may be listening today we thank you for being with us. We are

in the Wednesday Bible study. We are going through a book called Finishing Strong by Steve Ferrar.

If you are joining us or you've just started listening us and you'd like to go back and hear

some other Bible studies that we have done, the best way to go find the most archives is to go to

Burgessmentistries.com and click on media. You'll see the men's Bible study listed there and you can

walk back through all those audio clips. Now if you want to watch on YouTube there are some

that go back but not as far back because we didn't start doing that to a few studies ago.

And of course the Rick and Bubba podcast channel always has the weekly ones that have been published

there as well. You can also follow on social media. You can follow me on Twitter. You can follow the

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Bible study set up that the only way that you're not able to hear it or watch it is if you just don't

want to. So and what usually happens is it's posted about about two o'clock central time every

Wednesday and then stays there indefinitely. So let's let's open up with a word of prayer and

jump into today. Lord thank you for today. Thank you Lord that we have an opportunity and the freedom

in this country to talk about the things we're going to talk about today. And I pray Lord that you

continue to refine us into the men that only you can make us in Jesus name. Amen. And certainly I

know women you're listening as well. Some of you now we're going to take on something I want to be

clear again on what this series is about because I have talked to some people that are a little

bit confused about what we mean by finishing strong and finishing well. I don't want you to get in your

mind that this is a Bible study that's only dealing with as we age. That's not what this is about.

What is really talking about certainly that's part of it. But what is about let's say did I finish my

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