Howdy, and welcome to the Breakaway podcast. Thanks for listening.

Breakway is a Bible study recorded on the campus of Texas A&M University. We hope you enjoy the message. Well, howdy?

Man, okay, it is good. Well, howdy? Man!

Okay, it is good to see all of you.

It's just, you know, in DC you can't gather like this.

It's bizarre to see so many faces in one place.

Just a crew of bandits, but it's wonderful to see you. And it's just awesome to be here and to see God using breakaway and continuing to move powerfully through TA and through the whole team.

So I just want to take a minute and honor them and just say, thank you to them for their faithfulness.

It's inspiring to see what God is doing in your generation, and it's just awesome to be here tonight.

We're so happy to be here.

And I was here one year ago, and somehow since then have aged five years.

I'm not quite sure how that happened.

But somewhere in the chaos of a pandemic and political turmoil,

it's just been crazy days.

But I am so excited tonight because I feel like God has a message for all of us

that can give us clarity on how to navigate the chaos. So if you got a copy of your scriptures

with you, I want to read a couple verses from Colossians. So Colossians chapter 1 is where we're

going to be. What I want to do is I want to read. We'll pray and then jump in. Colossians

chapter 1. We're going to really look at 9 through 14, 14 but we're gonna get a running start at

verse 3 so Colossians starting in verse 3 you can turn or scroll there and uh or if you don't

want to do either just listen I'm about to read it here we go it says we always thank God

the father of our Lord Jesus Christ, when we pray for you.

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