Well, thank you Brett, and Thomas, and Wally, and Christ's Redeemer for inviting me to come.

There are many joys in life, and one of them is to see your children walking in the truth, even children of churches.

So to be with you, to worship with you is very powerful for me.

So thank you. Let me pray and ask God to help us for these next few minutes.

Oh God, there are to help us for these next few minutes.

Oh God, there are glorious things to be spoken of now.

And we need hearts and minds that are supple and tender and malleable, touchable so that the things in your word don't bounce off of us, don't ricochet off of

granite hearts, but sink in and do their saving, sanctifying, sweetening, humbling,

humbling, joy-giving work. So do the heart work, Lord, that I can't do while I try to give a voice to the glories of your word.

Pray in Jesus' name. Amen. So I thought to myself, it's different preaching once in a church

instead of week after week after week, which I've done most of my adult life and so you get a

chance to step back and say now what would you say if you had one time to say to

a people what would you say and I find that my mind runs back to

formative periods in my life where a truth did something amazing for me.

It never stopped changing because it sunk.

It just came once. It came once and then it was just there for years and years.

I thought, well, if I could make a deposit like that

that happened for me, say when I was 22.

So I'll just give you a little, this is one of those so I'm about 22 newly married living in

Pasadena California Noel and Tallith they're back here so tell I mean Noel

will remember this. And truths are coming at me as I'm studying Bible and theology and seminary and some of them are simply

explosively transforming for me.

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