We are starting a brand new series of messages this week called Up in Smoke.

That's the title of the series.

They say 2017 was the most expensive year in firefighting history with over 2 billion dollars spent

that's an estimated cost just in this country that number comes from the US Forest Service on fighting fires.

And they say just in the western part of our country,

the part of the country that's the best obviously sorry church online

audience I mean am I am I with you anybody with me west coast west side I was doing interview this week and there was what do you like about the East Coast? I was like coming back home.

That's what I like about the East Coast. So all the love for the East Coast, but West Coast for sure.

On the West Coast but but West Coast for sure on the West Coast there were 50,000

fires over 50,000 fires significant fires in Oregon significant

large devastating fire in Utah, of course Texas, California, but the largest

fire on record last year, 2017, in the country was in the state of Montana. So most of us at Fresh Life locations

and those at Church Online who were watching

but they live in the East Coast.

They turned it off out of hatred.

Now I'm joking, hopefully you're still with us.

All the love for the East Coast, okay?

Just in the fight between in and out and Shake Shack, obviously in and out, it's all I'm saying.

So they say that the fires have gotten hotter and gotten wilder and whether this is global warming or whatever is causing it.

One undeniable fact is that many of our lives have been impacted in somewhere or another by fire.

If nothing else, just the smoke that is at times where there's fires going on.

And I kind of got the idea for this series during a time

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