Good morning.

Let's go.

I'm so glad to be with you guys.

And yeah, so JP having us out here and preaching that message, just want to say thank you for your generosity at Harris Creek to make things like that possible.

Myself and 10 other pastors and preachers are better because of it, so thank you for that. And I want to invite

you into this story. So the story is this. So has anyone ever been in a place where they lived

in a super, super small town? Like, okay. So if you are from or live in a super small town, there's something that we all know.

Everybody knows everybody, right?

And what is also true, it only takes one person to know something about your life for everybody to know everything about your

life and what was true about me is when I was 14 my mom uh shout out to my mom uh she let me drive to

basketball practice she was working at night and it probably wasn't the safest or the right thing to do,

but it's what she did. And I was driving to basketball practice, and I hit a car. And when I hit that

car, the policeman, you know, came, and he got out, and he was like, you know, he didn't first ask,

hey, let me see your driver's license, let me see your insurance. He was like, you know, he didn't first ask, hey, let me see your driver's license,

let me see your insurance. He was like, aren't you, Joshua, doesn't your aunt work at the school?

Isn't your mom, Lynn, who works over here? And he knew things about me because of this town.

And, you know, ultimately, long story short, he made me call my mom and come pick me up

because I did not have the license that I needed.

But fortunately, I did not get in a ton of trouble.

But what was also true about me in this small town was that I grew up without a

dad. And my dad lived in this town. He just wasn't in my life. So as a kid who played a lot of sports

growing up, my dad was not at the games.

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