Good afternoon. If you forgive me I am struggling a little bit with a sore throat and the last time I had this problem and I lost my voice was actually when I was with Dr Russell Fuller before so I blamed him and I said every time I'm with you I get a sore throat for some reason I don't know I'm just choked up

But I have, I have, there's a lot of things going on right now in our culture and it just seems like the new cycles are moving at faster paces and there's more things that are clamoring for our attention all the time.

And I feel this a lot, I guess, just because I focus so much on the new cycle, what's going on, especially in evangelicalism.

And I realize all of us are going through this right now.

And originally, since I was the one who came up with the topics for the conference,

and I'm the organizer, so I'm able to tell myself, I guess, what I should speak on.

And I wanted to talk about resisting right

we're gonna be strong we're gonna resist the social justice movement and here are

some ways to do it and I started preparing for it and the more I did I thought you

know from in my own life where I live where you live

the biggest problem for me isn't we need to be involved in politics but the biggest problem I'm facing is

this stuff like this this is the biggest problem that I'm facing now it's not this it's sin right but it's

it's it's the distraction of the day to day. It's the forgetting that my creator actually has a plan and I'm part of it and he expects things over me and

And for me I don't know about you but for me getting out into nature to into God's creation seeing his work there puts things in perspective I look at the stars and I think that's why I'm here.

That's why things matter. I don't have to understand it all. And so I was drawn more to talk about that.

So I've changed the topic for myself,

and I can do that since I organized the conference.

And this is the title I have I gave myself,

is How Great Thou Art recovering an appreciation for nature.

And my goals in bringing this to you, there's really a few of them I suppose.

One is just for you to gain a further understanding and appreciation for God's creation and what he

expects us to glean from it.

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