Pastor Mark Driscoll here, welcoming you to the podcast. I've been teaching the Bible for more than 30 years,

and real faith is an extraordinary ministry with a great team. It's not a big team, but they're making a big difference at a big impact. And we'd love you to preferably consider partnering with us, especially with a one-time or ongoing recurring gift.

All the proceeds will help us get Bible teaching out, and our hope, prayer, and goal is next

year to get to total reach, impressions included, of a billion plus people hearing about Jesus

Christ through Bible teaching.

Your prayers, your partnership would help us to do more and more and more.

And so in advance, thank you for your partnership.

All right, who came with a sense of expectation?

Glad to be in God's house.

Really, really glad to see you as we head

into the holiday season. I love you. And I just have this great sense of expectation. God

wants to unleash and release all of you into a new ministry or a new level of ministry. And I'm

really, really excited to see him answer prayers and for you to see God show up in the days that you just live,

at work, at school, at home, and out just living life.

God's showing up hearing and answering prayers.

And so as we were getting ready to jump into the sermon,

for those who were online, you didn't get to see this,

but there was an announcement from my son.

So I'm gonna tell you a story.

I was sitting there thinking,

when did my son start, our son, it's Grace's son too.

My wife's name is Grace.

...