But we do kick off a brand new collection of messages today,

a brand new season in the life of our church today.

And we're going to do so beginning with a message that I'm calling

I mean business.

I came to church today ready.

Y'all, I don't know if you can tell.

I'm rested from a little trip away with my family replenish.

And I am ready to preach.

I say it with me, mean business.

Got work to do.

We encounter at times situations where we are sort of just kind of casual.

But we bump up against someone who means business.

And it's jarring when all of a sudden your eyes are open.

Oh, you mean business, right?

My wife and I were on a trip not too long ago, a few years back.

It was kind of the pandemic, kind of kind of kind of the pandemic.

We were in California.

So it was still full-blown pandemic, right?

Everywhere else had gotten the memo already.

But California was still holding on pretty good.

And so we were riding bikes around and we inadvertently accidentally ended up

at the Navy SEAL training base in Coronado.

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