Hello, this is Ashley Chase welcoming you to the Mark Driscoll Podcast.

For more content from my dad, Pastor Mark, senior pastor here at the Trinity Church in

Scottsdale, Arizona, visit realfafed.com where you'll find study guides to go along with

each sermon series as he preaches verse by verse through books of the Bible, daily

devotions, free e-books, and more.

Now grab your Bibles and get ready for today's sermon.

Wow, happy fifth birthday!

What a great day!

We're so glad to see you, we're so excited to have you.

God's been faithful for five years and we're fired up, amen?

And we get to do one of my favorite things.

We're starting a brand new book of the Bible.

If you've got your Bible, go to a new Testament book called James.

Epic, incredible 12 weeks will be in it together.

You can read it in about 30 minutes and you should be reading it every day because the more

you get God's word into your life, the more God does to change things in your life.

And so we're going to have a great time together.

And the theme for this sermon series is faith works.

Faith is what you believe in here, it's how you behave out there.

And the point is to quote that great new Testament theologian, Larry the Cable guy, when it comes

to stuff, we got to get her done.

We got stuff to do.

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