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I've just got to say from the beginning today, and I think I've said this most every week

this summer, but I'm just in awe of how God is speaking

directly to what we are walking through.

Not just every week, every day, like reading through the Gospels this last week with the end

of Mark. Like, good news, Jesus is not dead.

He's alive. And that changes everything. And then Luke, the last few days, those chapters are so rich.

And then Philippians chapter four, what we're studying together each week. And many people are

working to memorize. Today, we're going to close out this

section philippians chapter four verses four through nine on anxiety in a week when people across

our church received news that schools would not be starting in our counties this fall, leading to all kinds of

questions and concerns and anxiety and worry about how this is going to work and how you are

going to work and how this will affect the economy and our lives and our country as

this pandemic continues to have so many different effects in so many different ways into the

middle of this precise moment unlike anything any one of us has ever experienced in this world

God's word is saying to us so I want to us to anything any one of us has ever experienced in this world.

God's word is saying to us.

So I want us to read it out loud together.

Again, if you're memorizing it, just close your eyes.

But wherever you are, let's read this out loud, and as we do, hear it as the word of God to us right now. Philippians chapter 4 verse 1 we'll go through

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