How are you?

How are you?

Good to have you a gateway this morning.

I'm Brady Boyd.

I'm part of the pastoral team here.

And I'll be speaking this morning.

We're wrapping up.

This is week 20 of our Elevate series.

So it's good to be with you.

I want you to turn to two places in your Bible to

James chapter one and Psalms 43. And the title of my message this morning is

Joy God's gateway to fun. You know all all of us are looking for some fun,

looking for a place to have fun.

Life's no good unless you're having fun, by the way.

I hope you are planning sometime for having fun.

I want to tell you a story about a guy who had a plan for

fun that didn't go so well. It's a true story. I'm not going to change the names

because no one in this story is innocent. This guy's name is Larry. This happened, true story happened in 1998.

Larry was a young boy when he grew up as a young boy. All Larry wanted to do was to be a pilot.

He wanted to fly planes.

In fact, when he grew up, the house that he grew up in was near LAX Airport and so every day he in his backyard he would watch planes land and take off and he would just look up at him and say,

one day I'm going to be a pilot.

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