Welcome to Gateway Church's podcast.

Wherever you're tuning in from, we hope you're encouraged by today's message.

My wife Deanlin and I continue to count it a high and holy privilege to be a part of this season at Gateway.

We love you and we love what God has promised to do in protecting and providing for his church.

We're watching the Lord keep all his promises.

He directed Lisa Harper to call the Church to a time of lament. He brought the perfect person here in the form of

Pastor Joacham. Yawkem. Between the two of us you have one West Texas accent and one Swedish accent.

I don't know which is harder to understand. I love that man and he is uniquely,

qualified to be your pastor and especially to pastor the staff during a season of struggle.

I've met your elders, I've heard their prayers, I've seen their tears, I've seen their

tears, I love their hearts. And I'm praying for them. And I am confident that this season, which is a difficult uphill into the wind season, will result in a second win, a new season, a time in which the church will be better because of it and stronger on the other side of it.

In one of my meetings with your elders, I asked them what they thought I should be teaching on,

as I will be one of your teachers

for the remainder of the year spilling over into 2025.

And I shared several ideas with them,

and we landed on this one.

It was a consensus.

We felt the Holy Spirit was directing us to focus on the topic,

just Jesus.

Just Jesus. Just Jesus.

I never get tired of talking about the Jesus who saved me. And I never get tired of saying though sometimes the church struggles

Jesus is still building his church and he's still on the throne and especially this time of year when everybody's concerned about

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