It's great to be with you.

I'm going to be with you again. I forgot how lively this group is so thanks for

bringing the energy. One of my favorite musicals is Lay Miz Any Le Miz fans out there? French writer Victor Hugo completed and

published his celebrated novel Le Le Misirab

while an exile on the island of Guernsey

off the coast of France in 1862.

After the book had been out and circulated for some time,

Hugo was curious how was being received. After the book had been out and circulated for some time,

Hugo was curious how it was being received.

In exile, he managed to telegraph

a single character to his publisher in Belgium, a question mark.

He wanted to know how is it selling?

Is it popular? Is it resonating?

And to his surprise and delight he received back a single character by

telegraph an exclamation point.

Lé Miz was a hit.

A communication doesn't have to be long or wordy to make a big impact.

And that's good attitude to have as we open the Bible and study one of the shortest and most neglected texts in

scripture, the Epistle of Jude.

When Pastor Tyler asked me to speak on the epistle of Jude, I realized I've never taught or spoken on the epistle of Jude, and I couldn't even remember the last time I had read it.

It's a short text it takes up about a page in the Bible. But

a bridge town I know this church believes in listening to all of God's word. In fact, we're going to spend three Sundays in the

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