I bring you greetings from Cities Church in the Twin Cities of Minnesota, Minneapolis,

St Paul.

Turns out that Twin Cities, or that Cities Church was, turned out to be kind of prophecy for us.

We were planted by Bethlehem Baptist nine years ago.

We share the same teaching affirmation of faith as you guys do.

And we started in Minneapolis in a high school

and they had a gas explosion in the high school.

It was during the middle of the week, a number of people were there.

It was during the summer, fortunately, not many people around.

So we kind of tabernacled around, looking for a spot, eventually ended up in St. Paul,

just on the other side of this distinctive boundary called the Mississippi River.

And so now we kind of find ourselves right in the middle

of Minneapolis and St. Paul.

And Minneapolis is one way about three miles,

St Paul's the other way three miles.

So we're cities church turned out to work.

I'm glad we didn't call it Minneapolis Church.

You know, we'd have to change the name to St. Paul Church,

but the cities church, I mention our location. You may what is that midway our location midway

between Minneapolis and St Paul because we're gonna jump into Hebrew this

morning at the midway point all All right, chapter 8,

verses 1 to 2, is the seam

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