Well, hi y'all. So glad to be here with you as always. It is our privilege and our

treat to be able to share God's word this weekend with you at what we do

consider to be a little bit of our family here at Gateway.

Y'all just can't seem to get rid of us and the people in our family.

We just love so much being a part of what God is doing in this community,

partnering with you in serving this community.

As you know, many of you may know, our church, which has been my home church since I was one year

old, is about 40 minutes from here where my father happens to also be the pastor.

And so my parents, Dr Tony and Lois Evans,

they send their greeting to you and to your pastors and their absence as well.

And so thanks for having us.

It's a treat to be here.

I just have a couple of thoughts that I want to share with you from God's words.

A couple of things that have profoundly impacted my life as I have

asked the Holy Spirit to sear these little simple messages, to imprint them on my soul. And I'm asking that he would do that for every single one of us today.

Simple things that can transform your entire life.

Let's pray.

Lord Jesus, I thank you so much for your word.

I thank you, Lord, that this book is alive.

I thank you that it's not just black ink on a page,

but that what the Holy Spirit does is that he causes it

to leap up off the page and to grip us in our souls. So Lord I'm praying that in

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