Hey, this is Stephen Fertig on the Pastor of Elevation Church and this is our podcast.

I wanted to thank you for joining us today.

Hope this inspires you.

Hope it builds your faith.

Hope it gives you perspective to see God as moving in your life.

Enjoy the message.

A lot of times when I'm up here, I'm welcoming the guest who's going to preach.

But today I guess I'm welcoming myself because I had the incredible honor of being able

to preach and bring God's Word to you today.

I'm so grateful that Pastor Stephen would trust me to preach.

And I'm really excited about this word because God has been working it in my heart over

the last several weeks.

He's been preaching it to me so that I can have something to bring to you.

And I'm going to stay in the flow of our Savage Jesus series.

Haven't you loved Savage Jesus?

In case you're new, we've been looking at the life of Jesus through the book of Mark.

And I think one of the reasons this series is resonating so powerfully with me and with

our churches is really just an overflow of our pastor's heart because I've been here

for 11 years and I can say in every single season, he has always fought to keep our focus

as a church on the main thing which will always and forever be Jesus.

And it's not just what he preaches on the platform.

It's in the decisions he makes behind the scenes.

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