And live church, welcome to day to all of our churches, our network churches as well.

Those of you in countries all over the world at church online, you are in for an amazing

treat. Before I introduce to you our guest speaker, I want to tell you two weeks from now,

we are starting the long anticipated series of the year. Everybody loves at the movies.

I want to encourage you to think about who you can bring that normally wouldn't come

to church to be in church two weeks from now as we take popular movies and pull spiritual

truths starting two weeks from now at the movies. Today though, I want to introduce to

you one of my very, very close friends. In my opinion, honestly, one of the best Bible

teachers and communicators on the entire planet. He's an incredible book called Jesus Is,

and I invited him to share a couple of messages from the Bible based on his book. We're

very honored to have my good friend, would you show love and honor to Pastor Judah Smith.

So good to be here at church. I trust all as well, and it is awesome to be here at

Life Church to say the very least. I got to say this, and I mean absolutely every word

of it. Pastor Craig Grishel and the whole Grishel family are heroes to my family. You

got to know that, and I know all the network churches and Life Church. Please understand

the gift that you have been given by God in your pastor. You are so blessed the grass

doesn't get any greener than Life Church. And if you don't, yeah, there you go. It's

good. If you don't take care of your pastor, we will steal him. I'm just saying that.

So you take care of him, and don't steal him like you stole the sonics. We won't steal

him. But it really is a privilege to be with you and excited to share a thought with you

from Scripture about the love of God, and I trust it will be a real encouragement to you

today. And I actually glad you go to a church where there's good news. We got enough bad

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