Howdy and welcome to the Breakaway Podcast. Thanks for listening. Breakaway is a Bible study recorded on the campus of Texas A&M University.

Today's message is from Breakway's executive director Timothy Attique. We hope you enjoy the message. such a great time of worship. It's great to be back with you and for everyone watching

online so glad that you're jumping in with us. I'll just start by sharing

this with you. I talk about my boys a lot, but in the last month all three of my

boys have had a birthday, so Noah just turned 11 and

Andrew just turned 9 and Jake just turned 3 and if you become a parent one day

you will experience this but whenever your kid has a birthday, you automatically think back to the day that they were born.

And your parents might even do that with you.

They might call you on your birthday and be like, I still remember at 746 you shot out no that's not what they say but they just they

remember they remember that day and so I still think back every time one of my boys has a birthday

I always think back to the day they were born and there's specific memories that come to mind

so I think about when Noah, my firstborn was born man.

My wife and I, we were just so overtaken by the moment

and I have all the feels in that moment.

And so Kat and I are there with Noah,

and our two nurses are right there.

And I turn to the nurses, I'm like, man, we believe in Jesus.

And if you don't believe in Jesus,

I just want you know Jesus loves you

and wants to have a relationship with you and they're like okay yeah

you're a dad that just had their first child and so you're sleep deprived but

thank you for telling me about Jesus and so that that was Noah, and then when Andrew was born,

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