I want to express my thanks and gratitude specifically for those locally here in the church

and then also as well for those of you on our online church for being so generous and kind and thoughtful this Christmas to my family. It's really

quite overwhelming. Every year during the holidays, I get so many nice cards and gift cards and gifts

and shirts. Do you like my shirt today? I get comments from

people online saying, man, you got the nicest shirts. Where do you get those? They're gifted

to me by a sister in the church who I love very much, by the way, and has very good taste. So I call her my wardrobe director.

And so she keeps me looking nice. So, but anyway, you're just so generous and so thoughtful,

so kind, so giving, and not just to my family, but to our church family. I hope you don't

tire of me saying this, but you make the pastorate such a joy, and I deem it such a privilege

to be the pastor of such a loving and giving church.

You know what really blesses me when we have visitors that come from our online church

from anywhere or somewhere or wherever in the world and they'll say to me, man, this

your your people are so loving to which I respond, I know.

And then I tell them that if I wasn't the pastor of this church, this is where I would go to church.

Because this is such an amazing church.

So thank you.

And I just wanted to express my gratitude to you. All right.

For today's update, I, ah, I did pretty good, didn't I? Forgive me, I'm sorry. I want to talk about

the prophetic significance of the ongoing protests that are taking place

in Iran.

Doubtless, I know many of you have been following this.

It is certainly worthy of our attention if for no other reason other than it has the fact that it has prophetic significance.

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