The It is so great to see everybody here at Highlands today.

I just love looking into this room and seeing all of your faces and of course imagining

every single location joining us right now, every campus, anyone who's joining us online

or on demand later on this week

or this year at some point. And of course, the men and women of the Alabama Correctional

facilities, come let's put our hands together and welcome our entire church family. And I just

sense God's presence here today and there is so much passion in the room.

I know the same is true at every location.

And I'm just, I'm excited to be with all of you here today at church.

I believe God's got something in store for each of us today.

Before we jump in the message, though, I did want to just honor one more group.

I know I already had you clap, but I'm just really thankful today watching our news package.

Really thankful today for all the ministry that's happening in Highlands Kids. Can you all honor the Highlands Kid team? Pastor Beth, the entire team, thank God. As someone who has kids in Highlands

kids, I'm so thankful that our church is a church that points them to Jesus and then helps them

learn at a young age, the Word of God. And so just don't want to ever miss a chance to points them to Jesus and then helps them learn at a young age the word of God.

And so just don't want to ever miss a chance to thank them. That is not child care.

What's happening there is discipleship. And that's an amazing, amazing thing. So again, excited to be

with you guys today. We're finishing out a series. So if you're new at Highlands, you're jumping into the very last part, and we would

love you to go back and watch what's already happened. But if you want to know what it's all

been about, this whole month has been about the fact that we are a people who have a new

beginnings God. And back at Christmas, Pastor Chris really heard from the Holy Spirit and declared

that 2025 would be a year of new beginnings.

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