Well, out of your personal art, Chris, we're welcoming you to my first ever parenting series.

More than 20 years in the public, never taught an entire parenting series.

Parenting on point is a five week series looking at what it means to love God and live in the

love of God with all your heart, emotional life, soul spiritual life, mind mental life,

strength and physical life, and help your neighbor do the same, starting with your own family and

the kids that are sleeping in the bunk beds down the hall. So thanks for joining me. Hope to be

a service to you. All right, how many of you came to church today expecting a great sermon,

a word from God, okay? Yeah, let me lower your expectations. All right, I have got the flu.

I am not feeling good. I'm a total baby when I get the flu. My wife is birthed kids and I have

wine more about the flu than she has five pregnancies. So I can't hear anything. I couldn't hear the

band. I hope they sound good. I have a ringing in my left ear. I'm probably at some point going to

cough and I'm hot and I'm sweating like Mike Tyson and a spelling bee. I am not feeling the best.

And the hard thing is I've got one of those jobs you can't call in sick. I actually preached one

time with a stomach flu and a bucket in the pulpit and I told the sound guy, if I make a break for it,

please turn off my mic. And so that's kind of where we're at today. I'm not going to lie to you. I'm

going to lower your expectations. But it's really interesting in God's providence because today I'm

talking about loving God with all your physical strength, your life energy, despite the circumstances

of your body. That's the downside of preaching. You have to experience what you're telling.

And so that's where I find myself today. And so we're finishing the parenting on point

sermon series. And in Mark chapter 12, they come to the Lord Jesus and they basically ask him,

hey, what's the point of the whole Bible? And he says, love the Lord your God with all your heart,

emotional life, soul, spiritual life, mind, mental life, and strength, physical life, loving God

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