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I welcome those that are right here at River Road in Bethesda.

It's, as I mentioned earlier, it's great to be back.

And I also want to welcome those that are joining us for live streaming,

our friends all over the place.

It's just a pleasure to be with you all.

I've been away for, oh, gosh, like five weeks.

And I'll share a little bit about that, but I thought I'd start with a profound teaching story.

This setup is Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson, and they're on a camping trip.

And so they set up their tent and they fall asleep.

And some hours later, Sherlock wakes up his faithful friend, he says,

Watson, look up in the sky and tell me what do you see?

So Watson replies, I see millions of stars.

Sherlock Holmes, what does that tell you?

So Watson's pondering.

He says, astronomically speaking, it tells me there are millions of galaxies

and potentially billions of planets.

Time-wise, it appears to be approximately quarter past three, theologically.

It's evident that the Lord is all powerful and we're small and insignificant.

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