Hey everybody, this is Andy Wood, and I'm the pastor here at Saddleback Church, and this is our podcast.

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Today's a great day. God is doing some phenomenal things, and we're in the middle of a series called The Path to Peace. I've loved these few weeks as we've been looking at God's desire

and design for us to live with greater levels of peace and our hearts, our minds, our homes.

In just a moment, I'm going to jump into the message, but I do want to do a little moment of confession here. How many of you normally attend the 9 a.m. service out of curiosity? Okay, just a few of you guys. You might not know this, but there was some event in the city today where the roads were closed coming into church. And they told me last night, right before I left and came to church today, to, like, remember, you cannot get to church the roads are closed at a couple spots. I forgot. Anybody else? That happened to you? Okay. Yeah. So we're together. The ADHD folks, we're here. And we're glad you're here. Wherever you are on your journey of faith today, whether this is your first time in church

or you've been coming for a long period of time, this subject of peace is one of the most

pertinent and significant topics of our day.

There was a recent study that was done by the Barnett Institute, and as they surveyed the

landscape, one of the questions they asked is, what is the deepest need of your life?

And the top was inner peace. There's this longing for inner peace in our heart. So we've been looking

at some very key areas that we need God's peace. We started in the first week talking about our

heads, our minds, and how our thought life, when it's fixed on God, there's a kind of peace that we

experience. And then last week, we looked at the peace that God wants us to have in our hearts, that we can trust in Kim and the emotions, kind of the center core of who we are, that we can fix our thoughts and our hearts on God and experience his peace. So today, we're going to focus in on the home that God wants you to have peace in your home.

And I want to show you a little picture of my family right here, and you'll see there are

six of us in our home. Stacy and I, right there in the middle, been married for almost 23 years.

We have our oldest caveman who will be 20 years old this fall.

And then we have our second Sammy next to him.

We have Caras, our daughter, and Greg, who lives with us now.

Greg is an awesome young man who plays football with cavemen and went to high school together.

And both of these young men are in the service today, right, in the 11 a.m. service,

and I'm so glad to have bodyguards in my home. It's awesome. It's awesome. I love it.

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