Hello, my friends. Welcome to another episode of Follow Him. My name is Hank Smith. I'm

here with the extraordinary John, by the way. Hi, John. Hi, Hank. How are you? Good. We

are back for another week of Follow Him. John, the lesson this week is entitled, I can

do all things through Christ, which strengtheneth me. When you hear that phrase from Paul,

what do you think of? Yeah. I love the title of that. And I think that sometimes in the

self-help world, they might say, I can do all things and stop right there. And this is,

I can do all things through Christ. The lot of things that we really can't do by ourselves

and we're confronted with that in the gospel, but with Christ, we can do things we normally

couldn't do. So that's what it makes me think about. Yeah. My experience tells me when

I'm left to myself, it usually doesn't go all that well. Yeah. Exactly. I can't do anything.

John, we are joined by a Bible expert this week. I call her almost Dr. Laurie Denning because

she is still in school for religious studies in Claremont, which we can talk about here

in a second. Laurie, what are we looking forward to in these lessons? Thanks for asking.

This is some of the best lessons we are going to do. Philippians and Colossians. You can

pronounce those anyway you want. And we're going to highlight what it's like to be a young

member or how to live within a community that is not all your own. So if you're a member

of the church and you're saying, I don't feel like I belong, how do I live as a Christian?

How do I live in that community and how do I fit in and how does Christ reflect back

through me? We're going to really say, this sounds like something we probably do a lot

of today. How do I fit in? How am I supposed to be a light to those people and how do I

learn about Christ and then reflect that back? We're going to land this to two different

communities that live pretty far apart, but the Philippians and the Colossians, the people

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