Hey everyone. I'm not back in any regular organized studio where I can control my

environment a little better. I'm still traveling. I am actually in California now. I haven't seen my extended family for about a year and a half,

over a year and a half now, I guess two years. And the COVID stuff really prevented us from coming out and I have a one grandfather who will be turning 99 next month and I knew I really needed to get to see him.

So we're enjoying that and my wife is actually on the beach right now.

I'm pulled over at the side of the road.

We decided to take one day, one afternoon and drive down to the beach.

And so we're at the beach outside of Los Angeles, where for people who want to know the

geography of the area, we're at Point Doom area.

So it's a beautiful day right now.

It's kind of cloudy this morning.

Now it's kind of nice.

And I have a whole list of topics to talk about on the

podcast and I don't know how many I'll get to this week just because of the

travel conditions. My grandparents also who I'm staying with do not have any internet.

So it's kind of a hit or miss when I can upload anything.

But one of the things, and this didn't require a slideshow or anything, so it was easy for me to just whip out my phone and record myself talking about it a little bit was something I realized on Sunday and I think this is a trend and I think a lot of you are experiencing

it's probably in your churches and so I wanted to just briefly give you some

thoughts off the top of my head about it because I thought about it as it was happening.

We went to a church not too long ago and the service was good.

It wasn't a bad sermon or anything like that.

But there was, there seemed to be a motivation behind it,

which I've seen many other places now, and I think it is a trend in more conservative

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