Aloha and welcome to House Church. Today's sermon is called Christ-like relationships.

My husband Alex is starting a four-part series on relationships by walking through the Book of Philemon. Thank you for joining us and if

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Amen.

Phileiman one through three, Paul, a prisoner of Christ Jesus and Timothy,

our brother, to Philemon, our beloved fellow worker,

and Epiphia, our sister, and archipus,

our fellow soldier, and the church in your house.

Amen. Grace to you and peace from God, our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.

You guys have a seat.

Father, thank you so much for building our life on you, God. We thank you, you God that we have a firm foundation that

will not fail us that we will not be shaken because of the foundation that we have

Lord and I pray right now that you would calm my mind and my heart

and that you would allow me to teach

on such an important topic, Lord, about relationships.

We want relationships that reflect you, that are Christ-centered and we want relationships that thrive Lord and we want others to look at our relationships and through them be able to see you and so we need you now I need you and your name be pray

amen. Amen. So you guys seen the movie Sandlot? It's one of my favorite movies,

baseball movie and in it the main character small he moves to a new town his parents are

divorced he has a stepdad and this kid named Benny the Jet Rodriguez lives next door to him and Benny comes over and

befriends Smalls for no good reason. Absolutely no reason. There's

Benny is a cool kid, he's good at baseball, he's got a lot of friends, he doesn't need a guy like Smalls and his life.

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