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All right, if you got a Bible go to Romans chapter 9

I just want to take a minute before we jump in to one of the deepest and most difficult sections of the entire Bible

Just to give you a little bit of a good news praise report things are going amazing at the Trinity Church

God has been exceedingly gracious and generous and he's done so through you and I know the whole world stinks right now

But this is the best place to be amen

Things are going great here things are going great here

So just a little bit of a quick update is we head into Easter which is our Super Bowl and our biggest week into the year

It was a year ago this week that we actually closed along with most other churches in the country and across the world

And they were closed for Easter which was a catastrophic loss for the gospel of Jesus Christ

And we're really excited to be open and more than full strength this year

What God did during that season though was incredible and supernatural

So we were closed and while we're closed

We did a lot of work to technology and property thanks to your generosity and then we reopened in June

And we didn't know what was going to happen and God knew exactly what was going to happen

We added the Saturday 4 p.m. Services already full

So we'll be going to additional service at 6 p.m. On Saturday night

On Easter and we will keep that going forward. We have the two morning services 9 and 11

Some of you may ask why won't we do more?

Well because the sermons are long and we don't have time for any more services

And if you're new, I hope you pack the snack. It's gonna be the best few hours of your life

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