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Today, we are reading Matthew 26, and I am in the podcast studio with faithful, longtime

watermark member, Scott Fowler.

Hey, thank you for having me.

It's really great to be here. You are so welcome. We've had your wife Julian, your daughter. It was time. It's done. My turn. We had to get you. And so, Scott, for those who don't know you, what has God done in your life? And what are you up to today? So I grew up in a small town in Oklahoma, a great Christian home, fantastic parents.

I trusted in the Lord at an early age, and I walked with the Lord through junior high and high school.

But then when I got to college, and looking back now, I can see that I had a pretty shallow, not a very well-grounded faith.

So about halfway through my college years, I really began to wander away from my faith. And I would

say that was probably at first naively and then intentionally. I kind of joined in with those that I was

hanging out with. So that led to me spending most of my 20s, frankly, pretty far from the Lord. As it

says in Proverbs, I became more and more entangled by the cords of my sin and, you know, learn the hard way that on my own, I'm not a match for Satan. And, you know, there's really a good reason why God tells us to stay far away from sin. I thought it was one that could kind of dabble with it and keep it at arm's length and not get dirty. But that really wasn't the case. I ended up moving to

Dallas in the mid-1990s, and right after I got here, I was invited to Northwest Bible Church,

and that changed my life. Just so grateful to the Lord for that season of life, what I learned,

the friends that I met there, just a godly group of young Christian

guys that I ran with. And it was there that I met my wife, Julie, on a blind date. So shout

out to Dr. Chapman, if you're listening. Shout out. Julie and I have been married for 28 years now,

and we have three kids. And like you said, we've been at Watermark since it started and

worn a lot of different hats here and just been blessed to be able to serve in a lot of different ways. So loved it. Praise God. And what do you do for work? I do commercial real estate finance. Awesome. Is that what brought you to Dallas? Yes. Okay. It was a job. Neat. Neat. Well, I'm so glad you're here, Scott, and grateful that you said yes for this podcast. Thank you.

Glad to be here. We got to talk about Matthew 26, and I have two prompts for you. You ready for the first one?

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