Good.

Howdy?

Great to see you all. I appreciate thank you, Jovey, for the moment to collect myself after that video.

Golly, that was emotional. Let me say this, before we jump into the word, and I'm excited about what the Lord has for us tonight.

I just need to say, I love your pastor. And I'm grateful for him and his friendship in my life.

Yeah, you got a good one, family.

And he was gracious enough to come and preach in D.C. several months ago.

And he asked me at the outset, he's like, hey, do you think, like, my style will fit?

You know, I'm a little in my two country for D.C.

And I was like, no.

So people there

are from all 50 states. Half of them are from the south and you'll sound like home. Half of them

are from the north and you'll be like a novelty, like an exotic, like at the zoo. And they

loved him and loved him because he's so winsome and funny, but also because he handles the

word of God so well.

And so I say all the same stuff. I love listening to your pastor preach. I really do. I enjoy

listening to his preaching. And I'm just so grateful to be here with you guys. I love this place.

It's so fun. So honor to be here with you. If you got a copy of your scriptures,

we're in Mark, Chapter 4. And I'm going to read what to some of you may feel like a surprising

amount of scripture. Others of you, if you're around here a lot, you'll go, no, it's about

normal. But I'm going to read to you several different moments in the life of Jesus. We'll pray

and then talk about them together.

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