Welcome to everyone who's worshiping with us here today as you take your seat.

Just say hello to the person sitting next to you. Maybe you came in late.

You can get to speak to anyone. Let us know in the chat where you're joining us from.

I'm so happy that you are here. Here I am again.

It feels like I was just on this stage. I know you love me, but let's be honest.

Stephen Fertig sermons in January.

There's something special. I don't know. There's something about January that lights a fire in him.

And I feel like he's like God just has this direct connection from his mouth to my heart.

And he even gets up here and reads a Charles Spurgeon sermon.

And we're all, I'm like, I don't even, why am I getting up there? That was great.

We can all go home. Just think of me preaching today like we interrupt this program to bring you a special announcement.

Because I do have a special announcement. I also have a word from God that I believe he's given me to speak to you today.

So thank you for letting me interrupt.

And I'm going to try as always to stay in the flow of what our pastor has been teaching us in the past few weeks.

So first, though, the announcement. You might have seen it.

We talked about it a little bit in the welcome.

But today I am releasing a brand new study that I did just for our church.

It's called Essentials. It's for everybody.

Did you know that we have over 1500 different groups in our church community groups?

We call them e-groups.

And what God is doing in these communities is incredible.

They gather together, even when we're not all coming together to do a study, to talk about the sermons and what God is teaching them.

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