Hey, this is Stephen Fertake. I'm the pastor of Elevation Church and this is our

podcast. I wanted to thank you for joining us today. Hope this inspires you.

Hope it builds your faith. Hope it gives you perspective to see God is moving in your life,

enjoy the message.

This week's Psalm is Psalm 142.

I got some good news my oldest son has fallen in love with an album something I

feared may never happen because you know we live in the day of the single nobody listens to

albums anymore and but my son having impeccable good taste mostly informed by his genetic code, has fallen in love with an album.

If we weren't in church, I'd tell you that it's a Kendrick Lamar album, but what was so good to me about that is I was scared that he would

never have the experience that I had when I was about his age he's 12 and he and

he would just listen to songs, you know, Spotify, stream songs and just, you know, garbage stuff that's out there now.

I didn't know if he'd get into good quality music.

And I never knew if he would have the moment that Eric and I had growing up in the mean streets of Monks Corner, South Carolina,

of falling in love with an album. The first album that I fell in love with was of course by the great

Christian worship band Guns and Roses, the Prophet Axel Rose, was the first preacher.

Whoever touched my soul in a powerful way and I wanted him

to have that experience to really get into the music and and he looked at me the

other day he said I just feel like Kendrick gets me.

Yeah, it's Compton and Waxar, just the light.

But that point aside, it was good.

It was good to me to see him get into I wanted him to know that you know I wanted him to feel that I

I wanted him to know that it's not just look because you see like in this series I want you to know that God

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