The Bible says, serve the Lord with gladness.

That's what you serve them because you supposed to.

Dr. Tony Evans says our submission ought to grow out of celebration.

He wants you to be glad about it because it's predicated on relationship, not on religious duty.

This is the alternative broadcast featuring the timeless biblical teachings from the archives of Dr. Tony Evans.

Christianity can seem very complex, but Dr. Evans says it can all be boiled down to one vitally important concept.

He'll explain as he begins these lessons from his definitive series returning to the

cross. Let's join him. As a boy growing up in Baltimore, I had a regular Saturday regiment.

I had to finish my housework, home responsibilities that each of the kids were assigned. we would always try to finish it by noon

because every Saturday, weather permitting at noon,

we all went down to the diamond.

The diamond was a large field

located a few minutes from my house where the guys gathered every Saturday to play

football. On one occasion, we had all gathered down at this field called the diamond for our

Saturday afternoon games that went on from noon to dark

we had as we always did chosen up sides and it was time for the game to begin only to discover that on this particular Saturday nobody brought the football.

Nobody brought the football. And so while we had taken the time to go to the location,

while we had chosen teams in order to get the battle on everything got

stopped because this blown up pig was missing we were not able to do what we had gathered to do

because the main thing wasn't there.

Isn't it amazing that something so small

can carry so much weight?

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