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Now here's this week's message.

Today we're going to begin a new message series. It's called Almost True.

There are so many beliefs in our culture today that sound true, feel true, and they're almost true, but they're not true.

And I just want to warn you,

if you don't like this message series,

and you find yourself wanting to push back,

it's probably for you.

Today I want to play a game just to kind of get us in the mood.

Anybody want to play a game?

If you want to play a game online, just type it in the comments section I want to play a game

We're gonna play the game called two truths and a lie two truths and a lie I am going to lie to you

But it's all for the glory of God so it's legal when you do it for a

sermon illustration. What I'm gonna do is I'm gonna give you three statements

two of them are true, one of them is not true, just for fun. We'll let you guess which one is not true.

Statement number one, I did my first professional magic show at the age of 12.

Statement number two, two of our six children were unplanned.

Statement number three,

I sneak M&M's when I don't preach my best. Two of these are true, one is not.

Let's vote online. You can type in the comments section, whichever one you think is untrue. How many of you would say

that I didn't do a magic show professing when I was 12? Raise your hand up, raise your

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