I want to ask you to turn to two passages of scripture, Proverbs 18 and Matthew 18.

So if you'll put a marker at Matthew 18, but we'll start at Proverbs 18, all right?

And this will be the last message in the series on the wealth of a word.

We've been talking about the wealth of a word and the reason I want you to know that this will

be the last one is some people

have asked to me, are you going to be finished with this series by Christmas?

Now I'm taking that as a compliment that they want to buy it as a Christmas gift and so it will be available

and not that they're asking me when are you going to get off of this subject you know.

I was just thinking about something too I'll tell you that happened last night in our home.

I have two boys 22 Josh is 22 James is 19 and we're big outdoorsman know, and we like to golf and hunt and fish and do all those kinds of things.

And they came to me last night and they knelt down beside my chair I was sitting in and they were they said what do you think mom

wants for Christmas and I said I don't know guys and they said we think we've got a great idea and they really did think they had a great idea.

These are two you know over six foot tall boys and outdoors men.

And I said, well, what do you think?

They said, do you think mom would like a deer feeder?

And they were as serious as they could be.

They said, you know, she, she, like, when we go to the Deer Le, she likes to take pictures of them and which she does she takes

her camera and she takes all these beautiful outdoor pictures and you know and you know and

so they were with Josh the oldest is married there with Hannah his wife yesterday

when they came up with the idea and they

bounced it off of her first and she said I don't think Debbie wants a deer feeder.

What what she said have you ever thought about jewelry? You know, they're clueless. They said,

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