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The Porch

The Good Life Knows God’s in Control

The Porch

Watermark Community Church, Dallas, TX

Religion & Spirituality, Christianity

4.93.3K Ratings

🗓️ 3 September 2017

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Summary

When the good life gets out of control, turn to God. David Marvin walks us through Mark 4 showing us how we can be confident in God's care, full of faith not fear, and focus on Christ in the midst of chaos.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Man, all right, gosh, is that amazing or what?

0:04.0

Every time I try to transition.

0:06.0

Gosh, that is so fun to see the band up here

0:10.0

and just they're leading, doing such an incredible job so we are going to continue

0:14.6

this series that we've been doing over the weekend the good life and I'm going to start

0:17.9

with a story that will give us some traction. This took place eight years ago

0:21.8

so I moved to Dallas eight years ago.

0:22.5

So I moved to Dallas, eight years ago,

0:25.1

was going to take a job at Watermark,

0:26.6

moved to Dallas, moved into a backhouse

0:29.6

with a watermark family.

0:31.0

There's this couple, had a back house, It was like moving in with for real Uncle Phil and they were super sweet, super common and they said you can live in our back house. This is amazing and I came up here to work for Watermark. I had a month gap between when I was going to start work and so I had this

0:46.0

month of free time where I was like man maybe we should get a job so I move in, move the new

0:49.8

or meet the new people that I'm going to live with and decide I'm going to go get a job,

0:53.8

had a connection with a restaurant in town and said, man, maybe I'll go eat tables.

0:59.3

So call, get set up, get all hooked up to work a job, show up, first day on the job, get trained,

1:05.2

I'm all set and all ready to go to go wait tables.

1:07.4

I've never waited tables before, but you know, I'm thinking how hard can this be?

1:10.7

And I go, I get to my first table, it's like a group of six people and it was like, for whatever reason,

1:19.0

it was like, I don't know if they were in like the cartel or a gang or something, but this is the table that I walk up to and

1:24.4

like oh my gosh if I mess up their order I'm I'm not leaving this place alive and

1:28.4

and so I begin to take their orders and I take all the drink orders and I go back and I'm all set

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