Hey, this is Stephen Fertig. 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 as moving in your life. Enjoy the message.

In just a moment we're going to welcome Holly to the stage. She's going to share God's word with us

today. My wife, come right now. It was a matter of fact. Come on. Let's thank God for her as she comes.

What I wanted to say just by way of introduction to her sermon today is that as the world becomes more

and more artificial, the authentic becomes more and more attractive. And what we love about you,

I speak on behalf of all of these people, the ones who have good sense, to appreciate a woman of

God who is comfortable being who she is. I remember when we first started the church and there were

so many questions that you had about what is a pastor's wife supposed to do and be and there's

so many different templates, models and molds. But you had the courage to play the role that God had given

you. And when people come up to us in the mall and they come up to us at Red Lobster and they come

up to us and say thank God for your ministry. Usually they just push me out of the way to get straight

to you. And there's something that they know that they're very correct in assessing is that for so

many times that you could have grabbed a spotlight, you chose to be a servant and a support system

for me and our three children. So I thank God for you. What they usually say is thank you for giving

me permission to be real. And I want you to be assured today there are thousands of people

in our physical locations all over the world with our EFAM who are excited and expected to hear the

word of hope that God has given you for us today. So do your thing. I love you. Let's thank God

for Pastor Holly Purge.

Well, happy Mother's Day for me and we already welcomed all of our campuses so you can go ahead and

be seated. I do want to say oh there's my table. It's like magic. I do want to say welcome to all

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