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Every week release a podcast that corresponds to the sermon.

It's like a little bit of a deeper dive, where we hit some things that didn't make it into the sermon,

some theological concepts.

We talk about things that are going on in our culture and how to think about them from a biblical perspective.

We call that podcast Live Free.

An episode releases every Monday that corresponds to the sermon. If you would like to check

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Matt's good to see you guys. This is my first time seeing you from this vantage point since Thanksgiving. So I want to say Merry Christmas. You can do this. If you could turn to the person next to you to tell them Merry Christmas. Do that real quick. That's great, man. And then if you can do this, turn to the other person, one you were trying to avoid, and tell them the greatest thing you can hear after Thanksgiving, tell them you look thinner today. Tell them that, that's awesome. It's great, man. That's great. That's great. Well, hey, I do want to do this. We're in Luke chapter two today. And, man, I'm really, really excited about this message. I just tell you, my heart's really full. I do want to do this. Before we move forward, I want to honor backwards.

Because if you're new to Lake Point, you just to know, just real deep belief that we refuse to

treat holy things as if they're common. And so when the Lord does something that's unique and

set apart, we want to celebrate that because what you celebrate, you cultivate,

what you fail to celebrate will eventually leave your life. And so, man, last week, we had

one week to kick off the Christmas series of Christmas at the movies. And man, I just want to

celebrate a couple things last week. Number one, it was by far the largest weekend we've ever had at Lake Point.

We crammed a little over 33,000 people in person into our campuses last week, which was

awesome. That's great. And we are. I do, you know, we give thanks to that, but honestly,

that's honestly not the thing that I'm really excited about because we're not called to make crowds.

We're called to make disciples.

And so the number that like really, really gets me excited is last week in one weekend,

692 people indicated a first time decision about Christ in one weekend.

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