Hey, hey, welcome to the church home podcast with Judah Smith. My amazing husband, my name is Chelsea,

and he is about to give you an incredible message, and I know we are going to hear about Jesus and

his love for you. And if there's anything we can do as a church home community, we would love to

serve you. You can come to churchhome.org slash pastor chat, and we would love to have a

conversation with you and just meet

you exactly where you are. Enjoy the message. Hey, church home, welcome back to weekly service. We are

dedicating the month of July to the idea of the place beyond okay. Maybe I just like the title,

The Place Beyond the Pines, but which I don't know, is that a bad movie or a good movie?

I don't know as a preacher if I can recommend movies, but I guess we're here. And I've walked myself right into this. I really do like that movie.

But what if you could be better than okay? What if you could work on or have handles to or a roadmap or a guide to like, am I doing okay?

What if I could get better than okay?

You ever ask somebody how you doing and they're like, okay?

And you're like, that means absolutely

terrible. So now in culture, okay is synonymous with like not good, really. So we're thinking like,

how do I get past okay? Now, if you're like me and life can get challenging and difficult,

sometimes I'll settle for okay. I really will. Okay is the new great.

You know, it's like, man, this is, okay, I'm okay, I'm making it, I'm upright, I'm moving,

we're going forward.

And life has been challenging.

There is research and study that's informing us that at the increase of technology,

which gives us more access to information and more

access to news and observation of human behavior and what's going on all over the world and what

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