I'm going to preach here on peace, the power of peace.

Let me tell you, the last time I preached on peace at Gateway,

it didn't go well.

And I want to say that.

It just didn't go well.

It was about 16 years ago when we were in the daycare center.

Pastor Robert was preaching for me in Amarillo

and I was preaching down here.

And I was preaching on Saturday night on peace

in the midst of the storm was my message.

And the longer I preached, the more upset people got and I just I was

preaching on peace and people were just getting more and more upset about 20

minutes into my message I'm preaching and people were talking to each other

and just fidgeting around their chairs and they're troubled like this and then they

start getting up and leaving. I'm just thinking this is the worst sermon in the history of the world.

Does it get any worse than this?

And then the guy in the sound booth did this to me.

I'm thinking, this arm was so bad the sound guy's telling me to stop. He's telling me to wrap it up.

Well that's not what he was telling me. There were tornadoes touching down all over the neighborhood and people started hearing about it in the back and it spread

to the front and so but but I kept preaching I didn't know they were

t' nobody told me sound guys doing this people are getting up and leaving. But what stopped the message?

Was the softball size hail that started hitting the road? When that happened, it was over.

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