Hello friends. This is Scott Pauli, and I'm thrilled you've joined us for the weekend pulpit.

From time to time, it's my privilege to share a Bible message that God is used to affect my life in a unique way.

And today's message from God's Word is from a guest preacher and someone that is very special to me. I hope you'll get your Bible and follow along as we listen for the Lord to speak to our

hearts. The

The Ephesians, richer, deeper, stronger. And we are indeed rich

in the Lord Jesus Christ. We want to anchor our life deeper in Him and in His Word. And we want to have the Lord to physically and spiritually

enable us to be strong in the Lord in the power of his might. And we come to one of my favorite

verses. It's 620 Central Standard Time and probably at this point, one of my pastors, I made a post about the last evening,

one of my mentors, role models, Pastor Roger Pauley, after 33 years and three months, by now, he may be getting his money's worth for his last

one, I don't know. But he's probably officially completed his last sermon as pastor of the Cranberry

Baptist Church after 33 years. And our family was in that ministry for just shy of seven years. And he's actually, we have

two men, two pastors in our life who are both retiring, Pastor Pauli and Pastor Mike Poole,

Bible Baptist in Highland, Indiana.

And I'm helped by their example because these are two men who have, as we say, stood by the stuff.

And they have honorably served.

And to have it said of you after, let's see, well, Pastor Pauli, 33 years,

Pastor Poole, is it 45 years? To be able to have others say that they served honorably after such a long period of time to me is a higher accolade than any athletic trophy or any award that

could be given to actors and actresses.

And I'm praying, you know, for Pastor Paulie, he, Cranberry, a little coal community in Beckley, West Virginia, Cranberry was his first pastor and his last pastor. And so I'm praying that I can follow that same pattern. And I'm hoping that harvest is my first pastor. I got 10 years under my belt and you've got at least, Lord

willing, at least another 20, 25 of you. So I'm sorry. I apologize ahead of time. You're stuck.

Well, I guess you could change that if you wanted, but I'm hoping you don't want to do that.

I've already had several comments.

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