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Coming up in today's message, we'll see that when we put God first with our finances,

it helps us realize that God is a God of abundance and opens the doors for him to do more

than we could ever ask or imagine. And today we'll see why in part two of this is what we do.

Hey, I'm just curious who's a little bit excited to be at church today.

All of our churches, I want to tell you next week I have a message for you. I've already prepared

that I promise you it will build your faith, it will inspire and motivate you. We get to be

a part of something amazing in our church. Today I want to do something a little bit different.

I've actually asked one of our pastors to preach today and I want to tell you why because this pastor

lives this message out unlike just about anybody I know. His faith for this topic is very deep

and very, very real. He's married to an amazing woman, Cindy. They've got a fantastic story. He is

one of my very close, close friends and he's one of the best pastors I know. Would you put your hands

together and please help me welcome Pastor Chris Beal? I gotta say when you get an introduction

like that from arguably the best communicator of our generation, it kind of makes me want to vomit

just a little bit. Just this much. Craig is my pastor and has been my friend for 15 years and

we know him as a great communicator, great leader from the seat that I sit in. He is a far better

Christian and follower of Jesus than all of those other things and I think man where would we be

if they had not answered the call 21 years ago to start this church. Can we show Pastor Craig and Amy?

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