Welcome. I want to welcome all of you are joining us from all of our Atlanta-era locations,

different locations across the country and around the world.

Thrilled to have you joining us, even those of you who are still on vacation that you took off

right after Christmas. I came back in time for church, but we'll see you next week.

I didn't mean that from no guilt or shame. I'm a little bit jealous.

Hey, we're starting a new series today.

And it's called Under Clear Blue Sky.

And it's an epic story, which fits the epic title package.

But it's an epic story about Noah and the Flood.

Now, before we jump in, I just want to say if you're new to us or new to the Bible,

I recognize there's all sorts of challenges or obstacles with old stories like this.

Stories like this and the story of Jonah and others of these Old Testament stories.

And it's why, honestly, oftentimes preachers skip these stories because there are so many obstacles or potholes, I actually want to

step in a couple of them, just to start right out. I want to step in a couple of potholes that

maybe you might even be thinking, like some of you are thinking, you're worried about the historical

accuracy of the story. Like, can we really learn from something? The truth is there's no

archaeological evidence of a worldwide flood. Now, some people

would make an argument that there is. There's a, there's a global flood perspective and there's a

local flood perspective. There's, there's people who would say there's no, there is actual evidence

that there were certain people and animals before and after the flood so everything wasn't

consumed the flood and what about the dinosaurs and so there's all sorts of questions about this

about historical accuracy and i'm going to try to address some of those but i know that's floating

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