It's a great honor and joy to be here with you in Rome where people talk normal for 21 years in Minnesota.

And I've spoken several times in Canada and in New England here in the last few months.

And it's good to be in Georgia.

Thank you for having me here.

Let me pray for us. And you can hear my heart for our

moments together here tonight as I pray. So Father in Heaven, I want to pray for a culture

here at First Prez that loves the things of the spirit, loves spiritual conversation,

loves to talk about the real things of life, not just the normal stuff, not the same conversations

we'd have with any unbeliever on the street. I pray that you'd be pleased to cultivate a spiritual fellowship here

that not only brings us the joys of day in and day out Christian life, but feeds us,

shapes us, keeps us, helps us, grows us in the faith. And would you bless our moments here together

tonight over your word, and in particular this text from Hebrews in Jesus' name we pray. Amen. many of you have been kind in mentioning the the habits of grace book that I understand

some are studying I've even seen copies of it floating around one of the things that was perhaps

most surprising to some readers when I published that book almost which almost 10 years ago now, 2016, is they flipped

through or saw the table of content and said, there's a whole section on fellowship.

But what is that?

That's not normal.

Usually spiritual discipline is about read your Bible and pray.

And that's very important. And one nice thing about reading your Bible and pray.

And that's very important.

And one nice thing about reading your Bible and praying is you can just do that on your

own time.

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