Harry's Creek, how we doing? Hey, let's go. Come on. I love hearing that. Good morning.

Listen, we're starting a new series today called Aw. And much of the inspiration for the series

has come from this book, The Aw of God by John Bevere. The All of God by John Bevere.

And so this summer, if you're anything like me, you've got travel plans, your life

groups running a bunch of different directions. You guys are looking about, looking, hey, when's the

next time we're going to meet and when's the next time everyone's together? I want to make a

suggestion to you. What if this week, you took this week to get this book. We begin it next Sunday

or Monday. We read it together. It's a devotional, in the devotional format over six weeks, a reading a day. And so as we start this series, I think this will be a great supplemental read for you, the awe of God. I want to put that in front of you. And then just go in your group text, and kind of every day as you read something, just text the group, say, hey, what did you guys think about this and kind of every day as you read something just text the group so hey

what did you guys think about this and kind of stay up and it's a way to remain connected through the

summer in your life group even as you guys go different ways and so I think that's going to serve you

really well I've seen that be helpful to people and I just want to commend that to you in the chaos

and craziness that sometimes summer is.

And so, as I've said many times from this stage, I grew up in a small town in South Texas.

And I got in a lot of fights growing up, which didn't go well for me because I wasn't good at it. So it means I got beat up a lot.

And I was from this small town, but the biggest town, Victoria, Texas, about 30 minutes away.

That's where you would go to the movies. That's where you would go to the mall. If you were

going to see anything, like that's where you would go for pizza. Like Victoria was a place that you would go to the mall if you were going to see anything like that's where you would go for

pizza like Victoria was was a place that you would go to and and in high school like I'm kind of this

wannabe gangster all right if you can picture a little JP want to be gangster I grew up on a farm

that really hurt my gangster rep you know the cows cows and all. But I would go to Victoria,

and when I would go there, it was kind of this constant, like, looking over my shoulder

because there were just a lot of rivalries amongst high school and, you know, dating in high

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