If we have not met, as Pastor Taylor said, my name's Nick. I get to be one of the pastors

here on staff, and Skip asked me to share tonight. I just want to take a moment. Can we just honor

our senior pastor, Skip and the executive team, Nate and Neil. We love you guys. Thank you for

how you shepherd and care for us. And what i get to do here is i get to

lead the young adults ministry collective young adults and no that is not the youth ministry people

always confuse santi kaden Caleb and i were kind of interchangeable at this point uh but young adults is

18 to 30 year olds and we gather every week week on Sunday nights at 7 p.m.

And I have to just uplift my team real quick.

They're an amazing group of people.

We just actually just wrapped up a series all about community for the last five weeks.

And we saw over 120 young adults each week get into community groups.

And my team, our team, did phenomenal just leading these young adults each week get into community groups and my team our team did phenomenal just

leading these young adults preaching the gospel to them helping just chains be broken off their

life it was phenomenal to witness and we actually got to see a few baptisms this last Sunday

and so god is doing something god is something. He's on the move in Generation

Z, and it's cool to be a part of it. But when Skip asked me to share tonight, I had to stew over

in my mind a few different sermons that the Lord had placed on my heart. And when he initially

asked me to share, I actually had this sermon tonight for you was what I was going to preach

to our Sunday night

gathering, but I felt Holy Spirit just pressed upon me to save it for something. So when Skip asked me,

this is the first sermon that came to mind. And this sermon tonight is all about suffering and pain.

Oh yeah, one hour, a suffering and pain through the Bible. You know, even mentioning a sermon about suffering,

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