Amen. It is a huge joy and privilege to be here with you. I absolutely love this church. I love

Louis and Shelley and the staff here. And I just love the ministry that flows out of this place

and into the rest of the world. So, man, it's so great to be here with you. My wife and I have come

from Waco, Texas. I just want to go ahead and get the disappointment out of the way. No, we are not

yet. Best friends with Chip and Joanna Gaines from Fixer Upper. So, I apologize for that.

We are just praying and trusting for the day that will run into them and they'll just say,

hey, we've been looking for new best friends and we just saw you guys and felt like it's it, okay?

And so, it plays out in my mind. We'll see what happens. So, my wife and I, we got married

nine years ago, which means that we started dating about 10 years ago, which means that I started

trying to work it with her about 11 years ago. This might be incredibly difficult for you to

believe, but there was actually a time when Catherine was just not into this. And I know.

I know. I don't get it either. But I will, I'll never forget this night before we had started

dating that we were talking on the phone and that somehow I convinced her to watch a movie with

me and it caught me so off guard that I immediately went and began to change my clothes because I didn't

want to just look fine. I wanted to look like fist biting fine. You know, like, some of y'all are

like, that's not possible for you. Well, I thought it was possible. All right. So, I began to go get

changed and just as I'm getting changed, I begin to dream of what could be with the Catherine

Robinson. I mean, usually it's the ladies who kind of go too far down the romantic road, but man,

I started going there. I was just like, man, what if this goes really well? And I have the opportunity

to take her on a real nice date. What if we start dating? I'm just kind of going down that path

in my mind. And so, man, I checked my clothes. They look good. The spike is spiky. I get in the car

and I'm on the way to her apartment. And as I'm on the way there, I just think, you know what? We're

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