So delighted that all of you are here to study God's word together. I want to take a moment,

looking at the camera, as I always do, just say hello to all of our churches, our locations all across

Alabama and in Georgia, to the men and women in the Alabama Department of Corrections. In fact,

I met someone who just was released recently, and he came up to me a couple days ago during one of our morning

prayer times, just tears streaming down his face. And he said, the day that I decided this was

my home church. And really the day I decided to go all in with God was the day you look into that

camera and said, you're not a project to us. You are our church family. And we believe that about

every single one of you men and women

in those facilities. God bless you today. And then, of course, those are those watching online

somewhere around the world. We're so glad. You're along for the ride as well. We're in week

number three of a four-part series called The Holy Bible. And I kind of got this in my heart

several months out, probably mid-year,

last year, just decided that I thought it was a good way to start the year for all of us to

understand the Bible, but respect the Bible and live by the Bible. I started off week number one

with, I want you to love it, I want you to learn it, I want you to live it. I want this to be a place of your life that becomes solid ground for you.

And I think there's so much attack on the Bible.

There's so many commentaries about what the Bible is all about, and most of them are

completely wrong.

And so I just wanted to help you understand it better and get you in your Bibles again. In fact, I'm a pastor,

so I'm always trying to lead you to places that help your life thrive. And I honestly, I would

put this one at the top of the list of the things that if this was in your life at the degree

that was healthy for you and strong for you, it would have the most impact into every area of your

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