Peace Tree City, we welcome you.

Oh, so good.

I do want to just formally welcome Peace Tree City for all those who gather with us worshiping.

You are now part of the Highlands family.

We love you and to all of you here at Grant's Mill, every location, online or on demand.

It's an honor to be with you today.

Come on, church.

Let's put our hands together.

Welcome the entire Highlands

family. What a miracle. What a miracle. I just want to say honestly to everyone,

thank you for your generosity. Pete's Tree City is possible because of that. And I'm so excited for

Caleb and Katie, the entire team. Can't wait to see all that God does. So excited about today as well. I sense the presence of God in church today. And I believe God wants to do something significant in all of our lives. And so if you're okay with it, we're going to jump straight into it. You all okay with that? Great. Get your app out. If you have it. It's a great way to follow along. You can even download it right now. There's notes and scriptures there. If you have

your Bible, grab it as well. We're in week three of a series leading us up to Easter, really in

this Lent season that's all about, the series is all about clearing out spiritual clutter,

just getting a clean heart and pure eyes to see all that God has for us. And we're studying

one chapter of the Bible, Romans chapter 8th. And today we're going to look at verses 14 through 17. And this is a big one today. Honestly, I'm so full of fate today that God has something big in store for all of us. There's even a lot of, I think a lot of spiritual warfare around this today. I'm here to fight for all of us that we wouldn't just hear this in our heads, but this message would get into our hearts. Today is all about our identity

as a child of God, a child of God. Thinking about God's heart towards us, reminded me of

us, Jill and I having our kids. So we have four kids now. Our first was born back in 2008.

And I'll never forget her coming to me with this pregnancy test, finding out we were pregnant.

And then really from that point forward until, I mean, through the whole process, even after birth, it was just kind of all a blur.

Like everything was brand new. It was honestly very overwhelming in so many ways.

Our first stop after the pregnancy test was, course to the doctor. And anyone who's been in that room, the sound is so unique of the heartbeat. What a beautiful sound, that won, won, won't, won't sound. So beautiful. Oh, I was so overwhelmed with this life. Only God could do that. And I didn't know what to do next. So the doctor's like, like back then in 2008 you couldn't find out genders so the doctor basically said we'll do checkups we'll see around week

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