Hey, hey, hey, how are we doing, church?

Man, I hope you are doing well.

If we hadn't met yet, my name is Ryan Stone.

I am one of the pastors here.

I get the honor to get to preach tonight.

It's an honor to open up God's word with you.

We are in the second week of a four-week series

in which we're looking at kind of the life of Apostle Peter.

And if you're new to Bible study, a couple things you need to know.

One thing you need to know is this, that Peter often talked first.

The Peter often talked the most, and that Peter talked the loudest.

I don't know if you know a lot about the enneagram, but I'm pretty sure

Peter and I are the same thing on the enneagram. We like to talk and talk and talk. And so we'll be here

for at least two or three hours as we dig in to the word tonight. But Peter talked a lot.

And what we're doing over these four weeks is we're studying the life of Peter. And we're

asking this, man, when Peter encountered Jesus,

what do we learn about our encounter with Jesus? And so tonight we're going to dig in on Jesus

walking on the water and Peter joining him. So if you got your Bibles, whether they're like a good

old-fashioned hard copy Bible or they're somewhere on your 1122 app, if you'll your Bibles, whether they're like a good old-fashioned hard copy Bible or they're

somewhere on your 1122 app, if you'll do me a favor, go ahead and open them up to Matthew

Chapter 14.

I want to set a little context for us so that as we're starting to dig in, we know what's

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