Amen and amen. How's everybody doing? Doing good? Well, you look great. If you got your Bibles, we'll be in 1st Samuel chapter 3, or if you brought your journal, I think we're on page 12 in this third week of private priests and kings, and I know it's been mentioned a couple times already, but can we give a hand to all the mamas here? Thank you, thank you very much. Happy Mother's Day. We wouldn't be here without you, literally. So, hey, Jesus is the head of the church.

There's no doubt about that. But the backbone of the church has been some praying mamas since the

empty tomb, right, who showed up first but some mamas. And then also this very book, First Samuel,

that we're studying, it really starts with the mama praying, with Hannah, pouring out her soul to the Lord.

And so, happy Mother's Day, I hope everybody treats you right.

As I'm putting together this message, though, it occurred to me rather late that I would be preaching it on Mother's Day,

and it's not a very good Mother's Day sermon at all.

In fact, it's kind of a nightmare to most American mamas because what I'm praying

happens today is that God speaks to you, to the mamas and the kids and everybody in between,

that God speaks to you. And in fact, if God really does speak to some of you, it could be

the American mom's worst nightmare, that your baby might reject the American dream and take the

gospel to the very ends of the earth, that great danger to their self. But the most dangerous

thing for their soul could be to grow up where we all grow up. Now, for the gospel-centered, Christian

Mama, this would be the answer to prayer that God would speak to you and speak to a whole generation.

And we would raise up, not just good citizens here at 1122, but we would raise up missionaries.

And some missionaries would go to the Congo.

And some missionaries would take the gospel to the HOA.

Both very dangerous.

The HOA maybe a little more. I have you know you saw in the video here we are we are

well into this two-year discipleship journey that we call the one initiative okay it's all rooted in

the shema the Lord our God the Lord is one and what does it look like for us as a church to love the

Lord our God with all of our heart and all of our soul and all of our mind and all one. And what does it look like for us as a church to love the Lord

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