Amen, amen. How are we doing, church? Everybody good? Looking good. If you got your Bibles, I hope you do.

We're going to be in Romans Chapter 13, as you know, and in our time together, we're talking about love.

Finally, all right, no obedience to the authorities and all those hard texts. We're going to dig into love. And before we do, I need to do a little bit of housekeeping.

One thing's pretty heavy and one thing is just going to be kind of fun.

And we just need to pray for a brother that I dearly love.

Pastor Stone is in Atlanta right now at the bedside of his father.

His daddy has been fighting cancer for 10 years since, as long as I've known,

Stone. And he's a Baptist preacher. He led Stone to Christ. He is fighting the good fight. And we need a

miracle. And we know that a miracle will happen, either miraculously he will walk out of that

hospital or miraculously he will walk into the

kingdom of heaven and so as you can imagine we need to be praying for stone and his family

and I'm also going to make fun of him about 10 minutes into the sermon so I feel like we need to

pray for him now too okay so at all of our campuses would you just bow your head and

let's pray for the stones our good and grace is heavenly father we thank you for Craig stone

god we thank you for his uh legacy Lord we thank you for his boys called into the ministry

that declare the gospel to thousands of people every week of their

life and God has he lays in that bed fighting for his life we know that you have numbered all of his

days God we know that um his faith has healed him that by his stripes by your stripes he has by your stripes, he has been healed eternally. And God, we thank you

for the eternal miracle of salvation. But God, we pray, we pray, that will be done. But Lord, you said,

we have not because we ask not. So we pray, God, that he would get up out that bed and he would

tell more and more people about you. The doctors, the nurses, God, that they would give glory because you moved in a mighty, mighty way.

God, we pray in that room right now for a peace that transcends all understanding that you would guard hearts and minds in Christ Jesus.

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