Thank you.

Thank you.

Praise God.

Thank you guys so much.

I appreciate the warm welcome and the hospitality, and I want to say happy, belated Thanksgiving to my 1122 family.

I'm glad to be with you on this particular Sunday. As you guys

know, this is also a national holiday. It's a national new diet day where many of us will

try out new diets and exercise regiments to heal ourselves of all of the overindulgence we have been participating in.

I hope you were.

And then not only that, Thanksgiving, a lot of ways, is the inauguration of the Christmas season.

And I'm excited that many of you will be journeying with your church through this Advent season

and Advent reading.

But if we're honest, especially considering the kind of with your church through this Advent season and Advent reading.

But if we're honest, especially considering the kind of year we've gone through or maybe even as a church or even as an individual, the Christmas season sometimes comes

with baggage.

For many of us during the Christmas season, it's a time of grief, a time of

a great. And for honest, we bear our surroundings and we try to push through of Christmas-like

sight watching and Christmas carols. But for many of us, there's always this lingering grief

or anxiety. So this morning, I want to give you a prescription. This morning, as we inaugurate

this Christmas season and approach this new journey of Admit for this year, I want to give you the prescription

for peace. The prescription for peace. I believe that God's word from Philippians chapter

four is going to be an encouragement for us all to think about how we can have peace regardless of the circumstances.

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