Amen. How we doing, church? Doing okay? Looking good. If you got your Bibles, I hope you do, grab it.

Matthew chapter 25 is where we will spend the majority of our time. And to all the dads, I'd like to say,

happy Father's Day to the dads. Yeah, that's about what you get. All right? Pretty much dad life right there.

Hey, that really is all. So Matthew chapter 25, that's where we're going.

We're in this series called The Storyteller. We're going to study the parable of the talents.

We'll talk a whole bunch about that. And the reason that we're digging in on the talents,

and I think it was 2001, I heard a sermon that really affected the trajectory of my life to lead me to this point right now,

doing what we will be doing here for the next 50 minutes or so.

At that point, the guy wasn't very well known.

Now he's a super famous pastor guy.

A guy named Dr. John Piper preached a sermon in 2000 at a college event called One Day.

And I was doing college ministry at University of Georgia and Athens.

And about a year later, I was not at that event, but about a year later, one of the college

kids got a DVD, remember though, it's got a DVD of the sermon.

And we sat in the living room of a friend of mine and we watched this sermon.

And I don't know that it had a title necessarily,

but now it's known as Don't Waste Your Life.

He wrote a book about it and all this stuff.

And as I sit and listen to Dr. Piper unpack this idea of what a life not wasted looks like.

I got to let you know, it changed the way I thought about everything.

It changed. It confirmed my

calling into ministry. I'd been a Christian for a little while at that point and thought I was going to do

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