What is joy, buddy?

I don't know.

It's a dream! All right, Porch, hey, how are we doing tonight?

We're doing okay?

Shripping over my words.

It's so good to be here.

Glad that you're in the room with us this evening.

Some of you, it's a regular occurrence

for you to be here with us on a Tuesday night. Welcome back. Thanks for always giving us your time.

But for others of you, you're here for the very first time. Maybe you knew you were coming to it.

You're like, man, you know what? I've had this marked on my calendar. I was ready to come. I'm in town, and so I wanted to make a special appearance. Maybe your friend duped you into being here.

I don't know what brought you into the room tonight, but we're really glad you're here.

Not just those of you here in the room, but with what God is doing in the lives of young adults here in this ministry, both in Dallas, Texas, and all over the nation.

We believe that he can meet with anybody at any time and any place, and that includes you, wherever it is, you are right now.

A special shout out to Porch Live, Greater Lafayette, Fort Worth, and Scottsdale.

We're really glad that y'all are tuning in as well. Porch tonight, we are continuing in our series

Joy, which has been a joy. We have loved this series. I don't know about you. It has been one of my

favorites to work through by way of reading the text and then preaching it to you.

I think God is teaching me as he teaches you, which is always the hope.

And then along the way, what he's done is he's brought good friends into the mix of the

conversation around this topic, one of which I am very excited for you to hear from tonight.

Because tonight, we have not a special

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