Well, he passed from our Triscoll here welcoming you to my first ever parenting series.

More than 20 years in the pulpit, never taught an entire parenting series.

Parenting on point is a five-week series looking at what it means to love God and live in the love of God

with all your heart, emotional life, soul, spiritual life, mind, mental life, strength

and physical life, and help your neighbor do the same starting with your own family and the kids

that are sleeping in the bunk beds down the hall. So thanks for joining me. Hope

to be a service to you.

So my wife Grace now we've been married 25 years. We've got five kids and it

started a long time ago. She bought me a Bible when I was 19 and then I became a

Christian reading it in college. She actually bought it at 17. I got saved reading at 19.

Took me a while, a little bit of a slow processor. And then at 21 we decided we're going to get married.

So it was between our junior and senior year of college.

And there's three kinds of broke.

There's broke.

There's college broke, and there's married college broke.

So we were on the threshold of married college broke and so it was the final summer

before we got married and went back to school and I was looking for any job I could get

and I wanted to work double shifts make as much money as I possibly could because I really want to marry my dream girl and I ended up getting the most weird job as a dock hand for a boat company.

They would take tourists out on these hydrofoil boats for the day

and then they'd come back at night and somebody need to dock the boats and clean the boats and

gas up the boats and I knew nothing about boats. I'd never been on a boat but it paid

good money so I interviewed for the job and lo and behold I got the job as the guy

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