You're going to Wish that I'm long. Lord. Okay, hey porch, how we do in tonight?

Let's go. Okay, hey, Porch, how we doing tonight?

Let's go!

Whoo, man, it is so good to be with you.

I think I say this all the time.

It always catches me by such pleasant surprise

that every Tuesday we walk in,

we see this in our space.

Like I do not take for granted one minute that you would give us a little bit of your time

on a Tuesday night.

So let me just say from the outset here, thank you.

We're really grateful that you would choose to join us here at

the porch. If this is your very first time we're in a series in the book of

Colossians. We kicked it off last week so you not far behind, but we're really eager to get back into it.

I've been prepping this sermon, getting ready for this night, and I think God has something very, very, very specific for you. And I mean you you individually as I was praying often it's easy to

stand up here just to give y'all my perspective and look out into this room and

to see a whole lot of faces, a whole bunch of people, and yet God does not see a crowd of people.

He sees each of you one by one.

And he has something very specifically prepared for you. each of you one by one.

And he has something very specifically prepared for you. Across a broad spectrum of spirituality tonight,

I believe that that's true.

So I'm really eager to get into this.

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