DISCLAIMER: This text is not a verbatim transcript. Communication Access Real Time Translation (CART) is provided in order to facilitate communication credibility and may not be a totally verbatim record of the proceedings. >> You'll find link to our worship services; Bible study optionsness online givings; and our podcast, Anchor Point. You can also download our church app. Just search for "First Colony Church of Christ" in the App Store or on Google Play. The app is a great resource where you can stay connected to First Colony Church. Thank you for joining us today. We're glad you're here. ("Great Things" playing) >> He is a great god and He does do great things, amen? ("The Way playing.) >> Please be seated. We're preparing for our communion. >> Good morning, church. My name is Jose Casanueva and this is my wife Maria. We're glad and grateful to lead you in the communion prayer this morning. Let's pray. Heavenly Father, thank You for Your sacrifice on the cross. Thank You for the blood of the new covenant poured out for the forgiveness of our sins. Thank You for Your sacrifice on the cross. We know that You Are the beginning and the end and we pray that any evil plot to dishonor You and the faith of believers will be exposed. Thank You for the sacrifice on the cross, Father, that produces blessings. Jesus, we love You, and we take the bread that represents Your body and the juice that represents Your blood in remembrance of You. In Jesus' Name we pray. Let's partake together. >> Maria: Good morning, church. I'll be reading from Matthew 26:26-30. (reading) ("At the Cross Love Ran Red" playing.) >> Amen almost we are about to pray over our offering. Giving online is safe, secure, easy to set up. We have giving bins at all our exits here. Church, thank you guys so much for being a part of it. This is a beautiful picture of the body of Christ as we come together not because we're forced to but with great faith and hope and love and response to our love through Christ. Let's pray over this offering today. Father, You Are good. Your love endures forever and so, Father, it's with a grateful heart we come back to give to You what You have blessed us with. We remember the Provider of all things and the greatest Gift, Your Son. Take this gift and multiply it for the blessing of Your kingdom. It's in the Powerful Name of Jesus we pray; and all the church said amen. >> Joel: Amen! Good morning, everyone. It is so good to be with you on this Sunday. I'm Joel's the Children's Minister here. This is our kids' spot where we try to have something visual and memorable from our lesson. I wanted something that signifies you are trapped and you cannot get out. Thinking of the man who we'll be talking about a little in the sermon, he was kind of headed totally in the opposite direction, and god got his attention, which is interesting. The verse I have chosen is 10:13. No temptation has overtaken you except what is common to mankind. And God faithful; He will not let you be tempted beyond what you are able to bear but when you are tempted, He will also provide a way out so you can endure it." I memorized this verse as a young kid, but what do you do when you succumb to temptation? Usually we make the right choice but sometimes we make the wrong choice and we get trapped. So I have a bottle and I have a cork. Interestingly, I try this out on my kids last night and my oldest son instantly solved it. I'm like "It doesn't work." I made it a lot harder and he's like, "Okay, you got me." If I stick a cork -- I cut off the top so that there's nothing to grab hold of. If you stick a cork inside a bottle, can you get it out? As you can see, shaking only produces access to about this far away. There's nothing I can reach -- I can touch it but can't grip it and get it out. Oh, there we go -- No. Not going to happen. So the interesting thing is what do you do when you're trapped and when you're in a situation that you can't get out of? So I got an item that will assist, and this is a grocery bag. Now, interestingly, when I first moved to Texas, a gentleman who was instrumental in getting me to Texas actually said, "Do you have a place that you shop for groceries?" And I'm like "Whatever is cheapest and whatever is closest." He's like, "In Texas we utilize this certain store." I'm like, "Yeah, whatever." But as time went by, I saw the light. I won't reveal any names like HEB or anything like that but will say I did try this trick with a -- not a Randall's; sorry. I tried this trick with a Kroger bag, and the bag is not made as thick as an HEB bag. Who knew? Sorry, Kroger, but we still do shop at Kroger. All right, so the solution to this puzzle is I will stick the bag inside and have the cork hopefully lay on top of the bag; and I will pull it out. Now, it's 100% doable, but at times it takes a little longer than my two minutes allow so in theory, this will work. All right, if it doesn't, I'll utilize the real thing, which is actually silk; but when I was practicing this trick I did not have access to silk. All right, so how does this work spiritually? Well, we get ourselves in circumstances that we cannot get ourselves out of; and, you know, I could stick this white silk or could stick a garbage bag inside a bottle and means NOTHINF until that cork is surrounded or wrapped in that garbage bag. It means nothing. The first thing I have to do is get the cork to land inside this garbage bag and hopefully the direction is most likely in a direction I want it to go, and -- you know what? I have it cock-eyed and may have to go to the crimson silk to get it out. Let's see. What do you think? You know what? I'm thinking HEB may let us down; I'm sorry, HEB. I tried. I really did try, but the cool thing is whenever you to illustrations, you always have a backup. In this case I DWID -- because I have a silk here at church -- the trick is; thank you for the encouragement, by the way, Yes. (Applause) the trick is you have to get the cork to rest on the silk, which is kind of the picture of how we get out of traps or how we get out of situations that we cannot make it through on our own. Look at that. >> Yea. >> Joel: Boom! We got this. It's coming. It's coming. It doesn't want to come out sometimes but that's why you totally wrap yourself in Christ. Cheer all right! Well, thank you very much! Thanks for the encouragement, but the key here is that we need the surrounding blood of Jesus to get us out of traps; and no matter what you're in, you can still get out of it when you turn to Jesus. Thank you! (cheers and applause) >> I am loved. >> I have family. >> I have everything I need. >> Actually, I have more than enough. >> I believe vision seeing things the way they COULD be, the way they should be. >> I like that. I have a vision that one day -- >> There will be more than enough. >> For kids and families before, during, and beyond foster care. >> More than enough. >> Foster families for every child. >> More than enough. >> Adoptive families for every child who needs one. >> More than enough. >> Help for biology came families trying to stay together or get back together. >> (speaking native language) >> I can't take foster care across the whole country or my whole state. >> By can help provide more than enough in my own county. >> And in my county. >> And in my county. >> How we going to do that? >> What if 10% of churches in my county were engaged in foster care? >> And 10% of churches in my county? >> Every county. >> See, that's more than enough! >> More than enough for kids like me. >> And kids like me. >> And families like us. >> Like us. >> I believe it's possible. >> I'll do my part. >> We'll do it together! >> More than enough. >> Are you in or what? >> So May is foster care awareness month, and this is something they talked about. Only 10% of churches are heavily involved in this, and this is something our church has a heart for. We've got many families a part of, and just during bible class hour had a big feature where a lot of our families were sharing stories. We had organizations here. One of the beautiful things is there are so many different roles for us to play a part and impacting families in need right here in Fort Bend with foster care. So if you're willing to find out some more information, Landon and Asia Speights or Jordan and Ashley Black are great point to find out great next steps. All right, church, this is a great time to fill out your Connection Card so. If you're online with us, click the" connect card" button or if you're here, scan the QR code. Let us know how to pray for you because we love to pray by name throughout the week. If you're a guest with us today, thank you so much for joining us. We would love to get to meet you after service. We have a room right across the hall called "New Here? Start Here." We have staff there to answer questions and also a gift this morning. All right, so kiddos, if you're first to fifth grade, you will head back to Ms. Danelle Taylor in the back center aisle here to go to Main Street Live! It's a great kid worship service here. Parents, if you haven't signed your kids in yet, just go over to the chapel and get them signed up for Main Street Live! For everybody else, it's time for our fellowship greeting so we can stand and say hello to the folks around us. If you're online, it's a great time to jump in the chat box and say hello. We'd love to hear from you this morning. Money we'll shout out Your praise ♫ ♫ Oh, oh, oh, we'll shout out Your praise ♫ >> Amen! House of the Lord. >> Ronnie: Steve, thank you so much. Team, thank you so very much for leading us so well today. Good morning, everybody. Glad to see you. To those of you in the room, we yolk you to the First Colony Church of Christ second service. For those worshiping via the online experience, we're so glad to have you with us as well. And as you saw in the video and heard Grant's comments, May is Foster Care Awareness Month. This morning we were privileged to host a foster care spotlight. Another thing that's going on, as you walk into the lobby and exit to your right, you'll notice a display over to the right. We're holding a Baby Bottle Boomerang benefiting the pregnancy resource medical center, a Christian group, pro-life, pro-support help. This is an opportunity for you to become aware and financially help and partner with this Christian pro-life group. We're grateful, very, very grateful, for their ministry. So today we continue with a message series from the Book of Asks. Before I get into the message, though, I want to recognize some new members. In our first service we welcomed Michael and Kelly Sharp. In this service I would like Agustin and Analisa Salas to Stan with sons Gabriel, Adrian, and Cristian. Fantastic. They were recently baptize and we're thankful to have them as members in our church family. From the Books of Acts, the message title today is "Surprised by Prayer." s this we have all prayed. You say, "I'm not horribly religious." You have had those "God help me" moments where the wheels have come off. Something is off the rail and beyond your ability to handle and you say "Jesus, take the wheel. Help help out here. God, help me. Jesus, show me mercy." When it seems like every single door is close and there are no options, the door of prayer is open. I do not mean to insinuate prayer is a last resort. What I'm saying is it's an ultimate moment and ultimate action. Today, I want to remind you that a prayer is not an obligation; it's not something we to prove what good people we are. It's a privilege and opportunity. It is a gift where God gives us we get to partner with Him in rearranging what is actually possible because with Him, the impossible does not exist. So would you sort of take your Bible and open to Acts 12? Today we'll see really an amazing story and amazing narrative of the early church -- listen carefully. They were committed to prayer and this is a scene where they're committed to a specific type of prayer and have faith to ask and faith to ask boldly. When the Lord actually answers, they are surprised by prayer. Acts 12:1. "It was about this time that King Herod" -- and by the way, there are number of King Herods in the Bible. This is the grandson of the "Baby killing" King Herod who, you know, murdered infants when Jesus was born. So this is his grandson. "It was about this time that King Herod arrested some who belonged to the church, intending to persecute them." Listen to this, "And he had James, the brother of John, put to death with the sword." This is James of Peter, James, and John, the inner circle leadership in the early church. No doubt the believers had been praying for James, right? No doubt they had been praying for his release from prison, for the Lord to spare him; for him to get back to doing his ministry; and yet in spite of those prayers James is put to death with the sword. They got a "No" answer. As I walk through this story today, I will highlight about six points. Here's the first one: Prayer can be inexplicably frustrating. But just because something doesn't make sense to us doesn't mean it doesn't make sense and opportunity mean it doesn't make sense to God. We have a lot of questions, and there are times we really want an explanation; but may I simply remind you we to not walk by explanations; we walk by faith in a God who is good and wise and powerful and loving and gracious. Just because we can't see God working doesn't mean He's not work. What we have to do, we have to allow God to be God; allow Him to be wise; and allow Him to rule. But sometimes prayer is frustrating. It's emotionally hurtful. There's an emotional burden to unanswered prayer. You read through the Psalms. "I call out to You and You don't answer." Apostle Paul said "Three times" -- meaning repeatedly over and over, I'm begging for relief from this thorn in the flesh. And I get a "No" answer. Even our Lord Jesus, and we're no better than Jesus, even our Lord Jesus said, "If possible, would You take this cup from Me?" But just as Jesus rested in His Father's will, so must we. Here's a little three-word matrix that I think makes some sense: Yes, no, later. Just like a good parent, Father God gives us those answers. "Yes, no, later." -- here's the answer, yes. And maybe "Yes and I thought you would never ask" and "Yes, here's actually more." And sometimes "No." When I was a kid, for three straight years I asked; I begged for a mini bike. You know what that is? It's like an ancient moped. It would go 30 to 35 miles per hour and made perfect sense for me to have a mini bike, and I gave my folks every reason in the world. "I'll mow more lawns. I'll contribute to it. I need -- we need a mini bike in this family." You know what the answer was? No. Just no. There was no waffling, no the bait -- just no. Yes. No. And then sometimes God say "Later." Sometimes that is in this life and sometimes that later is in the life after this life, but God does hear and respond and are invited to bring our requests to Him. Sometimes we get a no or later. Verse 3. When he -- Herod -- saw this met with approval among the Jews -- what met with approval among the Jews? Persecuting some of the leaders, executing James. "He proceeded to seize Peter also." Herod said, "Hey, my approval ratings are up when I hassle Christians so I'm gonna hassle 2 face of the franchise, Peter." "This happened during the Festival of UnLevin Bread" and after arrests him put hit in prison, handed him over to be guarded by four squads of four soldiers each." 16 soldiers guarding one person, Peter. Herod intended to bring him out for public trial after the Passover. Bring him out and have him executed. "So Peter was kept in prison." Notice there's a comma. There's not a period. "Peter was kept in prison, but the church was earnestly praying to God for him." Here's the second point: Desperate situations call for sustained prayer. Peter's in prison, but the church is earnestly praying for him. There seem to be no hope. I mean, he's guarded by 16 soldiers. Every single door is locked and closed except the door to God. My friends, sometimes when it peoples like and looks like there is absolutely no hope on the horizontal level, there is always hope on the vertical level. They're praying for Peter. They love him but also concerned about the work of the church and mission of the gospel so they go higher than King Herod. They go to the King of all King and pray. Here's the third point: You are invited to request what has not been explicitly promised by God. In other words, you're invited to ask for anything. But don't hold God to promises He didn't make. I might ask to live till I'm 85; I'm not given that promise. I might ask that certain things get avoided in my life; I'm not given that promise. So I can't hold God to promises He didn't make. Now, what promise, what are promises He has said? He said I am welcome to ask for anything and He promises to show grace and mercy. He promises to give grace and mercy. But listen, but we are invited to ask for anything; so the church -- what are theying to? They're praying for Peter's release. But remember I believe they were also had. Praying for the release of James and sometimes when you get a no prayer, it puts a damper on future prayer but didn't it stop them. you're invited to ask for anything, but remember to bring this attitude. "Lord, if it's Your will. I love You and trust You and believe You're good and wise and gracious. I believe Your plans will prevail, but here's my request." We filter it through His grace. Verse 6. "So the night before Herot was to bring him to trial, Peter was sleeping." How about that? Peter has offloaded his anxiety and he's actually sacked out. "Between two soldiers, bound with two chains, and sentries stood guard at the entrance." Okay, everybody, get ready for the supernatural. You're about to read an account of one supernatural moment after another. I hope you believe in the supernatural. I believe the supernatural happened; I believe supernatural happens, present tense. I actually believe the very first verse in the Bible. "In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth." And for Him, the impossible does not exist. He has shown up and He still shows up. So suddenly an angel of the Lord appeared, and a light shone in the cell. He struck Peter on the side and woke him up. "Quick, get up!" He said, and the chains fell off Peter's wrist. And then the angel said to him, "Put on your clothes and sandals." And Peter said so. "Wrap your cloak around you and follow me." So Peter followed the angel out of the prison but had no idea what the angel was doing was really happening; he thought he was seeing a vision. It's kind of like, "Is this real? Am I dreaming?" So they passed the first and second guards and then they came to the iron gate leading to the city. And it opened for them by itself, and they went through it." I've had that happen to me. You can go to HEB and walk right up, and the door will -- you can go to Kroger and just walk right up and the door will open. That's technology. This wasn't technology. This was the supernatural touch of God. When they had walked the Lent of one street, suddenly the angel left him. So here's Peter. Okay. Then Peter came to himself -- can't you see himself pinching himself? This is really happening. "Now I know without a doubt that the Lord has sent His angel and rescued me from Herot's clutches and everything the Jewish people were hoping would happen," which is more persecution and the execution of Peter, the face of the franchise. And when this had dawned on him, he went to the house of Mary the mother of John, also called Mark, where -- listen -- where many people had gathered and they were praying. "They were praying for Peter's release. Peter knocked at the outer entrance, and a servant named Rhoda came to answer the door. When she recognized Peter's voice, she was so overjoyed she ran back without opening the door and explain k claimed, "Peter is at the door!" And they told you, "You are out of your mind." Peter can't be at the door. We're praying for Peter's release from prison. Don't you get that? He can't be at the door. We're praying for his release. She kept insisting it's really Peter at the door. They said, "Hey, it must be his angel." You know, we're spiritualizing this. Peter except on knocking. He's still outside and keeps on knocking. When they opened the door and saw him, they were astonished. Surprised by prayer. Peter possessioned with his hand for them to be quiet because don't you know praise and joy had erupted? But emotioned with his hand to be quiet and tried how the Lord had brought him out of prison. "Tell James and the oh brothers and sisters about this," he said and then he left for another laze. Here's a further point: Even small faith, even imperfect faith, can receive surprising responses. Here, this circle in the early church, have gathered and praying for Peter's release. I think this is kind of funny. "Oh, Lord, release him. Oh, Lord, release him. You can to anything. Release Peter from prison." And hen he shows up. "Hey, gang, Peter's here." Not no, can't be. That's impossible." And then keep praying, "Oh, Lord, release him." They had faith enough to ask but not necessarily enough faith to receive and believe the answer. But you know, their players played a role in this. The angel fetched Peter from the prison, but it was their prayers that fetched the angel who fetched Peter. And they were surprised at prayer. I have been surprised. You have, too. You will continue to be surprised by prayer because there will be times when you will notice a "Yes" answer boldly, quickly, dramatically. There will be other times you will see and answer to your prayer and will take a while before you notice. You know, sometimes life -- we have to live it in the rear-view mirror. We look pack and we see the touch, the hand, the Providence, the answered prayers. And there will be some answers to your prayers that will only be revealed to you in heaven's tomorrow. My friends, my faith is so small. I'm so thankful the power of my prayers does not depend upon the faith and the strength and goodness of Ronnie Norman and the power of your prayers does not depend upon all that you can muster. The Powe of our prayers is in the worthiness and the Fran tour and the power and the majesty and the wisdom of our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ, the Greatness of our God. You see, God is not limited at all by our limitation, and He's not limited by our limited ability to pray ideally. And God is not confused by my confusing prayers. And those times where I don't know how I should pray, that doesn't stump the Lord. The Bible tells us that the Holy Spirit intercedes for us. In other words, He's asking us to come to Him. He meets us in His wisdom and grace and power. Point number five: When you pray, you just remember God's nature. Remember His nature. In other words, He's not a genie where I should be angry and dispointed if all of my whims are not fulfilled. Neither is He a grumpy miser. Neither is He a frumpy curmudgeon-like miser who few not enjoy giving good points where He's pointing His finger at you saying, "Hey, you should be glad you have a roof over your head." What's He like? The Bible describes Him as a wise, generous, and good Father. He enjoy giving good gifts. Jesus described Him this way in Matthew 7 which the so which of you, if your son asks for bread, will give him a stone? Or if he asks for a fish will give him a snake?" By the way, in our culture, though, there's sort of an old saying that goes like this. "You better be careful what you ask for" because what? "You might just get it." That's not God's way. Jesus says, He's not the kind of Father where if you ask for bread He gives you a stone or if you ask for a fish He gives you a snake. So if you, then, are evil, if you're fallen in yourself but you know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your Father in heaven give to those who ask Him! He said, we don't have to beg and plead for God to help us and meet us and sustain us is; He's good. The truth is prayer is one of the greatest privileges we have where we're invited to open the door and welcome Him in, partnering with us as we journey through life. And for Peter in prison and that story, James didn't get released. Peter did -- why? I don't know. There's mystery. But prayer reached where no human could. Prayer did what no person could do. Prayer opened door that no person could open. Point number 6: Prayer is a partnership gift, a gift whereby we get to partner with God. Now, there's such a profound teaching from Jesus in the Sermon on the Mount that you have heard it for years and goes like this. Ask, and it will be given to you. Let's stop right there. Asking is simply bringing our request to God. Listen carefully -- NOTHING get off the ground without asking; but there's a reason why Jesus tells us we actually need to ask because sometimes it's the last thing I want to do. Self-reliant people don't like to ask. Remember the half-brother of James said, "There are times you have not simply because you asked not." Okay? So there are times we ask and we just receive. God just does it, and it might be obvious and it might be -- we ask and we receive. But then He says, "Seek and you will find." Now, that is a little different from asking. Seeking -- okay, I got to look for it. It's beyond the surface here. It's not obvious. I need to persevere. How many of you lose your keys regularly? For some of you, misplacing your keys is like a spiritual gift; it happens, you know, on a consistent basis. What do you do when you misplace something? "Okay, I got to seek this. I've got to keep at it. It's not obvious. It's not right here in front of me. It's not just asking and getting it; I seek." And sometimes in prayer we persevere. We don't give up. We don't stop. "Ah." But there's another dimension here, and then knock and the door will be opened. You ask; you receive. You seek; you find. You knock, and the door will be opened. What's the purpose of a doorway? The purpose of a doorway means I'm ready to walk through this and move, and doorways, every doorway is designed to take you somewhere. Sometimes we knock at the door and Jesus says, "Okay, Ronnie, I'm opening this door for you; you're going to walk through it?" "Oh, Lord, I want You to bring revival." "Okay, we'll open the door. Let's start with you." "I didn't say start with me." "Lord, I want You to make my children spiritually strong." "Okay, we'll open the door." Well, disciple them. Pray for them. Take them to Sunday school. Get them around folks consistently. (knocking) I'm knocking and He says, "I'm opening the door. You want to partner with me and step through this doorway and let's partner together to be the answer to your prayer?" Sometimes in prayer you just ask; you receive. Sometimes you got to seek a little bit and stay at it. And sometimes you got to knock at the door and God's gonna open it and say, "Walk with me through here and let's make this happen." My friend, never be open barred to take your request to the lord -- embarrassed to take your request to the Lord. He's not tired or sleeping, and you'll not leave empty handed. If God is not working the way you can see, it doesn't mean He's not working. If there's a time when Iville seems to be succeeding like a King Herod, it's only temporary. You put your eyes on God; rest in His love and His wisdom; and you can expect and know God will move in His own time and in His own way. Josh, be making your way up here, please, to lead us in prayer. As he's doing so, I'm going to give you just a moment to pray on your own, and here's something I might -- I will really ask you to do. Is there a prayer you've given up on? Or you've said, "I just think that person is beyond the touch" or "I believe that situation is just not fixable" or whatever it is, I have said, that is just too hard and too difficult. Why don't you revisit that prayer today with a fresh sense of faith? Bring it to the Lord. Who knows? Who knows what might happen? Just know that our leadership here, we really do love you and care for you; we respect you; we do pray for you; and we would like to hear from you. Let us know how we can pray for you and serve you, okay? All right. I'll give you a moment and then Josh Cummings will lead us in prayer. >> Josh: Let's go to our God in prayer. father in heaven, we worship You and praise Your Name and glorify You, Father, Son and Holy Spirit. We are grateful and humble, humbled this avenue of prayer that we have, the privilege of prayer, where we can approach Your throne and know You hear and answer us. Thank You for giving us what we need and not always what we ask for. We continue to be mindful of those who are struggling in the world, particularly those in the Ukraine. Lord we pray You restrain evil; that You plant blunt evil, restraint those in political power and those who are in the references of warfare. We pray for compassion in the midst of conflict and pray for peace to come soon. Lord, there are those in this congregation struggling in many ways. We ask for several of our number who are battling illness and ask for healing. Some are experiencing loss. Lord, we pray for the Eller family with the loss of Tim. We're confident that Tim is with You today and brings us joy but will miss him as well and pray for extra level of peace for the Eller family and friends today and days to come. We're thankful that this life, whether we feel it is good or bad, that is not all there is. Thank we're thankful for the sacrifice of Jesus to have eternal life and look forward today to be with You and those who have gone on before us. We wait expectantly but while we wait will honor and serve You and represent You well. It's in Christ's Name we pray. Amen. >> Thank you so much, josh. There are ton of ways to stay connected at the First Colony Church of Christ so let me make sure they're on the calendar. First up is the big VBS coming up in about a month and really excited about this. This is a great opportunity for our kids to come up here, jump in be saturated with stories from the Bible. Great volunteers pour in their lives so you can go to the website to get them signed up. We also need you guys. One of our themes recently has been "This is our church." This is great time as we own us. It's a mission field for parents and grandparents to come and five in and mentor these kiddos. We probably need 100 plus volunteers to pull this off so come use your spiritual gift and love on these kids. VPS will be a great week and is free for our kiddo so a great opportunity there for VBS. We are also starting a brand new group. This is a young professionals group that is specifically for singles in their 20s and 30s. We're excited to get things going for this age group at church, specifically we just started a new class on Sunday mornings 9:45. We're in the gym at FJ 111 so we'd love to have you be a part of that. If you have kids that age group, let them know. If you're in that age group, be a part or tell your friends and we'd love to have you come be a part of that young professionals group. This is Baby Bottle Boomerang season so if you want to be a part of that and support the pregnancy resource center, you go in the lobby, get one of those. Fill it up with coins, checks, cash. Bring it back. Donate there or can go to our website. There's a baby bottle boomerang web page with a direct link to give online. Church, we just want to pause for a second to send our sympathies to two families this week. Tim Eller's family. The impassed this week as well as Bill Moore and his family. These two men loved the Lord and served the church. Our loss is certainly heaven's gain this week with the passing of these two men. Today at 2:00 here will be Tim's celebration of life service, and we will get you more information on Bill Moore and the service that will be coming up probably this next week. But our sympathies go to both of these families. Church, we love you guys. We're praying for you. Keep letting us know how we can pray for you by name. Let's stand up and enjoy one more song of worship here this morning. ("House of the Lord" playing.) >> Sing with us! ♫ Oh, oh, oh, we'll shout out Your praise ♫ >> Y'all have a great week this week! Praise God! You're dismissed.