Episode Transcript
[00:00:01] How's everyone doing today?
[00:00:04] Okay.
[00:00:06] Sounds about right. Rainy Wednesday evening.
[00:00:13] I love Wednesday nights. And I've been really loving this sermon series we've been in because it's the purpose driven life. And I feel like God's been doing just something incredible through it.
[00:00:26] You know, it all kicked off with the idea that we are made with a plan and a purpose.
[00:00:33] God did not make a mistake when he made us. He made us with a plan, and it's for something good.
[00:00:41] And then Emily so eloquently talked about this beautiful idea that there are two paths that we can take, but the better one is going arm in arm with Jesus Christ.
[00:00:53] There's that old fashioned tool being yoked with Jesus and doing life, trusting in him in a deeper way.
[00:01:02] Lex killed it when she was talking about the idea of worship. And the first time we see worship in scripture is in this crazy story of sacrifice.
[00:01:13] And I was just thinking about our purpose driven life. It can be a really beautiful thing, but sometimes there are just obstacles in the way.
[00:01:26] Sometimes when we start living for God, we make the unholy one unhappy and attacks can come, and he can make stuff look really good.
[00:01:42] And I believe inside of each and every one of us, there are like, we're looking for something to fill us. We're looking for something to satiate the need.
[00:01:53] And what happens is we have this spiritual hole that we try to fill with, like, worldly stuff. That's a super spiritual way of saying sin is just appealing.
[00:02:08] And sometimes we have hurts and brokenness that we go to the wrong things to make it feel better.
[00:02:18] And I've been kicking around this idea because I'm a girl. Like, when I have a plan, I'm good. When I have a plan, mama will get to work. But my problem is I don't always have a plan. And so when I fail, when I miss the mark, when I don't live up to the woman I've said I want to be or the woman I believe that God has made me to be, what do I do with it?
[00:02:48] Like, what do I truly do with the failure?
[00:02:54] And I'm not talking like, oh, I tried something hard and I failed. I'm saying I just didn't live up to the person I wanted to be.
[00:03:01] Because I think in our life, when we feel our needs, our brokenness, with the wrong stuff, stuff, we're left in this cycle.
[00:03:11] And unfortunately, the world has taught us this cycle.
[00:03:17] And tonight I just. I want to talk to you as like a friend. I don't want to talk to you as a pastor. I don't want to talk to you as, like, the girl up here. I just. I want to talk to you like we are friends sitting across the table or we're sitting on the couch next to each other.
[00:03:31] Because I truly, truly, truly believe with all my heart that the world has taught to us this messed up way that we just think is normal.
[00:03:41] I think for so long, when we're little, you get what you put in. You get out.
[00:03:49] So if I'm little and I do something bad, I might get a timeout. If I'm good, I might get a cookie.
[00:03:59] We go to grade school, and if I hit somebody, I skip recess. If I am kind to somebody, maybe I get to be the line leader.
[00:04:08] What you put in. You know what I'm saying? Like, you get what you earned, right? Like, if you studied for the test and you get the a, you deserved the a, you get what you deserve. If you didn't, it's like, well, sorry, brother. You get what you deserve.
[00:04:24] You deserve the f.
[00:04:26] And then we get a little bit older and we get married and we get into fights, and maybe we don't treat each other right, and it's like, oh, you get the cold shoulder, but it's kind of what you deserve. You were a jerk.
[00:04:40] And every piece of our life shapes us, that we get what we put in. At the end of the day, you get what you deserve.
[00:04:52] And we take this broken idea and we put it on God.
[00:04:59] And now when I mess up, I don't deserve God's love. When I fail, I need some separation from God, because I'm just not good enough. I'm not worthy. I'm not. And so we put this messed up version on God. When I'm good, I'm good with God. God likes me. When I have failure, I'm a loser. And I need to give God a couple days or space, you know, he needs some space from me. Any amens?
[00:05:35] Okay? Am I the only one out here that feels this way? Am I the only broken girl?
[00:05:41] And so we've got this messed up view of what we've learned our entire life, and we put it on goddess, but God wants to address it totally different.
[00:05:57] I think that's my baby.
[00:06:01] And I think what God's trying to say is, I want to show you a better way.
[00:06:08] When you fail, it doesn't have to ruin what God has started in you. When you fail and you mess up and you miss the mark, how do you get going quicker? How do you pick up in a way that makes you better. Like, what do you truly do with your failure? Instead of just accepting that God's mad at me, what do you do with it?
[00:06:33] I'm going to pray, and then we are going to dig in. I have 150 scriptures tonight.
[00:06:38] I'm preaching way different than I normally do because I really want to dig into what God says, because who cares what I say? Like, literally, at the end of the day, who cares? I was texting Emily, and she's like, oh, what's your scripture for tonight? And I was like, well, we have 452 verses. And she's like, I'm sorry, the Bible is just simply too good.
[00:06:58] So let me pray. And let's just ask that God meets us here. Because if you're struggling with failure or you're struggling with sin, or if there is just something that you cannot stop doing, and you've prayed for it to go away and you've begged and pleaded with God, like, take it from me. Why can't I stop doing this? Then tonight is for us.
[00:07:21] Let me pray.
[00:07:23] Dear heavenly Father, you are a God that gives us what we don't deserve in a world that shows us, you get what you put in. You show us a completely different model. You show us something so much better, something that leads the way. Radical love. And tonight, Father, I pray that we will feel this to the core of who we are.
[00:07:48] I pray that anyone who lacks in this or who struggles with the idea of grace, Father, that you will give them a fresh vision, a fresh word straight from you tonight. I trust in you with all my heart. In your son's name, we pray. Amen. Okay, we are going to kick the evening off with Ephesians, and it's going to be Ephesians two.
[00:08:08] And what I want to do is I can't see any of this, so let me get my notes here.
[00:08:15] I never bring my glasses because I look like a nerd.
[00:08:19] We're going to start in Ephesians two one. And here's what it says. And you were dead in the trespasses and sins in which you once walk, following the course of this world and following the prince of the power of the air, the spirit that is now at work in the sons of disobedience, among whom all once lived in the passions of our flesh, carrying out the desires of the body and the mind, and were by nature children of wrath like the rest of mankind. Just saying, listen, we're messed up.
[00:08:54] At some time in our life, we are going to do the things that we shouldn't we're going to follow the wrong desires. We're going to let our mind take us to places it shouldn't. We're going to say things we shouldn't. The unholy one's going to have influence in our life, okay?
[00:09:08] But God being rich in mercy because of the great love with which he loved us, even when we were dead in our trespasses, made us alive together with Christ, by grace, you have been saved. We're going to pause there just for a second.
[00:09:34] We're all messed up. We all have stuff that we wish we could do better. We all have stuff that, when we think about it, makes us kind of feel like a failure.
[00:09:46] But God being rich in mercy, I love the idea that doc preaches a lot. Anytime you see mercy in the Bible, always connected to our misery. So up here, you see us following a way we shouldn't. And I don't know about you, but my sin oftentimes leaves me feeling miserable. It leaves me awake at night. It leaves me wishing I could take back the things I said. It makes me wish I could redo stuff. I'll go back to things when I was an 18 year old girl.
[00:10:19] I struggle. And so in this misery, God shows up with mercy, a compassion, a kindness.
[00:10:31] And because of this great love, even when we mess up, even when we're dead in our mess, he has made us alive together with Christ, by grace, you have been saved.
[00:10:49] Grace. Let's go back to what Emily said. Emily said, Grace, is this undeserved. You can't earn it. You can't do anything to get rid of it. You can't mess it up.
[00:11:02] It's undeserved. Grace is this favor which God looks at you and says, you messed up, but I choose you.
[00:11:11] I love you. You hurt someone, let me help you in it. He looks at us, and instead of a failure, instead of the mess, he has an incredible grace for you and I, okay? But here's what happens.
[00:11:29] We think about how we earn it. We think about religion, okay? Religion, if you get into this enough, you understand that religion is like a set of rules that really, at the end of the day, you try to earn it, okay? Some people be like, well, aren't we religious? I hope not. I hope not. I want to be a follower of Jesus Christ. Because at the end of the day, the root of religion, it talks about this idea of you are earning it. You check off the list, you do all the right things, and then you are good with God. Do you know, does that feel, do you know what I'm saying? Everyone with me, there's this peace where it's like, I am going to earn it. And I think what happens is I understand the beauty of being saved by grace. Like, I am going to heaven. I'm saved. Jesus loves me. But now I'm a Christian, now I have a duty, now I have a responsibility to be better.
[00:12:38] And so now what happens is I actually feel worse when I make mistakes because it's on my shoulders. Because now I'm a Christian, and now I'm 40, whatever, and I should be doing this really good. I know, I know. I look like the 20 somethings. I tell you guys all the time.
[00:12:56] I say I dress young and cool for my 20 somethings, okay?
[00:13:01] But what happens is I keep falling back to this idea of I have to earn it.
[00:13:07] It's on my shoulders. I have to prove, I have to strive. And can anyone feel me when I say, that is an exhausting life to live?
[00:13:18] It's an exhausting, it takes my energy. It takes everything good that I probably have to give. And it just makes me feel like a loser and a failure. And I'm just this failure who's trying to limp through life, disappointing goddess. Okay? I don't want that life. And God does not want it for us either. I like this verb here. It has been saved.
[00:13:42] It's a sustaining salvation. It's not this idea of one and done. It's this idea that your God, the grace he gives you, it's not just to save you then, it's to sustain you through throughout your life.
[00:14:00] So what happens is now, when I fail, instead of going through the religion of disappointment and I've not checked the marks and I've not lived up to what God has said and wanted for me. Now, instead of being a loser, I lean on God's grace. I say, this grace didn't just save me. This grace is new every single day.
[00:14:25] This grace is a grace that is effective. This grace is a grace that is irresistible. Because God knows what he's doing when he calls us, when we give our lives to him. He is at work within us, and he is showing us mercy in our misery, and he's showing us compassion and love, and he is showing us something we don't deserve, and he's giving it to us freely. And because of that grace, when I fully understand it, because of that grace, I am drawn to him. I want to be more like him. I want to be around him more. And instead I remember so clearly, not too long ago, I don't remember exactly what happened. I think Jake and I got in a fight. Shocker.
[00:15:14] Let me just share our fights. We got in a fight, and I think I treated him ugly. I can't exactly remember, but I remember getting out of bed.
[00:15:23] Do that a lot, too.
[00:15:26] Okay. And I was like, I was drawn to go to God, but I literally felt like, I don't want to get punished, like, I don't want to get scolded.
[00:15:38] And this wasn't too long ago, and that was the inclination was to go to God. But my brokenness told me I don't want to be in trouble for this one.
[00:15:49] And I opened up my bible anyways, okay, this is a big piece of grace, too. Sometimes we just push through. Emily and I were just talking about this outside. Our feelings lie to us. Okay. Our feelings are not clear indicators of truth. So when I messed up, my feeling was like, ugh, I don't want to get scolded by Goddesse. Here we go.
[00:16:13] That's a lie. And I'm going to show up and I'm going to see what God has for me anyways. And do you know what the verse was? It was a verse on grace. It was a verse that I didn't deserve. It was a verse about how much he loved me. I wish I could have remembered it, but I remember sitting there and bawling because still, as a 40 year old woman, the idea of grace, it's so hard for me to accept.
[00:16:36] It's so hard for me just to be like, I'm gonna own it.
[00:16:43] It's so hard for me because I feel like my whole life I've had to earn it, and I've done a crappy job of it. And so I let people down a lot. And so the idea that I can just freely go to God when I don't deserve it, when I am the jerk, when I have failed and that he will love me and comfort me and choose me and call something better out in me.
[00:17:15] It's, like, hard for me to grasp in this verse. It keeps going back at ephesians two eight.
[00:17:25] For grace, you have been saved through faith. And this is not your own doing. It's a gift of God.
[00:17:35] Verse nine, not a result of works, so that no. 1 may boast, okay, there is this huge idea. So if religion is, we've earned it. How many times have you heard that christians are hypocrites? Like, how many times have you, like, shown up somewhere and maybe the person you know is a Christian and you're like, I want literally nothing to do with that. Okay? That is, if that's Christian, I'm out. Okay, here's the idea. I think because when we try to follow religion, instead of accepting the grace of God, we become ugly. Okay, there. It's in Matthew 23. Jesus was fighting against the religious people because they had an arrogance. They were boasting about who they were. They were boasting about all the things that they did. And this is what Jesus says. It's Matthew 23 starting at verse 26 25. Woe to you, scribes and pharisees, your hypocrites. For you clean the outside of the cup and the plate, but inside they're full of greed and self indulgence. You blind pharisees. First clean the inside of the cup and the plate, that the outside may also be clean. Woe to you, scribes and pharisees. Scribes and pharisees. If you don't know just the religious people of this day, they would be the religious leaders. You're hypocrites. For you are like whitewashed tombs, which outwardly appear beautiful, but within are full of dead people's bones and all uncleanliness.
[00:19:15] See, here's the deal. I think so many times, because we don't fully live in the foundation of grace, we whitewashed ourselves. We put on the mask of whatever we need to be. These tombs, they were beautiful on the outside, but inside they were full of dead bones. Jacob and I, we had Christian's graduation party on Saturday, and it went late into the night. It was super fun. We had a great time. And Jake stayed up late cleaning up everything. So I'm an old lady, so I went to bed. I don't know, I think I stayed up late. I think it was like ten 3011. I killed it. Okay. Crushed it. And so I was like, momma's got to go to bed. So all the kids were up, and I woke up the next morning and the house was like, clean.
[00:20:09] I was expecting it to be a disaster. And so I'm sitting in my sun room and I'm like, mandy, he's done such a beautiful job. Like, if you see my backyard, talk about not deserving something. It's gorgeous. This man works his butt off. And it was just beautiful. And I'm just sitting and I'm just admiring the beauty of what was happening and going on. But unbeknownst to me, our hot water tank broke and our basement was flooded. So I'm sitting there enjoying this beautiful house on the upstairs. He's just looking around.
[00:20:44] I don't remember. I was working on something, and then Jake came up, and he's like, basement's flooded. Hot water takes broke. Not really even sure what to do right now.
[00:20:54] And so I'm thinking, no big deal. Like, how much water can the hot water take hold, you know? Evidently a lot. Okay. So I go downstairs, and it's. We have one half of our basement that's like an apartment. Beautiful. It's finished. And all the water was on the other side, so God is good for that. But this side is like, all our heavy. Preach, girl. You preach. Me and Kenna preach into Jesus.
[00:21:24] This side is all of our heavy workout stuff. And the guys have put down, like, a soft floor, and then it's all our crap. I mean, it's just junk and boxes. And so I go down there, and Jake's like, I think I'm going to go need our shop vac, which was at a different my mom's house or somebody. So he left. And I'm just standing there and my feet are covered, and I'm just looking at all this stuff, and I'm like, what a disaster.
[00:21:52] And I can't move anything. It's like Christian's heavy weight stuff. So I, like, go wake up the kids. It was a disaster. But it just made me think that so often there can be beauty up front and you can be drowning on the inside.
[00:22:07] So often there can be. Man, this looks good. They look so happy. They've got it all. But on the inside, you are flooded with mess.
[00:22:18] And I think what we need to do when we think about this idea of religion, grace versus religion, is we have to lean into honesty, humility, and truth. Okay? Religion makes us want to cover.
[00:22:39] It makes us want to hide. Grace makes us vulnerable because we have a firm foundation.
[00:22:49] Guys, grace is so pivotal, because if you've not heard of this before, I want you to soak it into your bones. I want you to believe it as I spit with all your heart. And I want you to live in it, because this is, like, the foundation of understanding Jesus Christ. This is the foundation that your God is good and loving and compassionate, and he treats you with so much better than we deserve because he has a plan.
[00:23:22] I want to go back to Ephesians.
[00:23:24] In Ephesians, verse nine, I think verse ten.
[00:23:34] I'm sorry. Let's go to verse eight. The guy in the booth, he's like, I got you. You do. You are doing awesome. Thank you. Okay. For by grace, you have been saved through faith. And this is not your own doing. It's a gift, gift of God, not a result of works. So that no. 1 may boast, for we are his workmanship created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand, that we should walk in them. I love this because you almost get a little bit of like a double duty here. Because when I was studying this, I was like, it's not by works that we're saved. But he's talking about works at the end of this chapter. So I'm like, what do you mean?
[00:24:16] And I just kept looking and I kept reading, it is not by works that we're saved. We can't boast in that.
[00:24:24] For we are his workmanship created in Christ Jesus for good works. It's not our works that save us. It's not our works that make God love us. But we are created for something good. We are created for good work. And what happens here is if we are created for something good, then in our failure, in our mistakes, while we are dead to this, Jesus Christ is like, I am here for you. I am here to show you and offer you something so much better. And as I attach my life to him, not religion, as I attach my life to his saving grace, as this goodness, his compassion, his mercy, as I attach my life to him, I start to see more clearly.
[00:25:13] I start to see that the stuff that once I wanted to turn to is not filling me in the way I want it to. And I long for something better.
[00:25:22] I start to realize that I want to be more like Jesus. No one's twisting my arm. No one's making me do it. I long for it. When I sit in the goodness of God, I am overwhelmed. I'm so compelled by it. And it is his plan that he prepared before we were even here to do something good in us and through us.
[00:25:51] But do you see? If we live in our failure, if we live in religion, how easy we can miss this?
[00:25:59] If we let the wrong things guide us and lead us, we can miss the purpose that Christ has for us. Because instead of seeing him as good, we see him as angry. We see him as this religious overseer, and over and over and over again, we see who he really is. My life first.
[00:26:21] I'm going to wrap it up soon. It's short because it's so many scripts, so much scripture. I want you to just soak it in. Are we soaking it in? Okay.
[00:26:32] The kids are like, we're going to need to preach a different sermon next week. Okay.
[00:26:38] My life verse is romans eight. I'm going to get to in a second. But I'm going to start a little sooner. I want you to hear this.
[00:26:45] Romans eight, starting at verse 31. What then shall we say to these things? If God is for us, then who can be against us?
[00:26:56] He who did not spare his own son, but gave him up for us all. How will he not also with him graciously give us all things?
[00:27:10] Who shall bring any charge against God's elect?
[00:27:14] It is God who justifies. Justifies, means, makes right. It's God who makes us right.
[00:27:21] Who is to condemn Christ? Jesus is the one who died. And more than that, who was raised. Who is at the right hand of God? Who indeed. Please listen to this. If you have it out in your bible, underline it, mark it, circle it. Who indeed is interceding for us? Do you know what Jesus Christ is doing right now? He's talking to God about you.
[00:27:45] He's interceding.
[00:27:48] He's saying, have you seen Anthony?
[00:27:51] That's my guy.
[00:27:52] Have you seen Shannon? She's killing it.
[00:27:56] He's talking about you to God. He is interceding and showing God something beautiful about you. Through himself, Christ intercedes for us. First time I saw that, I was like, he is so cool. He is so good. I love him.
[00:28:16] He's sitting next to God talking about you, showing you a grace, showing you a mercy, showing you a compassion.
[00:28:30] I remember when my kids were little, they're all adults now, but I remember like any time they would do something bad or wrong, which honestly, they hit a lot of it. So I don't really know a lot, but. Just kidding. They're good kids, but jokes, Taylor, jokes.
[00:28:50] Anytime they would do something wrong, I would.
[00:28:53] I just had always had it in my mind that like I just one. I want them to know that I'm not just their mom, I am their friend. Friend. No one will want better for them than I do. And in this friendship, I want to raise awesome adults. And I want them to see that life can be better. That even in our failure, you are loved. Like no matter what you do, there is nothing on planet earth you could do that would take my love from you. I am obsessed with my children. I adore them.
[00:29:28] And I think our heavenly Father feels the same way. I think he is trying to tell us through these passages that I love you. There is nothing that will separate me from you. I am the one who gave my life. I am the one who is talking about you. I'm interceding and I'm showing God me through you.
[00:29:51] Listen, let's get to the good stuff. Romans 37 837.
[00:29:56] My life verses no. In all these things we are more than conquerors through him who loved us. For I am sure that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor rulers, nor things present, nor things to come, nor powers, nor heights, nor depth, nor anything else in all creation will be able to separate us from the love of God. That is in Christ Jesus our Lord. There is nothing on this earth or the next that can separate you from the love of God.
[00:30:30] There is nothing you can do.
[00:30:33] There is nothing, no failure too big.
[00:30:38] There is nothing that the scheme of the unholy one that can get you far enough away from the love of Jesus Christ.
[00:30:49] Nothing in all of creation will separate us from the love of God.
[00:30:56] That is a grace that we don't deserve.
[00:31:00] That is a favor that I want to lean into.
[00:31:05] So when we fail, we say that nothing can separate me from the love of God.
[00:31:16] The next time I mess up and I'm tempted to steer clear of God, to let him cool down, or I'm tempted to not go to him because I'm unlovable. Or whatever your feeling of failure feels like, you repeat to yourself, nothing can separate me from the love of God.
[00:31:38] That is a grace that covers us. That is a grace that sustains us. So every single day when I try to live my life, every step I take, I'm going to take it arm in arm with God.
[00:31:53] Every opportunity I get, I'm going to try my very best. And when I fail, I lean in deeper. When I fail, I'm not going to try harder. I think it's Craig Rochelle. He says, I don't try harder. I trust more.
[00:32:07] Every time I step in faith with God, I am going to trust that he wants what's best for me. I'm going to trust that he is a good, good father who's looking down and wants me to be an awesome human.
[00:32:19] And the sin isn't because he's mean and he's got rules. It's because he knows something I don't know. It's because he knows that there's a better life for me and he's trying to usher me into it. It's because he is good and loving and kind.
[00:32:36] I recently heard a story, I think I've heard it before in my life, but it just, it hit fresh because the grace of God was so evident in it.
[00:32:46] And it's the story of a man named Horatio.
[00:32:50] And he lived in like the 18 hundreds and he was a pretty successful, like, attorney, lawyer. And he put a lot of his money into real estate. And so he was extremely wealthy.
[00:33:05] And during this time, it's like the bottom fell out in his life.
[00:33:12] His four year old son died.
[00:33:16] And then there was this giant fire in Chicago, and it burned all of this real estate that he put all his money in to the ground. So he literally, it was like job. He lost his son, he lost all of his money.
[00:33:33] And it was like, a couple years later, he had four daughters and a wife, and he wanted to go to Europe with them and to get away.
[00:33:42] And business held him back. So he sent his four daughters and his wife on a boat to Europe.
[00:33:51] But on the travel, the boat, I believe it crashed into another boat. And within twelve minutes, that boat was sunk.
[00:34:04] And he lost all four daughters.
[00:34:07] His wife somehow got onto. I think she passed out and she somehow got onto this board and she lived.
[00:34:14] And when she landed in wherever they landed, she sent two words and said, saved. Alone.
[00:34:26] And he got on a boat as fast as he could to get over to his family, to his wife.
[00:34:35] And on this boat, they were going to cross the same path that the first boat had gone.
[00:34:42] And the captain knew that Horatio had lost his girls. So they got to the point where his girls would have been.
[00:34:50] And the captain called to Horatio and said, this is where your girls are.
[00:34:58] And overwhelmed by emotion, he wrote a song right there on that boat.
[00:35:08] And he wrote these words that captivate my heart.
[00:35:16] When peace like a river, attendeth my way, when sorrows like sea billows roll.
[00:35:26] Whatever my lot thou hast taught me to say, it is well, it is well with my soul.
[00:35:39] That is a man that knows the grace of Jesus Christ.
[00:35:46] That is a man who has understood what a sustaining grace is, that you cannot do life alone. That every day you need a grace in God that nothing else can fill, that nothing on this earth can touch.
[00:36:06] You need a foundation in Jesus Christ that his grace doesn't just save you in the moment, but it sustains you in the failure, it sustains you in the pain, and it sustains you in every day in between.
[00:36:20] Church, the purpose driven life can be cut short if we allow it. But I believe your God in the universe above and all around is looking at you tonight and he's saying, I want you to trust in. In my grace.
[00:36:34] I want you to feel my grace in a way you have never felt it before.
[00:36:39] I want you to lean on it in your failure, and I want you to turn to me time and time again. Because in your pain, in your misery, I will show up with mercy in your hurt. I will guide you.
[00:36:56] And in your failure, I will love you.
[00:37:01] And I will let it be well with your soul.
[00:37:05] Let's pray.
[00:37:08] Dear heavenly Father, you are a God who knows all things.
[00:37:12] You know our hearts right now, in this moment.
[00:37:15] Every person listening, wherever they are, whenever they are, father, you know them.
[00:37:22] And I pray your truth of grace will be drilled into the deepest, deepest depths of their mind, their body and their soul.
[00:37:31] I pray that religion will not tear us away from the truth and that what this world has taught us will not negate the truth that you have to offer. That it is not what we do that earns it. But it is who you are that so freely saves, so freely gives, that you have a grace that is above everything else.
[00:37:53] And I pray that we will remind ourselves time in and time out that nothing in all of creation can separate us from your mighty, beautiful love.
[00:38:06] In your son's awesome name, we pray. Amen.
