WEBVTT 00:00:00.179 --> 00:00:03.911 Well, again, good morning, good to be with you today. 00:00:03.911 --> 00:00:10.708 I keep waiting for us to get some closer to summer weather, but it was cold this morning when I got going. 00:00:10.708 --> 00:00:22.765 I still have the sweater on it's spring after all but I'm glad that you guys are all here and that we're actually getting a pretty good day as it evolves here. 00:00:22.765 --> 00:00:28.914 So the big question I had for today what do you preach after Easter? 00:00:28.914 --> 00:00:33.048 All right, what do you roll around with? 00:00:33.048 --> 00:00:39.710 We feel like we culminated so well, we took that journey through Lent and then Easter and then the next Sunday. 00:00:39.710 --> 00:00:43.923 Huh, all right, I guess this just keeps going right. 00:00:43.923 --> 00:00:45.527 We're here next Sunday as well. 00:00:45.527 --> 00:00:47.603 What do we preach about? 00:00:47.683 --> 00:00:51.094 And I talked last week about it being a feasting season. 00:00:51.094 --> 00:01:03.310 Right, we have a fasting season in Lent about self-discipline, and then we have this feasting season where we look to where God is present and God's gifts are evident and we enjoy them and we soak. 00:01:03.310 --> 00:01:08.445 Gifts are evident and we enjoy them and we soak them up and we get inspired by them, look to share them. 00:01:08.445 --> 00:01:12.237 So I thought, all right, well, it's Earth Day this week. 00:01:12.237 --> 00:01:13.742 This would be Earth Week. 00:01:13.742 --> 00:01:16.149 I guess Earth Sunday. 00:01:16.149 --> 00:01:22.644 I could preach that there's a feast there God's gift of the natural world. 00:01:22.644 --> 00:01:29.355 Only once you kind of knuckle in on Earth Day, there's one problem. 00:01:29.355 --> 00:01:31.762 It's a bit of a bummer. 00:01:31.762 --> 00:01:36.412 We're not all that great with our stewardship of the earth. 00:01:36.412 --> 00:01:42.754 These days I'm trying to think, all right, it's Easter season, it's feasting, it's celebration. 00:01:42.754 --> 00:01:47.471 We should celebrate and run free through the earth. 00:01:47.471 --> 00:01:52.569 And then you realize, oh shoot, but we're not so good about that these days. 00:01:52.569 --> 00:02:11.719 So today's sermon kind of a mini Lent to Easter sermon, where we start in that self-discipline, looking in the mirror we need to get better at things but then land in hope, land in that feasting season. 00:02:11.719 --> 00:02:15.531 So I hope that you will appreciate that journey. 00:02:15.531 --> 00:02:22.288 I also trust most people don't necessarily disagree with the science of climate change. 00:02:22.288 --> 00:02:35.949 We just sometimes disagree over the priority of that, that other things probably need to get fixed first and we can't let other things get worse trying to fix environmental problems. 00:02:35.949 --> 00:02:40.449 So hopefully everybody can understand the value of these challenges. 00:02:41.260 --> 00:02:42.727 And I'll tell you too these scriptures. 00:02:42.727 --> 00:02:51.472 Actually they came with some material from the denomination, the United Methodist denomination, and I thought, oh, should I pick one or two? 00:02:51.472 --> 00:02:53.364 And I thought, no, I see a journey here. 00:02:53.364 --> 00:03:02.707 I see a journey I can take through a few different scriptures, so I hope that you can appreciate that journey as well. 00:03:04.090 --> 00:03:16.639 So we start in Genesis, right from the very beginning actually, and then the first early lines are midway through the second creation story, with another really important line. 00:03:16.639 --> 00:03:24.284 In the beginning, when God created the heavens and the earth, the Lord God took the man and put him in the Garden of Eden to till it and to keep it. 00:03:24.284 --> 00:03:33.913 Genesis, we know, first book of the Bible, founding text of our Christian faith. 00:03:33.913 --> 00:03:46.852 This is how we understand ourselves, this is how we understand God, how we understand our role in the world, is kind of locked away in these two verses. 00:03:46.852 --> 00:03:50.169 We're supposed to come here and take care of this place. 00:03:50.169 --> 00:03:52.747 That's what God wants us to do. 00:03:52.747 --> 00:04:00.349 So our report card these come from a website called earthorg. 00:04:01.331 --> 00:04:01.812 Are you ready? 00:04:01.812 --> 00:04:02.306 You might want to gird your loins. 00:04:02.306 --> 00:04:03.792 Are you ready? 00:04:03.792 --> 00:04:09.539 You might want to gird your loins. 00:04:09.539 --> 00:04:13.675 Those of you who know what that is, don't gird your loins. 00:04:13.675 --> 00:04:15.221 Those of you who don't, don't worry about it. 00:04:15.621 --> 00:04:17.663 All right, here's a couple problems we got. 00:04:17.663 --> 00:04:21.045 We got global warming coming from fossil fuels. 00:04:21.045 --> 00:04:24.067 We've been hearing it over and over and over decades and decades and decades. 00:04:24.067 --> 00:04:26.588 Well, it's a real thing, right? 00:04:26.588 --> 00:04:31.733 And we think, oh, one temperature every 20 years, 30 years, is that really going to be so bad? 00:04:31.733 --> 00:04:34.355 And then you realize, well, that's an average. 00:04:34.355 --> 00:04:42.642 Some places it's going to be 5 degrees, 10 degrees, Other places it's going to be underneath what they're used to. 00:04:42.642 --> 00:04:52.627 So that average, that one degree, yeah, we can go sit down there at the beach, right, and one degree is not going to matter so much. 00:04:52.627 --> 00:04:56.081 But we need to recognize that's actually a big deal. 00:04:56.081 --> 00:04:59.771 It affects a lot of what goes on in the world that God created. 00:04:59.771 --> 00:05:04.124 Also, our fossil fuel dependence is still pretty strong. 00:05:04.124 --> 00:05:12.475 We're not really looking to move very intentionally to other ways of creating energy. 00:05:12.475 --> 00:05:16.470 Here's another one I looked up here Food waste. 00:05:17.399 --> 00:05:21.331 We waste 1.3 billion tons of food annually. 00:05:21.331 --> 00:05:25.209 The party is like oh shoot, we should be using that. 00:05:25.209 --> 00:05:27.487 Obviously people are in need, we should use it. 00:05:27.487 --> 00:05:39.112 But then you also think that's 1.3 billion tons that we did all the work to create and all the effect on the environment to create and then didn't use. 00:05:39.112 --> 00:05:42.146 We have to worry about biodiversity loss. 00:05:42.146 --> 00:05:57.139 Much of the health of our world, the natural world, relies on a certain amount of diversity of different plants, different animal species, being able to evolve to work with what is around. 00:05:57.139 --> 00:06:02.944 When we lower the environment in which they survive in, they start to die off. 00:06:02.944 --> 00:06:07.648 We get less of all of that and it becomes its own problem. 00:06:07.648 --> 00:06:10.975 Let's see here Plastic pollution. 00:06:12.380 --> 00:06:15.930 We're eating oatmeal and it doesn't taste very good. 00:06:15.930 --> 00:06:23.225 They might have put some broccoli in the oatmeal along with something else that's really really healthy, but we're eating it, are you okay? 00:06:23.225 --> 00:06:27.490 No, I don't want broccoli in my oatmeal. 00:06:27.490 --> 00:06:30.173 Hey, at some point we got to eat this stuff. 00:06:30.173 --> 00:06:45.605 1950, we had 2 million tons of plastic that was made each year. 00:06:45.605 --> 00:06:46.706 Today, 419 million tons. 00:06:46.706 --> 00:06:48.189 So in 75 years we've gone up. 00:06:48.189 --> 00:06:48.490 What is that? 00:06:48.490 --> 00:06:49.132 2,000? 00:06:49.132 --> 00:06:50.755 , 2,000%? 00:06:50.755 --> 00:06:52.084 Where's my mathematicians? 00:06:52.084 --> 00:06:53.324 A lot, all right. 00:06:53.324 --> 00:06:54.017 We've gone up a lot. 00:06:54.017 --> 00:07:00.394 We make a lot of plastic, and plastic takes about 400 years to disintegrate. 00:07:00.394 --> 00:07:02.326 So once it's made it's here forever. 00:07:02.326 --> 00:07:04.966 So a little bit of a problem there. 00:07:05.040 --> 00:07:07.904 Deforestation our world itself. 00:07:07.904 --> 00:07:18.553 The reason it can process, let's say, the carbon dioxide that I just blew out, is because we got trees that process that. 00:07:18.553 --> 00:07:22.865 Well, if we have less trees, we're processing less of that, right. 00:07:22.865 --> 00:07:29.161 So it starts to become a problem for the air, air pollution itself being a problem. 00:07:29.161 --> 00:07:32.889 Melting ice caps and sea level rise. 00:07:33.370 --> 00:07:37.762 Our worlds, a lot of our communities are built in places that might get underwater. 00:07:37.762 --> 00:07:40.225 Is it getting tough? 00:07:40.225 --> 00:07:51.846 I hate being so negative and yet the mirror shows what the mirror shows, you know, as we're staring at it Ocean acidification. 00:07:51.846 --> 00:07:55.252 It's a little bit like deforestation. 00:07:55.252 --> 00:08:03.254 The ocean is this big source of what allows us to process the negative things that we create in the world. 00:08:03.254 --> 00:08:14.529 Well, the more of negative things we create, the less the ocean is able to process it, and the things that live in the ocean that we need have less place to survive in. 00:08:14.529 --> 00:08:25.346 So when we have over-ocean acidification, that correction that the earth does for us, they're less effective at it. 00:08:25.346 --> 00:08:31.747 Our world can't offset the things that we do and the balance that we have with nature. 00:08:31.747 --> 00:08:34.288 I'll move faster a little bit here. 00:08:34.288 --> 00:08:45.673 Agriculture produces a big ton of our global warming, soil degradation when we oversoil, we don't produce as well what we grow. 00:08:45.673 --> 00:08:48.167 Food and water insecurity. 00:08:48.167 --> 00:08:57.735 By 2020, well, by now, over two-thirds of the world will have at least a month of water insecurity in the world. 00:08:57.735 --> 00:09:05.433 So we're getting down to where most of the world at some point is going to have a problem with knowing they have enough good, clean water to drink. 00:09:07.221 --> 00:09:10.447 Here's an interesting one Fast fashion and textile waste. 00:09:10.447 --> 00:09:13.846 Do you remember when you wore clothes? 00:09:13.846 --> 00:09:48.876 Functionally, that was the main reason for clothes to make sure you had something on you, so you weren't running around in your birthday suit, Some other functioning as well around the world Maybe it's getting cold, you need to be able to stay warm, all this stuff and you didn't get rid of clothes, maybe until you were finished with it, or it was ready it started to wear to the point you were finished with it, or it was ready it started to wear to the point. 00:09:48.876 --> 00:09:53.493 Now we kind of get rid of clothes when they go out of style. 00:09:53.493 --> 00:09:55.261 Those clothes got to go somewhere. 00:09:55.261 --> 00:10:01.328 So we're producing, just by culture decisions, more waste. 00:10:01.328 --> 00:10:03.772 Overfishing, another problem. 00:10:03.772 --> 00:10:12.969 And then finally, the last one Take a breather Cobalt mining. 00:10:12.989 --> 00:10:18.960 Cobalt mining we think, oh great, we found a new resource that we can start using and we're not as much into the fossil fuels. 00:10:18.960 --> 00:10:30.072 Cobalt is what we mine a lot for new energy, electrical energy, largely lithium batteries and stuff like that and we think, okay, we're doing great, we've transitioned. 00:10:30.072 --> 00:10:38.240 Here's a little bit of a problem, though We'll run out of cobalt too, and we're doing a bit of work trying to find the stuff we're finding. 00:10:38.240 --> 00:10:46.855 But anybody using chat GBT yet, right, are you starting to relax a little bit with that thing? 00:10:46.855 --> 00:10:51.644 You know, maybe instead of the Google search, you do the chat GBT. 00:10:51.644 --> 00:10:54.669 No, no, we're still nervous about it. 00:10:54.669 --> 00:10:55.994 All right, we're not doing it. 00:10:55.994 --> 00:11:11.320 All right, let me tell you, chat GBT, your request, your search, your question, takes about 10 times the amount of energy to produce your answer as the Google search, right? 00:11:11.320 --> 00:11:17.337 So the better we get at finding that information, the more energy it's taking. 00:11:17.337 --> 00:11:18.802 So now we got that problem too Right. 00:11:18.802 --> 00:11:20.345 At finding that information, the more energy it's taking. 00:11:20.345 --> 00:11:25.019 So now we got that problem too Right. 00:11:25.565 --> 00:11:27.178 Anybody see Debbie Downer on SNL. 00:11:27.178 --> 00:11:30.270 Right, it's Pastor Darren Downer. 00:11:30.270 --> 00:11:30.812 Right now. 00:11:30.812 --> 00:11:38.174 You know, wah, wah, I bring all of the bad news. 00:11:38.304 --> 00:11:41.595 See, this is what I ran into doing an Earth Day sermon today. 00:11:41.595 --> 00:12:03.455 I was kind of ready to talk about all the beauty of the earth and all this, and then you get in there and you're like, well, shoot, we're not necessarily doing a really good job with this role that we actually accepted, that we understood coming from God as Christians. 00:12:03.455 --> 00:12:05.806 So we wrestle with that, all right. 00:12:05.806 --> 00:12:08.615 Psalms 24, 1 and 2. 00:12:08.615 --> 00:12:11.807 I like that phrase. 00:12:11.807 --> 00:12:20.100 The earth is the Lord's and all that is in it and all that is in it. 00:12:20.100 --> 00:12:21.509 I like that. 00:12:21.509 --> 00:12:24.245 This points out our belief that it is not our world. 00:12:24.245 --> 00:12:26.413 We tend it right. 00:12:26.413 --> 00:12:30.952 We're renters down here, right, we've got a landlord God up there. 00:12:30.952 --> 00:12:34.875 We've got expectations of future generations. 00:12:34.875 --> 00:12:39.081 We're tending all of this for those future generations. 00:12:39.081 --> 00:12:41.067 It does invite questions. 00:12:41.067 --> 00:12:58.114 If we were to embrace this more intentionally, that we don't own the earth In fact we are tending it with the idea that it's God's earth, that it's the earth for the people that are ahead of us Would that change our mindset at all? 00:12:58.114 --> 00:12:59.638 Does it change our mindset? 00:12:59.638 --> 00:13:07.684 There's some humility embedded in that understanding of how the world works. 00:13:08.225 --> 00:13:14.731 So I got finally to be able to go visit into Palisades, post-fire Palisades. 00:13:14.731 --> 00:13:18.854 I don't know how many of you have had that opportunity yet. 00:13:18.854 --> 00:13:20.778 It's humbling. 00:13:20.778 --> 00:13:27.715 It is humbling when you start looking at the devastation. 00:13:27.715 --> 00:13:35.570 And I lived in palisades when we were working at Aldersgate Retreat Center for a couple of years, so I knew what it looked like. 00:13:35.570 --> 00:13:36.991 So I knew what it looked like. 00:13:36.991 --> 00:13:53.136 So, driving through and seeing that particular home, that particular store now burned to the ground Palisades United Methodist Church the good news, bad news they've swept everything away. 00:13:53.136 --> 00:13:56.067 Now it's all flat. 00:13:56.067 --> 00:13:58.812 So the bad news it all burned down. 00:13:58.812 --> 00:14:13.711 The good news they're really working on it, they're overworking on that church as a United Methodist, fills my heart to a certain extent, but it does kind of bring. 00:14:13.711 --> 00:14:20.139 It makes your mind think a little bit about that whole incident and all that went on. 00:14:20.625 --> 00:14:30.416 Part of what we don't always recognize is we kind of created a climate over there, a microclimate, that wasn't 100% natural. 00:14:30.416 --> 00:14:39.530 We brought in the plants, we watered the plants, we kept fires to a minimum and that got to grow. 00:14:39.530 --> 00:14:46.235 I don't know if you've seen pictures of Palisades 100 years ago, but it didn't look like it did six months ago. 00:14:46.235 --> 00:14:59.458 We made it look a little different than God had made it and we held off a lot of the natural cycles of creation. 00:14:59.458 --> 00:15:03.095 Now I don't want to say this was inevitable. 00:15:03.095 --> 00:15:05.712 I don't want anybody to feel that. 00:15:05.712 --> 00:15:13.225 It's been a real horror for those who have lived there and they are still living that challenge. 00:15:13.645 --> 00:15:34.318 But it is to say maybe we ought to be, as human beings, a little more deferential, To know more about creation and how creation works, more than just how do we keep this thing from burning, but also how do we allow the natural cycles to process in these areas? 00:15:34.318 --> 00:15:40.477 How do we create room for what we know to be true About the world that God created? 00:15:40.477 --> 00:15:49.476 How do we work with God In these areas, as opposed to fully adjusting what God created? 00:15:49.476 --> 00:16:05.235 I wonder if that culture of humility Might help us there, might help us to remember, to recognize that God's here and God built this world and God is at work in it. 00:16:05.235 --> 00:16:07.653 Let's live in step with that. 00:16:07.653 --> 00:16:13.136 Romans 8, 19 to 22. 00:16:13.136 --> 00:16:15.809 That's a long one. 00:16:15.809 --> 00:16:33.049 I won't reread it, but some of my summary in my head is what if creation, the natural world, is anticipating the same kind of transformation, living transformation that human beings are? 00:16:33.049 --> 00:16:44.076 You know how we live our lives looking for God's presence to come into our hearts, to guide us in certain ways, to feed us, to nourish us, to inspire us. 00:16:44.076 --> 00:16:58.860 What if the natural world is looking for that same kind of transformation and living in those cycles of hope and becoming all that God would want it to be? 00:17:01.407 --> 00:17:23.914 My drive back from Palisades yesterday, I'm coming down the 101, you know back into the Conejo Valley, and as I drive through and you guys have seen there you guys have been here, most of you way longer than I have been here, but I see the area where Woolsey just brought the fear of God into everybody's heart in 2018. 00:17:23.914 --> 00:17:45.472 And I drive through and I see it's regrowing, it's getting going again, probably looking a little bit more like God originally intended that area to look, and it warmed my heart a little bit, but it did strike me too. 00:17:45.472 --> 00:17:56.127 You know, when we get rains or fires, we push the fires out to the natural area, right, because buildings and property those have money, those cost money. 00:17:56.127 --> 00:18:06.238 So we're going to throw it out into the natural world that doesn't cost any money, which I think would bother a lot of coyotes and mountain lions and other rabbits. 00:18:06.238 --> 00:18:10.375 They might argue it has more value than that. 00:18:10.375 --> 00:18:27.311 But we push it out there and it makes me think, think, huh, is that largely, or even partly, because we know the natural world is going to replenish itself, it's going to regrow, and we trust that. 00:18:27.311 --> 00:18:32.266 We know that cycle is happening, that remodel is happening. 00:18:32.266 --> 00:18:35.010 There's a human remodel happening in Palisades. 00:18:35.010 --> 00:18:43.015 You guys have been around for a human remodel after Woolsey, but the God remodel is out there working too. 00:18:43.015 --> 00:18:55.996 I wonder what it would mean if we were to live more in step with that godly remodel, that transformation that nature is constantly working towards, moving towards. 00:18:55.996 --> 00:19:05.875 What if we were to look to be more in step with how nature works, even in times like this where it's replenishing? 00:19:07.846 --> 00:19:25.173 Finally, colossians when I read this one, I thought to myself okay, this is talking about creation and Christ being that essence of the divine, both of them existence from the very beginning of time. 00:19:25.173 --> 00:19:27.638 That was always here. 00:19:27.638 --> 00:19:29.752 It links right. 00:19:29.752 --> 00:19:36.673 Our writer of the letter to Colossians is linking Christ and creation, that they are of one essence. 00:19:36.673 --> 00:19:43.298 I wonder how we might do a better job of seeing that connection. 00:19:43.298 --> 00:19:53.396 As much as we understand God's loving and nourishing presence in Christ, might we also look for that in creation? 00:19:53.396 --> 00:19:57.989 So I told you it would be hopeful at the end. 00:19:57.989 --> 00:19:59.664 Here are my reasons for hope. 00:19:59.664 --> 00:20:01.130 Are you ready for hope? 00:20:01.130 --> 00:20:04.724 I'll take a little hope. 00:20:04.724 --> 00:20:10.349 I guess I got nowhere to be Going to hit Taco Bell on the way home and that's it so sure. 00:20:10.349 --> 00:20:12.484 Are you ready for hope? 00:20:12.484 --> 00:20:16.226 Good, okay, let's get a little hope here. 00:20:17.961 --> 00:20:21.530 The reality of climate change is starting to sink in. 00:20:21.530 --> 00:20:23.741 We're starting to go. 00:20:23.741 --> 00:20:27.873 Okay, I think we are going to have to pay attention to some of this. 00:20:27.873 --> 00:20:32.471 Raise the priority of dealing with this just a little bit. 00:20:32.471 --> 00:21:00.429 In fact, climate change action is still moving and it's getting pretty active and, in fact, we're starting to see more clearly the economic benefits of moving toward alternative sources of energy and a diversity of energy, not just a focus on fossil fuels, and that economic benefit is starting to become more obvious. 00:21:00.429 --> 00:21:11.804 Countries like Sweden are figuring out not only how to be highly environmental in the way they do things, but actually also blessing their economy with it. 00:21:11.804 --> 00:21:24.450 So we're starting to get there, and most of that action, most of the movement, is designed to be equitable and just, where all humans are treated equally and with respect. 00:21:24.450 --> 00:21:27.868 So there's that advantage that's going on. 00:21:27.868 --> 00:21:32.471 There is a strong US climate movement. 00:21:32.471 --> 00:21:59.130 In fact, where you have the majority of people and where you have the majority of our economy are the places that seem to be the most supportive of treating environmental issues with importance, with respect, and those are the ones that are understanding it and those are often the ones that are making decisions, and our economy is already moving towards more renewable ways to create energy. 00:21:59.130 --> 00:21:59.830 It's happening. 00:21:59.830 --> 00:22:03.387 It's happening, and so we can have some faith in that. 00:22:03.640 --> 00:22:14.691 All these are coming from the University of Michigan School for Environment and Sustainability, as well as from Oxfam, and then one more from a program called Tree Aid or a few more here. 00:22:14.691 --> 00:22:21.073 Here's the one that may bless us the most and the one that we, as Christians, should celebrate the most. 00:22:21.073 --> 00:22:24.448 Nature is resilient. 00:22:24.448 --> 00:22:36.429 The world that God created knows how to evolve, knows how to take care of itself, knows how to exist in harmony. 00:22:36.429 --> 00:22:40.648 That's the nature of the divine presence in the world. 00:22:40.648 --> 00:22:52.432 So we are blessed not only that we live in that, but that we are a people who believe in that Nature-based solutions help people and help the planet. 00:22:52.432 --> 00:23:12.935 So, even though we've got a lot of problems and we worry about whether this is the most important problem to solve right away, and we worry about whether this is the most important problem to solve right away we do know that environmental solutions help people and help the planet, and there is a growing resilience in the face of climate challenges. 00:23:12.935 --> 00:23:25.866 The more difficulties that happen, the more rainless winters, snowless winters that we have, the more people start understanding we need to do something. 00:23:27.730 --> 00:23:35.965 So how do I close up such a heavy kind of hmm, thanks for ruining Easter Pastor sermon? 00:23:35.965 --> 00:23:42.555 I'm going back to a season of feasting. 00:23:42.555 --> 00:23:56.482 God blesses us with this natural world and most of us who are intentional about getting out there some of us all the time, some of us now and again. 00:23:56.482 --> 00:24:00.092 We know how we're blessed by being in it. 00:24:00.092 --> 00:24:09.613 You feel nourished, you feel exercised, you feel a little more in step with the created world that is around us. 00:24:09.613 --> 00:24:11.989 You feel a little more balanced. 00:24:11.989 --> 00:24:19.049 Let's feast on what God gave us in the natural world. 00:24:19.049 --> 00:24:33.651 Let's go out hiking, let's go swim in the beaches, let's go see all that God has created in this world and allow ourselves to be blessed by it. 00:24:33.651 --> 00:24:40.071 I know that often we can lock ourselves away in our homes. 00:24:40.071 --> 00:24:49.392 Books are very good things and they stretch our minds, but the world also is a blessed thing. 00:24:49.392 --> 00:25:01.253 I'm going to do a confession of yours, and we know we're not supposed to share things people share with us. 00:25:02.905 --> 00:25:06.285 But I have to pick on Boyd because he's being good about taking notes over here. 00:25:06.285 --> 00:25:11.627 Boyd plays video games 4 to 8 hours every day. 00:25:11.627 --> 00:25:21.163 He is addicted to single game shooter games and he's locked away in the darkness in his comfy chair. 00:25:21.163 --> 00:25:22.950 You all know this, I know this. 00:25:22.950 --> 00:25:31.588 I'm putting it out there, boyd, sometimes it's best to have a public confession. 00:25:31.588 --> 00:25:36.261 It's the only way to healing Boyd. 00:25:36.261 --> 00:25:36.984 Lets me tease him. 00:25:36.984 --> 00:25:37.867 I appreciate it. 00:25:37.867 --> 00:25:39.646 He teases me every time. 00:25:39.646 --> 00:25:40.009 I appreciate it, but let's Tease me every time. 00:25:40.009 --> 00:25:43.288 Yeah, every, that's right. 00:25:43.288 --> 00:25:47.001 You're only doing four hours, not six. 00:25:47.001 --> 00:25:49.048 Like this guy, you'll never win. 00:25:49.048 --> 00:25:51.047 No, you get the idea. 00:25:51.047 --> 00:25:53.226 Let's get out into the world. 00:25:53.226 --> 00:26:01.249 Tech's got its value, but the natural world, creation might have the higher value. 00:26:01.249 --> 00:26:05.448 We walk into God's world. 00:26:05.448 --> 00:26:06.451 We leave humbled. 00:26:06.451 --> 00:26:11.912 We live more in right relationship with the world around us. 00:26:11.912 --> 00:26:15.269 We leave inspired to share that with the world. 00:26:15.269 --> 00:26:21.464 Let us feast on that this week, amen, amen.